Explore, Prepare For & Integrate Darkness Retreats

Discover if dark retreats are right for you, prepare for a darkness retreat with trauma-informed and somatic awareness, learn nervous system practices to make the most of the dark, and integrate your insights and experiences into profound life-changing transformations.

Alison guides individuals in harnessing their innate wisdom to facilitate self-healing and self-transformation before, during, and after their darkness retreat.
 
Through the somatic sessions, clients gain an understanding of how their nervous system may respond to the dark and learn nervous system practices to work with various states of being that arise in the darkness.

An exploration session is to explore, with a trauma-informed and transformational lens, whether a darkness retreat is appropriate and whether the timing is right for a client.
 
Once a client has booked a dark retreat, the preparation session helps clients embark safely and somatically on their darkness journey.
 
Tailored to each individual's unique history and goals, the preparation session helps set intentions. It provides essential trauma-informed somatic knowledge and practices, so individuals go in feeling secure, confident, and excited.
 
By equipping clients with tools to navigate challenging emotions, thoughts, and bodily sensations, the preparation session supports a more grounded and transformative retreat experience.

In each integration session, Alison holds a safe and brave space for dark retreatants to reflect on their darkness journey and make sense, from an embodied perspective,  of insights, visions, and challenges that arose.
 
With care and curiosity, Alison explores with each individual how their experiences can be integrated into new, regenerative ways of being, relating, and working as clients transition back into the world.