“Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to live or die, the work is always the same”
–Noah Levine
Your tailored retreat is designed to offer you unique opportunities to experience a most rewarding personal adventure of self-growth and to discover the many layers of your being through a variety of practices, therapies, and experiential activities. You will learn specific tools that will work for you to optimize your mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health and wellbeing while enhancing your everyday life.
Dark Night Retreats
“Love and death are two great gifts in life. Mostly they are passed on unopened.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke
The human condition, through loss, grief, and suffering provides a most powerful opportunity for transformation; by deepening the connection to ourselves, our life, and the lives of those we share this existence with, we expand our understanding and find purpose in ourselves and life. Working with our grief we heal and transform; we can extract the medicine from our wounds and turn suffering into wisdom and meaning.
Sometimes the effects of unattended grief emerge suddenly and unexpectedly. We may feel devastated by loss, failure, or long-forgotten emotional wounds that leave us stuck in a darkened state. This is what we call The Dark Night of the Soul, a transpersonal crisis or spiritual emergency that can take up many nights and days of our lives.
The dark night is a pervasive state of being that destabilizes the foundations of our experience. It is that time when we find ourselves in uncertain ground, in transition, in the unfamiliar, in the wake of loss or a traumatic event, in the beginning of a process as of yet unknown. This state of being is calling our attention, inviting us to delve deeper into uncharted territory, so we may emerge on the other side of a dark night period regenerated, revitalized, renewed, clearer and surer of who we are and why we are here.
The Dark Night of the Soul is an invitation to greater self-awareness. It is a time of initiation, ripe with opportunity for expedited growth. The dark night takes us into and through a new phase in our lives, if we open ourselves to engage it and surrender to its invitation.
“The dark night—indeed all of life—is nothing other than the story of a love affair: a romance between [our highest potential] and the human soul that liberates us to love one another.”
—Gerald G. May
In this personalized retreat, through various modalities and approaches, delve into the uncharted territory of your unattended grief in order to tap into the source of unconditional love and healing. You will be guided to define the path that will lead you to greater empowerment to fulfill and most authentically manifest your life’s deepest calling with grace and ease in order to live and peacefully leave your most vibrant, joyful, and meaningful, inspired life.
Transformative Embodied Creativity Retreats
“We all have the potential to become a dream walker, one who can stimulate the dream awareness for greater insight, fulfillment, love, and abundance.”
—Ted Andrews
Creative embodiment and applied imagination are the portals to self-discovery, grow and transformation. The source of intentional manifestation is found in the embodied creative process, accessed through our thinking, feeling, sensing, impulse, imagination, and intuition. Embodied creativity is one way to approach the conscious perception, development, and renewal of identity, life purpose, and the meaning of our existence.
“Like lovers, all we can do is promise to be there for our dreams—with heart, soul, intellect, body, and discernment. If we can let go of demanding, we can begin to learn the dream’s language of love.”
—Jill Mellick
In this personalized retreat, through various modalities and approaches, explore your conscious and unconscious self, personality, and experience as the raw material for the creative project that is your embodied human existence. Through the lens of creativity and innovation, you will be guided to assess and address your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and wholeness, and to uncover and redefine your potential, develop plans, strategies and practices to manifest your authentic self in order to live and peacefully leave your most vibrant, joyful, and meaningful creative life.
4-day, 6-day, 8-day, and 10-day programs are designed to support your personal growth and evolution through experiences that engage body, mind, heart, soul, spirit, and your relationship with yourself through nature and the environment, and facilitate multiple levels of transformation and renewal.
Retreats are designed for individuals, couples, and familial and friendship relationship dyads.
Testimonials
“Retreating with Wilka greatly deepened my ability to live in the dreamtime. Spending time with Wilka really blew the potential for the relationship between me and my dreams wide open. The veil of reality began to slip away. I started to understand the world around me symbolically, giving so much more meaning to my day to day. Wilka is an incredibly wise woman with a wellspring of passion and insight that shines through in all she does. Her perspectives, techniques and contemplations helped opened the world anew to me. Helped me to see even more that I create the world I live in, that this is a waking dream. I am so grateful and would gladly sign up for anything Wilka is offering.”
–Corrine E., Greenville, FL
“My week with Wilka was a beautiful, deep, immersive experience of insight, healing, and growth. She masterfully curated my retreat based on what my mind, body, and soul most needed, and kept me in dialogue with my unconscious through morning dreamwork sessions over delicious homemade coffee and scrambled eggs. She scheduled me in for a multitude of different healing modalities that worked on every different level of my being, and she fed me plant-based, highly nutritious food that reset my system and gave me the energy I needed to engage in the emotional work we were undertaking. I’m so grateful for my highly personalised retreat with Wilka, it was exactly what my mind, body, and soul needed.”
–Rachel B., Portland, OR