WILD ZEN - Men’s Retreat
with Ivan Rados
Sharpen your masculine edge; soften your heart
Upcoming Retreat
30 April - 3 May, 2026
All-inclusive; held in British Columbia, Canada, on one of our most beautiful islands
Pricing:
$2100 CAD starting (early bird)
$2700 CAD starting (regular)
Please contact concierge@intronaut.com for details
*Inclusive of a $600 deposit to secure your spot
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Sharpen your masculine edge while softening your heart!
The Wild Zen Retreat for Men is Ivan Rados’s signature multi-day retreat designed exclusively for men. Set on one of British Columbia’s most stunning islands, this retreat offers luxury accommodations and is meticulously crafted to support your deepest transformation. Led by Ivan Rados—a renowned meditation master, spiritual teacher, and gifted healer—this intensive four-day journey weaves together non-dualistic teachings, guided meditations, Intronaut breathwork, mind mapping, and a powerful two medicine ceremonies featuring Jaguar, Forest, Third Eye, and Heart Medicines. Consistent with Intronaut’s approach, Wild Zen integrates a distinctive blend of plant medicine healing, merging Ivan Rados’s non-dual teachings with the grounded framework of psychotherapeutic integration.
Drawing from his Middle Point approach—a discipline born from a profound inner awakening at age 42—Ivan guides participants toward wholeness and self-actualization. As a healer, he brings a unique ability to mend the unseen wounds of the spirit, working with energy and presence to dissolve blockages and restore balance. His mastery lies in dissolving the illusions of the egoic mind, offering a direct path to freedom, truth, and present-moment awareness without rigid methods or dogma.
With ample time for personalized attention and one-on-one growth, this retreat offers a rare opportunity for deep, lasting transformation—a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Wild Zen is all-inclusive and unfolds on a breathtaking property surrounded by serene forests and scenic views, just a quick 20-minute ferry ride from Vancouver.
Retreat At-a-Glance:
1. The Intent Ceremony
Your journey begins with setting your Intent, a sacred act guided by Ivan beneath Vancouver’s urban sky. This heartfelt conscious intent—whether healing a wound, seeking clarity, getting your lost power and vitality back, or awakening to inner love and truth—becomes your guiding star, shaping the profound ceremony journey and through the power of witnessing meditation, rooted in the Middle Point spiritual approach, which transcends the illusion of separateness, your Intent opens portals to profound insights and lasting change.
“Intent is the sacred seed from which the tree of transformation grows, rooted in the soil of conscious presence.” – Ivan Rados
2. Intronaut Breath: the Medicine Within
Intronaut Breath, a Conscious Connected Breathing practice, prepares, awaken the dormant energy, open the portal for release, and integrates your journey. Before the ceremony, breathwork expands consciousness, unraveling hidden traumas and attachments, priming you for a resistance-free psychedelic voyage. Afterward, it anchors transformative states, reminding you that the greatest medicine lies within, accessible through your breath’s rhythm.
“The breath is your inner medicine, always waiting to guide you home.” – Ivan Rados
3. Jaguar Medicine Ceremony
Your Intent illuminates the Jaguar Medicine Ceremony, a carefully facilitated psychedelic experience centered on 5-MeO-DMT (Jaguar medicine), which dissolves ego to reveal your boundless essence. Administered in stages, tailored to your energy, openness, and witnessing consciousness, 5-MeO-DMT guides you to a direct experience of truth—YOU.
Optional preparatory medicines before Jaguar medicine (based on your readiness):
• Hapé (Amazonian sacred snuff with DMT traces) cleanses and grounds, aligning your energy.
• MDMA fosters heart-opening empathy, releasing grief in waves of love.
• San Pedro, a traditional Andean plant medicine known for its powerful heart-opening and visionary effects..
• Psilocybin, the forest’s medicine, deepens connection to nature and self, unveiling heart-centered truth.
• 3MMC, fosters third-eye opening, deepens intuition cleared the perception of your reality within and without
Paired with Magic Witnessing Meditation, these medicines amplify your journey. Safety is paramount—participants complete a Medical and Social History form to screen for conditions like heart issues, psychosis risk, or MAOI interactions, ensuring a secure, personalized experience.
“The Jaguar whispers the secrets of the void, where ego dissolves and the infinite self emerges in pure, unfiltered truth.” – Ivan Rados
4. Non-Dualistic Wisdom
Ivan’s teachings, rooted in the Middle Point philosophy, offer a profound shift. By transcending the illusion of separateness, you recognize love, peace, and wisdom as your true nature. Shared in intimate group discussions or one-on-one moments, these insights guide your Intent, fostering graceful integration post-ceremony.
“Non-duality is the silent recognition that all separation is illusion, and in that truth, boundless love awakens.” – Ivan Rados
5. Energy Healing with Ivan Rados
As a master energy healer, Ivan taps into the Geometry of the Soul, channeling universal life force to clear blockages in your psyche and biofield. His intuitive energy touch and Distance Holography Healing, offered during the ceremony, restore harmony, promoting mental clarity, physical vitality, and emotional balance.
“My healing is a conscious invitation to be present, accept with gratitude, and trust life’s flow.” – Ivan Rados
6. Extended individual and group integration sessions
Integration Sessions Integration is the sacred bridge between ceremony and everyday life, where profound revelations take root. In extended one-on-one sessions with Ivan, you’ll unpack insights, release lingering energies, and align your Intent with actionable steps, fostering deep self-compassion and clarity. Group circles amplify collective wisdom, sharing stories through guided witnessing meditation, dissolving isolation and weaving communal support. Rooted in the Middle Point approach, these sessions empower lasting transformation, ensuring your journey’s gifts endure.
“True integration is the art of embodying the infinite in the finite.” – Ivan Rados
7. On-site catering featuring fresh, organic, whole-food ingredients.
On-Site Catering Featuring Fresh, Organic, Whole-Food Ingredients Nourishment is an extension of your healing, feeding body, mind, and spirit with vitality from the earth. Our on-site catering offers thoughtfully prepared meals using fresh, organic, whole-food ingredients—vibrant vegetables, ancient grains, and healing herbs sourced locally to honor nature’s abundance. Each dish, infused with mindful intention, supports detoxification, energy restoration, and grounding after ceremonies, aligning with your journey’s rhythm. Vegetarian and adaptive options ensure inclusivity, turning every meal into a meditative act of gratitude and wholeness.
“Food is the medicine that sustains the soul’s
Program Benefits
• Master the Middle Point — The Art of True Meditation.
Immerse yourself in the Middle Point philosophy, Ivan Rados’s profound non-dualistic discipline born from his own awakening. Learn to witness the mind without effort, transcend the illusion of separateness, and transmute discontent, suffering, and inner conflict into presence, peace, and boundless awareness. This is not technique-driven meditation—it’s the direct recognition of your essential wholeness, where transformation arises naturally from surrender and conscious allowance.
• Safely Dive into the Depths of Your Unconscious
In a powerfully held, energetically-guided container, journey through the portal of your unconscious with Intronaut Breathwork, Zen-Rapé, and Jaguar Medicine ceremonies. Break free from autopilot living and the tyranny of the “invisible master” — the conditioned mind that rules so many lives. At Wild Zen, we declare “no more.” Through radical, witnessed integration of your deepest psyche — including hidden traumas, attachments, and suppressed energies — you reclaim sovereignty, awaken detached consciousness, and begin life anew from a place of clarity, vitality, and authentic power.
• Forge Brotherhood Bonds That Last a Lifetime
Join a circle of courageous men in sacred vulnerability, shared breakthroughs, and profound presence. Under the guidance of Ivan Rados and the Intronaut team, form deep, soul-level connections that transcend the retreat — a true tribe of conscious brothers who continue to support one another. Gain lifelong access to our ongoing community, integration circles, Zoom follow-ups, and resources to anchor and expand your transformation long after you return home.
• Profound, Lasting Transformation in a Safe Container
Benefit from personalized one-on-one attention, extended integration sessions, and psychotherapeutic grounding alongside powerful plant medicine journeys. Emerge with renewed creative energy, emotional freedom, mental clarity, and a direct embodiment of your true essence — love, wisdom, and infinite potential. This is a rare, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shatter old patterns, ignite inner fire, and step into the world as a more conscious, empowered man.
AWAKEN TO YOUR HEART
THROUGH THE ALCHEMY OF THE MIDDLE POINT
The Middle Point is a non-dualistic spiritual discipline and framework developed by Ivan Rados, a spiritual teacher, meditation master, and energy healer. It emphasizes achieving wholeness, health, and self-actualization by transcending the illusions created by the dualistic mind, such as separateness, opposites, and ego-driven striving. Rather than adhering to rigid methods, ideologies, or dogmas, it promotes a “methodless method” that encourages surrendering effort and techniques to awaken a natural state of consciousness in the present moment. At its core, the Middle Point is the convergence where dualities dissolve—light and shadow, being and doing, mind and heart—revealing an innate unity and “I am-ness” that is always accessible, not something to be pursued or achieved.
The philosophy originated from Rados’s personal transformation at age 42. After years of spiritual seeking and a moment of collapse during meditation in his art studio, he experienced a profound awakening: five days of timeless awareness where ego, time, and striving dissolved into “nothingness.” This led him to realize that true enlightenment comes from non-striving and surrender to the unknown, rather than effortful pursuit. He established the Middle Point as a path that defies traditional categorization, drawing influences from Zen, Advaita Vedanta, and Taoism while rejecting institutionalized religions or “isms” that foster division.
Key Principles
Non-Duality and Transcendence of the Mind: The mind is seen as an illusory tool that creates separation and conflict through dualistic thinking (e.g., good vs. bad, self vs. other). The philosophy teaches switching off the mind to access pure consciousness, where awareness comprehends the mind’s mechanisms and allows them to drop. This leads to healing by addressing unintegrated experiences without clinging to past causes.
Surrender and the Methodless Approach: Enlightenment is not a goal but an ever-present reality recognized through self-awareness. Practitioners are encouraged to embrace “active inactivity”—fully engaging with life’s extremes without compromise or moderation—to merge dualities like anxiety and excitement into oneness. Tools include witnessing thoughts (double-arrowed attentiveness to mind and heart), spaceless breathing (natural, conscious respiration), and practices like gratefulness and laughter as forms of “real religion.”
Wholeness and Healing: Health is viewed as natural energetic harmony, disrupted by attachments or unprocessed energies. Illness signals a need to return to the center through allowance, acceptance with gratitude, and letting go. The philosophy critiques societal conditioning and external authorities (e.g., gurus or gods) as barriers to personal awakening, linking individual realization to broader planetary healing by dissolving collective separateness.
Living in the Now: The Middle Point is the eternal present, where one becomes a “creator, not a victim,” by committing to natural existence and the Language of Wholeness. It rejects detachment as indifference, instead promoting integrated love, intelligence, and joy.
Relation to Non-Dualism
The Middle Point is fundamentally non-dualistic, asserting that all separation is an illusion perpetuated by the mind. It bridges the known and unknown, emphasizing that true awakening involves understanding consciousness itself, not life’s superficial meanings. Unlike dualistic systems that create conflict through opposites, it fosters unity by embracing the full spectrum of existence, where the heart’s excitement aligns with divine inspiration. This aligns with non-dual traditions but stands apart by being rule-free, individualistic, and focused on practical transcendence without followers or hierarchies.
Applications
In practice, the Middle Point integrates with meditation, energy healing, and psychedelic ceremonies, blending masculine witnessing awareness with feminine nurturing intuition. It addresses modern issues like environmental degradation and social conflicts as symptoms of duality, advocating personal awakening as the key to collective transformation. Overall, it invites individuals to recognize their essential Being as the Middle Point—always centered, infinite, and free from illusion.
Your Lead Facilitator: Ivan Rados
Ivan Rados is widely recognized as one of the most influential spiritual teachers in the Western world, celebrated for his many gifts. After a prolific art career, with his work exhibited in over 130 shows across the UK and Eastern Europe, he experienced a profound inner awakening that fundamentally shifted his perception of reality. This led him to establish a spiritual discipline known as The Middle Point, a non-dualistic approach to wholeness, health, and self-actualization.
His books, including Health: It’s All About Consciousness, The Art of Meditation, and The Middle Point, among others, are not only best-sellers but also essential reads for truth seekers worldwide. Ivan’s contributions to the science of inner transformation have inspired countless teachers, masters, and healers to develop their own unique and powerful approaches to conscious-responsive teaching and healing.
Ivan’s teachings defy categorization, as he neither follows established paths nor seeks to create followers. Instead, he emphasizes the individual’s journey—not to uncover the meaning of life, as many others do, but to explore the depths of consciousness and release attachments to the illusions of the mind.
Invest in your highest potential and ignite the fire within you. Take the first step towards transformation by getting in touch for registration details and requesting a copy of our Retreat Guide.
Discover how our retreat can help you unlock your true potential and live a more fulfilling life.
TESTIMONIALS
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Hello Ivan,
Thank you for introduction to a deep self-discovery session. I want to believe it changed me and so far it seems it has. I want to thank you all immensely for facilitating and chaperoning this amazing journey. I wish I were a poet to capture it all. Mere words would never do justice. I look forward to many more interactions and another journey. I guess I still need to experience passive tranquility.
Love and Regards,
Wishing you and your loved ones good health and contentment in these challenging times.
—Satwinder Singh, P.Eng, LEED AP BD+C, … Principal - TAG Engineering
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I am so thankful to have gone through such an uplifting and life-altering experience with Intronaut. This spiritual ceremony radically shifted my perception of how I show up in this world, and as I result, I feel more centered, grounded, and filled with immense happiness which I know is and will continue to generate a lasting impact on every area of my life. I look forward to continuing this journey through additional practices available at Intronaut. I highly recommend this experience and have already shared this with many friends.
I am happy to make a quick video and will share this with you soon.
— Ven Virah
Award-Winning Inspirational Speaker, Certified World Class Speaking Coach, Charismatic Conference Emcee, eSpeakers Profile, Canadian Association of Professional Speakers [CAPS], Global Speakers Federation [GSF]
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Three days in the wilds of British Columbia focused on me. It was the perfect next step for me in my personal development journey. I embraced the Wild Zen adventure with Ivan Rados with truly clear intentions. And it more than delivered.
These days there are many that claim to be shamans, helping seekers to discover the truth and transform their lives. Ivan has spent over 30 years working at his craft and has written and published 8 books along the way. His depth of experience, love and devotion to his work were readily evident in the preparation and care he took in guiding me in my journey.
The time I spent in the wilderness has made a lasting, profound effect on my life. The specific areas I focused on were:
Clarity and purpose, both personally and in my business
Allowing more love into my life
Dissolving ego
Minimizing triggers
The practices were varied and really got to the heart of my intentions. Being in nature, breathing in the fresh air, and enjoying the fresh water enhanced the experience. And Ivan’s cooking was amazing. The way of being I wanted in my life unfolded in the most unlikely ways.
Wild Zen with Ivan is an experience I will always treasure and look back on as a seminal point in my life. I look forward to continuing my work with Ivan, knowing that I am in the best of hands.
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I came to Ivan with several big life questions. HE helped narrow it down to a unified intent and on we went!
This was a first experience for me and I was impressed by how involved they were in my journey. After a while without much happening, I was getting impatient and Ivan kept telling me that I just had a stubborn mind ;) Not long after that, BOOM! I was alternating between crying and laughing, the hardest I have ever in my life. Both felt really good. The crying was a big relief, the laughing was just out of control!
I kept asking very hard questions as my big fears and desires were rapidly revealing themselves in succession. Each of them led to very intense crying.
At the grand finale, I was perfectly at peace with myself, and a crystal-clear life plan arose. My positivity skyrocketed and, armed with the accompanying willpower, I felt like I could go take risks and embark on completely new adventures in this beautiful world.
It's a that point that Ivan woke me up to eat together. He offered to make me a mini-sandwich with crackers and I remember delightfully saying "yes, sure!" with an enthusiasm that was off the charts! The camaraderie of that moment was wonderful.
After one day full of meditation, exposure to nature, breathing and looking objectively at the experience as a whole, I committed to start changing that part of myself right now, and let the healing begin!
Thank you Ivan
— Jonathan
FRENCH
C'était une première expérience pour moi et j'étais impressionné par la façon dont il étaient impliqués dans mon voyage. Après un long moment sans que rien ne se passe, je devenais impatient et Ivan me disait que j'avais implement un esprit borné ;) Peu après, BOOM! J'alternais entre des pleurs et des rires. Les plus intenses de ma vie. Les deux me faisant beaucoup de bien. Les pleurs soulageaient, les rires étaient fous!
Je posais les questions difficiles, l'une après l'autre, et mes grandes peurs et désires se révélaient en succession, menant à des pleurs intenses.
A la fin, j'étais parfaitement en paix avec moi-meme et un plan limpide s'est révélé. Ma positivité est montée en flèche et, armé avec la volonté qui va avec, je me sentais capable de prendre des risques et de m'embarquer sereinement dans de nouvelles aventures, dans ce monde merveilleux.
C'est à ce moment qu'Ivan me réveilla pour manger ensemble. Il ma proposa un mini-sandwich fait avec des petits biscuits, et je me rappelle répondre "oui bien sur!" avec un enthousiasme fabuleux. La camaraderie de ce moment était merveilleux.
Merci Ivan
— Jonathan
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A powerful couple of days spent on the Sunshine Coast with other participant men/brothers bonded for life and our facilitator Ivan guiding.
A profound experience of deep self-exploration into our hearts and minds. A practice in letting go of what was, and a powerful Choosing of our being moving forward. Us men now bonded for life as we were left saying goodbye to our previous selves, while creating a pathway for being to move forward. . My experience was nothing short of profound. What a gift to honor oneself within creating time to be with other like-minded individuals and travel an uncommon path. I walk away with a deep sense of being grounded, relaxed, inner alignment and trust, a readiness in beginning a new chapter in my life. So grateful to all who took part in choosing themselves first. An experience every human deserves to gift themselves, the gift of being themselves.
All the love, blessing moving forward.
— Anthony
VIDEO TESTIMONIALS
Upcoming Retreat
30 April - 3 May, 2026
All-inclusive; held in British Columbia, Canada, on one of our most beautiful islands
Pricing:
$2100 CAD starting (early bird)
$2700 CAD starting (regular)
Please contact concierge@intronaut.com for details
*Inclusive of a $600 deposit to secure your spot