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Men's Retreat: Elemental Journey

June 3 - 7, 2026

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4 nights, 5 days

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4 person retreat

Highlights

  • Unique program for masculinity and masculine energy

  • Connect back with yourself through the elements

  • Unique mountain location

  • Small and intimate group of max. 4 men

  • Use nature as portal to go within

Details

This Journey for Men is designed to connect back with your Masculinity in a practical, straight and embodied way. Fire, Air, Water, Earth, Metal and Wood are the tools and the portals that's going to help you find your inner strength. In Rural Spain is a small and magical place named Casa Rico Retreats waiting to host you to provide you in this journey. In the middle of a mountain area, surrounded by forest, wildness and simplicity. Your host Raymond uses his years of experience in working with men to take you on a journey what's going to reconnect you back with forgotten and new parts of your authentic manhood. An initiation in maturity, purpose, strength and brotherhood through the Elements within yourself and nature. Men need Men. As Men we need to spend time with Men to recognise manhood and to be recognised in our own manhood. This works best if this is done in a constructive, supportive and healthy environment. Places where Men gather to grow and connect. This retreat is one of those places. With nature as playground around you, your fellow brothers as companions and a program that directs the journey inwards, all ingredients are there to come out as a better man on the other side. In the title of the retreat you've seen it already, the word "Elemental". We are going to use the elements that are available around us as tools and portals to go deep within your masculinity and manhood. It's a journey through the elements that serves as portal into your manhood. Think of Wood. Chopping wood, being creative with wood, releasing your anger on chopping wood, cooking with wood. Fire. Cooking on fire. Slow down and reflect by the fire. Sharing circles and singing around the fire. Find your inner fire. Learn and experiene "The Breath of Fire". Air. The air that you breath in. In this program there is breathwork. A lot of amazing breathwork to connect, release and heal. Raymond is breathwork facilitator and loves to share this part with you. Water. Cold water exposure. You are going to use the cold natural pools, rivers and sea around. SImply to reconnect straight back with your body and to cleanse the soul. Through Metal you are going to connect with focus and strength. Working with the axe. Training with kettlebells. Not to gain muscle. But to be in the body, have fun, feel alive and find clarity. And as last Earth. Being on this place, Casa Rico Retreats, is going to connect you straight back with the Earth. The Earth and nature is the playground and space where this journey takes place. On this place in Spain it's easy to walk in the rhythm of the Earth. To feel nature, be surrounded by nature. Touch the ground barefeet, enjoy the mountain views, see the sunrise and sunset. Have mountain hikes alone or with the group. The Earth is waiting to provide you in abundance. And all the Elements are standing symbol for something within yourself. That's the ultimate goal to find within this day. Your inner fire (passion, life-force energy, anger), your water (emotions, healing, feminine), your inner air (space, change, healing) etc. It's about the deeper things within that are going to be touched by this Elemental Journey! This retreat is not going to be about yoga or a spiritual practice. It's nature. It are the elements. But we are existing of the elements. We resonate with it. And that is going to be spiritual. On a practical, authentic and real way.

Meals

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Meals provided

Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner

Diets catered

Vegan · Vegetarian · Gluten-free · Dairy-free · Nut Allergy Friendly

All food is provided by the place. Raymond will go to the local market and supermarket to provide the ingredients. The meals are prepared by yourself or together, depending of the moment of the day. In the daytime, you have the freedom to make your own food in the outside community kitchen. Everyone nowadays has their own food rhythm, and the intention is to leave everyone free in that. So you have the space and freedom to make the dishes you like, when you like them. And dinner at night is shared as a group, where we all contribute a part. The intention is to make the cooking and preparing an experience. To dive in the slow living experience and cook on fire in the wood-oven or barbeque. Every dinner is unique; one time it’s all about fun and laughter, and the other time it’s about deep conversations and insights. But the place always hears back from their guests how valuable the shared dinner time was for them.

Schedule

You can expect in the program a lot of cool things, and a wide scale of variety. From deep emotional healing through breathwork and sharing circles, until simple chanting by the fire or hiking. It's in the variety and differences in depth that all the elements in the system can be touched. In the program you can expect different kinds and styles of breathwork, physical and emotional release, simple workouts as morning routine, wood chopping, cooking on fire, sharing circles, masculinity workshops, healthy anger expression, , nature activities as hiking or cold water swimming and many others. It's the intention to keep the program open and flexible. It's not fixxed yet! How Raymond and the place are working already for years is to keep the element of surprise based on the alignment of the moment. What is the group like? What does the group need? Which weather is it? What possibilities are there at this moment in time? And most important, where does the energy and inspiration go? But what's for sure is that you are going to enjoy the ride. That you are going to journey through the elements around and within you. And that the program is perfectly balanced between activities and workshops and free time to integrate and relax/recharge!

Testimonials

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Needed a break and wanted to try something new. I chose this retreat as I already had flights to Alicante and this was close by. Breathwork, meditation, wrestling, singing round a campfire; a world away from city life! Ray, Femke and Aram are beautiful people. I'm definitely going back to see them!

Simon, UK

I came into this needing to release years of built-up energy and find some mental clarity. The group was wonderful, but Raymond truly made the experience. I’ll admit I was a bit skeptical at first, but Raymond picked up on that immediately. He confronted my doubts during the first day with such sincerity that it created a real sense of trust. I am so happy I met him; he was exactly who I needed for this chapter of my life It felt out of my comfort zone I enjoyed the breathing exercises, the mental work and the power of let go of your energy in a physical way

Stephan, Netherlands

ast week I went on this masculinity retreat with Raymond – and honestly? It changed me. I finally got to see what real masculinity feels like, not the fake stuff society sells you. For the first time I met my true self, no masks, no bullshit. We did real men's work: chopped wood with axes till our arms burned, slaughtered a chicken together – stuff no guy does anymore. We wrestled, sweated, breathed deep, and learned how to take that raw inner rage and turn it into something strong, something good. The brotherhood? Man, it was beautiful. I came out stronger, lighter, grateful. I owe Raymond everything for that week. I’m still buzzing from it.

Alex, Greece

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What's Included

4 nights accommodation in a traditional and rustic off-grid finca

Daily program sessions, workshops and ceremonies guided by Raymond

Stacked fridge, healthy food, drinks and meals

An outdoor activity like going to the beach, mountain hike or visiting a waterfall

Time for yourself to reflect, journal, hike

Fellow brothers to share the journey with

Not Included

Airplane ticket

Tranasport costs

FAQs

Guest requirements

  • For Men only

Cancellation policy

The remaining balance for the retreat is due 7 days prior to the start date. If this balance is paid earlier than these 7 days, you are eligible to cancel and receive a full refund of this remaining balance, provided you do so at least 7 days before the retreat begins.

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