Men's Healing Retreat · Lake Atitlán, Guatemala
Out of the Shadow.Into the Flame.
The Summons
Maybe you've built a good life.
Maybe people depend on you.
Maybe everyone thinks you're doing just fine.
Maybe you think you should be.
But somewhere along the way, you learned that strength meant staying quiet.
That love had to be earned.
That your value lived in what you could provide.
That if you let people see the weight you carried, they might lose respect for you.
So you kept carrying it.
Until carrying it became your personality.
The hardest part is that after enough years, you don't even realize you're wearing armor anymore.
It just feels like skin.
The man you've become kept you alive.
I'm grateful for him.
He got you here.
But he isn't the whole story.
Welcome.
What this actually is
From the outside, it looks like paradise. Volcanoes, sacred water, ceremony, rest.
And it is all of that.
But underneath the beauty, something far deeper is happening.
This is not the men's retreat you are picturing. This is the work you have circled for years, held in a container powerful enough, and safe enough, to let you finally put the armor down.
Healing at the Root
Most men do not need another strategy.
They need a place where they no longer have to perform.
Where they can tell the truth.
Where they can be witnessed without judgment.
Where their nervous system finally learns that authenticity is safe.
We heal at the root.
The mind.
The body.
The nervous system.
The ancestral line.
The soul.
Not because these are separate parts of you.
Because they have always been one.
The Initiation
The fire doesn't destroy the moth.
It illuminates what was there all along.
The shame.
The performance.
The silence.
The belief that your worth has to be earned.
The armor that once protected you but now keeps you from being fully alive.
As the fire burns away what was never yours to carry, what remains is the man you were always meant to be.
Elemental Magic
Long before there were books on healing, therapy language, or names for what broke us, there was Earth beneath your feet, Water moving through your body, Fire burning off what no longer served, Air filling your lungs, and Ether holding the unseen thread that ties it all together.
Long before men learned to heal each other, the elements were already teaching them how.
At Lake Atitlán, that teaching is still alive.
Held inside three ancient volcanoes, this land carries something no book can explain.
It can only be earned.
Earth
He teaches you to root before you rise. Earth steadies the nervous system, reconnects you to the men who came before you, and reminds you that after life's heaviest weight, you are still standing.
Water
He remembers. Water softens what has hardened into armor, carries off what was never yours to hold, and restores the current that ran beneath the silence all along.
Fire
He is the crucible. Fire burns away the roles, the performance, and the survival patterns that have finished their work, revealing the man waiting underneath the ash.
Air
He clears the field. Air empties the noise in your head, opens what felt closed, and reminds you that every breath is a choice to carry yourself differently.
Ether
He is the thread beneath the surface, tying brotherhood, ceremony, and truth into one arc. This is where healing becomes character, and character becomes how you live.
Every ceremony, workshop, private session, and quiet hour has been built around the element it carries.
The land is not just the backdrop for your healing.
It becomes one of your guides.
The Elemental Journey
Each day has a purpose: safety, remembrance, integration, release, authenticity, balance, and embodiment.
Friday, Sept 18 · Arrival
You arrive before the work begins. Airport transfer, room check-in, welcome dinner, and meeting your retreat facilitators and guides.
Opening Cacao Ceremony and traditional Despacho ritual to align the collective intention for the week.
Night Brotherhood Circle to anchor the container.
Why today matters: Before anything opens, your body needs to know it has arrived. This first evening is not about beginning the work. It is about landing safely enough to allow the work to begin.
Saturday, Sept 19 · Day 1 · Earth
Earth Yoga & Nervous System Grounding. You slow down, reconnect with your body, and begin establishing the safety required for everything that follows.
Ancestral Patterns Workshop. We explore inherited beliefs, family dynamics, and generational survival strategies that have influenced the man you've become.
Private QRM Sessions. Each participant receives a one-hour Quantum Reroute Method™ session with either Satori or Tye while the rest of the group moves through nature reflection, journaling, and quiet Earth integration.
Traditional Mayan Temezcal Ceremony. A sacred purification ceremony held within the womb of the earth through heat, darkness, prayer, and intention.
Night Brotherhood Circle.
Why today matters: Every man carries stories that did not begin with him. Before we release what no longer serves, we first have to understand where it came from. Earth reminds us that healing is not about rejecting our past. It is about becoming rooted enough to choose a different future.
Sunday, Sept 20 · Day 2 · Water
Water Yoga. A gentle practice inviting emotional openness, presence, and receptivity.
Group Shamanic Soul Retrieval Ceremony. A guided experience reconnecting with the younger parts of ourselves that became disconnected through life's challenges.
Extended integration and lunch buffer by the water.
Private QRM Sessions. Each participant receives his second one-hour Quantum Reroute Method™ session with the facilitator he has not yet worked with, receiving both Satori's and Tye's perspectives before the deeper group work unfolds.
Night Brotherhood Circle.
Why today matters: Healing begins when we stop running from ourselves. Water invites us to soften, remember, and reconnect with the parts of us that have quietly waited to be seen. Wholeness was never lost. It was waiting to be welcomed home.
Monday, Sept 21 · Day 3 · Steam
Waterfall Hike & Sacred Water Cleansing. The body exhales, the nervous system softens, and the work from Earth and Water begins to settle.
Track A enters private 2-hour QHHT Subconscious Journeys.
Track B receives Deep Muscle Recovery Bodywork and quiet integration.
Evening Sound Healing Journey. No formal circle. No more processing. Just rest, resonance, and allowing the body to catch up.
Why today matters: Healing does not happen only in the moments that move us. It happens in the spaces that allow what has shifted to settle. Today is the bridge between Water and Fire, where the body integrates what the heart has remembered.
Tuesday, Sept 22 · Day 4 · Fire I
Fire Yoga & Morning Meditation. Preparing the body to meet the fire with steadiness and presence.
Traditional Mayan Fire Ceremony. A private boat ride to a sacred fire ceremony led by a local indigenous shaman.
2.5-hour grounded breathing space to integrate the shamanic fire.
The Weight We Carry Workshop. A guided workshop exploring the hidden burdens men often carry in silence: shame, performance, responsibility, perfectionism, and the belief that love, respect, and worth must be earned.
The Burning Ritual. A sacred fire ritual where each man consciously releases the stories, beliefs, and identities that no longer belong to him. Optional Hapé medicine.
Night Brotherhood Circle.
Why today matters: Fire does not come first. It arrives only after Earth has grounded, Water has remembered, and the body has had time to integrate. Today is about bringing hidden burdens into the light, not to judge them, but to release their hold. The fire does not burn the man. It burns what no longer belongs to him.
Wednesday, Sept 23 · Day 5 · Fire II
Fire Yoga & Morning Meditation. Allowing yesterday's ceremony to settle and preparing to live from what the fire revealed.
The Inner Compass Workshop. A workshop on listening to your core, recognizing self-abandonment, trusting your inner knowing, and choosing alignment over fear, obligation, performance, or approval.
Forged by Fire Ceremony. A sacred commitment ceremony where each man signs a personal covenant to show up as his authentic self and live in alignment with the man he knows himself to be.
Brotherhood Drum Circle & Celebration. Rhythm, music, laughter, storytelling, and connection. After days of deep work, this is where the men begin to experience the freedom and grounded power that come from having nothing left to prove.
Why today matters: Yesterday, you released what no longer belonged to you. Today, you choose what does. Authenticity is not something you create. It is something you remember and choose to honor. As you learn to trust your inner compass and live from your deepest truth, grounded power naturally emerges.
Thursday, Sept 24 · Day 6 · Air
Air Yoga & Hypno-Breathwork. Breath, perspective, and mental spaciousness after the intensity of the fire.
QHHT Track Swap. Track B enters private 2-hour QHHT Subconscious Journeys while Track A moves through restorative integration.
Paddleboarding on Lake Atitlán. A physical practice in balance, breath, presence, and play. If you tense, you wobble. If you soften and trust yourself, you glide.
Night Brotherhood Circle. A light integration circle focused on what feels possible now.
Why today matters: Healing is not measured only by what you release. It is measured by how fully you can be present with life again. Air invites perspective, curiosity, balance, and possibility.
Friday, Sept 25 · Day 7 · Ether
Zero processing. Zero sessions. Stepping out of the work and into living the shift through joy, nature, adventure, and brotherhood.
Morning Ether Yoga.
Ziplining, exploring town, and shared integration through play. The moth flies too. Not because he is escaping, but because he is finally free.
Cycle Breaking & Lineage Blessing Ceremony, followed by the Final Celebration Dinner.
Final Brotherhood Circle to seal the container.
Why today matters: The final day is not more work. It is proof of integration. Joy, adventure, laughter, brotherhood, and presence become evidence that healing has moved beyond insight and into everyday life.
Saturday, Sept 26 · Departure
Early farewell breakfast, closing hugs, and coordinated airport transfers.
Return. You leave held by the thread of what has been revealed, released, remembered, and reclaimed.
Why today matters: The retreat ends, but the work does not disappear. You return with a different relationship to the patterns that once shaped your life, and a deeper commitment to living from your grounded power.
Why Six Men
Six men means no one disappears into the background.
Your story has space.
Your silence has space.
Your nervous system has space.
You are not attendee number forty-eight.
You are one of six men we commit ourselves to fully.
Brotherhood is not built in a room of strangers. It is built in a room small enough that you cannot hide, and safe enough that you do not want to.
Before the Retreat
The Ember Ritual is Tye's free starting place for men who feel the pull, but need a private first threshold before opening to the deeper work.
One question. One letter. Twenty minutes of honest work.
You do not have to be ready for the full retreat to begin. You only have to be willing to tell the truth to yourself.
The Container
Who Will Walk Beside You
A husband and wife healing team. You are never held by strangers here.
Co-Founder of The Cocoon · Founder of The Moth · Reiki Master · Breathwork Facilitator · Sound Healer
With over 10 years of healing experience, Tye creates the grounded nervous system safety that allows deep transformation to unfold. The Moth was born from his own journey of discovering the difference between functioning and actually being okay. He leads this container.
Co-Founder of The Cocoon · Reiki Master Teacher · Hypnotherapist · QHHT Practitioner
With over 14 years of healing experience, Tori has guided thousands of sessions and developed a deeply integrative approach that works with the mind, body, energy, ancestry, and soul. She holds this container alongside Tye for every man who enters it.
2026 Cohort
All-Inclusive · 8 Nights · 6 Men
$3,333
$500 deposit reserves your spot. Payment plans available for the balance.
Before You Ask
The Moth is an 8-night men's healing retreat inside The Cocoon at Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. It combines ceremony, brotherhood, private QRM and QHHT sessions, ancestral work, elemental ritual, and integration.
No. The Moth is not therapy or clinical treatment. It is a structured retreat container for honesty, ritual, brotherhood, and integration. Men in active mental health crisis should seek clinical support first.
The Ember Ritual is Tye's free starting place for men who are not ready to enter the full retreat container yet, but know something needs to move.
All men enter the Ember Circle, a 40-day integration arc designed to help the work land in daily life through breath practice, brotherhood, and continued support.
The Threshold
Maybe you're tired.
Maybe you're angry.
Maybe you've spent years carrying everyone else.
Maybe you've built a life that looks successful from the outside but doesn't feel like home on the inside.
Maybe you're finally ready to find out who you are without the armor.
Whatever it is, let's start there.
The fire doesn't destroy the moth. It illuminates what was there all along.
