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All EventsCeremonial Retreat · August 21–24, 2026
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Mushroom Ceremony & Sweatlodge Initiation Retreat
Four days at the threshold between who you have been and who you are becoming. The land holds it. The fire confirms it.
Apply for the Retreat
Begin with a personal fit and safety conversation.
- When
- August 21, 2026 – August 24, 2026
- Where
- Rawaland, Gravenhurst, ON
- Access
- Water only
- Places
- Limited places
Early bird through July 20
Come as a pair · $50 off each
Half scholarships available
The Call
Return to What Is Steady Within You
The high-octane months ask everything of you. This retreat offers a different rhythm: four days to set down the weight you have been carrying and enter a container designed to hold you fully.
At Rawaland, water-access only and tucked in the heart of Muskoka, four days of ceremony, community, and deep inner work await. Not to fix you. To initiate you into a deeper knowing of who you already are.
“The Divine Feminine in every man and woman deserves space to breathe, to be honoured, revered, and completely unleashed. It is the Masculine Within's role to meet Her — listening, nurturing, beckoning Her out of Her cave.”
The Work
Four Fires of Transformation
Unleashing the Feminine Within
Open to joy, grief, and desire as sacred intelligence. Reawaken intuition, creativity, and receptivity. Let aliveness move freely inside a container worthy of your life.
Loving the Shadow
Bring gentle attention to defences, fears, and patterns of control. Transform reactivity into responsibility and weave disowned aspects back into wholeness.
Sacred Community
Enter intimate circles where honesty is witnessed fully. Men and women hold space for one another, guided by clear agreements of consent, respect, and confidentiality.
Sacred Container
How We Will Move Through
- I
Opening Sacred Space — Friday
We arrive and barge to the land together — the journey in is the first initiation. We settle, connect, and open sacred space in the tipi. The container is set and the work begins.
- II
Kundalini Yoga & Mushroom Medicine Ceremony — Saturday
Morning Kundalini Yoga prepares the body and nervous system. The day then opens into a full mushroom medicine ceremony for somatic release, energetic clearing, and deep remembering. Preparation and dosage are considered individually through the intake process.
- III
Ceremonial Sweat Lodge & Soundbath — Sunday
Four rounds of expression, release, prayer, and renewal. The lodge is an invitation into surrender, followed by an integrative soundbath, open water, silence on the land, community, and sacred fire.
- IV
Integration & Departure — Monday
A morning integration circle creates space to sit with what has moved through you. We depart by noon carrying clarity, warmth, and the quiet knowing of what the fire revealed.
- V
Preparation & Integration Support
An intention-setting call, psychedelic preparation guidebook, self-inquiry questions, dietary guidance, and a post-retreat group integration call support the full arc before and after the four days on the land.
What Is Included
Everything the Container Requires
- All meals and snacks — 95% organic and 100% gluten-free
- Shared luxury tiny-home lodging for two to three people
- The full retreat program and all ceremony materials
- Mushroom medicine ceremony
- Ceremonial sweat lodge
- Barrel sauna and optional cold plunge
- Pre-retreat intention-setting call
- Post-retreat group integration call
- Integrative soundbath and Kundalini Yin Yoga
- Psychedelic preparation guidebook and self-inquiry questions
- Sacred fire, open water, and Muskoka wilderness
The Circle
Who Walks Through This Door
- —People ready to choose depth, presence, and honest inner work.
- —Leaders, creatives, facilitators, and caregivers ready to be served in their own deepest needs.
- —Those called to balance discipline with tenderness, structure with spontaneity, and responsibility with wonder.
- —Those wanting a grounded, mature, co-ed container — free of posturing — for meaningful transformation.
- —Anyone ready to meet their shadow as an ally and let the currents of feeling and creation move freely.
The Ground
Rawaland
Tucked in the heart of Muskoka, two hours north of Toronto and accessible only by water, Rawaland is more than a retreat centre. It is ground that has held ceremony, prayer, silence, and sacred fire.
You do not come to Rawaland to escape your life. You come to remember who you are beneath the noise of it.
- Accommodation
- Shared luxury tiny homes
- Ceremony Space
- Traditional tipi
- Access
- Water only · Barge from Hewitt St. Dock
- Travel
- About two hours north of Toronto
Your Guides
Who Holds the Fire
Rawa Larden
Men's Guide · Ceremonialist · Founder, Bold & Centered & Man Camp
Rawa guides people through the threshold between who they have been and who they are becoming through fire ceremony, sweat lodge, land connection, and deep inner work. He has held space for hundreds across group containers, vision quests, and one-to-one coaching.
Chris Dub
Ceremony Facilitator · Kundalini Yogi · Intuitive Healer
Chris has held plant medicine ceremony and transformational space since 2009. A certified Kundalini Yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance certification and a degree in social work, he brings precision, warmth, and deep devotion to the people in his care.
Investment
Energy Exchange
Four days of ceremony, accommodation, meals, preparation, and integration in one held container.
Early Bird
$1,049 + tax
Available through July 20, 2026
Regular
$1,099 + tax
Apply with someone you love and each receive $50 off.
A deposit of $226 ($200 + tax) holds your place after acceptance.
Payment plans are available.
Half scholarships are available when finances are a barrier. Share why this retreat is calling you now in your application.
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Questions
What You May Be Wondering
I have never done plant medicine before. Is this suitable for me?
First-timers are welcome. Suitability, experience, intentions, and current state are discussed in a pre-retreat intake conversation. Preparation and dosage are considered individually, and you will not be pushed beyond what is right for you.
Is this a co-ed retreat? How is the space held?
Yes. This is a co-ed container, men-led with women fully and equally welcome. Sleeping accommodations are separate by gender. Clear agreements around consent, respect, and confidentiality are established on the first night and held throughout the retreat.
How do I get to Rawaland?
Rawaland is water-access only, located between Gull and Silver Lake in Gravenhurst, Ontario, about two hours north of Toronto. Drive to the Hewitt Street Public Dock, where public parking is available. The group barges to the land together at 4:00 PM on Friday.
What if I need to leave on Sunday?
Participants are strongly encouraged to stay through Monday at noon because Sunday evening and Monday morning hold the deepest integration. When an unavoidable commitment arises, departure after Sunday dinner may be arranged in advance.
What is the deposit and cancellation policy?
A deposit of $226 ($200 + tax) secures your place and is non-refundable. More than 30 days before the retreat, the remaining balance is refundable. Within 30 days, refunds are not available, though the team will do its best to transfer the place to another participant.
The Invitation
Come Home to the Unshakeable Within You
Strengthen the spine of presence that lets your heart open. Meet your shadow as an ally. Let feeling, creation, and aliveness move freely inside a container worthy of your life.
Early Bird
$1,049 + tax