Find the Healing Foot Wash at 5:00 & G – We are coming back in 2026 after taking last year off! Hosted foot washing will be Mon-Thu 1:00pm – 4:30pm, self-service stations set up during our off hours.
All are welcome! 🙂



Find the Healing Foot Wash at 5:00 & G – We are coming back in 2026 after taking last year off! Hosted foot washing will be Mon-Thu 1:00pm – 4:30pm, self-service stations set up during our off hours.
All are welcome! 🙂



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.
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.
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!
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!
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).
Visiting our friends in Reno where we’ll fill up our water barrels on our way to Burning Man 2015!






We rented our truck from the good folks at Doherty Truck Rentals again this year. Packed and ready to roll!
Washing feet at Burning Man results in some gray water that needs to be evaporated or brought back home. We’ve been working on building an evapotron to help evaporate water while we’re on the playa. Mark, Rachel and Anna Lisa did a great job on this!



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