If you go to Mana Loli hoping to experience some insubstantial novelty, some brief and shallow escape before going back to your life, then that is all you will find waiting for you. So if you go there, I encourage you to actually show up.
The Mana Loli Sanctuary truly is a place of good vibrations. My stay was impromptu and too short: I wish to return with more intent. It's a shame my stay and Ryan's personal backpacking trip overlapped: I only met him for a brief moment the morning I left, but it was a good meeting.
Even my narrow experience of this place, as a place to eat and sleep out of the rain for a few days, was wonderfully restorative. At Mana Loli, I felt..grounded, in ways I rarely get to experience in my life as a contemporary knowledge worker, spending my days pushing pixels around on a screen, lost in thought, connected to everyone but those around me. I left with a change of mind; I hope you do, too.