What is Gridwork?

My best friend has had a job for years that comes with unlimited leave. She’s always traveling to the farthest corners of the Earth, going wherever she feels called, without hesitation. Her friends often ask if she even has a job, and her response is always the same: "I do have a full-time job!"

I often joke with her that her true salary is to gridwork. Her abundance, her joy, her infectious laughter, and her big, open heart — she effortlessly uplifts the energy of every place she sets foot in.

Yet, she has no idea what gridwork is. She tells me she doesn’t know what I’m talking about and insists it’s just wanderlust. It’s funny, because even though we’re best friends, we come from such different worlds in terms of what we’re focused on right now. And even though she doesn’t know about somatics or spirituality, she’s 1000% supportive of me and my work.

I woke up this morning thinking about her, and felt inspired to write this email to you all today.

Travel as Earth Medicine: Remembering Through Movement

Many people describe their longing for travel as wanderlust. But I believe it goes much deeper than that.

Whether we realize it or not, when we journey across the Earth, we meet parts of ourselves we might never encounter in our homeland. Different places awaken different aspects of our being. Our souls are ancient, and at a spiritual level, we are all connected. So when we cross borders, lands, and oceans, we’re not just exploring — we’re remembering.

Travel becomes a mirror. It reflects hidden dimensions, reveals long-lost fragments, and whispers buried wisdom back to us.

And in doing so, something else happens:

We move energy.

Through our presence, our frequency, our lived experience — we participate in a co-creative dance with the Earth. This is called earth gridding, or gridwork.

Sometimes we’re not even aware of it. Just by being in a place, our energy begins to interact with the land. But when we show up with intention — with prayer, purpose, or reverence — that sacred exchange becomes even more powerful.

What Is Earth Gridding / Gridwork?

Earth gridding is the intentional practice of working with the Earth’s energy field to support healing, balance, and awakening — for both the planet and humanity. Think of it as acupuncture or Reiki for the Earth.

Just like your body has meridians, the Earth has energetic pathways — an invisible web known as ley lines.

What Are Ley Lines?

Ley lines are the Earth's natural energy pathways — subtle currents that flow across the planet, connecting sacred sites, mountain ranges, ancient temples, pyramids, churches, stone circles, and other energetic “hotspots.”

You can think of them as the Earth’s meridians, nervous system, or energy veins.Where several ley lines intersect, energetic nodes form — powerful portals like Glastonbury, the Great Pyramids, Machu Picchu, Uluru, and more. These places hold amplified Earth frequencies and are often sites of deep healing, spiritual awakening, and ancestral remembrance.

But ley lines are just one name. Across cultures and timelines, Earth’s energetic anatomy has been felt, sung, and honored in many ways...

Dragon Lines

In Chinese geomancy (Feng Shui), ley lines are known as dragon lines — channels of qi, or life force, that ripple through the Earth in fluid, undulating waves. Mountains are seen as the backs of sleeping dragons, and sacred sites are often aligned with these currents to promote harmony and cosmic balance.

Songlines

In Aboriginal Australian wisdom, the land is sung into being. Songlines are ancient tracks across the landscape, encoded with stories, maps, ancestral memory, and spiritual energy. They are not just paths — they are songs, and to walk them is to engage in a living dialogue with the Earth and the Dreamtime.

Serpent Lines & Naga Currents

In Andean, African, and South Asian traditions, the Earth’s energy is often described as a serpent or naga — a powerful feminine force of transformation. These serpent lines spiral and pulse rather than run in straight lines, connecting sacred springs, volcanoes, waterfalls, and places of deep fertility and wisdom.

Spirit Lines

In the ancient Nazca culture of Peru, enormous geoglyphs etched into the desert floor — known as the Nazca Lines — are thought to align with celestial constellations and energy pathways. Many believe these to be spirit lines, navigational markers or ceremonial paths that connect sacred mountains and water sources, guiding both human and spirit movement across the land.

Fairy Paths

In Celtic and Irish folklore, fairy paths are invisible tracks used by the sídhe (fairy folk or otherworldly beings). Homes and structures were traditionally built with great care to avoid disrupting these routes, which were believed to connect ancient mounds, stone circles, and liminal places where the veil between worlds is thin.

Medicine Lines

Many Native American tribes recognize medicine lines — energetic alignments connecting sacred mountains, rivers, and ceremonial sites. These lines are often walked in vision quests and pilgrimages, offering spiritual insight, healing, and communion with the Great Spirit. They are deeply respected as part of the living intelligence of the land.

Spirit Roads / Dragon Veins

In Tibetan and Mongolian landscapes, the geomantic system speaks of spirit roads or dragon veins, seen as veins of energy in the Earth’s body. Monasteries and stupas are carefully placed to harmonize with these veins, enhancing the flow of spiritual power and cosmic alignment.

Siddha Paths

In ancient Indian traditions, particularly within the Siddha and Tantric lineages, sacred geography is understood through energy circuits in the land — similar to nadis in the body. Pilgrimages to shakti peethas and jyotirlingas (sacred sites of the goddess and Shiva) follow these energetic alignments, facilitating spiritual awakening and transformation.

Many names, one truth:

The Earth is alive.

She breathes, pulses, and remembers.

Every culture, every tradition, has felt her energy lines — through song, geometry, ceremony, and story. They are the lifeblood of the planet, and we are part of that system.

What Makes a “Sacred Site”?

Sacred sites are places on Earth where energy is concentrated and alive. These locations have been honored by Indigenous peoples and ancient civilizations for millennia. Why?

• They often sit at ley line intersections

• They may contain rare minerals, crystals, or magnetic anomalies

• They naturally hold or channel spiritual energy — like portals between worlds

Many people experience spontaneous healing, visions, or deep connection when visiting them — often without knowing why.

Why do certain parts of the world specifically call to us?

Some souls feel a deep inner call to visit certain places, hold ceremony, meditate, offer prayers, sing, or simply be present. These people are often energetic anchors — helping to tune or restore the frequency of the land.

They may be:

• Clearing ancestral trauma from colonization or war

• Activating dormant energy points or planetary codes

• Reconnecting lost gridlines

• Offering healing, love, and presence to Gaia

This is gridwork. And it’s not always conscious.

Are You Already Doing It?

Yes.

You don’t need to “know” how. You may already be doing gridwork without realizing it.

• You feel pulled to a place and go through deep emotional clearing

• You weep at a tree, sing into the wind, or pick up trash on a beach

• You travel somewhere and feel "different" — as if something ancient just shifted

This is co-creation with the Earth. A sacred remembering.

You’re not just finding yourself —You’re helping the Earth remember too.

How Gridwork Works:

Here are some core principles:

1. Energetic ConnectionThe Earth has its own energy field — a grid of energy that flows through and around her. Gridworkers tune into this energy, almost like plugging into a cosmic power source, feeling the currents and connecting with the Earth’s energy.

2. Working at Power PointsGridworkers often feel drawn to special places — sacred spots like mountains, temples, or waterfalls. At these places, they might:

• Offer prayers, sound, or crystals

• Clear heavy or stuck energy

• Activate healing energy (also called light codes)

• Repair energetic connections between different spots

3. Becoming a ConduitGridworkers act like tuning forks, using their bodies — breath, energy, and presence — to:

• Channel healing energy into the Earth

• Help energy flow between special places

• Bridge the connection between human consciousness and the planet's energy

4. Remote Gridwork

You don’t always need to travel. Many people do gridwork in meditation, in dreams, or through focused intention — tuning into specific places energetically and sending love, light, or healing. Energy knows no distance.

Names for Gridwork

Because this practice is found across so many traditions, it goes by many names:

• Gridwork / Earth Gridding

• Earthkeeping / Earth Stewardship

• Planetary Healing / Planetary Service

• Light Anchoring / Temple Work

• Geomancy

• Sacred Pilgrimage

Every step you take on this Earth is part of something larger.

When you travel, pray, love, or simply listen — you’re not alone.

You are in communion with a sentient, remembering Earth.

You are part of her song.

So trust where you’re called.

Your presence is a blessing.

And the Earth feels you — always.

Join me in this sacred mission of Gridwork

This August, I’m organizing a retreat to Glastonbury for exactly this purpose: to bring our somatic wisdom, energies, and consciousness to the lands of Avalon. Glastonbury is said to be the physical site of the mythical Avalon and is also considered the heart chakra of the Earth, with its powerful ley lines. The two rivers that flow through it — the Michael and Mary lines — run through two springs, the White Spring and the Red Spring, in the Chalice Well Gardens. The Glastonbury Tor, a powerful intersection and energy center, sits at the convergence of various ley lines.

We will also visit other sacred sites, including Stonehenge, Avebury Stone Circles, Cadbury Castle Hill (speculated to be the site of King Arthur’s castle), and many more.

By sharing the stories of Avalon and Camelot, we allow their consciousness to rise within us. As our energies intertwine with the energies of these lands, we remember, and the Earth remembers. Magic unfolds.

We will never be the same again. Nor will the Earth, because through this experience, we will have touched each other.

This work touches my heart so deeply.

I have 6 spots left for the Return to Avalon Pilgrimage Retreat, and I would love for you to join us.

Learn More:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kyO8OkUvozzXtqZ8_PPAzI4EpuV8xDxC/view?usp=sharing

With all my heart,

Yours, a fellow gridworker,

Stephanie