The Moth
Into the Flame.
You have carried your father's silence
long enough.
You already know something is off. You've known for a while. You just haven't had anywhere to take it.
Maybe your father was there and wasn't. Maybe he wasn't there at all. Maybe he was the kind of man who worked hard and said nothing, who loved you in a language that never quite landed, who carried something broken inside him that he passed down without meaning to. And now you catch yourself doing the same thing. Going quiet when you should speak. Going hard when you should soften. Going away when the people who need you most are right in front of you.
Nobody taught you how to be a man. They handed you a performance and called it strength. And you've been holding that performance together for so long you don't remember what's underneath it.
I'm not writing this to fix you. You're not broken. I'm writing this because I've sat in that same silence. I know what it costs. I know what your children pay when you don't deal with what your father left you.
The Moth is seven days. Seven days to put down what was handed to you. Seven days of fire, water, earth, brotherhood, and ceremony, not to make you soft, but to make you real. You will walk fire. You will bury what needs to be buried. You will sit with men who are doing the same work, and not one of you will be performing.
You will go home different. Your children will feel it before you say a word.
That is the only reason any of us are here.
I know this because I walked it myself.
I grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana carrying things I didn't have names for yet. A posture inherited from men who were themselves carrying things they never examined. A helper wound dressed as strength. A silence I called stability.
It took years of circling before I understood what I was orbiting.
The Moth was not designed in a room. It was excavated from the interior of a life honestly examined. Every element of this container, the fire, the brotherhood, the vow, exists because I needed it to exist and couldn't find it anywhere that felt true.
If you are here, you have been circling something too.
This is the container that was built for that.
The Moth is a seven-day masculine immersion on the volcanic shores of Lake Atitlán. It is not a workshop. It is not a retreat from life. It is an initiation, a deliberate passage through earth, water, fire, air, and ether, designed to break the patterns that have been running you and replace them with something you can actually live by.
You will bury what you no longer need to carry. You will grieve at the waterfall until the water takes it. You will walk fire. You will rewrite the code your father handed you. You will bless your lineage, and release it.
Then you will go home different.
The Moth is built on five pillars. Not as a curriculum. As a container.
Five pillars. One unbroken line.
Seven days. One arc. You don't sign up for The Moth. You answer it.
Each day is anchored to an element and a layer of the work. Nothing is random. The arc carries you.
Built for the man who knows something needs to shift and is tired of waiting for it to happen on its own.
- You have been strong so long that asking for help no longer feels like an available option.
- You love the people in your life and cannot always explain why your presence still feels incomplete to them.
- You carry something from the men who raised you that you have never fully examined and cannot seem to put down.
- You have tried to work through things alone and have reached the honest limit of what solitude can do.
- You are a seeker, spiritual, sober, searching, or simply honest, and you want a container that can hold the full weight of that without performing around it.
- You are ready to go home different. Not announced. Felt.
- You are in active psychiatric crisis or require clinical care
- You cannot commit to the full seven days
- You are unwilling to be witnessed, this is not an audience experience
- You are looking for a vacation with spiritual branding
- You are not ready to bury what needs to be buried
If you're unsure whether this is right for you, book a call. We'd rather have an honest conversation than the wrong fit in the circle.
There is the workbook.
Most men arrive at a container like this having never been asked to look honestly at themselves without an audience, a therapist, or a crisis forcing the issue.
The Moth workbook changes that.
Out of the Shadow, into the Flame is a free self-guided pre-initiation. Five sections. Five honest excavations. A letter written in each one to someone whose life has been shaped by what you were carrying.
It will not fix anything.
It will make the avoidance harder to maintain.
That is the point.
Men who complete it arrive at the retreat already knowing how to look. The work goes deeper faster. The brotherhood forms more honestly. The vow lands with more weight.
You do not have to be considering the retreat to begin the workbook.
Begin it because you are ready to be honest with yourself.
The retreat will still be here if and when you are ready for witnesses.
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The Ember Circle
The real retreat begins when you go home. The Ember Circle is a 40-day integration arc, a daily five-minute breath practice, a weekly check-in, and a monthly live call with the men who walked beside you. Not a dependency. A continuation.
After three months, the circle moves into a quarterly rhythm led by its members. We build leaders, not followers.
Everything included. No hidden costs.
- All guided practices and ceremonies
- Waterfall excursion, zipline, and fire walk
- Shared lodge accommodation
- All meals, nourishing and protein-forward
- Airport transport
- 40-day Ember Circle integration
- Self Reiki and Breathwork home practice class
- Vow card and Ember Journal
- Everything in shared, plus
- Private room at the lodge
- Additional silence and solitude
Sacred Reservation: $444 deposit holds your place and is applied to your balance. Monthly payment plans available. One partial scholarship per cohort, funded by optional sponsor add-on at checkout.
Two cohorts. Six men each.
For men, I’d keep dates lower on the page. The Moth sells through summons, trust, and arc first, then logistics. By the time they reach this section, they’re qualifying themselves instead of just comparing calendars.
The fire is already lit.
Six spots per cohort. Two cohorts in 2026. When they fill, they fill.
