About Us

Womb of the Wild is a land-based healing and cultural sanctuary rooted in community, ancestral wisdom, and regenerative relationship with the Earth. We are a QTBIPOC-centered space dedicated to rest, restoration, creativity, and reconnection—with self, land, lineage, and one another.

Our work lives at the intersection of healing, ecology, culture, and collective care. We believe the land is not just a backdrop for wellness, but an active participant in healing and learning—one that holds memory, teaches reciprocity, and invites us back into right relationship.

The Lands

Land Acknowledgment

As Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color from many Nations—living and stewarding land away from our own ancestral territories—we acknowledge that Womb of the Wild exists on the ancestral homelands and seasonal territories of the Mohican (Mahican), Nipmuc, and Pocumtuck peoples.

We recognize that this land carries the presence, memory, and ongoing relationship of its original caretakers. Though colonization disrupted Indigenous lifeways through displacement, violence, and erasure, Indigenous peoples have never ceased to belong to, care for, or remember these lands.

We speak this acknowledgment not as outsiders naming history, but as relatives across Nations, shaped by our own ancestral wounds, survivance, and responsibilities. We understand land not as property, but as a living being—one that holds story, spirit, and instruction. To steward land that is not originally ours requires humility, accountability, and a continual commitment to right relationship.

As BIPOC stewards, we carry both grief and responsibility: grief for what has been taken and disrupted, and responsibility to tend land in ways that honor Indigenous sovereignty, knowledge, and continuity. Our intention is to re-Indigenize this place in the ways that are possible and appropriate—by restoring reciprocal relationships with land, honoring seasonal cycles, practicing collective stewardship, and centering respect over extraction.

This commitment extends beyond human communities. We recognize plant, animal, water, soil, and fungal relations as living kin, not resources. We hold responsibility to steward this land with care for seven generations after us, ensuring that the ecosystems and relations present here may continue to thrive long beyond our time.

This acknowledgment is not a declaration of arrival or authority. It is a practice of remembrance, humility, and responsibility—an ongoing commitment to learning, relationship, repair, and care. We honor the Mohican, Nipmuc, and Pocumtuck peoples as the original caretakers of this land, and we hold ourselves accountable to stewarding it in ways that support healing—for the land, for our communities, and for generations to come.

Land Stewardship & Transition

For nearly four decades, the land known as Starseed has been lovingly held as an interfaith healing sanctuary and spiritual anchor in the northern Berkshires. Through the care and vision of the Ananda family and the many stewards who have tended this place over the years, the land has been shaped into a sanctuary where people come to connect with Spirit, the Land, their inner Self, and one another.

In 2024, the current stewards of Starseed entered a period of deep listening and discernment, guided by a desire to ensure the continued care, vitality, and spiritual purpose of this land. With intention and reverence, they sought a new stewardship that could honor the sacred geometry, healing energy, and foundational values of Starseed—while allowing the land’s purpose to continue evolving in response to the times.

Womb of the Wild emerged through this process as the next stewardship team enters relationship with the land.

This transition is not an ending, but a continuation and unfolding. We receive this land with humility and gratitude, recognizing the decades of prayer, labor, ceremony, and love that have shaped it. We understand ourselves as entering a living lineage of stewardship—one that asks each generation to listen anew to what the land is calling forward.

As Womb of the Wild steps into stewardship, we are guided by the same core understanding that has always lived here:
that this land is a sanctuary, an energetic anchor, and a place of return to wholeness.

At the same time, we are responding to the present moment by intentionally centering QTBIPOC communities, whose relationships to land, Spirit, and collective healing have been historically disrupted, marginalized, or denied. This evolution reflects a widening of the sanctuary’s embrace—deepening its commitment to inclusion, cultural grounding, and intergenerational healing.

Our stewardship weaves together:

reverence for Spirit and sacred space
ancestral and land-based healing traditions
interfaith openness and respect for many paths
ecological care and agro-healing practices
community, creativity, and collective renewal

In this way, the land continues its role as a place where people may release what no longer serves, reconnect with their essence, and remember their belonging—to Spirit, to Earth, and to one another.

An Evolving Sanctuary

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Giving here is not charity—it is relationship.

Thank you for helping us care for this land and one another.