Our goal is for you to recover, heal, and relax as you connect with nature during your stay on our secluded mountain. Welcome to Seeds of Tradition Healing Sanctuary!
About Your Hosts
Adam Laufer
Adam is an artist, a maker and a healer. His past experience includes teaching Iyengar yoga full-time and being a certified Polarity Therapist, as well as building custom, hand-crafted treehouses to connect his clients with nature.
Adam was born into this Western culture, and unusual circumstances led him to be initiated and trained as a quiapaquiz (which means weather worker), also known as granicero or tiempero in Spanish. He was initiated with his wife, Erin, into this ancient Central Mexico lineage in 2003. He is responsible for being a liaison between the Weather Beings - rain, clouds, wind, lightning and sun - and the people in his community. As a healer in this lineage, he is known as tepahtiani. His life is devoted to joyful (and only occasionally grumpy) service.
Adam's divine calling to heal has been recognized by multiple tradition-holders. He opens his doors to provide healing sessions in the Asheville, NC area at his healing retreat north of Asheville. And, together with his wife and colleagues, he offers ceremonies to help our community realign ourselves with the living world around us.
Erin Everett
Erin has been trained in life coaching by Newfield Network and has apprenticed with multiple alternative medicine healers and elders. She is a Plant Spirit Medicine healer, ordained by Eliot Cowan in 2003. She supports the international spiritual-social movement nonprofit called Sacred Fire and has spent decades learning from the trainings, teachers and elders available there and within her spiritual lineage.
Erin Everett is a weather worker and initiated healer in her spiritual lineage. In 2003, along with Adam, she was ordained into the ancient and unbroken tradition of weather workers in Central Mexico by master weather worker don Lucio Campos de Elizalde. In Spanish, weather workers like her and her compadres are known as graniceros (workers with hail) and tiemperos (workers with time). In the ancient Nahuatl language, they are known as quiatlzques, as well as other traditional names. After years of intensive training and pilgrimage, she was ordained as a tepahtiani healer in their tradition, with Adam, in 2020.
She offers personal and group healing retreats with Adam at their small forested mountainside healing center in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, North Carolina. For a time, she is supporting Adam in his leadership and expertise as a healer, so Adam is the principal healer at retreats and getaways.
Learn about Adam and Erin’s healing practice, next door to the cabin sanctuary where you will stay.
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"Many thanks to Adam and Erin for a great experience. There were multiple healing sessions including sweat lodge. The sessions are transformational from a spiritual and physiological perspective. I would recommend this retreat for any issues, i.e. depression, recent loss of a loved one or long-term distress that traditional therapy doesn't seem to lift. I feel significantly lighter mentally and spiritually after the retreat."
—Satish Venkat, digital thought leader, Greer, SC
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"I had lost 2 family members earlier this year and was dealing with a lot of grief. I have tried modern medicine and other ways of trying to heal. This seemed like a unique retreat and a different approach to healing. The food was healthy and very delicious. After the Temazcalli, I felt refreshed and renewed. Slept very well both nights I was there. As a Christian, it’s hard to open yourself up to different ideas of spirituality but this experience enhanced my relationship with God and his creation. The teachings and healings offered are built on a foundation of Faith and belief in a higher power."
—Noell Mach, social worker, Indiana
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“As a Christian (Methodist), I was hesitant to book this retreat at first. I am so glad I did! Everything was about God, just from an ancient catholic-like perspective. Adam and Erin were so kind, welcoming, knowledgeable and professional. This is truly an authentic experience I will carry for my entire life.”
—Sarah from Ohio
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"Outstanding hosts! My temazcalli experience with Adam and my traditional healing session with Erin were both exceptional. Both were instrumental in helping me release old deep-rooted negative energy. Adam and Erin are good people doing good things."
—Dale King
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"I went in for a tick bite causing recurrent issues. Not only is the tick bite better but various aspects of my life have improved as well. Erin is committed to her path and very knowledgeable of the Nahua tradition... The healing takes place within the visit and positive effects continue to unfold between sessions."
Megan Burns, licensed acupuncturist and teacher
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"The soul retrieval session with Erin brought me back home to myself in a way that I had never experienced before. It was a powerful session and a powerful moment, and things have shifted for me since then. I’m really grateful for that.”
Justin Belleme, marketing and business development entrepreneur
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“In working with Adam, the healing doesn’t end in the room. It unfolds over time. Parts of myself are waking up.”
Patrick Hackney, writer, actor and service professional
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“Because of the healings, I feel more grounded, more in touch with my Self. I feel this sense of possibility. The Universe feels abundant, and my role, the way I can interact with the world: new layers of possibility have been opened.”
Laura Boggess, university professor
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“After my session, it’s easier to more clearly see my true self and who I want to be in everyday situations, like brushing away the debris that had gotten in the way from life.”
Mary Katherine O’Donnell, actor and acting instructor
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“Our Zoom session gave Paul and I the opportunity to discuss some underlying issues as well as brought to light one of each of our underlying patterns that has been an issue in our marriage. I also love that we were asked to share about ourselves during the questions. I really appreciated Paul’s self-reflection as well as his feedback on mine.”
Cassandra Stark, professional speaker and mother
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“In the few months that I’ve been working with Erin, I’ve already felt deep and subtle shifts in my core being and life. I’m grateful to be learning, and practicing some of the old ways that help me live in this modern day life the best way I can. This work is helping me show up more whole and authentically in my relationships, with myself, my family/friends, and work.”
Tanya-Jewel Robertson, healthcare professional
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"[Adam and Erin and their administrator Billie] made me feel very welcome, very safe. Love the home cooked food on the stove at arrival, the comfortable sleeping space, the freedom to be with people or not. I loved following the intuition of the healers for the order of things and trusting them with the process."
Kimary Schatten, healthcare professional
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"Erin Everett and Adam Laufer are two of the most kind-hearted people that you'll ever meet in this lifetime.
The trip itself is a great experience and being out deep in the woods up in the mountains has a beautiful calming effect on its own. I found myself just basking outside at random times just soaking it all in. The healing itself was an experience. I tried some modern healing for some of the emotional trauma I've dealt with in my life which had mixed results. Nahua healing was new for me and even though I had some understanding of it actually going through the experience is something that I believe everyone in whatever stage of their life should experience it as well. They're more than healers, I can't put everything into works but I went there carrying a ton of unnecessary luggage (stress etc) and left feeling lighter than before and with a clarity that I haven't had in sometime. They help you find the answers within yourself and you'll leave feeling more confident than ever with positive energy that you can bring to others in your life if you choose to do so.” —James Ealey, Pennsylvania
