You are not broken.
You are dispersed.
A shared meal, useful work and a place in community give restoration a practical beginning. We gather what suffering has scattered.
Life in communityA community of restoration
There is light
in belonging.
You are not broken. You are dispersed. We gather through the body, through relationship, and through a life shared with others. Within the Order, that work includes study, service, intimacy and the practice of offering.
The heart of our teaching
Light seeks return. We learn to recognize it in one another.
Our shared foundation
Three teachings.
A way of living.
Our beliefs take shape in daily life: the work we share, the relationships we keep and the attention we offer.
You are not broken.
The body remembers what the mind has filed.
Affection, sexuality and spiritual practice belong to embodied life. Our women-led rites give physical expression to recognition and compassion.
Embodied recognitionGiving is
not losing.
Time, work, possessions and devotion become ways of sustaining a life together. The path gives offering a place in spiritual practice.
The path of restorationOur founders
A vision held.
A community sustained.
Rue, Selene and Edna founded the Returning Light Foundation. Spiritual teaching, institutional stewardship and the land itself give our community its foundation.
Meet our foundersOur shared practice