Shadow Retreat 2026

Explore the sacred natural with Back to the Body™

June 17 - 24, 2026 in the Southern California high desert

This is not just a retreat—it’s a descent into the depths of who you are.

The Shadow Retreat is an advanced, no-holding-back immersion designed for women ready to meet their edges with fierce honesty and radical love. Set in the raw beauty of the desert, this experience blends intellectual inquiry, somatic exploration, and deep bodywork to create a container like no other. With powerful community councils, intimate mat work, and hands-on practices that stir the unseen, you’ll be guided to integrate the hidden, the repressed, and the feared aspects of your sensual and emotional life. This is where your shadow becomes your teacher—and your truth.

Go deep. Be held. Emerge whole. The parts you’ve disowned are ready to come home.

Open to 12 women, Shadow is a chance to dive deeper into yourself and your hidden places. This is an elevated retreat, with a more advanced curriculum, regular session work and shadow work sessions, with a focus on pleasure, shadow sides, and intimacy.

With everything you expect from a Back to the Body retreat and so much more, Shadow will be held at our private location in the Southern California high desert. A place where magic whispers through the rugged desert landscape, intertwining with transformative possibility. Its iconic Joshua trees stand like sentinels, their twisted branches reaching towards a sky painted with hues of orange and pink during the sunset, or glittering with a tapestry of stars on clear desert nights. Amidst the sun-drenched and ancient rocks, there's a palpable sense of serenity and rejuvenation. The quietude of the desert encourages deep introspection and personal growth, while the vibrant bursts of life – blooming cacti, wildflowers after rainstorms, owls amidst the scene of surreal beauty – inspire a profound connection to nature and oneself. This sanctuary amidst nature's raw beauty offers a space for healing and renewal, and is known as a haven for artists, adventurers, and seekers of harmony. It's a place where you can recharge your spirits, nourish your bodies with wholesome cuisine, and forge meaningful connections with like-minded souls in a setting that feels timeless, mystical, and transformative. What better place to find the ritual in your own pleasure?

Every retreat is different. Here’s what to expect at this one:

• powerful group of 12 women

• Gorgeous private location amongst the hills of the Southern California high desert featuring a salt water pool, hot tub, fire pit, cozy spots indoors and out, hiking trails, and more!

• 5 complimentary 90 minute sessions with a practitioner that you’ll be paired with for the entire retreat

• shadow work group workshops

• Swimming under the stars, morning movement practices, conversations around the fire's glow, and group experiences to go deeper

• our proprietary curriculum used by 1,000s of women over the past decade to support increasing your self love, knowing your body and its core desires, expressing those desires to partners, and discovering higher planes of pleasure than you ever thought possible

• access to our facebook portal, support groups, and workshops as soon as you sign up, plus all the tools from the retreat itself that you’ll be able to take home with you

• experience sisterhood among a sacred landscape filled with harmony, and magic!

Join us for this amazing journey into the Shadows!

To learn more, jump on a consultation with one of our back to the body staff members!