Why I quit the corporate world to start teaching mud house construction
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Shagun Singh was a corporate business head. She quit her job in 2015 and moved to Nainital in Uttarakhand. She was looking for a place where she can build a home with her own hands. The idea was to create a magical place where one can grow food, where there is energy, water, and to live as holistically as possible. She found a barren piece of land in Mahrora, a village close to Nainital. Later she started making mud houses and founded a training centre called Geeli Mitti. People from different parts of the world come and learn different mud construction techniques here. She emphasizes on the importance of mud over cement.
Been working here in US for last five years. Going back to India in two months to never come back. Hope to start doing some farming, or plant a tiny forest in my family farm land.
Travel well friend💕
Well wishes for your journey ahead ❤️
Have a bright and peaceful future
Best wishes for your upcoming journey 👍
Best of luck..
This is how we lived, then they said we are uncivilised,now when we cannot afford to go back they say we are polluting😭
Believe in God 🙏
@@iamgroot4706 But not in Chriatian God.
@@drumstick-marblebag There's only one God.
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The problem lies with us who seek validation about our lifestyle from them.
When I was a child I saw a mud house being "torn down" by a bulldozer. I thought it would just fall over. But it was VERY strong. Stronger than any brick or mortar. It did not crack or crumble. It literally had to busted up with repeated blows from the equipment. As a kid, it seemed strange that something so durable was discarded in this way. I never forgot how strong the walls of that house were.
Where exactly was this? Was it in a tropical climate, or in a cold area that gets snow?
Here in brazilian northeast there's a cultura of mud houses (casas de taipa, with sticks and mud, and it's VERY fresh in day light). During the dutch domain, around 1625, the fortresses here were made with this tecnology. The result: Cannon balls used to get trapped in It and the wall could be remade in less than one day. Nothing like know the environment 😏
@@DarkGhostHacker India and suroundinhs
Aw such a waste
@@Augusto_Tenorio cool
I am living in very big mud house since my childhood in village it is more than 50 year old . In summer you feel cool and in winter you feel warm in mud house
Yes...
You are blessed to live close to Mother Earth.. 👍
👍❤️🥰
Where r u from...
How do u protect the house from termites, rat holes and snake holes?
Wow! No need for AC or Heater.. sensible living truly!
"At the end of the day we are probably slaves, we can't take a leave when you want, you can't sleep when you want. For all that money in the world that you earn, can you really afford absolutely clean food, can you afford clean water, can you afford clean air?"
Underrated comment....
Great thought
YUP
Unfortunately the human mind as been hijacked by corporations. We have traded our critical thinking ability for what we call "money".
Wise lady
I get this thought. Look at the person who made this video. How was she able to do it. You can learn a lot from how she did it. Your life automatically follows what you value the most. If you're still hooking on to the corporate life, that means you haven't yet valued other things more than corporate life.
What a woman. This is a strong woman.
Beauty
Salute to u Madam for realising well on time n started real meaningful life!
Too much dedication
U r a great lady....keep it up
"I realized the absolute uselessness of this life and how fake it is.." 😌
That hit hard and deep😐
Fake is a mistake
Real is the deal
I'm 58, .I agree with you. Before in childhood we used to spend more outside mornings and evenings except avoid hot afternoons, eat raw veggies. Sleep watching the stars. Now people hardly watch the sky, brooding over mobiles, buying more plastic items from malls, electronic junk. Paying lifelong EMIs..
I still live in a mud house when I visit my village. The house that my grandparents build with their own hands And in summer you don't need any appliances to cool the space.
Now im a softwares professional. But my aim is to be a farmer make home stable in village. Then live in a place like forest lonely free from all fakes.
Go for it my dear, I already got my land for catfish farming and poultry . it feels good.
@@sinavalamin4087 How were you able to do that?
@@sinavalamin4087 good for you! I hope to be like you when I grow up🥺
@@sinavalamin4087 i commend you . I enjoy meeting likeminded people. Can you share any advice and knowledge on how i can begin my journey and create lifestyle as amazon Forest living sort of like the thailand vibes with tree home or anything similar? Blessings!
Swamy.. sir... സൂപ്പർ ഐഡിയ
she has the heart of gold. Not many feels that way when you are already successful. And most specially the courage to turn your back from that life. I salute you and I shall have that life soon. My journey to sustainability has started a few years back but had not been easy as I was already unemployed for years and it wasn't cheap to be honest. My family also think it's a crazy and foolish move. But will get there. A life with nature where u don't have to wake up and hurry to work. A life where u see how your food grow
I was born in a rural area in the U.S. and lived there for the first 8 years of my life. My father was raised on a small farm, but after serving in WWII he moved to the city where he met my mother. They decided to move back to the countryside to raise their family. Unfortunately though, he moved me and 2 of my siblings (the 3 youngest) to the city.
So, I've lived in the city almost my entire life, until a year and a half ago. Now I live in a small town.
But, for the last 4 years, I've been researching alternative housing & energy, off-grid living, even primitive construction & living.
So, everything you are saying is exactly my sentiments as well.
But, I'm not able to break loose at this time because of debt I owe.
This entire system is like a trap to keep you under the governments subjection. This system is at war against mankind and nature, and I have learned to hate it.
It's Satan's system (or the Fallen Angel's). We are subjects and enslaved. Hard, very hard to get free of it. Debt is slavery. And I started working in the oilfield, because of falling into debt slavery.
Dear, I have the same feeling.
Yeah , exactly
“Don’t mistake not knowing something with it being a fact”
Well said sister!
I’m planning to start similar journey in US this year. Great work.
I hope once you learn enough knowledge that you show it to others. Manu people would love to learn. I would love to learn this stuff so I can have a home like this 1 day
Back in 1990 in my village we use to have Mud House then people started moving toward cement and Skill Men who would build Mud house we use to call Kaccha Ghar , now i am missing , i wish people start building these again in kashi
Begin now.....maybe with a small structure and see how that "feels" once it's done...luck and love to you!
2:23 "That the only true time that a person probably is happy is when he/she is in service of others." -- that's the real definition of life..in this world where people think only about themselves, it's refreshing to meet and see people who aren't the same as with most people are today.
Beautifully said... ".. with all the money that you earn, can you afford healthy organic food, healthy clean water or air?.."
Awesome awesome.. 👍👍😃
This video is really unique... Mud houses and life's true meaning 🙏💚good wishes to "geeli mitti "
It feels great working with mud... I love getting down to the yellow clay layer! You've inspired me to build a hovel on my parents farm.
🙏🏽
Cement was forced to sell in the indian market by British by passing a law. To increase the sale of cement in india.
Houses built with traditional way were called illegal and against the law.
It only took 60yrs Britishers to destroy Indian traditional house building. The skilled workers chose some different jobs to survive.
🥺🙏🏽
same problem, all over the world.
Wow what an inspiration. The story of my life I thought I was loosing my mind when I quite the advertising agency I owned for 22years and moved to a small island in Thailand.
Can you share your experience?
👍😃 Awesome
How can i live in thailand amazon style
You could have lost your mind, but you have saved your soul.
I'm surely building my dad's retirement house with mud.. Wow❤
Love this. At the end, you stopped just short of making this point: there are ruins, temples, etc. Throughout the world that were not made of stone that have been standing for hundreds of years. Today's modern construction falls apart in decades without maintenance. And of course stone work thousands of years old exists all over the world, too. Modern systems are all designed to fail to keep people spending money to fix or replace, keeping us "slaves" just as you said. I think society is reaching a critical mass of being fed up with this situation, which is wonderful. Many thanks to you for following your intuition and leading others to theirs.
But don't you think she had money that's Why she bougt that land
I agree. Only a handful of states legalize this type of home but thankfully my state allows for such dwelling only you have to pay hefty fee’s. I can’t wait to get started.
Cement/Concrete pollution is real... We need to go back to our roots, especially those who have enough available land and resources.
UPDATE: THE COLISEUM IS MADE OUT CONCRETE. Concrete is a 2000 year old ROOTS MATERIAL for Western Culture. There is nothing wrong with it as a material. However people who do not know what they are talking about in historical terms cannot be expected to understand how said material has now come to be misused.
Count yourself as in that category- until you do a little more research...
@@chipwalter4490 That's needlessly harsh. Both you and the person you're replying to are correct, you're just discussing different things.
Deaths due to earthquakes induced building collapses are also real. We can't go back to older materials, however, we must certainly advance green construction materials.
@@chipwalter4490 you are correct,
@@chipwalter4490 Sir, the concrete that you are referring to, also known as "Roman Concrete" is altogether an entirely different material from the concrete that we use today. Roman Concrete is primarily made up of volcanic ash (pozzolona) and lime, while the concrete that we use today is made up of Portland cement, sand and aggregate. Concrete, by definition, is a mixture of an aggregate/s and a binder. As we can see, Roman concrete is made of naturally occurring materials and does not harm the environment in any way, either during its production or after the end its useful life. Modern concrete, on the other hand does harms the environment, both during its production stage and after the end of its useful life ( which, well, is quite short!). So, i guess, it is wise to move away from concrete (of course, the modern one!) wherever we can and adopt construction techniques that are environment friendly and in harmony with nature.
No! I’m 57 and I still love the smell of rain and I still dance in it! Nobody dances with me though ....
I'm A native of Uttrakhand born and brought up in Mumbai, and my dream is to Make a Mud, Mud-brick, stone house in UK😍😍
No! don't come to this freezing place. I'm living in UK. Would rather be in India. You can grow fruit and vegetables all year
@@ksitigarbha9787 he is talking about uk.. Uttrakhand not united Kingdom 🤭
@@nishabhatt1576 ye sahi tha🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@nishabhatt1576 btw r u from Jammu Kashmir
@@कश्परैना i am from Uttrakhand 🤗
Mud houses are best.. Its eco friendly, low cost..
Have you built one?
She used cement bags in the construction
@@leanderbarreto6523 no... she use soil from land.... inside those bags
God has given everything What we want. But human beings are moving towards destruction
We have already destroyed everything. Its going to take a bit more time for it to fall completely
Yea we been given everything. I agree. We just want more and more, we are so selfish. We are so materialistic, we'll never learn the true essence of life
It’s not that human beings are moving towards destruction it’s that destruction is a natural part of life wouldn’t you agree? Just like the butterflies breaking free from their cocoons, they had to destroy what they used to be in order to become what they are moving towards. So doesn’t it make sense that during this phase of growth and evolution we would also experience some destruction? I’m interested to hear your thoughts on this
this is why jesus was a socialist. we need to embrace cooperation over competition
You lost me at "god"...
My grandfather's close to 50 yr old house is built out of laterite mud (not bricks) & wooden beams. Its still standing strong. The house does not have a a typical foundation. The roof is tiles made of clay. This house located on the western coast of India has tolerated torrential monsoons and strong sea winds. It has needed some plastering on the exterior surfaces in the recent past but the house is in good shape. Since no cement is used, the house remains very cool inside even in harsh summers .
I wish more people could build such cheap & eco friendly houses
You are so right and that's exactly what we want to help everyone rediscover 🙏🏻
My maternal grandparents also live in mud house 🙂 built almost 120 years ago. I guess in 2007-8, they tried reconstruction of the walls, but it was so thick like rock, so they stopped and left it as it was. It still stands strong 😇🙏
Can you send me contact or details of ecofriendly construction people?
Kindly append photographic prathyakhsha- pramaana!! if your granda's Adobe. Qed
Sincere salutations
My grandpa also had a big spacious mud house. It was 110 years old and got destroyed completely in 1999 super cyclone. It had faced so many cyclones . I got a chance to visit and stayed for few days. Experience of staying in mud house is totally different. You live close to nature.
56 and still love the woods and dancing in the rain ❤️😉
Believe me, my temperature is 102f as I type this message. I am done with corporate life and have been ill for quite some time, thanks to work pressure. Rustic/off-grid living attracts me and its time I swim against the tide and make life worth living. Your channel is a lifesaver. I would love to learn more and be part of your inspiration. I feel so much better just watching and listening to you.
It gives me hope seeing so many wanting to return to a more real way of living. Can't wait to take my leap someday
Awesome. The energy has to be right. I have just written to my Government today regarding my wanting to teach young people to build alternative homes.
I completely agree with her! Mud is the way forward. When people get their hands on the earth they immediately connect with something very ancient but also very real.
So tangible and yet so intangible to explain. Only those who have experienced the instant 'transformation by mud' can truly get it :)
And that's why our focus is on encouraging schools, colleges, corporates to come and connect with this 'magic' - therein, with each touched soul, the world gets more and more beautiful.
Hope this workshop will be available throughout India at free of cost...
While this is a good initiative, we should also think about some limitations of mud houses scientifically and how we overcome them -
1. Mud has a low tensile strength and comes apart easily during rains. So houses are not sustainable and need constant repair. We had this problem in our ancestral village house too.
2. Mud walls are susceptible to rodents and thieves - This is not ideal for cities. Mud houses are fine for houses that do not have costly items like TV, Refridgerator, Sofa, Laptop etc
3. Site location should be carefully chosen, else mud house is prone to get damaged if a tree falls or a storm hits. Iron+Concrete can still bear it.
4. Mud building materials should be upgraded with latest waterproof technology for real-world use in today's cities or even villages. Villagers do not have enough money to build and rebuild houses. So technology should be ubiquitous.
5. Iron + concrete structures are not entirely useless. Ofcourse they are more stronger but they are a cost on the environment.
6. Bricks are also an advanced form of mud and evolved due to human experiences over centuries. So technically they are also mud houses.
7. Those who have two houses, one of mud and other of concrete can promote mud houses. For those who can afford only one house, a concrete house gives more security.
8. Mud houses should give true security and sustainability that is better than or equivalent to concrete houses with the use of appropriate building material and technology.
Very well said
There is an old method called Rammed earth technique if you build something with it the structure would probably last for at least 1000 years and it's basic material is clay. Go search it on you tube now.
@@Ramiz422 not in sismically active areas or areas with high temperature differential they develope cracks the technique you are talking about works good in deserts not anywhere eles (it was invented by Chinese for great Wall that mostly go through desert )
What makes you think they dont know that ? They are smartest & wealthy people coming together, stop mansplaining
the limitations you pointed are very practical.
the sustainability of a mud house depends on the region and climate.
we had mud houses in my place (lahaul spiti) for centuries because here it snows abundantly but very less rain and mud houses traps heat very well.
mud houses are awesome but needs to be built strategically according to the region.
Wow ! Very impressive women; and they're so much in tune with life. Thank you for educating me that there are women in India so brave and strong.
We are in the south of France restoring an old stone barn that used to house farm animals. It's beautiful and so are your mud houses. Very inspiring for me to see what can be created with mud. I hope a lot of people get inspired too.
This was so good from my soul.
This is the new Earth energy I want to see. This is capitalism doing clean green energy and working with community and locals bring people together To appreciate individuality & creativity In action. While completely being supported as a workshop experience!🙏
Here in South Africa mud homes are fading away. Our traditional people built their homes from mud and some in their rural or farm or family homes still do so. We do have our people who make mud bricks as a source of income however it's practise and production is by the less fortunate for the less fortunate. The traditional homes must have a rondavel made of mud walls and thatched roofs. It's recognizable to the ancestors and built in their honour. It's sad however that some people are replacing the mud and thatch with cement bricks and tiled roofs with maintaining the rondavel shape. I personally love the organic and nourishing environment having being born in the Kwa-Zulu Natal Midlands now living in the city of Durban. There's nothing like Mother Nature's loving nurturing. It's the perfect gift from God.
Shagun,what a lovely name,with a matching psyche. Show us the home you built for yourself,if you have it on film.!!
She said the truth as it is : you can't take leave when you want it ,you can't have freedom ,you can't have happiness you are a slave of somebody or something. I suggest you to watch jon jindagi "life is easy " on RUclips he had constructed earthen homes and organic farming just like her many years before.
Minimal life, waste management, regeneration of nature 🌹✨
❤️ This is a great video. It is truth. We are part of the Earth and we are also stardust. Everything alive is connected. Live consciously.
You people have been blessed and realized the simplest nature's science of house building. The energy reverberates and rejuvenates everyone living in these mud houses. Pranam to the divinity within you people 🙏
That's amazing. I too am trying to learn how to build homes that are compatible with prana and life energy. Also I want to learn how to use these methods to build a home that can withstand freezing cold temperatures and hot dry summers. In the winter its -20°c, and summer it's 30°c here in eastern part of North America.
I was just dreaming something like this.. and this video poped up .. glad that someone is already doing it.. all power to you and your people..❤️
These earth-friendly houses are gorgeous, much more appealing than the cookie-cutter boxes that's are popping up all around me
All d best team, update latest research on these methods (if possible scientifically)as much as possible from all over d world and dont forget to update us too
Simply down to earth.
Congratulations, 👍 well done, you can think of educating more precisely on this ancient technology.
Congratulations Shagun, you are an excellent example for future generations to come, I agree with you absolutely. GOD bless you.
Shagun, you have an incredible story. You have convinced me to follow in your footsteps. I would love get in touch with you via email.
I have been thinking of this life,I want to be of service to humanity,,help me reach it and help others do the same,am in zambia.
She didn't leave business, she just started her own. Clever!
Yes!
I was having tears all over my face while watching this..
Mud houses are so common in India..
It's just that people of corporate world are now recognising it's importance & showing interest to build one or live in one..
Bravo Shagun.. Awesome to know that there are lovely people like you out there..
I too have built with mud. It's with earth bags.. Really, it's so aesthetically beautiful and comfortable too. So cool during the summers.. It's in a village in Uttarakhand.. The videos of the construction are available here on this channel ..
Thank you for sharing. Wish you the very best 🙏🏻
My baba’s ‘gau ko ghar’ in the hills of Nepal was built about if not more than a hundred years ago out of mud and is still standing strong and proud. His house in Kathmandu made of cement that’s only about forty years has been crumbling down for years now. It’s so sad how the city dwellers look down upon those from the villages and up until recent years I had been embarrassed to show any pictures of the mud house that is so fantastically situated right next to a running stream. I remember visiting there as a child and spending most of our time outdoors climbing trees, playing in the streams, feeding the animals and eating fruits and honey that were harvested just a minute ago. That mud house is small inside, just enough to sleep and take shelter into during the evenings and mealtimes. But it used to house not only the family, but also all the visitors and passerby’s. Today I live in a big cement house, have decorated it with expensive but useless pieces that I collected from different places and hardly leave my house cos it’s so much work to maintain it even with a househelp. And man it’s cold inside in the winters and hot in the summers. Luckily it’s a rented house as I’m an expat overseas, but I’ve started to slowly get rid of my things, so that one day when I build my own regenerative home, I don’t bring all that junk into it. 🙏🏼
Love you gals, and folks.
I share this dream, and going through all these very same challenges.
Know fully well this is not it, but that breakthrough, Gosh, that takes courage and conviction.
Hope to meet you, and your likes, and enough of you, to push me up.
Thank you for this video!
Highly motivating. Love from Nepal
Very nice way to build a house , i have a small land and i wish if i can do that 1 day , best wishes from Amman Jordan.
hats off for the guts you have and thanks a ton to support our 'mother nature'
Salute to Ur re invention ma'am one shayeri for u
Nakamio se chup n saka Hale arzo
Phir agaye wahin se chale the Jahan se hum
I even tired in Mumbai born in Bihar I wanted to go back to my homeland I love to live in my farmhouse made up of bamboo and mud
Very nice initiative to bring people back to nature. Proud of you. Congratulations 👏
A great philosophy living in harmony with the natural world.
Inspiration...a paradigm shift in view of work, life & contribution.
Naturalist.I too miss wide roads,less traffic,parks,birds,darkness which is today obscured by inverters, forest cover etc
Thank you we are all saying the same thing!
Hello from El Paso, Texas, USA 🇺🇸 Beautiful video! Thank you for sharing. Namaste 🙏🏽
Another truly inspiring project! This is full of wisdom, I have no words to express my adoration to this project and the people who shares the same thought about this. Love You All!
Respect for this woman,. everyone should think about it.
India is such a beautiful country. She's so lucky to live in that stunning house in that beautiful location. ❤ Millions of people around the world dream of escaping unhealthy cities and living like that. She's truly living the dream. God bless her.
Shagun Singh ..what a spirtuality you pouring out into our hearts.I bowdown my head before you...
There’s truly a reason behind everything our ancestors did. In search of modernisation and following the “western culture”, we have left behind the most valuable wisdom :( Wish we could go back.
Being an Ayurvedic doctor...Nature🌳🌱 is only the best medicine as ever...🙏🏻
It's awesome... Back to our roots 🌱 live & respect nature
One thing that really strikes me is how at peace they all look. And it is more the lifestyle which attracts me.
Wanted to build this kind of house in 16 months from now in Hyderabad.
Me too !
Please do get in touch I am from Hyderabad sophiaroy@gmail.com
Truely said " History repeats" praise the Nature.
Praise the Lord God
Actually cement has actually been around for a couple thousand years at least. The Romans used it, and perfected it to a point that we have yet to replicate their quality in the modern day.
Roman cement is actually lime.
Cement has become a very generic term. There have been several mortar and plaster mixes developed through centuries across the world with bases of lime, pozzolanic and otherwise.
What is being referred to here is the mass factory manufactured modern day cement 🙏🏻
Well done Shagun. Thank you so much :)
Wow wow ! Just Amazing.Kudos to her Idea ❤️ Would like to know more about it!
I love this organisation!
We have to encourage this for future generations
Powerful and very insightful
Lovely video. Thanks heaps for taking the time & effort to put this together.
The moment that the camera zooms out and she is sitting encompassed by this otherworldly circle!! Well done cameraman!!!
What is that circle if you please?
Love the simplicity and directness of thought and actions
As a builder of my own earthen home.... What an outstanding video❤️
Every house should be built like this. Concrete houses are one of India's most severe pathologies.
Monsoon
I'm so happy to see her happy after returning back to where we all belong from that is nature.
So Amazing! shagun is doing such a fantastic work of bringing human habitation in harmony with all other life on earth. Im happy to see someone actually do what I have been thinking about for the last few years about the construction and living w natural materials.
I just wanna do that soon . This concept really appealing..
Saying the corporate world is fake and pursuing that life is useless. It’s just music to my ears. Thank you.
Great work. Here in Lesotho, southern Africa our mud houses in the villages are so beautiful and you just made me appreciate our village life even more. A new sub and will be following you. Thanks for sharing
My grandfather made mud house in 1947. It is roof was made from long grass which is still seems durable. We are using it for 40 years to store wheat straw. I have lots of memories with it. It is not in good condition now. I don't want to lose it. All material used for the house was available within the radius of 500 meters. Luckily my grandfather has good health in the age of 95. I am going to collect all the information and process to make mud house. And I am sure I will have a mud house in my life.
How security can ensure of this mud houses? Is there any plan?
I saw a husky 😜
somehow came over this video and it really moved me. Will definitely visit Geeli Mitti... Just want to know one thing- is it possible to built multi storied building with natural materials?
😊😊wow wow that's a good eye opener 😊thanks a lot for this video😊👍
Twenty years ago while in the Philippines a woman asked, “What will you do when you leave the Navy?” After telling her all the things I wanted to purchase, her reply still rocks me; “Happiness is the most important thing.”
Welldone for preserving old craft of mitti house building.
Wonder woman,can you help me building a gowshala this way.(cow shed)
Main toh bhediya bhi palta hoon apna ghar pe, alag sa shed bana ke diya hoon bamboo aur woods se. Insan ko kaatne ko bhi nhi ata hai sirf meat deta hoon khane ko khush rahta hai, aise 5 bhediya hai abhi.