Hi love,

It’s been a little while since I’ve written to you — and that pause has been on purpose. Something has been shifting in me, reshaping the way I desire to work, to create, to lead.

Although what I am sharing here isn’t exactly new how I host my retreats is absolutely different.

For years now, retreats have been whispering to me. Nudging me. Asking me to step more fully into the way I know I’m meant to serve. Not as escapes. Not as quick fixes. But as immersive, intimate experiences that awaken something deep inside of you and I know this comes from all of my personal experiences of leading and participating.

And I’m ready to answer that the deeper more expansive call.

I’m going all in on retreats — and on sharing the raw, real behind-the-scenes of this life through my new YouTube channel. Not as another polished “program” but as a transmission of what it looks like to live this path in real time: growing a garden, building beauty with my own hands, creating luxury that feels wild, raw, and untamed.

My first retreat will be local — and it will hold nothing back. Every detail will be intentional, textural, intimate, and infused with luxury that’s not about surface comfort, but about soul-level richness. The kind of experience that sends you home different. Rooted. Expanded. A woman who sees herself more clearly than she did before.

Each Salt & Smoke retreat (even a new name) will be utterly unique — no cookie-cutter itineraries, no recycled templates. They will carry the essence of the season, the land, the women present.

Ceremony.

Silence.

Movement.

Beauty.

Presence.

Luxury.

This is the work that changes you. That draws out the woman beneath the roles. That brings you home to yourself in a way you can’t un-know.

I’ll be sharing more in the weeks to come — both here and on YouTube — but for now, I just wanted to open the door and let you peek in.

This is the beginning of something I know will change both of us.

With fire & stillness,
Darcy Neumann
Vision Holder | Midlife Alchemist | Founder of Salt & Smoke Retreats

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