Residency at Pudding Creek

Here, time loosens its grip.

A residency at Pudding Creek is an invitation to step sideways out of the rush and into a living conversation with land, body, and breath. Designed as a week or longer, it honors the simple truth that healing and learning can’t be hurried. Growth happens at the pace of roots.

Each day begins with meditation, a quiet tuning-in—like adjusting an old radio until the signal of your own attention comes through clearly. Yoga, offered three times a week, becomes a practice of listening with muscles and bones, a way of remembering that the body is not separate from the earth beneath it. Time in the garden is not a task but a relationship: hands in soil, eyes at leaf-level, learning directly from patience, decay, and renewal.

This is a space to heal disconnection and soften the habits of alienation. A space to rest without apology. To make, think, write, or simply be. To encounter a wilder self—not untamed, but deeply entangled with trees, weather, and the quiet intelligence of the land.

At Pudding Creek, creativity emerges not from pressure, but from presence. You listen deeply—to yourself, to the birds, to the trees—and in that listening, something long forgotten remembers you back.

The rhythms of the days revolve around morning meditation and time spent outdoors in the gardens. Projects are seasonal and depend on what needs to be done.

Generally the day starts around 7:30am with meditation and then time for breakfast.

Expect to spend 2 - 3 hours learning and working outside in the morning with Ashley 4 - 5 days per week. The work is physical, but approached with spaciousness as we learn to work in a sustainable way.

Some meals will be shared and yoga happens on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays.

Accommodations are either in the separate guest apartment or in shared housing.

Costs are sliding scale from $50 per week to $500 per week depending on length of stay, accommodations, and work hours.