Jaymie Friesen started Azhen Sanctuary because modern society is taking a toll on our health and he believes there is a better way to live.
Before creating Azhen Sanctuary, Jaymie Frisen says “we were stressed out about money, we couldn’t afford a home near the city, we’re facing environmental issues no generation before ever has, and with everything going on in the world right now we felt the need to be self-sufficient.”
Mental and chronic illness is doubling every generation. Millennials are the first generation with a shorter life expectancy than their parents.
Home ownership is becoming a distant dream. 73% of people ages 25-40 want a home but can’t afford it.
Extreme weather events have tripled in the last 50 years.
Monocropping and chemical farming is degrading our soil health, and our food is directly sprayed with toxins, with little after-thought for how it affects our health.
Let alone the fear, stress and social divide that’s spread on mainstream media over the last few years. What a crazy time to be alive. Many people see these broken systems and want to do something about it. But what can we do? How can we do better?
How Azhen Sanctuary’s ‘Living The Off Grid Dream’ Program Helps Everyone Live Well
Humans are meant to be living with nature, in small communities where we can relate to one another, and touch the soil that produces our food.
This connected life supplies us with mental, emotional, physical, spiritual and social well-being. Nature is proven and widely known to improve attention, lower stress, better moods, reduce risk of psychiatric disorders and even to increase empathy and cooperation – all things humanity desperately needs.
Luckily, an overwhelming amount of people are conscious of these things and yearn to develop the skills to live this way, but there’s usually some main things blocking them from achieving it.
“Good people fly in from all over the world to come here and learn. Many of them have applicable backgrounds, but what’s lacking most is the financial, real estate and business knowledge,” Jaymie Friesen comments.
In order to live this way, people need the land in the first place. That’s exactly what Azhen Sanctuary’s Live The Off-Grid Dream Program helps with.
Jaymie Friesen and his brother Shelby started with no money and no land, but with their business backgrounds they knew that if they demonstrated how they would improve the land value that someone would buy land for them so they could begin living a healthy, connected lifestyle and end their financial stress.
Afterall, a lot of people want to live this way for all the reasons above, and many are willing to help for the sake of a better society for themselves, their families, and future generations.
The program goes over a lot more than just how to find funding for land. It also covers how to assess the land to make sure it’s right for you, how to design it, creating a plan and strategy for success, growing food, having caretakers to help build and manage, and creating an economic engine on the land that produces cash flow so you can enjoy life and quit your day job.
Azhen Sanctuary’s Programs Get “Life-Changing” Reviews
After their first year offering educational programs, the Friesen brothers have a variety of case studies of people that started with nothing and purchased land and created living opportunities just like this for many others within a few months of taking the program.
And countless reviews of how the information in Azhen’s courses has changed peoples lives.
Jaymie Friesen is a big believer and practitioner of everything related to mind, body and soul and says “ironically, though I would rather do nothing more than meditate on top of our mountain all day, life has had a habit of bringing me back to my knowledge in the financial and business realm of life. So I take it as my path to educate others. In the modern world, it is equally as important to have a good relationship with money and strategies to live well. Most people are blown away by what opportunities are available to them. Many leave here crying tears of joy.”
Having a place to call home, where you can grow your own food, live with good like-minded people, and be financially stable, is not too much to ask for.
It’s what the world needs more of right now and something everyone deserves.
If more people did this we could regenerate the world’s soil in one generation and eradicate many of today’s health challenges.
Azhen Sanctuary offers opportunities to visit on HipCamp, or learn more at their website.