BIPOC Women
Oaxaca, Mexico


September 7, 2025 - September 13, 2025

A Journey Toward Erotic Liberation

The Dahlia Experience

The Dahlia Experience is a process—anchored in a retreat and sustained through group coaching—that guides you toward Erotic Liberation.

Erotic Liberation is the ability to move intentionally from contraction to expansion, at will.
In doing so, you shape reality around your deepest desires.

It’s not just a one-time event. It’s a return to you. Through this journey, you will:

  • Enhance somatic awareness—the ability to feel, sense, and notice what’s happening inside you

  • Activate embodied movement—the ability to express and act from that internal truth

  • Move from contraction to expansion—again and again, at any moment of your life

  • Develop a community of practice that can support your expansion

The Dahlia Experience will help you answer these questions:

  • How do I know—in my body—when I am moving from fear versus from freedom?

  • What becomes possible when I stop negotiating with shame?

  • How do I shift my reality to match my desires—not just my circumstances?

You will learn how to move from contraction to expansion through a four-part practice:

  1. Sense – Notice what’s happening in your body.

  2. Understand – Learn the language your body is speaking.

  3. Interpret – Place your sensations in context—emotional, historical, erotic.

  4. Choose – Take action from freedom, not fear.

You will gain more than insights—you’ll expand into an aligned way of being in your body—in your relationships, and in your life.

Claim Your Erotic Liberation.

Embracing the wisdom of Audre Lorde

we reclaim the erotic —
not as the pornographic distortion,
but as “the resource within ourselves that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane,
firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling.”

The Dahlia Experience

The Retreat Experience

Discovering Your Desired Shape

This journey begins in Oaxaca where the pace is slower, the connection to earth is deeper, and ritual and spirituality are beautifully woven into daily life. Here — where the dahlia first bloomed — we gather to enhance somatic awareness and presence, and cultivate the capacity to meet life’s contractions with rooted clarity. You’ll begin to name and feel into the shape of your erotic self. You'll learn practices that reconnect you with pleasure, presence, and power.

  • Somatic Movement Ritual
    The Five Erotic Energies
    Explore Oaxaca 
    Oaxacan Tastes & Libations 
    Solo Exploration Time
    Private Reflection and Integration

  • Day 1 (Sept 7): Arrive + Dinner
    Day 2: Workshop + Food Experience
    Day 3: Workshop + Healing Experience
    Day 4: Workshop + Textile Experience
    Day 5: Workshop + Geography Experience
    Day 6: Workhop + Closing Experience
    Day 7 (Sept 13): Breakfast + Depart

The Integration Experience

Retaining the Shape & Expanding Capacity

The retreat marks the beginning of a larger journey. The Dahlia Experience includes 12-session, post-retreat group coaching. This is where erotic clarity becomes embodied capacity. This space is designed to help you:

  • Expand into the shape you claimed

  • Deepen your somatic practices

  • Integrate and root into erotic power

Each session is 90-min and provides a container for accountability and to walk alongside others on this transformative path toward erotic liberation.

    • 6-day/6-night stay in private retreat villa

    • A mix of chef-prepared meals and restaurants featuring Oaxacan cuisine
      [Daily breakfast buffet, lunch, and all dinners except for Day 4 (dinner own your own)]

    • 6 somatic awareness and embodied movement workshops

    • Group culinary and cultural experiences

    • 12-session (90 min each) post-retreat group coaching to integrate practices learned during the retreat

    • Airfare to/from Oaxaca

    • Travel to/from private villa

    • Yoga mat (you will need to bring your own)

    • Travel insurance

Every contraction you feel—

fear

desire

stress

creativity

grief

overwhelm

sensuality

anxiety, tightness, shame,
shutdown, disconnection

—holds a key to expansion.

The Retreat Experience

Meet Us in Mexico…

September 7, 2025 - September 13, 2025

Oaxaca is ceremony. The land itself pulses with ancestral memory and sensual beauty. Here, tradition is not static—it’s alive. From its sacred textiles to the bittersweet taste of cacao, Oaxaca is a place that invites you into relationship—earth, breath, body, story.

This city and its surrounding villages hold space for release and renewal. For us, Oaxaca is not a backdrop, but a collaborator. It remembers what many of us have forgotten: how to live in rhythm.

Come. Let the land hold you.

…at a Private Villa

The retreat space is inspired by the Oaxacan spirit of sharing food, drink, and joyful company. There are eight serene rooms, each inviting you to experience the beauty and generosity of Oaxaca in every detail.

Centrally located between the historic Independencia and Morelos streets, this location offers easy access to the heart of the city and its surrounding wonders—along a path traveled by guests and locals for centuries.

Enjoy breathtaking sunsets from the rooftop terrace, savor traditional Oaxacan dishes prepared by the Cordon Bleu-trained house chef, and raise a glass of mezcal beneath the sapphire sky. Here, your stay becomes a celebration of place, people, and presence.

Come. Relax into Expansion.

The Integration Experience

September 26, 2025 - March 6, 2026

The group coaching integration sessions are designed to help you:

  • Navigate the re-entry to your “regular life” with clarity and courage

  • Deepen the somatic practices you began in Oaxaca

  • Stay accountable to the shape you claimed during the retreat

  • Root into erotic power as a guide for living

Sessions will include grounding and somatic warm-ups, experiential activities, and close with reflection and integration practices. It’s a sincere and supportive space to explore, share—and to walk alongside others who’ve chosen this transformative path.

Group Coaching Session Dates and Topics

  • Session One | September 26, 2025 — Re-integration: How to Retain Your Desired Shape

  • Session Two | October 10, 2025 — Re-integration: Experiment Design

  • Session Three | October 24, 2025 — Grounding in Adversity – Generating Calm in Chaos

  • Session Four | November 7, 2025 — Embodying Worth – Working With Imposter Syndrome

  • Session Five | November 21, 2025 — Transforming Emotions – From Constriction to Power

  • Session Six | December 5, 2025 — Somatic Decision-Making – Letting Your Body Lead to Higher Quality Decisions

  • Session Seven | December 19, 2025 — Radiating Presence – Compelling Leadership Embodiment

  • Session Eight | January 9, 2025 — Exploring the Erotic as Power

  • Session Nine | January 23, 2025 — Creative Flow – Living and Leading from the Erotic

  • Session Ten | February 6, 2025 — Honoring Boundaries – Deepening Connection

  • Session Eleven | February 20, 2025 — Weaving Masculine and Feminine Energies

  • Session Twelve | March 6, 2025 — Embodying Liberation – Living the Dahlia Experience

Upcoming Experiences

Your Facilitators

Nally Berg & Stacy Parson

Somatic Coaching | Yoga and Body Movement

Executive Coaching | Leadership Development

One uses provocative perspectives, frameworks and observations of what is. The other uses the wisdom of sensation and movement. What began as a conversation about possibility soon became a deeper reckoning: What does it take for women to live freely and fully—erotically—in our minds, our movements, and our desires?

That question became The Dahlia Experience—a space for women and femmes to explore erotic liberation as a practice of becoming and leading. It’s a retreat and coaching experience rooted in life’s cycles of contraction and expansion, designed to build the somatic capacity to shift your reality to match your desires.

Their shared belief: Freedom doesn’t come from escaping the pressure of life. It comes from learning to stay with yourself inside of it—and choosing expansion anyway.

Nally helps people reconnect with their bodies as a source of clarity, power, and freedom.

She leads people through somatic awareness and embodied movement practices that surface what’s been held, hidden, or hardened. Her sessions are grounded in practical tools: breathwork, movement, and body inquiry designed to build capacity for discomfort and unlock desire.

With deep respect for personal pace, Nally helps participants shift from contraction to expansion—learning to trust their own sensations, name their needs, and reshape how they show up in their lives, relationships, and leadership.

Stacy helps people and organizations evolve how they know, live, and lead.

With over two decades of experience coaching executives and designing transformational learning experiences, Stacy brings a combination of rigor, resonance, and radical permission to the work of leadership. Her approach invites people to reclaim the parts of themselves left out of traditional development — so they can lead with clarity, courage, and conscious impact.

Stacy is known for her ability to hold complexity, ask catalytic questions, and help leaders move from insight to action.