The Gaiasphere Event Center Brings Together A Conscious Community
In 2011 we set out on a rather lofty mission: to empower an evolution in consciousness by creating a platform for like-minded seekers to explore some of the deeper questions of our existence.
Since then, we’ve watched as our community has rapidly expanded from tens of thousands, to now hundreds of thousands. And while the wonders of modern technology have allowed us to reach so many of you, the digital sphere adds a layer of separation between us. That’s why we decided to launch GaiaSphere.
And now we’ve done it – we’re excited to announce the completion of the GaiaSphere at our campus in Boulder, Colorado, where we’ll be featuring some of our favorite luminaries beginning June 14, 2019.
Over the course of the coming year, we’ve invited speakers including Gregg Braden, Caroline Myss, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Bruce Lipton, Nassim Haramein, and Graham Hancock for deeply engaging, multi-day seminars that are sure to be life-changing.
The goal of GaiaSphere was to create an immersive atmosphere for our community to connect with each other, with us, and with the thought leaders we all know and love on Gaia. And though these thought leaders will be leading the events, we want the biggest headliner to be you.
That’s what we had in mind when we built GaiaSphere; to take our mission and make it into a tangible, substantive experience where we can meet you and you can get to know us — the real-life personalities and faces who have made it their work to create a conscious media platform.
Our newly built, state-of-the-art facility will bring together seekers from across the globe to connect in a truly transformative environment, facilitated by the brilliant minds who are inspiring paradigm shifts in modern philosophy, health, and spirituality.
So, what can you expect when attending an event at GaiaSphere?
We’ve set the number of attendees for each event at around 250 people – large enough to make connections within our community, but not so big that you’ll feel overwhelmed. We hope that over the course of these multi-day sessions, you’ll forge relationships that could last a lifetime.
During breaks, you can strengthen those newly formed friendships by grabbing a bite to eat at our all-organic cafe with fresh, locally-grown nourishment that will cater to any diet.
Take a stroll around the various pathways that encircle Gaia’s campus, or meditatively meander through one of our stone labyrinths. Then make your way to the Gaia Garden where honeybees from our apiary pleasantly buzz around, pollinating the flowers and trees, while you contemplate some of the day’s learnings.
For those visiting the area for the first time, Boulder and the Colorado front range have endless offerings including gorgeous scenery, outdoor activities, and exceptional dining. You may never want to leave.
If you’re unable to attend in person, don’t fret! Each of our events will be live-streamed in HD and uploaded to Gaia’s archives, always remaining available to Gaia+ members.
And just like our mission of co-creating an evolution in consciousness, we want you to help us co-create what GaiaSphere could become. These initial events we’ve announced are just the start — we need your help figuring out the rest. If there’s an event or use for the space we haven’t seen, please, let us know. We’re all ears.
Let’s create our own atmosphere here at Gaia and continue the audacious undertaking of creating an evolution in consciousness. Together we can connect, transform, and belong at GaiaSphere.
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Sacred Relationships: Beyond Love and Valentine’s Day
Years ago, I taught a class that ended at 9 PM. One night after class, I stopped by a grocery store to buy a couple of items. It was the night before Valentine’s Day and what I saw startled me, but more than that, it made me sad.
Many grocery stores put the greeting card aisle smack dab in the front. Impulse buying is a big part of modern society and very little is as impulsive as buying a greeting card the night before Valentine’s Day. Entering the card aisle isn’t for the meek. An air of tension and fear immediately becomes evident. I always imagine a herd of gazelles, nervously drinking at a waterhole in the middle of lion country. There may not be lions here, but there’s a very real predator, namely, one’s own insecurities regarding love and romance.
Grown men whimper as they desperately search for the perfect card that proves their love, hopefully without offending the recipient. Generations of insidious marketing tactics have convinced most of us that we have neither the time nor the talent, to express ourselves from our hearts, so we pay someone else to do it for us. On more than one occasion, while standing in front of hundreds of homogenized cards, none of them saying what I actually felt, I swore never to stand there again. I came to loathe Valentine’s Day and everything it stood for. I wasn’t alone.
How did a celebration of romantic love and commitment come to mean despair for so many? Certainly, greeting card companies have had a lot to do with this phenomenon, but it really isn’t that simple. Perhaps it has more to do with our insistence at quantifying, institutionalizing, and monetizing something as indefinable, ephemeral, and sacred as love.
The media bullies us into buying diamonds, flowers, new cars, and boxes of chocolates, or risk being labeled as a bad partner. The irony behind all this is that when love is genuine and certain, no tokens are necessary, because hearts communicate to each other in a language as ancient as humanity itself. This is the basis of a Sacred Relationship. Such connections are pure and without conditions implied.
Our ancestors spoke this language fluently and without hesitation. They found no shame in expressing what was within them. Love wasn’t considered a weakness. Rather, it was looked upon as a blessing, a gift bestowed by the Divine as a sacred duty, rite, and gift.
What would the world be without romantic love? It would be inhuman and horribly dull.
Sacred Relationships are the basis of what we think of when true love is expressed. The connection of two souls, united in purpose, is the Alchemical merging of hearts, minds and incarnations. The fiery furnace of passion is the smelter for those who come together to unite as one Sacred Couple, individuals united by the Divine imperative.
Love is a constant, a thread that connects the human experience throughout the ages, like beads of a Mala. It weaves its way through every aspect of our existence, and links us to our ancestors and to those who will follow us on this lovely planet.
