The Sanctuary
The Sanctuary is for women who want more texture in their days, more aliveness in their bodies, and more rhythm in their year.
Connect with your senses, align with the seasons, and reclaim your relationship to the here and now.
For most of human history our ancestors kept time through the seasons and the senses.
But when you can get strawberries in December, answer work emails at midnight, and the light of a screen replaces the light of the sun, it’s easy for days to lose their texture.
Monday blurs into Wednesday.
Your table reflects the latest algorithm craze instead of what’s growing in the ground.
Your noticing of the seasons is limited to what flavor latte is featured, or what kind of candy is on display at the grocery.
For many of us, time seems to pass without much distinction.
Each day holds the same tasks, same errands, same routes.
Same shows. Same meals. Same computer.
Life is busy.
But it lacks feeling.
January becomes June, June becomes September, and you find yourself wondering, “How is it already Fall?”
Some part of you still remembers the rhythm of the nature in your bones.
And you want more of it in your everyday.
You want more things to make with your hands.
You want more reasons to go outside.
You want to care for your body in ways that feel like ritual, rather than a box to check.
You want to create more than you consume.
You want to notice what’s different at the farmers market, and have one seasonal recipe you’re excited to make in your back pocket.
We know how good it feels to make time for these things – but doing it all alone is much easier said than done.
That’s why we take care of all the details.
You’ve got a year’s worth of gatherings, supplies, experiences, and rituals done for you—so all you need to do is show up and receive.
The Sanctuary is a year of guided, seasonal, sensory living to make your days feel richer, more creative, and more alive.
“I was tired of walking through a dulled version of life.
The Sanctuary has brought my senses alive again, and I’ve reunited with parts of myself I didn’t even know I missed.”
SAMANTHA
“The Sanctuary has made my life richer, fuller, and more real.”
I remember how to be in my body, to connect with my heart, and surround myself with beauty.
LEANN DAMERON
How The Year Flows
WHAT’S INCLUDED
The Sanctuary Box • a feast for the senses, delivered to your door
When you join, you’ll receive a Sanctuary Box filled with a sensory treats and everything you’ll need for our seasonal creative projects.
It’s all included to support your full journey, so all you have to do is open the season’s package when the time comes, and receive. (No peeking! )
A Monthly At-Home Workshop
These monthly, 90-minute gatherings bring wisdom, intention, insight, and tools to bring the senses and the seasons into your everyday life. We follow the path of nature and reconnect with natural rhythms through beauty, embodiment, and creativity.
See our seasonal themes here.
Live Weekly Embodiment Practice
Each week you’ll enjoy a guided somatic practice. This weekly, 30-minute ritual is how we do life together. We move our bodies, connect with intuition, and come back to the Sanctuary within ourselves.
Afterwards, you’re invited to stay for optional Coffee Talk: a chance to connect, hear what’s happening in each other’s lives, and witness one another’s journeys as the year unfolds.
Love Notes & A Monthly Magazine
At the start of each month you’ll receive a beautiful digital magazine for savoring the month ahead, filled with seasonal rituals, recipes, inspiration, and almanacs to help you savor each month completely.
At the start of each week you’ll also receive an inspiring, 2-minute written and audio Love Note to center you, delight you, and set the tone for the week ahead.
A Key to The Sanctuary Ritual Garden
When you join, you’ll receive access to a library of 5–15 minute Sanctuary practices, including private podcasts, meditations, beauty rituals, and tutorials on everything from how to style a bud vase to how to grow in self-compassion.
The library evolves as the year turns, with featured rituals and practices chosen to complement the season and our monthly themes.
FAQs
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Live Gatherings to Enjoy at Your Leisure:
Monday: Live Group Presence Practice (20-mins) at 10am PST / 1pm EDT
Wednesday: Live Movement Practice (30-mins) 2pm PST / 5pm EDT
Second Wednesday of the month: Live Masterclass (75-mins) 2pm PST / 5pm EDT
Last Thursday of the month: Celebration Circle & Monthly Intention Setting (45-mins) 11am PST / 2pm EDT
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Oh are there ever features! The live gatherings are at the heart of The Sanctuary if you’re craving a group experience, but they are just the beginning of all that you receive.
💌 Weekly Love Note
A two-minute audio letter to set the tone and invite you into a moment of slow, sumptuous presence at the start of your week.
🌷 Weekly Live Embodiment Practices
Twice per week we gather for a small practice of music, poetry, movement, and connection in our live embodiment practice. Think of these practices like gathering at a small café with close friends for a nourishing, cozy catch up and a delicious, sumptuous dessert for the soul..
🌹 Monthly Themes
Each month, all of our gatherings and gems center around a theme. Past themes have included The Art of Enchantment, Living in Simple Luxury, The Well-Tended Woman, Beauty Alchemy, and so much more.
🌳 An On-Demand Charm Garden
Available anytime is a private garden of meditations, beauty tutorials, sensual living lessons, playlists, and many other tools to entertain and enrich your life through small, simple rituals.
⏸️ Pause Week
Once per month we take a pause on new content to practice the art of savoring and integrate the month’s gems.
💐The Weekly Charm
Each week you’re given a small, 5-15 minute video or audio practice to weave exquisite presence into your days. Topics range from seasonal visualizations to mocktail recipes, sensory crafts to private podcasts, and so much more.
🌺 Little Luxuries
Throughout the month you’ll receive little surprise bon-bon's in your inbox, for small doses of beauty, encouragement, and inspiration all month long.
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If you identify as a feminine being (which may include women, non-binary folks, trans and genderqueer folks, or other identities) you’re welcome here! If you have questions about whether this is a place you’d feel at home, we’d love to be in touch. Send us an email at hello@marylofgren.com
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You 'betcha. All live gatherings are recorded and available in the online Sanctuary Library.
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We want everyone who joins The Sanctuary to feel happy and satisfied with their purchase.
For monthly memberships, there are no refunds but you can cancel your membership at any time before your 30-day renewal date, and you will not be charged again.
For annual memberships, if after 7 days from the date you joined you feel The Sanctuary is not for you, you can request a refund for your purchase amount. There is a $20 processing fee to cover our costs of processing a refund. After that seven days, no refunds are available.
Who Is The Sanctuary For?
You want your life to feel fuller, as in more color, flavor, and richness—not just fuller on the calendar.
You’re intrigued by the seasons the as a way to give life more meaning, texture, and rhythm.
You want to spend less time consuming, and more time making, noticing, and experiencing.
You love the idea of having beautiful experiences already planned for you, with retreats on the calendar, practices selected, and supplies arriving at your door.
You’re excited by a community of like-hearted souls doing life together over the course of a year.
You love lip gloss as much as spiritual practice, meditation as much as the perfect throw pillow, and you want a place where you can bring all of yourself to the table.
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"The Sanctuary has reconnected me with a zest I thought I'd lost."
MAYA
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“I now know how my feminine nervous system can and should feel.”
PKM
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“If you’re looking for a place to slow down and be saturated in life's wonder - The Sanctuary is it.”
NADEE
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"I am so grateful to have found this secret society of feminine delight."
RENÉE SEARLES
You’ve spent decades examining your life.
Now it’s time to begin experiencing your life.
Join The Sanctuary
Hello, my friend.
I’m Mary Lofgren. I’m an artist, embodiment coach, podcaster, and lifelong student of the senses.
For more than 20 years, I’ve helped people come back into relationship with their bodies through movement, creativity, beauty, and attention.
I created The Sanctuary because I wanted a place to blend these life-changing practices together, following the arc of the seasons.
We have so much to learn from actually experiencing our lives through nature, ritual, and what we can touch, taste, smell, and see.
The Sanctuary offers a collective place to keep showing up for the things you love in your life.
There will be beauty to make, flavors to taste, packages to open, music to dance to, and seasons to rest into.
There will be moments to grieve, gratitude to uplift, belly laughs to tumble into, and truths to tell.
I hope you’ll join us for a year of noticing, making, moving, and experiencing life, not just keeping up with it, as the seasons unfold.
With love,
Mary
Come Spend a Year With Us
Join The Sanctuary
A 12-month journey through the seasons,
the senses, creativity, and the body.
Your Year in The Sanctuary Includes
Monthly 90-minute
live mini-retreats
Weekly live embodiment practices
+ optional Coffee Talk
Four Seasonal
Creativity Salons
Your Sanctuary Box
+ craft supplies
Monthly
Sanctuary Magazine
The Sanctuary
Ritual Garden
Weekly written + audio
Love Notes
Little Luxuries
& Unexpected Delights
You’ll receive everything you need to get started, along with the dates for our upcoming gatherings.
Your Sanctuary Box will arrive with your seasonal creative kits and a few surprises for the year ahead.
Begin Your Year →