Are you seeking support in your spiritual journey? Are you seeking a haven to sift through work, relationships, and your emotional life? Are you longing for deeper support along your path? You are not alone.
You may find that you belong at Men’s Estuary.
Estuaries are places where rivers meet seas and regions of intersection. Estuaries support life as “sheltered waters” and are nutrient-rich. Recover The Wild’s Men Estuary, in. the spirit of biomimicry, is a set-apart gathering of possibilities. Through ritual, nature time, drumming, meditation, brotherhood, and council, men are invited into the new life process. In the melding of recovery intelligence and ancient wisdom, there emerges an opportunity for change and greater aliveness.
Is the Men’s Estuary for you?
Are you sensing a call to step out of your comfort zone and into a deeper connection to Life? As allied men, we gather to grow together in the foothills of South Carolina. With prayerful intention, we listen, discuss, and discern.
Gatherings in Upstate, South Carolina
Winter Estuary: TBD
Ancient Wisdom: We pair the treasures of science with the gems of ancient wisdom. Whether it be time-worn Judeo-Christian practices, lessons from indigenous peoples, spiritual community, storytelling, or heroic journeys, we root our work in a grand story. Considering meaning, purpose, vision, and values.
Vintage, an age-old path.
Body-Based: This stance is faithful to mindfulness, experience, the sensual, and the imaginative; all elements oft-neglected by pseudo-masculinity, and white-washed spirituality. As the wisdom of the body is accessed, an opportunity to heal age-old rifts between the sexual and the spiritual opens
Hospitality: Unsubscribing from perfectionism and backspacing the blunting of empathy (mostly resulting from numbing behaviors Ad nauseam), this posture is faithful to see wounds morph into sacred wounds, a with(ness) to suffering, common humanity, and kindness. This is the call of hospitality to self and others.
Trauma-informed: This stance is a commitment to address systemic issues, hone honesty, craft ‘safe-enough’ settings, and foster collaboration. Dipping deeply from research-based recovery intelligence.
Embrace the Unexpected: The predictable, comfortable, and business-as-usual is death to our souls. The deepest transformations often occur outside of our expectations, and all our oh-so-cherished ways of thinking and behaving. Often, what is needed is the unexpected, the ridiculous, what’s ‘off the beaten path.’
Belonging: the domestic takes us only so far. As Thoreau said, “In the wilderness we have our tonic.” Nature is more than “out there”, but a reality that pushes past the boundaries of our skin, including us! Encounters with land, with more-than-human realities of life are Non-Negotiables to heal outdated myths of man greater than nature and man vs. nature. What we discover is: we belong to this organic reality, awe, and wholeness. We are more connected than we could ever have imagined.
Why men?
We can all use help finding our way from time to time - men are no different. Men need the support of one another, to be honest, and real about life. Through small group discussions, contemplative practice, men are encouraged to know themselves, listen to the still small voice, and to honor their souls. The result could change lives and lead to a whole new world.