Connection • Nature • PRACTICE
Be Part of the Journey Help Shape the Open Man Book
Time dedicated to deepen in the art of Inner polarity & Leadership
Learning to stay firm, open and alive when life applies pressure is a skill most of us didn't get growing up. Yet it will impact everything in life.
It lays at the core of how you hold yourself, how you hold your partner, children, even your work and bussines.
Here you will learn just that, while experiencing the nourishment of being surrounded by loving men who see and call you forward, demanding the very best of you.
We will reconnect to our hearts and touch our alivefullness. So we can live and lead our lives as strong and powerful men, standing firm, protecting our loved ones. So they can relax, grow and prosper.
We slow down enough to feel the deepest parts of ourselves, inspire each other, and leave with more clarity and a steadier way forward.
Be Part of the Journey Help Shape the Open Man Book
What This Is
The core theme of the weekend is inner polarity. Many of us want to be masculine men, but we might be confused around what healthy masculinity looks and feels like.
Cultivating inner polarity means that we become capable of holding and balancing our own internal masculine and feminine. A lack of this balance often shows itself as one of two stereotypical men. The first one, leaning into his masculine without being in connection to his feminine turns hard and rigid, he produces and gets shit done, but he's felt as cold and empty, running towards something while missing everything. The other man, fully in his feminine but without the structure of his masculine is full of life, all over the place, doing everything but finishing nothing, overwhelmed and out of balance. Warm and messy.
Balance is everything. We will therefore practice in both the masculine and feminine, to feel and know them. This is necessary, because if you cannot hold yourself, good luck holding your feminine partner, your children, or your business.
By doing this work we cultivate that which makes us trustable to other men, and have feminine women relax. This is something you become, that lives in you and emanates out, not something you mentally plan and manipulate the world by.
At the same time as this retreat is a place for deep inner work, its also a space for rest, for time in nature, for real conversations by the fire. For good food, play and genuine laughter.
WHO THIS IS FOR
This retreat is for men who want to find that balance point, of being strong men with a straight spine, at the same time as their hearts are full of love, open to connection to their loved ones and the world.
It’s a space to:
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Do the work.
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Learn to balance your own inner masculine and feminine.
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Learn the foundational practices for continued cultivation back home.
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Gain clarity on what’s important right now so you can take action and do what needs to be done.
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Simply spend time with grounded, present men.
You don’t need prior experience.
You don’t need the right words.
You just need curiosity and a willingness to meet yourself honestly.
How the Days Are Held
Throughout the days we will move as a group through blocks of practice mixed with blocks of time to integrate that which comes up.
Everything is optional, yet highly encouraged to play full out and lean in to your tender edge.
It's a journey with a clear beginning and end. And if you lean in, it will be a clear marker in your life's timeline, a before and after.
Be Part of the Journey Help Shape the Open Man Book
How the Days Are Held
Throughout the days we will move as a group through blocks of practice mixed with blocks of time to integrate that which comes up.
Everything is optional, yet highly encouraged to play full out and lean in to your tender edge.
It's a journey with a clear beginning and end. And if you lean in, it will be a clear marker in your life's timeline, a before and after.
Be Part of the Journey Help Shape the Open Man Book
MEN OFTeN Leave
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With more clarity around what healthy masculinity is, and how it feels in their body.
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Grounded, aligned and clear on what actually matters. Ready to re-enter life back home.
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In connection to their own inner aliveness. Leading to more creativity, openness and general excitement about life.
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With practices for continued cultivation that supports life at home.
Not a peak experience to chase, but a felt shift that stays after you return to your daily life.
I'm David. Son, husband, father, brother.
I have spent the last 10+ years traveling and studying inner and outer development. Both in scientifically recognized fields as well as with indigenous traditions that carry knowledge Western culture has largely forgotten. Mixing this with leadership, yoga, meditation, menswork, bodywork, relational intimacy and martial arts, with the sole focus of how to bring the fruits of this into normal day-to-day life. Into the family and the office, where everything is screaming for our attention.
Open Man is the result of this work, and this retreat is one of the ways I get to share it, in person, with real men, in real time.