Pilgrimage of Soul
A sacred journey through Wild Suffolk and psyche, where ancient wisdom meets personal growth
10-12 October 2025
Event Overview
We invite you to step away from the busyness of daily life into a supportive space for deep reflection. In this experiential weekend, you’ll connect with nature in ways that reveal new insights about yourself and your journey through life. It’s not just a walk — it’s also a guided, inner journey into self-understanding and transformation.
- Where Nature and Psyche Meet
Leave behind the distractions of everyday life and enter a space where nature and your inner world meet. This experience will help you explore the deeper layers of your psyche and how they connect with the natural world around you. - Discover your Landscape Within
As you explore nature and observe the world around you, we’ll help you see it as a reflection of your inner landscape. Through mindful practices within surrounding woods and fields, you’ll gain new clarity about your true self and your place in the world. - Engage in Soulcraft Practices that Generate Insight
Throughout the experience, you will participate in practices designed to deepen your connection with your inner self and the world around you. These will include guided meditations, dreamwork, and reflection on mythical storytelling. - Participate in Nature-based Rituals
The experience will include rituals inspired by ancient indigenous practices that help you reconnect with the rhythms of nature. These practices are designed to bring you into deeper connection with the natural world. - Supported by a Group of Like-Minded Individuals
In small groups, you will share your experiences and reflections, offering support to each other as you explore your inner experiences. With the guidance of our experienced facilitators, you will gain clarity and perspective on your life journey. - Rewild Your Psyche through Nature
Through your connection with nature—whether through the sounds of birds, the feel of the wind, or the act of foraging—you will discover new ways of understanding and nurturing your soul. Nature will serve as our guide and teacher throughout the weekend.
Your Sacred Journey
Guided Meditations
Connect with the five elements through elemental meditation, grounding practices, and embodiment work
Dream Analysis
Reflect on your dreams as a pathway to personal enquiry and soul development
Mythological Storytelling
Discover inner meaning through ancient tales like Beowulf, connecting myth to your personal journey
Wilderness Immersion
Walk through woodland, beach, river valley, and heath—letting the changing landscape feel into your soul
Sacred Circles
Bear witness and practice deep listening in confidential and supportive sharing circles around the campfire
Ritual & Ceremony
Mark sacred moments through ceremonies, ritual meals, and song
Your Facilitators
Andy Narracott
Andy Narracott – Apprentice Shamanic Healer and Guide
Andy is a green-fingered nature-lover who is in his first year of a three year shamanic healing course. He is a trustee of Ecotherapy East and runs regular meadow immersion events in his community. He has a love of growing and fermenting food, foraging and cooking. He has worked and travelled across the world working as a water and sanitation specialist in the charity sector.
Robert Black
Robert Black – Ecotherapist & Integrative Counsellor
Rob is an integrative counsellor, supervisor, and expressive arts therapist with a passion for connecting people to nature and themselves. As co-founder of Ecotherapy East, he brings years of experience in private practice and community mental health, including a decade training for Norfolk Mind in Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Active Hope.
Practical Details
- Arrive: 5pm, 10th October 2025
- Depart: 6pm, 12th October 2025
- Location: Near Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK
- Group size: Limited to 12 for a personal, connected experience
- What to bring:
- Tent & bedding (if choosing to self camp)
- Good walking shoes or boots
- Waterproof clothing
- Small daypack for lunch & water
- Notebook and pen
- Open heart and curious mind
- Accommodation options:
- Bring your own tent
- Stay in a small wooden tent (2 single beds)
- Large wooden tent (1 double bed)
- Glamping pod
- Bring your own campervan or motorhome
- Food: Breakfast, packed lunch and dinner all provided and all dietary requirements catered for.
Crossing the Threshold into your soul
This weekend-long immersion invites you to experience the wild outer landscape as a mirror for your rich and unseen inner world. Walking gently through the varied and beautiful Suffolk terrain — forest, heath, estuary, beach — we open to mystery. Through stories, ceremony, dreamwork, and deep presence, we seek not only answers, but a deeper quality of listening.
Pre-Pilgrimage Zoom Sessions
There will be two optional preparatory calls to guide your inner work before we meet in person, to cover:
- How to remember and reflect on your dreams
- An introduction to the psyche and soul
- The meaning of mystery and the non-rational
- The Wilderness as gateway to the inner world
OUTLINE OF THE Three Days
Friday – Arrival & Threshold
6:00pm – Arrive, introductions, and introductory talk on the Pilgrimage of Soul
7:30pm – Dinner
8:30pm – Sharing circle and intention setting around the campfire
Saturday – First Pilgrimage
7:00-8:00am – Breakfast
8:30am-6:00pm – Day 1 guided walk: Rendlesham Forest → Chillesford → Butley → Capel St Andrew
7:00pm – Dinner
8:00pm – Sharing circle & stories around the campfire
Sunday – Second Pilgrimage & Departure
7:00-8:00am – Breakfast
8:30am-5:30pm – Day 2 guided walk: Rendlesham Forest → Boyton → River Ore → Oak Hill
5:30pm – Final shares in circle
6:00pm – Departure
Begin your Pilgrimage
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