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Welcome to Sundari, on the wild southern corner of the Big Island of Hawai'i, nestled between Ohia forest and the vast Pacific, the volcano and the undimmed night sky. We are an off-grid farm and intentional community. We host gatherings, concerts, classes and events. We do a lot of things together: grow food, dance, sing, practice yoga and martial arts, share ideas and heal. We are learning to live in more attunement and presence.

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Dec 6
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm HST Event Series

Wednesday Night Ecstatic

Dec 7
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm HST Event Series

Drawing classes at Sundari with resident art instructor John Bourassa

Dec 10
9:00 am - 11:00 am HST Event Series

Sacred Sunday Song Circle: Hosted by Kevin & Sol

Dec 13
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm HST Event Series

Wednesday Night Ecstatic

Dec 14
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm HST Event Series

Drawing classes at Sundari with resident art instructor John Bourassa

Dec 17
9:00 am - 10:45 am HST Event Series

Sacred Sunday Song Circle: Hosted by Katie & Richard

Dec 20
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm HST Event Series

Wednesday Night Ecstatic

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Featured! Blessfest, January 2024!

Join us in Paradise!

Come savor the magic of Music, Sacred Arts and Community. We are happy to provide space for John de Kadt’s BlessFest Hawaii, featuring MaMuse, Paul Izak and many more uplifting and heart-opening offerings from epic musicians, presenters, teachers, and ceremonial elders. Learn More 

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On our #horizon this morning, more light play and On our #horizon this morning, more light play and #rainbowmagic ❤️
Join the next Goddess Spa Temple this Friday, May Join the next Goddess Spa Temple this Friday, May 19. Our Divine Feminine Guide for this month is… SARASWATI Saraswati (Sanskrit: सरस्वती, IAST: Sarasvatī) is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, art, speech, wisdom, and learning. Saraswati is the daughter of Lord Shiva and Goddess Durga. It is believed that goddess Saraswati endows human beings with the powers of speech, wisdom, and learning. She has four hands representing four aspects of human personality in learning: mind, intellect, alertness, and ego. Lillie & Sol will be leading an Invokation & Embodied Practice to access the inner SARASWATI transmission, cultivating an open channel for creative inspiration to flow! We will then melt into the open Spa space and optional Goddess delights (vegan food, treats, tea etc) For more details: https://fb.me/e/2Mo23GF1y
Medicine songs at Sundari, last night, as one of o Medicine songs at Sundari, last night, as one of our dear sisters and mistress of the plants heads to the jungle to deepen her studies. Arietty and Kevin host this gathering on Friday nights, around a fire weather permitting. Bring your voice heart and intention. We are meant to sing and dance with our friends, to be in nature, to lean into connection. Haux haux.
May all victim-perpetrator consciousness come to a May all victim-perpetrator consciousness come to an end. May the cycles of violence, demand and abuse give way to harmony, equity and respect. We are choosing love, beauty and inclusion. Radical personal responsibility. Radical compassion. Radical love.
Tuesday Tuesday
Always awake to the beauty Always awake to the beauty
Last night at dance, as people shared in the closi Last night at dance, as people shared in the closing circle about how grateful they were for a safe space to fully express their grief at loss, to be fully themselves, how they are going through it and dancing twice a week is a gift, how they are back on the floor after injury and how much they missed it, how the DJ Element broke their hearts open and delighted them, how the sound healing with Lucia's drone and the voice and the didge resonated in their cells. All the gifts and offerings each has for their neighbors. The touch and the tea and the fire and the moon and rain. The dance is ritual, its healing space of dance. It's a gift. It's a practice, it can't be owned. I'm very grateful for my first ecstatic guide Zuza Engler, in 2008 in Sebastopol, CA, and for my teacher Lucia Horan, the lineage carrier of Gabrielle Roth, and for the space holders in Sausalito and Fairfax and San Francisco and Oakland, who hold those containers almost anonymously every week without fail where I could melt like that. It's a privilege to give a dance space back, whether that's sundari e dance on Wednesday, or organic ecstatic once a month, or dance just because at the spa. We are lucky. We are lucky to be free to dance and sweat and cry and move as we wish. The floor is yours mine and ours. Christopher just reminded me of that Christian idea "wherever two or more are gathered in the name of spirit, there is love." Indeed. 😘🧡😘🧡😘
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Thank you to our devoted kind curious writers, wha Thank you to our devoted kind curious writers, what a great and connecting space, at the first ever Sundari writers day. We're thinking an open sharing day 1x a month and a prompts and playday 1x a quarter. Make time for your vision and craft to come through, wrap it in practices, do what only you can do.
Last Sunday's song circle, and as always it is a b Last Sunday's song circle, and as always it is a blessing to gather in community and share our voices and embrace. Bows to the circle holders Kevin and Sol, and to all the devoted lovers of cacao and music.
Must be #starapple season🧡 --- Ripe for the p Must be #starapple season🧡 --- Ripe for the picking: so many star apples!!! This juicy custardy fruit is abundant next to the Ganesh pond. Don’t eat the skin or the seeds only the interior fleshy part. The taste has been described as “a mix of a watered-down sweetened condensed milk, a hint of blueberry, and a hint of lychee or rambutan” Star apple health benefits: Helps to improve digestive health. Good amount of fiber. High in Vitamin C. Helps control Diabetes. The fiber helps keep the blood sugar under control. Rich in antioxidants Helps to prevent iron deficiency anemia.
This Wednesday, April 5th we're so happy to have S This Wednesday, April 5th we're so happy to have Sundari's own, the amazing Element, making his long awaited #BigI ecstatic debut ❤️ uplift and flow and shake and spin, then drop deep into sound bath medicine with kamalei 🧡 xoxo
We love the happy, well-cared-for children that co We love the happy, well-cared-for children that come on the land. Our littles are such joy, at song circle, in the gardens, making their wonder felt. Viva the expansive vision of the family that is possible in intentional community, or good neighborhoods, where there are a lot of aunties and uncles, many supporters and a general feeling of welcome. 💜
Throwback to #blessfesthawaii 2022 at Sundari! Wha Throwback to #blessfesthawaii 2022 at Sundari! What a beautiful gathering!
The floor is soaked in love and the energy of year The floor is soaked in love and the energy of years of people dancing their full body prayer. #ecstaticdance #ecstaticsundari #edance #bigislandlove #bigislanddance #punaevents
The nuance and the noticing. The nuance and the noticing.
Grief is Love. I’m walking on our little spot o Grief is Love. I’m walking on our little spot of earth, in what, only 6 years ago was a thriving ʻōhiʻa (O-HEE-YAH) forest- one of the healthiest in the area. The ʻōhiʻa lehua is native to Hawai’i- it the first tree that grows on a hardened lava flow. These trees have been here for a long time- the oldest tree is four thousand years old, and in the last decade, over 100,000 of the 850,000 estimated trees have died, from a previously unknown fungus. I sit here and remember how it was 6 years ago, while looking at the spindly bare tops, and wonder what it will be like 6 years from now. There is no cure for the fungus, the rot, the concordant beetles- nor apparently for the human unwillingness to wash their cars or their boots or tools before moving from one grove to the next. They are said to represent the quality or core frequency of the ancient Hawaiian culture, the spirit of aloha, loving cooperation, resilience. The local medicine woman say the trees will die unless the people come back to the frequency of Aloha, stop the violence, fighting, drinking, abuse, and return to love. So today, I’m grieving for the ʻōhiʻa lehua, for what was and what could be. While it feels hopeless to save a forest or an entire species, we do what we can: we plant uninfected seedlings, we quarantine the tools, we speak with other land stewards. I try not to feel disconnected, or to bypass my feelings and just assume that other trees will grow here. In meditation, I try to feel the trees and listen to what they are saying, and find that they don’t actually have an emotional quality: it is more of Amor Fati. While they prefer to live, and are developing their own defenses, if their time is over, they will give way. #ohialehua #rapidohiadeath #rapidohialife
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This is #bigislandhawaii - white sand black sand g This is #bigislandhawaii - white sand black sand green sand, lava rock meeting the ocean, ohia trees with their delicate red lehua blossoms taking root on the new land, the newest earth, it's drama interspersed with rolling meadows and snow capped volcanic mountains, enveloped in a spirit of abundant love and trust that all is coming, that all is well. Aloha is a spiritual practice, not just a greeting. Thank you Hawai'i.
This weeks edance was so so joyful, with Moonfire This weeks edance was so so joyful, with Moonfire spinning this uptempo ambient house with chant and live drumming from Michael- took us from lyrical flow to floor pounding fierceness. The community's been dancing the love into this floor on Wednesday nights for two years, and our current dancers are just grace, the newcomers and the loyal and true alike. This coming week 3/15 we have @av8trix @michaelaloha with Riddle hosting. And thank you to Ridge for hosting the last 2 weeks, you held the space so beautifully. Love from Sundari #ecstaticdance #dancehawaii #bigislandevents #bigislandhawaii #bigislanddance #punaverse #punaevents
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