The work takes four shapes. A six-day retreat. A monthly Sunday circle. One-on-one sessions with Forest. And a slowly forming network of local circles. Each one is a way in. None of them are selling you anything.
Five movements. Fifteen years of curriculum work and Forest's own practice, distilled into something simple enough to hold.
It organizes the retreat and threads through the rest. Safety is the foundation from which everything else becomes possible. We lean on the experiential. We go light on the conceptual.
The pull you're already feeling. Sacred dissatisfaction, naming itself.
The separate self, seen clearly. The box you've been living in, and who built it.
Coming back into relationship. Body, breath, each other, the living world, the sacred.
Turning what you've found outward. For the children of our children.
Life from the connected self. Primary satisfaction as a baseline, not a peak.
Where the full arc lives. A circle of humans in nature, grounded, relational, awake.
A retreat has three parts. Four weeks of preparation beforehand. Seven days together on the ground. Two weeks of integration support afterward. What you're committing to is all of it.
The 5 Movements shape the middle. Daily sitting practice. Somatic work. Relational work in pairs and small groups. Time in the forest and at the water. Meals shared. Silence when it serves. We walk people through the whole thing without rushing them.
Ten is the size that works. Small enough that nobody performs. Big enough that the field can actually form. Relational depth over performance, all the way through.
Safety is the foundation from which everything else becomes possible. Forest has been designing curriculum for fifteen years. This is what that time bought.
February 7 through 13, 2027. A secluded beachfront retreat center on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Ten seats. Four weeks of preparation beforehand, seven days together on the ground, and two weeks of integration support afterward. Lodging, meals, facilitation, and integration included. Scholarship seats held every round.
Start a conversationThe next retreat after February 2027 is being planned. Same shape: seven days, ten people, full application. Tell us you're interested and we'll write you when dates land.
Tell us you're interestedWe stay small because we aren't trying to scale. Honest work needs a container that can hold it, and ten is what ours can hold. For people interested in C.Lab work with psychedelics, that lives in a separate-but-related entity called The Church. Different container, same lineage. Start a conversation
Ninety minutes on Zoom. Free, usually. Open to anyone.
A short teaching. A practice. Small breakout groups so people can actually speak to each other. A closing, together, as one group.
The circle is where many people start. Come once. Come every month. Both are fine.
Sitting with fear of the future without collapsing into it. Hosted by Forest. The Zoom link goes out the week before to anyone on the list.
Sixty or ninety minutes. By video. By inquiry.
Integration after a retreat. Guidance through a hard passage. Practice work. Or just sitting with someone who's been on this ground a long time. Not therapy. Not coaching. Something older and simpler than either. If what the moment is actually asking for is therapy, Forest will tell you.
Alumni are starting circles where they live. France. Quebec. Northern California. And counting. These are the long game. The work gets taken home and it becomes part of a life, instead of a week in Costa Rica you tell your friends about.
If you want to host one, or if one is forming near you, tell us where you are