Tepeyac Mountain Sanctuary
…is building a movement center on 35 acres in the foothills of Western North Carolina.
We imagine a place where the dreamers, builders, leaders, artists, healers, growers, and menders of the liberation movement can gather. Where we can let our tears flow downstream and sing our song to the oak trees. Where our children can run through the meadow and our elders can nap on the farmhouse’s wrap-around porch. Where we can strategize and organize, share resources and wisdom.
Abrazado por las montañas, a Sanctuary from the Storm.
The first step an organization takes sets the pace of its journey, and so ours is to make our farmhouse ADA accessible.
As of August 2026, we are seeking contractors, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, landscapers with experience in grading accessible pathways, and people with access to construction materials or tools.
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Step 1:
Accessibility
The Land
In April 2026, Tepeyac Mountain Sanctuary purchased a 35-acre farm in the foothills of Western North Carolina. The property includes a farmhouse, a tiny home, pasture, forest, fresh water, and space to grow food, gather, rest, and build.
Today, eight volunteer stewards are laying the foundation for what this place can become: a land-based sanctuary for healing, cultural organizing, movement building, and resilience. We are beginning with the practical work of getting acquainted with the land, making the farmhouse accessible, building the systems needed to welcome people safely, and developing a model of shared stewardship rooted in reciprocity, belonging, and collective care.
Over time, we envision the Land as a place where people can come together for retreats, workshops, strategy sessions, celebrations, cultural gatherings, mutual aid, and rest—and where our wider community can build an ongoing relationship with the place itself.
Our Four Pillars
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Creating opportunities for people carrying the weight of movement work, oppression, trauma, and caretaking to rest, heal, reconnect with their bodies and spirits, and practice healing in community.
Healing Justice includes healing circles, trauma and resilience education, peer support, coaching, bodywork, breathwork, sound, equine work, and other healing practices.
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Using art, story, memory, ritual, play, and cultural practice to gather people, strengthen belonging, preserve what matters, and expand our collective imagination.
Our Children’s Liberation Library is one expression of this work. Over time, we hope to grow an Ancestors’ Archive Library that can help preserve and protect movement histories and knowledge.
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Strengthening the relationships, skills, strategy, and coordination that allow communities to organize together for liberation.
This includes coalition building, mutual aid, political education, community defense, regional strategy, and creating spaces where organizers can learn from and support one another.
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Informed by our experience organizing through the COVD-19 Pandemic and Hurricane Helene, resilience includes the practical skills, relationships, infrastructure, and local capacity our communities need to care for one another through disasters, displacement, political threats, and other disruptions.
That means shoring up access to food, water, shelter, medicine, energy, mutual aid, emergency response, and the knowledge required to meet more of our needs together.
Our Work
We work at the intersection of social justice movement work and an understanding of how personal, collective, and ancestral trauma shapes our bodies, spirits, relationships, and collective imaginations.
We bring together healers, facilitators, cultural workers, spiritual practitioners, organizers, artists, and others committed to liberation to create communities of practice where we can rest, reflect, connect, heal, learn, and deepen our understanding of principled struggle.
Through gatherings on the Land and throughout our wider community, we practice what it means to be in right relationship with ourselves, with one another, with the Land, and with the ways we move toward liberation.
Our Vision
We dream of walking by glowing yurts dedicated to our elders and their activism, art, healing, and leadership. We dream of firelit circles and voices lifted in song and prayer on our way to ceremony. We dream of our youth arriving courageous and curious to the land only to be greeted by folks like them teaching, building, growing, making, and welcoming them in. We dream of an exchange of our cultural traditions, spiritual medicine and the resilience we have found through preserving these traditions. We dream of our families and communities having a place to be held in their grief and celebration. We dream of a place that feels like belonging; like it was built by us and for us. We dream of a place that feels like healing in our intentional solitude and in community. We dream of Tepeyac Mountain Sanctuary. And while we walk this path of finding a sanctuary in these Blue Ridge Mountains, we are committed to creating and resourcing spaces where we can create sanctuary in each other.
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Tepeyac Mountain Sanctuary is grateful to our fiscal sponsors, Asheville Creative Arts, and to everyone moved to support our effort to build Sanctuary.