A heart led community space for healing, gathering, and embodied reconnection.
A space for return
The Heart Grove is a community built around connection, embodiment, and heart led gathering. It was created by counsellor and doula Annie Richardson as a place where people could soften into themselves and feel held without losing their sense of sovereignty.
This space honours the simple truth that healing happens when people come together with intention. It is a grove in both name and spirit. A place where hearts meet, stories are heard, and community grows.
Origins of The Heart Grove
The name, The Heart Grove, emerged from a simple but powerful metaphor. Annie was once told she was like a willow tree that could shelter people through their storms. That image became the seed for something larger.
A grove is a group of tree souls standing together. Individual, yet connected. Protective, yet spacious. It holds, without taking. It listens, without absorbing. It offers comfort and belonging without demanding anything in return. The Heart Grove was named to honour this way of holding people. It represents heart led support, community, resilience, softness, and the deep human need to gather.
The intention behind the grove
The Heart Grove is the home for Annie’s group based work. It is where circles, gatherings, retreats, somatic practices, Chakradance, and collaborative workshops live. While Annie’s one to one therapy and Human Design work sit under her personal practice, The Heart Grove stands independently as a space for community based healing and education.
The grove is for women, families, creatives, seekers, and those needing a place to breathe and reconnect. It welcomes all who feel drawn to embodied healing, spiritual exploration, and heart centred community work.
What lives inside The Grove
Women's Circles & Training
A place for reflection, connection, and emotional return. Teachings in circle facilitation, somatics, spirituality, and embodied practice.
Retreats, Workshops & Immersions
Honouring transitions and the turning of the seasonal wheel. Immersive experiences for deep rest, clarity, and inner renewal.
Chakradance & Chakradance kids
Embodied movement that supports expression, release, and integration. as well as creative movement pathways that help children explore emotion safely.
Collaborative community events
Be part of connected groups and a community of heart-led humans empowering and supporting the collective.
Meet Annie
Annie is the founder and space holder of The Heart Grove. She is a counsellor, somatic therapist, doula, Reflector, and Human Design mentor. Her personal one to one work sits under her own name, while her community based offerings live inside this grove.
She tends the space, teaches within it, and holds the energy that allows others to gather with trust and openness.
Annie’s approach blends therapeutic depth, spiritual softness, and grounded embodiment.
