A long weekend in the redwoods for GBTQ+ men ready to drop the armor.
Many men know how to perform confidence, sexuality, and connection — but few of us know how to actually feel relaxed, present, and fully ourselves inside intimacy.
CAMP CONNECT is a four-day cabin retreat for GBTQ+ men who are ready to feel more connected — to their bodies, their desires, and each other. A place to stop performing and start showing up.
It's not about being more experienced, more confident, or more "advanced." It's about stepping out of isolation and into honest connection.
Through touch, breath, movement, relational practice and erotic exploration, CONNECT invites you to soften the armor, quiet the overthinking, and reconnect with parts of yourself that may have gone numb, hidden, or untouched for years.
Whether you arrive feeling curious, shut down, lonely, excited, nervous, or somewhere in between — you do not need to arrive as a finished version of yourself. Just arrive willing.
CONNECT lives in the space between worlds — consent-forward, emotionally aware, embodied, and a lot more relaxed than you might expect.
Less pressure to "get it right," and more permission to actually feel: your body, your boundaries, your desire, your nervous system, your capacity for play.
Limited to 21–30 men. Daily men's circles. Witnessed dialogue without performance. The kind of laboratory where vulnerability slowly becomes brotherhood.
A casual cabin property tucked into the Mendocino redwoods. Sauna, river bathing, hammocks, and long stretches of quiet between sessions.
Every CONNECT unfolds a little differently depending on who shows up. Here is the shape of it.
Daily practices to settle the nervous system, drop out of your head, and into the parts of you that already know.
Honest, witnessed dialogue with practitioners and peers — the laboratory where vulnerability becomes brotherhood.
Sensation exploration, directions of touch, and learning who any given moment is actually for. Participation is always invitational.
Group erotic practice, power and surrender, rope demos, and a Sunday evening play space — held with care, not performance.
Long open hours for river bathing, sauna, walking, journaling, napping, and doing absolutely nothing. The integration is in the rest.
Three meals a day shared around the long table or by the fire. Dinners often become the most unexpectedly tender hours of the weekend.
Brotherhood, breath, the quiet between sessions, the long pause before a fire.
Choreographed, but not crammed. Every day has time for the work and time to disappear into the trees.
Arrive, settle in, set the circle, share the first meal under the trees.
Touch, gratitude, curiosity, boundaries — and a rope demo fireside.
A deeper day — group erotic practice, river bathing, sauna, an evening play space.
Integrate, close the circle, take what you found home with you.
All attendees must be present for the opening and closing ceremonies — no exceptions. Schedule and order of events subject to change at the facilitator's discretion.
A quiet cabin and tent property tucked into old-growth redwoods on the Mendocino coast — wood-fired sauna, cold river, a lodge with cathedral beams for our circles, and a sound-bath sanctuary for embodiment practice.
You'll find private cabins, shared cabins, glamping tents, and a campfire ring carved into the forest floor. All accommodations share communal bathhouse facilities. That's the camp part of camp.
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More relaxed in your body. More honest about your desires. Less afraid of being seen. More connected to other men. More trusting of your own no, and your own yes. More playful, more open, more alive. Less performative. More yourself.
Court is a Somatic Sex Educator, Surrogate Partner Intern, and Sacred Intimate. He is a member of the World Association of Sex Coaches and the founder of The Bodyvox. He guides individuals and relationships of every kind toward more honest, embodied, erotically alive lives.
Many men arrive at CONNECT thinking they're searching for better sex, more confidence, or new experiences. Those things may come. But what they usually find is something simpler.
A sense of belonging. A deeper connection to themselves. The ability to relax in their body, around other men, without needing to perform or hide.
Not because they became someone new — but because they spent four days practicing what it feels like to be seen, and to stay.
"A sense of community was created in such a short time, and I was blown away when an individual was pushed to look at something deeper — not settling for their initial answer, but asking them to recognize a more profound insight. I loved the retreat and it opened a lot for me.
— A past attendee
"Connect is the perfect name for this retreat. I was challenged and changed. I was given tools of the erotic to deeply connect to myself, my pleasure, and the pleasure of others. I'm leaving refreshed and part of a beautiful brotherhood of compassionate, growth-oriented men.
— A past attendee
"A box of toys that were in a faraway unknown place have been found, carefully opened, and are now ready to be played with. Thank you for your amazing assistance and teachings. It was beautiful and I am grateful to have been part of it.
— A past attendee
Seven ways to sleep at CAMP CONNECT — from a private water-tower cabin to a shared twin tent under the trees.
Private cabin with one queen bed. The most romantic walls on the property.
Reserve →Private cabin with one queen bed. Tucked into the trees with morning light.
Reserve →Private cabin with one twin bed. Sleeps one guest — small and yours alone.
Reserve →Shared cabin with two queen beds per room. Booking is for one queen bed.
Reserve →Shared cabin with six twin beds. Booking is for one twin bed — the most camp-flavored option.
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Absolutely. CONNECT welcomes men at every stage — from those entirely new to this work to seasoned practitioners. You do not need to identify as kinky, extroverted, highly experienced, or fully confident to belong here. The container is designed to meet you exactly where you are. It is okay to be nervous.
CONNECT is a consent-forward erotic embodiment retreat. There will be explicit teachings, demonstrations, group erotic practice, and a Sunday evening play space. Participation is always invitational. Witnessing is an activity too. Nothing is required beyond consent, communication, and respect for yourself and others.
No — all accommodations at Camp Connect use shared, communal bathhouse facilities. No rooms have private bathrooms. This is part of the casual, summer-camp character of the property.
That is one of the most common things men arrive with — and one of the most fitting reasons to come. Trust is something we build together across the weekend through small, consent-based practices. You will not be asked to leap. You will be invited to step.
Yes. All attendees must be present for the opening and closing ceremonies, no exceptions. If you are unable to attend the entire weekend, please wait for another event when you are able. The container depends on everyone being inside it.
CAMP CONNECT is built for 21–30 men. Large enough for a real spectrum of bodies, ages, and experience levels. Small enough that everyone is known by name by the end.
We strongly encourage trip insurance to protect your deposit and payments. Please email hello@thebodyvox.com with refund or transfer questions before booking.
Once payment is received, we'll schedule a 15-minute Zoom call with Court Vox to welcome you in, answer questions, and start orienting you to the weekend. Detailed logistics — directions, packing list, what to expect on Day One — follow by email closer to the retreat.
Mendocino, September 4–7. Twenty-one to thirty men. Cabins from $1,600. Hold your spot below — or write us first.