Men's Work

Our men's events combine spiritual exercises and teaching with practical physical work. They are designed to create space for aligning the mind, body, and heart and are typically characterized by participants as "thin space" or liminal experiences.

We practice self-remembering, contemplation, physical work, building sacred space, studying spiritual tools and putting them to good use. We sing, we build fires large enough to be sculptural, we feast, we raise glasses of Armagnac.

We create for ourselves conditions where we may truly examine the state of our Being. Our men's Work is specifically oriented toward manifesting a shared ground upon which to stand while we ask fundamental questions about life's meaning and purpose and face head-on the pain we shoulder that we are so unwilling to put down.

This is for teachable seekers of truth, who want to get after real inner work and show up with a beginner's mind. It's a time to till your own soil, work on who you are, and uncover signposts on the path. There are no shortcuts. No one else can do it for you.

Some aspects

Learning how to work generatively and mindfully with others on practical work projects, maintaining the buildings and grounds.
Sharing responsibility for cooking
Learning practical skills from other participants; past examples include tree care, masonry, carpentry, plumbing, cooking (making trap-doors)
Developing the power of attention; observing how we act, relate, respond and react
Studying ideas and verifying them through our own experience.
Working on “metis” – or developing our possibilities to receive from a higher influence and do what is right and required in a given situation.
Working to understand the relationship between our mental, emotional, and physical centers (including sacred movement to stoke the simultaneous work of these three)

Meditation, and inner tasks to prompt self-remembering throughout the day.
Table setting, creative expression
Sauna and natural spring cold plunge

Note: Screens of any kind are relinquished for the duration.