Wild Grace Community

We are in a time of great transformation on our planet, a time of co-creation with Spirit for the creation of the New. Darkness is being brought to light. Old structures are being reshaped and aligned with Spirit. We join together in community to love, serve, and remember. We join together in community to benefit all that we cherish.

Wild Grace provides a haven for an intimate group/sangha to focus on deepening in spiritual practice, authentic relating, stewarding this sacred land, and serving our collective expansion of consciousness as we foster and transmit love, tenderness, and compassion. We are dedicated to life-long learning of the skills needed to communicate, heal, and live fully together in Love, Oneness, and Presence. We invite a leader-full community in which everyone brings forth their gifts and shares in the responsibility of co-creating community—thinking like a village.

The seed of community was planted at Wild Grace over a decade ago when several families moved onto adjacent undeveloped land. Now it is growing as something both social and sacred with the intent to more intimately weave our lives together and co-create a conscious eco-spiritual community. The vision for our community was received in the summer of 2020 and nine people responded. We call our community adventure Wild Grace Community.

We are located on 80 acres overlooking the wild and scenic South Yuba River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas in Northern California. A 1300 sq.ft. two-bedroom, two bath, plus office home was recently completed along with other living spaces for singles or couples. All residents have a source of income for living expenses including rent. In our recently completed temple we have daily meditations, weekly dance classes, musical gatherings, inspirational sharings, and seasonal ceremonies. Currently we come together twice weekly for meals, meditations six mornings each week, weekly heart circles where we practice authentic relating, work in the garden and orchard, and hosting potlucks and kirtans for the larger community.

At the center of each of our lives is deep listening to Spirit although it takes many expressions. We draw from many inspirational sources including A Course of Love, Choose Only Love, Thomas Huebl, Terry Patten, Eckhart Tolle, Thich Nhat Hahn, Yogananda, Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, and Francis Weller. Some community members have lived in intentional spiritual community, including Ananda Village.

We join in community to realize our potential. With open hearts we practice with different ways of creating compassionate union and relationship as we stay fluid and discover what works best. We make use of structure but seek to hold it neither too tightly nor too loosely. We are blessed to have each other as we learn to be more authentic and mindful. And we are willing to embrace the messiness that sometimes arises with transformation.

We listen to the whispers of our individual and collective souls and the soul of Earth. We embrace both the transcendental and human aspects of the Divine. As our collective suffering is held in a communal container it opens us to the flow of grace. We are deepened as we embrace both grief and gratitude. We practice loving kindness and tenderness in response to our own and other’s suffering. This is our deep and continual practice.