LODGING OPTIONS

Homestay:

The Youth Hostel is conveniently located near our Yoga Soup hub, but is pretty low grade (open sewage/6 bunks to a room/train howling/lots of hangovers) and expensive. So we are endeavoring to hook up homestays for out-of-towners. If you are interested in paying $13-20 per night, per person to sleep on a couch, spare bed, camp on the floor or in a yard or on a mountainside, email Zuvuya@ResonantTruth.com with your body count, wishes and needs. This option requires the Galactic tone of Integrity.

Car Camping:

Surprisingly welcomed in Santa Barbara, or simply unchecked, you can cover up with curtains and sleep in your car/van/Technicolor dream bus on the city streets. Best locale is next to the 3 acre city garden between Sola and Arrellaga, along Garden, Santa Barbara or Anacapa Streets. You can use the amenities at the public restrooms, and take naps on the lawn under the prehistoric trees.

Hotels:

Cheapest rates are 15 miles south on the 101 in Carpinteria, or north towards Goleta, but if you go corporate, you get corporate. In Santa Barbara the best ‘expensive’ place is Agave Inn ($79-99) agaveinnsb.com. Try to camp or do homestay!

Blue Self-Existing Monkey

A primal memory today of 9/11 which was also Blue Self-Existing Monkey and makes this energy an indelible quandary - how do monkey magic and play align with one of our Western world's largest televised traumas? It's helpful to pay homage and revisit what was stirred in you that morning, evening as you reconciled human suffering through screen images, through smoke.

The Blue Monkey essence is play, as in theatre, make believe and all the stage dressing that stirs our imagination. We fall out of seriousness into humor, out of darkness into delight. We can feel that life as a human on earth is primal in this way - more of a game, with roller coaster loop-de-loops and hide and seek with our most treasured beloveds. than a grown up venture.

When we can take Blue Monkey as a call to devolve back to simpler pleasures and both remove veils as well as try on different visages, costumes - hiding then bursting out of a hat, out of flames of fire - then we can feel the true magic of this moment. And 9/11 - within the horror - had this to teach us, that in most playground games, we all fall down. Grounded, splayed into each other, joy and laughter offset our bumps and bruises.