Through the beauty, joyfulness, and simplicity of Akal, we empower our guests to create unforgettable and timeless memories in Tenerife.
We are fond to a holistic lifestyle chasing the multidimensional aspects of wellness, conscious nutrition and yoga are part of our soul and presence. We breathe to inspire people to a more natural, ecological and conscious way of living.
Our goal is to create a tropical oasis and live as natural and sustainable as possible, maintaining a good living standard through basic comforts, with a minimal impact on Mother Earth.
We are inviting you to share meaningful days in our community and embrace life in a cheerful way, immerse into nature.
We offer different types of accommodation in Tenerife to relax and enjoy the calm, exciting and peaceful atmosphere of Akal.
Only pollinated blooms will produce an avocado, which is why bees play a vital role in the Akal orchard.
Each day at Akal unfolds with quiet purpose, moving gently from stillness into creative life. The morning open the eyes with a soft mantra, followed by yoga that awakens body and breath to enhance the senses to the day.
Afterwards, we gather around a wholesome breakfast prepared with fresh, nourishing ingredients and tropical fruit from the island, a simple celebration of flavor, color, and vitality. When the table got quiet, we meet in a sharing circle for listening and reflection, creating space for presence and heartfelt connection.
As the sun and clouds drift above, we turn our hands to the tasks of the day, jumping into the garden, preparing meals, painting, dancing, crafting, giving form to care and beauty. In these simple acts, something quiet and profound awakens, through simply doing, we become part of the living world around Akal.
Our spaces rest within tropical gardens on the northern hills of Tenerife, where terraces open to the Atlantic and the light moves gently through the day. The architecture follows the land, allowing colors, and materials to breathe with their surroundings. Each room is shaped to invite calm and clarity, the soft glow of natural light grounding the body and quieting the mind.
Built with rocks, lime wash, wood, and clay, the essence of the island lives in every wall. Light, shadow, and texture create an atmosphere that restores and inspires. These are not just rooms, but living spaces that nourish body and soul.
Each nest invites sharing and creation, evenings with herbal tea, poetry, craft, or music, moments of warmth and community flowing with the easy pace of island life. Around you, the garden whisper ocean breeze, birds, and frogs voices embracing the presence of nature into daily living.
Akal offers shared and private spaces built with care by many loving hands, guided by the unity of human, nature, and a unique atmosphere . Here, light becomes relief, and community becomes a home for belonging and renewal.
Akal cooking is a colorful mash of culture, custom, herbs, serenity, taste, spice, infusion and charm.
Our kitchen is made for dancing, a green house of music and spices. A laboratory of pure creativity, a place of warmth and transformation, where the gifts of the Earth become nourishment for body and soul. Here, food is not only plants but a conversation with life itself, an act of gratitude toward the soil, the sun, and the hands that grow and prepare it.
Our cooking is a colorful meeting of cultures, greens and grains, infused with herbs, roots, and tropical abundance. From garden to plate, every ingredient carries the vitality of the land and the care that shaped it. The kitchen is both a greenhouse and a gathering place, filled with light, laughter, and the scent of fresh herbs, inviting all to cook, learn, and share as one big family.
We cook with whole, living foods, fruits, grains, and plants that preserve their natural integrity. Experiencing here is to practice mindfulness, to sense, to taste, to listen. Each meal becomes a small ritual of attention and gratitude, reminding us that eating is an artistic and moral act, where matter, culture, taste and history meet.
Food is both a right and a responsibility, a shared resource that bonds community. We collaborate with local farmers and artisans, supporting a living food culture that honors both humanity and planet. Through this, we restore the natural flow from garden to table, making nourishment accessible, respectful, and joyful.
At Akal, cooking becomes a practice of love and awareness, a cultural journey or rural recipes represented with innovation and care.
In our farm we walk side by side with local farmers and artisans, growers, and our expert neighbours who hold generations of wisdom in their fingertips. From the papaya growers of the north to the families cultivating banana terraces and the elders harvesting mango, avocado, guava, and passion fruit, their knowledge nourishes us as deeply as the fruit they harvest. Each week, we wander through the vibrant Sunday farmers’ markets, gathering ripe tropical abundance directly from those who nurture it with patience, intuition, and love. This allow us to completely sustain our fruity consumption from our garden with the help of our brothers and sisters working the soil.
In this living exchange, we also trade seeds with local farmers, passing on varieties that hold the strength, resilience, and memory of organic nature. Through this simple but powerful gesture, we help preserve the island’s biodiversity while cultivating a deeper connection to its ancestral cycles.
Their stories, their generosity, and their guidance help shape our own food forest, reminding us how to read the soil by knowledge and care, how to choose a fruit by intuition, and how to give back more than we take. In communion with these local hands, we cultivate not only our plates but our purpose, living in exchange, gratitude, and celebration of the Tenerife living heritage.
Eating papaya seeds is amazing for a healthy gut and they have a peppery flavor.
Walk into the food forest through, papaya, banana, passion fruit and avocado trees, pick your favorite tropical fruit to nourish your body and soul.
The food forest at Akal is a living teaching ground, where the wisdom of nature becomes visible. Walking through papaya, banana, passion fruit, guava, mango and avocado trees, you can pick fruit directly from the trees, nourishment offered by the Earth. Every plant grows in cooperation, forming a self-sustaining ecosystem that feeds life rather than extracting from it.
Here, agriculture is not industry but devotion, a gesture of gratitude toward the living Earth. Every morning after our sharing circle we draw inspiration from ancestral knowledge while reimagining it through modern practices helping the nature, joining hands, intellect, and soil. In this way, the old skills of cultivation meet a renewed consciousness of care, uniting philosophy, biology, and technology in service of regeneration.
Within this forest, diversity replaces dominance. Roots, insects, and microorganisms collaborate silently, renewing the soil, conserving water, and maintaining fertility through their intricate web of relationships. The thick layer of organic matter keeps humidity, allowing abundance to grow with little intervention, a mirror of nature’s own intelligence.
To walk this landscape is to sense the Earth as a living being, breathing, growing, and evolving. It invites reflection on our role within creation, reminding us that to nourish the land is to nourish ourselves. Akal food forest becomes both teacher and companion, restoring the dialogue between human hands and the creative forces of life.
The food forest also produces high yields of vegetables and fruits, all co-existing on the same ground and supporting each other’s growth and well-being.
The purpose of this stay is to explore and find what feels good to you and the Earth. Discover what brings you joy, what helps you to be healthier, more energized, and mindfully present.
Embrace all the positive vibes and light that you can take with you on the way and make the best out of your life.
The inside of a banana peel can be used to soothe mosquito bites and relieve itching.
Akalife unfolds like a gentle breath between ocean and mountain, between stillness and wildness. Here, time do not exist, no measured by clocks, but by the path of the sun, the sound of wind in the banana leaves, and the laughter shared around the circle.
We live close to the elements, barefoot on the earth, hands in the garden, eyes gazing to the stars. Days begin with movement and quiet reflection, flow into the work of creation and care, and close with music, stories, and the warmth of firelight. The island teaches us that simplicity is abundance, and that beauty is born from presence.
We wander through tropical forests, gather fruits from the trees, dive into natural pools, or climb the hills to sleep under a sky wide with silence. In our free time the island becomes our playground and our temple, a place for dancing on wild beaches, for learning, resting, and remembering what it means to be human.
Our community is a living organism, a circle of human being from many paths, learning to live with intention, honesty, and gratitude. Together we grow, explore, build, create, and celebrate. Life here is not an escape from the world, but a return to it, raw, awake, and full of meaning.
Lemon zest, the outermost part of the peel, contains the highest concentration of essential oils.
Find the perfect balance and expand your horizons with the help of a supportive like-minded community, inspirational workshops and mindful activities created for enriching your personal development.
Enjoy a variety of workshops from local artisans, artists, and healers. We host various workshops to empower people to learn new crafts and reconnect with nature and themselves.
Learn about a plant-based diet and amazing recipes, get your hands dirty with clay and mud to create beautiful and meaningful objects, explore medicinal plants, participate in dance therapies, yoga and get involved in taking care of a food forest.
Contact us to book the house for your private retreat. Akal’s philosophy is rooted in Yoga and Ayurveda, making it the perfect place. We cater to all retreat needs, from food to accommodation and equipment. Get in touch for rates and availability.
There are places that we think could only exist in novels, places where you can meet people whose biographies are so dense that make you think they may be reminiscences from previous lives. Places where you feel free to be yourself, where you can get rid of those superfluous structures we spend so much time building and maintaining in our everyday lives. This is one of them…
It’s hard to put into words how much this experience means to me (…)
This is so much more than a co-living, it is a place that encourages you to be present, share your every part, be vulnerable, challenge your limitations, and just dive so deep within yourself that you will need months to truly process everything. I feel genuinely lucky to have found this place…
Being part of this community has changed my perspective on so many different levels of life, on friendship, on love and on real, transparent encounters. Anyone who can experience the energy that Akal family carry in their hearts is more than lucky. I am infinitely grateful to have found this beautiful oasis, which has enriched my life more than I can put into words…
Have a look at Sara’s documentary, a tender reflection of her time with us. Through her curious eyes and gentle presence, she captured the spirit of our community and the people who bring it to life. Her film is a window into our days at Akal — simple, connected, and rooted in nature.
Discover the surroundings of Akal. We have chosen this location as from here the most beautiful villages and natural spots can be reached.
Inclusion and openness are our main values. We share our lives with joy and humbleness, which is why we wake up every morning with excitement pulsing through our hearts…
The color orange was named after the fruit, not the other way around.
A Holistic Community in a Tropical Food Forest on the island of Tenerife
