The Sanctuary
A place to pause, breathe, and
return to yourself.
A future home for BrittanyMarie Studios, where movement, creativity, holistic care, nature, and community come together.
You are not
searching for
someone new.
You are remembering who you’ve always been.
The Sanctuary is a space to soften, to listen, to feel what is true, and to live in a way that feels like you.
Come as you are.
You are creating space to reconnect with what has always been within you.
A space to return, reset, and rise.
Be You.
More than a retreat.
A way of living.
The Sanctuary brings every path of BrittanyMarie Studios into one living place, creating space to move, explore, create, and become.
MOVE
Awaken the body.
Yoga, breath-work, dance, somatic release, strength, and restorative practices designed to bring you back into your body.
EXPLORE
Follow your curiosity.
Nature, adventure, cultural exchange, shared experiences, and the freedom to discover what makes you feel alive.
CREATE
Play. Make. Express.
Ceramics, music, writing, gardening, cooking, art, storytelling, and creative practices without pressure or expectation.
BECOME
Meditation, reflection, holistic care, community, and intentional living that support a deeper relationship with yourself.
Reconnect within.
A PLACE TO LIVE
MORE FULLY.
A stay with a
mission behind it.
The Sanctuary is being created as a destination people want to return to.
A place where a retreat can become an annual tradition. A class can uncover a new skill. A garden can feed the kitchen and the community. A week away can create friendships that last far beyond the stay.
Guests can come to rest or fill their days. Learn something new. Make something with their hands. Move their bodies. Eat food grown steps away. Work remotely with the ocean outside. Stay for a weekend or settle in longer.
Behind it all is a bigger purpose.
Paid stays help sustain the property. Teachers bring knowledge into the community. Gardens create food and education. Work-trade programs create access. Mentorship builds experience. Referral pathways create solid ground for people building what comes next.
A place worth traveling to. A place worth returning to. A place worth building.
A place worth traveling to. A place worth returning to.
A place worth building.
A BRIDGE
FORWARD.
A place to pause, find solid ground, and build what comes next.
The Sanctuary is envisioned as a place where people referred through trusted nonprofit and community organizations can have the time and stability to focus on what comes next.
With a place to live, meals, community, and opportunities to learn and contribute, there is room to build confidence, explore a direction, gain experience, and begin creating greater independence.
The Sanctuary is not meant to replace shelters, treatment programs, reentry services, or transitional housing. It is meant to become one of the places they can refer someone next.
A stepping stone toward independence and a stronger foundation for the future.
THE SANCTUARY, ENVISIONED
A glimpse into the spaces we hope will one day bring The Sanctuary to life.
THE
SANCTUARY
IN PRACTICE.
The Sanctuary is shaped by the people who move through it. Some come to rest. Others come to learn or contribute. Some come to teach. Others come to begin again. Every program has a purpose. Together they help care for the people and sustain the Sanctuary.
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Come for a few nights, a week, a month, or whatever season of life brings you here.
Stay for leisure. Join a retreat. Take part in an educational program. Work remotely somewhere that feels connected to something bigger.
Guests can shape their time around rest, creativity, movement, nature, learning, or simply having a beautiful place to land.
Paid stays help support the daily life of The Sanctuary while giving guests the freedom to experience it in their own way.
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Learning is meant to be hands-on. Useful. Worth carrying home.
Take an art class. Learn to grow food. Join a yoga session. Try acupuncture. Explore sound healing. Make herbal products. Learn from a visiting artist or someone who has spent years mastering their craft.
Some experiences may become part of the weekly rhythm of The Sanctuary. Others may arrive for a season. A weekend. A retreat. A single unforgettable afternoon.
The goal is not to fill a calendar with activities.
It is to give people real access to new skills to try. New practices to explore. New ways of caring for themselves. New ways of creating. New ways of contributing.
Sometimes an experience is simply something new. Sometimes it becomes a practice. A passion. A skill. Or the beginning of something much bigger.
Come curious. Try something real. See what stays.
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The gardens are meant to be useful, playful, and shared.
Grow the food we eat. Plant herbs we use. Learn what it takes to turn a seed into something that can feed a table.
Let kids play with worms. Get dirt under their nails. Learn where food actually comes from and why every growing thing takes time, care, patience, and work.
That changes the way we see a grocery store. It changes the way we value food. It creates a deeper understanding of the process behind what keeps us alive.
The gardens can feed guests. Support community programs. Create space for education. Give people practical skills they can carry with them.
But they are also about something bigger: What we nourish, nourishes us.
Our health. Our growth. Our community. Our connection to the earth and to one another.
Plant the seeds. Care for what grows. Build a stronger future.
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The Sanctuary offers beautiful spaces to rent for private sessions, classes, workshops, trainings, retreats, and gatherings.
Practitioners can reserve space for one-on-one work. Teachers can build a weekly or monthly class. Artists can host workshops. Facilitators can bring groups together for a day, a weekend, or an annual retreat.
Spaces can be rented once or reserved on a recurring schedule, creating room for both local programming and visiting teachers throughout the year.
Rental income helps support the ongoing care and operation of The Sanctuary while bringing more experiences, knowledge, and people into the community.
Gather here. Teach here. Expand here.
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Some people may come to The Sanctuary not simply to stay, but to become part of what keeps it moving.
Through Karma Yoga and work-trade programs, participants can exchange scheduled hours of contribution for accommodation and meals. Roles may be found in the gardens, kitchen, guest spaces, creative studios, events, property care, or other areas that support daily life at The Sanctuary.
Whenever possible, placements can reflect a person’s interests, skills, or curiosity. Someone drawn to gardening can spend more time growing food. Someone interested in making can contribute in the Studio. Someone curious about hospitality can gain experience through guest services and events.
The exchange should feel meaningful on both sides. Clear roles. Fair hours. Days off. Time to rest. Time to learn. Time to be part of the community.
Contribute with purpose. Explore what interests you. Carry the experience forward.
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Through trusted nonprofit and community referral partners, scholarship-supported placements can provide real work experience, classes, mentorship, skill-building, and the opportunity to explore a trade or new direction. Participants can leave with experience for a résumé, a professional reference, stronger skills, greater confidence, and connections that help open the next door.
The Sanctuary is not meant to replace shelters, treatment programs, reentry services, or transitional housing. We are creating a place those organizations can refer someone next.
A place to create solid ground. To contribute. To learn. To belong to a community. To rebuild after breaking cycles and begin creating what comes next.
This is about more than getting through a difficult chapter. It is about having the support and opportunity to build beyond it.
Planting the seeds for a brighter, stronger, and more fruitful future.
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The Sanctuary can only thrive if the people caring for it can thrive too.
A paid core team anchors the daily operation. Karma Yoga and work-trade roles have clear responsibilities. Set hours. Time off. Defined start and end dates. Visiting teachers and practitioners expand what can be offered without creating a permanent staff the property cannot sustain.
Programs grow only when the people, space, and resources are ready to hold them. Scholarship placements stay intentionally limited. Responsibilities are shared. No one person is expected to carry the entire vision.
Rest is part of the structure. So are boundaries. Support. Accountability. Rotation. Time away.
We are not building a place that depends on burnout to survive. We are building one designed to last.
Care for the people. Protect the rhythm. Build for the long term vision.
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The Sanctuary is built to grow through strong partnerships and shared investment.
Businesses, foundations, nonprofits, community organizations, and individual supporters can help fund programs, spaces, and opportunities across The Sanctuary.
Support may include financial sponsorships, grants, donated goods, professional services, equipment, materials, scholarships, community events, educational programs, or other resources that help the work grow.
Partners may choose to support a specific project or contribute where the need is greatest. Opportunities can also be developed around shared goals as The Sanctuary and its programs continue to evolve.
The possibilities are not limited to what exists today. There is room to build new programs, create new partnerships, and grow together.
Support what exists. Help build what comes next. Together we can make a difference
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Skills are built through practice, guidance, and time.
The Sanctuary can offer structured apprenticeships and mentorships for people ready to develop a craft, trade, or professional skill through hands-on experience.
Placements can focus on gardening. Ceramics. Hospitality. Food. Wellness. Events. Creative work. Property operations. Or other areas that grow within The Sanctuary.
Participants learn beside people who know the work. They take on real responsibility. They build experience they can use beyond the program.
The goal is practical growth. Stronger skills. Greater confidence. A portfolio. A résumé. A professional reference. A clearer path toward work or independent practice.
Learn deeply. Build experience. Take the next step.
A LIFE
HELD IN BALANCE.
The Sanctuary is designed to hold the full spectrum of being human, with enough freedom to be real and enough structure to keep the community safe, respectful, and cared for.
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Rest is not something that must be earned through exhaustion. It is a necessary part of living well. At The Sanctuary, rest is honored alongside shared responsibility, creating a rhythm where people can soften, restore, and still contribute to the care of the space and community around them.
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Freedom allows us to explore, express, and live more honestly. Accountability ensures that this freedom does not come at the expense of someone else’s safety or wellbeing. Everyone is invited to be fully themselves while remaining responsible for their actions, choices, and impact.
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Some moments ask for quiet. Others ask for connection. The Sanctuary creates space for both, allowing people to retreat inward when they need privacy and participate in community when they are ready to share, contribute, celebrate, or simply sit beside others.
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Life is not meant to exist only in silence or constant motion. There will be time for meditation, reflection, and deep rest, as well as music, dance, laughter, shared meals, and joyful expression. Both are sacred parts of being alive.
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Personal growth does not need to feel heavy every moment. Healing may happen through reflection and therapeutic practices, but it may also arrive through curiosity, creativity, movement, laughter, adventure, and play. The Sanctuary makes room for both depth and delight.
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People need safe ways to speak, move, create, feel, and release what has been held inside. Honest expression is encouraged, but it must exist within clear boundaries of consent, respect, and care. Personal freedom never includes the right to harm, intimidate, pressure, or disregard another person.
A Vision
Gathered Over a Lifetime.
A collection of places,
people, and practices.
The Sanctuary was not imagined in one place. It has been shaped over years of travel, communal living, work exchanges, service, trauma training, prisons, ashrams, and communities around the world.
Those experiences revealed very different ways of living, but also something remarkably consistent: people need safety. They need purpose. They need connection. They need room to contribute, learn, rest, and build a life that feels like their own.
The Sanctuary brings those lessons together in one place. Not as a prescription for how people should live, but as an environment designed to give people more access to the things that help a life grow stronger.
A place shaped by what has been lived, learned, witnessed, and carried forward.
Help Cultivate
the Future.
ONE PLACE.
GENERATIONS
OF POSSIBILITY.
The Sanctuary
is more than a place
we hope to build.
It is an idea about how life
could feel when there is more room
for connection, creativity, curiosity,
purpose, and possibility.
A place where people can arrive as they are. Learn something new. Share what they know. Make something with their hands. Rest when they need to. Contribute when they can. And leave with more than they came with.
That is the future
we are working toward.
For the wanderers. The artists. The makers. The teachers. The gardeners. The musicians. The builders. The dreamers. Those beginning again.
And for those who have not
found their way here yet.
Future you.
Bringing The Sanctuary to life will take more than one person, one idea, or one kind of support. It will take land. Funding. Knowledge. Partnerships. Materials. Skills. People willing to share what they know and others willing to help create what does not yet exist.
Every contribution
helps turn possibility
into something tangible.
A room someone can sleep in.
A garden that feeds a table.
A class that uncovers a talent.
A mentor who opens a door.
A place where someone
finally has enough breathing room
to begin building again.
That is how something meant to serve one generation begins to reach the next.
Because the future is not simply something we inherit.