In 2016, reeling from the loss of his unborn child and the breakdown of his marriage, former MMA fighter and bodyguard Traver Boehm took an unusual step: he voluntarily spent 28 straight days in a pitch-black room, utterly alone, as part of a darkness retreat in Guatemala.
For four weeks, he couldn’t see his hand an inch from his face. He lived in a spartan, concrete cave, his only contact with the outside world three meals a day, delivered through a ‘mailbox’ in the wall and announced by the ring of a bell.
