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4th Annual Guardians of Eden - Holistic Thrival Quest
Join Frank Cook, Marcos de Monte, Tin, Satye Seele, Itai Huben, and Tenasi Rama, and a host of tropical plant experts for our 4th annual pilgrimage in Costa Rica to cultivate our relationships of self, plants, and community.
This retreat offers:
Ethnobotany
An in depth botanical exploration of Costa Rican flora
An immersion into tropical medicinal and edible plants
Biodynamic jungle plant propagation and harvesting
Tropical tree identificaiton and usage
Holistic Awakening
Higher Limbs Yoga – including kundalini, kriya and sonic yoga
Partner Yoga and Shamanic Breathwork
Live Foods Nutritional Theory- and yummy fresh organic produce
Benefits of Fasting – with a group cleanse
Massage Exchange
Sweatlodge(s)
Art as a form of Prayer
Heartsong sharing
Creating dream catchers
Contact Improv/ Inspirational Dancing
Community Living Skills
Heart circle of compassion
Recipes for healthy Community
Decision Making - Contracts and Agreements
Conflict Resolution and Non-violent Communication
This years Guardians of Eden Retreat, Dec. 27th, 2008 - Jan. 11th, 2009, will take the form of a Holistic Thrival Quest thru kin-necting intentional communities and permacultue communities. The journey consists of four segments, allowing partipants to join us for the whole retreat or for specific parts of it.
| Guardians of Eden - Holistic Thrival Quest |
Dates | Price |
| Entire Journey |
Dec 27- Jan 11 |
$650 |
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Ethnobotanical Intensive at Ark Herb Farm and |
December 27 -30 | $240 |
| Pilgrimage thru the Diamante Valley | Dec 30 - Jan 6 |
$240 |
| Journey to the Talamanca highlands |
January 6 - 9 |
$160 |
| Sacred Celebration " Cantando la Vida" at Finca Amrita |
January 9-11 |
$90 |
**** Due to the current world economic crisis ****
We are doing everthing we can to make this retreat affordable for all to join. The above rates will cover the cost of our teachers, the food, lodging and transportation. Participants are advised to bring additional cash for personal expenses along the journey. We do have several work trade postions available as well.
Our journey begins Saturday, Dec 27th with a two-day ethnobotanical intensive at the Ark Herb Farm near San Jose. We will meet for an opening circle at 9:00 am at the "Ark", and spend the morning strengthening our walkling we will meet Tin and Satya, who will give us a tour of the largest collection of edible, useful, and medicianl herbs and trees in all of Costa Rica. Participants will be given the Guardians of Eden Plant List that we have created over the past three years and during thes first two days we will familiarize ourselves with the major plant families and practice our skills at identifying plants. Please see http://www.arkherbfarm.com/
From there, we'll journey to the Familia Seelye "Las Vueltas" Farm in the high cloud forest or paramo of Cerro del Muerte, a rustic lodge hand built by a three angelic sisters Janie, Satya and Wendy with their brother Andy. This enchanted family, who has homesteaded for over 20 years, will share their expertise of highland flora and fauna, and outline the current environmental challenges the area is facing.
Holistic Thrival Quest - Part 2
Dec. 30th we head to the heart of Eden's Rebirth in Southern Pacific Costa Rica, where we will
Meet at Mucho Gusto Veggetarian Restuarant at the entrace to the Diamante Valley. There we will kinnect with participants of the greater Diamante Valley HOME community collective and prepare for our pilgrimage into the sacred Green Diamond Valley.
After a morning swim at the confluence of the Diamante and Barucito rivers, the initiation point of the ancient indigenous path of the ceibo, we will walk to finca Ipe, one of the oldest and most abundant permaculture community projects in the southern pacific zone. Inspired by the current evolution of Finca Ipe, the founders of Finca Ipe collaborated with a few other permaculture visionaries and opened the Fuente Verde community in Las Tumbas, one of the first community projects to set out clear contracts and agreements for future members. We will spend the second half of the morning at Fuente Verde.
New Years eve we will walk up to the Diamante Verde Sanctuary in silence and honor passing through the time portal in silent ceremony with all our relations.
New Years dawn we wake greet the day in a mountain top temascal ceremony to shed the densities that have led us to where we are and embrace the light of what we are to become.
Purifed we will prepare ourselves for a mid day chocolate ceremony with KIETH THE CHOCOLATE SHAMAN FROM GUATEMALA!!
And return to the cave for a evening feast and music celebration
(please remember to bring super dank vegetarian/ live/ vital somethin to share )
The following Day on , Jan 2 until Jan 6
we will devote to the Diamante Verde Sanctuary flora, review the plan list that we have created over the last three Guardians of Edens. encounter new plant friends and forage for live foods, do yoga on the recently completed Lion's Den Yoga House. Holding the intention we set at the end of last years retreat, we will begin to nourish ourselves purely from wild foods gathered on the land.
Being in this moment and nourishing ourselves from the land, we will spend the next five days Hiking thru the Diamante Valley visiting numerous emerging community projects.
Finca Ama Linda -
The AMa vibe swept into the valley establishing a presence in 2005 and now, thanks to her grace Finca Ama Linda, arrising out of the ashes of the first incarnation of the HOME farm, has a circle of devotees manifesting in concensus of a common vision -- "An Eco Ashram"
Travelling up the Barucita River we will visit two community lands which are in the primier stages of development to share vision. We will land at Eric Rifkins La Joyo del Sol on the evening and recieve a vital live foods presentation and meal with Erik Rifkin.
In the morning of the 5th we will venture to La Florida, "the most tranquilo place in Costa Rica" and home of several amazing community projects, including True Nature and Puro Suerte. For two days we will explore the the treasures of La florida and celebrate with a birthday party for Dhara, a valley princess who turns 6.
From La florida we wil hike out to the top of the Tinemaste Mountains visit Eco Joyo.
Coming Soon - following the path of the ceibo into the high talamanca mountains.
spreading the seeds of spend 4 magical nights in the Catedral de Piedra at the Diamante Verde Spiritual Sanctuary . Here, we will relax into the nurturing energy of this magnificent natural temple, eat vitalizing vegetarian meals harvested out of our organic garden, cultivate a daily higher limbs yoga practice, swim in pristine natural pools, prepare plant medicines, and enrichen our botanical knowledge in one of the most floraly diverse regions of Costa Rica.
With the guidance of five unique medicinal plant teachers, we will dive into the diverse ethnobotany of the Diamante verde wilderness sanctuary and medicinal gardens. We will initiate a relationship with about 50 of the most common tropical plant families, and learn the biodynamic secrets of propogating and harvesting medicinal herbs.
"Join us as we anchor the christ conscious vibration into our communal heart-mind"
The Diamante Valley has flowered into one of the kindest valleys in costa rica where campesino tico culture has nourished community visionaries (and vic-a-versa). Walking through the valley, the keen student may observe roots of tico agricultural wisdom fused with permaculure and biodynamic practices on community farms creating a network of growing food forests and learning centers.
Descending from Diamante Verde on Jan. 2nd, we will continue on to visit a series of model farms where we will continue to explore Holistic Thrival in the new Paradigm.
On this walk we will drop in on a half dozen farm projects and listen to and share the wisdom of the ages that will allow us to thrive holistically on our path to oneness. In service (and to practice our skills), we will share our ethonbotanical knowledge through creating comprehensive list of cultivated and wild (medicinal/edible/useful) plants on each farm.
Each Farm/Community Project shares a common vision of "oneness", and yet they each have independent sets of contracts, agreements and missions that create diversity. We will listen as members of each community share their community birthing process: " what worked and what didn't, how they handle conflict resolution, decision making, financial distribution, what does it mean to be a member of the community or a visitor, if newcomers are required to go through an initiation process, how they handle ownership or shareship of the land, what type of foods they eat and why, what type of people they are attracting to participate in their dream, what the costs are ... and in service we offer to hold council for any current coflicts within the community and suggest solutions for current challenges faced by the community.
The quest through the Diamante valley will be on foot, so please bring appropriate hiking boots or good rubber boots that are comfortable. Each participant is encouraged to bring/purchase a machete which you will be instructed on how to sharpen tico-style. At each stop we will bring with us plant foods that we harvested along the way. Prepare forage feasts and share healing practices and medicinal uses of plants.
In the evenings we will share our love through healing circles, massage exchanges, and sacred song sharing. Each morning we will be given the opportunity to wake and partake in meditations, prana building breath work and yoga. And yes, we will swim in every swimming hole we pass, and there are many
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Here is a tentative list of the farms we will visit along the way
Finca Ipe
Fuente Verde
Ecoloco
Finca Ama Linda
True Nature
Pura Suerte
Eco Joya
Holistic Thrival Quest - Part 3
Planting seeds for the birth of sacred community in the Talamanca highlands
On Jan. 6th, we continue (by car or bus) on the path of the Ceibo into the foothills of the majestic Talamanca Mountains where we will participate in the birthing of an eco-community and ecological reserve.
Holistic Thrival Quest - Part 4
Cantanda de Vida - Celebrating Sacred Song and Dance at Finca Amrita
Then on Jan. 9th, the Guardians will unite with many other kindered spirits as we share in sacred song and dance at the gathering "Cantando la Vida" at Finca Amrta. Our quest will culminate in a Sweat Lodge Ceremony under the first full moon of the year.
A CELEBRATION OF CEREMONIAL SONG AND DANCE
APPRECIATION AND REFLECTION OF HUMANITY AND ALL CREATION
~ A Teaching and Sharing Gathering ~
Large Group and Small Group Circles of Song and Dance, Plant Medicine, Voice and Breathe work, Playing and Learning Musical Instruments, Storytelling, Creating and Sharing Songbooks, Songbook Art…
~ Traditions (Song Tribes) ~
Shamanic, Rainbow, Rasta, Daime, Orisha, Rumi, Kirtan, Jewish, Christian, Amma, Sufi, Gospel, Native American, African…
~ Inspirations & Invocations ~
Peace, Love, Health, Happiness, Human Flowering, Divine Mother, Grief & Blessings, Planetary Acupuncture, Harmonic Toning, Fairies & Devas, Children Circles
~ As We Create Life, We Create This Event ~
Singers and Musicians are invited to share songs and/or facilitate a song circle. All are asked to contribute to the formation and unfolding of this event. (bring bowl/cup/utensils and volunteer to cook, clean or help)
Can't make it for the complete retreat? Interested in joining us for a few days? Contact us to make arrangements to meet up with the pilgrimage on any of the dates highlighted above.
The AOUM Crew is honored to host international botanical explorer and edible plant guru, Frank Cook, permaculture-design wizard, Itai Huben, and a collection of native Costa Rican plant experts including, world reknown ethnobotanist Luis Poveda,in the form of his apprentice Tin from the Ark Herb Farm, Marcos del Monte, and the Familia Seele for this immersion into the edible/medicinal plant kingdom.
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These sacred caves have held Christ Consciousness Energy through countless generations of indigenous shamans and modern day saints. The rustic, wilderness environment connects visitors to the womb of the earth, while a fully equipped kitchen, mattresses on stone beds, and a pair of elegant composting toilets provide comfortable accomodations. "The mere journey to this sacred cliff-dwelling, a two-hour hike (or horse ride) up through an ancient growth jungle often catalyzes profound transformation." Participants are encouraged to bring their own sheets, a warm blanket, a mat, warm clothes and rain gear. Please read our frequently asked questions page Retreat FAQs for more detailed suggestions about what to bring.
Retreat Guides and AUM Crew
Recognizing the teacher/student in all of us, the Art of Union encourage all participants to offer their wisdom, love and inspiration during this co-creative experience. We are all weaving this web together. Only through embracing our union will we allow the graceful fulfillment of the next phase of this epic collective dream, the co-creation of Heaven on Mother Earth and thePath of the Ceob Corridor!!
Three Partial Worktrades available for Guardians of Eden Retreat
Signs may be carved or etched with a dremmel tool, stained, and preserved.
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