Paths to Pleasure:

A mindful journey through grief, love and belonging

September 10-13, 2026 | Mancos , CO

Registration Open

This wilderness retreat is a playful exploration of pleasure.

Join a group of kindred hearts to find belonging in your sensual body, your authentic Self, and the wild Earth.

This retreat is not only a healing journey, but a celebration of our bodies, our emotional expression, and our pleasure inclusive of a diversity of ages, life stages, genders and body appearances.

This is for you…

If you want to celebrate your body, your sensuality or your pleasure.

If you want to reinvigorate your relationship with the sensual self.

If you need a reset, refresh, or reframe.

If you can’t find time for pleasure, or are too overwhelmed for it.

If you long to be nourished by a supportive community and the natural world.

Sample Schedule

  • 4 pm Arrival & Orientation

    Opening Council & Setting the Container

    Dinner

    Intentional time on the land: settling into home, belonging, and grounded presence.

  • Morning Meditation & Movement 

    Breakfast (provided)

    Group Activities & Practices (TBD)

    Lunch

    Group Sharing & processing

    Intentional Time in Nature

    Dinner (provided)

  • Morning Meditation & Movement 

    Breakfast (provided)

    Full-day nature walk & ceremony

    Dinner (provided)

  • Morning meditation & Movement

    Breakfast (provided)

    Integration lesson & discussion

    Closing Council

    4 pm Conclusion of Program

What is Pleasure Liberation?

This program is a concentrated weekend based on the longer arc of the Pleasure Liberation Method. It is a path to pleasure that is deeply authentic, present and connective. It supports the journey of radical self-love, empowerment and acceptance.

The Pleasure Liberation Method:

  1. Remember Your Belonging: We begin by building our foundation and remembering that we are an extension of earth, that we belong to ourselves, and to a greater web of life.

  1. Anchor into Worthiness: We are inherently worthy of pleasure, connection, and love. In this stage, we dismantle the belief that we are undeserving of rest, reclamation, pleasure, and taking up space.

  2. Alchemize Grief: Here, we lean into the importance of healing through letting ourselves feel and process the grief held in our lives, our ancestry, and the collective. Moving and alchemizing our grief is a necessary step to clearing the pathway to pleasure, joy, gratitude and love that lives on the other side.

  3. Open to Pleasure: Here, we increase our capacity to receive pleasure by connecting with the pleasure that is already present in your life, your body, and the earth. Then, we clear blocks to pleasure. It is time to expand what you thought was possible, and discover your unique pleasure landscape.

  4. Clarify Your Desire: This is not about being desirable; it is about strengthening your relationship with your own desires and longings. This isn't about getting everything you want, it is about seeing desire as a roadmap to the biggest version of ourselves.  

  5. Find Your Empowered Voice: Here, we dive into how to communicate well and ask for what we really want, and give ourselves radical permission to express ourselves.

  6. Express Your Sensuality: Our sensuality is our capacity to be in a reciprocal relationship with our sensory experience. It is to not only receive sensation, but to respond to it in an embodied conversation with the world that we are in contact with. This is how we become active players in our own story.

This container is intentionally curated.

This program is open to all genders and forms of gender identity, sexuality, and gender expression. This is a Queer-and trans-affirming program. It is also open to folks across the lifespan: we love learning from the different perspectives of our elders and our youngers (21+). Healing, joy, and fresh perspective are possible in each chapter of our lives.

We ask participants to practice courage, compassion, and curiosity so that we can create an intentional space by being mindful of our edges, our privilege, and awareness around internalized bias that we all carry.

We want to make this program as accessible as possible to those who feel called to participate. If you have questions about whether the program is right for you based on physical or mental health needs, please get in touch.

This container is intentionally small (limited to 8 participants) and facilitated with precision by qualified and experienced guides.

    1. No sexual touch or romantic/sexual pursuit of other participants or facilitators

    2. Confidentiality to support freedom in expression

    3. Non-judgement and respect for others

    4. Respect for boundaries and consent

    5. Commitment to non-harm

    6. Commitment to creating a welcoming space for a diversity of individuals

    7. Zero tolerance for harassment or discrimination

    8. Personal responsibility for physical, mental, and emotional well-being

    9. Respect for copyrighted content

  • There will be no sexual group activity.
    There is no nudity requirement.
    There are no psychedelic substances, drugs or alcohol allowed during the program.
    There is no pressure to disclose beyond your capacity.

Your Guides

Jacqueline Thompson (she/her)

With over a decade of experience as an outdoor guide, songwriter, nature-based ceremonialist, yoga teacher, program facilitator, and educator on all things Eros & Pleasure, Jacqueline’s work is deeply informed by Ecopsychology and the intersection where the erotic, creativity, and nature meet.

Her specialty is in crafting meaningful journeys that help others to attune to nature’s rhythms, live with soul and purpose, and come home to their sensual bodies and creative potential.

She is devoted to the art of ritual, to tending grief in these times of collective unravelling, and to making holy the forbidden and forgotten places of our humanness; so that we can become a little bit more whole, real, and authentic.

Board Certified Sexologist • 5-Element Tantra Practitioner • Wilderness Rites of Passage Guide • Earth-Based Ceremonialist • Wilderness & Outdoor Recreation Guide

Wild Wayfarer | Center for Holistic Sexual Wellness

Linds is a gender joyful Queer wilderness guide. Linds loves to warmly nurture spaces where marginalized folx’ lived experiences are honored and their multifaceted wisdom is able to be seen, heard, and affirmed.

Within human and more-than-human community, Linds finds the inspiration and capacity to witness the deep transformation and alchemy of our individual and collective stories.

Their aspiration is to tend these experiences of social reweaving so that the how of our togetherness serves collective awakening and liberation.

Educator • Buddhist Chaplain • Wilderness Rites of Passage Guide • Certified InterPlay Leader 

Gather the Wild Collective

Linds Roberts (they/them)

Details

Date: September 10-13, 2026

Location: Echo Basin (near Mancos, Colorado)

Cost: $600 USD (Early Bird through 7/31)

$685 USD (after 8/1)

*scholarships are available

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