NEW FREE 5-Day Queer Men’s Self-Care Retreat @ Kripalu (Stockbridge, MA)

In honor of all the transformative play, work, and community-building Q-MoB & its 800 rural queer men have done in the last 2 years all over the Greater Berkshire Region, Kripalu has invited a group of 10 of us to, FOR FREE, spend 5 days to explore many ways to practice self care, rest, rejuvenation, and building a team to support one another and our communities in prioritizing the daily practice of transformative self care. Throughout the retreat you will have the opportunity to try (as you wish)

• many forms of yoga,
• meditation,
• yoga dance,
• various Ayurvedic wellness clases, including nutrition, rest & relaxation techniques
• mindful hiking,
• kayaking (in the warmer months),
• walking the labyrinth
• eating some of the freshest & best food you've ever had,
• rest and relax, and
• meet with the other queer men at every meal to talk about your strengths in self care and in what ways you want to improve or transform your relationship with your body and Spirit.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE:

You can arrive whenever you want and leave whenever you want and attend any of the R&R programs offered on (note you must enter a specific date to learn about the R&R schedule for that date and this online R&R schedule is only populated about 3 months in advance & is subject to change), and you only have to pre-register for guided hikes or guided kayaking.

WHO CAN REGISTER: This retreat is limited to queer men who are Q-MoB Subscribers. If you are not yet a Q-MoB Subscriber, and you identify as a queer man and live in one of the 8 counties in 4 states that make up the Greater Berkshire Region please click this link to . Also, to attend this retreat you must register and provide your name, email, address, phone number, age range, and diversity identifications. If you register 2 men, you must provide this information for each registrant.

WHAT TO BRING:

1) Comfortable clothes you can move freely in (you can store your street clothes & technology in a locked locker)

2) If you might like to hike or walk outside, please also bring good walking footwear (that could get muddy), raingear, water bottle (not glass), a fleece or pullover, sunglasses.

3) $50-$200 Tax-Deductible Donation , in cash, or check made out to "Q-MoB Inc"

4) Your ID and license plate number to give to Kripalu to get your name badge & parking permission.

MEAL SCHEDULE:
Q-MoB's group meets at every meal to check in about 1) our self care goals for the retreat, 2) what we are discovering at the retreat that we may want to bring back to our ordinary life, 3) what challenges we have with self-care and what experience the group may have that might help us, 4) how we may want to support one another when we go back home. The Q-MoB meal schedule is:

Breakfast 8-9am (we meet in our Home Room)
Lunch 12-1pm (meet in main dining hall)
Dinner 6-7pm (meet in main dining hall)

CARPOOLING/RIDE-SHARE: If you need a ride or are open to carpooling, please indicate that when you are registering, & our ride coordinator will try to match you with people nearby who are interested in carpooling or offering rides.

OR : Please donate $50-$200 to help assure Q-MoB can continue to offer more than 20 activities & multiple resources & services to rural queer men all over the region. If you attend 2 or more Q-MoB events/month, please consider becoming a monthly sustaining donor member. By donating $25, $50, $75, or $100/month you can help to sustain the incredible variety of activities, services, and resources Q-MoB provides and assure all of these activities are accessible to men regardless of their age, income, or ability, and best of all you can avoid having to donate at each and every event you attend. Monthly Sustaining Members pay only once a month and then can attend all our activities with no further donation.

HOW TO REACH US DURING RETREAT: If you have trouble finding us, will be late, or can't make it, please text Bart at 503-734-6508. Please note cell phones can only be used in the tech lounges at Kripalu so there may be a delay in responding to your texts.

Host or Publisher Q-MoB (Queer Men of the Berkshires)