Mandala Springs
A junkyard remediated into living land. Founded 2017.
Mandala Springs is a 67-acre regenerative ecovillage and USDA-certified-organic forest farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains, founded in 2017: bordered on three sides by Pisgah National Forest, with forty-three natural springs, built where a junk pile and abandoned land used to be.
What it is
An ecovillage, not a retreat center: a living example of land-based livelihood where food, water, ceremony, membership, and community run as one regenerative system. Since 2017, the work of turning depleted ground into soil, shelter, springs, and a home for the practice.
Come for
- Retreats, ceremony, and seasonal gatherings on the land
- A USDA-certified-organic wild perennial forest farm brought back to life
- Membership and community rooted in a real place
Where it comes from
- 67 acres bordered on three sides by Pisgah National Forest, with forty-three natural springs
- USDA-certified-organic forest farm (via CCOF); a Private Membership Association
- Home of the in-person Convergence Method: breathwork, cold, and ceremony
Where is it?
445 Stoney Fork Road, Barnardsville, North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, near Asheville.
How do I visit or attend?
Mandala Springs is a private membership community. See the living calendar at mandalasprings.com, or book a discovery call to find your way in.
What is grown there?
A USDA-certified-organic wild perennial forest farm: wild Appalachian botanicals like chaga, hemlock reishi, and wood betony, which go into Mandala Naturals. (The cacao itself is single-origin from Belize.)
What is on the land?
An ecovillage and forest farm: the Emerald Oasis campground, organic market, and Zen lounge; a community sauna and cold plunge ($10 drop-in, $70 a month); hiking into Pisgah National Forest on three sides; and gatherings, ceremonies, and celebrations through the year.
Related reading
The land is the operating system
At Mandala Springs, place, food, and community are the ground the whole practice stands on, not a backdrop to it.
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Mandala Springs is where the same laws that govern a body govern a watershed. Restore the baseline, and life returns.
Read →A junkyard remediated into living land. Founded 2017.
From the field
Field notes from the convergence.
What the work is teaching as it happens: the nervous system, the land, music made in real time, and first word on what is opening next.