Couple’s Retreat ‘26
Thursday March 12
5:00-6:15 pm: Meet and Greet Reception (Great Room)
Start the weekend by settling in, meeting fellow couples, and reconnecting with friends. This relaxed gathering offers a chance to mingle, enjoy light refreshments, and begin building the sense of community that will carry through the retreat.6:20 pm: Dinner Circle
6:30 pm: Dinner
7:45-8:45 pm: Opening Circle (Great Room)
Our official welcome to the retreat. During this gathering we will introduce the weekend, meet the facilitators, and set intentions and tone for the days ahead as we begin creating the shared space for connection, exploration, and community.9:00 pm - ?: Love and Rejuvenation/Pajama Party with Adam Smith (Great Room)
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.OR: Sensual/ Erotic Massage with Rene and Golden (Temple)
Foundations of sensual, conscious touch - In this introductory class, you’ll explore the essential principles of sensual and erotic massage through the lens of Tantra. Learn how to use breath, intention, and slow, mindful touch to awaken pleasure, relax the body, and create a safe, intimate experience for your partner. Perfect for anyone wanting to add more sensuality, confidence, and sacred erotic energy to their connection.
10 pm: Late Night Activities
Friday March 13
8:00-8:45 am: Morning Yoga with Tim Cooley (Great Room)
Join resident yogi Tim to begin your day by gently awakening the body and breath through stretching, mindful movement, and grounding. This class is welcoming to everyone, from beginners to experienced yoga practitioners.OR: Guided Meditation with Wayne Lapinski (Temple)
Start the morning with stillness and intention. In this guided meditation, Wayne will lead participants through a calming practice designed to quiet the mind, deepen presence, and cultivate a sense of openness and connection for the day ahead.
9:00 am: Breakfast
10:15-11:15 am: Lodge Groups (Various Locations)
11:30-12:50 pm: Playful Relationships with Jim Sable (Temple)
This workshop celebrates the playful side of relationships focusing on the many ways new discoveries about each other can spark delight and closeness. Join interactive discovery sessions where the language of relationships becomes a playful game that is a dance among the blossoming flowers of your relationship. Our skin, with its thousands of nerve endings, is the fertile ground where playful sensations can take root, grow, and bloom. Our eyes open and see things in a new way. Engage in creative activities that invite you to experiment, giggle, and feel alive together as you cultivate joy and deepen your connection. Whether you're hoping to bring fresh energy to a long-term relationship or are just beginning a journey of emotional discovery, this workshop offers a cheerful, nurturing environment where intimacy can blossom. Come play with us in the garden of connection, learning to speak the heart’s language to give your relationship more joy. Meet Jim, a social worker who has joyfully spent 25 years with his husband, John Ollom. With his guidance, let's wander together down sun-dappled paths, discovering playful new ways to celebrate lasting connections.OR: Express Yourself with John Ollom (Great Room)
So much of our life may be bogged down with routine and stress and work. Here we get a chance to come into our body. We will stretch and contract in our warm up. Then as we go across the floor dance and energetic flow will guide us into joy and freedom. Come Express Yourself with joy and freedom. All forms of clothing and or no clothing are welcome.
1:00 pm: Lunch
2:30-4:00 pm: From Drama To Devotion - Breaking the Drama Triangle in Your Relationship with Mark Anthony Lord (Great Room)
Back by popular demand, this powerful workshop helps couples break free from the hidden patterns that quietly drain intimacy and connection. Many relationships get stuck in what psychologists call the Drama Triangle, where partners unconsciously rotate between the roles of victim, rescuer, and persecutor. These roles create blame, defensiveness, emotional distance, and endless misunderstanding. In this interactive and eye-opening session, you will learn to recognize when the triangle is running your relationship and discover practical ways to step out of it and into something far more powerful. Together we will explore how these patterns show up not only in your relationship, but also in your personal history, family conditioning, and even in how you relate to yourself. When you see the pattern clearly, it begins to lose its power. You will leave with new awareness, practical tools, and a renewed sense of possibility for communication, connection, and love. Because when the drama dissolves, devotion has room to grow.4:30-6:15 pm: The Art of Us - An Expressive Portrait with Eric Dusseault (Great Room)
Join us for an intimate session dedicated to the loving and expressive power of the queer gaze. In this workshop, we’re setting aside the "rules" of traditional art and focusing on the connection between the artist and the subject. Whether you are drawing your partner(s) or your new friend(s), the goal isn't to create a photographic likeness, instead we will work with expressive mark-making to capture feeling. Through a series of guided, low-pressure exercises (including continuous line drawing and charcoal shading), we will explore the curves, gestures, and energy that make our community and our relationships unique. This workshop is open to artists of all abilities, so if you can hold a pencil, you can participate! By the end of this session, each participant will have the opportunity to bring home a soulful, one-of-a-kind keepsake of your time together at Easton Mountain. Please note: This workshop is designed to use charcoal. Please dress comfortably and accordingly!6:20 pm: Dinner Circle
6:30 pm: Dinner
8:15-? pm: Couples Massage Exchange with Jose Austin (Great Room)
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.10 pm: Late Night Activities
Saturday March 14
8:00-8:45 am: Morning Yoga with Tim Cooley (Great Room)
OR: Guided Meditation with Wayne Lapinski (Temple)
9:00 am: Breakfast
10:15-11:15 am: Lodge Groups (Various Locations)
11:30-12:50 pm: Rewrite the Script - The Transformational Power of Forgiveness In Love with Mark Anthony Lord (Temple)
Every one of us enters a relationship carrying invisible scripts written by our past. Old betrayals. Childhood wounds. Cultural shame. Past lovers who disappointed us. Fear that love will not last. Without realizing it, we hand these scripts to our partner and silently expect them to play the role. We expect them to disappoint us in familiar ways. We expect them to leave. We expect them to confirm the story we already believe about love. But what if the script could be erased? In this deeply transformational workshop, Mark introduces forgiveness as a powerful spiritual technology that frees you from the past and opens the door to a completely new experience of love. You will discover how forgiveness dissolves the unconscious expectations that sabotage intimacy and replaces them with clarity, freedom, and compassion. When the old script is released, something extraordinary becomes possible.OR: Zones Of Transformation with John Ollom (Great Room)
As we navigate life with our partner/husband/boyfriend we react and interact on the external and internal zones of our experiences. In this workshop we will start with movement and touch exercises to listen and play between each other. When we then go into our Internal Landscapes we can explore our most authentic urges and feelings from within, How this combines in our expressions together is the alchemy that we will explore. In this Zone that we create together the transformation will become embodied.
1 pm Lunch
2:30-4:00 pm: Building Intimacy with Your Partner with Rene and Golden (Great Room)
A Tantric journey into deeper connection: This class guides couples through simple yet powerful Tantric practices designed to strengthen emotional closeness, awaken presence, and enhance energetic intimacy. Through breathwork, eye-gazing, mindful touch, and heart-centered communication, partners learn to slow down, attune to each other, and cultivate a deeper, more soulful connection.OR: Reconnect to Your Heart - A Guided Breath Experience with Wayne Lapinski (Temple)
Join Wayne in a guided breath session. In this workshop you will learn and practice a specific breath pattern that will open the body, release held tensions and stress, letting go of the day to day annoyances that interfere in our daily connection and lives. This session will take you back to that original spark you had with your beloved and perhaps deepen your bond. All techniques will be taught, demonstrated and then practiced together.
4:30-6:15 pm: Couples Retreat Reception featuring Piano Bar Hour with David Jarvis and Cameron Fadjo (Great Room)
6:20 pm: Dinner Circle
6:30 pm: Dinner
8:00 pm-?: Couples Dance with DJ Sean (Great Room)
DJ Sean will keep the dance floor alive with a mix of upbeat favorites, slow grooves, and requests from the crowd. Sean says: “Come as you are, dress up, dress down, raid the drag closet, go as bare as you dare. If you’re staying, I’m playing.”10 pm: Late Night Activities
Sunday March 15
8:00-8:45 am: Morning Yoga with Tim Cooley (Great Room)
OR: Guided Meditation with Wayne Lapinski (Temple)
9:00 am: Breakfast
10:15-11:15 am: Lodge Groups (Various Locations)
11:30-12:30 pm: Closing Circle (Great Room)
12:30 pm: Brunch
Late Night Activities
There will be a late-night Play Space each night at 10 pm 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.
Give and receive “No’s” with kindness and respect.
Make sure you’re invited before joining a scene in progress.
You may encounter hosts, volunteers, presenters, and facilitators in the space. Each person is responsible for setting and communicating their own boundaries.
The sauna will be available each night at 10 pm.
There is also a closet full of games in the Great Room!
Services
MARK ANTHONY LORD
Relationship Upgrade Session w/Mark Anthony Lord - A private hour to deepen the breakthroughs from the workshops and bring powerful clarity to your relationship. Together you will explore what is opening, where you feel stuck, and set a clear 30 day intention for your partnership. You will be guided through an experiential process to help you both open your hearts and trust the love you share more deeply, and Mark will record a personalized prayer for you to anchor the healing and support for your relationship.
JOHN OLLOM
is offering his Internal Landscapes one-on-one sessions - $85 for 90 minutes. You can read reviews on this work at www.johnollom.com. Sign up will be available the first day.
JIM SABLE
For those looking for more privacy while discovering greater intimacy, Jim Sable will be offering special individualized intimacy sessions for couples for a discounted Easton rate of $85 for a 90-minute session. Sign up will be available on the first day.
WAYNE LIPINSKI
Is offering an energetic traditional Western Massage for $120 for 60 minutes.
TIM COOLEY
1 hr Massage Session - $100: Over 20 years experience as a licensed massage therapist. Includes Swedish and Thai massage techniques. Signup sheet available in the lobby.