GaiaYoga Gardens is a sanctuary for developing sustainable and holistic culture, a permaculture homestead, and an intentional community on Hawaii’s Big Island. The heart of the vision we are manifesting is expressed in the books True Human Freedom: The Inspiration and Argument for GaiaYoga Culture, by Ano Tarletz Hanamana, 2016 and The Four No-Bull Truths of Clan and Heart Based Group Intimacy: A Guidebook to Healing, Activating, and Living Our Holistic Hearts in Multi-generational Bonded Community by Ano Tarletz Hanamana, 2024. We’re dedicated to living in harmony with the Earth, connecting with Spirit, engaging personal growth and healing, fostering cooperative community, and developing holistic and sustainable life patterns. We practice and teach GaiaYoga, which is The Art and Wisdom of Unifying Spirit, Self, Community and Earth, Permaculture and other sustainable agricultural systems, Nonviolent Communication (NVC), natural raw diet (Instinctive Eating and The Primal Diet), Light on Shadow (Shadow Work) connection parenting, cooperative living, and holistic intimacy and sexuality and holistic spirituality. Our lifestyle includes: 1) Living simply, sustainably, and close to nature – ruraly and off-grid in low-impact eco-dwellings; growing food; operating eco-businesses; and trading for goods and services. 2) Cultivating a healthy self through maximizing eating a raw, local, organic diet; having an active work/service life; engaging personal growth, healing, and shadow work; balancing sovereignty and interdependence; having a life-affirming orientation toward intimacy and sexuality (which might be healthfully expressed as either celibacy, monogamy, ethical non-monogamy, hetero-sexuality, homo-sexuality, bi-sexuality, etc.); and being clothing-optional. 3) Establishing a land-sharing community that’s intimate, caring, and feels like family. This includes practicing cooperative decision making, nonviolent communication; cooperating relative to resources and land development; having community businesses; sharing child-rearing; and having fun together! 4) Integrating spirituality into our communal life through morning circles, prayer, hatha yoga, rituals, shamanic journeying, rites of passage, and spiritual study, all according to individual preferences. Our dream is for GaiaYoga Gardens to be a beacon of light and love and a living example of the kind of world we want. Links: www.nagdeo.org The band that Ano is the primary songwriter for http://www.gaiayoga.org: GaiaYoga Gardens’ main website GaiaYoga Gardens on facebook: If you’re having trouble, search for “GaiaYoga Gardens” after signing in to Facebook
We have articulated this in many different ways over the years. Here’s a few expressions of it… To create a sustainable-and-holistic culture that supports and manifests True Human Freedom! To manifest and master the art and wisdom of living holistically, integrating Spirit, self, community, and Earth. Healing, activating, and living our Holistic Hearts, in multi-generational bonded community. Our community is called GaiaYoga Gardens, this is pointing to our primary “crop” which is GaiaYoga Consciousness and GaiaYoga Culture (which is a living expression of the seed of this consciousness). Our focus is holistic and like a good sailing ship we adjust to the winds, weather, icebergs, land masses, and other ships. On the material level our focus is to upgrade and maintain our existing infrastructure and to maximize the sustainable productivity of our food systems. We have a near infinity supply of projects we can focus on and prioritize, gardens, orchards, animal systems, building new structure, repairing degradation from UVs, water, rust, and general decay.
1-3 month initial stay, followed by 9 month or longer residency period, followed by trial-membership period, followed by membership.
A single person, couple, or small group makes most major decisions.
Primary authority rests with the community’s founder(s) or designated leader(s).
Members contribute a percentage of income to community funds.
Common House, Vehicle Share, Library, Workshop, Outbuilding(s), Swimming pond or pool, Hot tub or hot springs, Fire pit, Swingsets & play areas, Gym or sports area, Internet, Recreation Room, Kitchen/Living Room
Countryside locations with significant distance from urban centers.
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