Somatic clearing in the hot springs
One-on-one water work with Rocío, in mineral water, held and moved.
A water healing experience with Rocío Navarro
Submerge in Silence
Four days of silence beside desert hot springs.
- Dates
- Dec 3–6, 2026
- Where
- Tecopa, California
- Shape
- 8 guided modules
- Group
- 12 guests
01 — The premise
This retreat does not begin when you arrive
Most silent retreats hand you four days and send you home. You return changed, and within two weeks the change has thinned into a memory you describe to people who weren't there.
This one is built differently. The four days in the desert are the middle of the journey — not the whole of it.
Eight guided modules carry you from the first week of preparation through to living what opened, months after you've left the water.
- BeforePreparationGuided work at home, in the weeks leading up
- Dec 3–6The desertFour days of silence in Tecopa
- AfterIntegrationGroup work once you are home again
02 — Silence
Silence is not the absence of noise
It is what happens when you stop having to respond.
No conversation. No explaining yourself. No arranging your face for anyone. For most people it takes about a day and a half before the mind stops narrating — and what comes after that day and a half is the reason we do this.
Your nervous system keeps a record your mind has already filed away and moved past. Silence is what lets it finally speak.
03 — The water
Why hot springs
Before you had a name, before you had language, you were held in water. Warm water speaks to the body in the oldest language it knows.
These are geothermal springs in the Mojave — mineral water that has been moving underground for longer than any of us has been alive. You will be worked with directly in them: held, supported, slowly moved, with no conversation and nothing to perform.
This is not bathing. This is not relaxation.
Relaxation is what happens on the way there.
04 — The container
What the four days hold
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05 — The structure
The eight modules
The four days are the middle. Here is the whole of it.
Before you arrive
Preparation. Guided work in the weeks leading up, so you land already open instead of spending the first two days arriving.
- 01
The Quieting
Guided, at home. Weeks before the desert.
- 02
What You Carry
Naming what you are bringing to the water.
The four days
The retreat. Tecopa, December 3–6.
- 03
Arrival
Entering silence. The first day and a half.
- 04
The Water
One-on-one somatic work in the springs.
- 05
The Fire
Ceremony. What the water loosened.
- 06
The Dream
Night work, and what the desert returns.
After you leave
Integration. Guided group work once you're home, because what a silent retreat opens is not the hard part. Carrying it into your marriage, your work, and your Tuesday morning is.
- 07
Return
Group integration, once you are home.
- 08
Living the Current
Where this stops being something that happened to you and becomes how you move.
06 — Tecopa
The land that holds us
Tecopa sits at the edge of Death Valley, in a basin the desert has kept mostly to itself. There is no cell signal to speak of. There is nothing to look at but distance.
Deserts strip away context. That is the discomfort of them, and it is also the medicine: without the usual scenery of your life around you, you are unusually easy to find.
- Edge of
- Death Valley
- Signal
- None to speak of
- To look at
- Distance
07 — Fit
Who this is for
- You are carrying something the talking hasn't moved. A loss. A decision. A version of yourself you've outgrown but haven't set down.
- You are at a threshold. Becoming a parent, losing one, leaving a marriage, a country, a body of work.
- You are creatively stuck and you know it isn't discipline.
- You have done the inner work and want to go somewhere words cannot follow.
I've been held by Rocío in the water, been submerged in silence in the desert and emerged into a new way of being.
09 — Lodging
Choose your lodging
Both options include the full journey — the pre-retreat portal, the four days, all ceremony and water work, meals on site, and the integration call.
Shared room
$2,997- Occupancy
- Two guests
- Beds
- 2 Queen beds
- Bath
- Shared
For those who don't mind company on the other side of the room — the silence keeps you separate anyway.
Join the Experience
Pay in full to secure your spot
Reserve with a Payment Plan
Pay in 5 installments
Private room
$3,499- Occupancy
- You alone
- Beds
- Queen bed
- Bath
- Private
A door you can close. Worth it if the nights are where things tend to surface for you.
Join the Experience
Pay in full to secure your spot
Reserve with a Payment Plan
Pay in 5 installments
10 — The details
What your place includes
What's included
- The pre-retreat portal
- Four days in Tecopa
- One-on-one water work in the hot springs
- Sound baths, fire ceremony, dream rituals
- Lodging
- The post-retreat integration call
- Optional desert waterfall hike and date farm visit
What's not included
- Airfare
- Car rental
- Travel insurance
Optional add-ons
Womb steam ritual
- In group
- $75
- Private
- $125
Booked before you arrive, held on site.
11 — Arrival
Getting here
Fly into either gate and drive in. A car is necessary — there is no transit into the basin.
LAS · closest
Harry Reid International · Las Vegas
About 2 hours by car to Tecopa, most of it empty highway.
LAX · alternative
Los Angeles International
About 4 hours by car. Choose it if you're already coming through Los Angeles.
Once your place is confirmed we open a private thread so guests arriving on the same day can share the drive.
This retreat runs once a year, and it runs small — 12 places.
Four days. One December. Then it's gone.
Not sure yet? Book a guidance call and we'll talk it through.