Our Mission
To create sacred space for individuals to pursue their own spiritual and creative work in residential community from a week to a season.
Our Vision
Wild Spirit welcomes individuals to explore their life purpose through engagement in community life and spiritual practices for the sake of personal transformation, and positive world impact.
Invitation
We welcome and celebrate all the ways that the Holy speaks into human cultures through time and space. We commit to a life grounded in love of God, compassion for neighbor, and honor of the human creature.
The philosophy of the Wild Spirit community is grounded in Christian commitments which will shape daily practices intended to be expansive and welcoming of all.
We welcome all who seek expansive faith, extravagant hospitality and compassionate service for a thriving humanity.
Your Stay
A sanctuary designed for deep work and spiritual connection.
Community Life
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Community participants will engage with others through…
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Morning and evening worship/meditation.
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Shared household responsibilities such as meal prep, cooking, cleanup
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Volunteer opportunities to serve local needs through a variety of non-profits
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Technology free common areas encourage meaningful conversations.
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Community participants may engage occupational and personal tasks in their private suite with internet, cell, and What’s app capability.
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Casa de la Luz, a three-bedroom house with expansive views of San Miguel de Allende and gathering space for evening refreshment and conversation on the upper terrace. The first-floor features a shared kitchen, dining area, chapel, and outside patio. A community table and meditation garden adjoins the house through an archway leading to the second house. Up to eight residents.
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Casa de los Suenos, a two-level house with the directors in residence on the first floor, and a handicapped accessible apartment with elevator on the second floor with private terrace and kitchen. Two residents.
Opportunities for Spiritual Renewal
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We can help you develop a personal or sabbatical plan for spiritual renewal, to clarify life purpose, or engage a project or planned work.
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We encourage your questions through spiritual direction/guidance as requested.
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We create sacred space for your own spiritual and walking pilgrimage through local wilderness spaces.
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We support your participation in shared daily meditation and reflection.
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San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de Allende is a UNESCO World Heritage site renowned for its colonial architecture and spiritual atmosphere. Our community is nestled within this historic landscape, offering a sanctuary for deep work and retreats where the golden light of the Mexican highlands meets the quietude of sacred space.
Our Team
Get to know us
Rev. Dr. Anna V. Copeland
Resident Director
Dr. Ellis Copeland
Community Engagement
Diego Gomez
Executive Manager
Tasha Tadewald
Hospitality Executive
Webmaster & Social Media
Vincent Tilly
Artists
Maria Elena Baca Suquet
Juan Carlos Cazares
Wild Spirit Community Residency Application
Your Invitation:
Are you spiritually hungry?
Are you culturally curious?
Are you disenchanted with religion?
Do you desire something deeper?
Do you long for community?
Do you seek clarity and purpose?
Do you hope for greater peace in a fractured world?
The vision of Wild Spirit Community began more than fifty years ago with an experience in Christian living. A gathering of like-minded people desired to create an alternative way of life grounded in practices of transformative faith, extravagant hospitality and compassionate service. Through a group called Faith at Works, and an experimental community called Church of the Savior, they began meeting to consider what it would be like to resist the siloed and lonely existence of our culture and connect with common purpose.
Though I was too young to participate fully at time, the imagination of faith-based community life took hold and never let me go. This is the vision of Wild Spirit Community, a gathering of the spiritually hungry who like our founders, crave greater depth and meaning, and desire to become our best humans for our own sake and that of the world.
The original community included dentists and therapists and Montessori teachers and justice makers and peacekeepers from all walks of life. They developed a soup kitchen and safe space called The Gathering Place in the heart of a state capital, with community meeting space and a small library where all were welcome to sit for a while, read or contemplate life. They served up a simple lunch of soup, bread and salad for the poorest of the poor as well as state senators.
Others among them bought the big house together, a multi-storied home in a quiet neighborhood. Each participant owned their own private space, from an entire floor for a family with children, to an accessible, single room with bath for a woman with disabilities. The first floor welcomed myriad guests to community space, where evening conversations, regular faith practices and cooking responsibilities in the house kitchen were shared. The basement had a room for whomever needed shelter, from the teen kicked out of their home, to others in transition who needed a safe space to re-set, move forward and thrive.
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