Welcome to the Groves!
Sacred Groves is a ten acre forest sanctuary, home to a small residential community living in harmony with each other, nature and spirit. We welcome guests and clients to the land for rituals, healing work, music, learning, prayer and retreat time in the woods. It is a place to deepen your relationship with Mother Earth and your personal spirituality, a place for ceremony and a sense of connection. We offer sweatlodges, season's change rituals, grief-work, a monthly drum circle and Women's Moon Ceremony. Women's Mysteries School events are geared especially towards women's healing and empowerment. We invite you to meet us and tour the land during our regular Open Houses and Workparties.
Sacred Groves is not affiliated with any particular religion. The events here include elements of ritual from earth-based spiritual traditions in North America, Africa and pre-Christian Europe. They have also been inspired by mentors like Sobonfu Some, Joanna Macy, Starhawk, inspired by personal meditation practices, and co-creative experiences in drumming and ritual groups. We welcome people from all races and cultures who share our beliefs that the earth is sacred and that music, dance, prayer, ceremony, and time in the natural world are essential for personal and community health.
Activities at Sacred Groves occur in the natural setting of 10 acres of Pacific Northwest rainforest on Bainbridge Island, a 30 minute ferry ride from downtown Seattle. Sacred Groves is a small wilderness park where you can feel the sacredness of the earth. It's a place to settle into the quiet, listen to the birds, watch the trees sway in the wind, re-establish connection with God, Goddess, Great Spirit, Great Mystery or whatever it is you call that ineffable power that underlies all of life.
Services and events are listed in the menu to the right, so you can navigate the entire site from any page.
Current Events
Signs of spring are everywhere these days and new life is coming to the Groves in a variety of ways. Our new Round House passed its final inspection on April 1st and Therese and Tere have moved in. The Log House is being readied for its new residents and the yurtlettes will be ready in early June. We are happily settling, with a sense of anticipation about the mysterious new Groves'mates who we are calling in to share this amazing community and land with us. For more info about living here, read the "Living Here" webpage listed to the right.
Don't forget to step away from your computer and get outdoors to breathe the fragrance of the fresh spring air, feel the stirrings of spring on the earth and in your heart. AND if you're feeling dis-connected from nature and spirit, DO come visit us here in the Groves to revitalize yourself! You are welcome.
