Bring your work here

Groups and Circles

For retreat leaders, circle keepers, and facilitators of every honest kind.

Grief circles. Men's and women's work. Council. Somatic and movement work. Writing retreats. Teacher trainings. Any gathering of up to fifteen people who need privacy, beauty, and a container that holds.

The plateau gives you the infrastructure: kitchen, bathhouse, fire, sheltered teaching space, and camping under the trees. The terraces give you breakout and solo space. The yurt gives you a dedicated ceremony and session room away from camp. Your people cook together, sit around one fire, and sleep in the forest. That alone does half your facilitation for you.

One to One

For therapists, counselors, coaches, and guides who work with one person at a time.

Some work does not fit in fifty minutes. When a client is at a true threshold, a divorce, a diagnosis, a death, a decision, two or three days on the land will move what months of sessions have been circling.

You and your person get the entire nine acres. Session in the yurt by the stream in the morning. A long silent walk on the terraces in the afternoon. Dinner cooked together on the plateau. Fire at night. There is no one else here. The privacy is complete, and for this kind of work, privacy is not a luxury, it is the method.

And if being both guide and camp cook would split your attention, the steward can quietly carry the logistics: fire laid, kitchen stocked, meals handled, so that for two or three days you never once step out of the work. Many practitioners want the land entirely to themselves. Some want this. Both are how it's meant to be used.

Wilderness Rites

For guides of wandering, fasting, and solo time.

If you guide wilderness rites, you know the problem: the wild places have no base camp, and the base camps have no wild places. This land solves it. A provisioned, comfortable camp, running water, hot shower, kitchen, fire, that steps down through quiet terraces into hundreds of acres of undeveloped forest bordering Big Basin.

Stage and prepare your people on the plateau. Send them out from the yurt across the stream. Hold base while they are on the land. Receive them back to warmth, food, and fire when they return. The severance, the threshold, and the return, all on one piece of ground you can actually hold.

You also know the other problem: while your people are out, someone has to keep base camp alive. If you want it, the steward serves that role, tending fire, water, and kitchen so that base is warm and ready the moment someone comes off the land, and you are free to stay with the ones still out. Your program, your protocols, your call. He keeps the camp.

Ceremony

For those who lead ritual and ceremonial work in its many honest forms.

Ceremony asks for land that is undisturbed, private, and cared for. This land is all three. The fire pit, the yurt, the stream, and the forest itself have all held ceremony, and the seclusion here is real: no neighbors, no through-traffic, no audience.

We don't need to know the details of your tradition to welcome you, but we do want to know you. Every ceremonial use of the land begins with a conversation and a walk. If your work is done with integrity and care for the people in your circle, you will find this an easy conversation.

Rest

For practitioners themselves.

The people who hold everyone else rarely have anywhere to put it down. If you are a therapist, guide, chaplain, or healer who needs days of silence with no one to hold, come alone. The land works on the people who work.