Mindfully_Laurie

🙋‍♀️International Women’s Day!🙋🏽‍♀️

“Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women.”
— Maya Angelou. I am so grateful to be co-teaching with my dear friend, a women’s 5 day meditation retreat for an incredible group of women . We can face these challenging times together in sisterhood and stand up together for our rights, justice, and equality. Sending strength and love!

A Call To Remember Our Shared Humanity:
I write this today not from a political position, but from a human one, one that takes in all life.
What I see around us is fear-based messaging that divides, destabilizes, and dehumanizes. This isn’t leadership. It is an erosion of trust, dignity, and our shared sense of belonging.
For me, this is about human rights, animal rights, and the rights of our Earth.
It is about coexistence.
It is about basic care, respect, and maturity, and not causing harm for the benefit of a few self-serving interests in positions of power.
We are not separate beings. We are a collective, shaped by thousands of years of evolution, capable of wisdom, perspective, compassion and collaboration. We have prefrontal cortices for a reason: to pause, reflect, and recognize that we are far more alike than we are different, and to remember that we carry responsibility to ourselves, to one another, to all beings, and to this planet.
Difference does not have to be a threat. It can be an invitation to understand, and to shape and build new systems and new ways of relating that are rooted in ethics, integrity, mutual respect, and the wellbeing of us all.
I stand for compassionate connection.
For belonging.
For nonviolence.
For leadership that is impeccable, trustworthy, heart-centered, responsible, and accountable to the whole, not driven by greed, blame, othering, or insatiable self-interest.
My wish is to live this life in a way that I can live with myself, where I recognize my impact on others of all kinds, and where I leave this world having served the greater good rather than have taken from it. See the link in bio to finish reading my blog.

🌿 The Sacred Path of Connection, Belonging & Love 
A Women’s Springtime Meditation Retreat
🌿March 7-11,2026
📍 Big Bear Retreat Center
✨ Spaces still available
In these times of intensity and uncertainty, many of us are feeling the call to slow down—to remember what it means to be held in a way that restores rather than depletes. We are living in a moment that asks a great deal of us: our nervous systems, our hearts and minds, our communities, and our capacity to stay connected to what matters most.
This is an invitation to all female-identified people who have been feeling stretched, tender, or overwhelmed—and who long for space to soften, rest, and reconnect.
✨ Heart-based meditation
✨ Gentle mindful movement (yoga & qigong)
✨ Dharma & wisdom reflections
✨ Silence, stillness & time in nature
✨ Spacious time for rest, journaling & creative expression
As winter loosens its grip and spring begins to emerge, we gather in silence to prepare the inner ground for what is ready to grow—settling, receiving, and remembering what becomes possible when we give ourselves time, stillness, and genuine connection… with ourselves, with each other, and with nature’s companionship.
🌱 Come settle.
🌱 Come receive.
🌱 Come remember what becomes possible in connection.
💛 We would be honored to have you join us. To find out more, go to my link in Bio or Big Bear Retreat Center.

✨💛 LIVE Lunch Mindfulness 💛✨

Come join me LIVE online this Wednesday, 1/14 at 12:00 PM (PT) for Lunch Mindfulness with Big Bear Retreat Center.

Theme: Cultivating Courageous Connection
I’ll guide a grounding meditation and then open the space for Q&A and reflection.

🔗 Join here: https://bigbearretreatcenter.org/online

Bring your lunch, curiosity, and openness to be present in community. Hope to see you there ✨💛   

☃️🐺Happy Holidays from me & Jax! Free event this Sunday, 12/21 at Wolf Connection! Check out Event Brite - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/paws-and-presents-holiday-market-tickets-1963761723177.

✨🐺Women & Wolves (8) Week Transfomative Immersive🐺✨. Applications are now open. Micha and & I will be holding a 30-minute virtual call on December 3 at 5:00pm PST to answer any questions about the program and provide a brief grounding.
Email mailto:[email protected] for a Zoom link. Here from others experiences:
“After a long time of feeling like a lone wolf, I felt like I found my pack”

“I sit here with tears in my eyes as I think about my experience in Women and Wolves.
To say that this program is life-changing seems like an understatement. I feel like I will never be the same person again, in a good way.”
Link for application is in Bio. 💕🐺

✨🐺Women & Wolves (8) Week Transfomative Immersive🐺✨. Applications are now open. Micha and & I will be holding a 30-minute virtual call on December 3 at 5:00pm PST to answer any questions about the program and provide a brief grounding.
Email mailto:[email protected] for a Zoom link. Here from others experiences:
“After a long time of feeling like a lone wolf, I felt like I found my pack”

“I sit here with tears in my eyes as I think about my experience in Women and Wolves.
To say that this program is life-changing seems like an understatement. I feel like I will never be the same person again, in a good way.”
Link for application is in Bio. 💕🐺

🐺Wolf Awareness Month🐺 This month honors the most misunderstood and essential teachers on our planet - the Wolf. They teach us about how to live: listen deeply, work together, honor our instincts, live in balance and find our place within the larger web of life. Let’s stand for coexistence, compassion and community with nature and humanity. 🐺❤️🐺❤️🐺

☀️✨ Grateful to be with my incredible daughter and dear friends in Seattle for work and play. Thanks Jen & Linda -Cantoneras Consulting, for allowing me to be part of your team and bring Trauma-informed Sexual Assault Training for the Sexual Assault Unit at Seattle Police Department. May we not mistreat or cause further harm for those who have been harmed. May we recognize our interconnectedness and heal the unmet pain that is causing harm and pain. May we support and empower women. 💛🙏🏼 ,

🎉Happy Birthday to my incredible son, Sean! What a magical time we had in Utah, River Rafting and Camping along the Yampa, Colorado and Green Rivers. I feel so blessed to know and love the exceptional young man that you are! Many more nature excersions to come. 🏞️✨🎉💛. Thank you

Check out my episode on Deep Gratitude 💛🐺🙏🏼. “Laurie joined the Wolf Connection podcast to explore how mindfulness and nature-based therapy can guide us back to our whole selves.
She speaks to the profound connection between body and earth, and how nervous system healing is supported by presence, animal (wolf) wisdom, and a return to natural rhythm. Laurie shares how these practices are thoughtfully woven into the transformative programs at Wolf Connection. And how learning to truly listen to our intuition and bodies can reconnect us to our innate wisdom, inner regulation, and the living world around us.”

Another deep honor and blessing to co-facilitate alongside my dear friend, Heidi Bourne, for our 9th annual Women’s Meditation Retreat this past week.
Together with 30 incredible women, we gathered to celebrate the Summer Solstice, anchoring in wisdom practices, noble silence, and the sanctuary of sacred land and sisterhood.
In stillness and in shared presence, we listened to our wise hearts, and extended loving-kindness and compassion to all beings—everywhere.
May the ripples of this retreat continue to echo gently through each life, and into the world that so deeply needs to remember our interconnectedness and belonging.