My Next Retreat + Life Updates
10 days till 'super early bird' ends for Wild Freedom retreat. Plus life updates & new content.
Dear Family,
First, a poem I wrote a couple days ago:
The Body of God is a relational web
Of alivenesses and intelligences
Dancing and intermingling
Differentiated yet non-separate
Distinct yet fuzzily boundaried
Threaded within an underlying tapestry
Where multiplicity melts into unity melts into the unsayable
This gives a glimpse of what’s been moving for me, especially in relation to my new favorite podcast that I highly recommend: The Emerald.
A lot has been moving for me lately. I’ve sorta been starting to feel like some kind of…
Animistic shamanic Catholic mystic who also happens to appreciate/integrate much of the great earthly wisdom traditions + resonate with notions of “the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible,” hahah.
Life’s a trip, man. And God most definitely works in mysterious ways. Read this recent Twitter thread of mine for more context on my ongoing resurrection of my Catholic roots.
My Next Retreat: Wild Freedom — ‘Super Early Bird’ Pricing Ending Soon.
If you missed my earlier announcements…
I’m hosting a retreat called WILD FREEDOM at Kumankaya Healing Center in Mexico from December 10th - 16th, 2023.
And there are only 10 days left to join at the ‘super early bird’ price of $2,200.
After that, the ‘early bird’ price will be $2,400 till August 31st. After that, $2,700.
(I do this type of ‘early bird’ structure because creating retreats is much smoother on my end when guests confirm early.)
On this retreat, we’ll be working with ayahuasca and Bufo alvarius—two of the most profound psychedelic medicines in the world—and the team and I will also be facilitating a myriad of other workshops and soul-connecting practices to help you heal and blossom.
This retreat is all about reconnecting to the INNER CHILD and the WILD (WO)MAN within.
This prayer is encapsulated in the name WILD FREEDOM, which speaks to that current of untamed child-like aliveness that is essential for us to tap into, if we wish to be truly inspired, alive, playful, creative, and divinely enthusiastic about Life.
If you apply for Wild Freedom before the end of July, I will honor the ‘super early bird’ price for you.
Kumankaya & the Team for Wild Freedom
Kumankaya is truly my absolute favorite place in the world to work with plant medicine.
I’m getting married to my beloved fiance at Kumankaya later this year. That’s how much I adore and trust this space and its creators.
There are no words I could say to convey my love and appreciation for Remi and Ashley Delaune—the husband and wife who are the creators, stewards, and shamans at Kumankaya. They are an unbelievably beautiful and skilled duo with decades of combined experience doing deep, real, full-hearted shamanic and spiritual work. They serve with impeccable grace, integrity, and wisdom.
Remi was actually an Orthodox Christian monk who lived largely in silence for 20 years, before he was mysteriously summoned to the shamanic path 12 years ago. He (along with Ashley) is still a Christian and views the Shipibo ayahuasca tradition as a lineage of healing tools into which he has been initiated. I have never felt the loving presence of Jesus Christ more profoundly than last year at Kumankaya—it was like an inferno of unconditional Love.
This is a world-class medicine space, and more than that: It is a sanctuary on holy ground. I genuinely view Kumankaya as a kind of ‘Noah’s Ark’ that Remi and Ashley were instructed to build. They nearly ‘broke their backs’ building this labor of love with their team. The love is felt.
My homie CoryaYo—legendary music producer and sound healer—will also be returning this year, and we will be infusing sublime sound healing throughout the retreat and even within some of the medicine ceremonies. We are deeply honored to be collaborating with our family at Kumankaya to bring this retreat to life.
Once more, you have 10 days left to apply for Wild Freedom, if you want to receive the ‘super early bird’ price of $2,200 for this life-altering experience.
Lots of New Videos
Tanja and I decided to do a challenge in July that we call ‘31 Days of Truth.’
The challenge is to post a ‘reel’-style video on Instagram every day for 31 days. If one of us misses a day, we give the other a 10-minute massage. So far I’ve only missed one day, meaning I’ve uploaded ~20 new videos this month. I’ve also cross-posted most of them on Facebook, if you prefer that platform. Here are some of my favorites:
1. I Am Not God
2. God is here! God is in the sparkling eyes of the children!
3. A story of massive initiation: I have been through the ringer these past couple years.
4. God works in mysterious ways. Trust yourself to the fires of initiation.
5. Crying a lot of tears today
If you appreciate these videos, I’d be grateful if you’d pass ‘em on to someone who needs these messages and give me a follow on IG and/or FB.
In Sum
Aight, fam, that’s all from me for now.
I truly look forward to seeing some of you at Wild Freedom in December! Gonna be next-level medicinal, as it always is at Kumankaya.
I hope this finds you trusting the Mystery of God.
These are tectonic times. It is completely understandable to be feeling a lot of things at this time. If you’re feeling a lot, it just means that you’re open and sensitized to the ongoing collective purge we are experiencing, in these times of immense transition.
Let it all move through. Trust yourself to the fires of initiation. Thank God for the tests and initiations. They are opportunities to demonstrate and cultivate steadfastness, resolve, loyalty, devotion, conviction, resilience, determination, compassion, and a warrior spirit.
It is an honor to be given a portion of the collective’s karma to lovingly alchemize within yourself. Carry it with inner strength and nobility. Let it crack your heart open and transform you into the warrior of the heart that you are.
We are in the promised land. This earthly life is quite literally the Body of God.
Bless you, child of God.
Amen.
In Loving Service to the Whole,
Jordan
Jordan Bates
Leadership Coach, Heart Healer, & Entheogenic Guide
Honor | Love | Courage | Truth
Jordan Bates is a leadership coach who trains heart-led warriors to give their lives over to Truth and Love. He is also a teacher, writer, mystic, artist, rapper, space-holder, and celebrator of God. He offers one-to-one coaching, men’s leadership development, self-guided courses, & retreats—and now also offers True Creation Accelerator.
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