The men's retreat was fantastic. I loved the people, the activities, and all the facilities. Kano was a really experienced leader. He kept the schedule exciting and fun but yet not too tight. The size of the group was about right. The food was delicious, which was especially impressive considering all the dieting restrictions. The embodiment practice was exactly what I was looking for. Aided by powerful ceremonies, I not only had gained clear insights into my own life but also built new friendships with a group of extraordinary brave men who I feel honored to call spiritual brothers. I felt so much more healthy and wholesome after the short week! I am considering coming back for this retreat in future years.

A life changing experience. Had the opportunity to sit with Kano at a 7 day mens retreat in July 2023. Kano asked us to write about our experience, which I was going to do immediately after, but decided to wait a few months to see how the experience survived time. It’s November now, and I can honestly say that it was life changing. I had never heard of mens embodiment practices, before this retreat, but I entered with an open if not a skeptical mind. Kano holds himself in manor which is both egoless and yet commanding, creating a container which gives you permission to let go. It was also an opportunity to create a bond with the other 9 men on the retreat, a shared experience that has proved to be lasting. We have maintained the connection within the group, which in turn has allowed the lessons learned to live on. I have new friends now, friends who I can call upon when the going gets rough, which of course it does. But you cant underestimate the value of having a support network born of shared experience. What has also remained has been the insights gleaned, new habits have formed, healthy habits that have enabled me to integrate what was seen and felt. Kano has integrity, you know he wants to help, this is felt on a deep level, and for that I am truly grateful.

“I'll be honest: I walked into Kano's men's retreat with a lot of baggage around what I thought the experience would be: the type of work we'd be doing around masculinity, the type of men who'd be there, and what I – as a relatively well-adjusted trans man – would be able to get out of it. And despite Kano's assurances, I assumed I would, at the very least, spend the bulk of my time defending my right to be there to people who believed there to be an asterisk next to my identity as a man. Never have I been so grateful to have been proven so wrong. Not only did I find brotherhood amongst a wildly diverse group of men (who all unilaterally accepted me for who I am) but I was able to reconnect with parts of myself that decades of trauma had forced me to wall off. To call the experience transformative is a gross understatement; it healed parts of me that I never knew needed healing, and opened up parts of me that years of therapy haven't even touched. I used to believe that I had missed out on so much by having not been assigned male at birth; and while it's true, there are many formative parts of boyhood and manhood that I never got to experience, I walked away from this retreat with nothing but gratitude for the long and twisting road that brought me here (and 25 of the greatest friends a guy could ever hope to have)

“Working with Kano was the first time coming into a place of connection to my own authenticity. Until then, the concept of standing in my own power to be of the highest service was more of a buzzphrase than what it is now as the central core to my life's work. What's most important for everyone to take from this is how tangible this gift is to anyone who wants to receive it, regardless of whether or not they are aware of it existence for themselves. My sessions with Kano can be best described as being the subject of a master craftsman whose trade is in unlocking a person's true potential. He starts with the foundational building blocks of who you are, what is serving you, and what isn't. Replacing bad habits with constructive routines, physical practice work along with meditation to help you identify those parts of you that are holding you back. Once you have identified those, you can now step into the growth aspects of your being which have been covered in shadow arriving at the true YOU that has always been there. Since I began my work, I've experienced weight loss, and levels of physical and mental energy I haven't felt in decades. The ailments that I have been inflicted with (gout) have all but subsided. I've been promoted at work and won the largest sales deal in my career. I have a deeper understanding and love of my partner and have emerged a King!!! Standing in a balanced state of the divine masculine and feminine energy that others commonly refer to as a "light" or "brightness" that I now emit.  In love and gratitude to my dear teacher Kano Mai.”