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Retreat & Event Updates
Mindful Yoga Midlife Retreat for Queer Men near the San Francisco Bay Area
In the rush of midlife, do you ever feel the need to pause, breathe, and reconnect with yourself? This fall, we invite you to a weekend of mindful movement and deep belonging at a midlife retreat for queer men designed just for you. From October 30th to November 2nd, 2025, join a small, curated group of peers for the Midlife Gay Men's Retreat, a unique opportunity to explore yoga and mindfulness in a supportive, queer-affirming space. This retreat is for any man in his 30s, 40s, or 50s seeking to navigate this chapter with greater intention and community.
This is your invitation to step away from the daily grind and into the serene embrace of the Northern California redwoods. Ready to find your center? Save your spot for this rejuvenating weekend. You can also browse our full schedule of wellness experiences on the Spirit Camp retreats page.
Transformative Coaching Queer Men’s Retreat on the Mendocino Coast
Are you a queer man navigating the questions and complexities of midlife? Imagine a weekend dedicated to reflection, connection, and powerful transformation, set against the breathtaking backdrop of ancient redwood forests and the dramatic Pacific Ocean. This October 30th to November 2nd, 2025, you are invited to the Midlife Gay Men's Retreat, an intimate and powerful queer men’s retreat designed for men in their 30s, 40s, and 50s. This is more than a getaway; it is an intentional opportunity to regroup and reset. At this transformative retreat, you’ll join a curated group of no more than 15 other kind and curious men to explore what matters most in a supportive, inspiring environment.
Ready to find clarity and connection? Save your spot for this journey of self-discovery. Or, feel free to explore our full calendar of upcoming transformational experiences on the Spirit Camp retreats page.
Inclusive All-Genders Retreat on the Mendocino Coast with Creative Expression and Group Dialogue
Come As You Are: A Retreat Without Boxes
Some retreats ask you to conform. Symposium: The First Gathering asks you to unfold. Hosted from November 4–9, 2025, this inclusive retreat for all genders on the Mendocino Coast invites you into a brave, beautiful space of creative expression, spiritual dialogue, and identity celebration.
Open to all gender expressions, sexual orientations, body types, and spiritual paths, this gathering is a sanctuary for those who have often felt on the edges of traditional retreat spaces. Here, queer inclusivity isn’t an add-on—it’s a foundation.
Through modalities like ritual art, storytelling, sacred movement, and group dialogue, you’ll be supported in reclaiming parts of yourself that have been waiting to be seen, expressed, and honored.
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Small Group Retreat with Side Quests and Symbolism near the Bay Area California – Explore Your Inner Myth
Sometimes the biggest changes happen in the smallest circles. Symposium: The First Gathering is a small group retreat with side quests and symbolism designed for seekers ready to explore their inner landscape through story, metaphor, and ritual. Held November 4–9, 2025, this gathering invites fewer than 30 participants into a mythic journey beneath the redwoods—just a few hours from the Bay Area.
It’s a space where intimacy and symbolism lead the way. With side quests, storytelling circles, and personal rituals, each guest co-creates a narrative arc that mirrors the deeper transitions they’re moving through.
Whether you’re navigating life shifts, spiritual questions, or creative stirrings, this Bay Area symbolic retreat offers a supportive, soulful space to reconnect to your mythic self.
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Mystical Retreat for Soul-Curious Seekers in California Featuring Guided Meditation and Sacred Council
Have you ever sensed that life is more than what meets the eye—that beneath the surface is a mythic pulse, a calling just for you? Symposium: The First Gathering is a mystical retreat for soul-curious seekers, held November 4–9, 2025, among the misty redwoods of Mendocino, California.
This six-day immersion invites you into the space between worlds—through guided meditation, sacred council, creative ritual, and introspective exploration. It’s not about answers. It’s about deeper questions.
You don’t need a belief system or spiritual label. Just the willingness to step into the unknown, the unseen, the sacred. This spiritual retreat for seekers is a space to slow down, listen in, and walk the liminal path home to yourself.
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Narrative Coaching Retreat for Self-Discovery in Northern California Through Journaling and Myth Work
Every transformation begins with a story—and too often, that story goes untold. Symposium: The First Gathering offers a sacred space to revisit, rewrite, and re-author the narrative of who you are becoming.
This six-day narrative coaching retreat for self-discovery unfolds November 4–9, 2025, beneath redwood canopies in Northern California. Through journaling, visualization, symbolic side quests, and coaching-style reflection, guests are invited into a mythic space of renewal and revelation.
If you’ve been feeling stuck in an old identity—or are standing at the edge of a new chapter—this self-discovery retreat in California helps you find the words, wisdom, and will to move forward. You don’t need to be a writer or a seeker. Just willing to sit with your truth, and let it speak.
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Nature-Based Ritual and Ceremony Retreat on the Mendocino Coast with Forest Offerings and Threshold Rites
There is a place where the veil thins. Where redwood roots mirror your own, and breath carries the memory of something older than words. Symposium: The First Gathering is a nature-based retreat with ritual and ceremony, held November 4–9, 2025, in the coastal forests of Northern California.
Designed for seekers who feel the call to reconnect with the earth, this immersive experience blends forest offerings, grounding practices, and threshold rites into six days of sacred becoming. Whether you’re marking a life change, tending ancestral wounds, or simply feeling called to ritual, this ritual retreat on the Mendocino Coast offers a powerful container.
The journey unfolds within the sanctuary of Spirit Camp Retreat Center—a queer-owned, earth-honoring spiritual hub just ten minutes from downtown Mendocino.
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Somatic and Spiritual Retreat in the Redwoods: Movement Rituals and Sacred Council near San Francisco
There is a moment when your body says: It’s time to come home. Not to a place—but to your own presence. Symposium: The First Gathering is a somatic and spiritual retreat in the redwoods designed for those craving deep embodiment, sacred ritual, and heartfelt community.
Held from November 4–9, 2025, this six-day immersion near San Francisco offers soul-deep healing through movement, nature-based ceremony, and sacred council. Rooted in the wisdom of the nervous system and the call of the spirit, this retreat invites you to remember who you are—through sensation, stillness, and shared story.
With practices like somatic movement, sacred council, breathwork, and earth-based ritual, participants are guided into grounded presence and emotional clarity. The experience takes place at Spirit Camp Retreat Center in Mendocino County—an inclusive, forested haven that merges somatic science with spiritual depth.
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Creative Expression and Embodiment Retreat in California with Intuitive Art and Ecstatic Dance
If you’ve been craving a space to move without rules, paint without judgment, and reconnect to your body’s own wisdom, Symposium: The First Gathering invites you to step into an immersive playground of creative expression and embodiment.
Taking place November 4–9, 2025, this six-day embodiment retreat in California is made for feelers, visionaries, and seekers who want to unlock the art and movement held within their bodies. No training required—just curiosity and a willingness to let go.
With a focus on intuitive painting, journaling, ecstatic dance, and creative ritual, the retreat offers a safe and spacious container for personal expression. Think paint-streaked fingers, wild barefoot twirling, and quiet moments of reflection as you write, draw, and breathe your story into form.
Set in the redwood sanctuary of Spirit Camp Retreat Center, the environment mirrors the energy of the experience: alive, grounded, inclusive, and full of creative potential.
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Immersive Healing and Storytelling Retreat with Guided Visualization & Tea California
There are moments in life when we ache not for more doing, but for more meaning. Symposium: The First Gathering offers a sacred pause—an immersive healing and storytelling retreat where guided meditation, narrative exploration, and quiet reflection invite you back to your center. Held November 4–9, 2025, this six-day experience is designed for soul-curious seekers yearning to reweave their personal myth in a safe, symbolic, and creative space.
The retreat welcomes individuals of all backgrounds, ages 18 and up, into a shared journey of inner transformation and narrative healing. Through practices like guided visualization, storytelling circles, and journaling rituals, participants gently peel back the layers of noise to hear the quiet truth beneath.
Each afternoon, you’re invited into Tea Time 1:1 sessions—a uniquely intimate reflection ritual where your voice is deeply witnessed and your process lovingly held. Hosted at the magical Spirit Camp Retreat Center just outside Mendocino, this small group retreat in the Redwoods blends myth, movement, and meditation into a transformative week of reconnection.
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Personal Growth Retreat for Life Transitions Featuring Symbolic Side Quests in the USA
When life calls for a bold next step, the best answers are often whispered by your inner world—not shouted by the outside. Symposium: The First Gathering is a retreat for life transitions and personal growth, designed specifically for adults navigating change—career shifts, endings and beginnings, creative rebirths, or quiet inner reckonings.
Held November 4–9, 2025, this six-day transformational journey unfolds in a sacred arc—mirroring the classic mythic path: departure, initiation, and return. The retreat experience draws deeply from symbolic narrative, embodied ritual, and forest-based ceremony to help you uncover your own way through.
At this life transition retreat in California, guests explore personal myth through creative exercises like side quests, journaling, movement, and sacred council. You won’t just reflect on your story—you’ll step into it, live it, and return changed.
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Wisdom Talks & Healing Justice Retreats in Mendocino’s Redwoods
If you’ve been looking for a social justice healing retreat that honors both your call to activism and your need for holistic care, the Original Medicine Earth-Based Intensive Immersion Retreat (details here) awaits. Hosted at Spirit Camp near the town of Mendocino, this program is among the leading Healing Justice Retreats in Northern California. Check out this transformative retreat and browse the Spirit Camp retreat schedule to explore the synergy of Redwood forest energy, Wisdom Talks, and communal healing.
Running from July 22–28, 2025, the retreat merges daily meditation and mindful movement with earth-based activism immersion and in-depth dialogues on social transformation. Whether you identify as an organizer, educator, healer, or simply someone seeking a just world, your presence is welcomed and needed.
Transformational Somatic Retreat in Northern California: Rituals & Narrative Myth-Making Among the Redwoods
Are you standing at a threshold in your life—feeling the pull toward something deeper, yet unsure how to cross? This transformational retreat in Northern California offers a mythic, soul-sparking immersion where personal growth meets creative ritual. Symposium: The First Gathering takes place from November 4–9, 2025, a six-day sanctuary for seekers 18 and older ready to explore their stories through somatic healing, sacred council, and symbolic expression.
Designed for those facing creative pivots, spiritual longing, or personal change, this retreat for personal growth in California invites participants to access emotional clarity, intuitive wisdom, and inspired vision. Guided by a circle of expert facilitators, the week includes immersive practices like guided visualization, storytelling yoga, womb ritual, ecstatic dance, and narrative "side quests."
Set within the lush redwood forest of Spirit Camp, the experience delivers not only transformation—but deep reconnection to your essential self.
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Redwood Yoga Retreat for Deep-Rest Yoga Nidra in Spirit Camp’s Magic Meadow
Between Thursday and Sunday, Nov 13-16 2025, Whole Hearted You invites you to horizontal healing: two Yoga Nidra immersions daily plus forest-bathing strolls and campfire lullabies. Reserve your cocoon on the retreat page and survey other deep-rest options on the calendar. Whether you commute from Contra Costa County or further afield, this Northern California deep rest weekend promises profound reset.
Redwood Yoga Retreat with Disco-Ball Vinyasa Nights near Santa Rosa Airport
Jump a 40-minute flight to STS, rent a hybrid, and arrive at Spirit Camp in under two hours. From Nov 13-16 2025 Whole Hearted You blends sweaty flow, Yin wind-down, and evening Vinyasa lit by rainbows from the Lodge disco ball. Reserve on the retreat page; browse all retreats. This dance therapy redwood retreat transforms motion into emotion, beat into bliss.
Northern California Yoga Retreat Uniting Yin & Sound Bath in Coastal Redwoods
Pack cozy layers and curiosity: Whole Hearted You returns Nov 13-16 2025 with nightly crystal-bowl concerts, sunrise chanting, and afternoon Yin melts amid blooming lavender. Reserve on the retreat page; browse the calendar for all yoga holidays Northern California coast.
Redwood Yoga Retreat for Deep-Rest Yoga Nidra in Spirit Camp’s Magic Meadow
From Thursday–Sunday, November 13-16, 2025, Whole Hearted You invites you to lounge on bolster nests, soak in singing-bowl overtones, and gaze skyward through a copper-roof skylight. Reserve on the retreat page and meet every Spirit Camp offering on the calendar. This sanctuary yoga Mendocino immersion centers slow Restorative shapes, mantra lullabies, and circle storytelling—all curated by Rebecca Rogers’ golden voice.
Northern California Yoga Retreat Blending Vinyasa & Breathwork near Sonoma County
From Thursday–Sunday, November 13-16, 2025, Whole Hearted You transforms Spirit Camp into a sanctuary of breath, sweat, and stillness. Secure a mat on the retreat page and skim every upcoming journey on the Spirit Camp calendar →. Expect sunrise Vinyasa beneath cathedral-high trunks, midday pranayama labs inside sun-striped Redwood Lodge, and silent hikes where every inhalation syncs with birdsong. This redwood breathwork weekend welcomes beginners who know a Sun Salutation and veterans chasing nuanced edge—no competition, only curiosity.
Redwood Yoga Retreat Celebrating Gratitude & Journaling near the Bay Area
Your gratitude list is about to get longer. From Thursday to Sunday, November 13-16, 2025 Whole Hearted You spreads pens, mats, and picnic blankets across Spirit Camp’s 27 acres, inviting you to marry mindful movement with reflective writing. Save your spot on the Whole Hearted You retreat page and browse every transformational option on the Spirit Camp calendar →.
Imagine sunrise cat-cows facing dew-bright ferns, then cozying into a cedar nook to script morning pages. Add Yin in the Sanctuary, forest-bathing meditations among towering trunks, and sunset drum circles under a peach-gold sky. This Northern California gratitude retreat is open to seasoned scribes and “I-only-journal-on-vacation” newbies alike.
Coastal Redwoods Yoga Retreat Pairing Cold-Water Courage & Campfire Kirtan in Northern California
If plunging into crisp Pacific surf at dawn, wringing out your spine under 200-foot giants, then chanting mantra around an ember-bright fire sounds electric, keep reading. Whole Hearted You lights up Spirit Camp Thursday–Sunday, November 13-16, 2025, uniting Vinyasa vitality with restorative Yin, daily cold plunges, and night-time kirtan beneath redwood crowns. Reserve your berth on the Whole Hearted You retreat page; check all future adventures on the Spirit Camp calendar →.
Designed for intrepid hearts (and toes!), this ocean plunge retreat marries thrill with therapy: cold water sparks endorphins; ecstatic dance frees fascia; chanting threads community. No prior experience—just a willingness to feel fully alive.