Septimbor Lim

Septimbor Lim serves as the co-founder of Sacred Mountain Sanctuary, and program steward for its educational impulse, SOLA School of Living Arts. Inspired by her deep relationships with the natural world here in the Southern Appalachians and abroad, Rudolph Steiner’s 3-fold social order, Thomas Berry’s description of our Living Cosmos and Earth as 'a communion of subjects’, she co-imagined and designed a regenerative organizational structure that brings education, conservation and community into eco-relationship and mutual presence through a reciprocal economics, co-creative activities, and organic synergy. Since 2009, Septimbor has worked closely with Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy to conserve over 200 acres of land on and near SMS.

For the past 5 years, Septimbor has worked intimately with the Center for Education, Imagination and the Natural World (CEINW). Septimbor graduated from the Center's "Being, Beholding Belonging: Eco-contemplative Practices for Children and Young Adults" program and was inspired to combine her love of travel, teaching, and eco-contemplative engagement to form an international travel program for adolescents, Global Presencing. Global Presencing journeys are co-led by other SOLA faculty and parents, and are offered to grades 9-12 students at the end of each year of learning.

Septimbor is a teacher-traveller, food and nutrition enthusiast, shepherd to 3 sheep, and caretaker of 20 chickens, 4 cats, and two dogs. She lives with her husband, Jonathan, and 2 daughters, Eva and Beatrice, in the Sacred Mountain Sanctuary residential community.