Wild Grace Community

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About the Community

  • Established
  • Rural

What we do

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.

Our Vision

We join together to allow the flowering of the Divine in ourselves, each other, and our larger community to co-create with Spirit, embracing our humanity, and with our feet on the Earth.

Our Mission

We join together to allow the flowering of the Divine in ourselves, each other, and our larger community to co-create with Spirit, embracing our humanity, and with our feet on the Earth.

  • Community type
  • Ecovillage
  • Spiritual Retreat Centers
  • 4 Total members
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
  • Open to volunteers
Total
4

How to join

We are looking for three or four new core members who feel deeply aligned with our Vision Statement and have the passion, creativity, energy, and soulfulness to help co-create a strong container of support for each other and for our larger community, hosting regular meditations, gatherings, working in the gardens and on the land to maintain a beautiful environment. After you have been through the visitor process, if we feel a strong mutual resonance we welcome prospective members to come for some time. We do a one month heart review to see how it is going for all of us. If it continues to feel right then there is a three month mutual heart review, then again at six months, and after one year one can request to become a permanent member.

Basic expectations or agreements for members

Please look at our website and if your heart sings with what you are seeing and reading then please email [email protected] with  your interest in community. We love connecting with other like-minded souls.

Primary decision-making authority

  • Small Leadership Group

A few people (not elected by the broader community) make the major decisions.

Governance structure

  • Collaborative/Horizontal

Power and responsibility are shared relatively equally among members.

Economic model

  • Independent Finances

Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.

Economic scenarios for this community

  • Members need to pay fees, dues, or similar to live there on a per month or per year basis
  • There is a labor obligation
  • Members typically need to have their own job or other personal source of income to cover their expenses while living in the community?

Additional economic information

Monthly fees/dues: $1200
Labor required: 3 hours/week
Members with pre-existing debt: Yes (some debt)
People who come need to have some source of income to support themselves, to pay for their housing and other living expenses. Our average housing costs are $1100 per month plus the cost of propane and internet.

Shared resources and amenities that are accessible to everyone in the community

Garden(s), Greenhouse(s), Outbuilding(s), Swimming pond or pool, Hot tub or hot springs, Tractor & Farm Equipment, Fire pit, Recreational vehicles, Internet

Frequency of communal meals

  • 2-5 times per week

Substance use culture

  • Substance use occurs primarily at celebrations or ceremonies
  • Religions
  • Christian
  • Buddhist
  • Hindu
  • Quaker
  • Native
  • Wiccan, Paganism, or Earth Religions

Property status

  • Privately owned

Property owner

  • By a single individual, couple, or Family Trust

Setting

  • Rural

Countryside locations with significant distance from urban centers.

Self-produced energy

  • Over 66%

Energy sources used

  • Photovoltaic Solar

Self-produced food

  • 33 - 66%
  • Land area size
    80 acres

Reviews

Location

  • California, United States

Wild Grace Community

Promoted Needs and Offers

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6 months ago

Join us in the mountains of Western North Carolina

Coweeta Heritage Center/Talking Rock Farm is located in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Coweeta is located in a beautiful and diverse temperate rain forest. It feels very remote here yet we are just 12 miles from Franklin, NC. Winters can be mild. Coweeta is blessed with springs and a stream, pristine forests, and abundant wildlife. Power is provided by a hydro-electric system which is not connected to the grid. An organic garden and trout pond provide healthy food that is also shared with the local community. Hiking, kayaking, and other outdoor activities are just out the back door. Coweeta is looking for others who would like to join together to form an Intentional Community embracing the principles of Voluntary Simplicity. Simply put (no pun intended): We wish “to live simply so that others may simply live.” It is a recognition that nature provides us with valuable services and resources that we can use to enrich our lives. Utilizing local resources, appropriate technology, and working cooperatively, we can discover creative ways to meet our needs as “directly and simply as possible.”. An example of this, in the tradition of many Indigenous People”, is to gather, and use wildcrafted foods as part of our diet. There is great joy in going to nature’s grocery for our sustenance. Voluntary Simplicity is based on the recognition that “very little is needed to live well” and that “abundance is a state of mind.” Living lower on the economic ladder allows us more time and freedom to pursue other life goals: community and social engagement, family time, artistic or intellectual projects, more fulfilling employment, political participation, sustainable living, spiritual exploration, and more. According to the Voluntary Collective, “The grounding assumption of Voluntary Simplicity is that all human beings have the potential to live meaningful, free, happy and infinitely diverse lives while consuming no more than an equitable share of (the world’s) resources.” We affirm the need for a work/life balance, the right to a healthy environment and healthy food, and healthy community relationships supporting a diverse population. It is our responsibility as engineers of a new generation to make the changes that we want to see happen and pass this on to the next generations. We can’t wait for someone else to do this important work. Voluntary Simplicity is a quiet revolution that can change the world. As one person said, “we must be poets of our own lives and of a new generation.” We hope you will join us here at Coweeta or elsewhere on our journey to a healthier and more sustainable future! Temporary housing is available in a 27 foot trailer trailer with attached deck next to a creek while we build additional housing. Your basic living expenses (shelter, basic food items, power and water) are met through our market garden or other fundraising projects that you will participate in. You are expected to contribute a given amount of your time and energy to help grow our community and meet our financial obligations. Possible future plans include establishing a retreat center for healing our earth and each other. Work includes organic gardening, construction projects and other community building activities. Come join Coweeta and learn how to live lightly on the land and enjoy the Earth’s bounty! For more information, visit www.coweetaheritagecenter.com Contact [email protected] for a visit or more info.  Paul
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