This is a call to men to step up and do the work, talk the real talk, let go of the masks and break free from the conditioning that prevents us from living authentically and break the cycles of intergenerational trauma so we can step into life as the multidimensional man we were meant to be!!
Integrating the Multidimensional Self
As the world around us evolves at a continually accelerating pace, many men have found themselves reeling as they try to find their place within their families, communities, and relationships. With a clear lack of direction, guidance, and role models in our upbringing and in the world around us, finding ourselves and showing up as the best version of ourselves while meeting life’s many obligations is increasingly challenging.
Awakening Man is about providing an opportunity for men to come together in a supportive environment to heal some of the patterns that prevent us from showing up fully, explore the many changing roles we experience over the course of our lives and integrate the many facets of our multidimensional nature, build resiliency, find clarity and return to our lives feeling inspired, grounded and focused like we never have before!!
Wim Hof Method, Movement, Sound & Breathwork
Awakening Man is a retreat-style immersion used to explore the following activities:
Breathwork – Explore the multidimensional nature of your being through breathwork led by master breathwork facilitators. Breathwork practices provide an opportunity to release the aspects of ourselves we developed as coping and protection mechanisms or inherited in our ancestral lineage but no longer serve us in our present life. These powerful practices allow us to align to our authentic self and open to an expanded sense of being.
Movement – Open and align the body with a variety of movement practices intelligently sequenced with the other modalities presented to move and amplify the energetic shifts created over the course of the weekend. Jeff and Matthew will lead a variety of practices ranging from yoga to qigong to ecstatic dance or primal movement.
Resiliency Tools – Gain mastery over your nervous system through the practices of cold and heat exposure. The nervous system is the energetic system of our body. Expanding its capacity allows you to stay regulated and expansive in stressful situations, expand your energetic field, and enhance creativity.
Wim Hof Method – The three pillars of the method – Breath – Cold – Mindset – will be discussed and experienced over the course of the weekend. These are simple practices that are easy to integrate into our day to day lives and greatly improve not only our resiliency but our overall health as well.
Rewild In Nature – Enjoy the incredible natural surroundings of The Sentinel and remember that you are nature. We will dip in the wild waters of Kootenay Lake and may do a cold exposure hike depending on weather conditions.
Resonance Circle – Singing is about so much more than pitch, melody and “sounding good”. As men, we each carry a very strong purpose within us; a mission. By coming together in the creative capacity of singing, we embrace vulnerability by sharing the vibration of that mission without trying to explain it. By lending the power of our mission to a collective effort; to a songthat only grows more impactful for each voice that is added, we not only cross the threshold of vulnerability but we also offer our vulnerability to a shared cause. In this resonance circle, we will offer our voices to the collective effort before joining together in group songs and chants that grow stronger the longer that we sing. We will lend our voices to the strengthening of our fellow men and learn some new tools for moving through vulnerability in an artistic and courageous way!
Story-telling Circle – Every moment is a thread woven in the tapestry of history. Each human being has within them, an epic tale of life and death, love and hate, war and peace, triumph and failure. If the truth of our own story were told in its greatest prose, the whole world would stop to listen. This offering is one that will ask you to acknowledge the themes and the meanings within your own life and weave them into a great tale worthy of being told by you, the story-teller! We will briefly discuss the components that make up an epic story and then dive into the investigation of our own pieces and characters before bringing our story to the hearts and minds of our brothers in this story-telling circle. Witnessed by the fire, we will be bonded in our witnessing of each others brilliance and pain and leave with a greater capacity to connect to the journey of men in this path of life!
Community – Coming together in community with others of like mind and vibration is perhaps one of the most potent and powerful aspects of these retreats. Entering a safe container where we can be seen, heard and held by our community allows us to heal our wounds and strengthen our confidence and authenticity to show up in the world as the one we came here to be.
Your Awakening Man Brothers
Jeff Sorensen
Jeff Sorensen is the founder of breathARMY. His mission is to educate, inspire and empower you to live your true potential. He offers tools to break through patterns that hold you back from living and expressing that potential in the world.
Jeff has trained with some of the world’s leading experts in breathwork and movement: Wim Hof, Brian Mackenzie, Patrick McKeown, Irene Lyon, Jhenneviev Heartt and David Shannahoff Khalsa are a few of the influences that have led to the creation of breathARMY, a unique offering of breathwork, movement modalities, meditation and exposure to nature and natural stressors that help us to reconnect to our true nature.
From international best selling author to paramedic, Jeff has over 25 years of experience working with plant medicines and is currently Head of Experience for Entheotech Bioscience and runs the facilitation and integration of EntheoMed Ketamine Suite in Kelowna, BC.
Cory Erlandson
Cory Erlandson is a Speaker, Coach and Alternative healer who inspires and empowers you to create a life, relationship and career that you will love – igniting connection and passion into your experience of day to day life.
He runs a weekly mens group (The Landing) and works daily with one on one clients and has been teaching life transforming Self Empowerment Trainings along side his amazing team at Breath Integration Coaching and Training Center. Cory practices as well as trains practitioners in his Contemplative Breath technique derived from the rebirthing method of Breathwork.
Cory is a husband and father of two young boys Jack and Bo. He has Co-owned and operated Breath Integration Coaching and Training Center since 2007.
Matthew Kelemen
Matthew Keleman is the founder of the Sacred Row Mystical Arts Academy. I was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta and I have been immersed in the transforming culture of this city throughout my life. I have been a radically creative boy, young man, emerging leader and community builder and this has fostered unquenchable passions for singing, dancing and story-telling within me. These represent a few of the key elements that I strive to share with my fellow human beings and Mother Nature alike.
I have a track record of entrepreneurial pursuits in my past, ranging from landscaping to investment banking and I have spent the better part of my last 6 years facilitating public yoga practices, guiding meditative explorations, leading singing groups and mentoring several highly committed individuals in the art of embracing their life experience as a mystical relationship. The result of this work is that I now find enormous purpose and integrity in my daily interactions within an ever-expanding network of highly ambitious and creative souls that are choosing to invest in the infrastructure of a vibrant new world.
In founding and navigating the great ship that is Sacred Row, I am consciously intending to provide my community with a reliable, empowering and eclectic vehicle for transitioning through both personal and cultural transformations and themes. I am ferociously committed to sharing the gifts that I am awakening as I walk my own path with others as well to supporting the communal process of reconnecting with natural medicines, organic relationships and integral responsibilities that are essential for rejuvenating and sustaining the vitality of both land and life.
It would be my honour to host you for a session, a ceremony or a conversation! I look forward to seeing you on the road!
