Gondwana Sanctuary

Gondwana Sanctuary is a residential community and meditation centre located near Byron Bay on the sub-tropical east coast of Australia. It is situated 2 km from Tyagarah beach with wonderful views of Cape Byron and Mount Warning.

Gondwana is a strong vibrant community with a well-defined vision of community and spiritual life. Its inspiration derives from Osho and his vision of love, meditation, celebration and awakening.

We have regular meditations, working bees, community meals, and other community events. We have an openness to personal and spiritual growth as a core value, and hope to achieve a viable balance between the individual and the community. Community decisions are to a large extent made by consensus.

Gondwana is an active wildlife sanctuary having restored what was cattle pasture to a flourishing natural environment. There has been over the life of the community an extensive program of environmental repair and regeneration.The majority of the total land area is being progressively revegetated.

We currently have 14 shareholders on the community - that is community members who own a dwelling on one of the 10 residential sites. In addition there are approximately 15 guests and long-term residents on Gondwana who either live in the community "Main House", or rent space on one of the residential sites.

Gondwana News

29 April 2008 - Gondwana Calendar of Events

A calendar of Gondwana Events is now available on this website, thanks to Aparimit - see Calendar.

9 March 2008 - Yuti and Dru Yoga

Dru Yoga is starting to take off at Gondwana. Yuti holds a class at the Gondwana Meditation Hall at 10am on Monday mornings, and is happy at any time to share her love and knowledge of this beautiful sadhana.
For more about Dru Yoga (Stillness in Motion), see here.

18 Jan 2008 - 21st Birthday Reunion

Gondwana celebrated its 21st birthday with a weekend reunion event (18 to 20th January). This was highly successful with many previous community shareholders and residents present. One photograph from this event is at the top of this page, and there are a lot more on our Photo Album page.

15 Jan 2008 - Community Title

Byron Shire Council recently approved our development application to convert Gondwana from a Multiple Occupancy development to a Community Title development.

This change to Community Title offers an improved legal structure for Gondwana, including separate land titles for each dwelling site which will enable us to raise mortgages on dwelling sites. We have been working towards this for over five years now, so greet this approval with a great sense of relief. There are still a number of consent conditions of the approval which we need to implement, so it is still a little early to bring out the champagne, but it is still an important milestone on this particular journey.