Ano Hanamana

George,

Big Island, Puna is a whole different economic world than where you are.

I don't teach or practice eating by "intuition," I teach eating by instinct.  There is not a lot of "hatha yoga" being practiced here.  We make it very clear the difference between GaiaYoga and Hatha Yoga.

I don't mind you giving information, but the way you are doing it lands as undermining of what I'm sharing.  We are an intentional community, where people are not welcome to be in a perennial work-trade situation (where they we are essentially "the boss" and they are "the employee," indefinitely.  After the "dating" phase, people are invited to become members here and actually become equal in terms of power, decision making, security, and equity.  The property is owned by a religious non-profit.  It is not privately owned.  

This alone makes staying here a very different possibility than most farms and homesteads, where there isn't a system to support real shared power, decision making, security, family, etc.  

Of course, most folks don't pursue that path, but some do.

Aloha, Ano

Hi George,

I'm not sure how you have decided you know what we do with our humamanure.  And you also don't understand Instinctive Eating (it is not "intuitive eating." It is not at all about eating "only fruit."

Also, no one in the world values work-trade at $25/hr.  And there is not just oodles of work for people to do for $25/hr cash all over Hawaii, as you say.  And that also requires having a car.

If you read on our website what GaiaYoga is, you would understand that we are very much practicing "Yoga" here.  Albiet, our focus is not Hatha Yoga.  But that is just one type of Yoga.

And our place is actually not designed for people to "camp".  And while I agree long term people who would stay here "don't really fit in society" you make it sound like it's because there's something "wrong" with said people, not that they see through the fundamental design errors of the dominant culture and want to invest their life in creating something different.

So I respectfully ask you to reconsider much of the content of your post.

I would suggest you do more research before you condemn our place.

Aloha, Ano

Hi Permies,

If you are interested in living in an off-grid intentional community in Hawaii check us out.  We are GaiaYoga Gardens (www.gaiayoga.org).  Our mission is to heal, activate, and live our holistic hearts in multi-generational bonded community.  Our community is on a 20+ year old food forest that has mature producing trees of most every kind of tropical fruit/nut you can think of.  We also have a milking cow and abundant drinking coconuts.  The strength of what we are doing is on our culture and consciousness.