2 sites · Lodging35 acres · Amboy, WAIf life or the city feels like too much right now…escape to our incredible sanctuary with six powerful waterfalls, 35 acres of farm and forest to roam, stunning vistas, and the blessing of solitude to bring you back in touch with the magic of nature, and the quiet longings of your soul.
Sacred Falls Sanctuary is a special place unlike any other, which you’ll experience when you’re standing in front of our lower Grotto Falls, feeling the cool, misty wind blowing across your face, or slipping into the grotto pool at the top of the falls, carved from the solid rock. Or perhaps you’ll feel it while meditating inside our small cave, feeling like you’ve stumbled into the land that time forgot. If you need a sanctuary, a place of retreat, some calming and healing solitude, this is the place for you.
The land around Sacred Falls Sanctuary was one of the original pioneer homesteads on this traditional Cowlitz tribal land. Besides our magical falls and forest, we also have some bucolic farm vistas across our wide open pastures, including a small apple orchard, and our giant 120-year old barn that still stands from the original homestead.
If you like animals, we have a horse, pony, four goats, two cats, and two dogs who make their home here, as well as lots of wild animals, including eagles, elk, and coyote that can be seen from the back pasture. In summer, we have gardens, and wild edible plants in the forest, like oxalis and chanterelle mushrooms. In August, we’re practically a u-pick blackberry farm.
As a heads up, this is a super rustic but still working farm, which means it has giant hunks of old rusting tractor parts, random farm junk, and various kind of practical but not always beautiful fencing left around by the owner.
I am not the ‘owner’, but the steward for this land; I’m also queer, trans, and an indigenous shamanic practitioner. If you appreciate supporting Native people and ventures, I’m happy to have you here. I hold this land and water as sacred, and these elemental beings as our first healers, and I love being able to share the sacred power of this place with folks like you. I work from home, so let me know if you’d be interested in a healing session to support your retreat; you can see more about my work at www.portlandshaman.com.
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