Welcome to the Light Dark Institute
“The Light Dark Institute offers some of the most powerful personal transformation work out in the world right now. I’ve never felt more seen or more held in all my parts.”
What if you could fall in love with every part of yourself – even the darkest, most shameful, most dangerous parts?
What if that love is the very thing you've been searching for – the answer to the repression, the anxiety, that feeling that something is always being held back? There are parts of you that may not feel safe to be seen. Parts that have been shamed, blamed, and buried so deep you may have forgotten they exist. But they haven't forgotten you.
At the Light Dark Institute, we create spaces where those parts finally get to come home, where nothing needs to be fixed, hidden, or explained away, and where the most powerful version of you has been waiting all along.
As long as shame and disapproval live inside us – for the things we've done, felt, wanted, or feared – the freedom and fulfillment we ache for can feel just out of reach. We may play small to avoid causing harm or looking bad. We may keep the world at arm's length to stay safe. We may even become very skilled at surviving, and very lonely doing it. To access full approval for ourselves and the world around us, and thereby step into our full power, vulnerability, intimacy, and freedom, it is necessary to touch the darker places inside of ourselves.
The way through is not around the darkness; it's into it.
Touching the shadowed places inside yourself, the ones shaped by childhood wounds and a lifetime of being told certain parts of you are too much or not enough, can be terrifying. But it is also where your power lives. At the Light Dark Institute, we invite you to bravely step into our space where it’s safe enough to go deep, so you can step into the raw force of your personal power and deepest potential, transforming your life and the world around you.
“I’ve attended dozens of workshops over the years and nothing has been as deep and penetrating as what LDI offers. It’s transformative and liberating on level 10. ”
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Experience the Work
We invite you to learn more about our workshops and intensives, from Playing with Darketypes™ (a transformative online course), to Light Dark Foundations (a powerful weekend workshop), to The Light Dark Experience (a life-changing personalized intensive for individuals and couples).
What People Are Saying
“While not for the faint of heart, this work is transformational at the deepest level. When you're ready to release shame and step fully into your power, get yourself to an experience with the Light Dark Institute. Highly recommended.”
- Dr. Jane Guyn, Sexologist, Bend, OR“There's no spiritual work like this. The depth and insight has blown my mind, and shown me the source of many uncomfortable moments in my daily life. I'm equipped with new tools to bring self acceptance to a new level. Power dynamics, part of our every day life, have been revealed.”
- Cate H., Oakland, CA“The discovery of the Light Dark Institute has expanded my capacity for connection, authenticity and play. It has awakened in me a deep longing to experience my darkness with ease and complete acceptance. This has opened my world to the many possibilities of being a YES to life! If you are ready to take a deep dive into a life transformational experience then this work is for you."
- Udaya Bryce, Maui, Hawaii