WHOLE-SYSTEMS LAND ASSESSMENT & CONSULTING
A complete conversation
with your land
Land stewardship is a relationship
with a living system.
The Living Land Co. offers the only holistic land service to weave Earth Science with Earth Wisdom, empowering those making significant land decisions with information most surveys never touch.
Listening to the Intelligence of Place
Honoring the Science and Soul of Earth
Every piece of land carries memory and story.
It has stories etched in its geology, the history of how it came to be: the forces that shaped it,
where water moves beneath it, the way it has evolved, the imprint of those who came before.
The land has a language that can be decoded through the right kinds of listening - mapping lithology and watersheds, patterns of health, and the living intelligence of the Earth herself.
WHAT WE DO
The Living Land Co. is a small collective of land specialists, expert scientists and spiritual leaders united in our love for the Earth. We bring decades of unique and refined experience across disciplines to gain a multi-dimensional understanding of your property.
WE OFFER HOLISTIC LAND SERVICES INTEGRATING THE FOLLOWING LAYERS:
LAYER 1: Geology and Natural Hazards Risk Assessment
A comprehensive synthesis of the land's geology is foundational to all engagements.
This includes:
Mapping the land's geology, both on the scale of the property itself, as well as in the context of broader regional geology, detailing both geologic history and future considerations.
Examining the land's lithology, stratigraphy, soil characteristics, micro-climate, and erosional patterns.
Analysis of potential natural hazards (e.g. earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides and subsidence, flooding, desertification), on a range of scales, with detailed recommendations as needed.
Long-term strategic considerations based on micro-local to regional patterns and predicted trends impacting the land (i.e. water, climate, population changes).
"Due diligence" on your land history and rights can be additionally completed as requested.
LAYER 2: Hydrologic Assessment
Analysis of the land's water is also foundational to all engagements. If the rocks create the body of the land, water is the lifeblood.
All engagements receive maps and a summary of the land's water systerms, as well as regional watersheds feeding the land, including both surface and sub-surface channels with analyses of regional trends and seasonal patterns.
More detailed testing and analyses are also available for water sources, pathways, and health.
LAYER 3: Land Memory and Living Systems Assessment
The third foundational service we offer to all engagements is an energetic and spiritual reading of your land, including the health and needs of its living ecosystems, with customized recommendations for mutual thriving. This layer can be deepened as desired.
Using indigenous technologies and traditional dowsing techniques, comprehensive additional layers can be revealed of a land's character, including aquifer channels, contamination extent and history, and land "acupuncture" pathways. The land also holds memory of those who have walked before, some of whom left more impact than others, which this layer can shed light on.
Subtle flows of energy, water, and resource are the lifeblood of the land. The time-proven shamanic principles global peoples still use to live in balance with Nature are what inform this layer of the work, revealing land history and valuable information beyond the typical due diligence.
LAYER 4: Regenerative Solutions
We also provide land resource assessments and regenerative solutions targeted to your specific needs and goals, maximizing your land's potential and creating long-term, strategic timelines for sustainable development.
OUR SERVICES
GEOLOGY . HYDROLOGY . LIVING LAND SYSTEMS
The Living Land Co. honors the whole landscape: from rock to root to ancestor.
We offer a comprehensive, multi-faceted, high-return land analysis & strategic plan suited to those making significant land decisions.
Each engagement is scoped to the client's specific parameters, goals, and needs.
The process begins with a phone call to assess fit, scope, and path forward. We will then prepare a proposal; once approved, we will get to work on your customized land assessment. You will have one "point person" throughout the project, who will coordinate with needed specialist experts, arrange a site visit, and synthesize all resulting data into one comprehensive final report.
Based in Western Colorado,
working everywhere.
For those who love the land.
We work with those who already know the land has a kind of intelligence, who want that sensing confirmed, deepened, and made useful for the decisions they are navigating. Our work is scientifically rigorous, delivered with quality of attention and attunement to both details and big picture considerations.
If you are making a significant land decision — a purchase, development, restoration, expansion —
you deserve the whole story.
PERHAPS YOU ARE...
Conscious land buyers and stewards navigating big land decisions
Creators of legacy properties
Developers and architects seeking to build in right relationship with terrain
Regenerative farmers and ranchers
Conservation organizations and land trusts
Retreat centers, intentional communities, and sacred land projects requiring both geologic safety and spiritual alignment
Individuals, cooperatives, collectives, visionaries, and anyone else in deep relationship with a specific place seeking to understand it more fully...
You're in the right place.
ABOUT US
Our Team
We believe that when the land thrives, the people thrive.
Founder & Lead Geologist
Rev. Karina C. Allison, M.Sc.
An expert geologist, Karina's specialties include field mapping, natural hazards, sedimentology, stratigraphy, and subsurface dynamics. She has a Master's degree in Physical Volcanology, completed a Fulbright grant in Experimental Volcanology, and worked towards a Ph.D. in Volcano Geophysics before leaving the academic world to become a full-time entrepreneur. In the last 25 years, she has worked on a range of innovative projects for private, corporate, government, and non-profit clients. She is also an ordained Reverend committed to a path of devotion to the sacredness of life and the intelligence of the natural world. Read more.
Living Land Systems Expert
Wendy Kaas, M.Div.
A land communication specialist, Wendy has been cultivating a deep relationship with the Earth as a spiritual path for many years. Decades of study with wise mentors led her into profound direct relationship with the living world and the unseen; she now lives in service to Mother Earth and her people. Over the last 25 years she has been a nature-based mentor and educator, a grief ritualist, an eco-chaplain, and an energy worker. Learn more about Wendy at www.elfowlhealingarts.com.
Geologist & Regenerative Solutions Consultant
Jon Hutson
Jon is a geotechnical staff engineer and field geologist for Yeh and Associates, Inc. as well a dedicated community builder through www.theopenmarket.co, a local shopping platform and living hub for the Western Slope. Jon is excited to be bringing his expertise and exploring his curiosities in mapping, resource management, regenerative permaculture, and micro-local land solutions to the Living Land Co.
Patricia Richards
Spiritual Advisor; Land Blessing Ceremonies
Also known by her Cheyenne name Moke, meaning Warrior Woman, Patricia is a spiritual advisor for The Living Land Co. As a ceremonialist and healer, she also offers land blessings and land clearings, as available. Patricia walks the path of the Rainbow Warrior, one of fierce devotion to the Earth and union of all her people. Her sacred work has carried her around the globe, from Tibet to Moorea to Africa to Standing Rock. Even in her 80s she remains available to the call of service, and is an inspiration to many.
Spiritual Advisor; Expert Land Reader
Dr. Robert Sullivan "Chi"
Chi is a Choctaw native and spiritual advisor for The Living Land Co. In addition to working as a psychotherapist and having studied the Kaballah daily for the last 55 years, he is also an expert shamanic healer, land reader, and ceremonialist. Because of his daily regenerative practices, Chi continues to inspire and heal many people, keeping a full calendar of mentoring others. He is a respected elder and community leader who has dedicated his life to the awakening of humanity happening in collaboration with Planet Earth.
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The ground beneath your feet has been in dialogue with water, pressure, time, elements, cycles, and seasons for longer than humans have existed.
The land has never stopped speaking.
We just had to remember how to listen.

Listening to the Intelligence of Place
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