Kailasa is a 1,200 acre adventureland in Northern California where those willing to authentically go beyond and search within may be invited to make retreat for days, weeks, or months in an idyllic setting designed for awakening. Kailasa will empower anyone possessing the will and determination to make the inner journey with an extensive collection of ancient and contemporary experiential tools which help us discover and develop our inner connection.  A flexible-duration residential work-while-you-study program opens us to invited guests who may be unemployed or financially challenged. With accreditation by the Academy of Personalized Learning and a year-round program of learning through direct involvement in Kailasa’s real projects, we become a haven for teens who are awakening shocked, isolated, and unsupported and want to use our system to get out. A 501(c)(3) non‑profit organization with many lucrative profit streams, our goal is to migrate invited visitors away from a financial exchange for services to one that is a meaningful exchange of services.

With plenty room to spread out, the Kailasa Experience consists of several major components:

·  Kailasa – A Sustainable Transition Town Nucleus

·  The Kailasa Center for Transpersonal & Transformational Exploration & Healing

·  The Kailasa Experiential Academy

·  The Kailasa Creationarium

These components can be broken down into projects:

·  Kailasa – A Sustainable Transition Town Nucleus

·  A community designed to address climate destruction and economic instability due to peak oil.

·  An elaborate organic agricultural and permaculuture operation designed and led by Living Mandala providing 90% of food and medicine consumed.

·  A phased housing development plan including full-service Camping & RV parking pads with showers and laundry, earth covered Quonset huts as dormitories, dozens of cottages suitable for 1-4 guests, several houses for residential support staff.

·  Population driven by resource availability and project needs. No permanent residents, the support staff will not exceed 150 and overnight visitors are not planned to exceed 300.

·  The Kailasa Center for Transpersonal & Transformational Exploration & Healing

·  An extensive spiritual healing center rivaling the Esalen Institute able to accommodate 300 overnight guests for days, weeks, and months at a time.

·  Daily classes featuring yoga, tai chi, martial arts, meditation, dance, and voice.

·  A consciousness exploration facility drawing from the Monroe Institute.

·  A full-time Transformational Workshop Center facilitating programs such as Tony Robins, Landmark, MITT (Mastery in Transformational Training), NLP, PSI Seminars.

·  The Kailasa Experiential Academy

·  A robust and adventurous Summer Camp like River Valley Ranch on steroids.

·  A year-round accredited boarding school for teens blending Hogwarts, the Jedi Temple, and Starfleet Academy.

·  A match to the South Point Arena & Equestrian Center, from Day 1 to handling Steer.

·  Woodstock was 600 acres, Kailasa is 1,200 with natural stages and amphitheaters.

·  The Kailasa Creationarium (An Inventors’ Haven)

·  Inventors and Artists can brainstorm like IDEO and then actually create them with help from our Creators in our two existing 2,000 sq ft tool shops.

·  Acres of physical art gardens, amphitheaters for musicians, vistas for writers and poets.

·  The ultimate Audio & Video Recording and Production studio. Secret real reason: this and this.

What started out as a Las Vegas spiritual discussion Meetup group in 2008 has become the nucleus for Kailasa, a residential spiritual healing community in Northern California. Converting a 1,200 acre luxury corporate executive retreat in the heart of the Shasta Cascade Wonderland, the initial residential support team is in the process of transforming their real, face-to-face community in Las Vegas into a real neighborhood community in the Redding, California community of Bella Vista.

Kailasa will follow in the footsteps of the very successful communities of the Esalen Institute and Mount Madonna Center. Rather than 150 acres of gorgeous rocky cliffs in Big Sur or 355 acres of Redwood forest overlooking Monterey Bay, Kailasa is on 1,200 acres of pristine meadows and forests four miles south of Lake Shasta and in the shadow of the spiritual vortex of Mount Shasta. All of this within 30 minutes of Redding Airport, 2.5 hours of Sacramento, and 3.5 hours of San Francisco. And this is what we now call home.

As the project allows and becomes self-sustaining through organic gardening and farming the residents will be able to eschew their traditional jobs for a life of supporting the community and the property. Systems will be put in place that will allow members of our extended community to come and stay and eat and play with us for free, as the project is intentionally designed as such. Because of the great scope of the project a non-profit 501(c)3 entity will be necessary to interface with the various levels of government.

One of the project's objectives is to disconnect our survival from the economic system, but not to shun or avoid it all together. We do not discourage individuals from having personal possessions and we do appreciate the advantages of the assets their financial endeavors can bring. As a matter of fact, we encourage excellence in all areas explored, and so if one has the ability and desire to play in the economic world we will help them to dominate it in the most righteous manner. In this way we will not become outcasts and we will continue to know the game they are playing until the time comes when their game is no longer played.

We will continue to hold group events like we have been in Las Vegas. We have done these events without any financial gain to ourselves, only covering the costs incurred by the teachers and facilities. Now that we have our own 5,000 square foot event center, we will not have the facility cost to pass on. As the property evolves, comfortable, private housing will become available, and that cost, too, will no longer be a factor detering us from our conscious unfolding.

Therefore, to those outside of our community Kailasa will primarily appear to be a fascinating and unique retreat center on a property twice the size of Woodstock in the aptly named area of Bella Vista, or “Beautiful View.” Kailasa will be utilized by international teachers and authors including Gnostic authority and stand-up philosopher Tim Freke, and spiritual guru Bhagavan Sri Pranananda. The center will be available for teachers and schools like these to hold their own retreats or Kailasa may retain them for our own private events. A donation system will be in place so that a handful of financially fortunate benefactors may bring a teacher to town so that many less fortunate can benefit.

We have many spiritual teachers in our extended community, and so in addition to these group events we will come to offer individual programs customized for each visitor. A growing residential staff of spiritual teachers will result in an expansion of the nature and volume of participants served. Individual programs are initiated by application with a maximum initial stay of ten days. Visitors invited to return may request programs up to one month depending on the space available and the demands of the project.

In the meantime, the effort and energy accessed from the visiting workforce will be channeled to vastly improve the functionality of the 1,200 acre property. Starting with a blank slate of pristine California meadows and forest, the community will combine to brainstorm, plan, and create many new features that will enhance the draw. Accessing federal grant money, we will be building a large reservoir to stock with fish and attract waterfowl. One of our residents owns an excavation construction company and will be leading the installation of a 10 spot full-service non-commercial RV parking area for private visitors so equipped. Taking advantage of the terrain, we will be installing a zip-line course that will be for fun, for eco-friendly transportation across the two-mile wide property, and for experiential events where some can face their fears. All of these projects will enhance the value of the property, increase the draw of the event center, and provide a constructive outlet for our working visitors.

As the project develops and the infrastructure comes into place, we will be able to food and house people who are able to work on the project. This will enable us to further open up the facility to our extended community by enlisting their help instead needing to generate money. Rather than looking to our friends and family members as sources of income or capital, we can shepherd them and provide comfortable housing and home-grown nutritious meals while they work the land and work upon themselves. We will invite them to come and live with us for days, weeks, or months where they can work several hours a day on our various projects. As they work with the permanent residents, they will be exposed to and increasingly held to new ways of living. They will also have access to the yoga classes, Tai Chi sessions, massage therapy, spiritual discussions, and nightly events all while learning to grow, cook, and eat healthy organic food and medicine.

This work exchange system restores the perceived value to the older and less physically able members of our community. While the community will require plenty of strong workers during the intense physical development phase, we be able to expand our visitor pool as the project's needs evolve. People who may not be physically fit may be able to teach classes featured on our weekly calendar, lead a spiritual study group, or help in gardening and food preparation. Instead of attempting to motivate these people with a meager social security or welfare check, these people can be given meaningful work that genuinely needs to be done while sharing the wisdom they have cultivated over their lifetime.

Growth of the community and the development of the land into a residential spiritual wonderland will be organically manifested through this large pool of invited visitors as well as the attendees, artists, and teachers attracted to our national events. With abundant resources and an expanse of land, it will become a magnet for artists looking to express themselves on one of God's largest canvases near Mt. Shasta and beautiful Northern California Sequoias.

Those that fit well into the community will be invited to live and support the healing center. Over time, the need may arise to balance out strong interpersonal dynamics or to allow for various ways of expressing authentic living. At that time a team may be selected to start a new community focused around another project or ideal. It is not the objective of the group to grow or to create daughter colonies, these are just the results of the magnetic draw of living this way and can be a pleasant and productive part of the creative process. 

While the property is ready to use immediately, there will be many projects that we will want to accomplish early on that will greatly increase the functionality of the property. These tasks include building ample, comfortable housing and dining facilities for visitors and the visiting work force; improving the infrastructure including additional irrigation, sewage systems, utilities and roads; creating the experiential activity courses such as zip-line courses, obstacle courses, sweat loges, drum and fire circles; and creating reservoirs for fish and waterfowl using government grants. Fortunately, members of the initial team possess the heavy equipment, experience, and knowledge to be able guide and utilize the vast volunteer workforce.

Additional daily work will center around growing and preparing organic food and herbal medicine. By tending to the plants themselves, 'patients' and the attendants will imbue the medicine with loving kindness. Viewing our bodies as programs, we will teach our residents the importance of what they put into their earthly vehicles, including the food and drinks as well as the media they watch, listen, and read. Growing more than we need, we will connect with the local community via a roadside stand to sell our vegetables, berries, and plant medicines as well as maintaining a presence in the local farmer's markets.

There is a direct relationship between physical exertion and mental and emotional release. This form of constructive physical and creative outlet helps heal the volunteer while it conveniently expands the draw, versatility, and value of the Institute. Harnessing the creative and physical human power that has been sucked from our patrons far too long, we create a win-win scenario providing a desirable vector for their thrust. Rather than exploiting their energy and siphoning it off, the energy is maintained within the nurturing community, feeding and expanding it so that others, too, may have the opportunity to join and heal.

A daily schedule of classes will be offered at the Healing Center, many taught by the visiting workers themselves. Rather than charging for their services, our therapists will be able to accrue their 'work time' by performing services instead of building roads, installing irrigation lines, or tending to the garden. It is intended to have a daily Asana-based yoga class, a regular Tai Chi class, multiple daily mediations, as well as many other modalities presented by the visitors and residents.

In the evenings, the center will be used for many social and self-development events. These events cover a broad spectrum of topic and experience, including lectures by visiting Lamas on Buddhist scripture, Whirling Dervish spinning classes, discussion about South American Shamanism, and The Matrix viewing and discussion night. We will continue our well attended Sunday Sangha event where from 2-6 pm we discuss the highest levels of consciousness, transcendent conversations that are rarely accessible in public. These events are how we reach out to the community, a kind of beacon for those who care to look and move out of the darkness. 

For several years our core group has been hosting and facilitating events in the Las Vegas area as the Awareness and Consciousness Group of Southern Nevada. Starting out with six of us meeting weekly in a car dealership training room, our registered membership has grown to nearly 500 with extended connections to over 2,000 in Las Vegas alone. Our Calendar (http://www.meetup.com/AwarenessGroup/#calendar) has featured over 1,600 events in the last three years, almost one-and-a-half events a day even as we have all been working full-time jobs. This project makes it possible for us to discard those jobs and live our lives full-time.

Namsaste,

The Kailasa Residential Support Staff