2027 Retreats

Minnesota: Awakened Architecture
Understanding  your Blueprint and Building the
Future from Within

Located on the sacred shores of 11th Crow Wing Lake, near the headwaters

of  the Mississippi River, this peaceful cabin resort is just a few hours north of

Minneapolis. The retreat setting is intentionally chosen for its restorative

energy and connection to the Earth’s natural rhythms.

Retreat Cost:

• $750 if registered before May 1, 2027  (payment schedules are available)

• $850 after May 1, 2027

• Extra Day Option (Sept 12–13): $120 additional
  Payment schedules are available.  To register or inquire, email Laurie@yourlifecore.com.
  Limited to 16 participants.

Life’s changes, experiences, and moments of curiosity can reveal a deeper understanding of who you are and what matters to you. How might you interpret those changes, or information? How do you take what you have learned about yourself and begin to live it? How might  you live your Blueprint?

The Living Blueprint is a four-day retreat devoted to that next step. Together, we will explore the beliefs and patterns shaping our lives, listen for the vision emerging beneath them, and create a foundation that can support who we are becoming. This is time to pause, reconnect with your inner guidance, and give your gifts a place in everyday life.

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Located on the shores of 11th Crow Wing Lake, near the Mississippi Headwaters, Crow Wing Crest Lodge offers space to rest, reflect, and connect with nature. Through teaching, ceremony, sound, creative work, and time outdoors, we will move from insight toward grounded action.

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Retreat Theme: Understanding the Blueprint

2027 is an 11 Universal Year, a number associated in numerology with illumination, intuition, and the meeting of spiritual insight with physical life. Eleven also reduces to two, inviting balance, partnership, patience, and discernment. These themes form the gateway into our work: learning to receive a vision while developing the capacity to live it.  This retreat explores Awakened Architecture: the energy of 11 invites a deeper vision, moon energy of Capricorn helping us build a strong foundation, and Aquarius inspires us to carry that vision into the future. Full moon is Sept. 15 so a perfect time to leave behind and grow into the future. 

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Across four days, we will explore:

• Entering the gateway: Listening to intuition and recognizing what is ready to come into the light. Trusting how the Universe is communicating with you.

• Examining the foundation: Seeing which beliefs, habits, boundaries, and inherited patterns support us—and which need to change.

• Awakening the blueprint: Exploring the gifts and qualities ready to move from possibility into expression.

• Building what comes next: Turning insight into meaningful choices, supportive practices, and a personal path forward.

If you joined us for any past retreats or are new these retreats, this is a natural continuation of our experiences in life. We will explore how awakened gifts become lived qualities: how intuition becomes a choice, how truth becomes a voice, and how vision becomes something we can build.

The Experience

Laurie has been hosting retreats at Crow Wing Crest Lodge for over 10 years. Each year carries a unique theme that mirrors humanity’s collective evolution and what spirit is guiding us to learn and share. Laurie is joined by her spirit guides and universal teachers, creating a transformative experience of learning, laughter, and deep connection. There will also be time to rest. Walk the trails, sit beside the lake, share conversation, or simply let the quiet of the retreat support your own process. Laurie’s retreats bring together learning, laughter, personal discovery, and the warmth of a small group.

You do not need to arrive with a clear plan for your future. Bring your questions, your curiosity, and a willingness to listen to what is changing within you. Our time together will include guided reflection, energy practices, sound experiences, ceremony, crystals, creative projects, and connection with the land and one another. You will have space to examine your current life, envision what is possible, and identify steps you can build upon.

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About the Venue

Crow Wing Crest Lodge is a family-owned resort sanctuary, perfect for relaxation, self-care, and connection with nature.

• Lodging: 2–4 people per fully equipped modern cabin (maximum 16 participants). All participants get their own room/own bed. It is important you have private space to relax, retreat and rest. 

• Amenities: Lake access, wood sauna, paddleboards, nature trails, and cozy spaces for reflection.

Included in Your Retreat

• All workshops, classes, and materials/supplies.  Laurie is generous in her offerings, but these are take home tools for you. 

• Ion foot bath 

• Drumming circles, cacao ceremonies, sacred fire rituals, meditations and pondering insight

• Creative projects, crystals, and personal journal

• Entrance to Itasca State Park

• Breakfast and dinner each day with snacks (healthy, nourishing, and designed to support energy work)

Each cabin has a fully equipped kitchen if you want/need to prepare additional items, or store things.

Not included: Transportation, beverages, resort tipping, or off-site shopping. 

Prepare to relax, expand, and awaken—a weekend of magic, learning, laughter, and transformation.

Optional Extra Day: September 12–13, 2026

Stay another 24 hours in the sacred energy of the land.  Sunday noon through Monday noon, we’ll gather for a day of integration, nature connection, and ceremony as we prepare for the Fall Equinox and the energetic close of 2027 and how to best use the energy of this time.  

Activities include:

• Nature walks and energy exercises

• Earth and star bathing

• Drumming, meditation, and fire circle

Cost: $120 (includes cabin stay, meals, and all supplies).

This resort is truly hard to leave—allow yourself the gift of one more day in the energy of awakening.