Destination Retreats

Boulder, Colorado, July 11-14, 2025

Awakening the Sacred Masculine: A Men’s Medicine Retreat

Join us for a transformative journey into the heart of the sacred masculine. This retreat is an invitation to break free from the constraints of toxic masculinity and reclaim the powerful, grounded, and heart-centered man you were born to be.

Through the ancient wisdom of Tantra and sacred plant medicine, you’ll explore the polarity of masculine and feminine energies within while cultivating a deeper relationship with your inner Shakti, your creative life force, and your true authentic power.

In this four-day immersive experience, we will explore:

  • What it means to be a man beyond the mask: shedding outdated roles of stoicism, domination, and suppression. How many times have we heard the expression - “boys don’t cry, toughen up”

  • Shakti as your inner flame: awakening the creative, intuitive, and emotional energy within that brings vitality, purpose, and connection to your life. What does it mean to reclaim your inner feminine versus the widely acceptable projection onto female partners.

  • The Tantric path of sacred union: understanding how masculine presence and feminine energy co-exist within, and how this integration and allowance of our own Shakti fuels authentic leadership, intimacy, and expression. This is the principle of As within / So without.

You will be held in a powerful container that supports your full range…your rage and grief, your joy and tenderness, and your power and vulnerability.

Together we will journey through two profound ceremonial experiences:

  • Heart Medicine Ceremony: Reopening the heart to emotional truth, intimacy, and connection with self, spirit, and brotherhood

  • Teacher Medicine Ceremony: Gaining insight, direction, and clarity around your soul’s path as a modern-day sacred man

These ceremonies are interwoven with daily practices to awaken your body, ground your nervous system, and align you with your highest potential:

  • Breath work practices to awaken your inner fire 

  • Embodiment practices to move through stored trauma and build capacity

  • Guided meditations and energy practices to anchor presence, we will do a lot of focus on 3rd chakra and your fire center.

  • Sacred ritual and prayer to connect to lineage, purpose, and das Mahavidias.

  • Wilderness walks to reconnect with Mother Earth, wildness, and inner stillness

  • Fire circles and storytelling to reclaim brotherhood

You will also receive a personalized wellness consultation to support your integration mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

This retreat is for the man who is ready to remember who he truly is…beyond conditioning and fear. It is for the man who longs to lead with his heart, stand in his truth, and express his sacred sexuality with integrity and reverence.

We are calling in brothers ready to do the deep work, not just for themselves, but for the collective healing of men, women, and the Earth.

Accommodations and nourishing meals are included to support your full restoration and rejuvenation. Every detail of this retreat is crafted to help you return home to your body, your truth, and your soul’s calling.

Spaces are intentionally limited to honor the depth of this work. Claim your seat in this sacred circle of men, and step into the next chapter of your becoming.

Benefits of Joining

  • Attune to your needs and desires while connecting with yourself and the community

  • Foster deeper, more enduring, and trusting relationships

  • Feel more grounded and centered, and start living life with more purpose

  • Enhance your ability to connect with and heal the heart while grounding in the body

  • Let’s explore new templates of masculinity. Who are our heroes in this day and time.


    What’s Included:

  • A group zoom preparation session to clarify your intentions for this journey

  • Two group retreats with practices from my lineages

  • A nurturing community of fellow travelers

  • Energy work techniques to harness and build your personal energy

  • Guided explorations of your inner world

  • Movement and meditation practices

  • Organic meals and vibrant community interactions

  • Shared room for sleeping, medicines, guidance

  • One group zoom integration session 1-1.5 weeks after our weekend to sustain your journey


    Ceremonial Schedule:
    July 11

  • Arrive between 2:30- 3:00 PM and get settled

  • Group gathering to establish and build our sacred container

  • Group exercises

  • Dinner


    July 12

  • Movement practice

  • Guided meditation

  • Breakfast

  • Heart shares

  • Outdoor exploration and exercises to prepare

  • First sacred medicine ceremony with “Heart Medicine” begins around 5:00 PM

    July 13

  • Movement practice

  • Guided meditation

  • Breakfast

  • Heart shares

  • Outdoor exploration and exercises

  • Second sacred medicine ceremony with “Teacher Medicine” in the evening

    July 14

  • Movement practice

  • Guided meditation

  • Breakfast

  • Heart shares and integration circle

  • Wrap up and conclusion by 12 Noon

Exchange:

  • $2500 - $3500 sliding scale

  • $500 non-refundable deposit to hold your space

  • Balance due two weeks prior to event (no refunds for cancellations within two weeks of event)

  • Limited space available (to receive individualized attention, weekend will be limited to 12 participants)

Are you ready to reserve your spot? Or do you have questions or want to learn more?

Please get in touch - we’ll be happy to answer any questions, or save your place in this incredible adventure. Email jim@shaneyoung.life

SUCCESS STORIES

  • “I found Shane a year and a half ago when I was experiencing profound loss and grief. Shane's holistic approach helped me change unhelpful behaviours and patterns, titrate off three psych meds, and showed me a path forward into healing and growth. Shane's intuitive sense of what has been needed at different points in my journey has been deeply insightful, offered with gentle care and concern. I find myself more grounded, confident and at ease than I would have thought possible in the time since I started working with him. He is a gifted healer and I am grateful to have found my way to him and the healing community he has created.”

    — David C

  • “Shane’s group medicine journeys are truly incredible. The whole weekend retreat is a ceremony. We begin by calling in our guides and allies, and sharing our journey intentions with the group. Throughout the retreat, Shane leads solo and shared exercises designed to help us explore our edges, deepen our journeys, and create camaraderie between the journeyers. My experience was that these exercises directly and positively impacted what I experienced in my journeys. We also close the retreat with reflections and ceremony.”

    — Summer P

  • “Shane has something “in his carpet bag of magic” for every moment. Time and time again, I am impressed with what he has to share with me and other dear friends that he also guides. I can’t imagine doing this deep healing work with anyone else – mind, body, spirit and emotional alignment. My healing, learning and growing has by far exceeded where I would have imagined I would be. Life with Shane in it is just that much more beautiful – he guides me to come back home to a more grounded, open, aware, present, powerful and conscious me. There are so many good things to say about Shane and to sum it up, I would say that Shane is Pure Magic.”

    — Laura Schneider

Schedule your free discovery session today!