Applying ecological wisdom, mythopoetic patterning, and nervous system intelligence to unearth human potential and regenerate the living world.
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Lauren is a seasoned ecotherapist and educator serving at the intersection of personal healing, cultural memory, and ecological repair.
Her work explores the intricacy of relational systems — from fascia to forests, breath to belonging — weaving together science, story, and sacred ecology to restore reciprocal belonging and growth.
She is the founder of Nature System Reset and Earth Church, initiatives rooted in research, seasonal rhythm, and regenerative practice.
With a background in learning design, trauma-informed depth psychology, nature-based facilitation, and spiritual ecology, Lauren supports visionary leaders and facilitators in bringing forth grounded, soul-aligned work for a more resilient world.
NATURE SYSTEM RESET
Nature System Reset is the living framework that emerged from my years of weaving nervous system integration, leadership and development scaffolding, ecological wisdom, and story-based healing.
It’s not a method — it’s a living map. One that restores relationship between the body, the land, and the prism of diverse offerings that reach every person and place through a vehicle of exploration, curiosity, and reverence.
NSR draws from science and sacred systems alike — traversing inner landscapes and expressed ideas — and offers both structure and invitation for regenerative practice, especially for guides, facilitators, and visionaries.
The practice
is the practice.
“If you love the trees, I discovered, they will love you back and share their stories with you.”
Lauren Gabriella Pacione
— Way of the Trees
Writing to Root You
I often compose stories on morning walks, later transcribing them onto a screen — or an old typewriter that feels more like a friendly cup of tea than an editing tool.
Each sentence comes alive like a song — perhaps born from a birdcall, the way shadows fall through branches, or the familiar blanket of sunlight that softens my shoulders after morning errands.
I’m continually lured by the exploration of landscapes — as a writer, a mother, and a daughter of Earth — listening deeply to the cycles of language, the psyche of the seasons, the land, and the quiet inheritance of lineage.
These roles shape the way I listen, teach, and tend — reminding me that regeneration begins in relationship.
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EVENTS
Retreats and events locally and globally are centered around placemaking, belonging, and tending.
A PERSONAL NOTE OF UNEARTHED POTENTIAL
After a near-death accident in 2010, my compass reset.
I had always carried a knowing — maybe you do too — that I was here to engrave something that mattered for both people and planet. But knowing isn’t the same as doing. And doing isn’t the same as embodying.
Despite effort, I lacked consistent, compassionate accountability, a framework that fit me as much as a method, and perhaps the courage to bring my whole self forward while navigating the slow excavation of fossilized wounds.
The seasons that led to — and followed — that moment were not a single leap, but a tide. Rising and falling. Moving forward, pausing, being pulled back to learn what I had missed.
They were filled with studies from recognizable teachers like Tony Robbins, Cloé Madanes, Mark Peysha, and Gabor Maté. Training in yoga, breathwork, fascia, ecopsychology, leadership in integrative healthcare, and shamanic practices.
I embraced the discipline and alchemy of boxing and becoming a nationally qualified athlete. I learned from the collective emotions of daycare “siblings” in my childhood home, from the quiet inventions of a nature-based school, and from observing how unrelated pieces — art, materials, human behavior — revealed patterns when I sought connection and belonging.
On the day I nearly died, a part of me was reborn — the part ready for the archeology our current world requires. The part no longer hiding from pain, or light, or fully-bloomed potential. The part that desired a steady structure, community, and belonging. The part ready to receive more — and give more.
The part ready to be ready, even when I wasn’t.
Nature teaches that some seeds grow in the cracks of a sidewalk in the most unlikely season — and some wait years for the perfect conditions to sprout. I have lived both: stewarding 65 acres as a solo mom in the Catskills backcountry. Building a 38’ Skoolie. Traveling Europe on a one-way ticket. Founding a faith-based nonprofit to support reforestation in Peru. Learning from plants and shamans in the Amazon. Walking alongside leaders at Duke University. Weathering the dark nights of disease. Standing in awe of a sunrise with my daughter by my side.
None of it was done alone. All of it was navigated in the ecosystem of place, people, and the seed of something transpersonal — something you might call Mother Nature, God, Source, a Sequoia, or a really great cup of coffee.
That something?
It’s also you.
It’s also me.
Nature System Reset is the braid of these threads — research and lived experience, devotion and experiment, failure and improbable resurfacing through endless winter nights.
If you too feel the pull of the season ready to be reborn between your bones, before your last breath, as an offering to our shared Earth — step inside. Let’s see what grows when we tend it together.
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