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About Wild Ivy House
Wild Ivy House is a regenerative home and retreat system shaped by slow living, nature connection, and contemplative practice. It offers space for rest, reflection, and intentional time of regeneration.
From private houses to individual retreat rooms - Wild Ivy House consists of a collection of homes designed for different ways of staying. Together they form a flexible environment for rest, group gatherings, and longer personal stays blending nourishing nature and peaceful village life.
The Host
I’m Joanna, the host and place-maker at Wild Ivy House. My work sits between regenerative systems design, meditation practice and creative expression through gardening. I hold the space here with attention to nourishment and wellbeing for both, people and the land, so that residents can settle, rest, and explore their own rhythm of simple village life and nature connection with Wild Ivy House as their base.
People
Purpose and Practice
Wild Ivy is a space dedicated to both inner and outer nourishment. Our intention is to create an environment that supports deeply restorative, regenerative stays. In the meeting of house, land, and community rhythms, visitors are invited into a slower pace of life and the deep time of the Sierra. We welcome meditators and travellers alike, offering quiet support as you find your own rhythm and shape a stay that fits your needs, across the spaces and experiences available—indoors and out.
Nature of Mind
Wild Ivy draws from Zen and Dzogchen traditions, that cultivate deeper awareness, spontaneity and simplicity, underneath the discursive mind. Within the container of the retreat house, the shared field fosters a quiet contemplative space, be it for collective practice or deep individual process.
"Alone, but together"
Integral Embrace
Integral Retreats at Wild Ivy weave meditation, multi-modal inquiry and contemporary developmental insight informed by Integral Theory of Ken Wilber. Rooted in the principles of waking up, growing up, opening up, cleaning up, and showing up, the space supports conditions for personal transformation across all layers of life.
"Alone, and together"
Earth Care
Earth Care at Wild Ivy is both a response to the ecological exigency of our times and a spiritual practice rooted in reverence for life. Informed by Sacred Stewardship as developed in our Zen lineage, we understand caring for the planet as an expression of embodied compassion — widening our circle of care to include all beings.
"Not alone at all"