I believe there are many of you out there that are looking for your paradise. Maybe you aren't completely satisfied with conducting this fruitarian lifestyle in your current environment. Maybe there isn't enough Sun, or enough rain, or its too dry of weather, or there isn't enough vegetation around you, or little forestation. Maybe you are unsatisfied with your current job, or you don't feel passionate about your career direction. Maybe you don't have access to inexpensive, high quality organic fruit and greens. Maybe you are isolated, alone and lack support from fellow fruit lovers. Maybe you've taken this diet to the very end and yet, there is still something missing.
I would officially like to invite you to experience GaiaYoga Gardens Initiation-Internship. GaiaYoga Gardens is a 17.75 acre permaculture homestead, holistic culture experiment, and learning and healing center, located on the East Side of the Big Island of Hawaii. We reside in the heart of the Puna district, several miles back in the jungle. We are a community focused integrating Spirit, self, community, and Earth in a balanced and sustainable way. On a day-to-day we are primarily focussed on raising children, developing and maintaing our permaculture systems, growing as individuals to be able to participate in the community we envision, doing shadow work, holistic healing, and living the way Nature intended.
Come, help us re-build a realtime Garden, and experience being in perfect weather year-round, climbing coconut trees, harvesting and wild foraging for fruit and greens, bathing naked in the sun, swimming in cool healing ocean water, working the aina (land), planting fruit trees, breathing pristine ocean filtered air, vibrating high from Pele's local energy (Pele, Goddess of Hawaiian Islands, resides in the heart of the island), allowing this unfolding of divinity to happen.
Is this Heaven? No it's Hawaii ;)
More info about GaiaYoga can be found here: www.gaiayoga.org
p.s. Our next initiation-internship starts in September, it's a one month process, that can lead to long term residence if a person/family wants.
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wow this sounds awesome!! I hope to do something like this soon! How much is the internship?
My personal experience of Gaiayoga:
About 2.5 years ago I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. I had dropped out of MSU (after 1 year of not really digging it) and moved back to NC where my parents have a home in the mountains. I spent alot of time trying to discover my passion and after being at home for a number of months I happened upon meditation and raw foods. I immediately jumped into the raw vegan diet when I discovered it (more gourmet raw, nuts, seeds, salads and fruit then) and discovered a bliss inside of me. After playing with the raw diet for a while my sense of clarity and life direction seemed to be accelerating towards something great, yet I didn't know it at the time.
After a month of raw I discovered Gaiayoga via google. I read their website and really resonated with what they were trying to accomplish. I decided this is what I needed to do, and sent in my application for the March 2010 internship.
Wow! right when I stepped out of the plane in Kona I already felt euphoric from the island's energy. When I got to gaiayoga I immediately felt at home, in the jungle, surrounded by wild life, fruit trees and people that wanted to live this natural way of life.
Over the 2 month internship I did alot of exploring, both in the outer and the inner world. This island has so much to offer, and my sense of purpose was finally being realized. I also learned alot during those 2 months: how to live with others in a tight community, how to work the land to create beautiful sustainable food forests and vegetable gardens, how to live with myself, learning new ways to express my needs and to hear others needs (Nonviolent communication)
I stayed on as a resident of gaiayoga for another 7 months, because I loved it. During the holiday season of that year I went back home to be with family, but I felt like I left the comfort of the womb. I was frustrated with my environment in NC. Being in the cold winter, not having access to quality affordable fruit, I was ready to get back to tropical paradise as soon as possible.
After being home for 2 months I flew back out to Hawaii with the intention to find my own piece of land to develop a homestead on. Divine synchronicity happened and a land deal popped up right next to gaiayoga. We sealed the deal! Skip ahead a year and I am now developing my own 2 acres of hawaiian jungle, clearing the land, planting fruit trees, building my cabin, working on getting solar power and water catchment systems up and running. I have beautiful supportive neighbors (gaiayoga) and live in one of the most blissful places on Earth.
My sense of purpose feels whole now. I love my life and those in it.
Thank you gaiayoga for providing the healing and supportive environment to discover myself!
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awesome story! thanks for sharing :)