Two days, one circle of women, and the same question asked a hundred small ways: what do you want to carry, and what are you ready to leave behind?
A pattern IN keeps returning to, reshaped for whoever it meets.
Light, Shadow, Shift appears as Jungle Jam for youth in the UAE, as Shadow Shifter for youth in Taiwan, and here, over two residential days, for a circle of women.
The pattern is simple to say and slow to live: notice what’s in the light, what’s in the shadow, and what it takes to shift. Everything in the two days is a different door into that same question.
A wall becomes a shared canvas — light, shadow, and shift as three overlapping circles, projected and written into live, each woman reaching up to add her own pledge. Later the same wall holds a mural the group draws together, some of it by flashlight after dark, shadow made visible by hand.
There’s a walk outward, too — out to find something small that brings joy, a flower, a leaf, a found thing, carried back into the room and set beside a few words on what it means to reform from within.
Sitting in a circle on the floor, the group paints, unhurried. On long strips of paper laid out like a shared timeline, they mark a journey together in colored notes — where they’ve been, where they’re headed. A yoga session closes the retreat in the body, after two days spent mostly in mind and heart.
Nothing here is separate from anything else — all one continuous conversation, carried by hands as much as words.
Women ready for two days away from the ordinary — no experience required, only the willingness to sit in a circle and be honest.
Two days, residential. A small group; seated and floor-based work, indoor and outdoor moments across both days.