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SUMMARY:Summer SOULstice — Retreat GBTQ Men at Easton Mountain
DESCRIPTION:A Soulful Week in the Sun\nJoin us for a week-long wellness retreat designed to nourish body, mind and spirit!\nIt begins with a Summer Solstice ceremony to align with our greatest life source, the Sun. Throughout the week, you'll move through natural healing practices such as naked yoga, meditation, sound baths, chakra alignment, movement for well-being, and workshops on erotic expression.\nEach experience is woven into a journey of deep inner healing, personal transformation, and reconnection with yourself, nature, and community. We offer the chance to go deep into movement and improvisation, chanting and energy work, shamanic journeying, chakra immersion, and more.\nBetween sessions, enjoy the natural beauty of Easton Mountain: forest trails, peaceful ponds, mountain views, and the warmth of our wood-fired sauna. Nourish yourself with world class meals, quiet time for rest and reflection, and meaningful connection with others.\nThis is a full week to invest in your well-being, to release what no longer serves you, foster self-love, and find clarity and renewal through intentional ceremonies and holistic practices.\nThroughout the week, you'll be guided by an exceptional team of facilitators offering diverse paths to healing and self-discovery.\nRates and Accommodations\nRates start at $695 per person and vary based on your choice of housing. All rates include everything you need for a transformative and joy-filled retreat:\n✔️ Tuition for all workshops, circles, and activities\n✔️ Housing in your selected accommodations\n✔️ Three delicious meals a day, plus snacks and 24/7 tea & coffee\n✔️ Access to all amenities, including the, sauna, pond, hiking trails, temple & more!\n✔️ Evening events, celebrations, and rituals\n✔️ A supportive, welcoming space to be your full self, held by community and surrounded by nature\nWe offer a wide range of both shared and private housing options to meet different comfort levels and budgets, from tent camping, glamping tents, and cabins to bunkhouse and guest house rooms. For more info on our housing types, click here.\n\nYou can save by choosing one of our discounted options. Look for the Newbie and Tent Camping rates if you're new to Easton or happy to pitch your own tent.\nIf you are hesitant to join due to financial circumstances, consider applying for scholarship or volunteering!\n\n\nRegister here  ( https://eastonmountain.secure.retreat.guru/?post_type=program&p=1969&form=1&lang=en )\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat to Expect\nWe're still finalizing the daily schedule, but here's a preview of what each facilitator will be offering:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Ollom\n\n\nOllom Floor Series and Intro to Your Body\nFocusing on your body as your vessel, we will start lying on the floor. We will engage in slow stretches and abdominal work to get us moving. Warming up the spine and core, we'll then move into simple movements to begin to feel comfortable with movement. Breath work is encouraged to help release tension and stress.\n\n\nContemporary Movement and Improvisation\nBuilding on earlier movement work, we'll learn to find more freedom in our movements, letting go of structure to explore new ways to touch, move, and flow in connection.\n\n\nInternal Landscapes\nA blend of free writing and movement designed to access emotions and ideas that flow within us. Using our bodies as canvases, we allow energy to move through us, connecting with subconscious urges.\n\n\nMan to Man\nAfter finding our authentic selves, we reach out and express that with a partner. Through touch and movement, we explore each other's bodies and the energies that flow between and around us.\n\n\nNaked Flow\nMoving and breathing freely without clothes, we connect with our natural flow, with others, and with the elements. Feeling the air on our naked bodies helps release shame and encourages honest touch and expression.\n\n\nEcstatic Dance\nA culmination of the week's explorations of body and energy. We listen to our authentic selves and move naked or clothed in whatever way feels right. We discover our own ecstatic flow.\n\n\nOne-on-one sessions with John are available by contacting him directly at info@johnollom.com or through the front desk.\nAnthony Dissen\n\n\nQueering Spirit: A Shamanic Intro to LGBTQIA+ Spiritual Practice\nReclaiming spirituality through discussion, meditation, visualization, and shamanic journeying to connect with our inner spirit and the larger spirit of queerness in this world.\n\n\nSoul Retrieval Journey: Connecting with What Has Been Lost\nA guided shamanic practice to reclaim lost parts of ourselves, strengthen our wholeness, and connect with queer ancestors for healing and empowerment.\n\n\nChanting Our Way to Freedom\nA devotional chanting and singing practice (Kirtan) using sound, voice, and breath to generate love, joy, and spiritual connection.\n\n\nKink and BDSM as Shamanic and Spiritual Practices\nExploring our erotic and sensual lives as sacred gateways to spiritual awakening. We'll learn how to use Kink and BDSM practices as portals into elevated states of consciousness and awareness.\n\n\nHonoring the Spirit of Queerness: Creating a Devotional Offering\nCreating a collective offering to honor the land of Easton Mountain and the Spirit of Queerness, supporting ongoing daily spiritual practice and collective healing.\n\n\nPrivate energy healing and shamanic sessions are available with Anthony. Contact AnthonyDissenRD@gmail.com or visit DrAnthonyDissen.com.\nMark Anthony Lord\n\n\nWholeness Through Pride: A Chakra Immersion for Queer Men\nA five-day journey across the chakras, the sacred rainbow bridge of the body, guiding participants to reclaim spiritual wholeness and dissolve shame-based patterns through movement, prayer, meditation, journaling, and group process. Modules include:\n\n\nSacred Origins (Root Chakra): I Belong. I Matter. I Am Perfectly Designed.\n\n\nHidden Desires (Sacral Chakra): I No Longer Hide. My Desires Are Sacred.\n\n\nPower Without Apology (Solar Plexus): I Am Powerful. I Am Enough.\n\n\nLove Without Conditions (Heart Chakra): I Am Love. I Am Worthy. I Am Forgiving.\n\n\nSpeaking the Sacred Truth (Throat Chakra): My Word Is Power. My Truth Is Freedom.\n\n\n\n\nBonus: Divine Vision – 3rd Eye & Crown Chakra Integration\nA closing integration experience using meditation, visualization, and chakra alignment to awaken divine remembrance and cosmic awareness, seeing ourselves as radiant, sacred beings.\n\n\nPrivate intuitive healing sessions with Mark are available during the retreat.\n\n\n\n\n\nSee you at the mountain!\nRegister here  ( https://eastonmountain.secure.retreat.guru/?post_type=program&p=1969&form=1&lang=en )\n\n
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