Moya Living
An Intentional Community in the High Country
Giving Tuesday - Help Us Build Moya!
🌿 Why Your Gift Matters Today
Your donation helps us expand youth housing, transform the Bee Hive community center, and create a sanctuary where people can heal, connect, and feel safe in the High Country. Moya is growing — and we can’t do it without you.
Your support helps us:
Provide safe, affordable housing for local youth
Renovate the Bee Hive into a year-round community center
Offer embodied healing, contemplative practice, and restorative justice
Create a place of refuge during storms and crises
Moya is a living, intentional community where people come to feel safe in their bodies, reconnect with their roots, and build relationships across generations. Through somatics, contemplative practice, ritual, and restorative justice, we weave movement, play, and healing into everyday life — offering a home for those longing for connection in a polarized world.
A Sanctuary in the Grandmother Mountains
Embodied Gatherings & Ritual
From InterPlay to somatic practice, fire circles, and river rituals, Moya offers spaces where the body becomes a source of wisdom, healing, and connection.
Community Meals & Land Care
Shared meals, potlucks, gardening, and stewardship of the land keep our community nourished, rooted, and in right relationship with place.
Restorative Justice & Conflict Repair
We host embodied, trauma-aware circles that help people listen deeply, repair harm, and stay connected across difference — even when things get hard.
Youth Housing & Mentorship
We provide safe, affordable housing for local youth and support them with embodied skills, community, and real pathways toward stability and belonging.
Retreats & Collective Healing
We offer grief tending, contemplative practice, and repair-focused retreats — both at Moya and in partnership with surrounding communities.
Crisis Resilience & Shelter
During storms, outages, and emergencies, Moya serves as a gathering place for care, resources, and connection.
What We Do
Event Rhythm
Sundays - “Sacred - ish” gatherings with movement, contemplative practice, ritual, potluck & land stewardship.
Seasons - Fire and River Ceremonies, Grief Rituals, Collective Celebrations and Seasonal Rituals
Yearly - Hosting portions of Antara’s Facilitator Gathering and supporting facilitator-led projects that align with our values.
Our Commitments
Intentional Community - Moya is guided by shared agreements and collective care, not just occasional events
Equity and Belonging - Multicultural, Intergenerational, and accessible by design.
Land as Teacher - We honor the land as a living participant and tend to it through stewardship and ceremony
Restorative Justice - Repair and accountability are part of how we live together, not an afterthough.
Offerings to the Land - As part of our rhythm, we make regular offerings of gratitude to the land.
Moya exists on lands originally stewarded by the Cherokee. We honor the Indigenous people whose ancestral relationships with this land continue today. Our commitment is to walk in equity and accountability - learning, listening, and building relationships with those whose stewardship predates us.
Impact
8+ restorative justice circles supported this year
1 Restorative Justice Training
10 Community Agreements created
100+ participants engaged
Whether you come for a single gathering, share a meal, or step into ongoing stewardship, you are a part of Moya’s evolving intentional community.
JOIN US
Support Moya’s GROWTH
Moya is growing as an intentional community- and your support helps us build the infrastructure that makes this possible. Two current priorities invite your partnership
Outbuilding Renovation - Community and Resilience
We are renovating our outbuilding to create a year-round hub for community life at Moya. This space will host restorative justice circles, grief rituals, facilitator training, and youth programs — and it will also serve as a disaster relief shelter in times of need.
With heat, light, and reliable infrastructure, the outbuilding becomes more than a gathering hall. It is a resilience resource for the High Country — a safe space where neighbors can gather, grieve, organize, and support one another during storms, power outages, or community crises.
This renovation turns Moya from a seasonal gathering site into a sustainable home for intentional community and regional resilience.
🌱 Youth Housing Fund — Sustainable Living for Young Leaders
Moya is an intentional community rooted in land, movement, and collective care. For this community to thrive, young people need affordable ways to live here, grow into leadership, and help steward the land.
The Youth Housing Fund ensures they not only have roofs over their heads, but also the essential infrastructure for living well together. This fund supports:
Building permanent platforms for yurts, glamping tents, and tiny homes.
Creating a revolving loan pool that helps youth purchase their housing units, with repayments cycling back in for future youth.
Installing composting toilets across the land, providing ecological, accessible bathrooms.
Renovating the outbuilding into a community kitchen, giving youth and community members a space to cook, share meals, and gather.
Together, these projects create equity, resilience, and intergenerational leadership on the land — ensuring youth at Moya have not just housing, but also dignity, belonging, and community.
Join Us in Building Moya’s Future
Every contribution — large or small — helps create spaces where body wisdom, ritual, and restorative justice can thrive. Together we are making Moya a living model of intentional community, rooted in land, equity, and resilience.