Lukas Hosford

Offering the dream of a place where humans can go to be reborn in gratitude, re-rooted in connection, and re-wilded in pristine nature: A Sense Restoration Spa aspiring to offer Liberatory experiences: A bath of healing herbs in a dark womb-space... time to rest A really good night's sleep... and the day too if that's what you need Massage and Musical Serenades... personal poetic companionship if you ask for it Meals prepared with love per your requests and preferences... we imagine each as if it were your final supper A gym/playpark with all the supports necessary to cultivate truly wholistic body-mind fitness. All in the context of: Unstructured time for immersion in a pristine forest, rich with wildlife and a flowing river... An offering of guidance and support from healers and artists: specializing in coaching optimism, self-acceptance, creative collaboration, and mind training... Encouragement, counsel, and peer mentorship in beginning a meditaiton practice and/or bringing nature immersion, dietary healing alchemy (including "plant medicine"), and sense-deprivation into your life as enduring practices. Thusly, supplying conditions which are optimal for you to cut through confusion and rest in a state of natural clarity about who you are... beyond limited human references -- <img src="https://giveth.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmdnNMpGCmz9YWHfPz756jZdST7L3Aek6smr1mxi61GVfC"> When such a set-up is animated by guardians of wholesome practices, visitors are empowered to experience the apparent-solidity of labels and identities worn based for circumstance melt away... subsequently leaving behind the emotional burdens of trauma and past suffering: <img src="https://giveth.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmP26KNQ3tVWsXVGEWUZNMdJ84MpDhbqBP2MromypgnUWH"> A Revolutionary Business Model When humans treat a place as a destination, enriching it and valuing the details becomes natural. When for example, farms and restaurants are treated separately, the restaurants require curation and care in order that they be an attractive destination to feast, but the farm itself may be treated as disposable. This is precisely what we have witnessed over the last century especially with the development of an industrial food system focused on maximizing short-term profits. If alternatively, the restaurant is actually located within the farm, then the farm must also be treated as a destination whose value must be guarded wholistically: rather than the farming enterprise being guided by demands to maximize commodity production, the farmers are supported in close dialogue with the chefs and hosts to consider a more complete set of aesthetic and ecological factors. If we take this another step and designate that the destination is more than just tasty food, but actually a sense of satisfaction, comfort, and healing, then it flows naturally to farm medicine along with the food, to incorporate dietary healing principles into the food itself, and depending on the farm, to include a spa. Rather than separating all of these economic models and leaving open the possibility of externalizing costs, a permaculture approach to farming paired with a wholistic set of human-care practices creates a business where many notions of value converge to create a singularly cohesive and regenerative production with the potential to be powerfully regenerative of both the earth and its people. Now take it out of the business frame entirely for a moment. This is a starting to look like a village, what we are dreaming to build. So we can go ahead and place on the farm, with the restaurant and spa, an art gallery, a school, an elder care facility, and communal spaces, like a town square and makers-spaces. The more that we facilitate value transfers between these business models without using any formal currency, the simpler the accounting books can become: the more the economy can become familial instead of professional. This has been the hope from the beginning, that the business could be run as a devotional temple offering, hosting a potlach of gratitude amongst the community that feeds back on support for the building of the permaculture system that maintains the people and the temples intact.

Offering the dream of a place where humans can go to be reborn in gratitude,
re-rooted in connection, and re-wilded in pristine nature:
A Sense Restoration Spa aspiring to offer
Liberatory experiences:
A bath of healing herbs in a dark womb-space... time to rest
A really good night's sleep... and...

Luna Solterra Sanctuary and Visionary Sensorium