![]() ![]() Print speed: 50 mm/sec / Outer Wall Speed: 25mm.Printing Temperature: 205☌ / Build Plate Temperature: 60☌.Print time: Wolf around 8hrs / Rock around 5hrs.Layer height: 0.16 mm (0.8 mm wall thickness 6 top/3bottom layers).Please don't forget to leave a like if you enjoy my work! Print this howling wolf as decoration to give a more classy touch to your home. I’d never seen myself as the sort of person who goes on retreats, but this one was a lot better than LinkedIn.The wolf is one of the most majestic animals of the world, and he becomes even more fascinating thanks to one of it's typical and peculiar pose : howling in the moonlight □□ What I learned in Vermont is that my inner wolf can look outward a little more, and expand that circle. Sticking to a certain circle of friends can be one of those routines. Bill’s right about habits - it’s easy to settle into routines, particularly if they seem to be working for you. I was glad I’d traded numbers with Bill and yogi Paul, two guys I want in my extended pack. Because wolves, like men, are pack animals. In nature, any lone wolf is an orphan or outcast. I came here for new experiences, and this has been one of the best.”ĭriving home with a pillow behind my back, I totted up what I’d gained: a goody bag filled with furry slippers, a leather notebook, a Kind bar and a bottle of Vermont maple syrup and a firm belief that the Welcome the Lone Wolf Retreat needs a new name. And maybe there’s something else we need to stretch - our habits. “I’ve been in positions I could barely get out of!”īut wasn’t it all a little, um, girlish? Yoga poses, hot tubbing, drinking and hugging? Maybe we should just do our jobs, forget flexibility, keep to our lonesome selves and save $1,105. What do you do when that happens? You let them go through.”īig Bill had scrambled out of an upside-down helicopter in Nigeria, “but yoga is harder,” he said. He had sailed on oil ships to Alaska, “where Kodiak bears come right onto the golf course. Broad-shouldered Bill, 67, a retired Marine chief engineer and martial-arts expert, was the toughest customer I met on our retreat. We need to work harder to stay flexible, especially if our jobs have us slouching over desks, keyboards and steering wheels all day.”Īs he spoke, my retreat buddy Bill Seymore was holding a pose and turning a scary shade of pink. But we’re naturally tighter than women, who have more elastin, a protein that helps with childbirth. “Men are conditioned to fight - to exert ourselves against opposition. “Men over 50 need yoga,” said Menard, a 41-year-old Jude Law lookalike. So I watched yogi Paul Menard put the others through their paces. After that, my only yoga pose was Dead Dog. The retreat offers “yoga designed for a man’s body,” which is code for “yoga designed for a body so tight it might take you all weekend to touch your toes.”įiguring a four-minute plank man like me would have no trouble, I warmed up by hoisting a pair of 40-pound weights and collapsed with back spasms - more fetal than feral. ![]() Maybe my tarot card was referring to my warmup for our yoga classes. Brenda said it meant I could expect “a life change.” We waved our hands over the cards, waiting for emanations to guide our choices. Plus a bonfire, a tarot card reading and a round of drinks.Īfter a sunset hike and a perfect light meal - s’mores with pinot noir chasers - she passed out decks of tarot cards. The modern alpha male, she says, could use a little company. The pandemic forced people to be with themselves more, and a lot of men didn’t like it.” It gets lonely at the top, and COVID made it worse. ![]() Some have been alpha males for most of their lives. “Even if they’ve done well in their careers, they feel alone. ![]() “Many men feel they’re on their own,” she told me. Why start a new one for men in 2023? And why call it Welcome the Lone Wolf? Have today’s men forgotten how to slurp beer together and howl at the moon?Īlmost, says retreat leader Brenda Stoeke, a blond earth-mother figure in a hoodie emblazoned GOOD WITCH. Today there’s no shortage of retreats for women seeking their Secret Selves or Inner Goddesses, but fewer for men. That sort of bromanticism went out with Chia Pets and the Macarena. They were trendy in the ’80s and ’90s, when business leaders doffed their jackets and ties to gather in the woods for bare-chested circle jerks - correction: drum circles - where they could bond and bitch about how women didn’t appreciate them. If you’re like me, you rolled your eyes at the thought of a men’s retreat. I hadn’t found my inner wolf in the hot tub at EnLiven at the Green River, a Vermont event center that offers Welcome the Lone Wolf: Spiritual Retreat for Men, weekends chockablock with hiking, bonfires and snowball fights. I was hiking past a river, stalking a wolf. ![]()
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