Honoring Ancestors: Community Ayah @ SMW

With Truth is One Interfaith Church, Alanna and David

October 23 - 25, 2026

Date and Time Details: Friday 10/23 and Saturday 10/24

Location: Marshall, North Carolina

Address: Sacred Mountain Waters: Address will be emailed to confirmed participants.

Contact: Truth is One
connect@truthisone.net

Prices

$200.00 to $400.00 – Friday 10/23 ONE Day (sliding scale)
$200.00 to $400.00 – Saturday 10/24 ONE Day (sliding scale)
$400.00 to $800.00 – BOTH DAYS (sliding scale)

We are so excited to gather at Sacred Mountain Waters as a community. We have done so much powerful work together and are honored to fill this temple with song, prayer and community once again.

Ancestral Remembrance & Honoring

The veil grows thin as autumn deepens and the harvest draws near. We gather in the sacred direction of the West —the place of Water, of endings and remembrance, where we turn to face those who have walked before us.

The wheel turns toward the celebration of Samhain, as the fields have offered their last gifts and the leaves release their hold. In this season of letting go, we open our hearts to our ancestors—beloved, forgotten, and unknown.

Our weekend will conclude shortly before the Full Moon in the waters of Pisces on Monday October 26th, illuminating the threshold between worlds .

Across every culture and spiritual lineage on Earth, humanity has always known: the dead are not gone. They are woven into us — in our blood, our wounds, our gifts, our unfinished prayers. The Buddhists light lanterns and burn offerings for hungry ghosts at Obon. The Yoruba and Candomblé traditions call upon the Egungun, the collective ancestors who counsel and protect the living. Día de los Muertos opens the portal with marigolds and song. The Mormon tradition carries the practice of temple work —proxy ordinances offered on behalf of those who have passed, so that no soul is left without a door opened for them. The Santo Daime gather on Missa Mondays to pray for the departed, singing hymns that build a bridge between this world and the next. The Celts honor Samhain as the night when ancestors could walk freely among the living. Indigenous traditions around the world tend altars, make offerings, speak names aloud — because a soul remembered is a soul at peace.

Join us as we sit with grief and with love. Join us as we sing, pray, be still, and listen to the voices of the ancestors.

SMW Venue & Arrival:

You are welcome to camp on the land if you’d like. This season at Sacred Mountain Waters is absolutely beautiful. We will begin the ceremonies at night both on Friday and Saturday. We request that no one leave until the next morning after ceremony is complete.

Please Bring:

Sleeping nest, potluck dish, swimsuit & towel, ceremony attire, eye mask, and ear plugs.

Financial Privilege Tier Per Night Contribution Guidelines:

TIER #3: Financially Comfortable – $300-400/night

TIER #2: Financially Tight – $200-300/night

TIER #1: Financially Stressed – $100-200/night

We thank you in advance for your honesty and integrity and hope you will make the contribution that is in deepest alignment with your greatest capacity for generosity and acknowledgement of reciprocity. Please fill out the Financial Assistance Form if you need to pay less than $200/night.

About the Facilitators

Truth is One Interfaith Church

Truth is One Interfaith Church has a well qualified team of facilitators and guides.

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Alanna

Alanna is a facilitator of plant medicine ceremonies and has undergone training and initiation from an Umbandaime community where she lived and studied in the Amazon of Acre, Brazil. She has also studied with Davi de Paula, a world renown 'caboclo' from the Umbandaime Tradition in Brazil, the Yawanawa tribe in the Brazilian Amazon, and […]

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David

David has had a lifelong affinity to connect with mother nature in an intimate way and is passionate about helping others do the same; to understand Her essence, and learn to live harmoniously with Her. He is currently enrolled in a vigorous training program learning to facilitate vision quest fasts and rites of passage. Vision […]

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