A Space for Healing, Retreat, and Renewal
Nestled within the ancient granite cradle of Boulder Canyon, Boulder Canyon Retreat Center is a nature-based healing space offering guided plant medicine experiences, immersive retreats, and community-centered transformation.
Here, the land is not simply a backdrop, but an active participant in the work. The mountains, forests, and flowing water create a living container that supports regulation, clarity, and deep reconnection.
Boulder Canyon Retreat Center’s Philosophy
01 / Nature as Our Teacher
At BCRC, the natural world we are surrounded by is our living guide. The mountains, forests, living water, and open sky shape our pace. The seasons inform our rituals. We listen to the land as an intelligence that teaches timing, presence, resilience, and belonging, reminding us that true wisdom is rooted in relationship with the Earth.
02 / Sacred Plant Medicines
Within ceremonial and spiritual contexts, sacred plant medicines are approached as teachers that invite remembrance, reverence, and reconnection. When held within ethical, grounded, and integrative containers, they support a return to wholeness by restoring coherence between body, heart, spirit, and life direction.
03 / Rooted in Classical Tantra
BCRC’s spiritual spine is grounded in Classical Tantra: a Northern Shivic, non-dual tradition that honors embodied practice and honoring the natural world through - devotion, meditation, mantra, yantra, pranayama and fire ritual as sacred expressions of consciousness. Tantra invites us to awakening and cultivate the Shakti within by holding multiple realities and teachings from lineage based masters that can show us the way back to Oneness through systematic practice.
04 / Connection Through Community
Healing and transformation happen in relationship — what I call the “me and the we.” Boulder Canyon is intentionally shaped as a living sanctuary where people are met, witnessed, supported, and celebrated. We welcome your wounds, your bravery, your courage and your commitment to heal. Community is where we learn to trust again, and where integration and lasting change are woven into daily life.
05 / Ritual Is How We Return to Self
Through prayer, mantra, seasonal ceremony, fire ceremony and land-based rites, we step into conscious relationship with the sacred, the ancestors, and the living world. Ritual becomes a way of remembering who we are beneath conditioning and fragmentation. Here we restore belonging, reorient the soul, and anchor transformation into lived experience.
06 / Indigenous Wisdom
Our philosophy is informed by Indigenous worldviews that remember the earth as teacher and ceremony as a bridge between worlds. Through time spent in the mountains of Oaxaca, as well as being welcomed into the land of Mother India, we continue to learn with humility, honoring the communities who carry this wisdom forward.
Shane Young, Founder
Nature-Based Healer Somatic Psychotherapist & Shaman
Shane Young is a nature-based healer, somatic psychotherapist and ceremonial guide with over two decades of experience in the healing arts.
He has facilitated thousands of plant medicine ceremonies, guiding individuals through earth based ritual and embodied practice in support of healing and transformation.
BCRC Path
Boulder Canyon Retreat Center (BCRC), healing is understood as a return to wholeness. We employ a truly holistic approach that honors the human spirit, each person’s unique expression, and our relationship with the natural world as one living breathing continuum.
From this ground, we intentionally step beyond the reductionist models of conventional Western therapy and Western medicine into a land-based and lineage-rooted path grounded in Classical Tantra, sacred plant medicines, and practices and principles that allow for an emergent consciousness.
Boulder Canyon offers a restorative paradigm of healing which reawakens inner authority and guides participants back into connection with themselves, community, and the living intelligence of the Earth.
Ethical Commitments
At Boulder Canyon Retreat Center, ethics are not a formality, they are the foundation of trust, safety, and true transformation. We are committed to creating clear and expert-held containers rooted in consent, integrity, and personal sovereignty. Our work honors each individual, the vulnerability of the healing process, and the sacred responsibility that comes with guiding others through deep inner landscapes. Participants feel safe to open, explore, and integrate within a respectful and trustworthy environment.