“We exist because our world is hurting, but we can do something about it. We can bear gifts of care, kindness, and joy to nourish and heal our world’s beating heart.”
— Marga Fripp, co-Founder & CEO
Our studio space, The Healing Hive, is a healing arts sanctuary—a place where mindful movement Qigong, therapeutic art, dance, and nature-based healing come together in compassionate community care.
In a time when so many feel lonely and disconnected, we, the Pollinators, stand united with a clear intention: to amplify the good and take "baby giant steps" toward collective well-being, balance, and belonging. Together, we create nurturing communities that help us navigate personal and shared struggles, foster meaningful connections, and support healing and peace for all.
Bee a Pollinator of Hope and Healing!
Your tax-deductible gift—one-time or monthly—sustains our sanctuary of care, making compassionate connection and healing arts accessible and free for those who need it most.
Services & Classes
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This Qigong Zoom class is offered through Marga Fripp Studio.
To register go to: www.margafripp.com/qigong
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Join us for an hour-long walk at Lake Junaluska to connect with friends and neighbors, breathe in fresh air, enjoy a peaceful time, and reset your nervous system. The meeting point is the Labyrinth. The walk takes place weekly, weather permitting.
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A weekly, mindful movement and energy self-healing practice to restore vitality, strengthen your health, and cultivate inner peace and well-being.
Qigong is also an effective complementary therapy that reduces stress, anxiety, depression, and stress and improves mood and self-esteem.
The practice has many health benefits: strengthens the immune and cardiovascular systems, improves blood circulation, bone health and balance, reduces blood pressure, provides pain relief, and reduces stiffness in muscles and joints.
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Join our bi-weekly HeART Healing Circle, Winter 2025, designed to support Healing, Exploration, Awakening, Renewal, and Transformation through the arts and creative process. We gather in community to offer our hearts a sacred sanctuary for wholeness, healing, and well-being. No art skills are needed to attend.
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This Qigong Zoom class is offered through Marga Fripp Studio.
To register go to: www.margafripp.com/qigong
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Manifesting a Flourishing World, Art by Marga Fripp
The Pollinators Declaration for a Flourishing World
The Pollinators Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit fostering healing and well-being in Western North Carolina through the transformative power of art, movement, nature, and mind-body practices.
We offer trauma-informed healing arts services that weave together compassionate community care with mindful movement Qigong, therapeutic art, dance, and nature-based healing.
These scientifically proven and time-tested practices help reduce stress and loneliness, support emotional, physical, and mental well-being, strengthen community and belonging, and humanize the mental health conversation.
Healing happens in community. Like bees in a hive, we each contribute to the well-being of the whole. No bee alone can sustain the colony, just as no person thrives in isolation. To truly flourish, we need each other—working in unity, serving the highest good of all. Our vision is to end the epidemic of loneliness and the stigma surrounding mental health, and to empower people to restore dignity, self-worth, and purpose.
Our Story
“What if we created a beloved community, a sanctuary of care where everyone mattered, and our collective pain, grief, and struggle became the pollen that nourishes the garden of life?”
Join our Team!
Are you creative, empathic, and self-driven with strong communication and interpersonal skills? Does our work on mental wellness, creativity, and social healing resonate with you? If so, please apply for an internship with us.
Program Associate Internship
The Internal Revenue Service has determined that The Pollinators Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization. Our Tax I.D. is 92-1746861. Your gift is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Our Healing Hive is located at Folkmoot USA, 112 Virginia Ave, Room A-2, Waynesville, NC 28786