3-Day SOLO Empowerment Retreat
in Joshua Tree, CA USA

  • Joshua Tree, CA
  • Available every day of the week, email to secure your date!

A SOLO Empowerment Retreat

Designed for the retreat seeker who wants to leave nothing in life on the table!

Imagine… your life with playfulness, emotional stability, and inspired fun.

Treat Yourself to a SOLO Empowerment Retreat like no other!

You will leave lighter, more aligned than ever, and inspired for your best future.

Do you love having the teacher all to yourself? You’re in luck, this IS the SOLO retreat for you.

Come to my Healing Home in the most tranquil location in all of America where we will share a customized leisurely three days in a lighthearted and sacred space.

This retreat focuses on your holistic nourishment and pleasure by pouring loving attention into your mind, body, heart, & soul. We tackle every facet of you and your life to elevate it all.

Based on the seven principles of Connection and Confidence in my book, I teach you exactly what you can do to be your BEST SELF.

This is E M P O W E R M E N T.

If you feel a resonance to anything on this list, this retreat is for you!

  • You’re done listening to the world and you’re ready to choose yourself!
  • You want to follow your dreams, but something or someone holds you back
  • Life has dealt you a crappy hand and you want to locate the aces within!
  • You want to learn to ride the waves of life with grace and strength, to be emotionally stable, playful, and inspired!
  • You’re new to spirituality and want a crash course in what to do and how to maintain high vibe energy
  • Your mental health needs some fine-tuning
  • You’ve just gone through a divorce and want to develop a relationship to yourself before you start dating again
  • You’ve lost a job and want to use this opportunity to create your future with discernment and intention
  • You’re scared and don’t know where your next paycheck is coming from
  • Your heart is broken
  • You’re disconnected from your own heart, you have no idea where your inner child is or why everyone is talking about it
  • You want to learn how to thrive in your life as it is

A completely custom and private retreat, every choice is made for your best interest and highest pleasure and purpose.

If you prefer to book a ONE-DAY Empowerment retreat with me, you can have that!

You will book your own accommodations and get the full Empowerment day with me including organic lunch, all the teaching and ceremonies, and a take-home course book!

Ask for more information!

I’ll tell you what it’s like…

If you are ready to let go, we will lean into those therapies.

If you need to fill up with love or gain clarity, we will take that path.

If you want to learn what you can do to make your life the one you dream of, we will focus there.

If you want all of this, as most clients do, we will smother you with all the different energetic and spiritual medicines required!

Before the retreat closes you will get a chance to be heard, without pressure or judgment.

You will get to let go of the voices that you no longer need, the energy blocking your flow, and the past will be just that.

You will sleep like royalty and wake up full of inspiration, soul alignment, and ready to begin your next chapter.

I will teach you exactly what you need and keep the lessons clear, concise, and efficient.

Your healing and empowerment will be simple, yet profound.

I choose from my array of well-studied and practiced modalities including

  • Shamanic Journeys
  • Spiritual Guidance
  • Cacao Ceremony
  • Banishment Rituals
  • Mediumship
  • Healy Frequency Sessions
  • Hatha Yoga
  • Storytelling
  • Oracle & Tarot Cards
  • Astrology
  • Art Therapy
  • Dance Therapy
  • Voice Activation Therapy
  • Human Design Readings
  • AstroCartography Readings
  • and more.

This retreat is designed for solitude and restoration with the ultimate goal of living a new empowered life!

What Makes This Retreat Special

Designed for the SOLO experience, I am here to advocate for you.

Do you prefer healing in private?

Do you want to get a lot done in a short amount of time?

Are you ready to move on already?

Do you love having the teacher all to yourself?

You’re in luck, this IS the SOLO retreat for you.

It’s your turn to receive all the healing light and love you deserve.

This retreat is focused on custom solutions.

After a walk-through of the situation in your emotional body, we get right to work clearing away the debris of your past that is no longer needed. From mindsets to unresolved relationship healing, we start with letting go.

Then we move into restoration: Healing modalities, banishment rituals, whatever is needed we will dive in together from my array of expert healing options.

. . . and one on one private coaching.

Next, we work on what to do in your everyday life. I show you the actionable steps to take to rebuild yourself, we call that restoration, into the kind of man you want to be.

A one-on-one custom experience…a whole weekend of healing, letting go, and building new.

Casual yet profound, you’ll leave grounded, full of lightness, and bubbling over with renewed inspiration.

Available to begin any day of the week.

Program

This retreat is designed for introspection, solitude, and deep restoration.

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 restorative activity:

  • a light desert hike
  • fun swim in the pool
  • a chill session in the spa
  • or have a long lay about in a hammock!

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 Empowerment and Healing.

Bring walking shoes!

Depart at noon A NEW HUMAN!

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 is 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.

What’s Included In This Package

  • 3 daily delicious and nutritious meals
  • Accommodation
  • Specialized workshops
  • Welcome drink
  • Water, tea, and coffee served throughout the day
  • Wifi connection
  • Course Manual
  • Pre and post-retreat support from our team
  • Luggage storage
  • Nature hikes with a trusted guide
  • Parking

What’s Not Included In This Package

  • Travel Insurance
  • Flights costs
  • Visa fee
  • Additional activities not included in the itinerary
  • Meals

Rave Reviews… that’s the only kind I have.

  • 5.0 (11 reviews)

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:-

  • The remaining balance is due 30 days before the retreat start date. If booking is under 30 days, it’s due at the time of booking.
  • If paid in advance, a full refund of the remaining balance is available up to 30 days before your retreat start date.
  • If you cancel 0-29 days before your retreat start date it is not refundable, but you CAN reschedule with notice.

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