The Heart of Shadow
A 9-week Shadow Work Men's Group & Live RetreatFace Your Dragons.
Unleash Your Life Force.
We all carry shadow elements – parts of ourselves that are hidden, disowned or have been frozen in time. These parts can carry great energetic cost to us, siphoning our vitality and bringing dis-ease to our sense of well-being.
These are shadow elements because we are often either unaware of their existence, or if we are, they often keep showing up over and over again in ways that we don’t know how to stop. Shadow is a metaphor for anything we are not fully aware of that is impacting our lives.
By becoming aware of these shadow elements, facing them, and then integrating them, we can liberate the vast amounts of energy they use and direct that energy consciously toward the things we really want in life. We come alive.
The Heart of Shadow is a 9-week journey for men to become intimate with their shadows and become more fully alive. The program consists of nine weekly virtual sessions wrapped around a 3.5 day live intensive, and a private online community for during and after the program.
You will come away from this program not only with a deeper relationship with yourself, but with an incredibly powerful bond to a band of brothers you can rely on for the rest of your life.
The Heart of Shadow Podcast Series
Signs of Shadow
Intense reactions to events or situations that sometimes feel out of proportion to inciting trigger
Putting others on a Pedestal
Knee-jerk tendency to criticize others, especially their success and failures
Numbness, malaise, depression, or feeling stuck
Patterns, problems, and issues that keep showing up in your life over and over again
Feelings of shame or unworthiness
Troubles settings boundaries or sticking up for yourself
Procrastination
Background feeling of unease, depression or confusion.
Chronic fatigue, grogginess, hyperactivity–can’t or afraid to slow down
The Awaiting Treasures
More vitality, energy, and aliveness
A more relaxed body resulting in more ease for yourself and others around you
More authentic & deeper connections with those most important to you in life
The ability to stay relaxed, grounded, and open no matter the situation
A deeper capacity to consciously respond to the moment, instead of just reacting to it
Spaciousness around addictions and compulsions powered by unmet shadow needs
Lead with sensitivity without losing strength or power
Express anger without losing your heart
Express your heart without losing your balls
Release your armor without collapsing your boundaries
Cut through what stops you from expressing raw masculine power
Brotherhood
Shadow work is a powerful modality that is amplified when explored in a group context. The Heart of Shadow journey will take you and the men in your cohort on a journey of depth and beautify that will create incredible bonds and connection that surpass what’s generally available in most men’s culture.
Our intention is for this program to be the START of a lifelong connection between you and the members of your group. Having a men’s group you can regularly connect with can radically change your life.
Weekly Coursework
Weekly course modules teach about different aspects of the shadow (topics in calendar below), and include written reflection assignments, partnered diad discussions, and suggested shares for the group chat thread.
Self-reflection Prompts
Partnered Diad Discussions
Group Chat Shares
The Journey
The Heart of Shadow is a 9-week journey that starts on Monday, September 22nd and completes on Monday, November 24th, 2025. Six weekly virtual sessions lead into a three-and-a-half-day live retreat in Northern California from Wednesday, November 5th to Sunday, November 9th. Two additional integration sessions occur after the retreat and two final follow-up sessions three and six months after the program closes.
Virtual sessions are on Mondays from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Pacific.
Opening Session + What is The Shadow
Lineage, Family, and Parents
Inner Critic & Shame
Manbox & Masculinity
Anger & Power
Sex & Intimacy
Live Retreat in Northern California
Golden Shadow
Taking the Work/Group Forward
Three Month Followup
Six Month Followup
Live Retreat
The Heart of Shadow journey centers around a live intensive at the WhisperTree retreat center in Northern California. It starts on Wednesday, November 5th at 5pm and wraps on Sunday, November 9th at 10am.
The retreat will incorporate embodiment practices, breathwork, group practices, and most importantly – shadow work. Every man in the program will receive at least one round of highly personalized and deeply focused shadow work facilitated by Luke and Jason.
We’ll be staying in luxury glam tents, which are powered and heated for your comfort. Each tent has two twin beds and offers a spacious, light filled, upgrade on the typical camping experience. A shared bathhouse and camp kitchen is a short walk from the tents on the same scenic knoll as the Madrone Yurt meeting/yoga space. Each man gets a tent to himself.
We’ll have a light breakfast each morning and catered lunches and dinners dropped off by a local vendor.
Your Guides
Meet your guides for the Heart of Shadow Journey, Luke Adler & Jason Lange. They have decades of experience leading transformational healing work, and have been in a men’s group devoted to their own shadow work for over four years.
Luke Adler
Dr. Luke Adler, (Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine) DACM, is an intuitive and compassionate healer, teacher and author who empowers clients with the tools to heal themselves. At his retreats, trainings and during one on one sessions he creates an environment for you to make contact with your inner wisdom and innate healing intelligence. He facilitates deep relationship with your self which extends into relationships with your loved ones.
With over twenty years of meditation experience, he is a gifted teacher of various healing and spiritual practices for the novice and advanced practitioner.
Despite a busy schedule Luke makes time for the three loves of his life, wife Emily, author of Unexpected, a Postpartum Memoir and their two daughters Corazon and Juliet.
Jason Lange
Jason is a men’s embodiment coach, group facilitator, and evolutionary guide. He helps men drop in and wake up to deeper clarity in their life’s purpose and relationships. He believes every man should be in a men’s group for the growth and support opportunities they provide.
Jason applies an integral framework to all the work he offers, drawing on many disciplines and modalities to effectively serve. He has trained with John Wineland, Jun Po Roshi, Tripp Lanier, Ken Wilber, Brother David Steindl-Rast, and Robert Augustus Masters.
Jason is blessed to be married to his amazing wife, Violet, who coaches women on love and femininity, and father to his amazing daughter Ruby.
Testimonials
I feel so grateful to have gone through this journey. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect but I felt like this work was needed. I’ve struggled with a lot of different things in my life and it’s felt hard to find the right community where I can trust enough to share and be seen in all of it. We men especially have a lot of internalized ideas about what’s okay to share and acknowledge, and it’s been such a tremendous gift to find a space where I can share my pain and fears and be accepted. I’m leaving with a deeper sense of acceptance, support, brotherhood, and curiosity for the future.
I went into it knowing I tended to avoid conflict and it was hurting my relationships. I hoped doing this work with Jason and Luke would help. What I experienced was beyond my expectations. I was able to fully feel emotions I’d been holding for decades. My partner commented I seemed more grounded, better able to stay engaged when she was emotional, and a more present father. I also connected with a tribe of men that offers a level of support I was previously missing.
Keep an eye on Jason Lange. You are going to start seeing his name more and more in the world of men’s work.
An eye opening experience of Love and Spirit! Luke Adler is awesome!!
I’ve been in a transition period where I was stressed out about my career and a major relationship change. With lots of soul searching, I stumbled upon Jason’s workshop and it was the right experience I needed to let go of the grief and stress I was holding in my mind and body.
Through Jason’s method, I uncovered an unconscious belief about myself that never surfaced in talk therapy or other workshops. Jason then helped me process this emotion and reconnect with myself. I uncovered another piece of the puzzle that I needed to further heal, and that in itself was worth the price of admission.
It is also worth noting that the group dynamic with the other guys was excellent! I felt safe and respected. I’m not one to seek out guy friends for emotional support, but I quickly learned how a tribe of men to support your journey is a game changer. And it’s great to know other men are seeking similar experiences for healing and evolving.
When I came to Luke I was all over the place. Now I have a healthier relationships, better boundaries, more self-esteem.
The Heart of Shadow helped shine the light of unconditional love and acceptance into all the places in me that I thought would never get it; all the places I thought never deserved it. The work was vulnerable, it was raw, it was fun, it was challenging as fuck, it moved so much emotion, and it unearthed so much forgotten pain. And in all that, I felt safe. I felt held. We started as strangers, and ended up as a group of brothers – – men who turn towards their pain together, turn towards each other without judgment. I’m thankful for the space that was created and held by Jason and Luke for, without that, none of this would have been possible. I’m now leaving with a template of what it’s like to be loved and supported and accepted by the healthy, divine, masculine.
In my retreat with Jason I was able to show a side of myself that I had buried a long time ago. I’ve always struggled to show grief and sadness in front of others but wasn’t the case here. The surprising aspect of this was the relative ease at which I was able to do so.
I was apprehensive to work with Luke, but I am so glad I did. It saved my marriage and deepened the love I have for my partner through clear, compassionate communication, honesty, and vulnerability.
My work with Luke has been life-changing. After many years of being on the “spiritual path”, it was his techniques and guidance that broke down barriers and opened me up to a new level of joy, happiness and love. Of Luke’s many gifts as a teacher and healer, I believe the greatest is his unique ability to “tune in” to exactly what I need at a particular point in my healing process and custom tailor his techniques to enhance my experience. His expertise and wisdom are timeless.
When I was in talk therapy, I got a good indication that there was some sort of trauma that I couldn’t remember or conceptually identify. It was frustrating because I’ve always considered myself a pretty smart guy. Nothing my therapist tried was able to access it. I got better in my work with him but it seemed we had run up against a brick wall. so I stopped going.
During my first working session in the zoom meeting with our group, the prompts and questions by Luke and Jason got me to start feeling a very young abandoned part of myself. I remember crying a lot and audibly wailing while 11 other faces looked back at me from the computer screen. At the end of the one hour session, the only way I can describe it was my whole body was vibrating. It was a very surreal experience. I took a shower and went to bed wondering what the hell had just happened to me.
At the retreat, I had more opportunity to further feel this very young abandoned part. There is something very sacred about the space that was created there. I’ve always been a bit standoffish with other men, I didn’t feel comfortable touching them, I often sized them up and tried to make myself fit into a role that would be agreeable to them. This experience of being seen, touched, and energetically held by other men in this safe environment was like nothing I have ever experienced in my life. Something very profound happened to me last week. I don’t understand all the ramifications yet, but I can feel that they are good. I feel lighter in some way. I walk down the street with less anxiety and fear. My shoulders have moved back and my gaze has moved up.
I now have a group of men who I deeply care about and who I’m beginning to believe might care about me. There is something very powerful in this program and its ability to heal. The combination of somatic practices, a group of like minded men, experienced facilitators who have done their own work, and a sacred safe place allowed me to touch some very deep wounds for which nothing else has worked.
One of the coolest things that is about to happen is that our group is going to get some instructions, guidelines and occasional mentorship, but we have the ability to form a peer-led group of emotionally intelligent men. There are no subscriptions to sign up for, no dues to be paid, no further training requirement, no coercion to even join the group. There’s a good possibility that I can have a place to learn and grow with some men that I’ve become deeply connected to, maybe even for the rest of my life. This will likely sound trite and woo-woo, but I feel like I have a whole new experience of love; masculine love, powerful and healing love that has transformed me and will spread like the the tentacles of a lightning bolt throughout all my other relationships and experiences in life. I’m so deeply grateful to Jason and Luke for doing this work. It’s making a real difference in the lives of others.
I’ve had the honor to witness, work with and co-lead shadow work with Jason for over 5 years. His ability to reach a man’s core with his words and presence is profound. I’ve seen men including myself hear a message delivered from Jason change the course of their lives. I trust Jason to hold and guide me through the deepest pain and wounding of my life. If your path guides you to Jason, jump in fully. You are in the hands of one of the world’s experts in men’s work.
Two things were immediately clear to me upon meeting Luke – this man has heart, AND balls. He’s a powerhouse of love, and has a masculine presence and ability to penetrate the moment that has served myself and the many men I’ve seen him guide into deeper experiences of themselves. His deep knowledge of the body, mind, and spirit makes him one of the men I most often turn to myself in life when I’m needing support.
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This training is limited to 10 men. All options below include the full virtual + live event experience.
Questions about the program? Use the chat bubble in the bottom right or book a call below.
Early Bird Registration closes June 30th at midnight pacific
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*Payments due every 30 days.
The Power of Shadow Work Webinar Replay
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is there an application process?
We do not require an application. We will send out a questionnaire once you register for the Heart of Shadow Journey to help Jason and Luke prepare to make the best use of our time. If there are any concerns about the program being the right fit for you we will contact you.
What's the refund policy?
Because of the tight container required to do the work and the limited space in our live retreat, the program is non-refundable. In extraordinary cases, we’ll apply your tuition toward a future program or event.
What does tuition include?
Tuition includes luxury accommodations and delicious cuisine for the 3.5 day retreat at Bell Valley Retreat center.
Access to a private online (and facebook free) community during the program and beyond.
World Class leadership, guidance and facilitation for the retreat and the 9 additional zoom modules.
A community of brothers centered around transparency, vulnerability, raw courage, honesty that honors the dignity of all that you are and aspire to be.
The opportunity to create deep and meaningful lifelong friendships.
Feedback from men you respect, admiration from men who champion your growth, wellbeing and success.
Do I have to pay for my own travel?
Yes. Though we will help you coordinate carpooling if feasible to and from the retreat.
Do I have to attend the live event?
Yes. To gain the full benefit of deep integral shadow work, full immersion is the best approach. This program invites you to be all in, and we want you to be there other than illness or emergency.
When are the virtual sessions?
The virtual group session will be on Mondays from 5:30-7:30 pm Pacific, check the schedule above for program dates.
Do I have to attend the virtual sessions?
All sessions will be recorded for you to make up a session if needed, though the power of such work unfolds in a live environment. We encourage you to arrange your life so you can be present for every session. And we understand urgent matters do come up that need tending.
Additional questions?
Email us at [email protected] or hit the chat bubble in the bottom right corner of the screen.