Mens Weekend

Reconnecting with nature can feel like coming home after a long journey.

This men’s retreat offers a powerful three-day experience in nature and ancient traditions. For one weekend, you step away from clocks, phones, cameras, work, partner, and children, and live in the rhythm of nature instead.

It is designed for men who are asking deeper questions: Who am I? What do I truly want? In a fast-changing world where achievement often defines success, it can be difficult to stay connected to yourself. This retreat invites you to pause, reflect, and move forward with greater clarity, energy, and direction.

Throughout the weekend, you journey inward and outward at the same time. You connect with other men through trust, support, and brotherhood, while nature reflects back what is happening within you. The experience can bring insight into what blocks you, what wants to be released, and what you are ready to claim for yourself.

Program

• Wake up in the sweat lodge — an ancient ritual that may cleanse body and mind, while creating space for anger, sadness, fear, joy, frustration, and loss to be felt honestly.
• Let go into the fire — a fire ceremony to release what stands in your way and burn away what you are not.
• Plant trip for new perspectives — an inward journey with legal truffles, supporting stillness, self-connection, and new insight.
• Ice bath for living your dream — breathwork inspired by Wim Hof followed by an ice bath, supporting courage, integration, and embodiment.

Across these three days, you sweat, breathe, laugh, cry, shiver, scream, and wonder. The retreat focuses on deep cleansing, self-healing, and rediscovering your connection with nature and your own inner world.

Ancient rituals, music, breathwork, plant medicines, and the sweat lodge are all part of the experience. Healthy food is served throughout, so you return home feeling supported not only emotionally, but physically as well. The setting is the beautiful healing place of AVANIA.

Results may include

• an unforgettable experience
• greater ease in making choices
• more focus and peace of mind
• better boundaries and more energy
• more joy in life
• deeper insight into your patterns and inner structures
• a stronger connection with nature and the elements
• renewed power, passion, and direction in life

For whom?

This retreat is for men and women who feel called to go inward, grow, and challenge themselves physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. It is for those who are ready to clear out old baggage, step beyond their comfort zone, and trust that answers can be found in nature and inner knowing.

The team

The AVANI team brings experience in energy healing, sound healing, behavioral change, transformation, systemic work, breathwork, plant medicines, and sweat lodge ceremonies. The guides include Maurits Hofman, Chiel van Kollenburg, and Tijn Kapteijns, each bringing their own depth, energy, and connection to the work.

Practical information

When: More info soon

Where: AVANI, ’t Hoog 3 in Helvoirt, Brabant

Price: Ticket to remember (including camper/tent) €450,-; bed in dormitory €75,-; bed yurt €50,-; private hotel room €200

An intake is held in advance with all participants by telephone or Zoom, along with a short questionnaire about health and intentions. In exceptional cases, including medical reasons, participation may be declined.

Payment: Book December 2026

If we always choose comfort, we never learn the deepest capability of our mind or body.