Regulate, then rise
A great deal of Nina’s work is about energy: not hustle, the actual human kind. If the body never gets to switch off, the rest of life stays loud. The planetarium session is a seated, guided way to let the system stand down.
Your guide
Nina A Spencer
When life feels too loud, heavy and overwhelming, this is where you come back to yourself. Not with a lecture. With a sky, and a voice that is not rushing you.
Held, not performed
Nina A Spencer knows the version of life that never quite fits: laundry-mountain days, the guilt, the burnout, the quiet panic that time is running out and every moment ought to be fuller. She has lived the pressure to do it all perfectly. She does not believe in perfect.
These days she is here for joy, intention, and the ordinary moment that does not need improving. Mum to two sets of twins, wife, stepmum, storyteller and speaker — she has worn a lot of hats, and she will not ask you to wear another one in the dark.
Space to Breathe is the evening shape of that work: no worksheets, no fixing, no becoming a better version of yourself before you are allowed to rest. Nina personally guides you through the entire experience, with relaxing music accompanying her, until the dome — or the real night — has done some of the holding.
Why this sky
On her wider site she writes that we are all energy and stardust, and energy never runs out; it just transforms. That is not a slogan she borrowed for a planetarium. It is the thread. If your nervous system has been running as if the clock might stop, looking up is a different kind of time — not more to fill, a chance to be in it.
Her mission, in her own words, is to help busy people simplify what feels heavy, reclaim a spark, and live a life with meaning in the ordinary today — not when the children are grown, not on a better weekend. Space to Breathe is one hour of that mission, reclined, under stars.
Clarity, joy and calm are not luxuries. They are the foundation.
Permission, not a should
She talks about gently rebelling against the shoulds. This evening is that, made physical. You do not have to earn the pause. You do not have to be good at meditation. You sit back. She takes the rest.
Soul-nourishing, on purpose
Her days are full of tools and experiences meant to move people from overwhelmed and burnt out toward something more aligned. Space to Breathe is the one that does not ask you to learn anything. It asks you to look up.
For full lives
She often works with overwhelmed mums, because that is a life she knows from the inside. The dome is open to anyone whose head will not switch off. If the family feels it when one person comes back to themselves, that is a welcome side effect, not a test.
The rest of her world
Away from the observatory, Nina’s work includes simplifying busy lives, low-tox living, Human Design as a kind of permission slip to be who you already are, and other soul-nourishing work you will find on her own site. None of that is homework for this evening. It is simply how she arrived here, able to hold a room in the dark without hurrying it.
Read more, in her own house, at ninaaspencer.com.
Under a real sky
Nina also holds these guided sessions outdoors, under the actual night — a garden, a field, a quiet patch of countryside. It is still her voice, still the invitation to pause. It is not the same as the planetarium: there is weather, there are true stars, and there is no dome to hold the dark for you. Some people prefer that. Some want the painted sky at Sherwood. Both are hers to guide.
Private bookings are possible at a location of your choosing — a gathering for friends, a small group, a night that needs holding away from the public dates. The experience will be shaped to the place; it will not be a copy of the planetarium evening, and that is part of the point.
If you would like to ask about a real-sky session or a private booking, a WhatsApp is the simplest way to begin.