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Queer-Inclusive Spiritual Retreat with Mindfulness & Group Process North of San Francisco
This September 26–28 (Friday through Sunday), Spirit Camp in Mendocino welcomes women ages 20+ into a circle designed for safety, authenticity, and belonging. The Sacred Feminine Retreat invites participants to explore yoga, meditation, writing, and group process—but always with choice and consent at the core. The retreat is intentionally queer-inclusive and LGBTQ-friendly, celebrating diversity while offering a container where every voice matters.
Secure your place through the Sacred Feminine booking page and explore additional dates on the Spirit Camp Retreats calendar. Booking link: Sacred Feminine.
The heart of this weekend rests in shared mindfulness practices and group process. What unites the circle is not identity alone but the commitment to presence, play, and deep respect for each participant’s autonomy. This is more than a Queer-Inclusive Spiritual Retreat—it is a sanctuary where “yes” and “no” are equally honored.
Purpose-Driven Coaching Gay Men’s Group Retreat in Northern California
Are you a gay professional or leader asking, "What's next?" In the midst of a successful career, it's easy to lose touch with the deeper sense of purpose that fuels our work and our lives. We invite you to step away from the boardroom and into the redwoods to reconnect with your purpose in a powerful gay men’s group setting. From October 30th to November 2nd, 2025, join us for the Midlife Gay Men's Retreat, a weekend focused on high-impact group coaching designed to help you clarify your purpose with a potent collective of peers. This is your chance to gain new perspectives and create an intentional path forward.
This queer men’s leadership circle in Northern CA offers a unique blend of professional development and personal transformation. Ready to lead your life with renewed purpose? Reserve your spot in this exclusive retreat. You can also explore our full calendar of events on the Spirit Camp retreats page.
Deep-Dive Men’s Group Midlife Gay Men’s Retreat in the Northern California Redwoods
Is there a space in your life where you can speak your unvarnished truth? For many queer men navigating the complexities of their 30s, 40s, and 50s, finding a circle of peers for honest and deep conversation is a profound challenge. We invite you to a midlife gay men’s retreat dedicated to creating that very space. From October 30th to November 2nd, 2025, join us for the Midlife Gay Men's Retreat, a weekend centered on the transformative power of men’s group work. Set amidst the ancient Northern California Redwoods, this retreat offers a safe, expertly-held container to voice your midlife truths among queer peers who truly get it.
This is an invitation to be seen, heard, and supported in a community of no more than 15 other kind, curious men. Ready to connect on a deeper level? Reserve your place in the circle today. You can also discover other community-focused 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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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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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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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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Deeply Connected Mind Body Soul Retreat with Community Meals Near Sonoma
Few things bring people together like gathering around a table for a meal—especially when that table is set in a Redwood clearing. If you’re seeking a mind body soul retreat that places communal dining at its heart, consider Beyond the Noise: a retreat or check out this transformative retreat from August 13–18 at Spirit Camp. Situated in Northern California, close to Sonoma, this unique experience will have you breaking bread with kindred spirits, practicing mindfulness in Redwood groves, and nurturing every layer of your being. Explore our full retreat calendar for more opportunities to deepen your holistic path.
Awaken Your Potential Mind Body Soul Retreat with Movement in Mendocino
What if you could break free from limiting patterns through dance, breathwork, and Redwood-infused quietude—all in one place? Beyond the Noise, a retreat or see this transformative retreat happening August 13–18, offers exactly that. Hosted at Spirit Camp in Mendocino, this mind body soul retreat seamlessly weaves yoga, breathwork, and movement practices to inspire authentic self-expression. Browse our full retreat calendar for more immersive programs in Northern California.
Ceremony & Ritual: Earth-Based Community Retreats in Mendocino’s Redwood Haven
Ready to rekindle your bond with nature through indigenous-inspired earth practices and nature-anchored ceremonies? The Original Medicine Earth-Based Intensive Immersion Retreat (more info) awaits at Spirit Camp—your Redwood Haven in Mendocino. Held from July 22–28, 2025, this retreat stands among the most immersive Earth-Based Community Retreats in Northern California. Check out this transformative retreat and explore Spirit Camp’s entire event calendar.
In this group ritual retreat experience, you’ll be guided through days filled with mindful movement, silent mornings, community council, and ceremony & ritual that deepen your connection to land and lineage. If you’ve been craving a sense of sacred belonging, Redwood forests, communal fires, and guided rites may be just what your spirit needs.
Holistic Mind Body Soul Retreat with Yoga Near Oakland
Life can feel like a perpetual to-do list—especially for those balancing professional demands in the Oakland area or the broader Bay. If you’re craving a pause button, consider the Beyond the Noise retreat or learn more about this transformative retreat taking place August 13–18. Designed as a mind body soul retreat, it invites you to connect with your deeper self through yoga, breathwork, and nature immersion in Northern California’s majestic Redwood forests. You can also explore our full retreat calendar for a variety of upcoming programs at Spirit Camp.
Empowering Wellness Retreat with Campfires in Mendocino County
Yearning for an environment where cozy campfires spark authentic conversations and Redwood forests embrace your every step? Look no further than Beyond the Noise, an empowering wellness retreat, or check this transformative retreat scheduled for August 13–18. Nestled in Mendocino County, Spirit Camp offers a five-night immersion that combines breathwork, yoga, meditation, and evening campfire circles for a deeply restorative experience. Browse the full retreat calendar to find more ways to reconnect with nature and community.
Silent Mornings Mindfulness Retreats Near San Francisco in Northern California
If you’ve ever dreamed of embracing dawn in the hush of Northern California’s Redwood forests, mark your calendar for the Original Medicine Earth-Based Intensive Immersion Retreat (learn more here). Running from July 22–28, 2025, this program is among the most sought-after Mindfulness Retreats Near San Francisco—a mere three-hour drive from the city. This transformative retreat is offered through Braided Wisdom at Spirit Camp, and you can also see all upcoming sessions on the Spirit Camp retreat calendar. Prepare to savor silent mornings, earth-based mindfulness immersion, and heart-opening activities that weave Buddhist and Indigenous wisdom into one life-changing experience.
Open to adults 21 and older, the retreat invites beginners and seasoned meditators alike to gather under the ancient Redwood canopy. Whether you’re seeking deeper personal insight or simply a restful break from urban chaos, you’ll find that the combination of mindful meditation near the Bay Area, Redwood tranquility, and communal support fosters unparalleled healing and renewal.
Deeply Centered Mindful Movement Retreat USA with Meditation Near the Redwood Forest
If you’re longing for a welcoming space to slow down, reconnect with your body, and immerse in nature’s quiet magic, join us for Presence & Play: A Bhakti Flow Yoga Summer Camp on July 10–13 (Thursday through Sunday). During this transformative retreat, you’ll experience a Mindful Movement Retreat USA style, blending meditation, gentle yoga flows, and Redwood forest explorations. Want to see other opportunities at Spirit Camp? Browse the full retreat calendar for more events year-round, each offering its own special blend of healing modalities and playful summer camp nostalgia.
Empowerment Retreat Featuring Intuitive Flow in Northern California’s Redwoods
Amidst the towering Redwoods of Northern California, a transformative experience awaits those longing to reconnect with their inner wisdom and personal strength. From October 16th to 19th, 2025 (Thursday to Sunday), the Ritual & Renewal: Samhain Fall Retreat offers a four-day Empowerment Retreat centered on Intuitive Flow yoga, communal sisterhood, and Samhain-inspired ceremonies. Whether you’re looking for a personal growth retreat near Bay Area or an opportunity to commune with the natural world at a deeper level, this gathering at Spirit Camp merges soulful rituals, mindful movement, and heartfelt connections in a setting as awe-inspiring as it is nurturing.
Picture yourself waking up to crisp morning air, stepping onto oak floors in a peaceful cabin, and greeting the day with an invigorating yoga sequence among ancient Redwoods. Envision late-night circles by a glowing fire, journaling beneath a star-filled sky, and sharing laughter, tears, and authentic stories with a circle of supportive women. This is a retreat designed for self-discovery and renewal—ideal for all who identify as women and seek a safe container to explore their vulnerability, unleash creativity, and reclaim the power that resides within.
Revitalizing Summer Solstice Yoga Retreat with Eco-Supportive Yoga in Mendocino
Five nights of conscious connection with your inner self and the redwood forests await at our Summer Solstice Yoga Retreat from June 20 to June 25, 2025. This transformative retreat invites you to explore deep spiritual alignment, embrace the height of summer’s energy, and immerse yourself in the nurturing redwood groves of Mendocino County, Northern California. Set at Spirit Camp in Albion, CA, the retreat features daily asana sessions, guided meditation, and peaceful community gatherings under towering redwoods. If you’re seeking a chance to recharge, realign, and rejoice in the warmth of the summer sun, this is your calling.
Throughout this Summer Solstice Yoga Retreat, you will experience the amplifying power of group synergy, a partial-silence schedule each morning, and rich evening activities that include mandala creation and forest walks. Secure your spot early and enjoy a $300 discount if you register by February 8, 2025. Whether you stay in a cozy cabin or pitch a tent in the meadow, this journey will cultivate lasting growth, deeper body awareness, and a heartfelt sense of community. Join us in welcoming the solstice with an Eco-friendly Yoga in Northern California approach that honors both your wellbeing and the Earth’s rhythms.
Empowering Goddess Retreat with Fire Ritual in Mendocino County
If you’ve been yearning for an immersive spiritual experience that honors the Goddess Retreat energy within you, the Ritual & Renewal: Samhain Fall Retreat is calling your name. Held from October 16th to 19th, 2025 (Thursday through Sunday), this divine feminine Samhain celebration welcomes all who identify as women to gather under the redwood canopy of Mendocino County. Here, you’ll step into a realm of myth, magic, and fire ritual, discovering profound practices to connect with your innate power.
Hosted on sacred land that merges coastal breezes with ancient redwood hush, this transformative retreat offers an intimate journey into self-discovery. Whether you’re well-versed in goddess lore or newly curious about earth-based spirituality, you’ll find a supportive circle of kindred spirits—ready to dance around bonfires, share heart stories in women’s circles, and awaken the Shakti energy that resides within. Embrace your goddess essence, celebrate Samhain’s season of change, and experience the synergy of ritual and renewal in Northern California.