eco-therapy intensive

Immersive ancestral healing in nature, held at sites across the African diaspora, always near water. For couples, families of origin, and chosen families ready to cross a threshold together. 3–10 days, designed around the depth of your work.

INVESTMENT & WHAT YOU’LL RECEIVE

Pre-intensive virtual session

We prepare for the experience together, clarify intentions, identify the location that is calling, and map the arc of the work. A $200 non-refundable deposit gets you your experience design brief, details of our plan. Final payment is made 45 days before departure.

2 Therapy Sessions Daily

Morning and evening, a rhythm of opening and receiving that allows healing to move at its actual pace.

3-10 days accommodations

Luxury accommodations at sites across the diaspora.

Nourishment

One shared communal meal prepared with local ingredients. Food as ceremony. Nourishment as part of the container.

BOOK YOUR CONSULTATION

$1,825 – $5,025

Most therapy happens in fifty-minute windows, enough time to open something, rarely enough time to move all the way through it.

The eco-therapy intensive is built differently.

We leave ordinary life behind and spend between three and ten days together held by the land. This is work for relational units: couples navigating rupture or longing for deeper repair, chosen family at a crossroads, partners moving through identity transitions, intimacy blocks, or the accumulated weight of unspoken things. The land becomes a third presence in the room — a co-regulator, an ancestral witness, a container older and steadier than any of us.

This is not crisis intervention. It is for those who are resourced enough and ready to go deep. Investment reflects the duration of your intensive, the location, and the components you select together. Every intensive includes:

Post-intensive Virtual integration Session

After our travel together, we connect to integrate and intentionally close the work.

Body-Inclusive Adventure

One nature-immersive experience chosen with your nervous system, your body, and your capacity in mind — hot spring bathing, kayaking, hiking, snorkeling, a beach day, or something specific to the landscape you are inhabiting.

Learning Materials

A curated archive of reading, sound, and visual art drawn from the ancestral scholarship of the land you are visiting. Something to carry home.

Locally Guided Ceremony

A culturally specific ceremonial experience held by a local practitioner in relationship with the land.

DIASPORIC SITES OF HEALING

We offer intensives at ancestral sites across the African diaspora because we do not believe healing happens in a vacuum. It happens in relationship with place, with history, with the particular memory alive in the soil and water beneath your feet. In this way, we see nature and urban spaces and the waterways that run through them as co-therapists.

The US South — Durham, Charleston, New Orleans, Atlanta, and the surrounding Gullah Geechee coastline. This is the land that birthed African American people; it holds our grief, our resistance, our revolution, and our ongoing becoming.

The Great Migration Cities — Chicago, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles. The cities our great-grandparents built when the South made thriving nearly impossible — Bronzeville, Harlem, Leimert Park — entire worlds constructed inside cities that did not want them there.

The Caribbean — Puerto Rico, Antigua, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Barbados and beyond. The layered histories of African, indigenous Taíno, and colonial experience. Land where syncretism, survival, and spiritual memory are alive in the soil.

South America — Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico and beyond. Deep African diaspora roots, indigenous cosmologies, and ecosystems that have been sites of resistance and renewal for centuries.

  • Eno River, Durham NC

    Eno, Shakori ancestral lands | Home of Hayti & Parrish Street — the Black Wall Street of the South

  • Mississippi River, New Orleans, Louisiana

    Chitimacha, Choctaw, and Natchez ancestral landsHome of Tremé — the oldest Black neighborhood in America, birthplace of jazz, second line, and Congo Square

  • Cape Fear River, Wilmington NC

    Cape Fear, Waccamaw, and Siouan peoples | Site of the 1898 Wilmington Massacre — the only successful coup d'état in American history, overthrowing Black elected government

  • Chattahoochee River, Atlanta GA

    Creek (Muscogee) Nation ancestral lands — removed by force on the Trail of Tears, 1838 | Home of Sweet Auburn Avenue — birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Ashley River, Charleston SC

    Sewee, Cusabo, and Kiawah ancestral lands | Heart of the Gullah Geechee Nation — the most intact African cultural continuity in North America

  • Chicago River, Chicago IL

    Council of Three Fires — Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi ancestral lands | Home of Bronzeville — the Black Metropolis, where the Illinois Central carried freedom seekers north

  • Detroit River, Detroit MI

    Odawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi ancestral lands | Home of Black Bottom and Paradise Valley — Detroit's Black Wall Street, erased by urban renewal and I-375

  • Lullwater & Prospect Park Lake, Brooklyn NY

    Lunáapeew/Lenape ancestral homeland — Lenapehoking, "land of the ones who came from thought" | Home of Weeksville, second-largest free Black community in pre-Civil War America. Birthplace of Shirley Chisholm.

  • Vieques, Puerto Rico

    Taíno ancestral lands | Site of US Navy occupation 1941–2003 — the longest environmental justice battle in Puerto Rican history.

  • Caribbean Coast, Limón Province, Costa Rica

    Bribri and Cabécar indigenous ancestral lands | Home of Afro-Costa Rican communities descended from Jamaican railroad workers — legally prohibited from leaving the coast until 1949.

  • Baía de Todos os Santos, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

    Tupinambá ancestral lands | Heart of the largest African diaspora outside the continent — birthplace of Candomblé, capoeira, and the quilombo tradition

  • Delaware River, Philadelphia PA

    Lenape ancestral homeland — Lenapewihittuk, "the river of the Lenape people" | Home of North Philadelphia — third largest Black community in America, built by freedom seekers from Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, and Maryland

  • Los Angeles River, Los Angeles CA

    Tongva (Gabrielino/Kizh) ancestral homeland — Tovaangar, "the world" | Home of Leimert Park — the crown jewel of Black Los Angeles, built by Great Migration families who broke the color line one deed at a time

THIS WORK IS ESPECIALLY RESONANT FOR

A WORD ON RELATIONAL SAFETY

Queer, trans, and expansive partnerships / couples navigating identity transitions or relational rupture / those in non-monogamous or non-traditional relationship structures / chosen family and intentional relational units / those doing ancestral or lineage healing work / parental repair/ those who have tried conventional therapy and need more

The eco-therapy intensive is not designed for relationships where abuse dynamics are present. Shared travel and immersive co-regulation require a baseline of physical and emotional safety between all participants. If you are unsure whether your relationship meets that threshold, please bring that question honestly to your consultation. We will not make that determination for you, but we will be honest with you, and we will never hold space for harm.

BOOK YOUR CONSULTATION

ON LAND STEWARDSHIP & RIGHT RELATIONSHIP

We do not arrive in these places as extractive tourists. We move through them as guests, in relationship with the people, healers, and communities who inhabit and steward these lands. These relationships are being built slowly, reciprocally, and over time. We are committed to being good stewards of every place we enter, and to ensuring that our presence contributes to rather than takes from the communities and ecosystems that make this work possible.

We are currently building location-specific relationships and partnerships. Not every site is available immediately, and that is intentional. We would rather offer fewer locations held with integrity than many held carelessly.

If you have a specific ancestral location calling to you, bring that to your consultation. We will tell you honestly whether we are ready to hold work there yet, or whether we are working toward it.

concierge travel design

(optional add-on - $250)

This is for anyone ready to opt out of planning labor — and yes, we are specifically serving our ADHD baddies. The ones who know exactly what they need but lose energy in the logistics before they ever arrive. We handle everything: flights, ground transportation, shopping excursions, cultural events, and any community or cultural connections relevant to your location. All the joy with none of the stress. We built this because we needed it too.