Healing Sanctuary

Healing sanctuary is a retreat center, but also serves our community as a re-creative and learning resource. It is a place to retreat and a place to learn and practice activities such as toning, chanting, intention process, communication models, yoga and meditation, music and sound.

Harmony & Health envisions a place where community residents, friends, and guests, can retreat, relax, rest, and rejuvenate.

Potential activities include retreat hosting, conferences, meetings, workshops, and sustainability projects.

On these 8.4 acres we envision a “center” with a space able to accommodate groups. This building would also have an attached kitchen with showers/toilets/bath house, and up to four multipurpose rooms for office, smaller meetings, or lodging. Also on the property a secondary smaller caretaker lodging having living space, kitchen, bathroom, and 2 or 3 bedrooms. Scattered about the property perhaps six smaller simple structures (<200ft sq.) to be used for purposes such as meditation, massage, or small group workshops.

There will also be: a harmonic sauna intended for healing with sound, light, and heat, a solar heated hot tub, a small swimming pool, gardens, fruit tree groves, and greenhouses with possible hydroponic gardens. Parking will be along Sacred Earth Way.

Dancing and song are very healing and many people who cannot open themselves to celebration are unable to connect to their deeper inner nature. Accordingly, Harmony and Health Foundation takes a celebratory approach to everyday life and to all of our activities.

We sponsor events with speakers, healers and shamans that share this celebratory approach to life. Upcoming events include a partnership series with the Tucson Food Conspiracy Co-Op centering on growth and healing of the person, the environment, and of society. This kind of holistic approach which includes all levels, personal, social, environmental, and cosmic, is characteristic of our healing attitude.

We always encourage everyone to take a miraculous attitude to life and healing. Attitude is everything in healing and wellness. We believe that there are many ways of healing that go beyond the modern approaches of western medicine and that focus on the causes of sickness and attempt to treat those causes. Modern medicine focuses too much on treating the symptoms and on symptomatic relief and although essential, symptomatic relief alone is not enough and often disguises the causes. A good example is the legions of Americans who take some kind of medication for gastric distress. Gulping down medications without considering the causes of gastric upset ignores the deeper problem. This is not our approach. We subscribe to the healing practices of people like Andrew Weil and Lewis Mehl-Madrona