3 Day Grief Retreat: Healing After Loss in Joshua Tree, CA USA
Healing After Loss: A Grief Retreat
Imagine you can laugh again.
Imagine your life without the pain. Imagine you can sleep, there are no more nightmares or sleepless nights.
Now imagine you feel joy, you feel alive, you can see beauty in the world again! You can feel it all.
Breathe it in.
That’s where you will end up.
This retreat will open you up to healing if you let it.
This retreat will open you up to letting go of the pain if you allow it.
This retreat will kick start the healing process that you need to be yourself again, after all you have been through, if you let it.
Healing is an art that we all have within ourselves, I am the opener of hearts and the teacher of the practical spiritual solutions.
I teach people how to heal and what to DO from beginning to end.
Imagine loving your life…
Casual yet profound, you’ll leave grounded, light, and renewed.
If you are experiencing the loss of a relationship, a loved one, a pet, or even a job, you might be experiencing EXTREME grief, and I am here to help.
I know the sleepless nights, the anxiety, the pressure to hurry up and feel better already. I also know that we are ready when we are ready and not one minute sooner.
I am here when you are ready.
Do you love having the teacher all to yourself? You’re in luck, this is the retreat for you.
Come to my Healing Home in the most tranquil location in all of America where we will heal your pain and if you are ready, open your next chapter together, in a lighthearted and sacred space.
A retreat designed for introspection, solitude, and restoration you will leave feeling lighter, more aligned than EVER, and inspired beyond your imagination.
What Makes This Retreat Special
It’s custom. It’s private. It’s one on one, for the most effective and lasting experience.
No matter your age, if you have recently experienced a painful life event or loss, this retreat is for you.
After the loss of a relationship, a loved one, a pet, or even a job, you might be experiencing some extreme grief with all its horrible symptoms, and I am here to help.
I am here to help you learn and maintain emotional stability as well as healing, letting go, and moving on.
We start with climbing out of the dark holes of pain and finish with a rainbow picnic of stability.
Your day will be entirely devoted to cleansing you, healing you, and lightening your burdens, for an overall RELIEF.
We will let go of your past, embrace your present moment, and plan for your sunny future.
You will leave lighter, more aligned than ever, and TRULY inspired for your best future!
Program
A retreat designed for introspection, solitude, and healing you will leave feeling lighter, more grounded than EVER, and inspired beyond your imagination.
Day 1: Arrival Day
Check in to your private guest room with a queen bed and bathroom inside a designer home built for retreats!
After settling in, choose your first activity:
We’ll start your retreat weekend with a shamanic smoke cleanse and fire meditation with a journaling exercise.
If you arrive in time for dinner, a chef-quality organic meal will be prepared for you!
Your first day concludes with a hot bath ritual including sleep-inducing camomile herbal tea and fruit snack.
Day 2: Healing Day
When you wake naturally, you’ll be served lemon water to love and cleanse your liver.
Following that a French Press Coffee and Ceremonial cacao blend is served with fruit and nuts, eggs, avocado, and sourdough toast or Samantha’s award-winning cornbread cake.
Take a long walk, an early swim, and have a sunrise meditation.
At 11 am your healing day with Samantha begins and you will pause for organic lunch in the middle.
Your healing day is determined by your unique energy and needs and concludes around 4 or 5 pm.
Now it’s time to Integrate the day’s shifts and nourish the body.
Choose again: Sunset swim, hammock, spa, walk in nature, desert meditation, journaling, napping, or making a vision board! Organic Gourmet Dinner under the stars, bring a warm sweater.
Day 3: Celebrate Yourself
Big Breakfast served at 9-10, followed by a Joshua Tree Barker Dam hike with a picnic to conclude your weekend of Healing. Bring walking shoes!
Depart at noon A NEW PERSON with a new mindset!
Let’s eat. Let’s eat well.
ALL meals are made using the highest quality ingredients available!
Mostly organic, always sourced with love, and created with your highest nourishment in mind. ASK ME about the local farmer upgrade!
Option ONE: The full three-day retreat experience: dinner on day one, breakfast, lunch, and dinner on day two, and breakfast and a picnic lunch on day three.
Both evenings also come with a sleepy-time snack and tea.
Option TWO: The full three-day retreat experience: dinner on day one, lunch and dinner on day two, and breakfast and a picnic lunch on day three.
Option THREE: Includes LUNCH during the one-day retreat experience.
Water and Tea are served throughout!
Your Host is. . .
Samantha Darling
Samantha Darling has risen from the ashes of a toxic and abuse-filled life to dedicate herself to helping humans realize their fullest potential and learn how to holistically self-serve their bodies & souls.
We call this: SELF EMPOWERMENT.
Transforming her life from a too-busy business owner to a relaxed & successful healer, guide, and storyteller, Samantha now offers personalized mentoring featuring her wisdom and intuition.
Samantha’s stories of personal exploration involve a seven-year solo journey around the world, to rid herself of everything that did not resonate with her soul while healing herself from the inside out.
She attended 200HR YTT with Mark Whitwell and is a Certified Huna Hawaiian Shamanic Practitioner.
Samantha’s private retreats feature the Seven Principles to Connection and Confidence from her book, Ladder To Lightness, at her worldwide homes of the moment.
The retreats are complete with custom everything including amazing meals, Shamanic journeys, cacao ceremonies, art therapy, dance therapy, local adventures, spiritual guidance, and more!
Accommodation
Option One
$2000
Check in to your private guest room with a luxury queen bed, modern writing desk, USB charging station, large picture window, and full bathroom inside a designer home built for you and this moment.
Fireplace, hammocks, spa, pool, tetherball, hikes, cabana, and fire pit, we have a vacation vibe!
This option includes private accommodations and all chef-quality organic meals during your retreat.
This option has a phone interview application process.
Option Two
$2000
Your Own Local Hotel Room! Offering more privacy and flexibility, this is what most clients choose.
With this option, you get full use of the retreat home during your healing days, and meals while your retreat is happening, and for your nightly sleep and restoration, you’ll sleep at one of the local hotel options chosen by you.
You would drive yourself to the retreat home!
Two Day Retreat Option Three
$1,500
For the client who wants the full Grief retreat healing experience in the most compact way I offer a TWO DAY RETREAT that starts at 10 am and completes at noon the following day.
We do everything you need with precision and focus, including a clearing of the physical and emotional bodies alongside the soul-filling empowerment experience to lighten you, ground you, and inspire you.
*Available every day of the week, Email to secure your date!
20%-deposit to hold your date
*Remaining Balance Due 30 days before your retreat. Reschedules are allowed with notice.
Location Information
Where Two Deserts Meet: Two distinct desert ecosystems, the Mojave and the Colorado, come together in Joshua Tree, CA, with a stunningly stark, bewitching beauty, it’s easy to fall under Joshua Tree’s spell!
Whether you’re looking for peaceful camping or retreat, a strenuous adventure, an Old West–inspired getaway, or the best music this side of the Sonoran, Joshua Tree National Park and its surrounding area deliver plenty of delights.
The region draws over 2 million visitors a year and after a trip, it is easy to see why. From the quirky trees to the funky desert style, Joshua Tree is an exciting destination to visit!
Directions to Joshua Tree and your retreat…keep it simple.
You can drive in from either of the two airports listed.
Palm Spring Airport (PSP) it’s about an hour’s drive.
Los Angeles Airport (LAX) is about a 2.5-hour drive, without traffic.
Leave LA no later than noon for the best driving options and the least amount of traffic.
Best Time to Visit? October – May are the best months to visit the area because of the cooler temperatures. To spend time outside, it’s best to visit in the cooler months.
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FAQs
Rave Reviews… that’s the only kind I have.
Victoria D.
Kansas City
My experience was nothing short of amazing.
I was in search of cleansing, healing and releasing. When I came across Samantha’s retreat online, I was instantly drawn to her. I spoke with her over the phone, email and text! Her communication was excellent! Her healing words and patience were all needed to solidify my need to take this experience.
Samantha was very welcoming, supportive and kind!
I wrote down questions to ask her to understand my journey and the things I experienced. Before I could ask her, through our talks and activities she answered all the questions without knowing what I had on my mind. That’s a true gift of a healer!!
There is so much I could share, but it’s my experience personal to me! You will just need to book her and create your own experience!!
Thank you Samantha for your service and support! The World Needs You!
Melanie Scheetz
St Louis
Samantha healed my soul and saved my career
I was in a Dark Night of My Soul. After 25 years of growing a non-profit, I was burnt out. I did not know who I was any longer. Where was my spark? Where did my inner power go?
In early January, I was in such a bleak place that I stayed in a chair in a corner of my house for 5 days. I thought about leaving my beloved non-profit. After all, if I had lost my spark and inner power, how could I continue to serve?
Thank you to a loving and nurturing family, unconditionally supportive co-leaders, and a very understanding board, I took 10 days to rest and recharge.
Now what? How was I going to heal? These 10 days needed to count. A retreat would be a good jump start.
Google helped me find Samantha’s 3-Day Empowerment: SOLO Beachside Retreat. I researched hundreds of retreats, but kept coming back to Samantha.
These were the words on her site (BookRetreats.com) that really drew me in: “Casual yet profound, you’ll leave grounded, full of lightness, and bubbling over with renewed inspiration. This retreat is for the individual who wants to leave nothing in life on the table!”
Yes, that’s exactly it! I wanted to feel lightness again and was ready to work for it.
First, I needed to know more about Samantha. I read over her website and was impressed with her knowledge, passion, and experience. Then, I wanted to “see” her in action, so I watched her YouTube videos. This woman drew me in! I felt like she was talking directly to my concerns. Finally, I downloaded her book, The Sunset on Malibu. I loved, loved her vulnerability in sharing her story (plus, she’s a fine writer). Yes, if Samantha could put all of herself out there, I could be honest and transparent with her, too.
Elena
Detroit
Highly recommend!
This grief retreat was exactly what I needed after the tragic passing of my partner. Samantha was so incredibly helpful!
Mariana
Miami
When a trip feels so organic and natural to a person who feels devastated inside, something magical happens.
The main part of this magical journey was the retreat with Samantha.
I returned home feeling different and, for the first time in a long time, I enjoyed going back home.
Part of that change that I felt and still feel had to do with Samantha’s intuition and experience to help me go through an intense and precise path so that my soul could feel a little lighter. I didn’t know what I was looking for until I was in front of Samantha, but when I was in front of her I knew it very clearly. Feel lighter.
On a day when it was very difficult for me to smile, I was able to smile almost at the end of the day. Thank you Samantha for all your magic.
Hope Cherî
New Orleans
I’ve been working with Samantha to heal some wounded feminine energy and I’m so grateful to have found her. She provides excellent communication that has helped me tremendously.
Jimmy
Monroe
The retreat, and Samantha, helped me to realize that I am worth caring about. That just because your life looks like it just fell apart, there is a reason for everything. Sometimes you have to go through darkness to find the light.
I needed to take a retreat because I am divorcing my wife of 10 years. Stressed out big time! I realized that I needed help to try to get my head straight. I asked the universe to help me make sense of everything and it led me to Bookretreats and Samantha Darling. She took care of everything from lodging to getting me on the path of healing my inside light.
Samantha Darling put me on my healing journey. Beautiful lady, inside and out.
Mindy
Denver
I feel so grounded and inspired! I am looking forward to many more sessions with Samantha, she’s a beautiful human I am grateful to have crossed paths with. I bought both of her books, I can’t wait to dive in and be the author of my own story too.
Haritha
Washington DC
I would recommend anyone who is looking for focus and the next steps in life. I was looking for a little more direction in my life.Samantha was excellent in guiding me, she is a very warm person and genuinely wants to help other people to thrive.I had an excellent workshop with her.
Andrea
New York
Samantha immediately invited me to open up and let out the emotion I was experiencing around my struggles. She willingly and empathetically offered support, through listening, a tarot reading, and a cacao ceremony. She led me through powerful rituals that really helped me to gain new perspectives on my life, and find ease during a difficult time. When we talk, she tunes in through connection to Spirit to decipher what tools to use for the specific situation I’m coming to her with.
I love the variety of (re)sources she has to offer. I trust her with knowing what to use and when, and I trust her very poignant interpretation of these tools as they apply to my life. I always feel in greater alignment after I’ve spoken with Samantha, and filled with new exciting ways to process my life and the world around me.
I know her guidance comes from a place of genuine care to heal through love. I know that I’m leading my life from a more awakened, conscious self now thanks to Samantha.
Ginny
Atlanta
Samantha lifted the veil. She helped me find the power inside of myself that I had been ignoring. I finally gave myself permission to say “yes” to everything the universe was offering and my life is forever changed!
To whoever may read this, there is a reason you were led to Samantha, she is an incredible healer.
Jason
Chicago
This is a great retreat. Truly understand yourself! I felt stuck in my life and I wanted to know how to listen to myself more as opposed to the outside world. The one on one was important. It was catered to me and the whole process was dedicated to my specific needs. I have a way to discern things things and ideas for my highest and best expression of myself.
Samantha gives a step-by-step breakdown of how to break out of whatever challenges you are facing. I found it very engaging and I received a step-by-step approach to apply to resolve any issues I have or will face.
I felt really understood and even developed a great understanding of myself.
Patty
Detroit
Awww ahhh thank you Samantha!!! I had THE absolute most beautiful day with you! ✨You are an amazing light and I think the work you do is really important and I do 100 percent feel empowered and much more excited about life.
Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!
Cancellation Policy:-
* 100% deposit refund
60+ days before the retreat start date
* 50% deposit refund
30-59 days before the retreat start date
* 0% deposit refund
0-29 days before the retreat start date
Remaining Balance:-
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