Welcome, to the Truth is One Interfaith Church. We are a non-denominational spiritual organization and 501c3 non-profit located in the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. Our organization has a sister branch located in Chicago that serves the midwestern region. We welcome all paths and all religious traditions.
Our name comes from a very old and well known Hindu proverb:
Truth is one, sages call it by various names.
Rig Veda Samhita 1.164. 46:
We recognize that there are many paths and religious philosophies that lead each person to the same ultimate reality. Our organization stresses the importance of spiritual experience, not merely belief.
We support each of our members’ spiritual path with whole-hearted inclusivity.
Every human being is welcome to pray with us. Through prayer, meditation, ceremony and communion with traditional sacraments, we can create a more harmonious inner life and in turn, create a more peaceful, joyful, and loving world for All.
Our mission is to support each individual in the expansion of their consciousness, so that they may reach their greatest potential as a human being. We seek to support each of our members in having the most profound experience of life possible, so that they may make their greatest positive contribution to the world.
Meet Our Team
Alanna
Founder, Facilitator & Leader of Women’s programs
Alanna is the co-founder of Truth is One Interfaith Church and the leader of the Asheville branch. She is a facilitator of plant medicine ceremonies and has undergone training and initiation from an Umbandaime community where she lived and studied in the Amazon of Acre, Brazil. She has also studied with Davi de Paula, a world renown ‘caboclo’ from the Umbandaime Tradition in Brazil, the Yawanawa tribe in the Brazilian Amazon, and Alonso del Rio, a Peruvian master. She is an official member of the Santo Daime Church in both the U.S.A and Brazil and received her initiation into the lineage in 2017. She has been facilitating ceremonies with grandmother medicine and Kambo in various parts of the U.S. since 2018. She brings groups to the Amazon of Brazil to participate in the process of harvesting and cooking medicine and facilitates Kambo training programs in both Brazil and the U.S. in partnership with Davi de Paula.
David
Facilitator & Leader of Men’s & Veterans’ Programs
David has had a lifelong affinity to connect with mother nature in an intimate way and is passionate about helping others do the same; to understand Her essence, and learn to live harmoniously with Her. He has completed a vigorous training and initiation in the art of guiding ceremonial wilderness rites of passage with Kedar Brown through the Rites of Passage Council. As a Certified Rites of Passage Guide, David facilitates fasts, vision quests and rites of passage calling upon the ‘Red Road’ tradition which originated from Native Americans and includes sweat lodge, vision quests, chanupa tobacco prayers, among many other rituals. His training has combined indigenous practices and rites of passage initiations from various lineages across continents. David specializes in his work with men, veterans and individuals who are serving in active duty in the military. He is committed to providing healing spaces where we gather, pray, and bring balance and integrity to the divine masculine and feminine within each person. David is passionate about discovering what it means to take responsibility, to be a protector, a provider, to learn how to truly be a man in society, and help others do the same.
Edyta
Co-founder & Guest Facilitator
Edyta is the co-founder of the Truth is One Interfaith Church and the Leader of the Chicago branch. She has helped hundreds of people reconnect with and live from their deepest Self, essence and truth. Edyta has been gifted stewardship of sacred lineages from both the Yogic and Shamanic traditions in order to unfold and expand her own consciousness, as well as to support healing and transformation for others. She guides people to cut through their false beliefs, conditioned and addictive patterns, emotional quagmires and inner and outer obstacles, so that they may rediscover the truth of who they are, where they come from, where they are going and the purpose of their existence. Edyta has studied with shamans from various parts of the world, including the Amazon of Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, and the Andes of Peru.
Fox
Facilitator, Space Holder & Song Carrier
Josh Fox is a seasoned facilitator, teacher, ritualist, healer, and song-carrier. For over a decade, he has offered community healing rituals throughout the Southeast and has held space as a grief-, shadow-, and trauma-tender in his private practice. He is both a song-carrier and song-channeler and incorporates music into his rituals and private practice. He regularly facilitates group singing for the sake of emotional connection, feeding the spirits with beauty, and as a sacred form of group prayer. He also writes music that uplifts the heart, honors his plant allies, and tickles the human spirit. Many of his songs are shared in song-circles, choirs, rituals, puppet-shows, and alongside campfires and rivers. His songs from his original album, Spells Cast By Rain, can be heard on Bandcamp, Spotify, CDBaby, and Apple Music. Many others can be found on his Youtube channel. More info:
Healing: www.foxhealing.com
Music: foxsongs.bandcamp.com
Connie
Shamanic Guide, Facilitator, Kambo Practitioner, Yoga Teacher
Connie Magee has been facilitating sacred medicine work for many years. Her way of offering ceremonial medicine is to blend it with her knowledge, skill and compassion as a hands-on healer, massage therapist, Reiki practitioner, Shamanic Guide, Chinese Medicine, Yoga & Meditation teacher, all within a Sound Healing container.
If you have counseled or sat with Connie before, you know that a deep inquiry of the soul and emotional level is her access point for all healing work. She provides a safe, structured and grounded ceremonial experience for participants to feel lovingly held and guided in sacred ritual, release, cleansing and rebirth. In addition to 10 years as a massage therapist, Reiki practitioner, student of Chinese Medicine, medicine & integration facilitator, yoga & meditation teacher, sound healer and ceremonialist, Connie was an Advanced Wilderness EMT for 12 years, and has mentored extensively with Chad Charles, Kedar Brown (Shamanic rites) and collaborated with several other experienced facilitators in recent years. Her ongoing peership with experienced practitioners is an anchor for high ethical standards, accountability, safety and currency of methods & techniques in this work.
Connie is a Member of Oklavueha Native American Church. She adheres to the Best Practice Guidelines and Code of Ethics as set forth by the Conclave. Participants are required to read the Integration Guidelines.
Ashley
Kambo Facilitator, Integration Coach, and Recovery-
Informed Space-Holder (Truth Is One—Nashville)
Ashley serves the emerging Truth Is One community in Nashville with a grounded, non-judgmental presence and a steadfast devotion to safety and dignity. She approaches Kambo as a sacred ally and holds integration as the art of turning a moment of knowing into a way of
being—in our bodies, our relationships, and our choices.
Her facilitation weaves Nonviolent Communication, compassionate, neuroscience-informed coaching, and simple body awareness practices. Preparation, ceremony, and integration are collaborative and paced to your nervous system. Beyond Kambo, Ashley supports integration across a range of ceremonial paths and life passages—translating insight into micro-rituals, compassionate, trauma-aware journaling, nervous-system resourcing, and relational communication you can actually use.
Ashley brings lived experience to this work: after 30-plus years in addiction, she has been in recovery for eight and a half years. Alongside a B.S. in Psychology, MSW studies, and six years in peer-based mental-health and recovery support, she offers trauma-responsive, addiction-savvy care that meets every story without shame.
Wryn
Admin
Wryn is working behind the scenes to connect the community with opportunities and welcome new members to our organization.
Wryn is a teacher of Kundalini Yoga, meditation as well as hatha and vinyasa yoga. She has been a student of yoga and meditation for over 40 years. She studied Ayurveda through the Shakti School and is certified to help people use the system of Ayurveda to find balance in health and life. She is a multi-instrumentalist and life-long vocalist and musician owing much of her harmonic mastery to her mother, Rev. Elizabeth Thompson. She has received training in NVC, conflict mediation, and parts therapy and is certified as a massage therapist, crania-sacral therapist and reiki practitioner. She has worked in multiple retreat centers around the world as both head chef and lead facilitator of women’s programs.
Wryn is a renaissance woman who is currently most passionate about mothering, enlightenment and becoming a DJ.