Earth Provides the Mocha

In a moment of silliness, we joked about having a “mocha garden” on the land: coffee, cacao, vanilla, miracle berry or stevia, cane sugar. So fast forward..there are a few 3-foot tall coffee plants, and last year we saw the first beans. AND now, there are 55 new seedlings which will eventually be translated to the sunny slope under lotus. This is part of the 5-year plan!

The crew started coffee in the nursery, and this week we began putting the plants into the sunny terraces below lotus house. Beck is getting masterful with the little tractor,

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Happy Fall Equinox!

The seasonal shift is a great time to check in with yourself- what’s working, what’s not, what’s your desire, where do your skills and desire meet what the world needs now?

In our community, we are working on the inner equinox: staying even-keeled in storms and change. For example, we practice tracing our response to external triggers. We notice what happens in our bodies when someone says something unpleasant or we witness a climate disaster or read a barbed headline. We see how that hits our nervous system, we examine what beliefs underlie the trigger,

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Today is the second anniversary of us acquiring the land. It was love at first sight for us, standing there on the Kaimu hillside, in April of 2017- the hypersaturated color and open horizon, the mature fruit trees and the feeling of magic. The owners had long vacated and left shacks and debris and a leaking container home. Jeff and Amie and their little boys were inhabiting one of the structures. We set about manifesting the vision. The first 6 months went pretty well- making the moon cabin into a temporary home (a love shack in the winter rains and a haven of tranquility),

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“I am the sweet smile on your face when you discover home in yourself.
I am the intuitive whisper within you.
I am your truth.”

It’s a joy to bring the timeless, life-affirming teachings of Tantra into community- this time with the gifted and devoted Sanskrit scholar Chris Tompkins, like we did at #OmRising this year.

We have both found teachings and mantras to be a direct means to self-healing and deep transformation, especially “finding home in the self.” Finding home in yourself is an embodied, accessible tool for thriving in the challenges of everyday life,

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Last night Kaliloa sounded the conch and blessed the land, with more than a hundred people standing in the circle. We called in the oversoul, and the ancestors and gave thanks.

As many of you know, the 6.9 quake was epicentered on the land, and many of our neighbors and friends lost ther homes this summer. We celebrate the resilience of this community and these people!  Philip (who planned for 50!), fed everyone, with Lau-Laus and Ulus and Kale and Turmeric Rice and Sweet Potato Pie and Mamaki Tea. David and Noah and Isaac and Sunni and Kalama and Craig and David shared their art and stories.

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Our friend and artist in residence, David Lawell, has been capturing time lapses of the impact on the volcanic activity on the skyscape. Profound thermal interchange, light play, color.

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In late April, 2018, the long time lava flow from Kilauea, viewed by millions of visitors from a distance, suddenly dried up. Then, the lava lake in the crater summit began to drop. The lava was on the move, but where to?

Seismic monitors began to detect her path: hundreds of tiny quakes appeared in clusters along the East Rift zone of Kilauea, in our neighborhood of lower Puna.  On May 2nd, fissures began to appear in a subdivision called Leilani Estates, down the hill from us. Larger quakes followed. We had a 6.9 quake centered b elow us at New Earth that cause minor damage.

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Along a busy road outside of Ubud, on the Island of Bali in Indonesia, a young boisterous muscular man meets us with a huge smile. He’s been expecting us. Jun is the friend of the artist David Lawell, and they have collaborated together to turn David’s painting of Pele, the Hawai’ian goddess of the Volcano, into a stone carving. As we walk through Jun’s studio, which is more of a corrugated tin roof over rough posts, we get the chance to see some more of his work.  It’s soft interpretations of female figures: Gaia, Mermaids, Saraswatis. He puts a sweetness in the faces,

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In the mornings,  we often run down to Kehena, on bikes or in the car, and swim in the early day.  Here’s a short video Christine made to give you a taste of the experience.

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