A Year Of Spiritual Connection
“"For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple." – Mary Oliver
You Don’t Need Another Retreat or Training. You Need a Lived, Embodied Relationship with Yourself and Life.
A Year of Spiritual Connection is for those who sense that something deeper is calling - not as an idea, but as a way of living.
You may already feel intuitive, or spiritually curious, yet notice that this connection doesn’t consistently translate into how you move through daily life, relationships, uncertainty, or challenges. This work is about closing that gap gently, steadily, and in a way that becomes real and sustainable.
This is the year you’ll uncover what’s been keeping your spiritual connection fragmented - finally integrating your intuition, your true nature, and embodied practices, so that clarity, alignment, and received guidance feels completely natural.
You will build a deep connection to your body, your nervous system, and your everyday spiritual experience. What begins as something you touch into occasionally becomes something you live by - shaping how you relate to yourself, others, nature, and your future.
This isn’t about bypassing challenges or striving for constant peace. It’s about learning how to stay present with what arises - be that grief, fear, joy, longing, uncertainty - without abandoning yourself. Through embodied practices, nervous system support, trusting your intuition, and relational work, your spiritual connection shifts from a concept into a lived experience.
As this connection deepens, you will notice more emotional steadiness, less reactivity, and a greater clarity guiding your decisions. You will feel more able to meet change without collapsing or controlling, more rooted in yourself during uncertainty, and more available for intimacy, creativity, and meaning in all areas of your life.
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
This is not a quick transformation or a fixed curriculum. It’s a long-term devotional journey. One that supports integration, consistency, and a profound re-orientation in how you experience being alive.
You will leave with a set of practices that guide every choice, a confident sense of direction, and an unshakable trust in your inner guidance system.
This is for those who want their spiritual nature to feel embodied, relational, and inseparable from the life they are actually living
“This year-long container gave me the space and structure to listen deeply: to my inner world, to nature, and to what wants to emerge. I found clarity, creative inspiration and a deeper sense of connection that feels like it will stay with me forever.”
- 2024 Participant
Mirroring the cycle of the seasons, this year long group + 1:1 journey will fertilise your inner landscape and deepen the relationship with your inherent spiritual nature.
When you step into this year-long journey, you’ll live in alignment with the seasons, and your spiritual purpose.
It includes community, in-person experiences, and a slower, more devotional unfolding. A cyclical journey in which you explore, deepen, and embody your unique way of connecting to spirituality guided by nature’s wisdom, your intuition, channeled teachings, and the shared presence of community.
This is a year of soothing and tending to whatever is in the way of you truly embodying that knowing. It will equip you with the tools and practices to trust in your inner guidance, and enable you to begin healing lifelong fears, patterns and beliefs.
Connection to self, to others, to nature, to spirit is what we all long for - and this is exactly what this year will provide you with.
“You may be at a crossroads in life, be in receipt of an invitation for a bolder you, or feel a call to do something new. Whatever the reason, this year will help you to take space to reflect on your life as it is. It will equip you with practical skills to navigate the inevitable internal and external challenges as they arise, and provide you with community that will support and reflect back to you in a way that will open you up and enable you to expand further than you thought possible.”
- 2024 Participant
Gathering near Hampstead Heath in London and at Wakelyns Farm in Suffolk we will:
SEED Spring: Planting Possibility
As the earth begins to stir, this season guides you to awaken your spiritual life from the inside out. Through practices that attune you to the subtle nature of awareness, you’ll learn to listen deeply, begin to sense what is guiding you, and lay down the foundational roots of your journey.
What you’ll experience:
Clear intention and alignment for your spiritual year
Practices that deepen inner listening and intuitive awareness
Gentle guidance to recognise what truly resonates for you
1:1 support to uncover early patterns, fears, or blocks shaping your inner landscape
A felt sense of relationship with yourself as nature
Foundational practices to support trust, safety, and spiritual connection
LAND Summer: Embodying Abundance
Summer invites you to embody your spiritual nature through warmth, joy and play. This season teaches you to trust the ripening process and to let your connection become something lived rather than imagined.
What you’ll experience:
Spiritual connection that feels lived, embodied, and real
Practices that integrate intuition into daily life, joy, rest, and play
A deeper relationship with your natural rhythms of energy and vitality
Creative and embodied expression as spiritual devotion
Growing trust in guidance through exploration and lived experience
Continued 1:1 support to deepen confidence and clarity in your process
TEND Autumn: Honouring Change
Autumn calls you into the art of tending by refining, listening, releasing, and returning to what matters. This is a season of honest reflection, of leaning into community, and of learning from the natural wisdom that comes from surrender.
What you’ll experience:
Greater clarity around what to release, refine, and nurture
A more grounded and supportive set of spiritual practices
Deeper trust in surrender, cycles, and inner wisdom
Strengthened connection to community and shared reflection
Practices that honour decay, transformation, and transition
1:1 guidance to tend gently to what is surfacing
NOURISH Winter: Resting in Stillness
Retreat into the quiet depths of winter - a season of profound listening, replenishment, and inner nourishment. This is where wisdom truly settles in and your spiritual connection becomes a source of clear guidance.
What you’ll experience:
A deepened capacity for rest, stillness, and inner listening
Trust in subtle guidance that emerges through slowing down
Nourishing rituals that support grief, reflection, and replenishment
A felt sense of being held - by yourself, nature, and community
A more intuitive and embodied relationship with spiritual guidance
Ongoing 1:1 support rooted in care, depth, and atunement
BLOOM Spring’s Return: Embodying your spirit nature
Return home as this final season supports you to step forward with clarity, devotion, and embodied spiritual presence. This is the moment your inner work blossoms into the outer world - not through striving, but through alignment.
What you’ll experience:
A deeply aligned sense of your spiritual identity and path
Integrated practices that support you beyond the container
Confidence in living from alignment rather than effort
A profound relationship with yourself and your inner world
A sense of belonging - to community, nature, and something greater
Renewed purpose, openness, and spiritual aliveness
“This year feels like a key that has unlocked my creative spirit. The mix of group gatherings, one-to-one sessions, and guided practices has helped me move beyond old blocks and into a deeper relationship with my intuition. Through the rhythm of the seasons, I’ve learned to trust my creative flow and to see my work as an expression of my spiritual connection. Halfway through the year, I already feel more grounded, open, and aligned and the right outcomes are unfolding right in front of me.”
— 2024 Participant
"When we gather together, we practice opening up the confines of our separate self and become an interconnected body of love and understanding. We and our brothers and sisters are one."
— Thich Nhat Hanh
We will work as a group and 1:1
Group work will connect you with a community for life that will inspire and support you as you walk this path together. By nurturing your relationship with like-minded individuals whilst being held by nature, the stronger, more enriched, nourished and interconnected you will feel.
1:1 sessions anchor your seasonal learnings, providing personalised guidance that ensures every insight turns into embodied change - a bridge between awareness and transformation.
It will give you the space to go inwards and do some lifelong healing as we unearth, care for and completely transform deep-rooted fears, patterns and stories. By unblocking, and thus releasing, attachments to our limiting beliefs, you will find a deep trust in your relationship with your intuitive, spirit nature. In the 1:1 sessions you will also receive direct, channeled guidance from Laurie to support you in opening up to trust fully in this lifelong journey.
Throughout this time I will hold you and the community in deep, divine love, presence and wholeness. Meeting the fullness of you, we will meet your connection with spirit, give it shape and witness you become the most expansive version of you. The seasons will act as our anchor and our source. Your connection with it will deepen through your commitment to the practices and your devotion to the process.
“This year is a gentle yet powerful journey of deep connection. It offers space to truly listen to yourself, to nature, and to what’s pulling you forward in life. Guided with such care from Laurie, it invites reflection, practices, and ritual that help you meet yourself with so much more presence and trust. The support of the group becomes a mirror, reminding you of your own wisdom as you build even more compassion for others. It opens pathways to connection you didn’t know were possible.”
— 2024 Participant
This is for you if:
You crave ritual, ceremony, and soulful connection
You’re drawn to group work and community
You want spirituality woven into your everyday life
You’re ready to live from devotion, not urgency
You feel called to something ancient, sacred, and slow
Nature is our guide as we start and around the spring equinox. We will mirror the seasonal cycles as we seed, land, tend, nurture and bloom. The year includes:
4 x weekend (2 day) spring, summer, autumn and winter in person gatherings in London
12 x 75 minute monthly individual online 1:1 sessions on zoom
A 2 night, 2 day in person final spring retreat in Suffolk
A programme of self-guided practices and exercises for in between group and 1:1 work
Unlimited support available throughout the year over email from Laurie
WhatsApp group for shared resources, inspirational reminders and peer support
“Working with Laurie was like opening a Russian doll - layer after layer revealing something deeper, more raw, and more real. What began as a search for direction and purpose turned into an unexpected journey inward. I thought I was going to figure out what to do with my life, but instead, I discovered how to be with myself. Laurie is an extraordinary guide. Her presence is powerful yet gentle, and the way she holds space in group sessions is truly magical. In her circles, you witness the depth of human emotion without judgment - you see people’s love, pain, and truth, and in doing so, begin to see your own. She cultivates an atmosphere of profound safety, where transformation naturally unfolds. The course didn’t hand me answers. It invited me to see the uncomfortable truths I often avoided. With Laurie’s guidance, I began to recognise my inner blocks not as flaws but as places asking for love, care, and compassion. I stopped searching outside and started creating space within - a space of rhythm, self-kindness, and greater alignment with life’s seasons. This journey was not easy, but it was exactly what I needed. I’m walking away with a deeper understanding of who I am. I am deeply grateful to Laurie for her wisdom, her intuition, and the beautiful space she creates for others to come home to themselves.”
- 2024 participant
The structure
Where and when
London venue: Highgate Society and Omved Gardens
For our London gatherings we will meet around Hampstead Heath. This will be the land on which we roam and connect to through ritual and ceremony as we watch your visions grow and take form. For the cooler months, we will make use of the Highgate Society or Omved Gardens as our base. Both are private spaces, very close to the Heath, with a number of cafes and shops within easy walking distance. More info on the venues here and here
Suffolk venue: Wakelyns Agroforestry farm
For the final spring weekend together we will stay in the farm’s 16th Century, Grade II listed building - a classic Suffolk longhouse arranged over three floors, with the oldest part of the house dating back around 500 years. Each shared, twin room is beautifully arranged with its own bathroom. We will be nourished with breakfast, lunch and dinner with food from land and nearby. You will see the food growing in the crop and tree alleys and observe it turned from seed to soil to kitchen to plate. The farm itself is set in 23 hectares of land and is surrounded by the wild countryside of Suffolk. We will spend much time outside on the land and perhaps even take a dip in the nearby sea. You can read more about the farm here
“I’ve done personal growth work before, but this feels very different. The seasonal rhythm, the practices, the deep inner work - everything felt aligned with who I am. I learned how to hold my fears, tend my desires, and really plant seeds for the life I am truly here to live.”
- 2025 Client
In person group gatherings
Dates TBC
In person group retreat
Dates TBC
Online 1:1 sessions
12 sessions, monthly, to be booked in individually
Investment
TBC
Includes:
4 x 2 day (weekend) in person London gatherings
12 x 75 min 1:1 online sessions
1 x 2 night + 2 day in person retreat in Suffolk
Support & Guidance from Laurie via email throughout the year
N.B: Shared accommodation and food costs included as part of the Suffolk retreat. Travel costs not included. Food at London gatherings not included.
Payment plans possible, please see FAQs below for more info
FAQs
Is this for me? It’s for you if you long to slow down and listen more deeply to yourself and the natural world. If you feel the calling to explore your spirituality in a way that feels authentic, embodied, and grounded as you reconnect with your creativity, intuition, and inner guidance - all the while supported by a community of like-minded souls walking a similar path. If you desire to find sacredness in the everyday - in the changing seasons, in rest, in growth, in being, then this is for you. You might be at a threshold, maybe sensing that something within you is ready to awaken, or that your connection to life wants to feel more meaningful and alive. This journey offers a gentle structure and a circle of support to help you discover your own way of communing with spirit through practices, rituals, and reflections that honour both your individuality and your universal nature.
Can you share the core philosophy? At the heart of this year is the belief that spirituality is not something to seek outside ourselves, but something we return to - a remembering of our natural belonging to the earth, to one another and ultimately to our own, inherent wisdom. This year invites you to explore spirituality as a lived, embodied practice. Through communion with the cycles of nature, you begin to see that your own rhythms of growth, rest, creativity, and transformation mirror the rhythms of the world around you. Rather than offering a single path, this journey encourages you to find your own way of connecting to spirit - be that through communion with nature, in creative expression, meditation, ritual, or the simple but entirely profound act of listening.
How many people will be joining? Places are limited. I am only opening this up to 10 people so we form a deliberately intimate group. If you have been called to this section of the page, I attest that you are more than likely meant to be here. Much of my guidance, as you will experience, is not to question where spirit takes us. I myself have learnt to trust who comes my way - everyone with their own divine teaching to share. You will know if this is right for you, I simply ask you to trust that pull.
Do I have to commit to the whole year? Yes. For the coherence of the group and for you to realise your vision and get the most out of this journey, It requires your commitment. When you break down what you are required to attend, it may feel more digestible: 4 x in person London gatherings, 12 x online 1:1 sessions and a 1 x 2 day Suffolk retreat. If you want to join but there are dates that you already know you can’t do, please reach out.
Will there be support in between the sessions? Absolutely. I will be available as and when you need for questions, advice and support. The 1:1 sessions will give us time for this specifically but if there is more you need beyond this, I would always encourage you to reach out. There will also be a dedicated whatsapp group for the year in which we can share things that are inspiring us, reflections on moments in the year and a place to land and be held by the group as you need. More than anything, I want for this to be a deeply impactful and transformative year for you - so whatever I can do to support that, I’m here.
Is there an age minimum? 21+ this is suitable for anyone who has enough life experience and a desire to commit to their spiritual path.
What happens at the end of the year? As the year completes its cycle, you arrive not at an ending, but at a deepened way of being. The final season and retreat invites you to embody all that you’ve discovered: the practices, insights, and connections that have become part of your spiritual life. You’ll be guided to reflect on your journey, honour your growth, and celebrate how your relationship with spirit, self, and nature has evolved. Through ceremony and shared community, you’ll integrate what you’ve learned into your everyday life carrying forward a living, breathing spiritual practice that continues to unfold long after the year ends. You can of course continue to work with me further should this feel of support on your journey.
I can’t pay all the money upfront, are there payment plans available? Absolutely. A deposit will be required upon signing up to secure your place but the remainder of the payment can be scheduled to land in batches across the year. Please don’t let finances be a barrier. Email me on info@laurienouchka.com and we can work out a plan that suits you, no questions asked.
Who is eligible for the subsidised place? This option is provided for people who are on a lower income and would struggle to meet the full payment. The full payment option covers all the costs and my time to support your involvement on the programme. If you feel this is too much of a financial stretch for you then you are welcome to apply for the subsidised rate. If the subsidised rate is unattainable for you, please email me info@laurienouchka.com and we can talk this through further. I encourage you not to let your finances be a barrier to joining.
I want to know more before I sign up, is this possible? Absolutely, just email me info@laurienouchka.com to book in for a free discovery call where we can meet one another and I can answer any remaining questions you might have.
