ANO TARLETZ: Hi. I am currently the only permanent resident of GaiaYoga Gardens. I co-founded GaiaYoga Gardens five years ago with my intimate-partner who no longer lives here. As of this writing there are 6 adults, 3 young girls (6, 4, and 1 years old) and an 11 year old boy living here. The mother of this family, Violet, has just started her membership process. And another young man named John has been here for over 1 1/2 years. As others become long-term residents of GaiaYoga Gardens, they will be added to this page.
I (Ano) describe myself as an eco-entrepreneur and community visionary. I was born on Earth Day, 1969. A little over twenty years later, I co-founded Pangaia, a raw-foods, permaculture homestead on the Big Island of Hawaii. Since 1996, I've been devoted to teaching sustainable homesteading, raw foods lifestyle, and Nonviolent Communication (NVC). I now manage our permaculture nursery, which specializes in bamboo, fruit trees, bananas, and coconuts.
I co-authored the booklet An Introduction To GaiaYoga: A Holistic Vision for Living Sustainably as Spirit, Self, Community, and Earth. I've also written two other books: Instinctive Eating: The Lost Knowledge of Optimum Nutrition (authored under the name “Zephyr”) and Transplant-Shock Therapy: The Poetic Pilgrimage of a Suburban Refugee.
Now, having grown from my journeys in the realms of sustainable living, spirituality, community, NVC, Tantric relationship, shadow work, recovery work, and raw foods instinctive eating, I’m excited to be part of the seed energy that’s creating GaiaYoga Gardens, — a permaculture homestead and community dedicated to living in harmony with the Earth, connecting with Spirit, engaging personal growth and healing, fostering cooperative living, and developing holistic & sustainable life-patterns. We're forming a core group of residents and members to share this endeavor, and we’re looking for others to join us in pioneering GaiaYoga. If you resonate with the vision that’s presented in this website, please contact us. We want to connect with you.
