Fundación Gaia is a Costa Rican non-profit organization devoted to the undertaking of the “Proyecto Planeta Tierra” or Planet Earth Project. This project is lead by Javier Francisco Ortiz and Ansu Patricia Coto and composed of founding partners, a board of directors, sponsors, volunteers and Holistic instructors.
What is the Planet Earth Project?
The Planet Earth Project consists of the creation and promotion of an alternative to the old health model, a system of yoga that allows the integration of the Soul into daily life, a sexual formation program that allows full enjoyment of sexuality and a pregnancy formation program that permits a comfortable delivery. In this manner, this project aims to encourage the world to view Costa Rica as a country ideal for investment of resources in projects to protect the environment and decrease global warming.
What has the Planet Earth Project accomplished?
In the medical field…
· Establishment of Balance Integral or Holistic Health as an alternative to the health-illness model
· Certified training of Holistic Instructors
· Creation of Holistic Centers to offer its services to the community
· Creation of Gaia Holistic Institute an institution recognized by the government for certified training in alternative therapies
· Certified training of physical therapists
· Promotion of this model through mass media through a Holistic Promotion Project
· Development of Holistic Delivery program where advice is given to mothers looking to have a comfortable pregnancy, delivery, and post partum period.
· Creation of Holistic Spa Body worker offering professional training in workplaces
· Establishment of Friendly Work Environment Project offering holistic alternatives to companies and institutions to help promote friendly business administration styles, create people-focused work environments and encourage holistic balance in participants
Accomplishments in Yoga
· Creation of Gaia Holistic Center
· Opening of Yoga Lamat and Yoga Mandir yoga schools
· Creation of Yogamasthai yoga school
· Certified training of yoga instructors
· Founding of Yoga for the Soul to promote integration of the Soul into daily life
· Development of Operation Merlin to bring Yoga for the Soul to other parts of the world
Accomplishments in the Field of Sexuality
· Television show Sinceramente broke the taboo of the subject of sexuality in Costa Rican society
· Television show Conversando con Javier Ortiz brought inegral sexual education to every corner of the country
· Publishing of the book The 100 Questions and the Gender Rainbow, accepted by the National Education Coucil as an integral sexual education textbook
· Sexuality Counselling to instruct people on how to have a more satisfying, conscious and creative sex life
Art and Environmental Education Fields
· Production of play, Alerta Verde – Green Alert
· Creation of children’s chorus, Arka de Noé – Noah’s Ark
· Recording of children’s musical production, Alerta Verde – Green Alert
· Creation of environmental youth rock group Kábala
· Creation of community, CiRko Vivo
· Creation and development of project, Animación Integral
· Creation of Soy el Planeta Azul, offering environmental education and planetary consciousness to children.
What acknowledgements has Gaia received?
· Fundación Gaia was declared of Public Utility for the Government’s Interests on May 6, 1991. The Planet Earth Project was declared of Public and National Interest on June 13, 1991.
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