Conscious Kink: RITUAL

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San José Province, Tinamaste, Costa Rica
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Up to 20 in group
Date
December 1 - 7, 2024

Retreat Highlights

  • Retreat for, and facilitated by, queer people
  • Queer community
  • Individual consultation with shaman
  • Pre- retreat preparation support call
  • Integration circles and post-retreat support calls
  • Daily somatic practices, meditation, yoga and reflection
  • Beautiful cascades and natural pools on the property
  • Delicious, freshly prepared, healthy meals

About this Retreat

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Details of this retreat

Exploring the Depths of BDSM & Ritual Scene Play:
Expansion, Play & Transformation


Open to GBTQ+ men (anyone who permanently or temporarily identifies as a man), of any sexual orientation, age, body-type, or ethnicity.


Join Shadi Terra & Simon Magnus for a deep dive into BDSM's tools, toys, and techniques in a held, empowering setting. Over a 7-day interpersonal group journey, you’ll learn to deepen your kinky play, while opening up your capacity to hold healing, expansion and transformation in a scene.


Maybe you’ve just found your way into the realms of BDSM, or hovered around the edges of it. Maybe you’ve found it exciting, enticing, felt drawn and then didn’t find the right time and place to step in… Maybe you’ve gone deep and desire to expand and explore even deeper.


If you’ve felt some of the juiciness and power available to you in this realm, and you’d like to truly get to the core of how to use it in a conscious, depthful, powerful and transformative way, join Simon and Terra for this profound immersion into the essence of conscious BDSM.


During this 7-day in-person immersion, we will dive deep in how to use the tools, toys, and techniques of BDSM for healing, ritual and transformation.


What Can I Expect?
This profound weeklong exploration of conscious kink and intentional scene play will be held in a supportive and trauma-informed setting, inviting in sacredness, group synergy, ceremony and community. The first few days will include practices, rituals and seminars to integrate the foundation needed to safely and powerfully engage in the exciting realms of conscious BDSM. Practices, sharing circles, seminars and moments of play and rest will be balanced, so that we can find our comfort zone as a group before starting to lean towards - and explore - our edges.


During this retreat, we will introduce conscious kink principles and embodied practices around:

Consent & Negotiation
Working with intention
Working in a trauma-informed framework
Containment (i.e. creating a safe and held setting)
Working with stimulation and sensation while listening to the receiver’s body
Attuned aftercare
Scene building



Throughout the week we will fine tune these building blocks of our practice, while we get to explore deeply the realms of roleplay, sensation and power exchange. This exploration will in turn support an integrated and potent approach to the more profound scene play/work that we will invite later on in the week.


What Else is Included?

Ceremonial Cacao Ritual: You will get the chance to connect with ceremonial Cacao in one or more of our initiatory rituals, supporting the sensitive and empowered expression of Eros & Kink.
Three Additional Zoom Calls: A foundational preparation call & two follow-up integration calls. All of these calls will be guided by Simon and Shadi, and offer valuable extra content to this event.



Is This for Me?
This week-long retreat is open to GBTQ+ men (anyone who permanently or temporarily identifies as a man), of any sexual orientation, age, body-type, or ethnicity.


It will not be of interest to those who are:

Looking for a typical group-sex experience
Seeking a pleasurable/sexual holiday in the company of other men
Those who are looking to learn tantra massage techniques



This intensive explores BDSM's tools, toys and techniques to engage in healing, expansive and transformational work/play, in a held interpersonal group setting. You will be taught some basic techniques (rope safety & restraint, impact/sensation play, etc...) however we focus mostly on the skill set needed for creating deeply nourishing scene containers rather than teaching specific techniques.


This experience is designed for those who have integrated a basic foundation in any one of the following:

Sacred sexuality/conscious intimacy/(neo-)tantra
BDSM or conscious kink
Transformational spaces/ritual healing work (group or 1-1)



... And who are desiring to explore consciously, safely and powerfully the wide field of possibility that is the realm of conscious kink.


What Do You Mean By Transformation?
Transformation is the space in between who we are and who we want to be. It’s an intentional time and space where we consciously get to work for the betterment of ourselves, someone or something. It’s a non-ordinary reality and a space where we hold a creative tension between where we are now, and where we are wanting to go. Sometimes that means looking at what is in the way, or creating a receptive environment to let something new in and embody it fully. A ceremony or ritual can also be a space of transformation, depending on its intention and context, because it’s a consciously held and crafted space for the manifestation of an intention.


In the context of this retreat, we co-create a group transformational space where we may journey into deeper wholeness, embodiment and expression of ourselves and each other, using our kinks and unconventional desires as pointers to where we may want to expand into something, or heal/transform something that is in the way. When wielded with care and skill, scene play can even help us heal from trauma. Even if we’re not intending for a scene to be healing or transformative, trauma may come forward. For this reason, creating a space where we can hold whatever arises with courage, love, compassion and curiosity is key.


This container will offer potent growth opportunities and a loving, compassionate, yet powerfully guided setting where we can embrace and express parts of us that may seek deeper expression. Sometimes these parts may be tender and are looking for a loving scene, sometimes they may be courageous and desire to be challenged in a scene, or they may seek safety and desire to be deeply held and contained. Or something else...


In the framework of this immersive, we hold it all sacred. And throughout the journey, you’ll be able to receive tools, guidance and support for embracing both the challenges and the blessings that you’ll find in a transformational space, so that you may go home more alive, more empowered and more whole!


What Does A Typical Day Look Like?
8:30am – Breakfast
9:30am – Group Shares
10:15am – Morning Session: Dance & Movement, Seminars & Reflections/Q&A
1pm – Lunch
3pm – Afternoon Session: Practices, Rituals & Group Processes
6:30pm – Dinner
8pm – Evening Exploratory Space




PARTICIPANT AGREEMENT: The Jungle Gayborhood aims to inspire personal exploration, radical self-expression, and a sense of connection - internally, with community, and with nature. We actively cultivate practices that support these goals by consciously exploring embodiment practices, authentic relating, somatic movement therapy, shamanism and sacred sexuality.


To create a predictable and safe environment conducive to this type of healing, growth, reflection, and expansion, we ask all that come to our home to align around these community agreements.





For those seeking a more play-forward experience, be sure to check out
Conscious Kink: PLAY

Getting Here

Location icon Jungle Gayborhood, San José Province, Tinamaste, Costa Rica

Directions

We are located in the heart of the Diamante Valley in Costa Rica, approximately 4 hours from San Jose, the capital.

Airport transfer is included from and to San Jose International airport and the center at specific times.

If you are making your own way to us, we can happily connect you with our private transfer partners to book your travel to/from the center.
If hiring a car, we recommend hiring a 4x4, as the road through the Diamante Valley to the retreat centre is unpaved.

Accommodation

Accommodations are in our beautiful hand-crafted bamboo jungle cabins. Private and shared options available. All cabins come with lights, electricity sockets, an overhead fan, comfortable bedding and quality linens, and are encased in a mosquito mesh netting for a restful night's sleep.

Shared 4 Bed Jungle Cabin

Accommodation
A beautiful bamboo cabin with four comfortable individual bunk beds. You will be have one bed to yourself and you will be staying with up to three other guests who will sleep in the other beds. All cabins are equipped with elegant lighting, cooling fans, multiple outlets, comfortable beds and linens, and are fully enclosed in mosquito mesh netting. All cabins share a beautiful bamboo bathhouse with hot water.

Private King Cabin

Accommodation
A beautiful private bamboo cabin with a king-size bed. All cabins are equipped with elegant lighting, cooling fans, multiple outlets, comfortable beds and linens, and are fully enclosed in mosquito mesh netting. All cabins share a beautiful bamboo bathhouse with hot water.

Shared Twin Jungle Cabin

Accommodation
A beautiful bamboo cabin with two comfortable twin-size beds. You will be have one bed to yourself and you will be staying with another guest who will sleep in the other twin bed. All cabins are equipped with elegant lighting, cooling fans, multiple outlets, comfortable beds and linens, and are fully enclosed in mosquito mesh netting. All cabins share a beautiful bamboo bathhouse with hot water.

Private Deluxe Cabin

Accommodation
A beautiful private bamboo cabin with a king-size bed, en suite sink, and gorgeous jungle views. All cabins are equipped with elegant lighting, cooling fans, multiple outlets, comfortable beds and linens, and are fully enclosed in mosquito mesh netting. All cabins share a beautiful bamboo bathhouse with hot water.

Venue & Amenities

Venue & Amenities
A/C in Rooms icon A/C in Rooms
Free Wifi icon Free Wifi
Spa icon Spa
Sauna icon Sauna
Pool icon Pool
Towels icon Towels
Free Parking icon Free Parking
Kitchen icon Kitchen
Tour Assistance icon Tour Assistance
Hot Tub icon Hot Tub
Coffee/Tea icon Coffee/Tea
Cafe icon Cafe
Restaurant icon Restaurant
Fitness Center icon Fitness Center
Yoga Studio icon Yoga Studio
Housekeeping icon Housekeeping
Bicycles For Rent icon Bicycles For Rent

Meals

Menu Types

We have an in house chef who prepares fresh and delicious meals daily, using local, organically grown ingredients whenever possible. We will do our best to accommodate dietary restrictions.

What's Included

  • All meals
  • Airport transfers
  • Daily yoga and meditation
  • Nature excursions
  • Accommodation
  • Pre-retreat preparation call
  • Post-retreat integration calls

What's Not Included

  • Airfare to/from Costa Rica
  • Travel Insurance Protection

Customer Reviews

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Life changing
The space is phenomenally beautiful, but it is nothing in comparison to the genuine, whole hearted, kind, and caring people that make this place so special. I attended a medicine of Eros retreat here and it was life changing. I am forever grateful to everyone that made it possible. What a beautiful experience! Thank you jungle family for making me feel welcomed, challenged and loved all at the same time.

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I found my tribe
I was going through a rough patch with my mental well-being and finding those that shared the same desire to better themselves.
This experience introduced me to a healthy gay community of men that were more than their trauma, without judgment or prejudice.
I felt liberated, free, loved and heard. There were so many beautiful souls here that shared their stories with me.
I found that the key was to take a leap of faith and come with an open heart and mind.

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