Embark on A Mindful Kink Retreat
A space for sacred kink, connection, and growthApril 4-6, 2025 - Stanardsville, VA
$200 Single Day Tickets for Saturday are now available
Friday
10am-2pm - Registration
12pm-2pm - The Zen Barn: Welcome Mixer and Snacks
Cheese Board
Sandwich Board, ham, turkey and Mike’s smoked meats
Vegi dips; carrots, celery, sweet peppers, ranch dip
Crunchy snacks
Whole Fruit; Apples, oranges, grapes
Assorted Cookies
1pm-2pm - The Black Tent: Authentic Relating Games - Victoria
Connect with old friends and new in the guided Authentic Relating Game time event.
1230pm-2pm - Movie Theatre: Wheel of Consent - Mistress Vanilla
When you are relating with someone, have you ever paused to wonder: Who is this for? This simple question is key to deeper connections, more precise boundaries, and a profound sense of self-awareness in every interaction. In this workshop, we’ll transform your understanding of the art of receiving and giving as formulated by founder Betty Martin.
2pm - The Zen Barn: Introduction & Opening Circle
This is the only Mandatory part of the event. Please join us in the Zen barn to meet our team, confirm our agreements, and open our weekend with an aligned and connected intention.
3pm-4pm @ The Mandala: Call to the Corners & Cacoa Ceremony - Rosa
4pm-6pm - Movie Theatre: Availability & Interest: A new negotiation Model - Lady-Rae & WhosThatBear
Talking about “what we want” can sometimes lead us astray. In this workshop we’ll explore other options to connect with and align ourselves with those we want to share ourselves and our experiences with. Instead of hoping we mean the same things when we answer what we “want” (spoiler, we aren’t) … let’s talk about our availability and interests. This approach to conscious communication and negotiation creates space for, and empowers us to advocate for our own personal values as well as the experiences we hope to share with others.
4pm-6pm -The Zen Barn: DIY Massage Oils
Join us for a relaxing and hands-on workshop where you’ll learn to create your own custom massage oils and candles using essential oils. Discover the benefits of different scents, from calming lavender to energizing citrus, and craft personalized blends that suit your mood and wellness needs. Whether for self-care or as a thoughtful gift, you’ll leave with beautifully scented, homemade products designed to enhance relaxation and well-being.
4pm-6pm - White Temple Tent: Intentional Rope - ZenJute
The goal of this class is to create an intentional approach to the whole body and mind experience of rope bondage. We discuss safety and communication with yourself and your partner, to help negotiate a common intention. We will discuss how rope bondage is not about technique or pattern but rather about the intentional mutual journey that both partners embark upon as they tie.
5pm-6pm - Castle Kitchen: Intuitive Art Exploration 1 - SweetStephLova
This intuitive art experience will be a guided self-exploration focused on your individual grounding, flow, connection, safety, nature, wonder. In this iteration participants will explore how we connect to ourselves and others? What ties us together and keeps us tethered? How do we integrate our different facets of self: parent, individual, lover, friend, colleague, etc.? Steph will help us link personal ‘compartments’ to create an artwork that intentionally unifies our individual facets to become one. Each participant will make their own masterpiece to take home. My hope is that this exploration opens and ignites a new pathway to interpersonal understanding and connection.
6pm-730pm - Dinner
Chicken Parmesan and Vegetarian Pasta Alfredo ( Catered from a local restaurant)
Mixed Green Salad, Balsamic Vinaigrette and Ranch Dressing
Garlic Bread
Assorted Cookies
Iced Tea/Water
8pm-10pm - White Temple Tent: Nyotaimori Fruit Experience - Kevin (@drkevinjenson) & Kat (@frequenteas_)
Activate all your senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch) with an indulgent and sensual exploration of erotic energy, power dynamics, and embodiment. Dress to get messy (with plenty of exposed skin) and discover the play party that connects you with nature, your body, and your partner(s) through the amazing sensations of fruit! We will open this session with an exploration and discussion of boundaries, edges, and desires All are welcome - single or partnered!
Please bring a yoga mat or blanket and be prepared to undress to your level of comfort while leaving all your personal juicy bits covered.
8pm-9pm @ The Mandala: Fire Performance - Cross
9pm-10pm - The Zen Barn: Arial Silks - SimonDaPup
Saturday
7am-830am - Breakfast
Baked French Toast
Pork & Turkey Sausage
Hardboiled Eggs
Yogurt, Granola, Oatmeal & Fruit
Bagels & Cream Cheese
Muffins/pastries
Coffee/Water
7am-8am - White Temple Tent: Morning Movement - Rosa
Greet each day mindfully with intentional and grounding movement.
8am-9am - The Zen Barn - Upstairs Atrium: 'gongfu cha’ Tea Service Ceremony - Pamela
Guided Chinese tea ceremonies known as 'gongfu cha.' This is an ancient practice that combines meditation with the sensory ritual of preparing an infusion of the camellia sinensis plant. My interest in tea ceremony stems from my passion for exploring the overlaps among the human practices of art, spirituality, sensual experiences, food culture, and mindfulness. My highest excitement is to create environments for people to experience the wonder, the inspiration, and the pleasure of body-mind integration.
9am-11am - Castle Kitchen: Intuitive Art Exploration 2 - SweetStephLova
This intuitive art experience will be a guided self-exploration focused on your individual grounding, flow, connection, safety, nature, wonder. They utilize guided meditation, breath and movement to start, followed by an art project to dive into exploring the theme of intention connection.
9am-10am - The Zen Barn: Flower Gathering and Essence Making Class - T-Angerine
Connect with the nature and environment around us in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley to learn how to identify and connect with the medicine that nature provides.
9am-11am - White Temple Tent: Rope for Sex: A hands-on sex Class - ZenJute
Up the excitement with bondage for sex, including tips and tricks, understanding risks, setting ground rules, bondage techniques, and 10 classic bondage sex positions. Sensual Energy, Tantric and D/s Play: Increase the sexual and emotional intensity of your relationship connection, explore your primal desires, and expand your pleasure possibilities. This will be mostly a demonstration class, with some possibilities to tie-along with your partner, so bring a few hanks of rope!
What to bring: three 6mm 8-meter hanks of rope (jute or posh preferred). We can bring extra rope for folks who don’t have the appropriate rope.
9am-11am - Black Tent: Finding Your Kink - Identifying and Communicating Your BDSM Interests - WolfspiritJay
Understanding and knowing how to communicate your interests is an essential part of building fulfilling kink experiences. This two-part course is designed to guide students in first identifying the fetishes and types of play that interest them, and then communicate those wants and needs with their partner. In part one, students walk through a combination of self-reflection, interactive exercises, and group discussions to identify and map out their kinky interests and preferences. In part two, the students pair up with their partners and practice communicating the fetishes and types of play they are interested in exploring. At the end of this course, students will have a clear understanding of their individual interests and how those interests align with their partner.
11am-1230pm - Lunch
Salad Bar
Sandwich Bar (vegetarian options)
Hot Soup (vegetarian)
Vegi dips
Whole Fruit; Apples, oranges, grapes
Assorted Cookies
1pm-3pm - White Tent: Intimate Primal Play - SkyWolf
As the prey, would you surrender your throat to the beast with the hunger? As the devourer, would you offer your hunger to your prey? This sacred covenant is a very intimate experience as both sides are deeply bonded and completely focused on each other during that very intense experience. For many, Primal Play primarily involves the expression of raw and wild aggressive energies, or dynamic play such as hunting/chasing and struggling for dominance or survival. In this workshop, we will instead explore and practice a form of Intimate Primal Play that begins after the choice to surrender has already been made, and all that remains are the taking and devouring of the prey. We will focus on the longer and slower approach where we are fully present in each moment to fully embrace and enjoy the experience for all it can offer us. Each bite, scratch, sniff, taste, and exertion of physical dominance is intentionally executed so we can truly savor every delicious moment and become fully immersed in each other. While partnered people already in a relationship will get the most from this, feel free to come solo and maybe find a practice partner, or at the very least, learn a new way to express Primal. Come see that you really don’t need high energy or a certain physical capability to engage in Primal Play.
1pm-2pm - Movie Theatre: Finding your authentic Dom(me) space - WhosThatBear
“Fake Doms.” “True Submissives.” We are constantly bombarded with messages about what roles are supposed to look like, how to act, and what we SHOULD be feeling. Where does YOUR power come from, your joy? Join in a guided conversation about authentic power dynamics, where they can come from, and how that can add to connection to self and those around you!
2pm-3pm - Movie Theatre: Electric Energy Work - WhosThatBear
What has lots of potential for connection and can help you feel grounded? (See what we did there?) There’s an intrinsic link between the unseen forces of nature and our conscious experience of existence. Come explore the intersection of connection, sensual touch, and electroplay with our energetically charged workshop with reverse contact violet wands!
3pm-5pm - White Tent: Bringing the Sacred to the Kink - SkyWolf
Our scenes are a culmination of what we bring into them. The thoughts, emotions, desires, intents, and more all come together in a swirling cloud of uncertainty. Sometimes, we find that we can feel or touch on something new that gives a new depth to our play. While some call it Woo, energy play, etc., it’s all based on how much of our spirit and energy self we put into the scene. This class will demonstrate and cover various examples of bringing the spiritual to the scenes and working with energy to intensify the experiences for both the Top and Bottom in either the seeker or guide role
3pm-5pm - Movie Theatre: Discussion Pannel: Values Alignment & Power Dynamics
The venn diagram between our availabilities and interests is a great place to begin the discussion about the experiences we can share. How does that conversation shift when you layer the nuances and structure of a power dynamic. In this panel discussion we’ll hear from couples that engage in various flavors of power dynamics and exchanges while ensuring that each partner’s interests and availability is protected and advocated for. Come hear from members of our community that live these values and practice various flavors of 24/7 power exchange dynamics as a matter of their daily life.
3pm-5pm - Black Tent: Energy Orgasms Intro Workshop with Kundalini Activation - Kevin (@drkevinjenson) & Kat (@frequenteas_)
ENERGY ORGASMS Methodology can shift your mind, your body, and your energy from stressful tension into blissful peace in just one session. ENERGY ORGASMS uses the most powerful techniques from Tantra, Psychology, Kundalini Activation, NLP and Hypnosis to create one of the most effective methodologies to re-write your DNA into orgasmic life, filled with joy, happiness, success and love!
- Harness Sexual Energy: Channel the power of sexual energy to ignite inspiration, creativity, and healing.
- Masculine/Feminine Dynamics: Embody and play with the fusion and flow of masculine and feminine energy!
- Break the Cycle of Trauma: Transform old patterns into states of love, joy, and happiness, using the power of “e-motion”—energy in motion.
- Secrets of Sex Transmutation: Learn the tools you need to access the most powerful catalyst of personal growth and life transformation. (Yes, we are really sharing this!)
- Blue Lotus Tea Ceremony - participate in a heart-opening tea ceremony that will help you settle into the experience.
- please bring a yoga mat or blanket and be prepared to undress to your level of comfort while leaving all your personal juicy bits covered.
- Note: Energy Orgasms practice does not include nudity or genital touch. Must be over 21.
5pm-630pm - Dinner
Fried Chicken
Coleslaw (vegetarian)
Baked Beans (vegetarian)
Pasta Salad (vegetarian)
Assorted Cookies
Rolls
7pm-10pm @ The Mandala: Bonfire & Shamanic Drum - SkyWolf
All guests and participants are encouraged to bring their instruments and drums to join our circles!
7pm-8pm @ The Mandala - Semenawa Performance - ZenJute
This performance will be moved to the Zen Barn in case of inclement weather.
7pm-11pm - Fire Walking Ceremony
The ancient ritual of firewalking is a tool used by seekers of truth, transformation, and empowerment for over 4,000 years. The act of walking through the fire is a powerful means of overcoming fear, and breaking free of the illusions and limiting beliefs we hold in life. The internal strength gained from this experience becomes evident in our daily lives as we realize that we are able to do that which we once thought of as impossible. Tickets for this event are $50 per person which includes a 3 hour demonstration, starting with the intentional building of the fire and then walking of the 8ft fire.
The ceremony associated with this ritual will be moved to the Black Tent in the case of inclement weather.
Saturday Vending
10am-6pm - On the Flats
- Sire Don
- Dragon Forged
Swedish Vixen
45min mini photo session with Vixen Den Photography. Please reach out directly to Nikki at TheVixenDenStudios@gmail.com to reserve your private session.
- Dungeon in a Bag
- WolfSpirit
- 1x1 Energy Activation - Kat
- 1x1 Energy Work - BetterButterflies
- Candles by Pia
Individual Massage with Tom
- Tom is a licensed massage therapist trained in an array of somatic and energetic modalities, including Swedish, Deep Tissue, Pranic Healing, Hawaiian Lomilomi, PsychoNeuroEnergetics, and autonomic nervous system regulation. Tom is a passionate student of anatomy, physiology and spirituality. He is highly creative and responsive in his work, customizing his approach based on the individual needs of each client. He incorporates organic essential and carrier oils and a soothing musical backdrop to enhance relaxation and deep healing.
- The prices for sessions are: 60 minutes for $100 & 90 minutes for $120
- Massage Appointments available throughout the weekend, call Tom @ (310)922-8957 to reserve a time. Payment due at the time of your massage.
Sunday
7am-8am - White Temple Tent: Morning Movement - Rosa
Greet each day mindfully with intentional and grounding movement.
8am-11am - Brunch
Cheese and Sandwich Board
Yogurt, Granola, Oatmeal & Fruit
Bagels & Cream Cheese
Pork & Turkey Sausage
Hard Boiled Eggs
Sweets, muffins, pastries
Coffee/Water
Assorted Cookies
8am-9am - The Zen Barn - Upstairs Atrium: 'gongfu cha’ Tea Service Ceremony - Pamela
Guided Chinese tea ceremonies known as 'gongfu cha.' This is an ancient practice that combines meditation with the sensory ritual of preparing an infusion of the camellia sinensis plant. My interest in tea ceremony stems from my passion for exploring the overlaps among the human practices of art, spirituality, sensual experiences, food culture, and mindfulness. My highest excitement is to create environments for people to experience the wonder, the inspiration, and the pleasure of body-mind integration.
8am-9am - White Tent: Guided Meditation with Lucy Butterflies
9am-11am - Castle Kitchen: Intuitive Art Exploration 3 - SweetStephLova
This intuitive art experience will be a guided self-exploration focused on your individual grounding, flow, connection, safety, nature, wonder. They utilize guided meditation, breath and movement to start, followed by an art project to dive into exploring the theme of intention connection.