Golden Hour is a softlanding - slow, spacious days, long, lingering evenings, meandering warmth and gentle valleys. In contemplation and in circle, we navigate “Sometimes Silence”, moving and resting at the intersections of who we are and who we can be together. The folkwork of being together.

Come to be held and come to tend your heart, this is space for whatever needs space. A field of exploration, a sacred playground for feeling as a path to getting free, we’re here to remember the small revolutions that happen everyday in our bodies and our breath.

This is embodied, permissive, liberatory practice in service of a life of connection.

Gwendolyn & Libby (we/us) are committed to a Culture of Gathering, a way of coming together that builds praxis around care - the ways we breathe, center, connect. As two distinct voices and skilled Circle keepers, we hold the harmony of the collective experience, offering many entrance points to practice and belonging. The first time we met we bonded over late night poetry and conversations about liberation and community. We both arrived with the same library book, The Seed Keeper, by Diane Wilson in tow and knew whatever was happening was something special.

Gwen brings past experience as an event producer and designer, and has been hosting “Sometimes Silent” retreats since 2018 - over 30 of them in the years since. She has a special gift for creating emergent spaces that honor and uplift our humanity with reverence and irreverence, sharing her love of poetry, rest as practice, and a place based awe that invites others into profound moments of both personal and collective healing.

Libby (she/they) is a holistic educator and facilitator, with a background in academia and evaluation. She offers practices that bridge the sometimes long distance between the head/heart/and center, offering somatic awareness and breathwork that invites us into more choice through the gifts of embodied presence. Believing transformative change is possible her work guides us toward the real-time possibilities of interdependence, and the deconstruction of oppressive structures.

Want to know more? Listen to our podcast episode with Gwendolyn and Libby about invitations to co-creation, the evolution of their work, and this retreat.