You’ve built a good life. You show up. You provide. You do the responsible things.
But somewhere under all of it, something went quiet. The fire. The hunger. The part of you that used to feel things deeply—that wanted to devour life, not just manage it.
There is a version of you—more alive, more present, more open—that hasn't fully arrived yet. Others may have even told you they see him. But you’ve doubted it. Or guarded it. Or never had the right fire to call him forward.
That's not weakness.
That's the absence of initiation.
Most men in the modern West were never given a true rite of passage where the boy lays down his shame and the man claims his birthright: a right relationship with his erotic nature.
AWE is that threshold.
THIS WEEKEND IS FOR YOU IF:
- You feel the gap between the man you are and the man you sense you could be
- Your relationship has lost some of its aliveness - and you know it starts with you
- You carry things in your body you've never said out loud
- You've done therapy, read the books, maybe sat in circles - and you're ready to go deeper
- You’ve found yourself using outlets—booze, porn, distraction—to numb the quiet ache and you're ready to let that go
- You're done managing your desire from a distance and ready to actually meet it
- You hunger for real intimacy with other men - not just camaraderie, but genuine brotherhood
- You feel the call but keep finding reasons to wait
"This was the most powerful and transformative men's container I've ever been a part of.
My wife saw the same shift, immediately. It was a form of rite of passage into manhood that I never received. The insights I've gained from this container I already know will stick with me for the rest of my life."
- AUSTIN
THE EXPERIENCE:
Three days. A small group of men. A carefully held container.
AWE is not therapy.
It is not a workshop on "sexual techniques."
It is a structured descent into the parts of yourself you've kept in the dark, held by men who have made that journey themselves.
The weekend builds intentionally - each practice opening something the next one deepens. Men consistently describe it not as a series of random insights but as a progressive awakening, one layer at a time.
What we move through together:
- Mythic Framework - an ancient story of initiation told in pieces across the weekend, mapping your own descent and return.
- Embodiment Practices - moving what the mind can't resolve alone out of the body, where it actually lives
- Council & Dyad Work - speaking out loud what has only ever lived in silence, witnessed by other men
- Ceremony & Ritual - marking real thresholds in a way the psyche actually registers
- Conscious Breathwork - a breath practice that opens the body and accesses states beneath the ordinary
- Medicine Ceremony - a guided entheogenic journey into deeper layers of self
- Ecstatic Dance - reclaiming the simple, wild joy of being fully alive in a body
You will leave with more than insights.
Men walk out of this weekend ablaze - with fire in their belly, renewed aliveness in their relationships, and a felt sense of the man they came here to become.
WHAT MEN ARE SAYING:
"Come to this work if you are on the edge of the challenge of your own eros, your own connection with the divinity of yourself."
- UNITY
"I knew I needed to be vulnerable with other men and let the guard down."
- BRIAN
"I had no idea what was gonna come out of it, and every moment just blew my mind."
- DION
"I'm most excited to put this into action in my life is with my partner and reintroduce some of that juicy playfulness that I feel has been missing in our relationship."
- RAHIM
This weekend is not for you if:
- You're not ready to be honest - with yourself or with other men
- You want insight without being willing to feel anything
- You're looking for a comfortable weekend away
- You believe your patterns are everyone else's problem
- You're not interested in the role of myth, ritual, and ceremony in men's development
Meet Your Guides:
Ian MacKenzie is a men's facilitator, mythopoetic guide, and founder of The Mythic Masculine. For over a decade he has guided men in erotic soul work, archetypal psychology, and embodied masculine initiation.
His training spans multiple lineages—studying cultural repair with Stephen Jenkinson at the Orphan Wisdom School, four years at Tamera's Love School, and training in Council, Forum, and Transformational Psychotherapeutics.
He brings a deep devotion to this work, guiding men with the same presence he brings to his own inquiry.
Deus Fortier is a transformational facilitator, Numa Breathwork practitioner, and Plant Medicine guide with 17 years of immersive practice in non-ordinary states of consciousness, earth-based spirituality, and trauma-informed embodiment work.
His training spans Kriya Yoga, body-centered psychotherapy, art therapy, and Accelerated Evolution Coaching. He brings a rare blend to AWE—equal parts precision and wildness, depth and levity—all rooted in his own devotion to this territory.
"Beyond healing, I left the weekend ablaze with energy and purpose—ready to fully embody my life as a father, a son, a husband, a brother, and a friend."
- BRANDON
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