Tepeyac Mountain Sanctuary
We co-create spaces where activists, artists, healers, warriors, builders, growers, and visionaries at the frontlines of resisting and surviving colonization can come together to rest, reflect, listen, learn, manifest, honor, and deepen our liberation practices.
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.
OUR WISDOM CIRCLE:
We are a growing circle of organizers, facilitators, farmers, builders, land project founders, and cultural workers! This circle is lending its support, networks, and expertise to our efforts.
LISTENING + LEARNING:
We are talking with people across NC to learn what sanctuary looks like when it is truly built by us for us.
SANCTUARY WHEREVER WE GATHER:
We are hosting healing retreats and gatherings as guests at other retreat centers and community spaces.
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:
We’re raising money for our events and for the land!
How we’re getting there…
Our Work
We work at the intersection of social justice movement work and an understanding of the impacts of personal, collective and ancestral trauma on our bodies, spirits, relationships, and collective imaginations. We believe in the value of being in communities of practice where we can be supported in our healing practices while also deepening our understanding of principled struggle.
We are bringing together our network of healers, facilitators, cultural workers, and spiritual practitioners and creating powerful spaces for people to rest, reflect, connect, practice and learn together what it means to be in right relationship with ourselves, with each other, with the Land, and with the ways we move towards liberation.
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Bridging BIPOC leaders and organizers with the City of Asheville in mapping climate vulnerability zones, defining climate justice strategies, and building equity capacity among city staff. Tepeyac also collaborated with Youth Artists Empowered to create a photo exhibit about climate justice in Asheville, NC that was featured in a gallery at the Asheville Arts Museum. Link here.
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Gathering land project founders across NC to build capacity around land acquisition and stewardship, organizational structures, funding models, disaster resilience hubs, and more.
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Distributing children’s library sets of trauma-informed, bilingual, and BIPOC centered books into our communities and classrooms to support families impacted by the devastation of Hurricane Helene. If you’d like to add a book to our library, please visit Firestorm Bookstore.
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Bringing therapists, cultural workers, educators, and trauma-informed facilitators together to hold space for communities through storytelling, somatics, and art therapy.
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Delivering Day of the Dead kits with candy, led candles, marigold craft supplies, and pan de muerto for families to have supplies to honor their ancestors
What we’re doing
Support Us
Support us in deepening our community of practice and building sanctuary spaces that are created by us for us!
