09/10/2026
What happens inside you when you feel yourself slowing down?
When your cycle turns inward, the season changes or a chapter of life alters your pace—do you trust the shift? Or become restless, heavy, ashamed or suddenly very busy?
The world may not be asking you to slow. More often, it demands the opposite: stay bright, productive and available—even when your body is turning inward.
The dark is winter, yes. But it is also night, the luteal turning and bleed, and the space between an ending and what has not yet revealed itself.
Seeds break open and roots deepen there.
The Body in the Dark is about meeting these thresholds without overriding the body.
For 15 years, I have been learning to meet the dark differently.
Not by pretending winter is easy or romanticizing the luteal phase. It can be an unflinching mirror when our truth, boundaries and choices are out of alignment.
Across hundreds of women, I see one pattern:
We have lost the middle.
We go, go, go—and then collapse.
We push beyond capacity—and then cannot move.
We feel powerful while producing—and ashamed when our bodies make us stop.
What has been lost is range: the flexibility to notice smaller shifts and respond before the body has to scream.
Repeated over time, this go-collapse cycle depletes us, reduces our capacity to nourish ourselves and can intensify dis-ease or chronic conditions.
Pausing isn’t the opposite of productivity; it is part of its intelligence. Slowing before collapse gives us more choice in how we create, relate, work and rest.
Many women experience the dark as heaviness, flatness or a lost creative spark—not because it is empty, but because we were never taught how to meet or celebrate it.
Met with intention, the dark can hold ideas, desire, play, creativity, release and a depth of relationship with ourselves that constant outwardness cannot offer.
As the Northern Hemisphere turns toward fall and winter, I’m opening this inquiry for us to enter together.
THE BODY IN THE DARK
A free 90-minute somatic gathering for women
Friday, September 11
11:00 AM–12:30 PM Pacific Time
Live on Zoom
Comment DARKNESS and I’ll send you the link. No complimentary replay.