Gaia Yoga Gardens Hawaii

Aloha,

Welcome to the GaiaYoga website. This website is geared towards two primary functions. To share the vision of GaiaYoga with people, and to attract people to GaiaYoga Gardens, to join us in co-creating an intentional community, permaculture homestead, and learning & healing center, on the Big Island of Hawaii.

GaiaYoga Gardens was purchased in December of 2002. At that time it was 17.75 acres of raw, forested land, with a mixture of native, naturalized, and invasive tropical species of plants and animals creating a balanced Hawaiian eco-system.

Since the beginning, our dream has been to weave in our human settlement and our cultural vision into the already existing web of life of on this land. Rather than dominating the land with tractor, bulldozer, and lawnmower, we dance with it — sculpting out a niche for our home. a little bit at a time, primarily using hand tools (machetes, saws, sickles, shovels, picks, wheelbarrows, etc.)

We moved into our first "tropical breeze house," home-made, eco-structure in the summer of 2003. Ever since we've been improving the infrastructure, planting food trees, bamboo, and gardens, building our businesses, connecting with the Earth here, growing spiritually, learning to live together, healing from our past, enjoying the blessings of our present, and envisioning a future rich with the fruits and labor of a sustainable and holistic community.

(GaiaYoga Gardens from space circa spring 2007)

The two biggest things we've learned so far: 1) Creating an intentional community is a slow-moving sport that requires a lot of patience and grace. 2) Humans are the toughest crop of all... Bananas and solar systems come relatively easy compared to what it takes to heal and re-educate our selves to live together sustainably. Founding a community or a new culture takes time, lots of behind-and-under-the-scene work, lots of devotion, lots of compassion for ourselves and others, and a very wide and deep set of tools and skills.

As much as we're proud of what's manifesting materially on the land - our visible structure- we're probably more proud of what's gestating and growing within the people who are involved with GaiaYoga - our invisible structure.

So, that's our opening statement about GaiaYoga. For more information on the GaiaYoga philosophy and vision, visit any of the nine links in the section starting with "What Is GaiaYoga?" on the sidebar. To learn more about GaiaYoga Gardens, look at the four links in the section starting with "GaiaYoga Gardens Community Vision." If you'd like to order books or CDs that present aspects of the GaiaYoga vision, or to contact us, go to the section starting with "Ordering Books & CDs."

We hope you find grounded inspiration at our site. Feel free to contact us if you're interested in visiting us, creating your home here, ordering something, or if you just have a question or comment.

Warmly,

Ano
Co-Founder of GaiaYoga Gardens