Welcoming All
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Deepen Your Roots
You are welcome.
As a Visitor, you are invited to:
- Attend weekly Sanctuary gatherings
- Participate in our community spaces
- Explore at your own pace
- Experience the rhythms and spirit of this community
There is no obligation and no pressure.
Visitors are invited to listen, learn, share, and discern whether this feels like a spiritual home.
Deepen Your Roots
Guide the Sanctuary
Deepen Your Roots
Entry Membership
Companions are those who choose to root more intentionally into the life of the Sanctuary.
Commitment:
- $10-$25/month or
- 2 volunteer hours per month in service to the community
As a Companion, you:
- Participate in our monthly Members Circle—a deeper space for reflection and shared discernment
- Have a voting voice and shared input in the direction of the Sanctuary
- Are welcomed and named as part of the living body of this community
If you feel nourished by this space and would like to help sustain it, Companion membership is a simple way to root more deeply in the sanctuary.
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Guide the Sanctuary
Guide the Sanctuary
Core Circle
Stewards are those called to help actively tend and shape the Sanctuary.
Commitment:
- $50+ per month or
- A defined leadership role within the community
As a Steward, you:
- Help shape programming, themes, and seasonal rhythms
- Participate in visioning and discernment conversations
- Carry visible responsibility in tending this shared spiritual home
Stewards help ensure that Rooted Spirit Sanctuary remains grounded, sustainable, and alive.
Stewardship begins with a conversation.
Meet Our Guides
Ladybug Larsen
Ladybug Larsen
Ladybug Larsen
Ladybug (they/them) is a volunteer board member and minister, grounded in diverse spiritual teachings from Buddhism to Amazonian traditions. With advanced degrees in Counseling, Queer Studies, and Human Development, they nurture our community with compassion.
Monica Maghiar
Ladybug Larsen
Ladybug Larsen
Monica (she/they) is a volunteer board member and Sanctuary Leader, deeply connected with Mother Earth and spiritual wisdoms, guiding our community with reverence and compassion.
Steven Fero
Join Our Board
Join Our Board
Steven (he/him) is a Sanctuary Leader, sharing wisdom from global traditions to nurture healing and growth.
Join Our Board
Join Our Board
Join Our Board
We seek passionate individuals aligned with our mission to serve on our volunteer Board. Interested or know someone? Let's connect.
The History of Rooted Spirit Sanctuary
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Rooted Spirit Sanctuary Ministries was founded in 2025 as the natural evolution of Haux (pronounced howsh) Gatherings.
Haux Gatherings was an organization created to promote healing in community. Run by Ladybug Larsen, Haux Gatherings facilitated weekly in-person integration circles, and provided counseling and support services for those on their healing journeys. Haux Gatherings also offered professional consultation to practitioners working in various healing spaces.
Ladybug’s (and thus Haux’s) work is/was influenced spiritually by principles in Buddhism—non-attachment, non-duality, compassionate practices—and practically by somatic and parts-work approaches to healing. Ladybug has also spent extensive time studying the earth-based indigenous practices of the Shipibo-Konibo in Peru and weaves that into their work. Hence, Rooted Spirit Sanctuary is a church which acknowledges that spirituality is interconnected with our Mother Earth and with this human experience—that spirituality can bring us deeper into our human-ness, and that the richer our human experience, the closer we can be to Divine.
Furthermore, from its inception, Haux Gatherings maintained a non-profit financial ethos. It catered to those with fewer resources and sought to make healing services accessible to all—regardless of financial situation. Haux Gatherings’s sliding scale model facilitated the creation of a Haux Scholarship Fund, which allowed for Haux to truly provide services to anyone.
Rooted Spirit Sanctuary Ministries formalizes this ethos by becoming a religious non-profit. Now truly an organization run by and for the community, Rooted Spirit Sanctuary relies entirely on donations, and its members have a say in how it is run.
More than that, not only are ministerial counseling services donation-based, but all donations made to Rooted Spirit Sanctuary are tax-deductible. It is in this way that we get to give back even more to the community.
We are so excited for you to join us on this evolution. And we are honored to continue finding ways to be of deeper and more impactful service.
