By Samantha Halitzer

Holistic centers are not only places of learning, but more essentially, they offer sustenance to the curious soul. If you’re someone who has pursued interests in spirituality, environmentalism, meditation & yoga, healthy living, and the creative arts, holistic centers offer rich resources & opportunities for skill development, self-exploration, and meaningful connections with other inquiring minds.

My personal journey with education has been dynamic, and I found myself feeling that my academic career was not substantial in supporting my growth as a whole person. When I discovered holistic centers and ecovillages, they fed something in me that I had not found in other academic arenas and workplaces. [Read more…]

By the Kashi Community

Findhorn in the north of Scotland and Kashi in central Florida are over 4,000 miles apart. Yet they are closely connected now since Findhorn resident and Holistic Centers Network Executive Director, Christine Lines, enjoyed a recent stay at Kashi Ashram. She arrived in early December, initially for one month, and then extended into February before returning to Findhorn for the spring. [Read more…]

On our planet today, a new civilisation is seeking to be born, yet significant work still lies ahead to bring it into being. Groups have a powerful responsibility in this endeavour by building greater cooperation and partnership across all dimensions of life.

The Planet Within is a co-creative gathering focusing on group consciousness, May 29th – June 2nd, at the Comunità di Etica Vivente in the stunning countryside of Umbria, Italy. This gathering is a bold, co-creative, pioneering step towards realising the potential of the group life and it’s impact on the evolution of the Cosmos. Book your place by 15 February to secure the early bird. [Read more…]

Damanhur is a spiritual community and a United Nations recognized model for a sustainable society in Damanhur, Italy. “To walk in Damanhur is to walk through past, present and future. Ancient mysteries and the forgotten wisdom of great civilizations coalesce with a fresh, tech-infused vision of an evolving potential future.” [Read more…]

Baba Hari Dass, master yogi, teacher, and the founding inspiration of the Mount Madonna Center and Mount Madonna School in Watsonville, and Sri Ram Orphanage in India, died peacefully at home in Bonnie Doon, California on September 25, 2018.

Baba Hari Dass, or Babaji, as he was affectionately known by the many thousands of students and devotees who knew him, was a silent monk born on March 26, 1923 in Almora in the foothills of the Himalayas in Northern India. [Read more…]

By Peter Moore

Business Director
Breitenbush Hot Springs

When I found my way to Breitenbush, in the spring of 1978, just a few souls lived here. There were no divisions of labor between us then, so everybody worked to do everything that needed to be done—new foundations and roofs for cabins, miles of trenches for new pipes (drinking water, geothermal heating pipes from the hot water wells we drilled, septic pipes, electric conduit pipes), cooking to keep the workers going, and lots more. Our fledgling community, which grew to about a dozen in the first three or four years, consisted mostly of twenty-somethings, with a couple of teenagers and one or two over-thirty people. We all shared a lot of meals together. [Read more…]

By Peter Moore

Business Director
Breitenbush Hot Springs

Nature density as a remedy for nature deprivation was not among the original concepts we started with when we began the arduous work of repairing and preparing to re-open the defunct Breitenbush resort. In the 1970s we were enamored with more holistic lifestyle notions, including self-reliance, appropriate off-the-grid technologies, organic foods, consensus decision-making, egalitarian gender and labor relationships, and a kind of “be here now” nature-based spirituality, not to mention love of the hot springs.
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