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BGN Mission
We are a movement devoted to creating a new human experience, as a human being.
Our mission is to inspire a path to nowhere. A place where all is manifest, all ideas are born, all possibilities exist. A place where clarity is born, peace lives, and chaos dies. A place many have been seeking - and through perpetual seeking, have perceived it to be unattainable.
Boldly Going Nowhere is about un-doing.
We do this by slowing down. We do this by creating space for joy, new experiences, and unforgettable memories that will forever inhabit your soul. This place is where the seeker becomes the seer, the striver becomes the arriver, the questioner becomes the knower.
Come be undone.
This is the space where everything comes together in extended experiences of welcoming the present moment, the now-here. Each retreat is uniquely designed to remind us of the beautiful connection we have to laughter, fun, silence, tears, awarenesses, nature, each other, and - most importantly - ourselves. Be a fierce protector of each moment and the next now-here will be created with full intention.
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Retreat Participant
“Experiencing Bob and Shannon working together is an amazing display of synergy! Their individual strengths magnify when they work as a team to create a healing space for personal transformation. They manage to help participants bond and share at a very deep level."
Retreat Participant
“I can heartily recommend Bob and Shannon to anyone seeking an increase in life expansion.”
Retreat Participant
“Being present at this retreat was a life changing event. Bob and Shannon facilitated each and every one of us through a transformational process with such ease and grace. It was an indescribable adventure that goes beyond words. ”
Retreat Participant
"I met two amazing people that I had no idea - nor did they - how they would become such an important role in my personal healing journey."
Annual Spring Equinox Retreat
The jungle has a spirit and it captures you almost immediately. When we first arrived at Hotel Oka'an, we felt a lightness in our physical bodies, a deepening of our breath, and a softening of our hearts. We were just across the canopy from the Mayan city of Chichen Itza, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The name Chichén means "mouth of the well" and Itzá refers to those who founded it, the Itzáes "water witches", around the year 435. We landed in the energy of the ancient Mayans... and we felt it! We felt partially transported back, a few thousand years. It felt like 50 pounds released from our shoulders. The stillness and peacefulness of this sacred place immediately enveloped us.
What has eluded you will find you here!
We were fortunate to connect to the owner of the property, whose late husband called himself an astro-archaeologist and was passionate about educating the world about the brilliance of the Mayan culture. He designed Hotel Oka'an with specific connections to Chichen Itza, which are palpable. The owners continue sharing this everlasting intention to those who will open their spirit to the whispers of the ancients.
We knew at this moment that this was our next retreat location. Boldly Going Nowhere Spirit of the Jungle in Mexico was born, which will always be over the spring equinox.
2023 retreat participants tell their story
near Chichen Itza, Mexico
BGN Spirit of the Jungle Teaser
The Play on Words
Boldly Going Nowhere is a simple play on words.
nowhere = Now Here
Quantum physics often says that everything comes from nothing.
NoThing. No thing.
Yet how do we translate from quantum to human life?
Why do many of our best ideas come when we are in the shower, or driving, or on an airplane, or doing what we love? Because we are present, our hands our empty, our brains are quieted, and we are available. We are not multi-tasking, running from app to app or store to store or conversation to conversation. We are not saturated with the incoming. Space is open for something to come in.
Boldly Going Nowhere is about making space.
When we constantly strive, we never arrive.
Boldly Going Nowhere is about arriving.
Nowhere. Now Here.
To begin.
Again.