{"id":3914,"date":"2008-12-10T14:31:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T20:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=3914"},"modified":"2008-12-10T14:31:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T20:31:04","slug":"healing-waters-promise-transformative-change-at-harbin-hot-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/healing-waters-promise-transformative-change-at-harbin-hot-springs\/","title":{"rendered":"Healing Waters Promise Transformative Change at Harbin Hot Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>After a twisting journey up mountain roads or through vineyards, about two hours north of San Francisco Bay area or northwest of Sacramento, and tucked up the side of a mountain, flows the hot springs of what is now Harbin Hot Springs.<\/p>\n Historically, the springs have drawn Native American shamans and LSD-tripping hippies. In the 1880s, invalids journeyed to the Harbin Hot Springs Health and Pleasure Resort by stagecoach. Today, Harbin Hot Springs is a thriving intentional community of 175 year-round residents and a growing crowd of over 100,000 visitors each year who come for a soak in the waters, a massage, some bodywork and healing, educational workshops, hikes on some of the 1,160 acres of hiking trails that meander the 1,700-acre property, or some lounging au naturale on the sun decks after cooling off in the pristine, spring fed pool. This is a place to embrace nature, reconnect with your inner self, and enjoy the convivial community.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n During the hot springs\u2019 latest evolution, Harbin Hot Springs<\/a> has emerged as perhaps the most sustainable community yet with its members distancing themselves from the controversial hippy period of the 60s, opting, instead, to embrace the hopeful, spiritual, and diverse perspectives so needed in this century.<\/p>\nThe 112-degree Fahrenheit hot springs, one of six distinctive pools of varying temperatures, are the centerpiece of Harbin Hot Springs, a center to experience nature\u2019s beauty while exploring our potential as human beings. A Mecca for healers, sun-worshippers, intentional community seekers, yoga practitioners, over-wired Silicon Valley wizards in need of a break, and droves of people who seek a therapeutic and restorative soak in the springs, embraced by nature.<\/h3>\n