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!
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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!

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

Arrived to 40-50 MPH windstorms, setting up our Burning Man theme camp
We finally arrived and were warned at Greeters that there were 40-50 MPH wind storm gusts predicted for that evening, so batten everything down that we didn’t want to blow away. We would have multiple white-out windstorms over the next couple of setup days but made the best of it and had a great time getting everything setup for our Healing Foot Wash camp.

Kind of dusty!

Goggles and face masks came in handy

Starting to build out our shade structure

Pretty hair

Pretty hair

Dusty tents

Carol hammering in rebar in the wind storm

Core of the shade structure is erected

First part of the shade cloth assembled

Working on prepping shade cloth

Waiting out a white-out dust storm at Burning Man

White out!

Happy campers

Shade structure coming together!

Pausing for some rest

Foot wash station chairs setup

Working on setting up

Happy campers

Happy campers

Dust storm left a lot of dust!

Dusty sleeping bags inside of tent

Dust storm left a lot of dust!

Hanging out after everything is setup

Healing Foot Wash camp setup! – “But do you have a flag?”

Healing Foot Wash camp setup!

From Reno to Black Rock City, on our way!
We finally made it to the playa and then proceeded to wait in line (even though we’re Early Arrival there are still thousands of folks also waiting to get in even though it’s 2 days before public entry).
- It’s been a long drive
- Off the main road now!
- Welcome to Black Rock City!
- Beautiful sky awaits us
- Heading in
- Beautiful rock formation glinting in the sun
- Waiting in line to get into BRC
- Trusty Previa
- Entering Black Rock City
- Entering Black Rock City
- Waiting in line
- Still pretty clean, not too much dust (yet!)
- Waiting in line to get in
- Waiting in line to get in
- Beautiful sunset at Black Rock City 2015
- Still in line, it’s night time now
- Made it past greeters!

And we’re rolling! On our way to Reno…
Visiting our friends in Reno where we’ll fill up our water barrels on our way to Burning Man 2015!

Heading to Burning Man – Packing our rental truck!
We rented our truck from the good folks at Doherty Truck Rentals again this year. Packed and ready to roll!
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