Singles Weekend 2026

Friday, October 9

  • 5:00 PM: Meet and Greet Reception (Great Room)

  • 6:30 PM: Dinner (6:20 PM Dinner Circle)

  • 7:45 PM: Opening Circle (Great Room)

  • 9:00 PM: A Time for Healing and Connection with Will Halvey (Temple)
    A workshop exploring healing, vulnerability, confidence, intimacy, and authentic connection through presence, movement, breath, and partner exercises. The experience includes The Gays Gaze, a guided eye-gazing and presence exercise focused on vulnerability, confidence, intimacy, and emotional grounding. Participants will also explore paired movement and breath through partner-based breath synchronization and slow-flow movement using hands, arms, and supported body contact. The intention is to create a safe, affirming environment where participants can release inhibition and shame, embrace sensuality and embodiment, build authentic connection with other men, and explore healing through movement, breath, touch, and presence.

    • OR: Sound Bath with Rod Schichtel (Great Room)

  • 10:00 PM: Nighttime Activities
    See the Nighttime Activities section below.

Saturday, October 10

  • 8:00 AM–8:45 AM: Men’s Primal Yoga with Will Halvey (Great Room)
    See Friday for description

  • 9:00 AM: Breakfast

  • 10:15 AM–11:15 AM: Lodge Groups (Various Locations)

  • 11:30 AM–12:50 PM: Magnetic Love: Raise Your Relationship Vibe, Rewrite Your Love Story with Will Halvey (Temple)
    A Journaling + Manifestation Workshop for Single Gay Men. What if your next love story begins with the energy you bring to it? Magnetic Love is a soulful, sexy space to get honest about the patterns you’re ready to leave behind and the connection you’re ready to welcome. Through guided journaling, reflection, visualization, and intention-setting, you’ll explore what you truly desire in love, intimacy, friendship, and partnership. You’ll release old stories about rejection or worthiness, create a personal Relationship Vibration Statement, and write a manifesto for the love you’re opening yourself to. You’re already worthy of the love you desire. This workshop invites you to celebrate who you are, embrace the joy and possibility in this chapter of your life, and open yourself to a relationship rich with intimacy, adventure, and mutual care. Your love story is still unfolding, and you get to help shape what comes next.

    • OR: Essential Oils and Affirmations with Rod Love Schichtel (Great Room)

  • 1:00 PM: Lunch

  • 2:30 PM–4:00 PM: Beyond Small Talk: A Speed Dating Experience with Marco Antoima (Great Room)
    This isn’t your typical speed dating. Rather than rushing through the usual questions about what you do, where you’re from, or what you’re looking for, this workshop invites you to meet other singles in a more playful, creative, and embodied way. We’ll begin with a series of short one-on-one encounters designed to help you move beyond small talk and discover each other through curiosity, presence, creativity, and the body. Some connections may happen through conversation, while others might come through movement, eye contact, playful prompts, shared creativity, or simply experiencing what it feels like to be present with another person. The intention isn’t to decide whether someone is “a match” in five minutes. It’s to create opportunities for genuine connection, chemistry, surprise, and discovery. Come ready to meet people differently, step a little outside the usual dating script, and see what happens when connection becomes something you experience, not just something you talk about.

  • 4:30 PM–6:00 PM: Life Transitions: The Growth and the Glory of Our Life’s Path with Harry Faddis (Temple)
    This event is a panel discussion of brothers. There are many ways of naming the markers of life’s journey, such as Youth, Adulthood, Middle Age, Senior Age or Old Age. Our guest panelists will share the story of their life’s journey, and they may identify their own markers or view life on different terms, perhaps from philosophy, science, or religion. We can learn a lot from the experiences of each other and share our various perspectives.

    • OR: Chakra Bracelet Making with Rod Schichtel (Sunroom)

  • 6:30 PM: Dinner (6:20 PM Dinner Circle, Great Room)

  • 8:00 PM: Massage Exchange with Jose Austin (Great Room)
    Description coming soon.

    • OR: Guided Labyrinth Walk with Moss Tidd

  • 10:00 PM: Nighttime Activities
    See the Nighttime Activities section below.

Sunday, October 11

  • 8:00 AM–8:45 AM: Men’s Primal Yoga with Will Halvey (Great Room)
    See Friday for description

    • OR: Wellness Dance with Rod Schichtel (Temple)

    • OR: 12 Step Meeting (Hunter Reynolds Room)

  • 9:00 AM: Breakfast

  • 10:15 AM–11:15 AM: Lodge Groups (Various Locations)

  • 11:30 AM: Cultivating Connections, Friends and Community with Will Miller (Great Room)
    Many folks value the connections, friends, and community they experience at Easton Mountain, and express a wish to have more such dynamics in their lives at home. When being single comes with feeling lonely, that’s just no good. In this interactive workshop, we’ll talk about what friendships and community can mean to single people and we’ll explore what might be keeping us from having more opportunities for authentic connection. Then we’ll identify and practice a few basic connecting and relationship skills. Here’s a chance to invest good intentions and energy in your personal and social development. Along the way, you’ll gain some personal insight, meet new people, and get to know a few folks better than you did before.

    • OR: Nature Walk with Rob Mack
      A nature walk guided by Rob Mack at Easton Mountain blends deep community connection, environmental stewardship, and mindfulness. A dedicated social worker, volunteer, and frequent community facilitator from Glens Falls, NY, Rob brings a warm, approachable presence, a casual smile, and a characteristic sense of humor to his trail groups. Rather than focusing on rigorous physical exertion, a walk under his guidance at the Easton Mountain Retreat Center is an invitation to pause, slow down, and honor the sacred bond between people and the land.

  • 1:00 PM: Lunch

  • 2:30 PM–4:00 PM: What? No Hands? An Innovative Touch Experience with Jose Austin (Temple)
    Think you have enjoyed sensual touch before? Well think again. Come see how this non-erotic workshop will show you new and fun ways to enhance intimacy with a partner by using everyday items without ever having to use your hands. Of course no one should ever want to exclude the hands during intimate moments. But in this workshop, hands will be excluded to draw attention to the myriad of possibilities for augmenting sensual touch. The workshop will begin with an undressing ritual (nudity not required) followed by couplings wherein participants will be guided to use a variety of props for both giving and receiving intentional sensual touch. The couplings will be rotational. Everyone will have a chance to both give and receive with multiple participants.

    • OR: Mandala Creation with Moss Tidd (Great Room)
      With the materials gathered from nature and/or fun items like beads, sequins, seeds, spices, etc., we will create a circular mandala as a group project. The base design will be marked with many symmetrical segments for group members to fill in with beautiful things to make a gorgeous piece of art.

  • 5:00 PM: Singles Weekend Reception with Karaoke hosted by DJ Sean (Great Room)

  • 6:30 PM: Dinner (6:20 PM Dinner Circle)

  • 8:00 PM: Singles Weekend Dance hosted by DJ Sean (Great Room)

  • 10:00 PM: Nighttime Activities
    See the Nighttime Activities section below.

Monday, October 12

  • 8:00 AM–8:45 AM: Men’s Primal Yoga with Will Halvey (Great Room)
    See Friday for description

  • 9:00 AM: Breakfast

  • 10:15 AM–11:15 AM: Lodge Groups (Various Locations)

  • 11:30 AM: Closing Circle (Great Room)

  • 12:30 PM: Farewell Brunch

Nighttime Activities

  • There will be a late-night Play Space each night at 10:00 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 10:00 PM.

  • There is also a closet full of games in the Great Room!

Private and Small-Group Offerings with Will Halvey

  • Will will also offer private and small-group coaching sessions:

    • Private session: $100 for 90 minutes.

    • Small group: Up to 6 participants, $180 total for 90 minutes.

  • These sessions offer additional opportunities to explore movement, breath, embodiment, conscious connection, and personal coaching. More information about sign-ups coming soon.