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🌑 TEMPLE OF THE DARK

January 9–11, 2026 | Blue Mist Mountain, NC

Featuring:
✨ Richie Parilla: Somatic Sound Practitioner from Philadelphia
🖤 Erica Trait: Dark Immersion Space Holder from New Jersey

**For Lifestyle SDC peeps: this is not a typical event we host these often and they always fill up! So, reach out if you want to attend.

We have lifestyle, fet/kink folks, Tantra practitioners, sex positive, ENM/Open relating people and others of all genders, identities attend. If you have never attended, we schedule vetting calls to assure fit. These events have both community building, education, Tantra practices, and play parties at night. It's rare someone doesn't come and love it!

If you feel drawn, reach out!**

Description of the Theme:

As the veil of winter deepens and the Earth turns inward, we gather at Blue Mist Mountain for the TEMPLE OF THE DARK, a ... Leer Más

🌑 TEMPLE OF THE DARK

January 9–11, 2026 | Blue Mist Mountain, NC

Featuring:
✨ Richie Parilla: Somatic Sound Practitioner from Philadelphia
🖤 Erica Trait: Dark Immersion Space Holder from New Jersey

**For Lifestyle SDC peeps: this is not a typical event we host these often and they always fill up! So, reach out if you want to attend.

We have lifestyle, fet/kink folks, Tantra practitioners, sex positive, ENM/Open relating people and others of all genders, identities attend. If you have never attended, we schedule vetting calls to assure fit. These events have both community building, education, Tantra practices, and play parties at night. It's rare someone doesn't come and love it!

If you feel drawn, reach out!**

Description of the Theme:

As the veil of winter deepens and the Earth turns inward, we gather at Blue Mist Mountain for the TEMPLE OF THE DARK, a ceremonial descent into the fertile mystery at the heart of death and rebirth.
This is not a temple of despair, but of TRANSFIGURATION.

Through the dark crown, dark heart, and dark eros, we surrender into the VOID, the still point that births new worlds. Together we will move through layers of shadow and silence, sound and surrender, shedding the skins of the old world as we open to the NEW EARTH rising within us and around us. Through guided practices, sound journeys, dark embodiment rituals, and sacred eros, we will enter the womb of night and remember the primal stillness from which all creation is born. This Temple will be deep, initiatory, and ecstatic.

Past Temples of the Dark have emphasized death and release this Temple brings the energy of 2026, the beginning of Creation.
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🔥 SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, JANUARY 9

5–6 pm: Arrivals
6–7:30 pm: Potluck Dinner
7:30–8:30 pm: Opening Circle
8:30–9:30 pm: Dark Sound Journey by Richie
9:30–11:30 pm: Dark Puja

SATURDAY, JANUARY 10

7–9 am: Light Breakfast Provided
9:30–11 am: Body Practices for the Dark: somatic descent, breath, trembling, embodiment
11–2 pm: Time on Your Own (lunch on own, silent reflection, forest walk, journaling, rest)
2:30–4:30 pm: The Triple Dark: Crown, Heart, and Eros (Erica & Jared)
4:30–5 pm: Break
5–6:30 pm: Endarkenment Ritual (Erica, Richie & Jared)
6:30–8:30 pm: Potluck Dinner
8:30–10 pm: Dark Desire Experience
10 pm–2 am: Open Temple: Night of the Void (conscious play party)

SUNDAY, JANUARY 11

7–9:30 am: Light Breakfast Provided
9:30–11 am: Closing Circle
11–12 pm: Clean up
12–3 pm (Optional): Gathering at The Scotsman (Celtic Pub, Waynesville)
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💠 CONTRIBUTION LEVELS

In Abundance: $277
In Balance: $222
In Flow: $177

No or little income? We got you. Come.
Trade or volunteer options available.
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🛠 WORK TRADE OPTIONS

Main Meat Dish for 15 → $75 off (4 spots) — Code: JAN-MMD
Vegan Main Dish for 15 → $55 off (2 spots) — Code: JAN-VMD
Land Stewardship (3 hrs) → $75 off (1 spot) — Code: JAN-LAND
Cleaning (3 hrs, Fri arrival 1 pm) → $75 off (2 spots) — Code: JAN-CL-FR

Have another offering? Message us.
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🏡 ACCOMMODATIONS

Reserve your room soon!

Guest House:

• Queen w/ private bath (upstairs) – $135/night
• Queen w/ shared bath (downstairs) – $125/night
• Queen w/ shared bath (downstairs) – $125/night
• Pull-out w/ shared bath – $75/night

Main Home:

• Full, semi-private shower – $120/night
• King, shared shower – $135/night
• Queen w/ shared bath – $125/night
• Twin (temple space) – $50/night
• Twin (temple space) – $50/night

Other Options:

• Couch/floor (BYO bedding) – Free
• Camping (tent or vehicle) – Free
• Nearby hotels: Sylva, Dillsboro, Cherokee, Bryson City
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REFUND POLICY

No refunds. Tickets may be applied to a future event. Rooms are non-refundable but may be transferred privately.

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