Engaged and Supportive Facilitation
At Chrysalis Dark Retreats, we are active and engaged with each retreat guest in support of their goals and intentions. We take a genuine interest in each retreatant, bringing attentive, heart-felt care to their needs and process. We meet online with each Chrysalis guest before their arrival, to gain a better understanding of their background and retreat intentions and to help craft a retreat that is going to best serve their aims. For those with confidence and stability in their practice, we are happy providing background support and attending to basic needs. For those with less training or those dealing with emotional turbulence during retreat, we are ready to provide regular support, coaching, and guidance.
Both facilitators at Chrysalis Dark Retreats have extensive backgrounds in a wide-range of psychospiritual practice, including many extended, solo, and dark retreats, as well as experience guiding others through the challenges of the path. We have found that many retreatants need more support than they initially imagined. While we are careful to allow guests abundant space for their own process, it can contribute to a sense of ease to know that this support is available should the need arise.
Dark Retreat Intentions
Drawing on decades of experience with a wide-range of practices, including meditation, energy body work, and inner parts work, we provide coaching and guidance according to the retreatant’s needs and preferences, both before, during, and sometimes after retreat.
We welcome people of all levels of experience. For those who are less experienced, we provide and encourage a collaborative retreat. But for those who are confident in their practice, we are happy providing the place and opportunity for independent work in the dark.
"In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. In pursuit of the Tao, every day something is dropped."
- Tao Te Ching