Couple’s Retreat ‘25
About the Community Share
On Saturday and Sunday morning, we will gather in groups to discuss a topic. (The topics are listed at the end of this schedule). The group leader will introduce the topic, and each member will have a few minutes to share their thoughts and feelings about it. We encourage everyone to participate, as this activity fosters bonds among participants and provides an opportunity to explore and learn about topics that may not typically be discussed in our daily lives. If you are unable to attend, please inform your group leader. Your group number and leader's name will be announced during the opening circle, along with the meeting location.
Schedule
Thursday, March 6
5:00 pm - Welcome Reception - Great Room
6:20 pm - Dinner Circle
6:30 pm - Dinner
7:30 pm - Opening Circle - Great Room
8:45 pm - Love & Rejuvenation - Great Room - with Adam Smith
This workshop is designed for you to pamper each other with a relaxing spa treatment and movie night in an evening of care, connection, and entertainment. Unwind by giving each other soothing facial treatments that will leave you both glowing and feeling refreshed.
Cleanser, face masks, under eye patches, toner and moisturizer will be provided but feel free to bring any of your own products that best meet your skincare needs. After your spa experience, you’ll be treated to a curated film celebrating gay culture. Snuggle up with your partner as you enjoy a heartwarming story that resonates with your shared experiences. Leave feeling rejuvenated, connected, and inspired by the power of love and self-care.
Friday, March 7
7:30 am - Yoga - Great Room - with Tim Cooley
8:30 am - Breakfast
9:45 am - Lodge Groups
11:00 am - Deepening Connection and Growth in Your Relationship - Great Room - with Rod Love Schichtel
Join us for a heartfelt and interactive session designed to strengthen your bond as a couple. Through guided partner exercises, you'll express appreciation, share hopes for growth, and envision a deeper connection together. This workshop provides a safe and supportive space to celebrate your love while fostering meaningful conversations that inspire lasting growth in your relationship.12:30 pm - Lunch
2:00 pm - Drama Triangle - Great Room - with Mark Anthony Lord
Back by popular demand, this transformative workshop is designed to help couples break free from the cycles of dysfunctional communication and step into healthier, more loving connections. Using the powerful psychological tool of the Drama Triangle, you’ll learn to recognize when you’re stuck in unproductive patterns and discover actionable steps to move toward love, understanding, and productive communication. More than just a relationship tool, this workshop reveals how the Drama Triangle shows up in your personal dynamics, cultural conditioning, and even in your relationship with yourself. Once you see it, everything changes—you’ll leave with the insight and tools to let LOVE unstick what’s been stuck.3:30 pm - Embodied Connection - Great Room - with John Ollom
This workshop will be facilitated by John Ollom MFA who has been leading classes, sessions and workshops with GBTQ men for over 24 years. In Embodied Connection we will be focusing on exploring the dynamics and flow between us and our partner. We will start out with simple touch and movement exercises to open up playful exploration. We will then be focusing on our embodied energy. We will explore moving our intentions back and forth without speaking words. As this workshop develops listening and communicating will be our focus. We will bring in emotional intentions and sexual and sensual and spiritual flow as each person desires. This will be a one hour and a half long workshop. Please feel free to email John Ollom MFA with any questions or comments at info@johnollom.com. See www.johnollom.com for more info and reviews of the Ollom methodology.Or Discovering Intimacy: The Rich Tapestry of Human Connection - Temple - with Jim Sable
Immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of human connection in this workshop. In a world where words make up only 7% of communication, embark on a journey into the heart of genuine connection with your partner. This workshop delves into various ways non-verbal communication leads to greater intimacy. Explore discovery sessions focusing on intimacy, particularly through the profound language of touch, and uncover the artistry of non-verbal cues and body language. Our skin, housing thousands of nerve endings, becomes a canvas of sensations contributing to the tapestry of our connections. Engage in activities centered around touch to discover intense meaningful connections and heightening awareness in the process. Whether you're looking to enhance existing relationships or embark on an emotional discovery, this workshop provides a safe, enriching space to nurture profound intimacy beyond words. Join us to unravel the secrets of enduring connections and learn to speak the language of the heart without fixating on words.
5:00 pm - Expressive Love - Great Room - with Douglas Kay
In this workshop you and your partner will explore creativity, self-expression, and connection through the various artistic mediums of Life Drawing, Drag, and Photography. Begin your journey with a life drawing session, where you’ll take turns capturing each other’s beauty and essence on paper, celebrating form and spirit in a supportive and affirming environment (no drawing skill is required). Feel free to bring your own sketchbook and preferred drawing supplies, otherwise paper, pencils and easels will be provided. Next, we will take advantage of Easton Mountain's extensive drag closet to transform each other into fabulous personas. Assist each other in experimenting with makeup, costumes, and accessories to embody your inner divas, expressing yourselves authentically and fearlessly. Finally, embark on a photography adventure using the camera on your smartphone, or bring along your personal camera to capture stunning images of each other in or out of your drag. Explore different poses, settings, and angles to create captivating portraits that reflect the love, beauty, and creativity of your relationship. Throughout the workshop, enjoy bonding moments with your partner and fellow participants, fostering a sense of community and support. Leave with newfound skills, awareness, and a collection of artwork and photographs that celebrate your love and individuality.6:20 pm - Dinner Circle
6:30 pm - Dinner
8:00 pm - Massage for Couples - Great Room - with Jose Austin
This massage workshop is designed to bring together your partner and you in freshly intimate ways solely through the use of your body. When it comes to massaging your partner expressing how much you care need not be limited to the boundaries and standards of professional practitioners. Intimacy and eros are key to unlocking passion as we explore our partners body with loving touch. Although this workshop will be erotic in nature, couples may operate at whatever level is comfortable in a group setting, in the hope of taking away new ideas to be used in the privacy of the bedroom. This massage workshop is clothing optional.
Saturday, March 8
7:30 am - Yoga - Great Room - with Tim Cooley
8:30 am - Breakfast
9:45 am - Lodge Groups
11:00 am - The Liberation Experience - Great Room - with John Ollom MFA
We will start on the floor with slow warm up exercises and ab toning. We will then start with simple dance and movement motifs that bring in joy and freedom of expression. John is known in his classes for welcoming all bodies and energy flows into his classes and sessions. As we move across the floor fun and simple moves will be taught. In the end we encourage you to do you. Liberate all that you are. Come dressed in anything you want…shorts or jockstraps. Wear your heels or wear a cape. Some will even get naked as we liberate to free expressions. Let’s celebrate how far we have come and our honest expressions of man to man love and joy. Come feel liberated with us! Feel free to email John at info@johnollom.com with any questions or concerns.12:30 pm - Lunch
2:00 pm - The 5 Love Languages: A Path to Deeper Intimacy - Great Room - with Mark Anthony Lord
Discover the keys to a more intimate and fulfilling relationship through the 5 love languages. Learn how to connect with your partner in meaningful ways that nurture trust and love. But it doesn’t stop there—this experience also invites you to uncover your own love language and commit to loving yourself with the same care, reducing the burden on your partner to meet all your emotional needs. Together, we’ll deepen self-awareness, strengthen connection, and create a foundation for lasting love.4:00 pm - Couple Reception with Karaoke - Great Room
6:20 pm - Dinner Circle
6:30 pm - Dinner
7:45 pm - Ballroom Romance - Great Room - with Kevin Merry and DJ Sean
We will enter the great room with the lighting ambiance of the Ballroom of Romance, and listen and dance to slow and some upbeat music. Kevin can provide some intermediary waltz lessons if needed.Followed by The Couples Dance with DJ Sean
Sunday, March 9
7:30 am - Yoga - Great Room - with Tim Cooley
8:30 am - Breakfast
9:30 am - Walking the Path of Medicine Wheel, A Shamanic Love Journey - Great Room - with Anthony Dissen
Many forms of shamanic and indigenous medicine practices use the sacred imagery of the wheel. Representing seasons of nature, seasons of life, as well as the path we take from birth to death, the medicine wheel provides for the beautiful set of symbols, themes, and patterns to follow as we move through the experiences of life and of growth. This can be a beautiful and powerful tool to assist us as we navigate the seasons of our relationships, especially with the person or the people that we love. This workshop will introduce participants to the medicine wheel, the four directions, and what each represent for ourselves individually, as well as collectively. We will then move into a guided meditation, hand in hand with the person or the people that we have come to this retreat with, in order to walk and journey together to see where our relationship began, how we have grown, and what lies ahead of us. We will end with an offering to the land and to our queer ancestors as we deepen our relationship and connection with them.11:00 am - Closing Circle - Great Room
12:00 pm - Brunch
Late Night Activities
The Sauna will be available each night at 10 pm
We have a full closet of games in the Great Room that folks can play together.
There will be a late night Adult Cuddle Zone - Each night at 10pm in the Temple Loft
Please use it with the following guidelines:
Practice mutual respect and kindness toward yourself and others.
Set your boundaries and practice consent and negotiation with each other.
Give a “No” with kindness and receive them with grace and respect.
Please make sure you are invited before joining a scene in progress.
You may encounter hosts, volunteers, presenters and facilitators in the space. Each person will be responsible for setting boundaries, negotiating and communicating with anyone they encounter in the space.
Community Share Topics
TBA
Services
Offerings by Residents
Portions of these services are paid to Easton Mountain! Please pay at the front desk for these services.
1 hr Massage Session - Tim Cooley - $100
Over 20 years experience as a licensed massage therapist. Includes Swedish and Thai massage techniques. Signup sheets available in the lobby.1.5 hr Sacred Intimacy Session - Zach Tassinari - $120
See Zach for intake before paying.
Offerings by Facilitators
Please pay these facilitators directly.
.5 hr Kink Session - Anthony Dissen - Free for this event only!
Individual consultations on how to bring in different forms of kink and BSDM play into your relationship. Can be purely informational or involve demonstration using different toys and objects. Sessions available upon request.1.5 hr Internal Landscape Sessions - John Ollom MFA - $80
One-on-one sessions, sign up will be available the first day.1.5 hr Couple’s Intimacy Sessions - Jim Sable - $80
Discover greater intimacy in a private container with your partner in an individualized session. A special discounted rate for this event only! Sign up will be available on the first day.1 hr Massage Session - Alex - $120
Traditional table-based sessions, incorporating Swedish, deep tissue, and Thai Yoga floorwork, which incorporates acupressure, stretching, and dynamic movement techniques. Alex strives to create an affirming and healing atmosphere in every session! Please wear loose-fitting, moveable clothing.
A sign up sheet will be available the first night of the event.