What it is:

The Light Dark Experience (LDE) is the Light Dark Institute’s VIP offering: a 3-day, 2-night personalized intensive available for individuals or couples (learn more about the LDE for couples here). This is not a group experience - the entire LDE is created and tailor-made just for you. For the full duration of the LDE, the two founders of the Light Dark Institute, Leslie Rogers and Tani Thole, put all of their attention on you and what is needed to set you free. Through a combination of in-depth coaching and powerful embodied play, Tani and Leslie will guide you through the unknown as you go deep in exploring the parts of yourself that you have long been rejecting. This is a chance to finally fully shed the light on all the darkness you've been fearing inside yourself, and find all your capacity for power, freedom, and intimacy that has been hiding there. This is a chance to step into yourself fully, as never before.

It may be for you if:

  • You have a high level of self-awareness and have done personal growth work

  • You’re longing to know and express your full self

  • You’re open to sexual exploration

  • Something is drawing you to explore your dark side, even if you’re also feeling judgment and fear

  • You want deeper connections and you’re not sure what’s been holding you back

  • You catch yourself playing small and crave the ability to feel your full power

  • You want to dream bigger and be able to create what you want in sex, relationships, money, and your passions

  • You are prepared to make a significant investment in yourself and your growth

The Light Dark Experience will help you to:

  • Stand fully in your personal power

  • Relax into new levels of surrender and trust

  • Be able to know what you want, go after it, and fully receive it when it arrives

  • Learn to express yourself without fear of judgment

  • Love and value yourself more deeply

  • Be able to set strong boundaries while maintaining connection

  • Get in touch with the parts of yourself that you judged and find out that they’re actually awesome!

  • Get freedom from self-sabotaging patterns

  • Gain confidence in yourself as a human being and sexual being

  • Have a hotter sex life, thanks to learning mastery-level BDSM skills!

  • Learn how to connect from an authentic, vulnerable place

  • Learn the secrets to converting shame into power

  • Heal unexpressed grief and trauma

  • Learn how to treat even the most challenging life situations as opportunities for play

What's included:

  • A personalized 3-day, 2-night intensive with meals and lodging at a private kink-themed retreat near Monterey, California.

  • The full undivided attention of the two founders of the Light Dark Institute, Leslie Rogers and Tani Thole. This is NOT a group experience. You have both LDI founders bringing all of their vision and mastery to the table - through coaching and direct embodied play - 100% to yourself and 100% in service to your intentions for your life, for the full duration.

  • An extensive intake process with multiple coaching calls that deeply explore your life history, the places you’re stuck, and your desires and intentions for your life.

  • Follow-up coaching sessions that help you integrate everything you’ve learned back into your day-to-day life.

    Between lead-up and follow-up coaching calls, punctuated by the powerful in-person intensive, the container of the Light Dark Experience typically unfolds over the course of 2-3 months. This is rapid and deep transformation, that will radically shift the ways you relate to yourself and the world around you, for the rest of your life.

    Are you ready to take the plunge into a new reality, in which your darkness is not only welcome, but is the very key to your power and freedom?

Due to the deep nature of the Light Dark Experience, we are selective about the clients we accept for this work. We will review your application, and if it seems like a potential fit, we will schedule a free call to explore further. 

This offering, and all others by the Light Dark Institute, are for participants 18 years of age and older.