Life Sustainable Regenerative Design
Learn simple and extremely lowcost building techniques.
Elegant and food productive homes,
greenhouses, animal shelters, and
other structures.
Inspired artistic
natural building – living walls, living
roofs, Garden Containers, build with:
earth, sticks, grass, other materials…
Retreats Retreat
Holistic Educational
Invest now in yourself as a cocreator of the New Earth as you
open to greater LOVE at
Awakening Soul Earth Training
Sanctuary in Jaguar Trail, Central
America.
Part One: June 15 – June 22, 2014
Gain hands-on building and farming
experience with skilled teachers.
Permaculture, Food Forests, Organic
Farming, Organic Gardening, Animals,
Composting, Water Management, Land
Sculpting , Moon Cycles, Soil Health,
Worms, Mulch, Bees, Biodiversity,
Community Involvement
Register Now. Space is limited.
PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND BUILDING
Part Two: June 22 – June 29, 2014
Register Now. Space is limited.
PERMACULTURE AND FOOD FOREST CREATION
Your investment includes lodging, classes, and delicious healthy meals.
All retreat investments are a donation to Awakening Soul and are distributed among the various projects, including:
Natural healing centers and free clinics, reforestation in Jaguar Trail Wildlife Sanctuary, continuing education, and more.
Life Sustainable Regenerative Design
Holistic Educational Retreats and Intensives
Awakening Soul Earth Training Sanctuary (ASETS) offers individual and group retreats for you who are ready
to invest in your personal awakening and in our collective awakening. Gain practical knowledge and experience
as we co-create the new Earth together in Jaguar Trail, Central America. Your investment of time, energy,
money, and other resources directly advances you in mind, body, and spirit and provides you the tools to
continue growing in and spreading peace, love, and empowerment. In addition to core educational foundations
in progressive and regenerative design, building, permaculture, and food forests; your holistic educational
retreat also includes a strong emphasis on natural healing and balance of body, mind, and emotions so that your
soul may soar in the Spirit. Your holistic educational retreat gives you an intensive taste and a basic idea of our
longer term student and healing programs provided at the Awakening Soul Earth Training Sanctuary.
(Timing of retreats is also the beginning of 4 summer internships, and of 4 one-year apprenticeships)
Work - Relax - Play - Pray - Celebrate
Are you ready to truly live out the phrase, “be the change that you wish to see in the world”? Do you accept the
call to live in surrender to the Laws of Love, to dedicate your life to the awakening of your soul and to the
restoration and Re-Genesis of the Earth?
Our Life Sustainable Regenerative Design retreats are sure to be unlike any other permaculture course you may
have heard about or experienced. Acknowledging that most humans had been raised and educated in a destructive
cultural-system based on the exploitation of natural resources and living beings, we see an abundance of new
opportunities to channel divine creativity. In addition to teaching the simple, powerful and effective fundamentals
of permaculture techniques and sustainable design principles, we are consciously preparing destined stewards of
the New Earth with the Personal, Communal, and Spiritual foundations needed to usher in the Reign of Peace on
Life Sustainable Regenerative Design Retreat
is a two week, two part course.
Part One:
Progressive Architectural Design and Building
Part Two:
Permaculture and Food Forest Creation
Both courses are very hands-on for you who are ready to build and plant the New Earth here in Jaguar Trail,
Central America. Early application is encouraged as enrollment is limited.
Apply now for one or both courses.
Earth.
1 and 2 Week Retreat Opportunities
This holistic educational retreat emphasizes the importance of completely honoring and loving ourselves before being
fully capable of serving others and Creation. As an example of our progressive and ever-evolving edge of applying
Permaculture Principles to Holistic Wellness, Life Design, and Environmental Restoration, we have reinterpreted the 3
core ethics of Permaculture as:
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Care for Self (A healthy society can only be built by healthy individuals)
Care for Community (including family and neighbors, plants and animals, and fair exchange)
Care for the Planet (Water, Air, Soil and All else that unites us)
“The true purpose of farming is not growing food, rather
the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”
-Fukuoka Masanobu
Life Sustainable Regenerative Design Retreat - Part One:
Progressive Architectural Design and Building
Week 1 June 15 – June 22, 2014
A fun and enlightening course for all – beginning builders and expert architects alike.
Your holistic educational retreat at ASETS in Costa Rica is sure to equip you with
practical knowledge and experience that will assist you in excelling in the Spirit. You
will be grouped with other students and instructors to design and construct a small,
low-cost and reverse-eco-foot-print cabin suited for tropical living and maximized for
constant food production, beauty, elegance, and feng-shui.
Course Curriculum
In your holistic educational retreat, you will learn basic and advanced techniques for
the following types of construction.
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Living Garden Walls and Containers – Using a variety of materials to create elegant, hollow framed walls filled
with soil for growing food, medicine, and flowers vertically and horizontally.
Land Sculpted Walls – Carving into hill or mountainside and/or built up from a clayey substrate.
Waddle and Daub – Constructing frames using natural or recycled materials found on-site to hold and support
walls made up of a clay, straw, and limestone mix.
Stick, Grass, and Other Natural Materials Walls – Selecting, harvesting, designing, and constructing sustainably
developed walls using various nailing, tying, and finishing methods.
Living Vine Walls – Learning the methods, materials, and plants used for trellising in addition to being instructed
in their proper maintenance and care.
Living Roofs – Designing the structure, waterproofing, cultivating, and maintaining the life of the living roof.
Greenhouse Roofs – Learning and determining the most efficient use of plastic or glass in greenhouse
development.
Geodesic Domes – Learning the simple and powerful design for building structures small and large without the
use of posts.
(Note: Each holistic educational retreat is custom tailored to emphasize the subjects that you and your fellow
students most emphasize on the application questionnaire.)
(Note: Learn more about the retreat’s holistic curriculum, campus, additional experiential opportunities, pricing and
registration, below.)
Life Sustainable Regenerative Design Retreat - Part Two:
Permaculture and Food Forest Creation
June 22 – June 29, 2014
The Regenesis of the Earth has begun. We are continuing to co-create this new Earth together. Learn firsthand
through observation, teaching, and hands-on experience, how to create organic gardens and food forests for
humans and wildlife alike. Your permaculture and Food Forest Creation course is packed full of practical action now – tips and techniques for you to take with you to absolutely maximize growing space. We show you
how to fill in every gap in the gardens, in the fields, and on every part of the land with food and beauty.
In addition teaching and using practical and proven techniques of Permaculture, Biodynamics, and
various other forms of sustainable organic food production, you also see and experience basic techniques to
maximize beauty and energy flow (feng shui) throughout the entire farm.
ASETS teachers have many years of practical hands-on experience in Permaculture, Biodynamics,
farming, building, etc. We are competent and confident. We are here to humbly serve you, the bold pioneer of
the new Earth.
Course Curriculum
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Land Sculpting and Terracing – Repairing and restructuring degraded and eroded slopes, capturing and directing
water, and developing land terraces all in order to maximize food production.
Water Catchment and Management – Designing and constructing intelligent and beautiful water catchment
ponds and swales. Learning simple water tank design and construction, canal design and implementation, plus
basic plumbing and system maintenance.
Bees/ Honey Cultivation – Designing and building stingless-bee hives. Learning the proper plants to cultivate,
how to populate and maintain the hives for maximum resource production, and conscious and non-violent
methods for honey retrieval.
Fruit Tree Production – Various sprouting and propagation methods such as grafting, proper planting, and
appropriate care and maintenance.
Living Food Walls – Constructing artistic planter boxes, living dirt walls and thick trellis walls.
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Soil Regeneration – Learning the fundamentals of building and rebuilding degraded soil through the use of
varied composting methods.
Manure and Urine Management and Application – Various methods for maximizing food production through
the use of both animal and human “resources”.
Bio-Fertilizers – Cultivating indigenous microorganisms to produce simple and powerful bio-fertilizers.
Integrated Pest Management – Maintaining balance in the gardens through predator control, companion
planting, and natural repellants.
Bulk Food Crops – Cultivation of hearty, nutritional, and abundant crops with an emphasis on perennials and
select annuals.
Trail Building and Maintenance – Creatively utilizing the natural patterns and raw materials found in the
immediate natural environment in order to pioneer and establish forest and garden trails. By implementing
easily accessible gardens and sacred jungle space we are facilitating superior healing of the Self and Nature.
Wild Forging – Identification and preparation of some common wild edibles found in tropical rainforest regions
and similar geographic provinces.
Guild Design – Cultivating mutually beneficial plant relationships.
Harvest, Preparation, and Fermentation – Experience the joy of harvesting from the gardens and applying the
timeless art of enhancing (super-charging) your yield through fermentation processes.
Returning to Natural Rhythms – Re-syncing our lives to the greater rhythms of nature through the observation
of lunar, tidal, and solar cycles.
Food Mandalas – Honoring, reevaluating, and strengthening our nutritional relations with food.
(Note: Each holistic educational retreat is custom tailored to emphasize the subjects that you and your fellow
students choose on the application questionnaire.)
(Note: Learn more about the retreat’s holistic curriculum, campus, additional experiential opportunities, pricing and
registration, below.)
The Campus - Awakening Soul Earth Training Sanctuary (ASETS)
The Life Sustainable Regenerative Design retreats are hosted at ASETS. This sacred and powerful space is unplugged
from Internet, cell phones, and world media. Surrounded by lush virgin rainforest, organic gardens and food forests, the
Awakening Soul Earth Training Sanctuary provides an extremely pure and sacred space for you to delve deep into your
holistic transformational process. Learn and gain experience in the subjects that inspire you while experiencing clean
air, healing sunlight, pure living water, and the love that saturates the sanctuary.
To allow for a more powerful inner experience, students agree to rise from sleep each morning at sunrise, wear no
jewelry or makeup, wear only modest clothing, practice complete celibacy (including mental celibacy), and remain
unplugged from Internet, cell phones, and other world media for the duration of the retreat.
Holistic Wellness Curriculum
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Life in Balance: Nature, Mind, Body, Spirit – A series of classes presented throughout both weeks of the Life
Sustainable retreats. These classes focus on empowering the student to gain higher levels of consciousness in
each aspect of their being.
Technology of Speech / Conscious Communication – Renewing the mind and
perfecting the power of the tongue through the constant practice of refined speech
and heart conscious listening.
Nurturing the New Culture of Love – Expanding from a self-centered perspective
on life into one focused on sound relationships between all persons, communities,
natural environments and Divine Truth.
Yoga - Yoga classes are offered several days of the retreat for those who wish to
participate.
Guided Meditations – Connecting with our individual Divine Purpose and the
purpose of United Consciousness.
Ceremonies – Connecting with Divine Guidance and unifying the power of our
prayers in a Spirit lead ceremony.
In addition to the program curriculum, participants also have the opportunity to experience any of the following
(items listed with a * have additional fees beyond the basic tuition for the Life Sustainable Regenerative Design retreats):
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Guided rainforest treks
Access to walking and hiking trails through the rainforest
Swimming at the local Chirripo River
Access to the ASETS library of literature and videos, use of art studios, garden trails, and instruments
*Trip to local thermal pool
*Private massage, shiatsu, reiki, or acupuncture
*Personal health consultation
Local, off-site attractions that you may like to visit:
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Thermal pools – community gathering spot featuring swimming pools filled with naturally warm water.
Cloudbridge Nature Reserve - featuring hiking trails, waterfalls, educational information, and a beautiful
display of local biodiversity.
Chirripo Park – here begins the trek to the top of Costa Rica’s tallest peak, also Central Americas' second
highest peak. Well cared-for hiking trail for the 6 – 8 hour hike to the lodge. Overnight options for lodge.
Summit offers the possibility of viewing the Pacific and the Caribbean coasts simultaneously.
Pacific beaches are about a 2 – 3 hour journey from sanctuary.
Delicious Meals During Your Stay at Awakening Soul
Meals served are delicious, gourmet, and vegetarian. Each healthy meal is made daily on-site from fresh, local, and
mostly organic ingredients by highly skilled culinary artists. Many of the ingredients for the meals are grown organically
on campus. The intention of the meals are to nurture, heal, and energize. Organic bananas, herbal teas, and pure spring
water are available throughout the day.
*Awakening Soul Earth Training Sanctuary is also a natural healing center. Please do not bring any snacks or foods that
would not be considered healthy (conventional snack foods, chips, candies, soda, etc.) Delicious healthy snack foods will
be available for purchase.
Pricing and Registration
Your financial investment and your hands on work while you are here is a direct donation to Awakening Soul. Your
donation is distributed among our current projects; supporting the people, flora, and the fauna of Jaguar Trail and beyond.
Included in your holistic educational retreat is basic lodging, all meals, classes and workshops.
Payment Options for Life Sustainable Regenerative Design Retreats:
One Course
1. $700 – lodging in shared room
3. $600 – independent camping
Two Course Discount
2. $1200 – lodging in shared room
4. $1000 – independent camping
*Shared rooms or cabinas are assigned same gender habitants
**Each option includes all meals and snacks.
A 50% deposit is due upon registration and the remaining 50% is due upon arrival.
All deposits and donations are non-refundable. (Funds are distributed among our projects upon receiving.)
Contact: 1AwakeningSoul@gmail.com for payment options and questions.
Apply by April 14th to receive a 5% discount on your tuition fee.