Holistic Retreat, Respite, and Community Wellness Center
“Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect, and trust” -bell hooks
The right to live is more than the need for survival. It’s the need to find safety and comfort in your surroundings. The need to connect to land and others in a culturally appropriate way. It’s the need to give and feel love as a practice of care. To meet this need to must meet each other well and with intention. And of course, we must do this with the land.
Wellspring Mountain is a beautiful nature preserve, retreat and educational center located 10 minutes from the Blue Ridge Parkway in Lowgap, NC. It has been supporting the well-being of people at a holistic level for nearly ten years. The project has been the home for a variety of events including holistic healing educational classes, primitive skills classes, and health retreats.
However, the stewards of this land are in need of larger community support in order to build resilience into this project of healing in a way that can sustain us through challenging times ahead. It is our mission to not only continue the work of healing people and their relationship to land but to support the sustainable unfurling of this space into a place of respite, sanctuary, care, and learning.
Infrastructure and Respite
Wellspring Mountain has been lovingly maintained by a skeleton crew of individuals over the course of ten years. Native medicinal plants have been seeded and encouraged to flourish in order to support the herbalism lab, trails have been encouraged to grow and maintained by the lands’ stewards, and structures and roads have been shaped to host learners, artists, and healers in a way that feeds their relationship to the natural world. However, the work is more than just a handful of us can do!
We are excited to create healing spaces for people who desperately need it, but we need help in getting the structures on the beautiful property back to a comfortable and safe standard.
