Wellspring Collective is gathering place for seekers who are drawn to the living wisdom of Christ.
Like the early desert mystics who withdrew into the wilderness to listen for the voice of God, we gather not to escape the world, but to rediscover the deeper well beneath it. In a noisy age, we believe the soul still longs for silence, reflection, and spiritual companionship.
Our roots rest firmly in the spirit and teachings of Christ. Yet we recognize that the wisdom of God has flowed through many lands and traditions across time. Christianity is the soil from which we grow, but the waters that nourish the soul are wide and ancient.
For many people, the teachings of Jesus awaken a deep longing, yet the structures of organized religion no longer feel spacious enough to hold their questions, experiences, or spiritual imagination. Wellspring Collective exists as a refuge for those travelers.
At the Well we are less concerned with defending doctrine and more interested in tending the interior life. We practice what might be called sacred integration—honoring the particular beauty of the Christian contemplative tradition while remaining open to the perennial wisdom that points toward divine union.
At the Well we explore the parables and poetry of Jesus as invitations into transformation. The words attributed to him—both within the Gospels and preserved in other early Christian texts—continue to reveal a path of radical love, humility, surrender, and communion with God.
Our time together is simple:
silence, reflection, prayer, meditation, and honest conversation about the spiritual-human journey.
We are not trying to rebuild religion.
We are tending a well.
If you find yourself drawn to the teachings of Christ yet searching for a more spacious way to walk the path…
If you are longing for a contemplative community where questions are welcomed and spiritual life is lived rather than performed…
You are welcome here.
Wellspring Collective is a place for seekers, pilgrims, contemplatives, and quiet mystics—those who trust that the path of Christ was always meant to lead beyond certainty and deeper into the mystery of divine love.
You belong here if…
You love Jesus, but long for a wider and deeper spiritual language
You are reconstructing your faith after disappointment, harm, or spiritual disillusionment
You are drawn to contemplation, mysticism, and the sacred interior life
You want spiritual community without pressure, pretense, or fear
You desire a devotional rhythm that feels true, grounded, and alive
You are seeking a sacred place to question, commune, and become
What you’ll find here
Sacred gatherings for prayer, reflection, and conversation
Wisdom teachings rooted in contemplation and the mystic tradition
Space to explore scripture with openness and depth
Practices that support embodied devotion and spiritual grounding
A community of fellow seekers honoring the sacredness of life together
Come to the Well
If you have been longing for a different way to gather.
Frequently Asked Questions
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The infrastructure of MONASTICA assures that we develop a deep spiritual foundation through the wisdom traditions, which hold embodied truths through divine knowing. We cultivate our interior space through presence.
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Getting started is simple. Reach out through our contact form or schedule a call—we’ll walk you through the next steps and answer any questions along the way.
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No. Monastica serves an interfaith community for spiritual exploration and deepening into the perennial wisdoms. Each soul passing through MONASTICA is invited to seek God on their own terms. They are invited to explore how to reconcile with faith traditions. Most of all, we support that an intimate relationship with the divine nourishes the human experience.
Within the perennial wisdom, we understand that:
There is in the human soul a natural capacity, similarity, and longing for this Divine Reality.
The final goal of all existence is union with Divine Reality.
There is a Divine Reality underneath and inherent in the world of things.
Our Rose formation anchors primarily in the Contemplative Christian Wisdom, a lineage resting in the universal Christ. Wisdom that is embedded in the human soul.
Lauren is an ordaining minister with Feminine Healing Arts.
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You can reach us anytime via our contact page or email. We aim to respond quickly—usually within one business day.
lauren@sacredlivingarts.com
I’m Lauren, Contemplative Rose Formation Director of MONASTICA.
Here’s a little about me…
It all started when I sat for my first meditation session at age eleven. I was hooked.
Over the years, this practice helped cultivate the musculature of staying with what is. Allowing stillness and the necessary integration of mind, body, and spirit to reveal the path forward. I became really good at crossing the thresholds. As a matter of fact, I welcomed them. I knew the growth and gifts they provided for my soul’s evolution.
In the hours of sitting in silence, I also became intimately acquainted with what we might call the frequency of Christ or the benevolent love of the Divine, which awakens us to the interconnectedness of all beings. That presence has stayed with me through all the thresholds in my life — head trauma, abandonment, sexual boundaries crossed, adoption, and divorce, to name a few.
I always felt like the access point to silence and stillness should be part of our social norms, built into our education, our work environments, and FREE to all.
This is where my sacred service began.
For the better part of 30 years, I have worked as a meditation teacher, somatic guide, interfaith spiritual director, and grief companion. I have helped women navigate thresholds of leadership, identity, and life transition. Guiding them to lead from presence rather than pressure.
As a mother of three teenagers, including one adopted child, and a woman who has walked the terrain of divorce and reinvention, I bring an uncommon depth of embodied wisdom to my work. I do not teach resilience as endurance, but as capacity—the body’s innate intelligence to adapt, stabilize, and carry momentum forward in alignment with purpose.
I have spent much of my spiritual exploration and training studying the mystics. My greatest evolution came through working with the Christian Wisdom school, which enlightened me to the common threads amongst the many religious traditions.
My Rose Lineage initiation further opened the portal to my sacred mission by helping me reclaim self-love.
My unique approach in working with women integrates desert wisdom, contemplative formation practices, advanced somatics, seasonal elemental body temple attunements, spiritual direction, and mindfulness foundations.
I teach that sustainable faith-filled leadership does not come from force or mindset alone, but from a body that knows how to hold the cycles of embodied presence.
We move through 5 Sacred Rites, which are thresholds of formation that arise at specific stages of the Rose, which mirror our own life, death, and rebirth cycles.
