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Feb 29, 2016

Drilling for Water at Siva Ashram

We've spent the last 9 days in Nosara, Costa Rica, where our spiritual sanctuary Siva Ashram is located. My wife and I make about 2 to 3 trips down to Nosara a year and on each trip we work on developing the land we've acquired a little further in efforts to manifest the vision that we have for it. The dry season in this part of Costa Rica lasts a few months and water can become an issue. Our goa...

Jun 21, 2015 Costa Rica Spiritual Sanctuary

Shaping the land of our Spiritual Sanctuary

Nosara, Costa Rica. It's been over 6 months since our last visit here and we arrived in Nosara late afternoon after a long drive from our search for plants in the towns of Alajuela and Arenal. We have a lot planned for the next week. Day 1 and 2 will be spent marking out where t
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Jun 13, 2015 Costa Rica Spiritual Sanctuary

The search for exotic plants

Alajuela & Arenal, Costa Rica. It's that time of the year again when we head down to Costa Rica to work on the development of our spiritual sanctuary. Since it is the beginning of the rainy season our focus at this time of the year is always planting. Our vision is to one day hav
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May 29, 2014 Costa Rica Spiritual Sanctuary

Designing a Botanical Garden

This Spiritual Sanctuary in Nosara, Costa Rica, that we are creating was never going to be a job for just for my wife and me. It's going to take a team of individuals that believe in the purpose behind it. My dear friend Tim Davies was one of the people that stepped forward to of
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May 28, 2014 Costa Rica Spiritual Sanctuary

First trees planted on the Spiritual Sanctuary

We planted our first trees on our spiritual sanctuary in Costa Rica today. A big day and the beginning of a wonderful future. 30 coconut trees were planted today with the help of 2 hard working locals. The Coco trees consisted of 15 dwarf varieties and 15 tall ones. It was a lon
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May 28, 2014 Costa Rica Spiritual Sanctuary

Designing the entrance to the Spiritual Sanctuary

We continue our update on our spiritual sanctuary in Costa Rica project. A while back I asked one of my oldest and closest friend, Tim Davies, if he would help me with my project of building a spiritual sanctuary in Costa Rica. He immediately said yes. He flew 30 hours to be her
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May 28, 2014 Costa Rica Spiritual Sanctuary

Tree Planting on our Spiritual Sanctuary, Nosara, Costa Rica

This is a further sharing of the massive tree planting that took place on our Spiritual Sanctuary in Nosara, Costa Rica on May 28th. I've fallen behind on my blog posting and hope to catch up this week as I spend the summer at home in New York City. We acquired about 120 trees f
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