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With Winter Solstice beckoning - marking the longest night of the year - we're being called to descend into the darkness and dance with the shadows. 

Surrendering to the medicine of the dark is necessary preparation for the work ahead. Here are some themes I'm working with in my own practice: 

  • The darkness of the womb: In nature, winter is not a dead season—it’s a pregnant one. While the seeds you've been planting all year rest underground, the roots deepen and the energy turns inward and we allow for the gestation of what wants to be born. This season mirrors the darkness of the womb. What are you gestating into creation? 
  • Shifting from performing to being: Darkness invites us to slow down, get quiet and listen. Inside this space we have permission stop performing who we think we're supposed to be or how we are supposed to show up, and practice BEING. It is in the stillness and silence that all we have been outrunning catches up with us and we can honor what demands to be felt, moved, metabolized and composted. What is being beyond performing? 
  • Seeing in the dark: The darkness of winter is a time to practice seeing beyond the surface. Navigating the uncertainty, volatility and chaos of these times demands that we build a capacity to see through the lies, myths, inherited stories of who we are and what is possible. Only then can we discover and imagine pathways forward. What have you been pretending not to see? 
  • Trusting cycles: Nature teaches us that nothing is permanent and everything changes. All cycles come and go. Winter solstice reminds us that the return of the light begins at the deepest dark. It is an invitation to go through and trust the process. If we are brave enough to stay with the shadow and move through the change, we inevitably return...not the same but grown. What old cycle is coming to an end? What is ready to emerge? 

  

We will continue to explore these themes leading up to the new year. Here are some upcoming spaces to practice: 

Movement for the Movement (New Moon in Sag!): December 19th at 9aPST 

Winter Solstice Ritual & Practice (FREE): December 21st 9aPST 

EMERGE New Year's Home Retreat: December 28th - January 1st, 2026. 

This New Year’s we are embarking on a transformative journey between worlds. EMERGE New Year's Home Retreat is an invitation to go inward and reflect on how we got here and what it's going to take to heal. Over the five days that lead us into the new year, you will receive daily movement practices, provocative journaling prompts, visioning tools and resources and LIVE community calls with Kerri to support and workshop whatever is in the way of our fullest expression.

 

Here’s what you can expect: 

  • Daily yoga/meditation practice with me (customized each day to support your journey) 

  • Daily writing assignments (to accompany your practice and support self inquiry) 

  • Daily LIVE community coaching call (to workshop whatever is in your way) 

  • Daily visioning and manifestation tools (purpose work, self care plan, wellbeing assessment, etc)

 

And the best part is that you design your retreat schedule! Set aside a few hours a day for practice, reflection and visioning. And once per day we'll meet up on a live video call (3pm PST) with other emerging leaders from around the world to support one another on this path to what's next. Together, we will prepare ourselves for a powerful and purposeful 2026.

 

📅 12/28 - 1/1

🖥️ Live sessions will be recorded 

💸 Sliding scale payment 

Join today and use code EARLY15 for a 15% discount!

EMERGE INTO 2026

Winter Solstice marks the longest night of the year—the moment when darkness is most complete and the turning toward light quietly begins. This practice is an invitation to move inward, to rest from performance, and to listen to what has been waiting beneath the surface. Together, we enter the dark - not to fix or bypass - but to honor what is ending, grieve what has been lost, and compost the stories that no longer serve. Through reflection, stillness, and embodied presence, we tend the small but enduring spark within—trusting that new life begins its gestation here, in the quiet, before the light returns.

 

Join us THIS SUNDAY 12/21 (9aPST/12pEST) for a FREE solstice ritual and practice.

FREE Solstice Practice & Ritual

The work of collective liberation is inside and outside, individual and collective, personal and political. It understands that the practice of unlearning is not just an intellectual pursuit but a whole bodied inquiry. It calls us to confront old and limiting stories and beliefs we carry in our tissues and bones, to disrupt and release default behavioral and response patterns, to question our attachment and addiction to the comforts promised by dominant culture, and to explore new ways of being and doing.

 

Movement for the Movement is a free form embodied experience designed to disrupt old patterns, release stuck energy and allow us to discover freedom and expression. Guided by our senses, intuition and creativity, we will explore a movement language that goes beyond expectations and unlocks our creative potential. It will be an ecstatic and cathartic experience of the body, mind and soul.

 

Join us THIS FRIDAY 12/19 (9aPST/12pEST) for shared movement, reflection, grief and action towards the more liberated and peaceful world that we all deserve.

Move with us!

Look forward to bringing this year home and building the future that we all deserve...together. 

 

 

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