WILD HEART Men’s Camp
Dates TBA
Mendocino, California
It’s time to make a shift.
Break Free from stress, anxiety, and loneliness.
Strengthen your vulnerability muscles,
Experience real brotherhood.
We’ll dive deep and have fun like we’re kids again.
Breathwork
Men’s Work
Meditation
Hiking
Campfires
Cold Plunging
Healthy Meals & More!
Make life-changing memories
in the wildly magical redwoods of Mendocino, California
“By far my favorite men’s retreat.
The facilitators were amazing, the breathwork was invigorating, the food was incredible, and the retreat grounds were spectacular.”
- Tom Henle
What You’ll Receive from this Retreat for Men
On this June Mens Retreat, you’ll…
Develop a deeper relationship with emotions.
Redefine what being a man means to you.
Share life-changing experiences with a band of new brothers.
Reset your nervous system with a river cold plunge.& breathwork
Feel energized with new vitality
Gain vision, intentionality, and integrity.
Return home with…
Somatic & breathing techniques to regulate and tone your nervous system
Communication practices to share challenging feelings and needs.
A community of men and new friends to stay connected with.
New clarity and insights on your values and purpose.
This retreat is open to all levels of experience, no matter where you’re at in your personal growth journey. Whether you’re brand new to men’s work, breathwork or embodiment, or a veteran of either, we invite you to join us.
“An incredible, unforgettable retreat.
Just like summer camp, but for adults!”
- Lloyd Xie
Men’s Work & Somatic Techniques
Powerful Practices to Communicate Authentically
“I felt stuck and plateaued in my growth journey.
Three days in a men’s group was just what I needed.”
- Dan
Men’s Work is a body of practices and rituals that help male-identified people own their authentic selves and embody their unique expression of manhood beyond societal expectations or stereotypes.
Throughout history, our ancestors have always shared space to tell stories and commune as a way to survive and even thrive as community. During the retreat, we’ll reconnect with these vital ways of being together.
Seasoned Men’s Coach Mike Sagun will guide us in practices to deepen our connection to the truth of our bodies and emotions by sitting in circles, sharing from our hearts, and supporting each other to be more whole, authentic versions of ourselves.
Transformative Breathwork
Deep Healing for the Mind, Body & Spirit
“Breathwork left me energized with a renewed zest for life.
I shed emotional burdens I was carrying and felt deeply at peace with greater self-love and self-respect than when I arrived.”
- Ross Hollister
A powerful self-healing practice, Transformative Breathwork is an active form of meditation using a simple breath pattern to move stuck energy in the body and reconnect with your true essence.
Similar to holotropic and rebirthing breath, this practice works especially well for those of us with very active minds.
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If you are seeking a meditation or mindfulness retreat experience, be prepared to be blown away (pun intended) by the powerful effects of this simple practice. Breathwork can help transcend the mind to experience new states of reflection and energetic flow.
Whether you lean toward spirituality or science as your core governing system, this breathwork practice is a beautiful bridge between both of these complimentary worldviews. Some have psychedelic-like experiences through this modality, and find it an incredibly powerful method for rebooting the nervous system and reconnecting with one’s soul.
Expert breathwork duo Julian Hunter and Nathaniel Reagan will facilitate a group breathwork journey each day on the retreat.
Weaving together their opposite yet complimentary approaches, a strong, clear container of safety is establish for men with diverse backgrounds to be able to dive deep into this healing work together.
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During a transformative breathwork journey, we’ll begin with an opening circle to ground our energy in the space, connect as a group, and review the breathing technique. Writing prompts or authentic relating breakout groups are then offered in longer sessions to intentionally deepen the healing experience.
To begin breathwork, you’ll lie down comfortably with pillows, blankets, and eyes closed (eye mask recommended). For 25-45 minutes, Julian Hunter and Nathaniel Reagan will guide the group in practicing a simple breath pattern accompanied by music and prompts.
Activating the power of your own breath, your body can naturally release stuck energy and emotions, and bring the mind into a heightened state of awareness, followed by inner stillness and intuitive insight.
We’ll close in circle to reconnect as a group and optionally share to further integrate experiences.
What Men are Saying…
Reawaken Your Authentic Joy
River Reset Ritual: Cold Plunging with Intention
Together we’ll reset our nervous systems by plunging into the healing benefits of cold water at a nearby river on the Mendocino coast. Paired with energy work and affirmation practices, this ritual will also reenergize our connection with our higher selves.
The science is showing the ancestral wisdom of working with water. Cold plunging is shown to unlocking dopamine and serotonin in the body, which play a crucial role in regulating emotions and stress.
Men’s Fire Ceremony
Oxytocin is to our bodies as oxygen is to fire. We’ll commune around the campfire and reconnect with our authentic joy through ceremony, song and stories.
Working with the fire element, we’ll transmute what’s not serving us, reawaken the child-like joy within, and deepen our sense of belonging and brotherhood.
Facilitated by Nathaniel “Nay Nay” Jenkins
On this retreat, transformational healer and Reiki coach, Nay Nay, will guide us in his unique cold plunging and fire ceremony offerings with his infectious joy and enthusiasm.
He’ll help us explore parts of ourselves long awaiting to be discovered, setting the stage to become more whole and authentically joyful in daily life.
“Nathaniel’s warm nature and enthusiasm is contagious. He’s an exceptional healer and teacher. His work has helped me to open up and connect to deeper aspects of myself.”
- Price Sheppy
A Healing Retreat for ALL Men
The Wild Heart Men’s Retreat is a healing haven for male-identified folks of all orientations—straight, gay, bi, queer, trans, curious, and beyond.
It’s a playful, heart-centered space to celebrate the beautiful diversity of male experiences, where the magic of connection dissolves differences and weaves us together in deep, healing brotherhood.
While we respect all forms of expression and pathways of healing, this retreat is focused on self-discovery and authentic connection without erotic play or use of psychoactive substances.
“I felt right at home from the moment I stepped out of my vehicle.”
- James Sant
Your Men’s Retreat Facilitators
Weaving together a one-of-a-kind healing experience of brotherhood
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Our aim is to create a safe, nurturing space where you can reconnect with your authentic self, community, and the magic of the outdoors. We’re endlessly curious in our quest to feel more whole and alive, bringing the healing practices we love into this work.
As queer-identifying facilitators, we weave our magic together to create a space where the full spectrum of who you are is welcome, regardless of your orientation.
Our intention isn’t to fix but to guide—empowering you to follow your own inner wisdom. The practices we share are gentle invitations for your body to awaken its natural healing powers.
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I’m a Certified Professional Men’s Coach. I have a BA in Education from San Jose State University and spent 10 years as a teaching artist working with young people who suffered from different social & emotional challenges. I’ve trained with Challenge Day, Lincoln Center Education in NYC, Bi-Jingo, Co-Active Training Institute (CTI), and EVRYMAN. I’m currently in Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing 3 year professional training program.
In 2017, I delivered a TEDX TALK about the need for young people to have trusted adults in their lives. Through the work I’ve done, I quickly realized that we need more healed adults to help heal young people. And in 2018 I quit my corporate job and became a full-time men’s coach. I’ve partnered with companies like DropBox, LinkedIn, Google, Kaiser Permanente, TATLAB, Saje Wellness, Rhone, and Men’s Health Magazine.
Since 2017, I’ve been facilitating retreats and it’s a huge part of my life’s work. Retreats really energize me and I’m excited for you to experience this one. When I’m not working with people 1:1, hosting virtual programs, or at a retreat, you’ll most likely find me hanging with my husband and dog either in the kitchen or in our garden.
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Margaret Mead's timeless wisdom, "Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world," has been the driving force behind my life's work. I hold a BA in Organizational Communications, a degree that has paved the way for a career focused on mobilizing campaigns and grassroots movements. Notably, I spent over five transformative years as an HIV advocate in Mozambique, where I played a pivotal role in catalyzing a national movement that reshaped perceptions of HIV, ushering in collective change.
In my professional journey, I have cultivated a unique talent for tapping into collective energy, guiding the creation of organic, emergent spaces for collaborative healing and growth. My toolkit encompasses a rich array of modalities, including family constellations, quantum healing, reiki, astrology, Vedic meditation, and extensive training in Neuro Linguistic Programming-based techniques.
My personal healing journey has led me through a labyrinth of modalities and experiences that I now seamlessly integrate into my work with individuals and organizations. Movement and somatic healing have become integral to my daily rituals, and wherever I travel, I immerse myself in the local ecstatic dance and 5 rhythms communities, infusing the joy of dance into my healing facilitation.
Breathwork has played a transformative role in my life, offering profound clarity on my soul's desires and aiding me in shedding addictions and habits that obstructed the realization of my heart's desires. To make this potent practice more accessible, I completed extensive training with David Elliott and obtained my breath practitioner certification through Yoga Body.
Currently, I am actively pursuing certification as a Gene Keys guide, an endeavor that fills me with enthusiasm. I relish the opportunity to introduce people to this remarkable body of knowledge, which has rekindled my hope for the positive changes unfolding within humanity.
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I’m a queer healing practitioner and facilitator with over a decade of experience leading retreats around the world. My work is rooted in breathwork, meditation, and sound therapy—practices that help us feel more alive, grounded, and connected to what’s real and true.
I didn’t set out to be a “healer” (still not sure about that word). What I do is guide people back to their own wisdom using breath, sound, movement, and stillness. My queerness is woven into this work, offering a lens of fluidity, creativity, playfulness, and deep curiosity about how we can heal and grow together in ways that feel authentic and free.
As a co-creator of Spirit Camp, my work has been evolving in two exciting ways: deepening our connection with the land and learning how to heal relationally. Both are powerful teachers—inviting us to ground, reflect, and repair, whether in relationship with fellow humans or the more-than-human world.
At the heart of it all, my work is about creating spaces for curiosity, connection, and remembering what it means to be fully human. Whether we’re breathing under the redwoods or leaning into the messy beauty of relationship, my intention is to help you let go of what’s no longer needed and make space for what’s ready to grow.
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I’m a licensed clinical massage therapist, energy healer and Reiki Master practicing and living in Oakland, California.
My one-on-one healing sessions and group workshops are designed to create a container of safety for anyone who struggles to feel safe in their body, with emphasis on the BIPOC community and those who have been historically othered. My practice is centered around discovering what the body wants and needs in order to encourage its natural ability to heal.
I intend to empower each client to be in full agency in their own body and to trust in self, in the body’s wisdom and in the ability to assert boundaries. Working with the chakra system from the root to the crown, I teach my clients to ground their energy within a safe container, and to come into greater self expression, joy, sensuality and vitality. I focus on grounding meditation, healing breathwork, stimulating the parasympathetic autonomic response with deep tissue integrative work, range of motion opening, pain relief and rocking: all designed to feel good in the body off the table.
Through my JEDI work, I share knowledge and practices to liberate the Black body, heal the nervous system and release identification around systemic injustice. I graduated from the San Francisco School of Massage & Bodywork with over 850 hours of clinical training, I’m a certified Reiki Master, and a leadership facilitator.
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My passions fall at the intersection of individual healing, collective transformation and storytelling. For over a decade, I've worked as a writer and producer in documentary and commercial content, as well as in the nonprofit and tech sectors. Though storytelling is still a vital part of my path, my own transformational journey years ago was my initiation into the world of healing.
I am a certified Breathwork Facilitator and Healing-Centered Coach, working with both individuals and groups. I have a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, was a Fulbright Fellow in Mongolia, studied theology and pastoral care at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, completed advanced breathwork training with David Elliott, and have been studying individual and collective trauma healing and integration with teacher and author, Thomas Hübl, for three years.
I am passionate about the healing journey, which I see as living in intimacy with life. I take my clients on a co-excavation of their own inner ecosytems— emotionally, somatically, ancestrally, spiritually. As we travel beneath the stories, we can reconnect to our deeper essence, where purpose and awe live, and where conscious creation can be harnessed. My ultimate goal is to help folks connect with their own life force along with a larger intelligence, which connects us all.
All-Inclusive Health Retreat
This wellness retreat experience includes healthy, highly nutritious, fiber-filled, microbiome-loving meals and refreshments that are delicious too!
All retreat tickets include 3 nutritious, hearty vegetarian meals a day from Thursday dinner through Sunday breakfast. Snacks, coffee and tea are also included.
All meals are made in-house with local organic ingredients including high quality protein (primarily dairy and eggs) and healthy fat options for each meal to support gut and brain health (keto and paleo friendly).
A Truly Magical Retreat Venue
Spirit Camp is a sacred place nestled in the coastal redwoods of Mendocino in Northern California (land of the Pomo people).
Accommodations include newly renovated private and shared cabins, tent camping, or booking offsite lodging.
All cabins come with quality linens and space heaters. No attached bathrooms.
Travel Info
Retreat starts: Thursday, April 23, 2026 @ 6:00pm
Retreat ends: Sunday, April 26, 2026 @ 12:00pm
Location — Spirit Camp is in Little River, CA, which is 12-minutes South of the coastal town of Mendocino, CA. You’ll receive the address upon booking.
From the SF Bay Area, the drive to camp is 3 hours North of the Golden Gate Bridge (without traffic) through coastal farmland and redwood forest.
Transportation — Since there aren’t any busses or trains to the Mendocino coast, we’ll connect folks coming from the Bay Area ahead of time for those who need and can offer a carpool.
Air Travel — For flights, we recommend arriving at San Francisco Int’l (SFO), Oakland Airport (OAK) or Santa Rosa Airport (STS) and renting a car (or carpooling). Pro Tip: Direct flights to SFO are recommended over flights to STS that require a layover.
Travel Timing — Please arrive with ample time for driving and settling in by 6:00pm on Thursday and being able to leave camp on Sunday no earlier than 12:00pm.
Retreat Schedule
Thursday
2-6 PM Welcome & Check-in
6:00 Dinner
7:30 Opening Men’s Circle
Friday
7:30 AM Meditation in the Sanctuary (Optional)
8:00 Intro to Breathwork
9:30 Breakfast & Coffee/Tea
10:30 Men’s Workshop
12:30 PM Lunch
2:00 Cold Plunge
4:30 Free Time
6:00 Dinner
7:30 Men’s Fire Ceremony
Saturday
7:30 AM Meditation in the Sanctuary (Optional)
8:00 Breakfast & Coffee/Tea
8:30 Forest Hike
9:30 Breathwork Journey
12:30 PM Lunch
2:00 Men’s Workshop
4:00 Free Time
6:00 Dinner
7:30 Movement Journey
Sunday
7:30 AM Meditation in The Sanctuary (Optional)
8:00 Movement and/or Breathwork
9:30 Breakfast & Coffee/Tea
10:30 Closing Circle + Group Photo
12:00 PM Pack up and Goodbyes
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