Happy to announce we’ve been placed again this year. We’ll be in a new neighborhood for us, 3:30 and G. Very much looking forward to seeing all of our friends in the desert and making new ones too! 🙂

Healing Foot Wash is returning to Black Rock City in 2022! Placement Questionnaire Submitted
Thanks to Stepheno & Anna Lisa for helping prepare our Placement Questionnaire for 2022 Burning Man. We’re very excited to be returning again. Stepheno (our current official camp main lead) prepped an amazing actual-to-scale basically professional layout. Way better than my Illustrator mock-ups. Check it out, and hopefully we’ll see you in the dust SOOOOON!

Adventure camping! Come find us in the desert *Aug 29 – Sep 4, 2021* – “Plan B” – UPDATED estimated coordinates: 40.8109897, -119.1840921 – integrates.workshops.important
We’re bringing a minimal version of the Healing Foot Wash camp to the Black Rock Desert this year, from ~August 29 – September 4, 2021. Since there is no official Placement process this year, we’ve “placed” ourselves, and will see how it goes once we get there.
Approximate Estimated Location: ~ 7:45 and D (on this year’s grid, remember, most likely limited or no street signs).
~About one camp south of Burners With Kids camp (~100 families with kids).
Tentative Map location
~GPS: 40.8109897, -119.1840921
~What3Words address: https://w3w.co/integrates.workshops.important
How to use What 3 Words in offline mode to find us: https://www.blackrockdesertcamps.com/diy-placement
This is our target initial rendezvous point, as of tonight’s planning call, subject to change, but we’ll try to update final coordinates once we’ve established base camp.
We’re planning on bringing 6 sitting chairs, 100 gallons of water, all our usual foot washing supplies!
See you there?!?
Email contact: gserafini@gmail.com

Healing Foot Wash theme camp placed again for 2019! Find us at 6:15 & H this year!
Once again we are very grateful to the Burning Man Placement team for including us as a placed theme camp. We’ve now washed thousands of feet at Burning Man, and are looking forward to another great year.
Of special note this year — we’re planning to offer an after hours self-service foot wash station that will allow participants to use our setup in a limited way during evening hours when the main Healing Foot Wash camp / experience is closed. Hopefully we’ll see you out there!

2018 Healing Foot Wash Camp Placement: 6:30 & G
We’re excited to announce we’ve been placed again in 2018! Come find the Healing Foot Wash camp at Burning Man at 6:30 & G this year and participate in foot washing. All are welcome!

2017 Healing Foot Wash Camp Placement: 5:30 & G
We’re excited to announce we’ve been placed again in 2017! Come find the Healing Foot Wash camp at Burning Man at 5:30 & G this year and participate in foot washing. All are welcome!

Gabriel’s 2016 Healing Foot Wash Burning Man Theme Camp photos
This was our 4th year bringing the Healing Foot Wash camp to Burning Man. We had a great team this year and welcomed an estimated 1400-1800 people to our camp to participate in foot washing. Once again, people were moved and touched to be offered both the gift of having their own feet washed as well as the option to give that same gift to another visiting person. We were fully packed during our open hours from 9:30am – 5:00pm, Monday through the Saturday morning before the Burn. Thanks again to everyone who participated!
These are Gabriel’s photos from this year’s camp.
Thursday, August 25 — Packing the truck
- Empty truck!
- Starting to fill up
- Ready to go!
Friday, August 26 — Fully packed and ready to roll!
- Fully packed and ready to go!
- Everyone have their ticket?
- Driving to Reno — hot air balloons spotted!
- Made it to the playa!
- Waiting in line
- The ever-cool Mamonalu
- Gabriel & Amber happy to be there
Saturday, August 27 — Building camp
- We got placed in an awesome spot this year!
- Starting to get situated
- Dome setup
- Starting on the shade structure
- Work on the shade structure continues
- “But do you have a flag?…”
- Almost ready to hoist the first shade cloth
Monday, August 29 — Prepped and ready for visitors
- Shade structure assembled
- Foot wash stations in place
- Ready to go!
- Our front door
- 20 foot wash stations this year!
- Red = vinegar solution, Black = Dr. Bronner’s solution, Clear = pure water
- Wash cloth drying lines
- Cool water for our guests to enjoy
Tuesday, August 30 — Foot washing in full effect, exploring Burning Man
- Healing Foot Wash camp is pretty popular
- View from the top of an art piece
- Anna Lisa
- Gabriel & Anna Lisa on top of the sculpture
- Looking up at the sculpture
- Nice view
- Shadows
- Anna Lisa
- Looking towards Center Camp
- Dust coming through!
- The Man was supposed to spin, but didn’t
Wednesday, August 31 — Bacon, zip lines, lines at our camp
- Breakfast of champions – Bacon!
- Amber on the awesome zip-line
- Amber on the awesome zip-line
- Our camp got pretty full
- Good thing we have parking for lots of bikes!
- Lots of people getting their feet washed!
Thursday, September 1 — Dust storms and a moment of relaxation
- Got painted by one of our visitors
- Lots of dust today! Didn’t stop people from coming though…
- Amber taking a well-deserved moment in a neighboring camp’s relaxation pod
Friday, September 2 — Catacombs burn at sunrise, giant Buddha hand art car and a beautiful sunset!
- Catacombs burning at dawn
- Going up! Quite the sight.
- Crazy bike shot.
- Early morning robot is tired…
- Early morning playa
- Kind of still early!
- But cheerful 🙂
- Buddha hand art car
- Buddha hand art car
- Buddha hand art car
- Beautiful sunset!
Saturday, September 3 — Exploring the playa – awesome lighthouse, giant crows, temple and Space Whale!
- Out and about, exploring
- Cool art sculpture, flapping in the breeze
- Striking contrast
- Great clouds!
- Taking some shots
- Art!
- Playa
- Dust storm on the playa
- Whiting out
- Really cool lighthouses
- You could climb inside 🙂
- Nice panorama shot of the playa
- Bike!
- Dust coming
- Nice bird!
- Hello!
- Gimme that peanut!
- Very cool octopus head sculpture thing
- Beautiful Temple this year
- Another shot of the Temple
- Gabriel & Amber at the Temple
- Space Whale, one of the most beautiful projects this year
Monday, September 5 – Tuesday, September 6 – Strike camp, head home, unpack!
- All packed up, MOOP sweep complete, ready to roll!
- Nap time.
- Unpacking camp stuff, wrapped up for this year!

Healing Foot Wash camp has been placed for 2016!
Thanks to the Placement team at Burning Man, we’ve been placed again for 2016! This year Healing Foot Wash will be located in the vicinity of Rod’s Road @ 8:30 — on the road circling Center Camp. Very exciting!
Planning is in full force for our camp activities. We currently have 13 participants signed up this year to bring this service
We’re interested in donations / contributions of:
- Dr. Bronner’s soap
- Vinegar
- Hand / foot / body lotion of any kind
- Salves
- Clean / new pairs of socks (cotton / sports / athletic type, interesting patterns great!)
Please contact Anna Lisa at annalisakronman@gmail.com if you’d like to arrange to make a contribution of any of these items to our camp!

Anna Lisa’s pictures and thoughts from 2015 Healing Foot Wash at Burning Man
Each of my three years at Burning Man has been a different experience, each with different challenges and opportunities. 2013 was a year of just getting out there in that dusty, vibrating, lively place, learning that by our kind acts and loving embrace of all came by, we were living Church in an unchurchy place. Finding a spot at the outer fringes of the Black Rock City, we washed perhaps about 100 pairs of feet, and gave away a lot of copies of Science and Health, the textbook on healing spiritually, by Mary Baker Eddy. In 2014, we applied for and received “placement”, meaning our camp was recognized as being of sufficient value to have a designated spot. We were placed close to some big sound camps, and across from the Spank Bank… and interesting answer to prayer about where to be placed! Embracing the opportunity, we continued to wash feet to the amazement of many, sharing with folks who were interested what moved us to do so. We probably washed at least 300 pairs. In 2015, we were placed near the heart of the Center Camp neighborhood, and found people were both delighted and grateful for clean feet, and generally accepted the invitation to wash their neighbor’s feet. Giving them that opportunity proved a surprising and very enriching gift for many. Each day, all 16 chairs were occupied most of the day, with folks waiting (patiently) for their turn. We estimate that well over 1,000 folks had their feet washed. Most of those 1,000 stayed to wash someone else’s feet. Here are a few moments from my 2015 week.
- A cross in the sky as we arrived in Black Rock City
- At the Greeters
- Cheerful dust as we get unpacking
- First day
- At Home
- Rainbow tribe
- We were near Kidsville, and had a few children come have their feet washed. This young gent had his feet washed, then stayed and washed many more feet!
- Before… (but they left before I got the after!)
- Neighbors washing neighbors
- He came back the next day to wash more feet.
- Man
- Joy!
- Many bikes each day filled our bike rack (made by Mark M.)
- Sunrise art
- Temple
- A sound sculpture
- This made sounds like a thunderstorm brewing, activated by a person approaching
- She was a little blue about it all.
- Our Evapatron at work (got more points for style than function… always room for improvement!)
- Our kitchen, sheltered by our truck
- Love reflected in love!
- Encouraging art on the Playa
- Hearts on the Playa
- Life on the Playa
- Many of our camp members and supporters

Healing Foot Wash camp at Burning Man 2015
Some more pictures from our time at Burning Man 2015. Over a thousand people had their feet washed and also had the opportunity to give the gift of washing feet at Burning Man this year. A lot of work and a great success!
- Healing Foot Wash
- Healing Foot Wash
- Gathering in the shade
- Maybe a little more sunscreen next year?
- Hanging out with our neighbors
- Healing Foot Wash camp
- Healing Foot Wash camp
- Healing Foot Wash group photo including a number of visitors
- View from the top of the shade structure
- Taking down the shade structure
- Happy Burner
- View from the top of the shade structure
- The high winds broke the ropes holding the flag to the pole
- Playing on a crazy rope bridge
- Playing on a crazy rope bridge
- Black Rock City
- Burner bikes
- The Man is burning
- The Man getting ready to be burnt – hands raised
- The Man getting ready to be burnt
- Burning Man latte art
- Now that’s a camper!
- On the way back to the default world
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