Welcome to our natural healing temple, nestled in the heart of Derbyshire Peak District… we’ve been hoping you’ll join us … All are truly welcome here.
Love Cressbrook Dale
“We dream of a world where people can walk the earth in freedom, at peace within themselves, with others, with nature, and with life. We dream of the end of all personal and societal suffering. We dream of a new way of Being and relating to each other. We dream of an awakening of human consciousness that will enlighten the hearts and minds of all people and all nations so that all war is ended. We dream of coming together in community, in kindness and loving service to our mother earth. We pray for peace and for the highest good of all Beings.”
And from this very dreaming, a group of very brave individuals… came together and in
one giant leap of faith
… purchased a gemstone piece of land in the heart of Derbyshire so that they might begin a journey toward this ultimate vision.
We were brave, bold, fearless, full of joy and hope and… perhaps just a tad naive. The journey has been heart-expanding, wisdom-seeking, chaotic, teeth-grindingly frustrating, and at times even heart-breaking…
We are the custodians of Cressbrook Dale … and this is our story.
Cressbrook Dale Estate
At the Autumn Equinox of 2021 a small group of women journeyed to Nine Ladies Stone Circle at Stanton-in-the-Peak to make prayers and offerings. Amongst those prayers was the wish to acquire land as a haven for our growing community. There we set an intention to manifest a beautiful, peaceful site with woodland, grassland and a source of natural water.
Miraculously, just a few weeks later, we were offered the opportunity by Stanton Estate to buy c73 acres of farmland at Cressbrook Dale. Cressbrook Dale is one of five dales which go towards making up the Derbyshire Dales National Nature Reserve. It is a stunning sun-drenched valley of woodland with expansive views and home to an abundance of wildlife. It is a jewel in the Derbyshire Peak District.
Stunned by its peace, beauty and tranquility, we took our first steps towards making a dream reality…
Huge gratitude to all those who have energised this vision; through your visits, grafting on the land, kind words of support and especially to you who made this acquisition possible.
To energise the project, we mysteryminded a Sound Voice Water Activation Cacao Ceremony event at The Assembly Rooms in Buxton - which were built as part of ‘The Crescent’ by the Duke of Devonshire in 1780, over the Sacred Grove to the Goddess of the waters Arnemetia, at about the same time that the original Mill was being built by Sir Richard Arkwright in Cressbrook.
The event happened on the Jupiter/Neptune conjunction in Pisces in April 2022 and was produced and hosted by Rachel Elnaugh. It featured koratone musician Ravi Freeman, Rachel’s eldest son MJ (aka OM Jai), John Butler of Bakewell and Davina Mackail - who also created the Pachacuti Mesa shown in the picture here.
It was at this extraordinary power point in 3D time/space reality that we announced to the assembled audience of c180 our intention to acquire Cressbrook Dale. Many of the original Members of our Community were present in the audience that day.
On 7 June 2022 our small Community acquired c73 acres of land at Cressbrook Dale with the pure intention of protecting this natural temple for generations to come.
Oh how overjoyed, bright-eyed and full of optimism we were. With no set plan (save working capital budgets for what we imagined might be needed), our intention was merely to rest here from time to time, to be in simple harmony with Nature, to sing with the birds, to experience the majestic beauty of the trees, and marvel at all the natural inhabitants.
We wanted to ‘Be’ with Nature, and to be in balance with Nature rather than mere spectators of it. We began to gather at weekends on our beautiful land and set about doing some maintenance tasks. We also put up a teepee tent so that we might have shelter as we journeyed with the land.
Alas… we did not anticipate a tsunami of anger, fear, assumptions and a myriad of, what we perceived to be, unreasonable demands from our new neighbours in the nearby village. Following this were official warnings and notices from local ‘authorities’ - including around a hundred (we counted!) most non-environmentally-friendly white laminated plastic A4 sheets festooned across the entire 73acres…. and following this, a media frenzy that totally blew our minds for the sheer absurdity of what had been spoken with regards to our treatment and our ‘plans’ for the land…
Alas… it would appear that our road to Peace and Freedom would not be so easy…
So that you can know what we actually got up to on our own land last summer… click below to see the next thrilling instalment of…
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Our Ethos
Real security comes not through control, but from relationship and belonging.
Nature has a fundamental tendency toward complexity and wholeness. Our destiny is to participate in the coming alive of the cosmos, to be part of the unfolding of complexity and beauty into new domains.
Now is the time to turn the technologies of control toward a new purpose: to serve life and beauty on earth. That starts with healing the damage we have done.
No technology is inevitable. We have the power to collectively choose how we will develop. We can choose technologies that conform to our emerging values of beauty and life.
More is not necessarily better, because reality will always escape the primal cognitive technologies of control called labelling and measuring. In the future, we learn the limits of quantitative reasoning, and turn our main energies toward qualitative enrichment.
Life and earth are sacred. When we reduce them to a finite value, we commit sacrilege. All resources of the earth are therefore meant for sacred use. When we use them, we always ask whether this will contribute to more beauty, more love, more wonder, and more life.
Labour is also sacred; meaningful labour is necessary for human well-being. Therefore, technology should seek not to replace it, but extend its creative powers.
Because we humans are not the sole possessors of intelligence, order, and purpose, we can achieve much more by allying ourselves with an intelligence larger than ourselves, than we can relying on our own power to control the world through force.
What was once marginalized as holistic and alternative will become the new reality. Most things that we chased with technologies of control will come to us. Seeing the body as intelligent, we unlock unforeseen healing powers. Asking, “What does the soil need,” we help it to heal and find that it returns our gifts to it many fold. Asking “What does my brother need?” we restore right relationship among all the tribes, races, and ethnicities of humanity. Coming into attentive relationship to forests, oceans, rivers, wetlands, and other ecosystems, we participate in their healing too, and it proceeds at astonishing speed. Exploring the relationship between matter and consciousness, we develop material technologies of energy, travel, construction, and more that were inconceivable in the paradigm of force.
Progress means progress in peace, beauty, life, connection, and wisdom. In the built environment, we replace the modern landscape of cheapness with the kind of architectural wonders still remaining from before the 20th century.
We replace industrial farms with a mosaic of gardens, food forests, and small ecological farms. We open the floodgates of alternative medicine, vitalizing what has been long suppressed and returning medicine to the people. In governance, progress means moving toward transparency and decentralization. In economics progress takes us toward local, community-oriented, zero-waste economies in which money plays a much smaller role. We retool society with the goal of healing on every level, so that progress is to end the cycles of trauma and abuse that have kept humanity miserable.
We develop all the forgotten sciences: of geometry, vibration, light, mind, energy, and ceremony, learning how powerful we are in cooperation with, not opposition to, the intelligence of Nature.
Visionary Author, Speaker & Teacher Charles Eisenstein
