WHOLEFAM SANCTUARIES

Explore Current Properties & Participation Options

Whether you’re drawn to hands-on healing, regenerative farming, animal care, the healing arts, pastoral care, or community music, each location invites you to serve locally—or contribute your voice to the wider WHOLEFAM Advisory Board across sanctuaries. Here are some of the sanctuaries currently underway where your participation is welcome.

San Diego, CA: Women’s Restoration and Animal Sanctuary

Status: Accepting Founding Circle Members, Target Opening 2026
Target Budget: $1.5M | Operating: $150K/year
Capacity: 12–39 Residents
Focus Areas:

• Women’s drop-in and residential self-healing sanctuary
• Hands-on healing through Thai massage, pilates, yoga, and qi gong
• Animal sanctuary services under the guidance of proven models (Gentle Barn / Best Friends)
• Self-sufficient land stewardship and skill-sharing
• Year-round mild climate and accessible to San Diego

A luminous oasis in Southern California’s chaparral belt, this semi-rural sanctuary offers refuge and regeneration for women seeking stillness, movement, and a sense of meaning. With a fully integrated self-healing ecosystem—including trauma-informed bodywork, nature immersion, and animal companionship—this site invites a new model of matriarchal wellbeing just an hour from downtown San Diego.

Central Michigan Sanctuary – Heartland Homestead

Status: Property selection, founding circle remains open
Target Budget: $500K
Acreage: 5 acres
Focus Areas:

• Large animal care & pasture-based healing
• Demonstration homestead for matriarchal self-sufficiency
• Slow living, water-rich land, and seasonal beauty

Nestled in a quiet lakes region with open skies and generous land, our Michigan sanctuary is designed to offer a working homestead for women seeking simplicity, stewardship, and grounded community in relationship to the soil. With space for large animals and hands-on seasonal living, it’s an ideal training and restoration center for women returning to the wisdom of earth-based rhythms.

Vancouver, WA / Portland All-Gender Sanctuary

Status: Founding Members Committed, Initial Site Selection
Target Budget: $850K
Acreage: 5 acres
Focus Areas:

• Gentle land stewardship & self-sufficient urban-edge resilience
• Fully co-ed facility under matriarchal leadership
• Operated in cooperation with No Rank Zen Center
• Kriya Yoga instruction from local advisory elders
• Includes both residential and retreat capacity

Rooted in the still forests of the Pacific Northwest and supported by beloved circle members in Portland’s thriving community of matriarchs, this co-ed sanctuary cultivates a rhythm of quiet presence, food-growing simplicity, and spiritual devotion. With kriya yoga, Zen alignment, and land-sharing models already underway, this property anchors a unique interfaith experiment in co-stewarded peace.

Northern California Sanctuary

Status: Location Finalizing with Founding Circle (Between Mt. Shasta and Sacramento)
Focus Areas (provisional):

• Forest retreat with strong spiritual ecology
• Light community footprint with deep seasonal rhythm
• Final model shaped by founding women’s council

This sanctuary is being guided into form by the needs and gifts of its founding women. Located among the sacred forests and rivers of Northern California, it will offer a soul-rooted environment for silent restoration, herbal education, and deeply cooperative land life.

International Sanctuaries – Early Stage Exploration

Brazil, Costa Rica, France, Norway, Denmark, Croatia, Japan, India

• Founding circles forming with an anchor role identified in each target country
• Property scouting planned in 2025-2026 for opening dates between 2027-2030
• Each will reflect the local ecological and cultural wisdom and take counsel with local land protectors
• These sanctuaries will focus on cross-cultural healing, regenerative land partnerships, and skill exchange retreats
• Founding circle forming in each region

Across the globe, women are listening for a shared song. In each of these countries, local stewards are forming early circles to co-design sanctuaries that honor both land and lineage. These locations will serve as cultural bridges, hosting retreats and teaching local models of regeneration that honor native wisdom.

Contact us below and specify your locations of interest to be included in council updates.