About the Abbey
Alaric’s Abbey is a riverfront counseling and contemplation center in Durango, Colorado, created as a welcoming place for personal growth, meaningful connection, and inner work. Just minutes from downtown, the Abbey offers a peaceful setting where local practitioners and community members can gather, work, learn, and support one another in ways that feel grounded and restorative.
At its heart, the Abbey is shaped by the practice of Living Peace — not as an abstract ideal, but as a way of meeting everyday life with greater self-awareness, emotional responsibility, compassion, and inner steadiness. Whether you’re looking for support, community, reflection, or a quieter place to land, the Abbey is here to help you reconnect with what brings greater peace and meaning to your life.
Meet Alaric
Alaric Hutchinson is a writer, psychospiritual teacher, peace-builder, and founder of Alaric’s Abbey in Durango, Colorado. Since 2010, his work has centered on helping people cultivate greater peace, self-awareness, emotional freedom, and a more grounded relationship with life.
Drawing from Eastern philosophy, contemplative practice, modern psychology, social-work insight, and more than fifteen years of working with people and communities, Alaric offers a practical approach to inner peace that is warm, human, and refreshingly down-to-earth.
He is the author of Living Peace and Heart of Humanity and teaches through writing, coaching, community gatherings, workshops, and the ongoing work of Alaric’s Abbey.
Suffering is not the end of the story. Through the practice of peace and the support of community, joy becomes not only possible, but a lived reality.
Alaric Hutchinson
About the book
Heart of Humanity is a practical guide for anyone seeking to understand their emotional patterns, quiet some of the noise in their mind, and live with greater peace in everyday life.
The book introduces Dunisha, a practical framework for inner peace and personal healing that draws from Eastern philosophy, modern psychology, contemplative practice, and self-inquiry. Through personal stories, straightforward teachings, and simple exercises, Alaric Hutchinson explores how suffering can become reinforced through our thoughts, emotions, relationships, beliefs, and reactions—and how greater awareness can help us respond differently.
The deeper invitation of Heart of Humanity is to meet ourselves and one another with greater compassion. It asks what might change if we placed humanity over dogma, peace over shame and blame, and daily practice over good intentions alone. The aim is not perfection, but learning how to create a little less suffering within ourselves and pass a little less of it along to others.
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At Alaric’s Abbey, peace is not treated as an escape from life, but as a practice for returning to life with more presence, compassion, and courage.