A physical journey along the Camino De Santiago is an outward expression of your own inward pilgrimage.
As a spiritual guide, Laura offers you spiritual support for your physical pilgrimage and helps you bridge your Camino experience with your overall life story. She will offer spiritual direction (before, during and after your Camino walk), daily reflective questions while walking, group conversations, and opportunities to attend Pilgrim Masses.
There are three types of guided pilgrimages Laura offers:
“Compostela” is a one-week guided spiritual pilgrimage from Sarria to Santiago. Through one-on-one spiritual direction sessions before and after the Camino, daily spiritual reflection questions while walking the Camino, and reflective group conversations each afternoon, you will have the opportunity to reflect on how and why you have been called to the Camino at this time in your life and what does it mean for you personally to be a pilgrim. From Madrid to Santiago, all transportation, accommodations, and daily walking stages will be planned for you so that you won’t need to stress about the logistics and instead just focus on the spiritual experience of this pilgrimage. The walk from Sarria to Santiago is 72 miles, and you will walk an average of 14 miles a day. When you arrive in Santiago, Laura will help you retrieve your Compostela Certificate, attend a pilgrim’s mass at the Cathedral of Santiago, and enjoy a celebration dinner.
“Finding Your Feet On The Camino” helps you literally and figuratively find your feet on the Camino. It is ideal for those who would like help to begin the Camino and want to finish it on their own. Laura will be with you for the first 15 days of your Camino, with 3 different stages of planning/preparing the logistics for the actual walking days. For the first five days, Laura will pre-book all of the accommodations, organize baggage transfer, and plan each day’s distance of walking. The next five days, Laura will show you how to consider and plan the walking distance and the accommodation for the next day, and she will work with you in arranging your baggage transfer. For the last five days she is with you, you will make all the decisions and arrangements for the next day’s walk/accommodations/baggage transfer and she will be available for help or advice as you may need. By the end of her time with you, you will be skilled and more comfortable making daily decisions of walking distances and all the arrangements needed. You have the choice to continue the Camino on your own after those 15 days.
“Bom Caminho” is a two week guided spiritual pilgrimage from Porto, Portugal to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Through one-on-one spiritual direction sessions before and after the Camino, daily spiritual reflection questions while walking the Camino, and reflective group conversations each afternoon, you will have the opportunity to reflect on how and why you have been called to the Camino at this time in your life and what does it mean for you personally to be a pilgrim. From Porto to Santiago, all transportation, accommodations, and daily walking stages will be planned for you so that you won’t need to stress about the logistics and may focus more on the spiritual experience of this pilgrimage. The walk is 153 miles, and you will walk an average of 15 miles a day. When you arrive in Santiago, Laura will help you retrieve your Compostela Certificate, attend a pilgrim’s mass at the Cathedral of Santiago, and enjoy a celebration dinner.
Contact Laura about upcoming group trips or to schedule your own group trip.
