About Us

Love lights the way

We fell in love on one cross-country blind date road trip. After the pandemic we were both yearning to find someone brave enough to leave the city and the rat race behind. Someone willing to try living outside the box, learning to live with harmony in nature and live sustainably. He wanted to build a campground. I wanted to create a yoga retreat center. He was looking for someone who had tools and knowledge to help his body heal from rheumatoid arthritis and sports injuries. I was a yoga teacher looking for someone who was handy with a hammer and being outdoors to help build my dream! He was following me on Instagram and enthusiastically liking my posts for two years before I finally gave him a chance. I am so grateful I did! We went on our fateful road trip in May of 2021. By August we bought land, and December a house, in Arden, West Virginia. Heaven! Not almost, it IS heaven!

We both take great pleasure in being hosts and tour guides to this beautiful natural wonder. We aim to leave the land healthier than we found it and invite others who also love Mother Earth to come bask in the good energy and create more through their joy and happiness in being here.

Sky above, Earth below, Peace within

Emily Plauche & (Dustin Oren)

The Team

Emily Plauché ~ Founder

Emily is a yoga therapist, mom, bread baker and co-founder of EarthSky. She teaches that healing happens through the body. There is no way around being in this body you can't numb it away or transcend it. Life is happening right here, right now. The best way to enjoy it is to InJoy it. Emily teaches Yoga, Somatic Movement, spinal mobility, meditation, singing and dance as direct methods for deep inner connection and healing and believes that psychological stress, depression, anxiety, physical illness and disease can all be healed through these practices

Dusty Oren ~ Fouunder

Dusty is a man with a vision, which started in 2018. How to live differently? Years of following the societal rules of economic prosperity he realized he was helping someone elses dream and not his own. He was driven for a new life on how to live outside of societal standards. He knew he needed to be outdoors, he became a minimalist and he wanted to help others and give them a space to relax, enjoy, decompress, rejuvenate, explore, and LIVE.

Thanks to his many life experiences, he is currently training with the Sacred Son and is looking forward to hosting Men's Circle and sweatlodge ceremonies in the near future. "We must be natural once again”