Eco Orbits

12/03/2019

Volunteer program in Colombia working with Venezuelan refugees and the disadvantaged Colombians who have suffered the most from the influx of over 2 million refugees into their poor country

07/11/2018

Come volunteer in Africa! 9 day, 14 day, 21 day and four week tours include meals, housing, transportation (not flight) and field trips!

Bases:
Depending on dates, we will be based at or near orphanages, Village Boarding schools or refugee camps. Choice of private or shared accommodation. Camping is sometimes available.

Field Volunteer Work (once per week):
-Refugee Camps: Activities include: Show,
Interactive Games, Arts & Crafts and gifts/supplies
-Street kids: interactive games, arts, gifts, water
and food
-Small Village/ farming community: Show, interactive games, Art
exchange and gifts

Site Seeing & Photo Tours (one or two days per week- some options include additional fees)
-Historical sites/museums: Including Historic slave trade castles,
archaeological museums and historical museums
-Wildlife Parks: See Crocodiles, Elephants, Monkeys and leopards
-Beaches, Bars and Shows: Check out local nightlife with local
guide.

06/23/2018

Eco Orbits offers wilderness photo tours, eco tours and meditation classes, all of which raise money for our volunteer tours to Africa, Central Asia and SE Asia.

06/13/2018

We have a herd of these bouncy toys for four, generator-free, muscle powered parties... Eco Orbits entertainment

Not only did she spot a unicorn, she rode it!

11/10/2017

Thanks for your donations! We got 50 dollars donated so I sent 70 yesterday. Their group is now two women and 4 children making the journey through the mountains. It's dangerous for blacks and Christians and especially for women. Many are captured and sold into slave markets in Libya.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/10/libya-public-slave-auctions-un-migration

https://www.gofundme.com/4nkm040

10/12/2017

This is what it's all about.... Oh, and the hokey pokey, it's also all about the hokey pokey. Sharing, caring and the hokey pokey, that's what it's all about. .

08/23/2017

10/11/2016

80 kids and and their teachers using one hole for toilet and no showers! The facility we are building will have 7 girls composting toilets, 5 plus urinals for boys, 7 showers each, plus a complete, separate bathroom for men and for women staff.

the toilet facilities at Good Shepherd Orphanage are unsanitary and little more that holes in the ground, nearly filled. The kids just shower with buckets in a patch of dirt. WE have begun construction on new facilities which will include showers and composting toilets. We have 8 to 10 volunteers...

08/30/2016

Upcoming Eco Orbits tours:

Eastern spirituality and philosophy:

Shaolin/Mei gua tai chi , chi gong and Kung fu. Travel housing and instruction with 34th generation warrior monk in central China.

Daoist Kung fu , chi gong and tai chi with the great Sifus and artists.

Tharavadan buddhist studies, arts and saved sites of viet Nam and cambodia.

Chinese arts tour: hands on exploration of the beautiful arts of China: painting, calligraphy, papermaking, jade carving and ceramics.

Hula hoop good will tour China. Random acts of hula hooping and play in China!

Table tennis tour: a visit to the great centers of table tennis in China (mostly northern China) with stops at major tourist sites like forbidden city and great wall as well.

Badmitten tour: mostly southern Chinese cities like shenzhen. We will again visit the great badmitten training centers and clubs of China.

Aart Metta Mudita tours ( volunteer work with orphanages and other charities) southeast asia, west Africa, southern us, mexico and central America

Soccer / football goodwill tour in west Africa: we sponsor several rural teams in rural Ghana with balls, string and lessons in how to make nets, goal making, coaching and coach training.

Eco arts west Africa: community clean up and repurposing! Make art and craft products with community folks for sale and benefit of locals. Goals of sanitation improvement, water improvement and solar power.

Eco Arts cambodia: community clean up and repurposing! Making arts and crafts for sale with locals to raise money to help their environment. Goal of sanitation improvement, water quality and solar power.

Ancient Buddhism in India; sacred sites, at and present day buddhist centers.

07/20/2016

Basketry, sacred geometry and meditation! ?!?

Weaving is an art that puts sacred geometry in action. .. and you get very handy products as a result! I made these baskets out of pallet straps from lumber yard trash bin. These straps have a 5000lb weight test rating so these baskets can hold a healthy amount of berries.

Although weaving works great as an escapist activity, I've found that mindfulness meditation works well with weaving. Start with the breath and become aware of the feelings and thoughts that arise during the process.:

While digging through garbage cans and dumpsters at home Depot : do people think I'm homeless? Breathe. Do they think I'm stealing? Will I ever be able to this chaotic jumble of alien robot tentacles into this skinny ceiling fan box absconded from the worker in isle 22? Return to the breath.

While cutting the pieces for the basket: this is so easy, I'm gonna make tons and start a world wide basket business ! Return to the breath

While weaving the base: "these won't stay together! Everything I weave across the first ones spring apart! Are you breathing? This is so frustrating! Breathe, damning it! What have I done to deserve this! Why do the god and or gods hate me! I'm never doing this again!" Remember breathing? It's the one where you let air into your lungs.

As you put vertical bend in the warps: "I'm doing it! This may actually work! " return to the breath.

As you take the weft in an upward spiral, over under/in and out of each ornery tenacle ,aka 'warp': "these ends are sharp...an I crazy to have an all out brawl with an inanimate object? " breathe.

As you bend the warps over at top and tick them in to finish and add the handle. : thank the good/gods for this blessing of release from torture. ...oh look, I have more straps, I better make another. .. wait do this mean I'm crazy? " return to the breath.

As each thought arises return to the breath , be aware of the thoughts. Return to the breath. do not judge, just accept, (you probably are crazy, but crazy is just a thought, like all the other thoughts and judgements are just electrons flowing and swirling around your brain. Return to the breath. Accept them as part of the river of experience that is your life, let them go like pieces of drift wood that bump against you as you float downstream. Return to breath. Love yourself and the process and the flow of chi that continues by your letting go. Return to breath; humble , empty, baby mind: ready , willing, (naive) enough to start again. Make another basket. !

06/10/2015

I taught these girls how to do this in just a couple minutes. they are awesome! http://thehulahoopman.com http://thathoopguy.com

05/03/2015

New, in stock E-bikes! Available EXCLUSIVELY with ECO ORBITS. Buy one today or Save $100 if you make an order ( advantage is there are many colors to choose from, take 4-6 weeks for delivery)

03/31/2015

These are a replacement for your car (not your regular bike :) Electric bikes for sale! Folding and non-folding, on and two seaters!Starting at 695! including shipping!

03/28/2015

Grab you camera and/or your easil and come to some of the most beatiful special and sacred places in the west- commune through art and photography!

03/28/2015

Video I shot and edited for Twin Flames Reunite Desert Festival/ gathering:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sid_8qa__QE

Party in the desert outside Las vegas for spring equinox 2015 edited by Paul Blair - the Hula Hoop Man of Eco Orbit and Wilderness circle herbal Dominique, a...