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We hold sound baths and kava, cacao and sacred ceremonies in the South Bay of Los Angeles.

11/02/2026

🍊 We hope everyone is having a happy Halloweekend and a feliz Dia De Los Mu***os 💀🌼

09/03/2026

🍊 At first when we were dreaming of the temple we imagined it to have solid walls...but then we looked around and we wanted to have the ability to be fully immersed in nature and be one with the plants, the birds, the forest and the farm. We decided to go with an open air temple where we could practice yoga and sound in the day time, meditate, hold conscious events surrounded by the land and at night zip things up to keep warmth in and mosquitos out for ceremony 😄.

The first image is the design vision and the other image+video is our progress so far. 🎶

08/31/2026

We’re building Harmala Temple. 🍊

We just passed our three-month anniversary here on Hawaiʻi Island, and it’s wild to think about how much has happened already. How much we’ve learned, how much work we’ve poured into this land, the incredible souls we’ve met, and how completely in love we’ve fallen with this place.

And now, after dreaming about it for years, we’ve officially broken ground on our physical Harmala Temple space.

For those newer here, Harmala Temple grew from the intimate gatherings Malia and Danny began holding together in 2018. Over the years, it has evolved into a community centered around sacred ceremony, music, movement, connection, integration, nature, and creating spaces where people can come together with intention.

We’ve dreamed for years of having a physical home for that community.

When we arrived here, we spent more than a month clearing invasive trees and plants, caring for the land and preparing it for what we hoped to create. Then, right as we were ready to begin planting and building, the hurricane came through: bringing down trees, damaging infrastructure, and creating another enormous round of cleanup.

And still… we decided to start building.

That part felt really important to us.

We didn’t want to launch a fundraiser around a dream of what we might build someday. We wanted to break ground first. To put our own hands, resources, energy and commitment behind the vision and say: this is happening now.

Our vision is for this Temple to become a beautiful open-air gathering space for ceremony, music, movement, meditation, workshops, creativity and community- and a place where other facilitators, musicians, artists, teachers and creators can share their own gifts and voices too.

We’ve now created a GoFundMe and are inviting our wider community to help us build it.

There’s something especially meaningful about imagining this space years from now and knowing that so many hands and hearts helped bring it into being!

The Temple is becoming real.

And we would LOVE for you to be part of its story. 🌺

GoFundMe link in stories.

08/26/2026

💚 Definitely could be worse...and how quickly we learn to adapt. I am actually enjoying my curly hair to match my daughter's- on the days I don't dry it at the gym 😂.

We are grateful to have been able to donate a large gas container, a 5 gallon water jug and a propane tank- thanks to Danny Byrne for preparing so well for this very situation!

We have received so much loving support from friends and the community...and today we have started construction on our Harmala Temple space!!! A little glimmer of hope and creation.

More updates on this soon. 💓

08/23/2026

🌺 Sitting with some major mixed emotions today.

Imagine just having spent tens of thousands clearing your land of all the invasive trees and brush, and having just a week of a clean slate before a hurricane takes out some of the beloved trees you so intentionally kept: koa, several ʻōhiʻa, kukui, loquat, and several others, leaving a mess over your canvas.

In that same week, grass seed had been planted and the grass grew a couple of inches: you see how fast life can spring back up.

Several very tall trees fell, cracking power poles in half, and there are a couple tall trees still standing that could fall on your own house or a neighbor’s. More resources spent on protection for the future and time: hours upon days and weeks of cleaning.

As I sat in the cloud forest yesterday playing sounds for some folks, there was almost complete stillness: no wind, light clouds: just birds chirping and frogs croaking, and a couple of trees cracking and falling in the background.

This was another reminder that nature will do her thing. She clears what will no longer stand: even if it was beautiful, even if it makes no logical sense to us. It’s in that acceptance that I’m reminded how little control we actually have, and how much of living alongside nature is learning to listen, adapt, and begin again.

Today I am feeling both sides of it: the sadness of losing what we loved and worked so hard to protect, and the awe of watching how quickly life begins to return.

🤍 Malia

08/16/2026

🍊 A reminder of the strength of Mother Nature. Harmala Farms lost several trees...but the home stands strong and there are many trees still standing.

She decided what was ready to clear out and we will use the space to regrow, while building our temple space. There will be opportunities to help clean, plant and contribute to the temple. Work to stay in Hawaii with us and a chance to get down and dirty with Mother Earth. 🌎

Our spirits remain high! 💞

08/16/2026

🍊 We are sending aloha to all those affected by Hurricane Lala.

We are losing some of our pretty trees here at Harmala Farms, but staying strong in spirit, surrounded by family.

Whatever will be will be. We are grateful for the trees still standing and the future of planting new ones.

Stay strong Hawai'i! 💗

07/01/2026

🍊 A little update from your stewards of Harmala Temple!

The other day we visited Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary , just 18 minutes from our new home, and we left feeling incredibly inspired.

What makes this place so special is the story it tells. In 1982, this land had been heavily impacted by decades of ranching, agriculture, and deforestation. Rather than accepting what had been lost, founder Norman Bezona set out with a simple but beautiful vision: Could a cloud forest be restored within a single lifetime?

Yes!!

Through decades of intentional stewardship, thoughtful planting, and the loving hands of countless volunteers practicing mālama ʻāina: caring for the land, this once-degraded landscape has become a thriving cloud forest once again. As the canopy returned, the birds came back, the moisture returned, native plants flourished, and the forest regained its strength in such a beautiful way.

It was impossible not to see a reflection of what we’re beginning here.

As we start caring for the future home of Harmala Temple, we’re approaching our land with that same spirit. We’re thoughtfully removing invasive species like African tulip, Christmas berry, and overgrown bamboo, taking time to listen to the land before deciding what comes next. Our hope is to create a place where people can gather, reconnect with nature, share nourishing meals, sing, move, pray, and remember together.

Watching this forest come back to life reminded us how much can change when people come together with patience, intention, and love. We’re so grateful to Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary for sharing their vision with the world and for reminding us that with enough care, even a landscape that has been altered for generations can flourish again.

We left feeling even more excited for what’s ahead and deeply committed to tending this little piece of Hawaiʻi with the same spirit of mālama ʻāina. 🌺

06/07/2026

🍊 First orange picked on the new property! 😍

We give thanks to our first orange tree in the South Bay who provided sooo much magic over the years.

The magic continues here on the big island. Let's give her a big squeeze! 😘

05/18/2026

🍊 Night two of gathering #70, our final gathering at our home temple in the South Bay, Los Angeles!

Here we come Kona, Hawaii next week and there to stay ~ a dream weaved into reality. 🌺

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