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Gaia Ashram is a wonderful place to reconnect with ourselves and nature. The environment made me feel very safe, surrounded by warm-hearted people in the community.

I like the good vibes and the atmosphere, having nature sound around me all the time. I like to learn something new everyday and to get it fresh food from the garden.

A few years back I had a realisation about the great turning point, and how we humans needed to change the way we live, think and act. I was curious to know how can we design this change, this alternative life? As a design student, I observed how the world we live in now was not an accident but created by us. I was not less than a dream to be able to attend EDE, but the key learning for me was the balance, ecovillage is a process and not an end result.

The knowledge from this EDE really useful for me to design my life more holistically. Although I don’t know if I will ever start an ecovillage, but it is still very useful at personal level

Gaia is not an hidden lazy spot, it’s a tiny bit risky and challenging! You may fail, make mistakes at different levels, and you will not be stoned for that. You start the next day “brand new” and the whole story seems fresh. There is always a smile at the corner waiting for you that says: “it’s okay, we love you the way you are”. It’s a human experience before everything else, it breaks shells, armors, bondages, preconceived ideas and concepts. It takes courage, it takes guts, patience… you learn a lot about kindness, tolerance, humbleness. You rejoice for the successes of others and feel compassionate for, forgive your own errors. To make it short: GAIA IS ENCOURAGING. It caresses the doors of your heart more than it knocks. To have been attending this EDE has been one of my best decisions ever. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

The most inspire sentence from this course is “if human are the problem of today, we also can be the solution”. My understand of that sentence is that problem can be a system that nature give feed back and we can develop that problem into creative solution. My way of thinking begin broad because I use to have negative energy when I encounter with problems and blame on that but now, I started to think how I can response creatively to the problem. This is the huge though that I receive from EDE course. 

I love staying in nature and be inspired everyday. I often come to the moment where I really feel like a part of nature. I learned deeply about my way of thinking. Deep in gratitude.

You can be yourself. You do not need to try to be someone or something, but YOU! I received so much energy from nature also. It made me realize that I was super detached from myself and nature in my past life. Thank you!