Easton Mountain Retreat Center

I've been on Easton Mountain three times this year, and it's been amazing. The nature hikes, the pool, the hot tub, the sauna, the workshops and especially the food are of the upmost quality.

You can attend to many of the workshop events as you like or not. It is all optional, which makes for a perfect vacation in the mountains at your own pace.

The people are very welcoming and the volunteer staff is great.

They have strict COVID Vaccination and testing rules for all attendees, which I am thankful for, so when you are here you know you are in a COVID-Free and safe place.

Easton mountain is a beautiful retreat. Scenic view and the soft quiet to renew yourself. I have volunteered and been a guest here on multiple times and have always left here feeling more myself than anywhere else. The food is great and the staff is amazing.

I attended Easton Mountain for the Bear Your Soul event, September 2021, and it was a profound and deeply moving experience. Easton Mountain presents itself to you in whatever manifestation you need it to be; it can be playful, wild and full of energy, or quiet, contemplative and deeply centered. What you allow yourself to be open to is what you will allow yourself to experience. If you are a queer man, who is looking to re-connect to yourself, or a man looking for connection to community; I cannot recommend Easton Mountain enough. I'm looking forward to returning to this amazing place.

I've been here a few times before, but this was special. There were only a few of us here, including the staff, and the whole place is a COVID-safer bubble. I had to get tested before arriving, and there's minimal (with strict protocol) contact with the outside world. I live alone at home, so this was the first time in a year that I could relax, see people's faces, and just talk without all the extra logistics of socializing in a pandemic. And that's not even mentioning hugs! I even stepped up and cooked a few dinners (& baked a few desserts) for the crew. Sad to be going home soon.

I've been volunteering with Easton Mountain in a beautify event entitled BEAR YOUR SOUL. Although not identifying myself as a BEAR, I felt embraced in every and each single way as a human being can possibly be. There were around 50-60 amazing fellas - today I call them all brothers - so into making friends, connections and somehow sharing the best they had in store. In the kitchen as a volunteer, I met this beautiful & inspiring chef Anna, who humbly ans wisely knew how to give us the space we needed so that we could be productive and creative at the same time . A big "mother bear"- young, fresh, energetic and powerful over all. My other volunteer fellas- now brothers- so warming & humble & wise- a cosmic experience . I had the opportunity to engage in three meaningful experiences - I had the choice to be in all of them but didn't want to be distracted between my volunteer work and my personal findings - and I can truly say I felt as I were in my second home. Easton Mountain leadership is focused, thoughtful, tolerant, honest and opened to you no matter what. In an environment where you have to make sure every person has the right attention to whatever needs they have and find at that mountain , they do their best and the aftermath is simply rewarding. I feel Easton Mountain is a place to call home. However, keep in mind this is a place where the best way to take advantage of all experience as a part of our inner growth is to be unplugged ! Forget your cell phones , your computer- unless you really need but avoid to be distracted. All you will see and experience is an once in a life time/moment/stage of yourself experience. Easton Mountain will make you feel accepted in body and soul, and the best - you will accept and love yourself the way you are, because you will discover YOU ARE AWESOME !