Finca Lola in a Nutshell

What it is...

A Huachuma (San Pedro) heritage cultivation site and a ritual healing center, taking shape in the hills of Granada’s Costa Tropical.

We set aside significant land to tend heirloom and landrace cactus lineages with disciplined stewardship. We restore terraces with tropical fruits and flowers carried here for generations. We always continue working alongside native species, with the utmost care and respect for their space and claim to the soil. We shape sanctuaries where ritual practice is held with the complete consent of our guests — ensuring their personal growth efforts and privacy are supported and protected through truth, grace, fellowship and direct daily commune with nature. Sacred plants lend themselves to our work and your stay guarantees access to opportunities where a soul can learn from Huachuma in safety.

Retreats...

Invitation-only, ritual-based gatherings that honor ancient lineages while offering a premium, quiet experience—few guests, attentive hosting, high privacy, and clarity at every step. Think beautiful rooms, steady logistics, and ceremony handled with dignity—not spectacle.

Venue & Culture...

Taller de Almas Antiguas

Taller de Almas Antiguas is our publishing house and arts production studio.

It’s the imprint behind the books, recordings, limited editions, and visual works born at Finca Lola—and the curatorial engine for exhibitions, collaborations, and public projects that travel beyond the land. When a story, score, or installation leaves the valley, it carries the Taller mark.

The Malaka at Finca Lola

The Makaka is our on-site venue: a land-rooted space for ritual and reception.

Here we host installations, readings, recording sessions, music performances, craft classes, culinary education, cactus-preparation presentations, and intimate gatherings that need both atmosphere and lodging. Malaka is where the work meets its witnesses—indoors, outdoors, and in between.

Built for depth, not scale, we grow what we can tend and only host what we can hold.

Wagging Tails

Dogs aren’t an add-on here. They’re part of the circle. Wagging Tails is our canine-companion program; supported by outdoor shaded rest and run zones, a climate controlled indoor doggy daycare, ample fresh water stations, and quiet routes designed so humans and dogs can move easily together…and also apart. While you walk, read, wander, or share a meal, your dog has a safe and comfortable place of their own, as well as a predictable and daily rhythm, with someone always paying attention to their well being.

When suitable for the dynamic, well-socialized dogs are welcome on designated paths and gathering areas (lead control and current vaccinations required). The land stays steady, your dog stays close, and everyone can actually relax. A fully integrated canine companion program allows you to enjoy both our space and the Costa Tropical knowing your furry family member is receiving love and affection.

Rennweg Gruppe S.L. (RGSL)

A Granada-based hospitality holdings studio developing land-rooted sanctuaries. We invest in and operate intimate stays and ritual venues where care, privacy, and structure come first. Our flagship is Finca Lola—a living project that pairs heritage cultivation with premium retreat hospitality.

What we stand for: small cohorts • careful consent • legal compliance • quiet excellence • dog-friendly design.

Our Founder

Whether he is writing or creating conscious, rooted, heart-centered work from his workshop, Taller de Almas Antiguas, or walking the littoral corridor that slips slowly toward the Mediterranean below, Tim Doherty forges cathedrals of memory under open sky on Andalucía’s fabled Costa Tropical.

For Tim, storytelling is an act of love, kept true to the land that holds him. This shows up in an active rhythm of nature walks with a focus on ecology, geology, and history.

Tim is a ritual systems architect, stewarding the return of memory, myth, and structural truth through conservation of local ecologies. His extremely careful and considerate introduction of non-invasive cactus crops that add to the abundance of our Sacred Vega is a lifelong vow. He builds relationships among farmers, harvesters, fishermen, and hospitality stewards who vow to honor this unique coastline.

Through his work with Rennweg Gruppe, he builds and acquires small, vow-bound spaces that protect the cadence and tone of their own lineage. As an organization, Rennweg Gruppe does not buy platforms or failing fincas — we work hand in hand with existing sanctuaries that are already built to endure, and only if they commit to being of service to our entire community.

A Message from the Keeper

I’m Tim Doherty, a ritual systems architect living in Ítrabo, Granada. My work turns grief into form and identity into shelter through Structured Ritual Architecture (SRA), fine-art scrolls and sigils, and privacy-first tools like Soul OS. I don’t scale. I steward. The aim is simple: protect tone, keep cadence, and help people carry what matters—quietly, for the long run.

Commitments & Compliance

• Consent first. Every participant briefed and consented; every gathering vow-bound.
• Legal compliance. Operations respect applicable law and local guidance. No sale or distribution of controlled substances.
• Small by design. Limited cohorts; invitation-only programming; premium standards of safety and privacy.

Stay Close to Our Campfire

Retreat dates, venue bookings, and release announcements will open in phases.

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RGSL builds places that keep faith with land, lineage, and the people we serve.

Structured Ritual Architecture

A canonical ritual framework enforcing cadence, inheritance, and sacred containment.

Designed for those who carry memory not as content, but as covenant.

Used by spiritual stewards worldwide, renowned clinicians, and architects of symbolic systems.

SRA is not methodology. It is cathedral logic.

Soul OS

An iOS and Android based app for the ritual protection of grief and myth.

Every scroll is sealed. Every interaction is vow-gated.

No cloud. No algorithm. No data tracking.

Only memory, closure, and sacred return.

Santísimo Brand Engine

A recursive myth-engine branding the sacred in code, fabric, print, and system.

Not aesthetic. Not commercial.

Santísimo is tone enforcement across mediums — a brand as reliquary.

PUBLISHED WORKS

Articles & Papers

Selected articles, essays, and position papers in educational, scientific, and spiritual contexts. Quiet emissaries that carry Canon into pedagogy, ecology, memory science, and ritual theory. They extend the lattice, then vanish back into the stack.

Some arrive as memoir, others as map, others as psalm or reliquary. Read together, they form a monastery of bound paper, portable enough for a hand, wide enough to hold grief, memory, and return. The lattice is felt in the crossing breaths, not explained. Selah.

Books at a Glance

The Lantern Path

The flagship scroll—a mythic, grief-braided memoir. It sets the pulse for the whole cycle, carrying the reader through loss toward steadier ground.

Sacred Pathways

The companion field manual to The Lantern Path. It names the underlying frameworks—walks, rites, plant protocols—so the practice is repeatable and safe.

The Heartwood Psalms

Short meditations on endurance and return. Read alongside Lantern and Pathways, they complete the Andalus Cycle’s core movement

The Emergence Essays

Field essays written in transitional seasons. Fragments that become frameworks—each piece a small container pointing to the next gate.

Letters Beneath the Fig

A mythic novella of identity dismantled and rebuilt. A pilgrimage through archive, sea, and shrine where every object is a ritual key.

The Book of Shrines

An evolving dossier of “stewards” who hold paradox on behalf of the system. Not a gallery—an index of containment vectors revealed only when needed.

The Steward’s Way — Wanderweg VII

A working book of field rites. How sanctuaries walk; how shade is placed; how names are carried; how grief is held without spectacle. Practice, not performance.

Publishing Update

A new publishing house will re-release Tim’s entire back catalogue—including the novels—in refreshed editions very soon. The announcement will include dates, formats, and ordering details. Subscribe to be notified when preorders open.

FIELD INTEGRATIONS

Doherty‘s systems function as countermodels across disciplines:

• In neuroscience, he formalizes ritual closure for post-collapse cognition

• In product design, he inverts optimization into vow-based cadence

• In infosec, he engineers identity firewalls through emotional encryption

• In psychology, he offers narrative sanctuaries for trauma-nested identity

• In anthropology, he renders grief as sacred ethnography, not metaphor

• In ethics, he builds systems where inheritance replaces access — and sanctity replaces scale

He does not consult. He consecrates.

He does not fix. He fortifies.

Canonical Outputs & Submissions

Released editions

Doherty, T. (2019, June). Scroll Engine: A sacred publishing architecture (whitepaper). Self-published. Edition issued; available upon request.

Doherty, T. (2025, May). Mythic Stewards of Al-Andalus: Land-rooted iconography as cognitive containment (exhibition folio and catalogue). Santísimo — Taller de Almas Antiguas, Granada. Edition issued.

Doherty, T. (2025, July). Teja Votiva: Soul Glyphs on Clay — Methods & Catalogue (atelier imprint). Santísimo — Taller de Almas Antiguas, Andalucía. Edition issued.

Doherty, T. (2025, June). The Containment Trail (iOS Edition): A user ritual for scroll sovereignty (manual). Heartwood Archive. Edition issued; available upon request.

Forthcoming / pending release

Doherty, T. (2024, March). Ritual intelligence and duende: Toward a non-inferential architecture for clinical containment. Public preprint pending via Heartwood Archive. Under peer review at Medical Humanities (BMJ, UK).

Doherty, T. (2024, October). Canon as memory infrastructure: Scroll-bound identity. Public preprint pending via Heartwood Archive. Under peer review at History of the Human Sciences (SAGE).

Doherty, T. (2025, May). Canon as firewall: Ethics as vow structure in machine-mediated memory (perspective). Public preprint pending via Heartwood Archive. Under peer review at Nature Human Behaviour (Springer Nature, UK).

In revision

Doherty, T. (2013, May; resubmitted 2025, April). Structured Ritual Architecture: Design without doctrine. Submitted to Design Issues (MIT Press). In revision.

Doherty, T. (2018, February). The Greene Pass: Public ritual delivery and the ethics of release. Submitted to Ethnos (Taylor & Francis, Sweden). In revision.

Archival manuscripts (selected)

Doherty, T. (2011, November). Ritual containers in digital memory: Ethics of containment in networked cognition. Submitted to Ethics and Information Technology (Springer). Archival manuscript.

Doherty, T. (2015, October). Grief loops: Toward ritual recursion in clinical care. Submitted to The British Journal of Psychiatry (RCPsych, UK). Archival manuscript.

Doherty, T. (2023, June). Creative completion as therapeutic process: A Structured Ritual Architecture for post-collapse cognition. Submitted to Harvard Medical Journal. Archival manuscript; available upon request.