Your nature-based Sanctuary near Portland

Discover the Lower 7 Acres at Red Mud Ranch, a completely private and secluded space perfect for your next intimate, nature-based event or workshop. Reconnect, reflect, and rejuvenate in a truly unique setting.

We’re opening select dates for facilitators, teachers, and hosts to bring their own workshops, circles, and experiential offerings into a new pilot season of small-group gatherings.

This is an open invitation—there is no preset curriculum. Facilitators are invited to bring their own work into a grounded, intimate setting.

Sessions are held on a private, secluded 7-acre landscape of meadow, forest, and creekside terrain, offering uninterrupted space away from the distractions of typical public venues. The environment is intentionally held for focus, presence, and depth of experience in nature.

A covered outdoor stage is also available for teaching, presentations, storytelling, and shared learning formats.

Available time slots are 2–4 hours for small groups of 6–12 participants.

For this founding season, we are offering a shared-rate structure of $150 per session.

This is an intentional opening with goals of sustainability and prosperity—supporting facilitators, participants, and the long-term growth of a living, relational space.

More than programming, this is about building a rhythm of gathering from the ground up. Facilitators are not entering a fixed system—they are helping shape what this becomes through participation and experience.

As part of this pilot season, we will also invite honest, collaborative feedback from facilitators to help refine flow, infrastructure, and overall experience. This is part of building something adaptive, not static.

At its core, the intention is to cultivate trust, relationship, and community—laying the foundation for a wider web of resilience that can support everyone involved and grow over time.

We are especially open to facilitators working in:

  • somatic and embodiment practices

  • ecological and land-based learning

  • herbalism and earth-centered traditions

  • grief, death, and transition work

  • nervous system support and trauma-informed facilitation

  • creative, ritual, and community-based gatherings

If this resonates, we’d love to connect and explore available dates.

Perfect for your nature-based gatherings

The lower 7 acres at Red Mud Ranch offers an unparalleled setting for a variety of intimate, nature-immersed experiences. This private and secluded area on our 88-acre century farm provides a serene backdrop for deep connection and learning.

Forest bathing & mindfulness

Slow, guided sensory immersion with the calming sounds of Clear Creek and natural forest edge.

Regulation & mindfulness sessions

The honest, in-process landscape creates a deeply grounding and safe environment for reset and presence.

Foraging & wildcrafting walks

Seasonal plant identification and ethical harvesting on recovering land.

A space where your nervous system exhales

An honest, and deeply grounding atmosphere. It's a private sanctuary where the land feels alive and gently becoming, offering permission to slow down, be unfinished, and simply be present.

Unique natural features

This place boasts an open meadow perfect for gatherings, a tranquil forest edge ideal for sensory walks, and direct access to Clear Creek, offering natural white noise and a calming water element. Enjoy natural privacy and seclusion that supports deep focus and nervous system regulation.

Amenities & atmosphere

We provide natural gathering spaces, an existing stage for presentations, and limited parking suitable for small groups (6-12 people). This is an outdoor setting "as-is" in active restoration—honest, living land rather than polished facilities. It’s calm, secluded, and authentic, feeling like a hidden pocket of nature just 25-30 minutes from Portland.