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gaiaf1 GaiaYoga Gardens is forming as a holistic teaching center, residential community, and sanctuary of natural living, beauty, and cooperative relationships.

Located in a rural, alternative-lifestyle area on the Big Island of Hawaii, we're passionate about teaching holistic and sustainable living skills. This includes teaching sustainable homesteading (permaculture, appropriate technology, Fukuoka farming methods, etc.), raw-foods diet, successful (nonviolent) communication, Tantra, hatha yoga, spirituality, and cooperative living.

For residents, we envision a day-to-day life rhythm thatšs a balanced integration of Spirit, self, community, and Earth. Some highlights are:

* Living simply, sustainably, and connected-to-nature. This includes running vehicles on bio-fuels; using solar power, water-catchment, and composting toilets; living in low-impact eco-dwellings; and growing, foraging, or trading for food.

* Integrating spirituality into our communal life through shared activities such as group rituals (e.g. solstice & equinox rituals), group meditation and inner-journey work, prayer occasions, hatha yoga, rites of passage, healing occasions, spiritual courses or presentations, etc.

* Living a lifestyle that cultivates a healthy self through eating an organic, natural diet that's either exclusively raw or based on indigenous wisdom (like the Price-Pottenger diet); being sex-positive and clothing-optional; actively engaging personal growth (including 'shadow' work); maintaining a balance between autonomy and cooperation; and being active in one's work and/or service life.

* Establishing a land-sharing community that's intimate, caring, and feels like family. This encompasses practicing consensus decision-making; cooperating relative to finances, resources, energy, and land development; operating community businesses together; sharing child-raising; practicing open-and-honest, nonviolent communication; supporting each other in our individual and collective growth; and having fun together.

Though GaiaYoga Gardens is still in the formative stage, we have a lot of faith in what wešre creating and the wisdom behind it. If you are inspired by this and would like to find out more, we'd like to hear from you.

"The coconut pots are an idea that was developed at Pangaia, in 2000, when we were studying Fukuoka and Viktor Schauberger. We wanted a pot that we could plant without tilling, that had a round bottom rather than a flat bottom, which was natural, didn't create transplant shock, or require industry to create. A man, Lee, who was living there "got it" first, and realized a pot could be made out of a coconut after it was drunk (if we modified our style of opening them with a machete slightly and then further processed the nut to be a pot.) Since coconut was a staple part of our diet, and still is a staple in my diet, it's sustainable for me use them as I'm already handling them anyway and coconuts are plentiful and local."

"I've since discovered that some plants need to be burried so that the plant root structure is below ground level. This way the plant doesn't fall over as it matures (papaya is a good example of a plant that I've seen fall over or break on it's own weight because the plant wasn't rooted properly). Many plants, though, work fine with just having the pot set on the ground - no tilling."

"Later on we realized that we could also make planting pots out of bamboo as well. Using bamboo with a 2" diameter inside whole or larger, we can cut them into single node lengths, punch a whole in the bottom and use them to plant trees in. These definitely need to have a whole dug for them, but they minimalize transplant shock and are made of natural material."

Ano Tarletz
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