August 15-20

pre-breakfast movement meditation

Joel and Michelle Levey returned to Indralaya this week to lead their 14th annual summer retreat here. This year’s theme is Sacred Portals and the 45+ participants are exploring nature, meditation and community as pathways to deeper self awareness and understanding.

One of the traditions that has developed during the week is to ornament the meadow with beautiful tapestries and prayer flags. 

This week also saw the emergence of our garden sunflowers, and, more challengingly, resident yellow jackets entered the aggressive phase of their life cycle. There are a lot of them this year, in part because of last winter’s mild weather, and several people received stings or bites on the first day of the program.

Solar Update

In the ten weeks since our new solar installation began generating power, it has produced 2.62 MWh. The peak day was July 15th, with production of 47.4 KWh, and the least productive day was August 2 at 8.6 KWh. More information on the Indralaya solar arrays can be found at this link. 

Financial support for the project continues to be strong and we have now received donations for more than 20 of the 34 solar panels that were installed.