“This is just what I needed.”
“To fall asleep to the lullaby of the cicadas and the sea waves and feeling the breeze is highly recommended in life. ”
“Sleep is the best meditation.”
100% outdoor 24/7
Has it ever crossed your mind to increase your connection with yourself, your loved ones, the earth, the universe, life? If the subject of connection (or lets us also say "awareness" or "consciousness") has ever been part of your dialogue - then that's our specialty.
Even, and just as importantly, when sleeping. Our totally unique and unprecedented Prana-Pods, or “mosquito free cubes”, were designed to minimize the space between your body/consciousness and the earth as a living ecosystem while sleeping.
If you really want to connect, deeply connect with your makers, than minimizing the distance between you and nature, and interacting with your personal living space throughout the day's changes, is fundamental.
The amazing gain is your Self, your own nature helped by Nature. Does that make sense?
The Prana Pods are designed to accommodate -
“I sleep all night, don’t even wake up to pee!! And I dream every night, how can that be? I never remember my dreams otherwise. (dreams = the subconscious communication)”
Air Flow
Sensory flow
Transparency
Light and darkness
Sound and silence
Non-corrosive
Health in every inhaled atom (10 to the power of 19 per inhalation)
Thailand is the prefect climate for living and sleeping outdoors. Every night there is a slight breeze, and every nuance of it cascades right through our high strength, lightweight Prana-Pod design. You won't miss a breath, a sound, a subtlety. Nothing stands between you and nature but a few millimeters of sturdy screen. Day or night.
The inner sleeping unit slides out for amazing star gazing on the many strikingly clear nights, and on those occasions when it rains, slides back in in a matter of seconds. The mobility of the unit also allows greater floor space for naps, yoga, meditating, reading, hanging out, or just surfing the web. Up to you.
It may look simple, and it is, but it took years of living and sleeping in Thailand and feeling the subtleties of its climate to come up with this design. Forget doors. Forget walls. Forget mold. And you won’t need the AC. Privacy is provided by fully retractable curtains, lush bamboos and trees, plants and air.
In Thailand we live 100% outdoors, to maximize the detox and connection process. There's nothing to go inside for.
Don't be fooled by walls.
Life, breath, dreaming & healing are correlated.
Prana = life.
“I’ve never slept so good in my life, and look I’m not swollen!”
“That’s the first time I have slept a full night in 2 years! And the dreams I had, gosh, I remember my freaking dreams again!”
“I can’t believe I slept so long.”
Our jungle venue is next to the royal palace and associated national park. It’s protected by mountains, is four minutes from the beach and village, and is situated in a climate that allows us to explore 100% outdoor living, 24/7, 365.4 days each orbit of the earth. We thought we were fairly healthy but only now do we really get it.
The power of Nature as a healer, and its unpredictable and whimsical routines, are the best teachers. The lessons and the routines we make from them can be brought home and done everywhere. And we mean everywhere. Even if you live in NYC, London or Shanghai our routines can be brought home. Practice is everything.
Other things we do to live more naturally, incorporated into the design.
all water used for washing dishes, clothes and our bodies (with eco soaps) is collected and put on the trees.
we never need AC, and rarely use fans.
all food scraps are collected and tossed into the jungle.
we use a one-burner induction stove for cooking. At least 70% of our food is raw, minimizing the electricity required.
we are vegans.
we only buy what we absolutely need (such as Ferraris etc).
we wash clothes and fabrics by hand.
everything, including our kitchen, transforms during the day to accommodate sun, wind, heat etc.
we use motorbikes for longer distances, walking or bicycles for shorter distances, and otherwise public transportation as much as possible.
we flush toilets only when necessary (when it’s yellow, let it mellow etc).
we do our very best to accommodate all life forms in our open air shala.
we do not use any petrochemical based products. NO VOCs.
we do not burn anything, including candles or incense.
we spend all our waking moments contemplating the subject of health, and what it means, and how it feels.
we avoid cliches.
as much as possible we do not patronize the world’s biggest polluters.
we believe in, and practice, karmentum.
we struggle against uberculture, the often white male patrihierarchy of ambition and exploitation.
we believe in miracles, or at least, the miracle.
we do creative meditation, and yoga.
no way would we dry clean anything!
still thinking. . . .