COMMUNITY
THE ART OF COMING TOGETHER
Ways to Come Together
CONNECT, MOVE, EXPLORE
COMMUNITY GATHERINGS & PRACTICE
Informal and intentional spaces to gather through movement, InterPlay, ritual, conversation, shared meals, and collective practice.
Some gatherings are playful and spontaneous. Others invite deeper reflection, exploration, or connection. Each offers an opportunity to step outside familiar routines and discover what becomes possible in community.
GO DEEPER TOGETHER
RETREATS & IMMERSIONS
Some of the most valuable professional learning happens when practitioners come together to explore questions, share experiences, and experiment with new ways of working.
I design and facilitate experiential workshops and practice groups that integrate dialogue, movement, reflection, and collaborative learning.
These gatherings create opportunities to strengthen facilitation skills, explore group dynamics, practice working with conflict, and expand the range of approaches available in your professional work.
A LIVING COMMUNITY IN NORTH CAROLINA
MOYA
Nestled in the mountains of North Carolina, Moya is a place-based community where movement, ritual, play, shared meals, contemplative practice, and everyday relationships come together.
More than a retreat space, Moya is an ongoing experiment in living community — exploring belonging, restorative relationships, collective care, and what it means to grow together.
Why We Gather
Life offers fewer and fewer spaces where people can simply come together without needing to accomplish something, perform a role, or become a better version of themselves.
So much of daily life is organized around productivity, responsibility, and individual achievement. Even personal growth can become something we pursue alone.
Community offers something different.
Through movement, conversation, ritual, shared meals, creativity, and play, people discover ways of relating that aren't always available in ordinary life.
We gather to…
Experience Belonging
Create spaces where people can arrive as they are, encounter difference, and develop genuine relationships over time.
Move, Play & Create
Rediscover spontaneity, imagination, and the intelligence that emerges when people learn and explore together.
Practice Being in Relationship
Develop the capacity to listen, communicate, navigate differences, and remain connected through the complexities of community life.
Make Space for Ritual & Reflection
Mark transitions, honor what matters, and create shared experiences that connect everyday life with deeper meaning.
Reconnect With Land & Place
Remember that community extends beyond human relationships to include the places and ecosystems that sustain life.
Discover What's Possible Together
Experience the creativity, learning, and unexpected possibilities that emerge when people bring their different gifts into a shared space.
The Art of Creating Community
the sacred practice of community
Community doesn't happen simply because people gather in the same place. It emerges through the relationships, experiences, and shared practices that develop between them.
For more than two decades, I've been exploring how to create spaces where people can connect beyond their usual roles, discover capacities they didn't know they had, and experience new ways of being together.
My approach brings together embodied learning, InterPlay, contemplative practice, ritual, creativity, and restorative processes. Sometimes we move and play. Sometimes we sit in silence, share stories, navigate differences, or tend to something difficult together.
I pay particular attention to the conditions that allow genuine participation to emerge — where people feel invited but not pressured, where difference is welcomed without pretending it is always easy, and where structure supports spontaneity rather than controlling it.
These gatherings aren't about everyone having the same experience or arriving at the same understanding. They're opportunities to practice curiosity, presence, mutual responsibility, and the art of being in relationship.
Whether we're together for an afternoon, a weekend retreat, or through the ongoing life of a community like Moya, the invitation is the same:
To discover what becomes possible when we create something together that none of us could create alone.
CONNECT, MOVE, EXPLORE
COMMUNITY GATHERINGS & PRACTICE
Some of the most meaningful experiences happen when people come together simply to share space, explore, and connect.
I create and facilitate gatherings that invite people to move, play, reflect, share stories, explore ideas, and discover new ways of being together.
These experiences take many forms — InterPlay, movement and improvisation, contemplative practice, seasonal rituals, community conversations, creative exploration, and shared celebrations.
Some are playful and spontaneous. Others make space for grief, transition, difficult questions, or deeper reflection. Each gathering has its own character, shaped by the people who participate and what emerges between us.
Offerings take place online, at Moya, and in collaboration with communities in other locations.
Come as you are. Participate in the ways that feel right for you. Discover what becomes possible together.
UPCOMING GATHERINGS
THE WORLD IS STILL HERE: AN ELECTION DAY NERVOUS SYSTEM RESET
This program will be recorded. Register to receive the recording.
An hour of gentle movement, play and connection to move through the uncertainty of election night with greater steadiness
tuesday nov 3, 2026
location: online
6:00-7:00 pm
price: free
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https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/QUbV-rXKTNiuOqvcQMW7lQ
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
INTRODUCTION TO ANCESTRAL LINEAGE HEALING
monday nov 9, 2026
location: online
6:00-7:00 pm
price: free
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https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/QUbV-rXKTNiuOqvcQMW7lQ
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HOW TO CREATE COMMUNITY
thursday nov 12, 2026
location: online
6:00-7:00 pm
price: free
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https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/3_Xqg0PmTYKZxswaW7VNnQ
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
A LIVING COMMUNITY IN NORTH CAROLINA
Moya – A Place to Belong, Practice & Grow Together
Moya is a land-based community in Todd, North Carolina, where movement, stillness, ritual, play, and shared life come together.
Rooted in the belief that healing and belonging are relational, Moya creates space for people of different backgrounds, generations, and experiences to gather, learn from one another, and explore what it means to live in community.
Our gatherings weave together InterPlay, movement, contemplative practice, seasonal celebrations, shared meals, creative expression, and time on the land.
But Moya is more than a place where events happen.
It's a living experiment in community — where we practice welcoming difference, navigating conflict, sharing responsibility, tending relationships, and caring for the land that holds us.
Some gatherings are joyful and playful. Others make room for grief, reflection, difficult conversations, and repair. All are part of learning to be in relationship.
At Moya, community isn't something we consume. It's something we create and tend together.
LIFE AT MOYA
BE PART OF MOYA
Moya welcomes people who are curious about community, embodied practice, and creating meaningful relationships with one another and the land.
Whether you join us for a gathering, participate in a retreat, lend a hand with the land, or become part of our ongoing community life, there are many ways to connect.
Support Moya
Every gift — whether $10 or $1,000 — helps root this vision in the soil. By giving, you are not just funding events. You are helping to grow a living sanctuary where healing, justice, and play come together. Together, we are tending the ground for a future where belonging and repair are possible.
Retreat & Immersions
Coming Soon…
Interfaith Work
Interfaith dialogue has been part of my path for over a decade. Through this work, I’ve deepened my own traditions while learning across spiritual lineages, cultures, and ways of understanding the sacred.
I’ve participated in interfaith panels, spoke at the Parliament of World Religions, and taken part in a Buddhist-Catholic dialogue with Pope Francis in Rome.
At its heart, this work is about relationship—learning how to remain rooted in our traditions while meeting one another with curiosity, humility, and care.
Communities of Practice
My work is shaped through ongoing participation in communities of practice - spaces of movement, contemplation, restorative justice, ritual, embodiment, and relational learning.
These communities I continue to practice with, learn from, and grow alongside.
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Interplay is community of people around the world who bring play, song, story, and dance into facilitated spaces and to everyday life.
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Ancestral Medicine is an organization and community that focuses on ancestral lineage healing and the elevation of the dead amongst the community’s blood and family lineages.
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The Whispering Waters Sangha is inter-Buddhist sangha made up of people from various Buddhist traditions.
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The High Country Movement Collective is a community of people living in the High Country of North Carolina who practice Ecstatic dance, Interplay and other body related movemt modalities.
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Venerable Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche (1938-2010) and Venerable Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche established the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center (PBC) in 1989 to preserve the authentic message of Buddha Shakyamuni and Guru Padmasambhava in its entirety, and in particular to teach the traditions of the Nyingma school and Vajrayana Buddhism. PBC includes over 20 centers in the U.S.A., India, Puerto Rico, Latvia, and Russia, as well as monastic institutions in India, the U.S.A., and Russia.
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Just Practice Collaborative exists to build our communities’ capacity to effectively and empathically respond to intimate partner violence, sexual assault and crisis without relying primarily on police or other state-based systems. We offer care work, mentoring, practice spaces and think through structures of support for abolitionist organizers and facilitators of restorative and transformative justice processes and organizers who are building non-carceral and non-police crisis response teams around the country.
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Founded in 2011 by Molly Rowan Leach, Restorative Justice on The Rise has grown into a global virtual network and community of practitioners, academics, students, teachers, and citizens who are daily amplifying the movement within and beyond restorative justice.
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The fields are four different aspects of existence that are happening all the time:
1. An ecological field (Mossrock)
2. A psychological field (Wildfire)
3. An awareness field (Lit Ocean)
4. An ontological field (Space)
All four cohere together like an ecosystem.
They form the context for a contemplative life rooted in the living and dying earth. This includes our emotional states, our sensitive bodies, the cultures, economies, and politics that participate in and ravage the earth—like the mine that you see slowly being reclaimed by moss in the background.