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QUOTES:
"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
"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 Sinclair
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 Azevedo
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 at Kulana. 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 Zarkema
singer, sculptor
"Thank you for another exciting visit and all the beautiful people this address attracts."
-John Christopher Bolle
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 Lynch
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 Tucker & Rob Duisberg
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 Bogomolny
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 Bare & Su-Shen Huang
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 Engel
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 Knox
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 Delany
playwright
"We arrived ready to camp but the rain pushed us into the coziest cabin! We found a lot of clarity here! It felt great to work the land and to wake up to the warm sun shining through the cabin window. The peacefulness and balance of the rainforest ecosystems all around us made our own communication skills and ability to work together even stronger!"
-Kate L & Elana S
writers, filmmakers, world explorers
"I had five weeks at Kulana and 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. Thanks to all! "
-Angela Steidle
writer, photographer
"First night at Kulana. 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 Stryker
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 J. Marshall
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 Hargrove
nurse, massage therapist, farmer, inventor.
"This is the cleanest community kitchen I have ever seen!"
-Jonathan Lee Reimer
tour guide, world adventurer.
"I came back (from Kulana) feeling really calm and rested for the first time in a long time."
-Laura McCamy
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 Mayet
singer, actor, model, businesswoman.
"The creation of ART requires inspiration; the development of an artist requires recognition. Kulana provides both in ample doses."
-Jonas Holmes III
political satirist, writer, trash art sculptor.
"Creative people are the visionaries of this planet. Kulana was created as an affordable, beautiful, simple, sacred place for us visionaries to do our thing!"
-Cristina Salat
author, ex-New York editor, filmmaker, singer/songwriter, painter, and Kulana's Founder.
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