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INITIATE YOUR PURPOSE

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Christian (Oso)

Transformational men’s work for those ready to cultivate emotional depth, grounded strength, and the power to achieve what truly matters in their lives.

Upcoming Events

Keepers Of The Flame
Men's Retreat

"INITIATION"

March 10th-14th 

Bacalar, Mexico

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5-Day Men’s Initiation & Leadership Immersion

 

Keepers of the Flame is a five-day immersion for men who feel the call to step into greater responsibility, clarity, and leadership—within themselves and in the world.

This work is inspired by initiatory and ceremonial practices found across many cultures, approached through years of direct study, relationship, and permission with indigenous elders and lineages from around the world. These influences include teachings from various traditions, held with respect for their cultural roots and living wisdom.

Together, we will enter a structured ceremonial container centered on brotherhood, personal accountability, and embodied leadership. Through guided practices, council, fire ceremony, and conscious inquiry, men are invited to explore the unconscious fears, patterns, and inherited narratives that shape how they show up in their lives. The focus is not on fixing or bypassing, but on bringing awareness, choice, and responsibility to what has been operating beneath the surface.

This immersion also creates space to examine one’s relationship to masculine and feminine energies—how they are expressed, suppressed, or in conflict—and how greater balance can support integrity, creativity, and grounded presence.

Keepers of the Flame is not about peak experiences or performance.
It is about initiation, brotherhood, and the slow, honest work of becoming a man others can rely on.

***This is an application-based retreat***
**Men who feel called are invited to apply and enter this work with humility, consent, and commitment.

Transformational Retreat, Bacalar
March 18-22, 2026

A 5-Day Journey of Connection, Healing, and Embodied Transformation

Set in the breathtaking beauty of Bacalar,  el Pueblo Mágico, this five-day co-ed transformational retreat is an invitation to slow down, open your heart, and return to what is real. Guided by a Oso & Natacha in partnership, this experience weaves together ancient ceremony and modern somatic practices to create a safe, powerful container for deep personal and relational transformation.

Throughout the retreat, we will share cacao ceremonies, breathwork journeys, partner yoga, men’s and women’s circles, and fire-cleansing rituals, all designed to help you release what no longer serves and embody a more authentic, grounded version of yourself. Nourishing meals and comfortable accommodations are fully included, allowing you to rest deeply and be fully held by the experience. Whether you come solo or with a partner, this retreat offers a rare opportunity to reconnect—to your body, your emotions, your truth, and the living beauty of the land—so you can return home clearer, lighter, and more alive.

Early Bird Ticket $888

General Ticket $1111

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Services

1:1Deep-Dive Container (8-Week)

 

​This is not coaching, therapy, or surface-level self-improvement.

This is a deep, intentional container for real transformation.

Over eight weeks, we work together one-on-one to unwind the patterns that keep you stuck and reconnect you to your embodied power. My work is informed by somatic trauma theory, psychological development, and spiritual practice, allowing us to address not just what is happening in your life, but why it’s happening in your nervous system, your relationships, and your inner world. We explore how life experiences—both subtle and profound—have shaped your beliefs, emotional responses, and sense of self, and we integrate them in a way that creates lasting change rather than temporary insight.

This container is for those ready to meet themselves honestly. Through embodied practices, guided inquiry, and integrative spiritual disciplines, we cultivate presence, resilience, and self-trust. As unresolved experiences are metabolized and fragmented parts of the self are reintegrated, clarity emerges. You begin to respond rather than react, to choose rather than repeat, and to move through life with greater capacity, confidence, and purpose. If you feel called to step beyond coping and into true embodiment—this work is an invitation. Reach out when you’re ready to cross that threshold.

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Format:

  • Weekly video call (90 minutes)

  • Voice-note or message support (Mon–Fri)

  • Reflection prompts and journaling questions

  • Somatic practices (5–20 min exercises)

  • Integration check-ins mid-week (optional and as needed)

  • Breathwork and guided somatic audio recordings​

  • Access to weekly video lecture that supports the structure of the container

  • Ongoing integration support and access to monthly men's group via zoom​​

Layout:

  • Week 1: Orientation, safety, nervous system mapping

  • Weeks 2–3: Pattern identification & somatic stabilization

  • Weeks 4–6: Deep processing & integration of key themes

  • Week 7: Embodiment, application to life (relationships/work)

  • Week 8: Completion, meaning-making, next-step clarity

 

                  **This layout is flexible to your needs, readiness and overall progression 

                                                                            -Price: $1200

1:1 Clarity & Direction Mentorship

(4-Week)​

 

This four-week container is designed for those standing at a threshold—feeling the pull for change, clarity, or direction, but unsure of the next true step. Rather than forcing answers, we slow down and listen. Through a focused, one-on-one process informed by somatic awareness, psychological development, and integrative spiritual practice, we create the conditions for clarity to emerge from within rather than being imposed from the outside.

Over four weeks, we work directly with the nervous system, emotional landscape, and meaning-making processes that shape your sense of purpose and direction. Together, we identify what has been obscuring your clarity—whether unresolved experiences, habitual patterns, or external expectations—and gently unwind them. As the noise quiets, what matters becomes clearer.

 

Decisions feel more embodied. Direction begins to feel less like pressure and more like alignment.

This container is not about creating a rigid life plan. It is about restoring internal coherence, self-trust, and discernment, so you can move forward with grounded confidence. By the end of our work together, you’ll have a clearer sense of what you are moving toward, what you are ready to release and shift to get there, and the embodied capacity to take your next steps with intention and dedication.

If you’re ready to stop circling and begin moving from clarity—this is an invitation to step in...

Format:

  •     Intake/Assessment Call (45 minutes)

  • Weekly video call (90 minutes)

  • Voice-note or message support (Mon–Fri)

  • Reflection prompts and journaling questions

  • Somatic practices (5–20 min exercises)

  • Integration check-ins mid-week (optional and as needed)

  • Ongoing integration support and access to monthly men's group via zoom​​

Layout:

  • Week 1: Orientation & Clearing the Noise

  • Week 2: Values, Desire & Internal Conflict

  • Week 3: Embodied Direction & Discernment

  • Week 4: Integration & Next Steps

                  **This layout is flexible to your needs, readiness and overall progression 

                                                                          -Price: $550

Life Event Integration​/Inner Alchemy

This two-week online container is for individuals moving through major transitions, initiations, or turning points in their lives. If you are navigating change, loss, awakening, or reorientation—and feel that your energy, clarity, or sense of self has become scattered—this offering provides a supportive space to slow down, reconnect, and integrate what you have lived through.

This work is rooted in somatic, trauma-informed healing and emphasizes the restoration of safety, presence, and agency within the body. Through conscious breathing practices, guided meditation, and carefully structured inner journeys informed by NLP and therapeutic hypnosis techniques, clients are supported in regulating the nervous system and softening protective patterns that no longer serve them.

From big losses, ending relationships, changing careers or jobs, major shifts can leave us feeling raw and uncertain, and it can be scary...but that uncertainty is what a new story is all about. The beauty of it is that you get to create your story. And when we can rewire our inner reality so that we see what life is doing for us rather than to us, we begin to gain clarity on what we truly want to create with our time in this life.

 

This work follows a pattern of: Acceptance>Surrender>Gratitude>Insights>Reflection>Commitments>Embodiment to guide clients through an evolving and always applicable structure designed to achieve clarity, resilience, wisdom, embodied action and devotion toward the personal goals of each client.

  • Integration of major life events or transitions

  • Reclaiming vitality, presence, and inner coherence

  • Nervous system regulation and emotional resilience

  • Clarifying direction without pressure or urgency

  • Aligning lived experience with future orientation

 

Rather than aiming to “fix” anything or get back to who we once were, this work supports integration and emergence—weaving the vitality reclaimed from inner alchemy with the wisdom gained through life's experiences to leave you more empowered than ever.

 

Held in a safe, trauma-aware, and compassionate online space, this container supports clients in orienting their lives toward their dreams with clarity and purpose, so they can embody the next level of their reality.

Format:

  • 2 week Container

  • Private Live Sessions Via Zoom or WhatsApp (5 x 60-75 minute)

  • Voice Note or Message Integration Support between sessions

  • Somatic Practices (10-30 min practices/exercises)

  • Instructional Videos for Somatic Practices so they can be done daily

Layout:

Week 1

  • Session 1: Opening & Orientation

  • Session 2: Somatic Mapping & Identifying The Narrative/Story

  • Session 3: Rewiring The Nervous System & Energy Retrieval 

Week 2

  • Session 4: Identifying Meaning & Value of Experiences

  • Session 5: Committing to Embodiment of Direction

  • Session 6: Closure & Moving Forward

                **This layout is flexible to your needs, readiness and overall progression 

                                                                          -Price: $500

Local Events

Workshop Schedule~Bacalar

  • Weekly Men's Resilience Circle: Tuesday Evening's From 7pm @ Casa de los Niños del Arbol

    • Circular structure: led and informed by the group, the Facilitator only guides a structure for the time together ​

    • Ethical Pillars:

      • Confidentiality

      • Consent/Personal Sovereignty

      • We speak for our own experience and do not offer unsolicited advice/fixing/saving anyone in their process

      • Respect for each other and what arises in the space of brotherhood

      • Accountability to one's own self and the group

      • Integrity

      • Humility

      • Honesty

      • Service beyond the Circle

        • This Circle is my service to the Community...There is no cost to come.​

  • Cacao Ceremony by Natacha (w/ Live Music by Oso) Every Friday, 6pm @ Casa de Los Niños del Arbol

    • ​Join us for our weekly prayer with Mama Cacacocita as we honor and acknowledge this heart expanding medicine in a reverent way. Natacha will guide us to enter a space of inward reflection where we can feel the power of this medicine as our heart expands. There will be moments of Meditation and silence, observing what it means to come together in ceremony. Oso Medicine Music will be playing a live set, a combination of his own songs and Medicine music from around the world​.

  • Thai Massage Intro for Partners by Christian Oso (Couples encouraged): 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month from 11am-2pm

    • Join us as we explore a deeply restorative modality that is founded on deep presence and honest care. This class is aimed at not only assisting couples in supporting each other physically, it is also designed to build intimacy and provide tools by which to honor your partner with healing touch and caring presence.​ It is ok to attend without a partner...if that is the case, we will pair you with someone, and if that isn't an option then you can work with the facilitator

A Walk Dedicated To Service

About me and the work...

My work is devoted to supporting men in stepping into greater responsibility, integrity, and embodied leadership through initiation, ceremony, and ongoing integration.

For many years, my path has been shaped by sustained study and relationship with indigenous elders, ceremonial traditions, and teachers from diverse cultures. These relationships have emphasized humility, preparation, consent, and accountability—values that form the foundation of how I hold space today. I do not claim ownership of these traditions; I steward what has been entrusted to me with respect for their cultural roots and living contexts.

Initiation, Brotherhood & Leadership

At the heart of my work is men’s initiation and rites of passage. Modern life offers few clear thresholds into mature masculinity, and many men feel the absence of grounded guidance, brotherhood, and accountability. Through structured immersions such as Keepers of the Flame and my 1:1 programs, I facilitate ceremonial containers that emphasize clarity, embodiment, self-inquiry, and leadership rooted in service rather than dominance.

This work invites men to examine the unconscious fears, patterns, and inherited narratives that shape how they show up in their lives—at home, in relationship, and in the world. The focus is not on fixing or bypassing, but on developing awareness, choice, and responsibility, and on learning how to walk forward with greater clarity and consistency.

Ceremonial & Embodied Practice

My facilitation is informed by a wide range of embodied and ceremonial disciplines. I work with fire ceremony, breath, movement, sound, and ritual as tools for reflection and transition, always held within clear agreements and an emphasis on preparation and integration.

Alongside this, I offer ceremonial facilitation within appropriate cultural and legal contexts, as well as integration support as a central pillar of the work. Insight without integration has limited value; lasting change comes from how experiences are embodied and lived over time.

A Multidisciplinary Background

My background is intentionally broad and practical. I am trained and experienced as:

  • A men’s coach and mentor

  • A Registered Nurse

  • An Internal Family Systems Therapist

  • A pranayama and yoga facilitator

  • A musician working with sound, rhythm, and voice in ceremonial and group settings

  • A chef and former restaurant owner, with deep appreciation for nourishment, health, and the role of food in living our best life

These disciplines inform a holistic approach that honors the body, breath, nervous system, and daily life—not just peak experiences.

Ethics, Responsibility & Scope

The work I offer is educational, ceremonial, and experiential. It is not medical or psychological treatment, and it is not a substitute for professional healthcare. Participants are expected to take responsibility for their own wellbeing, boundaries, and integration, and to engage with consent and self-honesty.

My role is not to lead others’ inner authority, but to provide structure, guidance, and accountability in service of each man’s own process.

An Invitation

This work is for men who feel the call to grow up, not escape—who are willing to meet themselves honestly, stand in brotherhood, and carry what they learn back into their families, communities, and leadership roles.

If you feel aligned, you’re invited to explore the current offerings or apply to work together.

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