The GaiaYoga Immersion
The Immersion is a 16-day journey into the holistic culture of GaiaYoga and the consciousness behind it.
If engaged fully, this guided process is nothing short of a death/rebirth process.
The Curriculum
The Immersion includes 25+ classes in the following areas of sustainable-and-holistic living.
Sustainable Homesteading
An introduction to the principles of Permaculture, Fukuoka's Natural Way of Farming, John Jeavon's Biointensive Mini-farming, and Master Cho's Korean Natural Farming. The history of food acquisition, tours, and the mystical life cycle.
Non-Violent Communication
Deeply explore the teaching of the visionary peacemaker Marshall Rosenberg. Learn the foundation of this language/consciousness, and bring this compassion and power to life in yourself and your relationships..
Instinctive Eating / Natural Health Care
Discover the lost knowledge of optimum nutrition, the inherent living system for selecting, eating and digesting foods within our native biology. Explore this ancient practice of relating sensually to wild and raw food.
Holistic Intimacy & Sexuality
An overview of the elements and practices involved in healthy and conscious intimate/sexual human relationships; philosophy and individual/couple/communal dynamics and exercises.
Light on Shadow
Our community’s approach to healing, “opening up the hood of our own vehicles” to deprogram ourselves and see what is running us from the unconscious.
A combination of Re-Evaluation Co-Counseling (RC), ManKind Project (MKP) practices, NVC and indigenous wisdom.
Holistic Spirituality
Not all spiritual approaches are equal. Most don't truly support wholeness. Gain discrimination around spiritual teachings and explore what blocks you from connecting to the divine masculine and feminine and living in their unification.
Jungle Orientation
Learn the skills to forage responsibly and navigate life in the jungle with strength and grace.
Heartcore Meetings
Here we deepen our connections in a safe and compassionate group container. We will access our shadows, resolve polarities and support each other in the process.
GaiaYoga
GaiaYoga, the teaching itself, is the underlying "operating system" of our community. Explore our vision of True Human Freedom, holistic cultural consciousness, and discover why integrating Spirit, self, community, and Earth is our foundation.
Landance
One of the main ways we move and co-create together is through landancing - caring for and sculpting our beautiful home everyday.
Learn the "martial art" of sustainable homesteading in a tropical rain forest. Survival can be fun!
Tours
GaiaYoga Gardens has been around since 2003.
There's a lot to see and eat!
Formal and informal tours of not only our land, but this whole area of lower Puna and it's unique landscape and human expression.
Sunday Funday
Every Sunday in Lower Puna there's four main happenings.
1) Farmer’s Market’s - Ano sets up a booth in downtown Pahoa and also Maku’u Market
2) Ecstatic Dance
3) Hanging out at Kehena (our clothing optional hippie beach)
4) Socializing at The Lawn (drumming, dancing, slack lines, frisbees, kids, etc.)
Additional Amenities
Access to all the food we forage or grow on our land, including:
All-you-can-eat wild-foraged young, mature, and sprouted coconuts
Raw (unpasteurized) grass-fed milk and farmer's cheese
Occasional wild pork or pastured lamb
Dozens of seasonal fruits, including avocados, 25+ varieties of banana, papayas, oranges, tangerines, tangelo, jackfruit, abiu, rollenia, jaboticaba, mulberry, mamae sapote, ross sapote, red and yellow rambutan, longon, Bolivian mangosteen, 4 kinds of lilikoi, 3 kinds of guava and many more!
Opportunities to learn how to forage for and produce all the above food
Perennial and garden vegetables
Tropical breeze house accommodations -- dorm-style or some private rooms available
Shared use of communal spaces that are maintained and cleaned by the entire community
“Tutu’s” (our beautiful main communal space: kitchen, living room, dining room)
“Au’au Heiau” (Bathing Temple: shared bamboo-walled space with sinks, showers, and bathtub, featuring solar- and propane-heated hot water)
“The Landing” (kitchen, living room and internet zone in a cozy screened-in breeze house)
“Power Sharing” (laundry and utility room with shared washing machine and line-drying)
“CarBarn” (shared workshop for carpentry and repairs)
Annual and Perennial Vegetable Gardens
“Zappa Crappa and Hale Lua” (Zen-like open-air composting toilet spaces)
“Coco Cabana” (open-air coconut chopping, consuming, and storage bar)
Lawns and Fire Pits (sublime sunbathing, outdoor games, rituals, and campfires)
Rides into Pahoa (our small town) almost daily, and Hilo (nearest city) at least once a week.
Solar-heated hot tub + cold plunge pool/pond
Book access from our library (featuring hundreds of titles on permaculture, spirituality, communication, community, sexuality, personal growth and more)
Our requests of you for the GaiaYoga Immersion Experience:
Commit to the 16 days of the immersion and up to 1 additional month after the immersion. After that, if you like us and we like you, you can potentially stay for longer (and even become a full member/owner/steward of our community)
Arrive on the Friday before the start date of The Immersion
Pay for your immersion (Deposits and overall costs for food, lodging, and education are discussed in the info we send out when you ask for an application.)
Who do we want to participate in the GaiaYoga Immersion?
GaiaYoga Immersion is for you if you:
feel excited about our way of living and want to deeply explore our lifestyle and the consciousness behind it.
have a desire to unlearn our societal conditioning and re-harmonize with the natural world and tribal consciousness.
value communicating openly and honestly about themselves and want to receive that from others in a healing container.
want the personal, relational and spiritual growth that comes with our life-rhythm here at GaiaYoga.
have a desire to learn how to communicate from a place of compassion and how to take responsibility for their emotions and actions.
has a desire to move through shadow work and work through the discomfort that comes with transitioning to life in the jungle.
want to contribute to what we’re creating at GaiaYoga.
After the immersion, if people stay on and participate in our community, we appreciate people with skills in:
natural foods preparation
permaculture
carpentry
gardening/orcharding
healing arts
facilitating
communication
domestic management (house cleaning)
parenting
and more!
If you have skills in the above areas, please let us know.