River Spiral Studio

Skills and Generosity Trades

In Machuca Valley we live in a community where it isn’t often easy to make a living and meet needs. Perhaps we can find a match here to make lessons more accessible for you.

Available for a limited portion of the classes offered each month

I’m passionate about the challenge of homeless cats and dogs — here in Costa Rica in particular, where we don’t have the support of institutions, and where we can make big strides with constant, thorough spay and neuter campaigns and by promoting adoption rather than breeding. If you didn’t know there’s a monthly affordable spay/neuter clinic in Orotina, and that there are countless dogs and cats in need of fostering and adoption — now you know.

Skills needed for Amigos de los Animales

  • Cat and dog photography or videography — for adoption posts
  • Graphic design — for adoption flyers
  • Printing — adoption flyers
  • Table-sitting — at Mercado de la Tierra
  • Bake sale contributions
  • Animal transport — for the monthly spay-neuter clinic in Orotina
  • Sign-making — promoting the monthly low-cost spay-neuter clinic
  • Garage sale fundraiser — collaboration
  • Pet portrait fundraiser — help organising it

Skills to trade with Stephanie

  • Video editing — for GYROTONIC® shorts, and for Bernat’s shorts
  • Kid-sitting — Pau, age 8, loves discussing and playing Minecraft, maybe chess too
  • Fútbol lessons — for Pau
  • Woodshop lessons — for Pau
  • Tennis lessons — for Pau
  • Vegan cooking lessons — for Steph
  • Cello lessons — for Steph
  • Surf car-pooling — for Bernat
  • Closet organisation — support
  • Obsessive recycling — support
  • Sewing and alterations

Partial trade for reduced-price classes

  • Your community gift class — if I manage to attend it, I’d like to factor in the value of your contribution
  • Community service — if you give your time or budget to local non-profits, let’s discuss
  • Support for victims of war — in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Sudan, Ukraine, and other places I could learn about — let’s discuss factoring this in
  • Foster animal support — regular pet food and medicine contributions
  • Home-made food — I’d much rather be teaching than be alone in a kitchen. Pizza, soup, muffins — very interested in healthy family food
  • Viking braid tutorial — maybe you haven’t noticed, but my hair is almost always dying of boredom in a clip

Write to Stephanie and pick a time

The studio
Alegría, Los Altos #12
Machuca Valley, Costa Rica
First class
$40, 50% donated
WhatsApp
+506 7163 2550