the art of becoming
“Who you become is up to you.” - Brad Elpers
Together, in a brotherhood-like tribe, we will gather in nature to explore our personal selves, expand our perspectives, and develop our purpose and practice in life. This is a process of adapting to the modern world, relating to our ever-changing environments, and creating balance within and without. This is The Nature of Man.
Four-Day Workshop
A year of self-discovery
Four-Day Retreat
An immersion in nature
August 22-25, 2019
The overview
This is a year-long practice of personal development for men. We create a safe space for us to:
Be authentically men
Step aside from ego and see who we truly are
Learn more about our "Self"
Find our purpose
Practice mindfulness
Experience awareness, acceptance, and right action
We will explore communication, nutrition, strength, stability, mobility, meditation, breathing, listening, progressive resistance training, yoga, mantra, song, brewing sacred beer/elixirs, axe throwing, sweat lodging, experiential exercises to connect with the physical/mental/emotional/soulful dimensions of being, the chakras, the elements, the essences of the four directions, your creative skills, and more.
Photo by H_Barth/iStock / Getty Images
The schedule
Your year will be divided into four quarters...spring, summer, fall, winter. We will meet one day, outdoors, each season. Each day in each season will focus on an element, a dimension of your being, and experiences relative to both.
Spring - Air - Mental Being
Summer - Fire - Spirit/Soul Being
Fall - Water - Emotional Being
Winter - Earth - Physical Being
Dive deeper into your life, enhance and refine all aspects of your being and your relationship to yourself and EVERYTHING in your life...as a man, partner, father, friend, employee, entrepreneur, student, teacher, servant and adventurer of time, space, and beyond.
More details to come
You deserve this, and more. The choice to create all of it is up to you.
2020 Sessions: February - May - August - November
The Project Facilitator
Brad Elpers
creator, Acme Yoga Co.
Brad is like a nature-loving wolfman living life in the body of a male human posing as a yoga teacher who secretly imagines he's the son of Odin. He fathered three full-grown humans, has a monthly Stance sock subscription, savors whiskey-cheese-coffee-italia, and enjoys the outdoors...more-so with a campfire by the lake.
2019 Focus: filling his cup (literally and metaphorically), learning italian, stone-walling, Toltec shamanism, throwing axes, shapeshifting, more time with the elements, and mindfulness training of elite athletes.
June 7, 2019, The Way of the Firewalker