An Invitation Home
Our INTENTION is
To remember our true nature.
Our EXPRESSION here
at Filí Forest is to embody that intention through a healing arts retreat center, a regenerative fruit forest, sacred birthing spaces, integrative education experiences and an emerging tribal living community.
An ancient Celtic word for "one who sees."
Filí Forest is a regenerative land project. We are reforesting the earth with edible fruit trees, growing a living food forest that feeds the people who call this place home. This land brings us into deep knowing and remembrance, of who we truly are, of our ancient wisdom, and of the power that already lives inside each of us.
Women have come to this land to birth their babies in sovereign power. Children grow up here inside that same remembrance, learning directly from the earth around them. And all of us who live here walk, at some point, through fire and into our own darkest shadows, because that is how liberation actually happens.
This is Filí Forest, a place of return. To ourselves. To the land. To each other.
Choose Your Path
Custom 7-21 day experiences designed to bring you in deep connection with yourself and your path through cleansing, fasting, and silent meditation.
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A slower, longer path into community life here. Come live, contribute, and remember alongside us, for a week, a month, or longer.
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Our Team
VISION KEEPER, MOTHER OF 6, AND SOVEREIGN BIRTH GUIDE
Zoey is the founder and vision keeper of Filí Forest, birthkeeper and founder of Birth Initiation, womb circle facilitator, dancer and free birthing mother of 6 children.
As a physiologist, Zoey weaves together the practical science of how the body works with the sacred path of spiritual integration and is the main facilitator of the womb circles here. Her intention is to holding space for others walking their own path back to themselves.
As a birth keeper and sovereign birth mentor, she guides women ready to reclaim their power so they can birth exactly the way they want to, some of which choose to come and give birth on her land. Her own path has been shaped by pregnancy, birth, and motherhood and has come to know birth as one of the greatest initiations a woman can experience.
FOUNDER of raw refuge retreat center
Ålam is the founder of Raw Refuge Retreat Center. He's spent the last decade walking the path of raw living foods and deep meditative silence, since sitting his first 10-day Vipassana course in 2017. He's practiced Vipassana annually ever since, and since 2020 has experimented extensively with raw foods, juice cleanses, and water fasting.
He is passionate about working closely with others in discovering the transformational potential of proper detoxification periods and practicing a raw living food lifestyle as a means of integrating one's spiritual truth and unique gifts to this world.
He is fascinated by the mystery that relates to eating and from where humans truly draw energy from. Alongside these experiments he has studied extensively the 5 Elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine and has devised a technique of acupressure and shiatsu that supports his work in assisting others to heal and transform through the power of natural hygiene methodologies.
He views the path of raw living foods as a gateway into revelation, one that must be held as a spiritual discipline, a martial art in its application, if it is to be healthily and sustainably integrated. Finding Sangha (spiritual community) is an essential part of that.
The most beneficial way to fast is more than just drinking water for a few days. How you prepare and re-feed after matters.
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