Let’s Gather Around The Hearth

Terra Nova is centered around community. A new order that arranges itself through intimacy with all things. The Hearth is our space where we gather together as a community to explore our inner worlds, question our reality, and cultivate connection with one another. Here you will find weekly events hosted by community members.

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Tea Ceremony | Community Gathering hosted by Sarah
Oct
6

Tea Ceremony | Community Gathering hosted by Sarah

GONG FU CHA - 功夫茶 - the Chinese art of preparing tea.

Tea is steeped into the foundation of Terra Nova.

I fell in love with the practice of artistically preparing and drinking tea in 2021, around the time the Terra Nova vision first came through my body and started brewing in my consciousness. In fact, nearly all of the founding members of Terra Nova came into my life through tea sits that lasted all day at West China Tea.

Steep after steep, the tea began to breathe Life into the vision. We sat around the tea table at my home in Austin and spoke our wildest dreams into existence. Our words and laughs lingered in the incense filled air.  We dared not only to imagine our visions for Terra Nova, but tuned into the sensations of it, as if we were already there, experiencing it for ourselves. Terra Nova is the frequency that naturally arises around the tea table. A space where all are invited to freely express themselves and be received and loved on by the community.

That’s the power of tea. It brings us into the present moment through a luxurious journey through the senses. It is simple and profound. Words don’t have to be exchanged, but there is without a doubt an exchange happens when you share a cup of tea with someone. You are connected by the leaf, which naturally reminds you of your inherent connection to all Life. For me, what matters, is how it makes you feel. Not just the tea itself, but the experience of steeping in presence with a friend, admiring the beautiful tea wares, the sounds of the water boiling, the steam on your skin, the heavenly scent of incense burning…

Join the Terra Nova community for our bi-weekly tea ceremony. We begin every sit sipping three rounds of tea in silence and then move into conversation and connection. If you are new to tea, no need to acquire a fancy gaiwan or teapot (although they are quite fun). You can begin with a small bowl or cup, some loose leaf tea, and some hot water. If you’d like to familiarize yourself with the practice of Gong Fu Cha, we recommend starting here.

Our favorite tea purveyors:

West China Tea

Living Tea

Hidden Peak Teahouse

Grass People Tree

Song Tea and Ceramics

“If we’re not mindful, it’s not tea that we’re drinking but our own illusions and afflictions. If the tea becomes real, we become real. When we are able to truly meet the tea, at that very moment we are truly alive.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

CREATOR MEMBERS: Terra Nova Creator Members receive complimentary access to all gatherings included in their membership. Please use the code found under The Hearth on Substack to use at checkout to waive the drop in cost. Reserve your spot at the link below.

COMMUNITY MEMBERS: If you’re not ready to join our paid membership, but would like to join us for tea, you may purchase a drop in pass at the link below.

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Human Design Anonymous | hosted by Kodie + Sarah
Oct
10

Human Design Anonymous | hosted by Kodie + Sarah

HUMAN DESIGN ANONYMOUS

Calling all human design addicts…

Kodie and Sarah met through the human design community. Over the last few years of friendship, we’ve dove deep into the magic and mysteries of the human design system. Every gate, line and center…analyzing all the people on our fractal. Seeing these energetics play out in real life with astounding precision.

But then we reached a point where we became frustrated with the system and annoyed at ourselves for getting stuck in the patterns. We can see them - great. But now what?

Then, we realized…

Human Design is about cultivating awareness. But awareness is not enough. Seeing these energetic patterns play our is not enough. It’s what we do once we are able to see clearly - that is the juice of “the work”. This is the life changing part of the work. That is how we truly take responsibility for our lives and our role in this world.

That is how we begin to shape our realities - to become Creators of our world.

Awareness it the first step. Embodiment comes next.

Topics we discuss:

  • the moon as lock, key and doorway

  • the red vs. the black and the true potential of the design side

  • moving from awareness to embodiment

CREATOR MEMBERS: Terra Nova Creator Members receive complimentary access to all gatherings included in their membership. Please use the code found under The Hearth on Substack to use at checkout to waive the drop in cost. Reserve your spot at the link below.

COMMUNITY MEMBERS: If you’re not ready to join our paid membership, but would like to join us for tea, you may purchase a drop in pass at the link below.

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The Salon: The Energetics of Money | Hosted by Sarah
Oct
12

The Salon: The Energetics of Money | Hosted by Sarah

The Salon is a private social gathering where members of the Terra Nova community come together to openly discuss art, literature, philosophy, spirituality, and music.

Each month a different community member hosts The Salon and facilitates discussion around a particular focus.

MONEY!!! We love to love it. We love to hate it. Let’s get real about one of the least comfortable things to talk about.

Bring your money worries, questions, shame, guilt, your debt, whatever you got. Let’s air out our secrets and bring some light to the shadows. Let’s bring some levity into a topic that can be overly serious.

I will share my honest journey with money, which has been a long and winding journey. My Scorpio sun, moon, mercury, and pluto all in the 2nd house of MONEY and self-worth - it’s been a big theme in my life.

I’m not promising any answers, but I do hope to bring some new perspectives into the space and dig a little deeper into how we relate to and exchange money.


If you have any specific questions you’d like me to contemplate beforehand, you’re welcome to email me.

CREATOR MEMBERS: Terra Nova Creator Members receive 50% off of The Salon. Please use the discount code found under the Substack Gatherings section at checkout. Reserve your spot at the link below.

COMMUNITY MEMBERS: If you’re not ready to join our paid membership, but would like to join us for The Salon, you may purchase a drop in pass at the link below.

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Grief Circle | hosted by Sarah
Oct
16

Grief Circle | hosted by Sarah

“Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for what we once held close.”

- Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

Coming together in community to share and be witnessed in our grief is one of the most ancient community healing rituals. Whether you are feeling your way through a recent loss or one from decades ago, you are invited to come and share what’s on your heart and be held by community.

This is a complimentary gathering for both our Creator Membership and Community Membership.

If you are not a member yet and would like to join the Terra Nova community, Sign Up on Substack

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Tea Ceremony | Community Gathering hosted by Sarah
Oct
20

Tea Ceremony | Community Gathering hosted by Sarah

GONG FU CHA - 功夫茶 - the Chinese art of preparing tea.

Tea is steeped into the foundation of Terra Nova.

I fell in love with the practice of artistically preparing and drinking tea in 2021, around the time the Terra Nova vision first came through my body and started brewing in my consciousness. In fact, nearly all of the founding members of Terra Nova came into my life through tea sits that lasted all day at West China Tea.

Steep after steep, the tea began to breathe Life into the vision. We sat around the tea table at my home in Austin and spoke our wildest dreams into existence. Our words and laughs lingered in the incense filled air.  We dared not only to imagine our visions for Terra Nova, but tuned into the sensations of it, as if we were already there, experiencing it for ourselves. Terra Nova is the frequency that naturally arises around the tea table. A space where all are invited to freely express themselves and be received and loved on by the community.

That’s the power of tea. It brings us into the present moment through a luxurious journey through the senses. It is simple and profound. Words don’t have to be exchanged, but there is without a doubt an exchange happens when you share a cup of tea with someone. You are connected by the leaf, which naturally reminds you of your inherent connection to all Life. For me, what matters, is how it makes you feel. Not just the tea itself, but the experience of steeping in presence with a friend, admiring the beautiful tea wares, the sounds of the water boiling, the steam on your skin, the heavenly scent of incense burning…

Join the Terra Nova community for our bi-weekly tea ceremony. We begin every sit sipping three rounds of tea in silence and then move into conversation and connection. If you are new to tea, no need to acquire a fancy gaiwan or teapot (although they are quite fun). You can begin with a small bowl or cup, some loose leaf tea, and some hot water. If you’d like to familiarize yourself with the practice of Gong Fu Cha, we recommend starting here.

Our favorite tea purveyors:

West China Tea

Living Tea

Hidden Peak Teahouse

Grass People Tree

Song Tea and Ceramics

“If we’re not mindful, it’s not tea that we’re drinking but our own illusions and afflictions. If the tea becomes real, we become real. When we are able to truly meet the tea, at that very moment we are truly alive.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

CREATOR MEMBERS: Terra Nova Creator Members receive complimentary access to all gatherings included in their membership. Please use the code found under The Hearth on Substack to use at checkout to waive the drop in cost. Reserve your spot at the link below.

COMMUNITY MEMBERS: If you’re not ready to join our paid membership, but would like to join us for tea, you may purchase a drop in pass at the link below.

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Mountain on the Moon | hosted by Kodie
Nov
1

Mountain on the Moon | hosted by Kodie

MOUNTAIN ON THE MOON

Exploring the energetic tides of the Moon and other celestial bodies from within.

You are done riding the energetic roller coaster of the lunar tides and are ready to reclaim your sovereignty.

You are looking to anchor the spiritual knowings of your mind into a somatic awareness of your own body.

You are ready to detach from the outer authority of esoteric systems and learn the language of your own energy.

The moon can be a key to our personal liberation or it can be the cyclically revolving cage that keeps our solar light hidden. We get to decide how we interact with the driving force of the moon. Whether or not we get dragged along the emotional tidal waves of the moon's force is ours to choose. And the first step is feeling it in our body and reflecting on the patterns that drive our subconscious behaviors.

If we choose to liberate ourselves from this cage, we begin to anchor into a deeper knowing of the light we share into the world. This key accesses the door to deeper, more subtle layers of our subconscious world. We begin to hear the whisperings of our body. We begin to identify the inherited programs of our genetics and free ourselves from generational baggage. 

We can loop old patterns over and over or we can begin to spiral upward towards our integrated actualized selves. The moon gives us a key to the locked door of fully coming home to our light.

Hosted by Terra Nova’s community reflector, Kodie Smiley

6/3 reflector on Cross of Dominion

CREATOR MEMBERS: Terra Nova Creator Members receive complimentary access to MOUNTAIN ON THE MOON included in their membership. Please use the code found under The Hearth on Substack to use at checkout to waive the drop in cost. Reserve your spot at the link below.

COMMUNITY MEMBERS: Terra Nova Community Members receive $20 off lifetime access to MOUNTAIN ON THE MOON.

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Tea Ceremony | Community Gathering hosted by Sarah
Nov
3

Tea Ceremony | Community Gathering hosted by Sarah

GONG FU CHA - 功夫茶 - the Chinese art of preparing tea.

Tea is steeped into the foundation of Terra Nova.

I fell in love with the practice of artistically preparing and drinking tea in 2021, around the time the Terra Nova vision first came through my body and started brewing in my consciousness. In fact, nearly all of the founding members of Terra Nova came into my life through tea sits that lasted all day at West China Tea.

Steep after steep, the tea began to breathe Life into the vision. We sat around the tea table at my home in Austin and spoke our wildest dreams into existence. Our words and laughs lingered in the incense filled air.  We dared not only to imagine our visions for Terra Nova, but tuned into the sensations of it, as if we were already there, experiencing it for ourselves. Terra Nova is the frequency that naturally arises around the tea table. A space where all are invited to freely express themselves and be received and loved on by the community.

That’s the power of tea. It brings us into the present moment through a luxurious journey through the senses. It is simple and profound. Words don’t have to be exchanged, but there is without a doubt an exchange happens when you share a cup of tea with someone. You are connected by the leaf, which naturally reminds you of your inherent connection to all Life. For me, what matters, is how it makes you feel. Not just the tea itself, but the experience of steeping in presence with a friend, admiring the beautiful tea wares, the sounds of the water boiling, the steam on your skin, the heavenly scent of incense burning…

Join the Terra Nova community for our bi-weekly tea ceremony. We begin every sit sipping three rounds of tea in silence and then move into conversation and connection. If you are new to tea, no need to acquire a fancy gaiwan or teapot (although they are quite fun). You can begin with a small bowl or cup, some loose leaf tea, and some hot water. If you’d like to familiarize yourself with the practice of Gong Fu Cha, we recommend starting here.

Our favorite tea purveyors:

West China Tea

Living Tea

Hidden Peak Teahouse

Grass People Tree

Song Tea and Ceramics

“If we’re not mindful, it’s not tea that we’re drinking but our own illusions and afflictions. If the tea becomes real, we become real. When we are able to truly meet the tea, at that very moment we are truly alive.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

CREATOR MEMBERS: Terra Nova Creator Members receive complimentary access to all gatherings included in their membership. Please use the code found under The Hearth on Substack to use at checkout to waive the drop in cost. Reserve your spot at the link below.

COMMUNITY MEMBERS: If you’re not ready to join our paid membership, but would like to join us for tea, you may purchase a drop in pass at the link below.

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Human Design Anonymous | hosted by Kodie + Sarah
Nov
10

Human Design Anonymous | hosted by Kodie + Sarah

HUMAN DESIGN ANONYMOUS

Calling all human design addicts…

Kodie and Sarah met through the human design community. Over the last few years of friendship, we’ve dove deep into the magic and mysteries of the human design system. Every gate, line and center…analyzing all the people on our fractal. Seeing these energetics play out in real life with astounding precision.

But then we reached a point where we became frustrated with the system and annoyed at ourselves for getting stuck in the patterns. We can see them - great. But now what?

Then, we realized…

Human Design is about cultivating awareness. But awareness is not enough. Seeing these energetic patterns play our is not enough. It’s what we do once we are able to see clearly - that is the juice of “the work”. This is the life changing part of the work. That is how we truly take responsibility for our lives and our role in this world.

That is how we begin to shape our realities - to become Creators of our world.

Awareness it the first step. Embodiment comes next.

Topics we discuss:

  • the moon as lock, key and doorway

  • the red vs. the black and the true potential of the design side

  • moving from awareness to embodiment

CREATOR MEMBERS: Terra Nova Creator Members receive complimentary access to all gatherings included in their membership. Please use the code found under The Hearth on Substack to use at checkout to waive the drop in cost. Reserve your spot at the link below.

COMMUNITY MEMBERS: If you’re not ready to join our paid membership, but would like to join us for tea, you may purchase a drop in pass at the link below.

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Tea Ceremony | Community Gathering hosted by Sarah
Nov
17

Tea Ceremony | Community Gathering hosted by Sarah

GONG FU CHA - 功夫茶 - the Chinese art of preparing tea.

Tea is steeped into the foundation of Terra Nova.

I fell in love with the practice of artistically preparing and drinking tea in 2021, around the time the Terra Nova vision first came through my body and started brewing in my consciousness. In fact, nearly all of the founding members of Terra Nova came into my life through tea sits that lasted all day at West China Tea.

Steep after steep, the tea began to breathe Life into the vision. We sat around the tea table at my home in Austin and spoke our wildest dreams into existence. Our words and laughs lingered in the incense filled air.  We dared not only to imagine our visions for Terra Nova, but tuned into the sensations of it, as if we were already there, experiencing it for ourselves. Terra Nova is the frequency that naturally arises around the tea table. A space where all are invited to freely express themselves and be received and loved on by the community.

That’s the power of tea. It brings us into the present moment through a luxurious journey through the senses. It is simple and profound. Words don’t have to be exchanged, but there is without a doubt an exchange happens when you share a cup of tea with someone. You are connected by the leaf, which naturally reminds you of your inherent connection to all Life. For me, what matters, is how it makes you feel. Not just the tea itself, but the experience of steeping in presence with a friend, admiring the beautiful tea wares, the sounds of the water boiling, the steam on your skin, the heavenly scent of incense burning…

Join the Terra Nova community for our bi-weekly tea ceremony. We begin every sit sipping three rounds of tea in silence and then move into conversation and connection. If you are new to tea, no need to acquire a fancy gaiwan or teapot (although they are quite fun). You can begin with a small bowl or cup, some loose leaf tea, and some hot water. If you’d like to familiarize yourself with the practice of Gong Fu Cha, we recommend starting here.

Our favorite tea purveyors:

West China Tea

Living Tea

Hidden Peak Teahouse

Grass People Tree

Song Tea and Ceramics

“If we’re not mindful, it’s not tea that we’re drinking but our own illusions and afflictions. If the tea becomes real, we become real. When we are able to truly meet the tea, at that very moment we are truly alive.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

CREATOR MEMBERS: Terra Nova Creator Members receive complimentary access to all gatherings included in their membership. Please use the code found under The Hearth on Substack to use at checkout to waive the drop in cost. Reserve your spot at the link below.

COMMUNITY MEMBERS: If you’re not ready to join our paid membership, but would like to join us for tea, you may purchase a drop in pass at the link below.

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Grief Circle | hosted by Sarah
Nov
21

Grief Circle | hosted by Sarah

“Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for what we once held close.”

- Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

Coming together in community to share and be witnessed in our grief is one of the most ancient community healing rituals. Whether you are feeling your way through a recent loss or one from decades ago, you are invited to come and share what’s on your heart and be held by community.

This is a complimentary gathering for both our Creator Membership and Community Membership.

If you are not a member yet and would like to join the Terra Nova community, Sign Up on Substack

View Event →
Mountain on the Moon | hosted by Kodie
Nov
29

Mountain on the Moon | hosted by Kodie

MOUNTAIN ON THE MOON

Exploring the energetic tides of the Moon and other celestial bodies from within.

You are done riding the energetic roller coaster of the lunar tides and are ready to reclaim your sovereignty.

You are looking to anchor the spiritual knowings of your mind into a somatic awareness of your own body.

You are ready to detach from the outer authority of esoteric systems and learn the language of your own energy.

The moon can be a key to our personal liberation or it can be the cyclically revolving cage that keeps our solar light hidden. We get to decide how we interact with the driving force of the moon. Whether or not we get dragged along the emotional tidal waves of the moon's force is ours to choose. And the first step is feeling it in our body and reflecting on the patterns that drive our subconscious behaviors.

If we choose to liberate ourselves from this cage, we begin to anchor into a deeper knowing of the light we share into the world. This key accesses the door to deeper, more subtle layers of our subconscious world. We begin to hear the whisperings of our body. We begin to identify the inherited programs of our genetics and free ourselves from generational baggage. 

We can loop old patterns over and over or we can begin to spiral upward towards our integrated actualized selves. The moon gives us a key to the locked door of fully coming home to our light.

Hosted by Terra Nova’s community reflector, Kodie Smiley

6/3 reflector on Cross of Dominion

CREATOR MEMBERS: Terra Nova Creator Members receive complimentary access to MOUNTAIN ON THE MOON included in their membership. Please use the code found under The Hearth on Substack to use at checkout to waive the drop in cost. Reserve your spot at the link below.

COMMUNITY MEMBERS: Terra Nova Community Members receive $20 off lifetime access to MOUNTAIN ON THE MOON.

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Tea Ceremony | Community Gathering hosted by Sarah
Dec
1

Tea Ceremony | Community Gathering hosted by Sarah

GONG FU CHA - 功夫茶 - the Chinese art of preparing tea.

Tea is steeped into the foundation of Terra Nova.

I fell in love with the practice of artistically preparing and drinking tea in 2021, around the time the Terra Nova vision first came through my body and started brewing in my consciousness. In fact, nearly all of the founding members of Terra Nova came into my life through tea sits that lasted all day at West China Tea.

Steep after steep, the tea began to breathe Life into the vision. We sat around the tea table at my home in Austin and spoke our wildest dreams into existence. Our words and laughs lingered in the incense filled air.  We dared not only to imagine our visions for Terra Nova, but tuned into the sensations of it, as if we were already there, experiencing it for ourselves. Terra Nova is the frequency that naturally arises around the tea table. A space where all are invited to freely express themselves and be received and loved on by the community.

That’s the power of tea. It brings us into the present moment through a luxurious journey through the senses. It is simple and profound. Words don’t have to be exchanged, but there is without a doubt an exchange happens when you share a cup of tea with someone. You are connected by the leaf, which naturally reminds you of your inherent connection to all Life. For me, what matters, is how it makes you feel. Not just the tea itself, but the experience of steeping in presence with a friend, admiring the beautiful tea wares, the sounds of the water boiling, the steam on your skin, the heavenly scent of incense burning…

Join the Terra Nova community for our bi-weekly tea ceremony. We begin every sit sipping three rounds of tea in silence and then move into conversation and connection. If you are new to tea, no need to acquire a fancy gaiwan or teapot (although they are quite fun). You can begin with a small bowl or cup, some loose leaf tea, and some hot water. If you’d like to familiarize yourself with the practice of Gong Fu Cha, we recommend starting here.

Our favorite tea purveyors:

West China Tea

Living Tea

Hidden Peak Teahouse

Grass People Tree

Song Tea and Ceramics

“If we’re not mindful, it’s not tea that we’re drinking but our own illusions and afflictions. If the tea becomes real, we become real. When we are able to truly meet the tea, at that very moment we are truly alive.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

CREATOR MEMBERS: Terra Nova Creator Members receive complimentary access to all gatherings included in their membership. Please use the code found under The Hearth on Substack to use at checkout to waive the drop in cost. Reserve your spot at the link below.

COMMUNITY MEMBERS: If you’re not ready to join our paid membership, but would like to join us for tea, you may purchase a drop in pass at the link below.

View Event →
Human Design Anonymous | hosted by Kodie + Sarah
Dec
14

Human Design Anonymous | hosted by Kodie + Sarah

HUMAN DESIGN ANONYMOUS

Calling all human design addicts…

Kodie and Sarah met through the human design community. Over the last few years of friendship, we’ve dove deep into the magic and mysteries of the human design system. Every gate, line and center…analyzing all the people on our fractal. Seeing these energetics play out in real life with astounding precision.

But then we reached a point where we became frustrated with the system and annoyed at ourselves for getting stuck in the patterns. We can see them - great. But now what?

Then, we realized…

Human Design is about cultivating awareness. But awareness is not enough. Seeing these energetic patterns play our is not enough. It’s what we do once we are able to see clearly - that is the juice of “the work”. This is the life changing part of the work. That is how we truly take responsibility for our lives and our role in this world.

That is how we begin to shape our realities - to become Creators of our world.

Awareness it the first step. Embodiment comes next.

Topics we discuss:

  • the moon as lock, key and doorway

  • the red vs. the black and the true potential of the design side

  • moving from awareness to embodiment

CREATOR MEMBERS: Terra Nova Creator Members receive complimentary access to all gatherings included in their membership. Please use the code found under The Hearth on Substack to use at checkout to waive the drop in cost. Reserve your spot at the link below.

COMMUNITY MEMBERS: If you’re not ready to join our paid membership, but would like to join us for tea, you may purchase a drop in pass at the link below.

View Event →
Tea Ceremony | Community Gathering hosted by Sarah
Dec
15

Tea Ceremony | Community Gathering hosted by Sarah

GONG FU CHA - 功夫茶 - the Chinese art of preparing tea.

Tea is steeped into the foundation of Terra Nova.

I fell in love with the practice of artistically preparing and drinking tea in 2021, around the time the Terra Nova vision first came through my body and started brewing in my consciousness. In fact, nearly all of the founding members of Terra Nova came into my life through tea sits that lasted all day at West China Tea.

Steep after steep, the tea began to breathe Life into the vision. We sat around the tea table at my home in Austin and spoke our wildest dreams into existence. Our words and laughs lingered in the incense filled air.  We dared not only to imagine our visions for Terra Nova, but tuned into the sensations of it, as if we were already there, experiencing it for ourselves. Terra Nova is the frequency that naturally arises around the tea table. A space where all are invited to freely express themselves and be received and loved on by the community.

That’s the power of tea. It brings us into the present moment through a luxurious journey through the senses. It is simple and profound. Words don’t have to be exchanged, but there is without a doubt an exchange happens when you share a cup of tea with someone. You are connected by the leaf, which naturally reminds you of your inherent connection to all Life. For me, what matters, is how it makes you feel. Not just the tea itself, but the experience of steeping in presence with a friend, admiring the beautiful tea wares, the sounds of the water boiling, the steam on your skin, the heavenly scent of incense burning…

Join the Terra Nova community for our bi-weekly tea ceremony. We begin every sit sipping three rounds of tea in silence and then move into conversation and connection. If you are new to tea, no need to acquire a fancy gaiwan or teapot (although they are quite fun). You can begin with a small bowl or cup, some loose leaf tea, and some hot water. If you’d like to familiarize yourself with the practice of Gong Fu Cha, we recommend starting here.

Our favorite tea purveyors:

West China Tea

Living Tea

Hidden Peak Teahouse

Grass People Tree

Song Tea and Ceramics

“If we’re not mindful, it’s not tea that we’re drinking but our own illusions and afflictions. If the tea becomes real, we become real. When we are able to truly meet the tea, at that very moment we are truly alive.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

CREATOR MEMBERS: Terra Nova Creator Members receive complimentary access to all gatherings included in their membership. Please use the code found under The Hearth on Substack to use at checkout to waive the drop in cost. Reserve your spot at the link below.

COMMUNITY MEMBERS: If you’re not ready to join our paid membership, but would like to join us for tea, you may purchase a drop in pass at the link below.

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The Red Tent | Led by Ellen
Dec
16

The Red Tent | Led by Ellen

Full Moon at 23°52 Gemini December 15th, 2024, at 1:02 am PT

We gather under the full moon each month to connect to one another and our divine expression as women. Our bodies hold the center of creation in our womb space and together we birth a new way. By coming together, we remember our connection to each within a larger ecosystem and tend to each other’s gardens. Together we empower and support each other’s expression as our Godselves.

During these calls, we will dive into the wisdom of astrology, human design, eastern spirituality, earth medicine, and our sacred womb space. We practice remembering we are the beauty of the universe, the source of creation. Together we honor the innate seasons and cycles of our body and the wisdom that it offers.

This is a members-only gathering. If you would like to join the Terra Nova community, Sign Up on Substack.

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Grief Circle | hosted by Sarah
Dec
19

Grief Circle | hosted by Sarah

“Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for what we once held close.”

- Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

Coming together in community to share and be witnessed in our grief is one of the most ancient community healing rituals. Whether you are feeling your way through a recent loss or one from decades ago, you are invited to come and share what’s on your heart and be held by community.

This is a complimentary gathering for both our Creator Membership and Community Membership.

If you are not a member yet and would like to join the Terra Nova community, Sign Up on Substack

View Event →
Mountain on the Moon | hosted by Kodie
Dec
30

Mountain on the Moon | hosted by Kodie

MOUNTAIN ON THE MOON

Exploring the energetic tides of the Moon and other celestial bodies from within.

You are done riding the energetic roller coaster of the lunar tides and are ready to reclaim your sovereignty.

You are looking to anchor the spiritual knowings of your mind into a somatic awareness of your own body.

You are ready to detach from the outer authority of esoteric systems and learn the language of your own energy.

The moon can be a key to our personal liberation or it can be the cyclically revolving cage that keeps our solar light hidden. We get to decide how we interact with the driving force of the moon. Whether or not we get dragged along the emotional tidal waves of the moon's force is ours to choose. And the first step is feeling it in our body and reflecting on the patterns that drive our subconscious behaviors.

If we choose to liberate ourselves from this cage, we begin to anchor into a deeper knowing of the light we share into the world. This key accesses the door to deeper, more subtle layers of our subconscious world. We begin to hear the whisperings of our body. We begin to identify the inherited programs of our genetics and free ourselves from generational baggage. 

We can loop old patterns over and over or we can begin to spiral upward towards our integrated actualized selves. The moon gives us a key to the locked door of fully coming home to our light.

Hosted by Terra Nova’s community reflector, Kodie Smiley

6/3 reflector on Cross of Dominion

CREATOR MEMBERS: Terra Nova Creator Members receive complimentary access to MOUNTAIN ON THE MOON included in their membership. Please use the code found under The Hearth on Substack to use at checkout to waive the drop in cost. Reserve your spot at the link below.

COMMUNITY MEMBERS: Terra Nova Community Members receive $20 off lifetime access to MOUNTAIN ON THE MOON.

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Mountain on the Moon | hosted by Kodie
Oct
2

Mountain on the Moon | hosted by Kodie

MOUNTAIN ON THE MOON

Exploring the energetic tides of the Moon and other celestial bodies from within.

You are done riding the energetic roller coaster of the lunar tides and are ready to reclaim your sovereignty.

You are looking to anchor the spiritual knowings of your mind into a somatic awareness of your own body.

You are ready to detach from the outer authority of esoteric systems and learn the language of your own energy.

The moon can be a key to our personal liberation or it can be the cyclically revolving cage that keeps our solar light hidden. We get to decide how we interact with the driving force of the moon. Whether or not we get dragged along the emotional tidal waves of the moon's force is ours to choose. And the first step is feeling it in our body and reflecting on the patterns that drive our subconscious behaviors.

If we choose to liberate ourselves from this cage, we begin to anchor into a deeper knowing of the light we share into the world. This key accesses the door to deeper, more subtle layers of our subconscious world. We begin to hear the whisperings of our body. We begin to identify the inherited programs of our genetics and free ourselves from generational baggage. 

We can loop old patterns over and over or we can begin to spiral upward towards our integrated actualized selves. The moon gives us a key to the locked door of fully coming home to our light.

Hosted by Terra Nova’s community reflector, Kodie Smiley

6/3 reflector on Cross of Dominion

CREATOR MEMBERS: Terra Nova Creator Members receive complimentary access to MOUNTAIN ON THE MOON included in their membership. Please use the code found under The Hearth on Substack to use at checkout to waive the drop in cost. Reserve your spot at the link below.

COMMUNITY MEMBERS: Terra Nova Community Members receive $20 off lifetime access to MOUNTAIN ON THE MOON.

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Tea Ceremony | Community Gathering hosted by Sarah
Sep
29

Tea Ceremony | Community Gathering hosted by Sarah

GONG FU CHA - 功夫茶 - the Chinese art of preparing tea.

Tea is steeped into the foundation of Terra Nova.

I fell in love with the practice of artistically preparing and drinking tea in 2021, around the time the Terra Nova vision first came through my body and started brewing in my consciousness. In fact, nearly all of the founding members of Terra Nova came into my life through tea sits that lasted all day at West China Tea.

Steep after steep, the tea began to breathe Life into the vision. We sat around the tea table at my home in Austin and spoke our wildest dreams into existence. Our words and laughs lingered in the incense filled air.  We dared not only to imagine our visions for Terra Nova, but tuned into the sensations of it, as if we were already there, experiencing it for ourselves. Terra Nova is the frequency that naturally arises around the tea table. A space where all are invited to freely express themselves and be received and loved on by the community.

That’s the power of tea. It brings us into the present moment through a luxurious journey through the senses. It is simple and profound. Words don’t have to be exchanged, but there is without a doubt an exchange happens when you share a cup of tea with someone. You are connected by the leaf, which naturally reminds you of your inherent connection to all Life. For me, what matters, is how it makes you feel. Not just the tea itself, but the experience of steeping in presence with a friend, admiring the beautiful tea wares, the sounds of the water boiling, the steam on your skin, the heavenly scent of incense burning…

Join the Terra Nova community for our bi-weekly tea ceremony. We begin every sit sipping three rounds of tea in silence and then move into conversation and connection. If you are new to tea, no need to acquire a fancy gaiwan or teapot (although they are quite fun). You can begin with a small bowl or cup, some loose leaf tea, and some hot water. If you’d like to familiarize yourself with the practice of Gong Fu Cha, we recommend starting here.

Our favorite tea purveyors:

West China Tea

Living Tea

Hidden Peak Teahouse

Grass People Tree

Song Tea and Ceramics

“If we’re not mindful, it’s not tea that we’re drinking but our own illusions and afflictions. If the tea becomes real, we become real. When we are able to truly meet the tea, at that very moment we are truly alive.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

CREATOR MEMBERS: Terra Nova Creator Members receive complimentary access to all gatherings included in their membership. Please use the code found under The Hearth on Substack to use at checkout to waive the drop in cost. Reserve your spot at the link below.

COMMUNITY MEMBERS: If you’re not ready to join our paid membership, but would like to join us for tea, you may purchase a drop in pass at the link below.

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Human Design Anonymous | hosted by Kodie + Sarah
Sep
26

Human Design Anonymous | hosted by Kodie + Sarah

HUMAN DESIGN ANONYMOUS

Calling all human design addicts…

Kodie and Sarah met through the human design community. Over the last few years of friendship, we’ve dove deep into the magic and mysteries of the human design system. Every gate, line and center…analyzing all the people on our fractal. Seeing these energetics play out in real life with astounding precision.

But then we reached a point where we became frustrated with the system and annoyed at ourselves for getting stuck in the patterns. We can see them - great. But now what?

Then, we realized…

Human Design is about cultivating awareness. But awareness is not enough. Seeing these energetic patterns play our is not enough. It’s what we do once we are able to see clearly - that is the juice of “the work”. This is the life changing part of the work. That is how we truly take responsibility for our lives and our role in this world.

That is how we begin to shape our realities - to become Creators of our world.

Awareness it the first step. Embodiment comes next.

Topics we discuss:

  • the moon as lock, key and doorway

  • the red vs. the black and the true potential of the design side

  • moving from awareness to embodiment

MEMBERS: Terra Nova community members receive complimentary access to all gatherings included in their membership. Please use the coupon code found under the Substack Gatherings section at checkout to waive the drop in cost. Reserve your spot at the link below.

NON-MEMBERS: If you’re not ready to join our membership but would like to join us for tea, you may purchase a drop in pass at the link below.

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Sound Bath | hosted by Cora
Sep
22

Sound Bath | hosted by Cora

Sound baths are portals to your true self. Through the gentle, soothing and nourishing waves of frequencies your body, mind and soul are being guided back into their original state without you having to do anything but lay there and receive. It is a deeply sensual, magical, healing and relaxing experience - a chiropractic attunement for your energetic body. Each sound bath begins with a welcoming practice, followed by a sound experience and ends with an integration practice. Bring your journal and get comfortable and cozy.

For an optimal listening experience, Cora recommend’s using headphones or connecting your computer to a speaker.

CREATOR MEMBERS: Terra Nova Creator Members receive complimentary access to all gatherings included in their membership. Please use the code found under The Hearth on Substack to use at checkout to waive the drop in cost. Reserve your spot at the link below.

COMMUNITY MEMBERS: If you’re not ready to join our paid membership, but would like to join us for this experience, you may purchase a drop in pass at the link below.

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Tea Ceremony | Community Gathering hosted by Sarah
Sep
15

Tea Ceremony | Community Gathering hosted by Sarah

GONG FU CHA - 功夫茶 - the Chinese art of preparing tea.


Tea is steeped into the foundation of Terra Nova.


I fell in love with the practice of artistically preparing and drinking tea in 2021, around the time the Terra Nova vision first came through my body and started brewing in my consciousness. In fact, nearly all of the founding members of Terra Nova came into my life through tea sits that lasted all day at West China Tea.


Steep after steep, the tea began to breathe Life into the vision. We sat around the tea table at my home in Austin and spoke our wildest dreams into existence. Our words and laughs lingered in the incense filled air. We dared not only to imagine our visions for Terra Nova, but tuned into the sensations of it, as if we were already there, experiencing it for ourselves. Terra Nova is the frequency that naturally arises around the tea table. A space where all are invited to freely express themselves and be received and loved on by the community.


That’s the power of tea. It brings us into the present moment through a luxurious journey through the senses. It is simple and profound. Words don’t have to be exchanged, but there is without a doubt an exchange happens when you share a cup of tea with someone. You are connected by the leaf, which naturally reminds you of your inherent connection to all Life. For me, what matters, is how it makes you feel. Not just the tea itself, but the experience of steeping in presence with a friend, admiring the beautiful tea wares, the sounds of the water boiling, the steam on your skin, the heavenly scent of incense burning…


Join the Terra Nova community for our bi-weekly tea ceremony. We begin every sit sipping three rounds of tea in silence and then move into conversation and connection. If you are new to tea, no need to acquire a fancy gaiwan or teapot (although they are quite fun). You can begin with a small bowl or cup, some loose leaf tea, and some hot water. If you’d like to familiarize yourself with the practice of Gong Fu Cha, we recommend starting here.


Our favorite tea purveyors:

West China Tea

Living Tea

Hidden Peak Teahouse

Grass People Tree

Song Tea and Ceramics


“If we’re not mindful, it’s not tea that we’re drinking but our own illusions and afflictions. If the tea becomes real, we become real. When we are able to truly meet the tea, at that very moment we are truly alive.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

CREATOR MEMBERS: Terra Nova Creator Members receive complimentary access to all gatherings included in their membership. Please use the code found under The Hearth on Substack to use at checkout to waive the drop in cost. Reserve your spot at the link below.

COMMUNITY MEMBERS: If you’re not ready to join our paid membership, but would like to join us for tea, you may purchase a drop in pass at the link below.

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The Salon: Saturn’s Secrets | Facilitated by Alison
Sep
14

The Salon: Saturn’s Secrets | Facilitated by Alison

The Salon is a private social gathering where members of the Terra Nova community come together to openly discuss art, literature, philosophy, spirituality, and music.

Each month a different community member hosts The Salon and facilitates conversation around a particular topic.

On September 14th, Alison Skoff will host The Salon, diving deep into Saturn’s secrets.

Generally speaking Saturn’s darker persona is universally recognized in the mainstream. He is known as malefic. Words like restriction, discipline, unyielding, inflexible, rule-bound tend to make one feel a sense of contraction. 

Yet, he also carries the gift of the initiator who, for the cost of our authenticity (which as a social planet, Saturn demands in service our our individual and collective evolution), offers us greater consciousness, self-understanding and eventually freedom. 

Join us in The Salon as we take a new look at how Saturn is serving our evolution and how turning towards Saturn may unlock deeper layers of freedom.

If you are unfamiliar with your Saturn placements, pull your astrology and human design chart and bring them to The Salon.

CREATOR MEMBERS: Terra Nova Creator Members receive 50% off of The Salon. Please use the discount code found under the Substack Gatherings section at checkout. Reserve your spot at the link below.

COMMUNITY MEMBERS: If you’re not ready to join our paid membership, but would like to join us for The Salon, you may purchase a drop in pass at the link below.

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Terra Nova Opening Circle
Sep
5

Terra Nova Opening Circle

 

Join the Terra Nova community for our opening ceremony. We will begin with a meditation, tune into the frequency of Terra Nova, share our intentions for opening up this space, and open up the space for any questions. The opening ceremony is complimentary for both our Creator Members (paid) and Community Members (free).

5:00 pm PDT/6:00 pm MDT/8:00 pm EDT

If you would like to join the Terra Nova community, Sign Up on Substack and click the link below to join us for the opening ceremony.

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Mountain on the Moon | hosted by Kodie
Sep
2

Mountain on the Moon | hosted by Kodie

MOUNTAIN ON THE MOON

Exploring the energetic tides of the Moon and other celestial bodies from within.

You are done riding the energetic roller coaster of the lunar tides and are ready to reclaim your sovereignty.

You are looking to anchor the spiritual knowings of your mind into a somatic awareness of your own body.

You are ready to detach from the outer authority of esoteric systems and learn the language of your own energy.

The moon can be a key to our personal liberation or it can be the cyclically revolving cage that keeps our solar light hidden. We get to decide how we interact with the driving force of the moon. Whether or not we get dragged along the emotional tidal waves of the moon's force is ours to choose. And the first step is feeling it in our body and reflecting on the patterns that drive our subconscious behaviors.

If we choose to liberate ourselves from this cage, we begin to anchor into a deeper knowing of the light we share into the world. This key accesses the door to deeper, more subtle layers of our subconscious world. We begin to hear the whisperings of our body. We begin to identify the inherited programs of our genetics and free ourselves from generational baggage. 

We can loop old patterns over and over or we can begin to spiral upward towards our integrated actualized selves. The moon gives us a key to the locked door of fully coming home to our light.

Hosted by Terra Nova’s community reflector, Kodie Smiley

6/3 reflector on Cross of Dominion

CREATOR MEMBERS: Terra Nova Creator Members receive complimentary access to MOUNTAIN ON THE MOON included in their membership. Please use the code found under The Hearth on Substack to use at checkout to waive the drop in cost. Reserve your spot at the link below.

COMMUNITY MEMBERS: Terra Nova Community Members receive $20 off lifetime access to MOUNTAIN ON THE MOON.

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Tea Ceremony | Community Gathering hosted by Sarah
Sep
1

Tea Ceremony | Community Gathering hosted by Sarah

GONG FU CHA - 功夫茶 - the Chinese art of preparing tea.

Tea is steeped into the foundation of Terra Nova.

I fell in love with the practice of artistically preparing and drinking tea in 2021, around the time the Terra Nova vision first came through my body and started brewing in my consciousness. In fact, nearly all of the founding members of Terra Nova came into my life through tea sits that lasted all day at West China Tea.

Steep after steep, the tea began to breathe Life into the vision. We sat around the tea table at my home in Austin and spoke our wildest dreams into existence. Our words and laughs lingered in the incense filled air. We dared not only to imagine our visions for Terra Nova, but tuned into the sensations of it, as if we were already there, experiencing it for ourselves. Terra Nova is the frequency that naturally arises around the tea table. A space where all are invited to freely express themselves and be received and loved on by the community.

That’s the power of tea. It brings us into the present moment through a luxurious journey through the senses. It is simple and profound. Words don’t have to be exchanged, but there is without a doubt an exchange happens when you share a cup of tea with someone. You are connected by the leaf, which naturally reminds you of your inherent connection to all Life. For me, what matters, is how it makes you feel. Not just the tea itself, but the experience of steeping in presence with a friend, admiring the beautiful tea wares, the sounds of the water boiling, the steam on your skin, the heavenly scent of incense burning…

Join the Terra Nova community for our bi-weekly tea ceremony. We begin every sit sipping three rounds of tea in silence and then move into conversation and connection. If you are new to tea, no need to acquire a fancy teapot (although they are quite fun). You can begin with a small bowl or cup, some loose leaf tea, and some hot water. If you’d like to familiarize yourself with the practice of Gong Fu Cha, we recommend starting here.

Our favorite tea purveyors:

West China Tea

Living Tea

Hidden Peak Teahouse

Grass People Tree

Song Tea and Ceramics

“If we’re not mindful, it’s not tea that we’re drinking but our own illusions and afflictions. If the tea becomes real, we become real. When we are able to truly meet the tea, at that very moment we are truly alive.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

CREATOR MEMBERS: Terra Nova Creator Members receive complimentary access to all gatherings included in their membership. Please use the code found under The Hearth on Substack to use at checkout to waive the drop in cost. Reserve your spot at the link below.

COMMUNITY MEMBERS: If you’re not ready to join our paid membership, but would like to join us for tea, you may purchase a drop in pass at the link below.

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