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QUOTES:
"Finally made it to Kulana, after 5 years of longing! Thanks for a great welcome. Chicken soup, company, air, sunrise, stars. Hope to see you again SOON!"
-Aja
playwrite, activist
"You guys are just wonderful, beautiful people! Thanks for your smiles and joyfullness, it radiates from you. Thank you again for welcoming us with open arms."
-Bree
polynesian dancer, poi baller
"Yeah!! Kulana Joy Within!! Thank you Cristina for your giving heart and your kindness. Kulana was perfect for me at just the perfect time. It's been a time of learning, great creativity, spiritual learning, and healing. I have always wanted to come here and here I am! Kulana will always be in my heart."
-Michelle
playwrite, comic, teacher
"I enjoyed the nighttime sounds, the frogs, the crickets, the rain. I'll always remember being amongst tropical foliage, ducking and squeezing my way around banana trees and hiking through the fairy tale-like meditation trail. I love the open hearts and welcoming faces at Kulana, and I love the kitties. Thank you for bringing your vision forth so that we could experience it and feel blessed. Thank you for your aloha."
-Debbie
writer, mother, nurse
"This was the best part of our stay on the Big Island. We loved the discussions & being in this creative place & staining the rails--woop!!"
-Angela & Patty
writer, painter, massage therapist, businesswoman
"Cristina, I am so blessed to have met you and shared so many wonderful memories, ideas and meals. The kindness you offer and your vision here have the power to change lives and the world. I go into my next life cycle with a lovely, clear, refreshed mind and joyous, nurtured heart thanks to you and this wonderful fruit of your dream time."
-Christina from Arizona
teacher, painter, drama coach
"Musical instruments, a great house, & warm people...who could ask for anything more!"
-Dan, Eli, & Bobby
bandmates
"2 days & nights mauka, here at Kulana...I really love this place & the energy created here. A lovely retreat for my mind & body."
-Leaf
singer-songwriter, handywomyn
"What a gem (this) is in the middle of the rainforest! Deeply healing & refreshing!"
-Maria
mom, writer
"My sojourn here at Kulana, a place I came to when I ran away from home! Adventures--sucessfully capturing 20 coqui frog eggs, loving the silence, the stars, the freshly breathed air from the trees that I inhale, lungfull after lungfull...a picture window view of the sunrise, a warm & welcoming community space...building a pig proof compost bin, yes! My heart is full. Mahalo."
-Hazel
mandala painter, pilates instructor
"I love that you've created this lovely space for all of us to enjoy & continue creating! Kulana is an ever-changing community full of passion...just like Pele below!"
-Zak
writer, therapist, activist
"What a bright light you've been--a rest stop of care & joy & reality on my Big Island adventure. Thank you for opening your heart & vision to share this lovely space...A delightful, relaxing, & energizing time here. All that firey Pele and feline energy will surely boost my creative soul to simmer, steam and flow! Gratitude for the time and sacred space to Be. "
-Elayne
writer, world traveller
"Peaceful and drama-free, just as advertised!"
-Gary, Deborah, Emily
Phd student and happily retired parents
"I arrived with the tsunami and I am leaving with the ash of the volcano in Iceland! Seemed like a lot of energie was in the air. And so it was. Two months. I am leaving with new energie, thoughts, and expectation for the future. :) Thanking the Universe for Cristina...for a place like Kulana...and then the joy of beaches, valleys, swimming, painting, music, singing, movies, planting little plants, hiking , making BROWNIES :), lovely dinners, and so much more!!!"
-Aleida
singer, sculptor
"Thank you for another exciting visit and the beautiful people this address attracts."
-John Christopher
singer, landscape artist
"Thank you for all the beautiful & unexpected experiences. When I arrived here I was very open to whatever wanted to begin in my life and part of me was needing to recover & rest. I found all that I needed here to begin 2010 with a fresh outlook. Thanks for all your support!"
-Kerrie
multi-media artist
"Thank you, thank you...for providing a space for us to rejuveninate, to dream, to listen to our ancestors and the spirits that guide us. Thank you for giving us the space to keep things in perspective...Thank you for inviting us to plant a palm tree and to take with us the seeds of serenity...Thank the Earth that surrounds you for receiving our prayers, the rain for soothing our thoughts, the breeze for encouraging us, and warmth beneath, the spirit of Pele, for warming our imaginations."
-Mark Anthony, Patrisse, Quay, Ariane, & Vitaly
teachers, writers, clothing-makers, life adventurers, and unique community members from L.A.
"A very heart-filled and peaceful communal home...it's been such a pleasure seeing what you all have built here for human & other companions."
-Trileigh & Rob
geologist & teacher
"A place is only as special as the people and other living things and spirits that fill it. This place is special!!"
-Abby
writer, publisher
"Thank you for being such a gracious host to my mom and me. We both thoroughly enjoyed our time--the quiet was especially remarkable."
-Alice & Su-Shen
healers
"Thank you so much for your warmth & hospitality. Your home is so beautiful & peaceful and I look forward to my next visit! It was so fun to chat with instant friends, I wish I could have stayed longer."
-Medina
rainforest homesteader
"What a delight that within hours after getting off the 5 plus hours flight I was able to be out in the yard pulling up wild raspberries. Yes my earthly self loved that...Warmth, saltwater, beautfiul views--life is good!! What a nice change from the impersonal, sterile comforts of most hotel rooms. Community, yea!"
-Marion
writer, filmmaker
"Cheesy popcorn. Finding Nemo. Laughter. Smiles. Tears. Hot baths & showers. Tribes of kitties. Chicken & rice. Black sand dancing...Joy. My Big Island home. Art with a Heart. A moment becomes an eternity. Extra support. Mother Nature. Growing into who I am. Vision quest...I'm grateful for all these things & more. I love Kulana! Thank you for sharing & creating such a wonderful space!!"
-Brianca
playwright
"We found a lot of clarity here! It felt great to work the land and to wake up to the warm sun. The peacefulness and balance of the rainforest ecosystems all around us made our own communication skills and ability to work together even stronger!"
-Kate & Elana
writers, filmmakers, world explorers
"I discovered lots of hidden places, sacred to myself....There were unbelievable moments of peace and freedom...and glimpses of what life might be to me. Above the clouds, in clear air and under a sleepy falling sun, I realized that there's no more wealth to achieve than to believe in your own godgiven identity. It's the best you can get--yourself....I am what I am: someone that touched the volcano. With a beard full of memories, a ring of tasted life, and a flurry feathering nest full of hope."
-Angela
writer, photographer
"Woke to the sound of rain makai... feeling one foot in the past and one in the future... I needed solitude, new landscapes, work that worked my body and my soul... Don't know where this road is going but I'm happy to walk it."
-Cora
poet, photographer, researcher of rare and endangered plants.
"Wow! What can I say about such a life-changing experience? An amazing two and a half month opportunity for contemplation, meditation and internal work--those things that needed attention oozed up to the surface and flowed out like lava from Kilauea... Books, conversations and movies that all converged on points key to my book and my spiritual growth...lessons in existing harmoniously...discovering a true sense of community....I have to leave for now, but I will return!"
-Jordan
singer-songwriter, writer, guitarist, healer.
"This is my third year and visit--what a joy! My grieving and all obstacles are dispersed... I am divinely blessed and guided... I smile with satisfaction... garlic, pasta, lobster, butter--pleasure. New friendships blossom in the fertile soil. I am cradled by the shadow place of swirling water, cleansing rain, surf collides with the shore and I am soothed. Back in 4 months if all goes well."
-Shirley
nurse, massage therapist, farmer, inventor.
"This is the cleanest community kitchen I have ever seen!"
-Jonathan
tour guide, world adventurer.
"I came back (from Kulana) feeling really calm and rested for the first time in a long time."
-Laura
jewelry and clothing designer, painter, writer, activist.
"The quiet, the stars, the abundance of oxygen. The vast space to do nothing. The volcano crunching under my feet: Kulana has given me the space to realize (what) I want."
-Seti
singer, actor, model, businesswoman.
"The creation of ART requires inspiration; the development of an artist requires recognition. Kulana provides both in ample doses."
-Jonas
political satirist, writer, trash art sculptor.
"Creative people are the visionaries of this planet. This home for artists & spiritual folk was created as an affordable, beautiful, simple, sacred place for us visionaries to do our thing!"
-Cristina
author, ex-New York editor, filmmaker, singer/songwriter, painter, and Kulana's Founder.
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