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Thanks for being here!
This week was one of rebirth. I gained new insights on how to make each company more community focused.
Because of this re-design, I have yet to put out new videos this week.
However, there are still plenty of updates that I am excited to share!
Without further ado, here are the updates of the week across all the branches of The Ornelian: Grounded Spirits, ILA Institute, PubLish, and Belasprii.
🌐 THE ORNELIAN
- I started an Instagram account for The Ornelian!
- Now you can see the full collection of every post across all branches!
- I realized just posting the featured photo for the post was probably not the most engaging so after posting the first five photos, I decided it was time to regroup.
- The Ornelian is focused on bringing luxury to all aspects of life for all people. I was thinking maybe The Ornelian’s Instagram could be a place where I reflect on how each post has contributed to this goal.
- Comment below your thoughts!
- The Ornelian is focused on bringing luxury to all aspects of life for all people. I was thinking maybe The Ornelian’s Instagram could be a place where I reflect on how each post has contributed to this goal.
🎙 GROUNDED SPIRITS
- Last week, I said that I would tell you what I’m learning. When I said that, I thought it would be in video form but alas, here we are:
- I used to use iMovie to edit all the videos. I was putting out 4 videos a week, til iMovie crashed. After reading forums online, iMovie is not equipped to handle that much data. After doing some research, I came across DaVinci Resolve. I like it. It’s just hard to move quickly when all the keyboard shortcuts are different. Plus, on Grounded Spirits I went on a 25 mins long tangent that actually has some good nuggets so I’m in the process of editing that.
- Long story short, I’m still working on editing the videos and hopefully they should all be coming out next week. Fingers crossed.
- In the meantime, check out this week’s episode here!
- You can find all the links for the episode, all the links mentioned in the episode, and many bonuses here!
🌀 ILA INSTITUTE
- I’ve been working on the Ornelian Framework.
- Every time I think I’m done, some new knowledge comes in and destroys all my progress. I still think I’m close.
- More of this happened this week… I feel like I had to complete unearth the framework and good thing I did because underneath, I found the astrological chart template. It was perfect. After realizing, Soul is connected to Water not Fire, everything fit into place and is making more sense than ever before.
- I keep editing the sneak peek to reflect the changes I am discovering so hopefully that will be solidified for a reveal next week.
- ILA Institute‘s second episode is now live!
- You can watch it on YouTube or
- listen wherever you get your podcasts.
- This course explores the future of education through an intuition-led lens, and in it, I share everything I learned while wandering through the libraries of Los Angeles.
- 🎧📺 Tune in now — and let me know what resonates most with you.
- You can find all the links for the episode, all the links mentioned in the episode, and many bonuses here!
- Still no new episode this week…
- But a complete re-design!
- 🎊 First big announcement is the community name!
- I am so proud and excited to welcome the listeners of ILA Radio with their new name!
- ILA Wayfarers 🧭
- ILA stands for Intuition-Led Academic
- The word wayfarer means a traveler on foot—someone who moves with curiosity, open eyes, and a readiness to discover. That’s exactly the spirit of ILA: we’re not racing to a destination, we’re walking the winding path of learning, guided by all ways of knowing!
- Here’s a preview of what I’m going to add to ILA Radio’s website:
- ILA Wayfarers are seekers who:
- Wander through all ways of knowing.
- Refuse to be boxed in by “traditional” definitions of intelligence.
- Value curiosity, story, and connection as much as facts.
- Find joy in museums, parks, libraries, nature — places of living knowledge.
- Want community that feels mystical, intellectual, playful, and real.
- are fellow travelers on the path of knowing.
- ILA Wayfarers are seekers who:
- ILA Wayfarers 🧭
- I am so proud and excited to welcome the listeners of ILA Radio with their new name!
- 🎉 Second announcement is a new structure to the podcast!
- Normally I go through the elements (fire, water, earth, air) but now I will be going in order Aries – Pisces that way you can start picking up the astrological traits just by listening! Imagine learning astrology just by tuning into a podcast every week! That’s my goal with this new development.
- The real reason why I’m changing the structure of the show is because I discovered through The Ornelian Framework that every zodiac sign/house has a corresponding way of knowing. Now instead of just talking about “all” ways of knowing, we now have a concrete list of 4 ways of knowing that we can dig deep into on the show!
- These four are: Empirical Knowing, Embodied Knowing, Rational Knowing, Reflective Knowing
- Each has three subcategories which happen to align perfectly with the zodiac in order!
- I have found that these sixteen ways (four main + twelve subcategories) of knowing encompass ALL ways of knowing!
- These four are: Empirical Knowing, Embodied Knowing, Rational Knowing, Reflective Knowing
- The real reason why I’m changing the structure of the show is because I discovered through The Ornelian Framework that every zodiac sign/house has a corresponding way of knowing. Now instead of just talking about “all” ways of knowing, we now have a concrete list of 4 ways of knowing that we can dig deep into on the show!
- Normally I go through the elements (fire, water, earth, air) but now I will be going in order Aries – Pisces that way you can start picking up the astrological traits just by listening! Imagine learning astrology just by tuning into a podcast every week! That’s my goal with this new development.
- ✨ The third announcement is that ILA Radio will be going on a short hiatus and all these new changes will be part of the new season premiering this fall!
- Reason: I will be undergoing the analysis part of the show — where I show you how scientists extract data from conversation to discover new composite knowledge.
- Still deciding if I should make it a solo episode where I explain everything or if I should just write a blog post about the process. Let me know in the comments what you’d prefer!
- Reason: I will be undergoing the analysis part of the show — where I show you how scientists extract data from conversation to discover new composite knowledge.
- In the meantime, check out the latest ILA Radio episode!
- You can find all the links for the episode, all the links mentioned in the episode, and many bonuses here!
🖋️ PUBLISH
- PubLish is a social club where changemakers, artists, and deep thinkers gather over food, share their creative work, unpack big issues, and build real-world solutions—one meaningful night at a time.
- I started a Threads account for PubLish! Follow it here.
- First event coming soon!
- It’ll be at a restaurant in Los Angeles, CA or its surrounding areas (depending on who signs up).
- Get your research, art, stories, and/or your ideas together to sign up very soon.
Be the first to know when the next event is posted!
🎨 BELASPRII
- For The Circle, the first SPARK episode is out now!
- In it, you’ll be guided through:
- an energy ritual to summon your creative flame
- a prompt that dares to undo your fear
- a vision that might change how you see your work
…but you’ll have to enter to know.
- In it, you’ll be guided through:
- You can find all the links for the episode, all the links mentioned in the episode, and many bonuses here!
- Next week, we will do a deep dive on how to bring your work into the light with GLOW!
- Sign up now to receive it in your inbox when it comes out!
- For The Studio,
- The first casting call is up now!
- For The Stories:
- I posted a home page for my very first published book, All About Sex. It’s a book full of 1000 questions to ask yourself, a partner, or a trusted friend(s) to open up and get more comfortable with your sexuality.
- Check it out here! It’s paperback version is available on Amazon here. And it’s Kindle version is free for Kindle Unlimited members.
- I posted a home page for my very first published book, All About Sex. It’s a book full of 1000 questions to ask yourself, a partner, or a trusted friend(s) to open up and get more comfortable with your sexuality.
that’s all for now
That’s what I’ve been up to this week. I’ll keep posting updates like this as things unfold.
If you’re curious, want to collaborate, or just want to follow along, I’m glad you’re here.
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See you next time,
Laura Alyn
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