Like the wheel of the Celtic year, our retreats turn with the seasons, each one an invitation into the soul’s own unfolding. We begin in winter’s hush, descending into the dark to listen. Spring calls us to thaw and stir, to express what’s been held. Summer opens the heart’s tender ache to warmth and witness. And autumn gathers us in to harvest what’s ripened, to bless what must be let go. These gatherings are not separate from the earth’s turning, they are of it.
January
16 – 18, 2026
Wintering: Tending the Dark Waters of Soul, Haw River State Park, Brown Summit, NC. Registration is now open!
April
17 – 19, 2026
Sacred Grief, Sacred Rage, Sacred Play, Haw River State Park, Brown Summit, NC. Registration is now open!
June
4 – 7, 2026
Tending the Ache: Grief at the Second Gate, focuses on ‘the places that have not known love.‘ Well of Mercy Retreat Center, Hamptonville, NC. Register your interest here and we will notify you as soon as registration opens.
Fall, 2026, Dates TBD
Tending the Harvest: The Sacred Work of Grief and Gratitude. Register your interest here and we will notify you as soon as registration opens.
To live – with heartbreak – in the midst of great anguish and great joys means to learn how to grieve. And we are not meant to do this work alone. Together, we can dance at the wild edges of personal and collective grief and sorrow, to uplift with tenderness the beautiful, melancholy thread that weaves its way through all that we cherish and hold dear. Once metabolized, grief becomes fuel for mending broken story lines and disrupted song lines, and allows us to fully return to the land of risking loving once more, to drink the nectar of dignity as bountiful birthright, and to engage with outrageous tenderness and tender outrage to societal changes for those who have yet to come.
LINDA THAI
Samantha DiRosa 