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arriving
We are out near Klamath Falls. The nearest airport is in Medford and we can provide shuttling.
As you get closer to the land, you begin to enter more rural and wild landscapes. You eventually pass one of our closest neighbors who is over a mile away from us. We are at the very end of a private and gated road.
at sunset
DARK RETREAT BEGINS
Check-in time is a few hours before sunset.
We will have an hour orientation in which we will walk the land, get you situated, review the meal plan, run through the day-to-day, and answer any questions that you may have.
You will have the remainder of the day to settle into the space, get oriented and familiar with the cabin and enjoy the surrounding elements. We highly encourage you to schedule a full day to unplug, slow down, and drop into your new rhythm before going into the dark.
Just before sunset, we will come up with a meal and also have one final check-in and answer any remaining questions that you may have.
We will show you how to do the final blacking-out at the bottom of the door so you can enter into the dark when you are ready.
the dark
day to day
With the exception of us coming to tend to your material needs once a day from outside your room, you will be totally undisturbed in the darkness until the end of your retreat.
We can always make prior arrangements to come up twice daily for check-ins.
The basic needs that we daily tend are food delivery, stoking the wood stove in the winter, and also giving you an opportunity to let us know if you need any additional support.
Included in your dark retreat is 3 organic meals delivered to you once a day. We bring both these meals around sunset through a double door. There is pure and filtered mountain water on tap.
Our dark retreat cottages do an amazing job at both retaining heat and providing insulation thus moderating temperatures. In the heat of the summer, the space remains moderately cool and in the cold of the winter, the space never gets very cold.
If you ever feel that you need additional support, we are here for you.
The cabin is nestled in the woods on a mountain side.
During the orientation, we will walk through where to find the onsite caretaker in the unlikely event that any emergency situation arises and you need immediate attention.
The cabin is equipped with a flushing toilet, a sink and hot bath.
experience
DARK RETREAT
We typically recommend starting with 3 to 4 days in the darkness and ask that retreatants book one full day/night to settle in upon arriving and one full day/night to integrate after emerging from the dark.
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Some retreatants find that they sleep a lot during the first 24 hours while others share that they have a normal night sleep and don't sleep/nap much at all during the day.
As the days continue to unfold, retreatants tend to find that they sleep less and less.
Heightened sensitivity and the opening of the subconscious can naturally begin to arise as early as the 1st day of the retreat and continue to intensify as the retreat progresses.
in the dark
INTEGRATING
Integration from the dark can be a very delicate process.
It is a great idea to consider booking a few extra days both before and, most highly recommended, after your dark retreat so that you can deepen your retreat and slowly integrate.
Check out time is a couple hours after sunrise.
"The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang onto, no parachute. The good news is that there's no ground."
- Trungpa Rinpoche