A Crossroads in ColoradoHacienda de Guru Ram Das, Gold Hill By The Editors
ight on Light Host Editor Karuna comes to us from a long history of “hosting” across the interfaith, yoga, and global transformative communities. Her sprawling, amply decked, log-house in the Colorado historical district of Gold Hill, at 8400 ft above Boulder, Colorado, has a yoga studio below and lovely meeting rooms above which have hosted everything from United Nations NGO roundtables on sustainability and climate change, to live-in workshops on spiritual energy work and subtle activism. Surrounded by 150 acres of Front Range forest, deer, and even Brown Bears are a frequent sight. The Hacienda is also an active Airbnb. retreat. She was a part graduating hundreds of now certified yoga teachers. In the last decade she, and the Hacienda, began partnering with United Nations NGO’s for the Self Care to Earth Care programs across Colorado (www.selfcaretoearthcare.com) and partnering with the growing United Nations associated Sacred Site work that UNITY EARTH and Forum 21 Institute have been pioneering at historic indigenous and ecological sites around Crestone, Colorado.
The community around the Hacienda is both secular and sacred. Karuna pioneered Level 1 Kundalini Yoga training for the Kundalini Research Institute in the tradition of Yogi Bhajan for years, hosting trainings and retreats at the Hacienda and the nearby larger “Starhouse” facility. Members of this community join her annually in Costa Rica, at Blue Spirit Retreat Center, for her annual Kundalini Yoga
Karuna and the Hacienda hosted a series of recorded roundtables of international spokespersons on sustainability, climate change and spirituality, providing a mid-United States location for west and east coast experts to more easily gather. These followed on a series of discussions in both New York City and San Francisco on the emerging “altruism paradigm” the founding of the Altruism Channel at YouTube. 56