Home The House Gatherings Courses Our Story Partners
Cape Town · South Africa

For the spiritually
curious.
Outside the walls
of church.

Ground House is for people who feel drawn to God but don't fit the typical mould of organised religion. We create embodied, grounded experiences, gatherings, practices, and community where you can encounter something real, on your own terms.

"It is safe to
exist here."

Ground House Collective

This is not another wellness experience
you forget by Wednesday.

Transformation through embodied integration.

What Ground House does

You leave every
session with
something real.

We give you practices and tools you can use with others, or on your own, that help you deepen your spiritual relationship with God in a way that feels real and meaningful to you. Ground House is built for people who are spiritually hungry and want to experience what God feels like in their body, their relationships, and the way they move through the world.

Warm but structured  ·  Spiritual but embodied
Soft but grounded  ·  Safe but strong

01
Stop reacting. Start responding.You know what it feels like to say or do something from a triggered place and regret it. We give you the tools to notice yourself differently, feel the presence of your grounded self, and make meaningful changes in your behaviour and thinking.
02
Get back in your body.Most people are living entirely in their heads. Your body has been trying to tell you something. We help you experience your body in relationship to God.
03
Let curiosity be encouraged.You've outsourced your inner compass to other people's opinions, beliefs, and the noise. We help you to experience your personal relationship with God and what that feels like by meeting you exactly where you are right now.
04
Hear what's actually guiding you.We teach embodiment tools and practises that help you connect with yourself physically and spiritually, so that you feel connected to a deeper you. This is the work, and it changes everything.
05
Allow yourself to be in the messy middle.Radical acceptance for your humanity, and deepr alignment with your values. Finding the balance between effort and ease and cultivate inner steadiness throughout the process.
First Series · 2025

Knocking on
the Door

Rev 3:20 · Matt 7:7

When you arrive at a house, the first thing you do is knock. This series is where it begins: an introduction to the concept of yourself as a spiritual house, the beginning of curiously inviting your body into that experience, and the safety of a space to do so without feeling judged. Here we explore, we play, we ask questions, and we include everyone, no matter where they are on their spiritual journey.

Presence

Meditation and stillness. Learning to knock, to listen, and to cultivate presence. The practice of being here.

Curiosity

Moving inward with questions and exploration. Honest connection with yourself, with community, with something greater.

Movement

Embodied expression. Knocking on the door opens into you into the fullness of play.

Who Ground House is for

You might be in the right place if...

You're high-functioning but feeling hollow

Everything looks fine on the outside. But you know something is off - and you've known it for a while. You need grounding. You need transformation.

You're craving connection with like minded people

Religious, therapeutic, cultural systems don't always feel like home. You're building a new one and you need people doing the same.

You want community that goes deeper than small talk

You're tired of surface-level connection. You want people who are willing to be honest - and who make you feel less alone in the work.

You're spiritually curious but not religious

You feel something. You don't always know what to call it. Ground House doesn't require you to name it before you walk through the door.

You're wanting to creatively connect with your body

You may have tried embodiment classes, and it feels like something is missing, yet you go to church and feel you are disconnected. Here we meet you in the middle, and we invite in your body, your relationships, your experience of God.

You want to integrate your masculine and feminine

Structure and softness. Clarity and depth. Action and stillness. Ground House holds both - and so do you.

The Framework

Six rooms.
One home.

Ground House is built around the metaphor of a home. Each room holds a different dimension of your inner life - practices, tools, and community for every part of who you are.

01

The Foundation

Stillness · Presence · Anchoring

Everything else rests here. Here you will build your personal relationship to God, and this becomes the foundation for becoming embodied and grounded - from the inside out.

02

The Music Room

Listening · Discernment · Intuition

Where you become still enough to hear. This is the place where you dive into your creative self. Here you go within in a creative, spiritual, deeply personal way.

03

The Library

Learning · Integration · Psychology

The tools to understand yourself better. Nervous system education, resources, coaching, courses.

04

The Office

Values · Decisions · Integrity

Where clarity becomes action. Here you take action, set goals, make plans, implementing things that align to your values. Living as your word. Choosing from groundedness, not fear.

05

The Kitchen

Community · Co-regulation · Belonging

The heart of the house. Where people gather and remember they were never meant to do this alone.

06

The Garden

Play · Movement · Expansion

Freedom without agenda. Hiking, music, dance. Your body remembering what joy feels like.

Gatherings

Ground House
Gatherings.

Spaces where people come to steady themselves. Our gatherings are run by qualified coaches and facilitators, and so every event ends with something practical - a breath, a question, a tool you can use in real life.

Coming Soon

Knocking on the Door - Session 1

The Four Part Series that opens the door to your embodied, curious relationship to God and your body · In Person and Online · Cape Town

Stay informed ↓
Coming Soon

Embodied Dialogue Circle

Evening gathering of conscious and curious conversation from an embodied perspective · Cape Town

Stay informed ↓
Coming Soon

Grounded Movement Morning

Half-Day Workshop with Dance, Education, Play, and Curiosity · Cape Town

Stay informed ↓
Get Involved

Believe in
what we're
building?

Ground House grows through people who feel it before there are walls. There are several ways to be part of the foundation.

Partner/Sponsor

Aligned brands and organisations

Collaborator

Facilitators, creatives, practitioners

Affiliate

Share Ground House with your community

Supporter

Invest in the vision through donation

Get In Touch

Have a question?
Reach out.

We read every message and respond to every genuine enquiry.

The Concept

A home you
can return to.

Ground House is built on a simple metaphor: every person carries a house within them. Each room holds a different dimension of who you are - your spirit, your mind, your body, your relationships, your work, your joy. The work of Ground House is helping you experience and wholesomely inhabit all of it.

"How do I live fully aligned - without abandoning my body, my humanity, or my truth?"

Ground House helps you answer that question - with a window into spiritual teachings, tools, practices, and a community of people doing the same honest work.

God-centred  ·  Open to all  ·  Non-performative
Warm but structured  ·  Spiritual but embodied

The Framework

Six rooms.
Every dimension.

F

The Foundation

Stillness · Safety · Anchoring · Breath

Everything rests here. The Foundation is where everything else unfolds. It is your spiritual foundation. Nervous system safety, spiritual grounding, and grounded embodiment as a rythym of life.

Stillness practicesBreathworkSpiritual anchoringGrounding retreatsNervous system safety
M

The Music Room

Listening · Discernment · Intuition · Creative processing

The place where you become still enough to hear - something other than the noise. Through music, creative expression, and honest listening, you learn to recognise the voice within and the guidance available when you get quiet enough.

Listening practicesMusic nightsCreative expressionDiscernmentIntuition tools
L

The Library

Learning · Self-integration · Psychology · Education

Self-understanding as a practice. The Library is where you build the knowledge that helps you make sense of yourself - your nervous system, your patterns, your history, the parts of you still running old stories. Education that honours the whole person.

Nervous systemParts workBreathworkIdentity workCourses
O

The Office

Values · Decisions · Integrity · Aligned action

Where clarity becomes action. The Office is for the practical, grounded work of living as your word - decision-making from regulation rather than fear, boundaries that come from values rather than exhaustion, and goals that don't require you to abandon yourself to reach them.

Values alignmentDecision tools1:1 CoachingBoundary workGoal setting
K

The Kitchen

Community · Co-regulation · Belonging · Relationships

The heart of the house. The Kitchen is where nourishment flows - where people gather, share honestly, and co-regulate simply by being present with one another. We were never designed to do this work alone. The Kitchen remembers that.

Community gatheringsGroup workCo-regulationCommunity dinnersCircles
G

The Garden

Play · Movement · Expansion · Joy

Freedom without agenda. The Garden is the non-thinking space - where your body remembers what joy feels like before it became something you had to earn. Hiking, music evenings, dance, creative jams. Joy is not a reward, it is a practice.

Hiking daysMusic eveningsDancePlay daysOutdoor adventures
What we stand for

The values that
hold the house up.

Rooted in something greater

God-centred, not doctrine-driven. The spirit as foundation - experiential, alive, and yours to discover.

Integration over performance

We are not here to perform transformation. We are here to actually do the work, slowly and honestly.

Radically inclusive

All are welcome here. This is a space of curiosity and safety - never of judgment or compliance.

Playfulness and joy

Joy is not frivolous. It is evidence that something true is happening. The Garden exists for this reason.

Integrity over image

Be honest. Show up. Do the work. Be what you say you are.

Embodied truth

If the body cannot stand with it, the mind is not ready for it. We honour the nervous system always.

Our Story

Ground House
didn't start as a business.

It started as a question, and a home that needed to be built from the inside out.

Kirsten Hunneyball

Kirsten Hunneyball

Co-Founder · Vision, Strategy & Coaching

Ground House began with Kirsten in 2022, when a question sat on her heart: "God, I have so much joy, I just don't know what to do with it - please show me." Having worked as a coach for several years, she sensed that something wanted to be birthed in answer: How do you hold God, your body, your mind, and your real human life in the same space, without one of them betraying the others?

Kirsten's work has always sat at the intersection of the spiritual and the psychological. Trained in nervous-system-informed coaching, and shaped by years of personal and professional experience in spiritual formation, she noticed how society tends to separate the individual into parts - mind, body, creative self, spirit - so that we only ever tend to one at a time. Inspired by 1 Peter 2:4-5, she began to imagine a home instead: something she'd felt the absence of in her own life, and sensed in the lives of others too. So she built a framework that refused to separate what most spaces keep in different rooms - faith, embodiment, psychology, community, and joy.

That framework became Ground House. The rooms. The foundation. A home you can return to when life gets loud.

What drives Kirsten is simple: she wants people to have what she had to find the hard way - the tools, the practices, the experience of being steady inside a world that keeps moving. And people to do it with, bound by a shared desire to hold it all from a spiritual place. Her prayers turned toward finding someone who shared that vision and could help build it. That's when God brought Sabrina into her life. Ground House is her answer to everyone who's ever felt like they were doing this alone.

Nervous system coaching Spiritual formation Course development Programme design 1:1 Coaching Business strategy

Sabrina Rivers

Co-Founder · Brand, Movement & Community

Sabrina came to Ground House the way the right people always do, not because she was recruited, but because something in the vision recognised something in her.

She had been working on her own vision for Christian-rooted embodiment, spaces where faith and the body could finally stop arguing with each other. Where movement, dance, and breath could be acts of spiritual practice rather than just fitness. When she encountered Ground House, she didn't find a business to join, she found the home her own work had been pointing toward.

At the heart of Sabrina's work is a deep belief that joy, movement, and God belong together. Through dance and embodied practices, she creates spaces where playfulness becomes sacred, where people can encounter themselves and hopefully the presence of God.

Alongside this, Sabrina brings her professional background in marketing and brand development to help shape how Ground House communicates with the world. She helps craft the visual language, voice, and experience of encountering the brand, ensuring that what people see on the outside reflects the depth and integrity of what happens within.

She is proof of something Ground House stands for, that when you do your own inner work honestly, you find your people, and you find your place.

Through dance and embodied practices, she creates spaces where playfulness becomes sacred, where people can encounter themselves and hopefully the presence of God.

Brand & marketing Dance facilitation Movement practice Community building Visual identity Workshop facilitation
Sabrina Rivers
Together

Two founders.
One house.

Ground House is built on the same values it teaches - consistency, accountability, honest communication, and the courage to do things the way you teach them. Kirsten and Sabrina are not just building a brand, they are living proof that the work is real.

Gatherings

Ground House
Gatherings.

Spaces where people come to steady themselves. Every gathering ends with a tool - something practical you can use this week. Online, Cape Town, and surrounds.

First Series · Coming Soon

The Door Series

Knocking on the Door is our opening series - three sessions exploring Presence, Curiosity, and Movement. The beginning of what Ground House offers, and an invitation into the house. When you arrive at a house, the first thing you do is knock. This series is where it begins: an introduction to the concept of yourself as a spiritual house, the beginning of curiously inviting your body into that experience, and the safety of a space to do so without feeling judged. Here we explore, we play, we ask questions, and we include everyone, no matter where they are on their spiritual journey..

Ground House

First gatherings coming soon.

We are preparing something worth coming to. Leave your email and you will be the first through the door.

Learn

Courses that
hold you.

Structured enough to move you forward. Spacious enough to let the work land. Every course gives you tools and practices you can use in real life.

First Course · Launching Soon

Knocking on the Door

An introduction to Ground House - the framework, the practices, and the experience of doing this work in community.

Launching Soon The Foundation

Introduction to Ground House

A 6-week foundational course. Nervous system safety, spiritual anchoring, emotional regulation, and stillness as practice. The starting point for everything else - and a full community experience.

6 WeeksDuration
Live + OnlineFormat
TBCInvestment
Coming Soon The Library

Understanding Your Nervous System

Practical, accessible, and genuinely useful. Learn how your nervous system shapes your experience of yourself and others - and what to actually do about it. No jargon. Real tools.

4 WeeksDuration
OnlineFormat
TBCInvestment
Coming Soon The Music Room

Hearing the Higher Voice

A guided discernment course. Listening practices, felt-sense guidance, and learning to trust what you hear when you get still enough to actually listen. For everyone — regardless of background.

5 WeeksDuration
Live + OnlineFormat
TBCInvestment
Coming Soon The Office

Living from Truth

For people who know what they believe but struggle to live like they do. Values alignment, decision-making from regulation, and the practical work of integrity - not as a standard to meet, but as a way of being.

4 WeeksDuration
OnlineFormat
TBCInvestment
1:1 Work

Want to work
one-to-one?

Individual coaching with a qualified Ground House Coach. Deep, personal, and grounded in the same framework. For people ready to do the real work in their own space and time.

Get Involved

Believe in what
we're building?

Ground House grows through people who feel it in their bones - before there are walls, before there is a stage. There are several ways to be part of the foundation.

🤝

Partner

Brands, studios, and organisations whose values align with ours. We collaborate on events, co-create experiences, and amplify each other's communities.

  • Co-branded events and gatherings
  • Cross-community visibility
  • Named partnership on all materials
  • Aligned product or service presence
✦

Collaborator

Facilitators, coaches, musicians, dancers, breathwork practitioners, and creatives who want to bring their gift into the Ground House space.

  • Facilitate workshops or gatherings
  • Co-create retreats and events
  • Listed as a Ground House practitioner
  • Revenue share on co-delivered work
◇

Affiliate

People who believe in what Ground House is doing and want to share it with their own community - with a referral structure that rewards your reach.

  • Unique referral link
  • Commission on referred sales
  • Early access to new offerings
  • Ground House affiliate community
♡

Supporter

You believe in this before it has walls. Your support helps Ground House show up consistently, build community, and eventually open a permanent home in Cape Town.

  • Named supporter acknowledgment
  • Complimentary gathering access per year
  • A personal letter from the founders
  • First access when the space opens
Get in touch

Tell us about yourself.

We read every message. We respond to every genuine enquiry. This is not a funnel - it is a conversation.