I started the Homestead because it was what I needed the most in my life – and as it turns out lots of other folks needed the same thing, too.
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Category: Fundraiser, Headlines, Here's to your Health!
Tags: bodhisattva vow, buddhist nuns, foraging, gilpin county colorado, grassroots health movement, Headlines, homesteading, monastic vows, nonprofit, pagosa springs, self-sufficiency, sustainability, tara mandala, the four immeasurables, Tibetan Buddhism
As many of you know, I am the admin for this website, as well as the Founding Director of The Holistic Homestead. What you may not know, is that before I started the Homestead, I lived as a Buddhist Nun…
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Category: Headlines, Winter Retreat
Tags: 7 healing stars, arwen ek, black hawk, catholic tradition, christian mysticism, inspiration, meditation classes, meditation for beginners, online retreat, sacred dance, shamanic rituals, spirituality and health, tara mandala, winter retreat, yoga
In 2010 I was living in a monastery, in a very remote location in Colorado. Born and raised a city girl I was full of my city hubris and totally ignorant about what it takes to be smart and safe…
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Category: Headlines, Here's to your Health!
Tags: ambulance, become an EMT, Carl Weil, classes in lakewood colorado, colorado rockies, dangers of dehydration, first responder, living at high altitudes, pagosa springs co, retreat center, tara mandala, Wilderness first responder, wilderness medicine, wilderness medicine outfitters
We are just a few days from the beginning of our annual Winter Retreat and I am so thrilled to have some returning prayer warriors from last year, as well as lots of fresh spirits joining for the first time….
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