Oliver Scott-Tomlin

I am a man who once wore the uniform of apartheid South Africa’s military, enforcing division with a rifle and the false armor of uninitiated masculinity. I know the cost of that path intimately—the rage, the numbness, the hunger to belong to something "noble" that only deepened the void. My military career taught me one brutal lesson: systems that demand conquest over connection will always leave men hollow.  

But The Alchemy of Brotherhood isn’t just for soldiers. We’re all in combat—for our souls, our purpose, our right to define masculinity as something more than a weapon. Modern manhood is under siege, twisted by forces that profit from our isolation, our shame, and the lie that strength means silence. The battlefield isn’t “out there.” It’s in the stories we inherit, the roles we perform, and the quiet wars we wage alone.  

Fatherhood cracked that armor. Sobriety forced me to stare at the reflection I’d avoided: a man on track to pass his pain to his son, just as generations before had done. This is why I founded The High Path, and why The Alchemy of Brotherhood exists. Here, we don’t glorify war or worship shadows—we meet them. Through initiation, shadow work, and raw circles of trust, we confront the stories that keep us small, violent, or numb.   

I don’t have all the answers. I’m still learning how to turn the discipline of a soldier into the devotion of a father, how to alchemize duty into discernment. But I know this: Brotherhood isn’t forged in battle; it’s built when men dare to lay down their weapons—literal and metaphorical—and say, “I don’t want to carry this alone.”  

Join me. Bring your anger, your grief, your hope. Together, we’ll write a new story. For our sons. For our daughters. For ourselves.  

Brady Wilson

Brady Wilson is a Yoga Teacher from Durango Colorado.  After a brief career in professional snowboarding In his teens and twenties, he was exposed to the teachings of his father and his father's teacher John Milton in the tradition of "Sacred Passage & The Way of Nature," where he embodied a living, loving relationship with the natural world, and a deep gratitude for solo experience in nature.  After becoming a certified Yoga Teacher in 2010, he went on to teach other fledgling teachers at the Pavones Yoga Center in Southern Costa Rica for the next seven years.  Currently, he is the Lab Manager and Medicine Maker at Dancing Willow Herbs in Durango, and he teaches weekly yoga classes at Yogadurango and Ska Brewery. 

Offering: Pranayama, Mantra, and Mula Bandha

This workshop is designed to provide you with real-time tools for self-improvement, self-control, and nervous system regulation.  Brady will teach several pranayama techniques as taught through the lineage of Dr. Vasant Lad, and guide us through an immersive experiential Pranayama exercise.  He will briefly discuss mantra theory, and the power of the human voice.  Using your voice, you will be introduced to Bij Mantra for the energetic body, as well as a specific mantra for self-empowerment and self-actualization.  He will teach the "when" and "how" of Mula Bandha, and we will practice both gross and subtle forms of this ancient key to liberation. 

Sage Petersen

Sage Petersen is the founder of @NaturalBornVitality, a method blending nervous system optimization, primal movement, and nature-based strength for somatic weight-loss, functional strength & high performance aging.

I call myself a vitality coach, which includes movement as well as lifestyle. My main pillars for vitality are movement, nature connection, meditation, and martial arts. I teach these topics separately in personal training and classes, but I also do coaching which incorporates all the pillars.

When I was very young, my dad (who was a single dad like I am) took us to his clients' houses and the gym while he was personal training. So I've been around movement and personal training since I was about three years old! At four, I started doing martial arts and sports.

My passion is feeling good, being connected to nature, and my own vitality. Naturally, I want to increase that connection for myself. I also want to support others while they find their own connection to health and well-being, and the earth. I see human beings as stewards of the earth, and I believe that that responsibility begins with our own health and well-being.

My practice is a blend; I've studied taekwondo, some jujitsu, grappling, wrestling, Arnis (Filipino stick fighting), Kuntao (an Indonesian martial art with Chinese roots), and Tai-Chi—a beautiful movement for vitality that also has the potential to be a very effective martial art.