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The land remembers what we've forgotten.

 

For millennia, queer men have walked as medicine keepers, threshold crossers, the ones who speak between worlds and bring innovation from the margins. WOVEN is our invitation to gather as we were meant to: woven into the living earth, into each other, into the queer lineage that's been waiting for our awakening.

Through earth, water, fire, and wind, four guides hold space for you to return home.

Not to become something new. But to remember what's always been true.

 

January 18-19

Jacumba Hot Springs, CA

 

Four elements. Four guides. One weaving.

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This Gathering Is For Queer Men Who:

  •  Have done foundational healing work and are ready for what comes after
  • Feel called to brotherhood devoted to the stewardship of Life itself
  • Carry medicine for the collective and are tired of doing it alone
  • Are ready to reunite Eros and Spirit in their bodies
  • Want to remember their queerness as original medicine
  • Are hungry to feel the Earth as Kin and Nature as Self
  • Sense that gathering in full power shifts everything

 

This gathering may not be for you if: 

 

  • Aren't willing and able to take responsibility for your sexual energy 
  • Haven't yet begun foundational healing work
  • Are currently in acute emotional or mental health crisis. We honor where you are and want you to have the support you need.
  • Are uncomfortable with ritual, ceremony, or shamanic practices
  • Are looking for someone to fix or save you

  

Gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning, gender-fluid, masc-of-center, non-binary: all who gravitate, orbit, or oscillate around masculinity on your own terms. You are welcome here.

If the invitation resonates in your bones, this space is calling you.

EARTH

 

Belonging as birthright. The land remembers you: you have always had a place here. Making magic of your wounds and offering it with generosity.

The earth doesn't ask you to be different than you are. Neither does this circle. You already know how to root.

WATER 

 

Restoring authentic relationship with your emotions and ancestors. Touching the lineage of queer medicine carriers who held this wisdom before you.

Your body remembers. This is where grief becomes medicine. Where stories dissolve. Where you learn to flow.

FIRE

 

Initiation into your own mysteries through self-love and Eros. Claiming your role as medicine keeper. Understanding your queerness as cosmic assignment.

The fire doesn't make you into something new.
It burns away everything that was never you.

WIND

 

Remembering who you are and speaking it into being. The breath that carries your truth. The songs that have been waiting in your throat.

Your voice is medicine. Your words shape worlds. You already know how to sing yourself awake.

THE WEAVING

 

WOVEN is an intimate gathering of queer brothers. During our time together you will experience:
 
  • Council circles where we witness and are witnessed
  • Elemental rituals and Earth connection practices
  • Somatic practices to return home to your body
  • Movement, dance, and song as prayer
  • Ceremonial work with cacao, hapé, and Earth medicine allies
  • Erotic connection guided by consent and clear boundaries
  • Time for silence, rest, and integration
You'll move between the four elemental thresholds: earth, water, fire, wind - each one an invitation deeper into belonging.
 
What shifts during WOVEN: You leave feeling less alone, more alive, and woven into something much larger than yourself. The medicine you've been carrying in secret starts moving through you freely, the way it was always meant to.

WHERE WE GATHER

Nestled on 165 acres in the high desert of Southern California, about an hour east of San Diego, we gather on the traditional lands of the Kumeyaay people (Tiipai), who have lived, worked, and held ceremony in this landscape for over 10,000 years. Jacumba holds particular significance in Kumeyaay cosmology: it is where two mythical brothers, Tuchaipa and Yokomatis, emerged from the ground, and where healing hot springs have offered cleansing for millennia.

The land embraces you with ancient oak trees, dramatic boulder formations, caves, and sweeping desert vistas. At the heart of the sanctuary sits the Shala: a 1,000 square foot ceremonial space dedicated to prayer, healing, and transformation. The property includes a saltwater pool, hot tub and sauna, comfortable sleeping accommodations, and countless wild places to wander among the chaparral and stone. 

 

Alessandro Rōz 

Visionary, ceremonialist, erotic reclamation practitioner, student of plant medicines. Alessandro works with queer men through his Death, Dream & Eros framework. His practice focuses on helping folks remember their queerness as medicine, reclaim erotic sovereignty, and intimacy with themselves. 

 

Jovanny Perez 

2S artist, firekeeper, community weaver. Jovanny is dedicated to helping detribalized queer and Indigenous folks remember who they are and how to stand in it. His work with Queer Sol Collective centers queer embodiment, land-based practices, and the restoration of right relationship with the earth.

 

Langston Kahn 

Shamanic practitioner, teacher, author of Deep Liberation. Langston specializes in emotional clearing, ancestral healing, and helping people restore authentic relationship with their feelings and their lineages. His work is about radical transformation through the body.

 

    Elia Serras 

EcoSomatic facilitator, grief tender, culture weaver. Elia works at the intersection of deep ecology, belonging, and transformation. His practice focuses on helping people remember they are nature, not separate from it, through ritual, play, and the kind of deep listening that changes everything.

Contribution

 

All queer men are welcome here. Making this experience accessible is important to us.

We ask you to make an honest assessment of your access to resources and income. 

 

Supporting: $550+
For those with financial abundance, supports scholarship spots
 
Regular: $350
Base price covers expenses
 
Reduced: $250
For those needing financial support to attend

 

◎ [Base rate includes camping/dorm accomodation, meals and all activities] 
◎ Private room upgrade available (limited spots)
◎ Scholarships and Work-trade positions available: no one turned away for lack of funds

 

Your generosity supports brothers who face financial barriers.

 

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A Final Note

There is a small, sacred tribe whose history has been obscured, whose gifts have been forgotten.

We are that tribe. 

Across cultures and throughout time, those of us who loved differently, who saw with both eyes at once, who carried the gifts of both masculine and feminine - we were the shamans, the priests, the healers, the ones who could walk between worlds.

Colonization, conversion, and centuries of erasure tried to make us forget. But you can feel it, can't you? The stirring. The memory that lives in your bones.

Most queer men have learned to carry our medicine alone, or not at all. There is necessary work that happens when we gather solely in the company of other queer men: something that dissolves the armor, something that remembers what the world tried to make us forget.

We are fully committed to co-creating a brave space for queer men to remember ourselves. This kind of ritual technology is ancient, and we cannot do it alone. We acknowledge the ancestors, both the queer lineage bearers who came before us and the Kumeyaay people on whose traditional lands we gather, and we honor all our more-than-human kin in this work of collective healing.

When queer men stand fully activated in our medicine, devoted to the stewardship of life itself, we tip the scales toward wholeness for everyone.

This is that activation.
The circle is waiting.
You belong here.

Let's weave together.

with love, 

Elia, Langston, Jovanny & Alessandro

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