* For those who may be new to me and private guided depth process retreats: In the last 3 decades, I have worked one-on-one with hundreds of women and men coming to stay and work with me at my former artisan home retreat in Ojai, California. This process gained some degree of international reputation as a dramatic depth process of healing and life directing awakening. You can also get a good sense of background from client testimonials, and from earlier writings, guided meditations, and YouTube videos.
Today, I am thrilled to have entered the next phase of this life work from our new spectacular home estate on 7 acres overlooking lake, mountains and hiking trails right from our door in beautiful artful, Ashland, Oregon.
INTEGRATIVE DEPTH MENTORING
RETREAT PROGRAMS
Private Retreat for Life Crossroads & Transitions
Depth Mentoring Intensive — Ashland, Oregon
Private, in-residence retreat and depth mentoring in Ashland, Oregon for those at a true life crossroads or major transition.
This is a one-on-one guided intensive for individuals seeking clarity, renewal, and meaningful next direction—often at a stage in life where what once worked no longer holds, and something deeper is asking to emerge.
This work is especially resonant for women in midlife and beyond, while open to all who feel it speak to you.
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There are times in a life when life brings about a shift and something deeper begins asking to be seen.
These crossroads are rarely easy. Nor is the right direction obvious or clear.
There's usually a resistance. A wistful desire to carry on as before.
And a frightening inner confrontation that what was is over and what will be is out of your control or liking...
These moments do not work by imposing another "tough it up" strategy or plan.
These turning points require something else entirely.
For this kind of moment, the only true soul-honoring way through is an inner journey:
A reckoning with what in your life is unresolved.
What has yet to be recognized, healed, undone and opened into.
What is needed to grow into your next depth of mind/body/spirit in the path that lays ahead.
Not easy!
Far harsher when we cling too tightly or too long to the past path.
What This Work Is
Your private retreat intensive is a highly focused,
one-on-one immersion designed for those navigating:
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life crossroads and major transitions
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reinvention in midlife and beyond
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persistent patterns that have not resolved through conventional approaches
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the call toward deeper purpose, expression, or contribution
SoulArts guided private intensives
are offered specifically for such crossroads...
In a private, home retreat in Ashland, Oregon,
we enter together into a focused, one-on-one intensive—
one designed to meet your life directly, without formula and without distraction.
This is not a canned program or protocol!
It is a guided, living artful process
—where your life is met with precision, depth, and the wise guiding intelligence it has been asking for.
Each retreat moves in real time
—meeting the exact conditions, questions, and thresholds present in your life.
Why People Come
People travel here for one reason:
Because something in their life has reached a point where
clarity and a meaningful next path can no longer be postponed.
Often, people coming to work with me have already:
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read extensively
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worked with therapists or coaches
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tried to think their way forward
And yet something essential remains just out of reach.
This work engages that level directly
—where insight becomes lived clarity, and direction begins to organize from within.
The Private Retreat Experience
Your retreat is most often held as a 3-night, in-residence intensive in a private home in Ashland, Oregon, where you will have your own private apartment and we meet throughout each day and progress as your own inner intelligence leads.
Surrounded by open land, quiet, and expansive views, the environment ideally supports the depth and focus this work requires.*
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*For those who have come to stay and work with me at my former SoulArts Retreats in Ojai, California, this new home estate is light years more in every way imaginable.
This open-air natural beauty with roomy yet contained nesting structures allow for:
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uninterrupted attention
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depth of conversation and inquiry
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real-time integration, not just insight
We will work across multiple modes depending on what your life calls for:
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direct dialogue
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creative inquiry (writing, image, music, symbolic exploration)
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embodied awareness and perceptual work
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applied real-life integration
The pace follows what is ready to shift:
Nothing is rushed.
Nothing is forced.
Possible Areas of Focus
Each retreat is unique, but often includes:
Inner Re-attunement
Returning to the ground where inner wisdom leads your life decisions.
Vitality & System Restoration
Recalibrating the mind-body foundation that supports clear living.
Living Legacy & Creative Expression
Giving form to what your life is ready to offer.
Vision & Financial Alignment (by request)
Mapping and Ensuring your outer structures support your deeper direction.
Structure & Investment
The private retreat intensive is most often held as a 3-night, in-residence experience.
This duration allows the work to move beyond surface insight into real clarity, integration, and forward direction.
Investment:
$1,800 per night
($5,400 total for the 3-night retreat)
All retreats are private and include:
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dedicated one-on-one mentoring throughout
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meals and in-residence stay included
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your own private suite with access to large art studio, the home patios and sitting areas and 7-acre grounds with walk to the lake and hiking trails.
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post-retreat integration support
Because this work is highly individualized and immersive,
only a limited number of retreats are offered a season (by availability and appropriateness).
Travel Arrangements
Most people arrive by flights into Medford International Airport and leasing a Rental or Uber to Soul Arts Retreat at our Vista House in Ashland, Oregon.
For those desiring some time enjoying the spectacular Oregon coastline and the many spectacular mountain lakes and wineries of our Southern Oregon/Northern California region, some plan to arrive into San Fransisco or Portland Airports and lease a rental for more expanded time of personal reflection/integration and sightseeing after the retreat.
Working Together
This work is not for everyone.
It is for those who recognize themselves in what is described here—
and who are ready to meet their life deeply and directly.
If that is true for you, begin by reaching out with a brief note about what is calling you at this time and why this depth work with me specifically speaks to you.
Please enjoy the extensive materials on my decades old website.
And, in particular, if you are considering a retreat, I invite and hope you will avail yourself of these:
Find and reflect upon the articles that call out to you in the articles and insights I have posted here over decades on this site. Find one or two that call out to you.
*I also highlight this shorter Mini SoulArts Primer for those considering a private retreat.
Take "a mini-journey" by perusing the hundreds of verbatim guestbook comments left over the years by retreat guests who often share not only their experiences in retreat, but offering advise and comfort to those coming to the process. These are priceless gifts from many sojourners, like you and me, who walk this path of humble integrity to the path of wholeness...
A newest evolving aspect of my own current body of work, integrating Lyrics with Music for one-of-a-kind music works speaking to social and personal experience and shared essence...