THE REVOLUTION:
Creates authenticity of experience and highest ROI for traveler/client, leveraging local resources and expert talent.
Increases ROI for the investor by using indigenous technology and materials for the built environment to economize capital investment.
Recruits and develops empowered teams that operate as a one-stop resource for guest engagement and service delivery, with nominal talent attrition.
Turns around fledgling organizations into market leaders with the team and individual engagement strategies (incubating solutions, internally).
Details continuity of story and brand throughout all facets of the experience generating increased sales and return travelers/clients.
The Experience:
HEALING
RESOURCE FOR LIFE
Indigenous cultures and biospheres are called upon to teach and serve as a reservoir of continual knowledge.
INTEGRATED WELLBEING
A union of allopathic & naturopathic medicine puts the patient at the center. It addresses the full range of physical, mental, social, spiritual & environmental influences.
GYAN VIHARA CULINARY INSTITUTE
To engage the gastronomic arts, food permaculture, and moderate is consumption, the Gyan Vihara Institute uses the Buddhist models that support contemplation and wisdom.
GUEST ROOM AS MEDICINE
Your teacher can proscribe private accommodations, each unique to aid in one’s wellbeing objectives.
FOOD AS MEDICINE
Western modern nutritional & Eastern ying/yang food therapies are utilized diagnostically for curative & preventative results. Ingredients from the local permaculture are also utilized.
WELLBEING CIRCUIT
The surrounding biomes, culture, and community of each destination differ but are complementary — individually supportive of enhancing the pathways of wellbeing to become a circuit.
The Experience:
THE POWER
OF PLACE
THE POWER OF PLACE
The permaculture of all living forms, the heavens above, the ground beneath our feet, and the history it contains are channeled for wellbeing.
SENSE OF PURPOSE
In-Room Orientation and registration replace the typical front desk check/in experience with a more personable experience. It is also the start for understanding the Sense of Purpose for travelers.
ART IN LIFE
To attain art's inspirational and healing role in life, a curated body of fine art — visual, audial (& performing) — is commissioned unique to each accommodation & space for a cumulative and prescribed effect.
REGIONALLY-BASED ATTRACTIONS
Adventures and events specific to each location and country, often led by naturalists, teachers, and healers, provide a meaningful connection to the Power of Place. Late afternoon information events provide information for the following day’s outings. We are not simply interested in taking photos. The ecology, biospheres, and indigenous cultures have plenty to teach.
SUSTAINABILITY
We do not measure performance against a single bottom line standard. Our model is different because it reintroduces indigenous life instead of replacing it with something else. It sustains indigenous life through honorable use of the place, indigenous knowledge, and educating visitors on how to use it. We answer the question, “how does a traveler use indigenous knowledge,” it is not always something one can photograph. Our Resorts are recognized as leaders in Responsible Tourism.
The Experience:
AUTHENTIC.
LIVE IT.
AUTHENTIC
The power of Resource for Life is its grounding in authenticity. Often an over-used term, authenticity demands a direct connection to culture, art, architecture, and intention. With interactive community-building involvement and engagement, we actively pursue new ways to weave ourselves into the fabric of our neighborhoods.
OMOTENASHI
A Japanese term for totally empowered anticipatory honest service rendered without pretentiousness or expectation of thanks.
LIVING MUSEUM ®
Instead of a patchwork of discrete elements managed in isolation, the Harmony Project’s Living-Museum adopts a holistic approach. It simultaneously conserves and sustainably develops the tangible and intangible heritage. The indigenous people are a repository of tangible and intangible heritage interpreted through the Living-Museum experience.
A harmonic balance of Adventure, Art In Life, A Sense of History, and A Sense of Place are interwoven to create a Living Museum.
DESIGN
Form follows emotion. Facility, activity, and emotion are aligned to make an experiential product. The design of our facilities does not overshadow the experience. It enhances it. Every space tells a unified story or lesson through commissioned fine art, grounding you in the sense of place. Our designs celebrate the inherent spirit of the local culture with authentic materials, construction, even technology. Accommodations are built for extended stays and multiple activities and moods. We find travelers don’t want to check out.