All is Burning

The world is aflame with the fires of greed, hatred, and delusion leading to the suffering of many.
The SolarPunk Sangha is generating awareness and practical skills essential for creating a sustainable future.
Our Purpose
Transforming consciousness to build a regenerative future.
The Challenge
Playing finite games on an infinite planet is destroying the systems that sustain us.
Our Response
We help individuals and communities develop the awareness, skills, and collective power to create a world where all life flourishes.

The Three Mutual Goals - Our Destinations for Transformation

These three interdependent goals guide every aspect of our work - from personal practice to community organizing. They're not sequential steps but simultaneous dimensions of change that reinforce each other in the dance of transformation.

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands—whether of individuals or entire peoples—need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world.

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968)
Conscientização
(Consciousness Raising)
Developing awareness of interconnection and systems
Capacitaçâo
(Capacity Building)
Developing practical skills for regeneration
Liberação
(Liberation Attaining)
Achieving collective freedom and flourishing

Choose Your Primary Objective - Your Personal Focus Areas

Within each goal, specific objectives help you focus your energy where it's needed most. Think of these as your personal 'what' - the concrete changes you want to cultivate in yourself and your community. Select one from each goal to create a balanced practice, or dive deep into a single area that calls to you most strongly.

Conscientização
Deepen my understanding of living systems
Heal my relationship with the more-than-human world
Develop critical consciousness about power structures
Capacitaçâo
Learn practical sustainability skills
Build community resilience capabilities
Master regenerative design principles
Liberação
Participate in collective action
Practice mutual aid and solidarity
Co-create liberatory institutions

Follow Your Yoga Path - Your Unique Way of Learning and Contributing

The Four Yogas represent timeless ways of knowing and being that honor our different strengths and callings. This is your 'how' - the methods and practices that will feel most natural and energizing for you. Whether you're moved by devotion, wisdom, action, or discipline, there's a path that aligns with your soul's language.

Bhakti Yoga

The Path of Heart & Devotion
American Dreams
Creating consumerist utopia as ideological cover for extraction
Besieged Ethos
Social Darwinism rewarding antisocial personality traits
Psychic Schema (Necrocene)
Psychological and spiritual effects of the system
Extractive Temporality
Time as linear, finite, and hostile - a resource to be exploited
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SolarPunk Aspirations
Creating societies where well-being replaces growth
Symbiotic Ethos
Rewarding cooperation, care, and long-term thinking
Psychic Schema (Symbiotic)
Psychological and spiritual effects of symbiotic living
Regenerative Temporality
Time as sacred, cyclical, and multi-generational

Jnana Yoga

The Path of Wisdom & Discernment
Materialist Reductionism
The foundational belief that consciousness is an accidental byproduct of matter
Epistemic Closure
Epistemic closure enhances control by restricting reality to measurable data, but reverses into epistemological crisis when unmeasurable realities demand attention.
Antidiologic
Actively preventing collective consciousness
Complexity
Creating systems too complex and fragile to withstand shocks
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Conscious Realism
The foundational recognition that consciousness is fundamental to reality
Participatory Knowing
Participatory knowing enhances collective intelligence by integrating diverse epistemologies, creating emergent wisdom greater than any single perspective.
Dialogic
Actively building collective intelligence
Measurements (Symbiotic)
Quantifying actual health of communities and ecosystems

Karma Yoga

The Path of Selfless Action
Necrocapitalism
System that profits from managing and producing suffering/death
Structural Violence
Violence as the primary operating system for extraction and control
Finance Strategy
Using money as tool for social control and extraction
Steering Activity
Direct enforcement activities that reinforce hierarchical power
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Ahimsa
Non-violence actively engineered into all systems
Commons Strategy
Managing resources through community governance
Guided Activity
Activities that build community and ecological health
Appropriate Technology
Tools that enhance human agency and ecological wisdom

Raja Yoga

The Path of Discipline & Mastery
Domestication
Reducing vibrant life to controllable, exploitable units
Technocognition
Using technology to shape thought and behavior at scale
Instruments (Necrocene)
Seemingly neutral systems that enforce power imbalances
Measurements (Necrocene)
Quantifying the system's "success" on its own terms
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Biocracy
Systems designed around ecological and community health
Rewilding
Restoring agency and diversity at all levels
Resilience
Creating redundant, adaptable systems
Instruments (Symbiotic)
Systems that distribute power and knowledge