Across these retreats, we create spaces where insight can emerge, connection can deepen, and new possibilities can take root. Our work is guided by clinical care, intention, and a deep respect for each person’s unfolding process.
Retreats we’ve facilitated
February 2026 | Arlington, MA
This winter intensive invited participants inward — into a season of stillness, reflection, and tending the embers within. It offered a sanctuary for calm, reconnection, and the quiet rediscovery of hope that often shines most clearly in the dark. The day centered on nurturing the inner fire that supports healing, growth, and what comes next.
As snow fell outside the cozy Arlington Center, this gathering wove together gentle movement and meditation, supportive community, and the expansive inner space opened through ketamine assisted therapy. Inspired by the wisdom of wintering — the understanding that periods of quiet or loss can be landscapes of repair rather than failure — participants were invited not to push forward, but to listen more closely. Together we explored what it means to meet darkness with honesty and courage, and to tend what is alive within us.
Holding the spirit of Active Hope, as articulated by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone, we approached hope as a practice rather than a feeling — a way of seeing clearly, honoring what we love, and choosing to take part in our lives with intention. Participants left with a renewed sense of warmth, belonging, and a small, steady flame to carry forward into the new year.
Hope in the Darkness
October 2025 | Grafton, VT
Within the ever-present rhythm of our heartbeats there is an essential pause–called diastole–when the heart rests, expands, and refills. Our fall weekend retreat in Vermont embraced this frame, bringing together midlife women for rest, reflection, and renewal.
Over the course of our time together, participants engaged in two ketamine journeys, alongside movement, meditation, writing, and shared community. Held amid the turning foliage, the retreat created space to reflect on this sacred stage of life and to explore how to move forward with intention.
The retreat acknowledged how often women are asked to give without being replenished. Midlife was honored as a time to pause and recognize both what has been accomplished and the wisdom gained, while also making room to grieve the losses that can accompany this transition—including physical changes and doors that have closed.
Together, participants explored what they need to live fuller, more authentic lives, and how to step more consciously into ownership of their futures.
Diastole: Midlife Women’s Retreat
May 2025 | Grafton, VT
This retreat invited participants to turn toward grief as a natural and meaningful response to love, loss, and belonging. Inspired by The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller, the day explored the Five Gates of Grief—including the sorrow of loving and losing, the parts of ourselves that have not known love, collective and ecological grief, unmet longings, and ancestral grief carried across generations.
Together, we created space to gently reckon with what has been held, hidden, or silenced, and to open toward greater wholeness.
Through yoga, shared reflection, and a ketamine journey, participants engaged grief as an embodied and relational experience. The day also included listening to Wails by Ahlay Blakely, exploring the myth of Inanna, and ritual release into fire and water, supporting connection, integration, and renewed belonging.
The Sacred Work of Grief
“Thank you so much for holding the intensive yesterday. I am feeling so full of gratitude and peace.”
“The retreat was wonderful. The facilitators were warm, open-hearted, and knowledgeable. The setting was beautiful. The food was delicious and plentiful. Honestly, everything was great.”
“The experience on the medicine I had on this retreat was one of the most profound experiences I have had in my life, and the healing was incredibly deep and needed far more than I knew...I’ll cherish it and always have the deepest respect for you all, and the other participants.”
