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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 – Wilderness Guide and (apprentice) Shamanic Healer

Andy is a green-fingered nature-lover with a deep interest in shamanic principles and practise. 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

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Wild Being : Being Wild

Into the Heart of Nature

Saturday 26th July
10:00am – 4:00pm

Event Overview

Together, we’ll explore our inner world as an essential part of the living world. Through guided practices, conversation, and ritual, you’ll be invited to:
- Deepen your connection to the web of life
  Experience a sense of belonging with the land, the elements, and each other.
- Explore meditation and ritual as creative tools
  Discover how simple, nature-based meditations and rituals can inspire personal and collective growth.
- Listen to your inner and outer landscape
  Tune in to your own rhythms and the subtle voices of the wild around you, with meditations and nature-based practices
- Converse with trees & connect with nature beings
  Open to the wisdom that the living world offers.
- Rest, play, and celebrate together
  For a day, remember how to live simply—resting, playing, dancing, and offering gratitude to the land.
Step Out of the Noise, and Step Into the heart of nature

Do you long to escape the busyness of daily life? To throw away your phone, lie in the grass, and breathe with the trees?
Join us for Wild Being : Being Wild—a unique outdoor workshop where we’ll rediscover what it means to be alive, connected, and truly present.

A Collaborative Retreat with Directionless Path & Ecotherapy East

What to Expect

An intimate group experience (maximum 12 participants)

Simple rituals of appreciation and gratitude

Listening practices and mindful connection with nature

Creative expression, and group sharing

Tea and coffee provided—please bring your own lunch, snacks, and water bottle

A relaxed, supportive atmosphere—no previous experience needed
Your Facilitators

Rijusiddha

Rijusiddha – Spiritual Guide & Meditation Mentor

With over 20 years of meditation experience and a rich background spanning Buddhist, Pagan, and Druidic traditions, Rijusiddha offers a unique, integrative approach to spiritual guidance. As the founder of Directionless Path, specialising in helping others deepen their connection with themselves and the natural world through mindfulness, meditation, and nature-based practices. Rijusiddha is dedicated to creating welcoming spaces for personal transformation, weaving together wisdom from diverse spiritual paths to support each individual’s journey.

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. Rob’s approach is influenced by transpersonal and Jungian therapy, and he has shared his expertise with NHS psychiatry staff. When he’s not facilitating, you’ll find him vision questing, exploring shamanism, or birdwatching in Suffolk.

Practical Details
- Date: 26th July
- Location: Covehithe, near Southwold, Suffolk
- Time: 10am – 4pm
- Group size: Limited to 12 for a personal, connected experience
- What to bring:
  
  Weather-appropriate clothing and sturdy footwear
  
  Something to sit on (Something natural on or close to the ground, like sheepskin or rug, recommended if possible)
- Your own lunch, snacks, and water bottle
Ready to Experience Wild Being: Being Wild?

Leave behind the noise. Reconnect with your authentic self and the living world. Listen to the hum of the soil, the whispers of the woods, and the wisdom of the sky.

Your place in the circle is waiting.

Please note that a £25 deposit is required to secure your booking. This is non-refundable unless the event is cancelled by the organisers
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Foxtail Meadow Wildlife Walk and Celebration

Sunday 15 June
2:00-4:30pm
Bramfield, Suffolk

Join us to celebrate our 5-year anniversary of regenerating the land as a community.

We hope you will join us!! Send us an email by clicking the RSVP button below.

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Touching Wholeness

Saturday 12 July 2025, 10am-5:00pm
Foxtail Meadow
Bramfield, Suffolk

This experiential workshop draws on Internal Family Systems (IFS), ecotherapy, expressive arts and mindfulness and is led by an experienced IFS therapist Sebastiana Black.

“Thank you for a gentle yet powerful experience led with such integrity and professionalism.” participant 2024

“I felt heard and respected and had moments of deep connection with parts of myself I hadn’t met before and also time to laugh and experience joy” participant, 2025

Meet your inner world differently – with the sensitive help of your compassionate Self, the support and wisdom of the group and in a deep relationship with the natural world on the wild meadow.

You will be guided to befriend your inner ecosystem of Parts (ways you function, think and feel) that show up in different areas of your lives. What is hindering your wellbeing, true relating, abundance, purpose and belonging? What parts carry burdens, are in conflict? What does Self-energy feel like, what aspects of you are freer, regenerative, soulful? What are your sources of joy?

You will discover more about your Parts’ intentions, origins and what they need to heal and change and experience more clarity, courage and self-compassion.
These habits and beliefs that protect you and the vulnerable parts that need to be heard will become a doorway to deepening your connections to all of you, others and the more-than-human world.

You will be guided to enter into a reciprocal, deeper relationship with the natural world, honouring it as well as drawing inspiration and resources from its beautiful presence and intelligence, finding allies and guides. From this place of deeper participation with the ecosystems, you will tap into your innate sense of belonging and begin to uncover a greater sense of balance, perspective and wholeness.

Experience a transformative and effective way of self-discovery that is kind to your nervous system and includes cultural change. We are moving from feeling like we have to do this alone to a more collective, interconnected with all of life healing approach. In this re-imagined systemic context we are aware and mindful of our precious place in the web of life and our responsibility or calling to be in an enchanted and respectful kinship with the more than human world.

The day will include:
- Setting up a courageous and safe space for all parts to feel welcome
- Exploring your inner ecosystem using IFS map of parts
- IFS and nature-based meditations
- Exploration of parts via writing, image making, movement, nature connection and sharing
- Embodying and inviting qualities of True Nature through nature connection, movement, song and poetry
- Time outdoors finding symbols and expression for your experiences
- Inviting a sense of interconnectedness with the natural world via senses and imagination
- Individual, group and pair work
- Gratitude and appreciations
What to bring:
- Clothing you are comfortable to be in, including a bit of movement
- Layers if cooler day, waterproofs for rain, sun hat, sun screen
- Blanket for extra comfort
- Cushion to sit on. Chairs will be available too.
- Notebook and pen
- Bottle of water
Paper and pastels will be available for image making.
There will be teas and coffees available before the workshop starts to help you to settle in and throughout the day.

Who is it for:
Everyone is welcome. No previous experience of IFS or Ecotherapy is required.
Come if you are curious about deepening your relationship with your inner and outer nature and want to heal and grow.
Workshop is suitable both for people who are new and experienced in IFS and Ecotherapy.

“IFS groups offer an opportunity for participants to see their Parts as universally natural and part of being human. They foster insight and offer the feeling of community and the collective, felt experience of Self-energy.” Chris Burris.
Facilities: there are simple facilities on the meadow, including a cosy yurt and a compost loo. We will be spending time indoors and outdoors. Directions and what to bring will be provided after booking.

Spaces are limited. The group will be capped at 6 participants to create a safe, connected group.

Early bird before 19 June 2025: £70
Thereafter £80 or pay it forward – choose this amount to support our work on the meadow and those on lower income.
£60 – 1 spot in exchange for helping with refreshments.

Payment in instalments is possible.

Bookings
Touching Wholeness Group

5 Saturdays:
Dates TBC

10am-1pm
Foxtail Meadow, Bramfield, Suffolk

This series of experiential group workshops draw on Internal Family Systems (IFS), ecotherapy, expressive arts and mindfulness and is led by an experienced IFS therapist Sebastiana Black

“For the first time I don’t feel like I need to fix myself! That’s freeing in itself. Everything is welcome. A safe and playful space. I felt heard and respected and had moments of deep connection with parts of myself I hadn’t met before and also time to laugh and experience joy.” – participant at River of Self workshop 2025

Through creative explorations and with the help of your compassionate Self, the support and wisdom of the group and the natural world on the meadow you will meet your inner world differently.

You will be able to befriend your family of Parts (ways you function, think and feel) that show up in different areas of your lives.
You will discover more about your Parts’ intentions, origins and what they need to heal and change and experience more clarity and self-compassion.

These habits and beliefs that protect you and the vulnerable parts that need to be heard will become a doorway to deepening your connection to your inner ecosystem, your body, your compassionate Self/your True Nature, others and the more-than-human world.

You will be guided to enter into a reciprocal, deeper relationship with the natural world, honouring it as well as drawing inspiration and resources from its beauty and presence, finding allies and guides. From this place of deeper participation with the ecosystems, you will tap into your innate sense of belonging and begin to uncover a greater sense of balance, perspective and wholeness.

Possible themes we will explore:
- Inner conflict
- Grief and attachment wounds
- Relationships
- Self-care – saying ‘yes’ and saying ‘no’
- Longing to belong
- Perfectionism, inner critic, fear of failure, feeling wrong
- Exploring resources and qualities of Self inside and in the natural world
- Distractors, avoiders and soothers – who do they protect?
- Ecological and poly-crisis distress
Each morning will include:
- Setting up a courageous and safe space for all parts to feel welcome (1st session)
- Exploring your inner ecosystem using IFS map of parts
- IFS and nature-based meditations
- Exploration of parts via writing, image making, movement, nature connection and sharing
- Embodying and inviting qualities of True Nature through nature connection, movement, song and poetry
- Time outdoors finding symbols and expression for your experiences
- Inviting a sense of interconnectedness with the natural world via senses and imagination
- Individual, group and pair work
- Gratitude and appreciations
Group will be capped at 6 people to allow for depth of connection. This is a closed group with everyone ideally attending all the 5 sessions.
Previous experience of IFS is welcome but not needed.

Payment:
- Early bird: £195 (5 meetings)
- Thereafter £210
- One discounted space in exchange for helping with refreshments and setting up and clearing the space: £175
- Payment in instalments is possible.
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“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.”
~Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Community Days on Foxtail Meadow

Wheel of the year & land-tending

Would you like to come and enjoy time in the natural world – with nature and for nature on Foxtail Meadow, private nature reserve in Bramfield, Suffolk?

Join a friendly group of people bringing connection with nature into their lives.

Dates in 2025 (Saturdays): 21 June, 2 August, 20 September, 1 November, 20 December (dates may change)

10:00am-11:30am Wheel of the year connection
11:30am-3:00pm Land-tending and meadow regeneration

Come for as long as you wish

We meet 8 times a year around the seasons to celebrate and bring awareness to our inner and the more-than-human world – walking the labyrinth, short meditations, quiet time in nature to deepen connection.

There are opportunities for practical tasks needed to take care of this regenerating land: making space for wildflowers, creating insect friendly habitats, scything, raking, looking after the new trees and the pond, planting trees.

Community days on the land are a great opportunity to:
- Nourish your relationship to the seasons and find your place in the web of life
- Meet the community
- Tend the land, give back to nature
- Tend yourself
Everyone is welcome! Children under 16 are welcome if accompanied and supervised by an adult. If you are not able to help in a practical way, you are welcome to pop by and enjoy being on the meadow, rest and regenerate. You are welcome to join us for lunch or quietly walk the labyrinth.

To join us and for directions please email: ecotherapyeast@gmail.com

We have a WhatsApp group which you are welcome to join for updates about community days and other announcements.

Travel To The Meadow

We encourage people to travel to our site in Bramfield using public transport, as much as possible.

(Parking is limited, so please get in touch if coming by car. There is an extra charge for parking when coming workshops.)

Trains: The East Coast Line goes from Lowestoft to Ipswich, and stops 3 miles either side of Bramfield, in Halesworth and Darsham. Bus 521 will take you to Bramfield from both Halesworth and Darsham on Saturdays.

Buses: The Charcoal Line 40, 41, X41 runs from Norwich to Halesworth once an hour, and Bus 521 goes from Halesworth to Bramfield.

All Suffolk bus timetables can be found here: https://www.suffolkonboard.com/ways-to-travel/bus/bus-timetables/

tending the Earth, tending ourselves

Pilgrimage of Soul

Event Overview

Your Sacred Journey

Your Facilitators

Practical Details

Crossing the Threshold into your soul

Pre-Pilgrimage Zoom Sessions

OUTLINE OF THE Three Days

Begin your Pilgrimage

Wild Being : Being Wild

Event Overview

Step Out of the Noise, and Step Into the heart of nature

What to Expect

Your Facilitators

Practical Details

Ready to Experience Wild Being: Being Wild?

Foxtail Meadow Wildlife Walk and Celebration

Touching Wholeness

Touching Wholeness Group

“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.” ~Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Community Days on Foxtail Meadow

“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.”
~Robin Wall Kimmerer.