PEACE GARDEN
The Peace Garden serves our community in endless ways, supporting the mission of True Nature. It is a restorative and therapeutic environment, illustrating a variety of healing modalities that are open to the public seven days a week from dawn to dusk. We offer guided tours and garden workshops throughout the season which help to educate and strengthen connections between people and the plant world around us. The gardens demonstrate an intentional and holistic relationship with the land. Through organic and biodynamic gardening practices, we help to nurture a wide variety of native and adaptive plants alongside edible and medicinal herbs. Entrance to the garden is free, and donations are greatly appreciated to help support this community asset!
ZEN GARDEN
Sitting on top of the Kiva, the Zen Garden fosters both interactive and contemplative meditation with a winding path that surrounds a rake-able gravel garden. The Zen Garden also provides incredible views of the entire Peace Garden and surrounding landscape.
LABYRYINTH
Explore the serenity of moving meditation in the Peace Garden's Labyrinth wrought from hand-cut sandstone enveloped in Wooly Thyme and surrounded by Canada Red Chokecherry trees. Enter the sacred space with your intention. As you walk gently on Mother Earth, listen and receive from all that surrounds you and lies within. As you make it to the center, hold within your heart what has arisen — knowledge, insight, wisdom, and love. Then, as you work your way outwards, through the spiral, consider how you will share the gifts received on your journey of self-discovery.
REFLEXOLOGY PATH
Each organ and system of the body is accessed as you walk barefooted on the Reflexology Path's therapeutic mosaic of stones, all designed to massage and stimulate reflexology points. Designed with the help of an international expert and a host of talented landscape designers and artists, True Nature’s Reflexology Path is the only one in the world based on five elements of yoga philosophy. After you complete the walk, rub your kidneys vigorously and drink a full glass of water to flush the impurities released by this life enhancing experience.
WISHING TREE
The Wishing Tree serves as an interactive art project and a powerful way to communicate your intentions to the universe. Take a piece of the beautifully colored cloth that the Ganesha statue came packed in, write down your prayer and tie it to the Wishing Tree so that your thoughts and wishes may be carried to the source by the winds that blow. We also welcome offerings at a memorial for loved ones who have passed. Place your pictures and sacred objects on the large flat stone sitting under the Wishing Tree to honor their transition back to the light.
YOGA SPIRAL
Representing the Earth element, the outdoor Yoga Spiral offers room for 30 students to practice, surrounded by soft clover grass and a grounding concrete spiral. Join an outdoor class in the spiral or spend time with friends over a picnic lunch in the sensual surroundings. Enjoy the sounds of the brambling creek just to the east.
FIRE CIRCLE
Shaded by a reciprocal roof structure, surrounded by handmade earthen cob benches made of locally sourced materials (clay, sand, and straw), and covered in Tadelakt, an ancient Moroccan limestone plaster finish, the Fire Circle provides a place for live music, teaching, socializing, and connecting with the spirit of fire.
