HEALING ON ANCESTRAL LANDS
Red Road Project connects ancestral wisdom, healing, and community
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Hospitality and healing
Guests and elders are accommodated in lodges sustainably designed and inspired by the architectural ingenuity of native Arizona.
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Elder's enjoy respite in a sanctuary designed for their rejuvenation, as well as provide interactive workshops with guests that promote healing through ancestral knowledge.
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Reconnecting with earth
Red Road Project will feature an onsite farm-to-table restaurant inspired by precolonial native southwest cuisine.
Food will be grown in our garden according to traditional techniques. Meat will be sourced directly from local Diné sheep camps and native-owned hunting lodges.
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Beacon of Native expression
Red Road Project will host an art gallery, studio and residency program for local aspiring native artists.
Guests will also participate in art workshops with resident artists that promote traditional and innovative methods of indigenous expression.
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Always donation-based
Guests of Red Road Project will only be asked to pay what they can, in an effort to make our space available to anyone, regardless of financial status or privilege.
The layout of Red Road Project is inspired by the sacred directions of the medicine wheel:
North, the direction of air, will host our meditation and sound healing prayer halls.
East, the direction of fire and of the rising sun, will host our main entrance, guest accommodation, as well as sweat lodges.
South, direction of water, will host a mountain-spring waterfall, inspired by the sacred Havasu Falls of the Havasupai Nation, which will also feed a communal wading river.
West, direction of earth, will host our restaurant and cooking school, as well as the entrance to the garden spaces, horse stable, and farmlands.
The Center, representing the cosmic balance of all things, will host a subterranean ceremonial center that honors our earth from within. An observatory deck will also encircle the roof, to provide impressive vistas of the night sky in honor of our ethereal place in the celestial universe.
Main entrance
Facing east, our principal entrance honors the rising sun, and houses the lobby and guest reception.
The high walls and narrow entrance allow guests to enter our space with reverence and intention.
Lobby and reception
Our lobby and guest reception demonstrate a design theme echoed throughout our campus: open spaces that merge the immense desert with the immense sky.
Guest and elders' lodges
Guests and elders are accommodated in sustainably-designed bungalows, each with access to horse trails and a wading pool to offer respite from the Arizona heat.
Temezcal and sweat lodges
In honor of our connection to Mother Earth, our space will host lodges for inipi and temezcal ceremonies, in collaboration with local tribal cultural leaders.
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Restaurant and cooking school
Our farm-to-table restaurant and cooking school will serve as a testament of precolonial, local foods.
Guests will be fed from our onsite farm and garden, as well as provided interactive cooking classes taught by leading native chefs that revive traditional food systems.
Sound dome and meditation hall
Elders and cultural leaders, from local tribal communities and across Turtle Island, are invited to lead prayers, meditation, and ceremony for guests of Red Road.
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Waterfall and wading pools
In honor of the sacred Havasu Falls of the Havasupai Nation, as with the crystal waters of Tolantongo, Mexico, our waterfall and wading pools will serve as recreation, as well as the source of our river systems that flow into the surrounding garden and farmland.
Ceremonial center and
discourse hall
Our spaces are wide and circular, providing an ideal space for connection and prayer.
Natural light enters from all directions and the steps are carved from local desert stone, which creates an intimate connection between the physical and spiritual dimensions.
Honoring natural light and celestial movement
Skylights and reflective observation points are canvased throughout the campus, facing each sacred direction, in honor of natural light and celestial movement.
SUPPORT OUR JOURNEY
As we're currently raising funds to construct Red Road Project, your contribution places us one step closer to fulfilling this mission.
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Interested in donating directly to Red Road Foundation? Please let us know by dedicating this donation as a gift.
Thank you for supporting our journey.