Gondwana Sanctuary

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About Gondwana

What is Gondwana Sanctuary?
Gondwana Sanctuary has been in existence since 1987. It is a residential community situated on 40 hectares of land at Tyagarah, near Byron Bay on the sub-tropical east coast of Australia.

Gondwana Sanctuary as a community attempts to manifest an vision of community and spiritual life. We hold regular meditations, community meals, working bees, landcare rehaibilitation projects, and other community events and projects. If you are inspired by eastern spiritual traditions, meditation, vipassana, yoga, advaita, Papaji, sustainable development, permaculture, bush regeneration, Amma, 5 Rythms, NVC, Watsu, gardening, contact dance, yoga, or just long walks on the beach, then you are likely to find people here who share your enthusiasms.

There are eleven residential lots in Gondwana Sanctuary, of which ten are owned by individuals, or pairs of individuals (14 shareholders altogether). The eleventh lot, which contains our community house, is owned jointly by the proprietors of the other ten lots. A twelfth lot, the community lot, consisting of the remainder of the Gondwana Sanctuary property (about 80% of the total land area), is also owned jointly. Facilities on Gondwana Sanctuary include a meditation hall, TV room, games area, laundry, etc, all of which are available to residents.

Gondwana Sanctuary is no longer a young community.  The average age of the Gondwana Sanctuary shareholders is now over sixty-five.  In addition to the shareholders there are approximately 15 guests and long-term residents, with average age probably forty plus, who either live in the Community House, or in one of the residential dwellings.

Decisions about the running of Gondwana Sanctuary are made by the Gondwana Sanctuary shareholders as described below.  Ideally, though by no means always in practice, community decisions are made by consensus.

All the dwellings at Gondwana Sanctuary lie on a ridge on the Prestons Road side (eastern side) of the Gondwana Sanctuary property. In the above satellite photograph, Prestons Lane is the road shown running vertically past the Gondwana Main House. Note that the road shown as Black Rock Road is now known as Grays Lane - this connects at its western end with the Pacific Highway. Grays Lane is subject to flooding, and on occasions Gondwana Sanctuary is cut off from the rest of the world for several days at a time.

For an account of our early history, see the History of Gondwana.
Source:http://www.gondwanasanctuary.org