Celebrate Robbie & Eleanor’s Engagement

Join us in celebrating our love with a weekend of camping, great food, and amazing company!

Read the full page for FAQs, weekend details, and schedule.

Please RSVP here: https://evite.me/AVBCgR3Wtk so we have a head count!

Weekend Overview

🌿 CELEBRATION SCHEDULE 🌿

Note all programing is optional! This weekend is yours to enjoy, take in the beauty of Mandala Springs at your own pace; visit Asheville, hike, swim or simply soak in the land.

⛰️ FRIDAY ⛰️

✨ 6:00— Arrival Potluck and Merriment (Please note this portion of the event is invite only, if you would like to invite someone please check in with us!)

⛰️ SATURDAY ⛰️

✨ ALL DAY! Sauna + Cold Plunge 💧🔥

✨ 9:00 AM Guided Tree Tops Bird Song Walk with Markael

⛰️ SATURDAY ⛰️

✨ 11:00 AM Ecstatic Dance Set with Liquid Bloom  (Amani from Desert Dwellers)

+ Cacao Ceremony with our very own ROBBIE LENFESTEY!

💜At the WELCOME KIOSK when checking in- mention that you are here for Robbie & Eleanor’s Engagement for a special wrist band. 💜

Please note- this is the only ticketed portion of the weekend and open to the general public! Ticket link below.

⛰️ SATURDAY ⛰️

✨ 11:00 AM- 4:00pm   GRAND OPENING of our Organic Marketplace & Japanese Inspired Zen Lounge

✨ With VENDOR POP-UPS including:

🌿 Habbibi Village (Lebanese food)

🌿 Plant Bar  (herbaceous elixirs, mock tails + creative teas)

🌿 Local Famers & Artisans

✨ Sonic Alchemy Class, Ceremonial Tea Service, Yoga, Sound Healing ✨ 

💜 At the WELCOME KIOSK when checking in- mention that you are here for Robbie & Eleanor’s Engagement for a special wrist band. 💜

Please note- this is a celebration of the vision we co-tend as a couple coming to fruition-free, and open to the general public! More info below.

⛰️ SATURDAY ⛰️

✨ 6:00 PM  Engagement Hand Fasting Ritual lead by Joanie Lamb, Luna Ray, & Jeremy Schewe

✨ 6:30 PM Potluck, merriment & communing (plus more sauna!)

✨ 8:00 PM  Fireside Song Circle 🎶🔥

Lead by our very own Noah Proudfoot, w/ special guests including Freedom Family Band,  Danielson, Miguel & more…

(Please note this portion of the event is invite only, if you would like to invite someone please check in with us!)

Please RSVP here: https://evite.me/AVBCgR3Wtk so we have a head count!

⛰️ SUNDAY⛰️

✨ ALL DAY! Sauna + Cold Plunge 💧🔥

✨ 9:00 AM Guided Tree Tops Bird Song Walk with Markael

✨ Gentle Integration Day Good people, great food, and enjoying the day

✨ 6:30 PM Guided Moon Rise Hike with Markael, this is a 2.5 hour up journey to the ridge line above Mandala Springs. You will be able to witness the moon rise before returning to Mandala

Please RSVP here: https://evite.me/AVBCgR3Wtk so we have a head count!

We’re Engaged — And We’re Finally Celebrating!

After two years of engagement, we are so excited to finally be celebrating with our beloved community on the magical land we tend together. We look forward to celebrating our wedding with you all in 2027!

This weekend also marks the grand opening of the Mandala Springs Organic Marketplace + Japanese Inspired Zen Tea Lounge.

Rob and Eleanor share a beautiful vision of supporting the local food shed and living in deeper relationship with the lands that hold, nourish, and sustain us.

Their commitment reflects a way of living in harmony with life through embodied action: supporting neighboring farmers, strengthening local community ties, and creating spaces where people can gather around nourishment, beauty, and belonging.

Together, they are tending a vision of a holistic, regenerative eco-village of aligned families living and co-creating the kind of world we wish to pass on to future generations.

This vision also lives through the Mandala Springs Marketplace — a place where the community can access and support local farmers, makers, herbalists, and regenerative food systems.

This engagement weekend celebrates more than sacred union.

It marks the braiding together of two lives, two visions, and two paths becoming more potent together, where 1 + 1 becomes 11.

The Mandala Springs is becoming both an offering and a prayer for the kind of world they hope to help cultivate, one rooted in reciprocity, stewardship, care for the land, and deeper connection with one another.

And in this weekend is also for you all! To enjoy the little moments, break bread, make music and deepen connections with each other. To weave the golden threads of interrelating into friendship and inter belonging.

We’re so grateful to celebrate this new chapter alongside all of you.

Together, we tend the future. 🌱

Please RSVP here: https://evite.me/AVBCgR3Wtk so we have a head count!

Marketplace
Learn About the Regenerative EcoVillage we are Building
Japeneese Inspired Tea Lounge

Liquid Bloom Ecstatic Dance

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Join us for a special ecstatic dance and cacao ceremony. (This is the only ticketed portion of the weekend.) This event will sell out.

Liquid Bloom Tickets will SELL OUT

Marketplace Grand Opening Celebration

11:00-4:00 PM

Saturday afternoon also includes the grand opening celebration of the Mandala Springs Organic Marketplace + Zen Tea Lounge. This will be open to the general public from 11-4pm. In

Offerings throughout the afternoon include:

  • Local vendors & makers

  • Mocktails and Lebanese food

  • Free yoga classes

  • Ritual tea ceremony

  • Land tours with Robbie & Eleanor

  • Sound Healing

  • Yoga Class

Marketplace Grand Opening Details

FAQ

Is camping available?

Yes! Please let us know if you’d like to camp so we can reserve your spot.


Is this event kid-friendly?


Absolutely.


Are bathrooms available?


Yes.


Is there an outdoor kitchen?


Yes, the outdoor kitchen will be available for campers.


What should I bring?

  • Camping gear

  • Swimsuit

  • Two towels (to sit on and dry with if you plan on swimming or using the sauna)

  • Comfortable clothing & layers

  • Water bottle

  • Personal snacks/nourishment

  • Musical Instruments

  • Notebook or Journal

Please note: this is a family-friendly event and is not clothing optional.

What is the food situation?

There will be community potlucks on Friday and Saturday night, and guests are warmly invited to bring a dish or contribution to share for them. On Saturday, from 11-4pm there will be food vendors available onsite with food available for purchase.

We also recommend bringing breakfast foods, snacks, drinks, electrolytes, and any personal nourishment you may want between meals.

Parking Information


There will be a parking attendant available during the market grand opening. We will share more info for weekend guests on the appropriate place to park ahead of arrival.


What is a PMA?


Private membership Association. We are not a public venue, we are private! So if you are on the land, you must fill out our free membership portal to become a member of our private association!