After meeting Neem Karoli Baba, Ram Dass returned to his father’s farm in New Hampshire in 1969

Word spread quickly. People came in droves, drawn by his energy, camping in tents, and gathering to explore the Bhakti path.

This summer, we’re recreating that sacred, nostalgic spirit with a weekend of glamping at Just Love Forest in Poetry, Georgia.

Join us for three days of chanting, Aarti, meditation, breathwork, and forest therapy, followed by a final day of silent reflection in the forest - all held in the stillness and beauty of 716 private acres.

This is a contribution-based gathering, rooted in trust, generosity, and love. Give what you can. Come as you are.

AUG 1st - 3rd Just Love Forest, Poetry, Georgia

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3rd annual Ram Dass

Summer Camp

A Gift to the Satsang

This gathering at Just Love is offered as a heartfelt gift to the satsang as a time to come together in presence, love, and support for one another.

The base cost for self-camping is \$150 per person. This includes all meals and programs and helps cover the travel costs for our team. Self-camping means you bring your own camping gear and set up your own tent or sleeping arrangement.

For those who would like a more comfortable option:

♡ A teepee tent with an air mattress and all meals is available for \$300 minimum.

♡ A premium bell tent with a queen Tempur-Pedic mattress and all meals is available for \$400 minimum.

*Early Arrival (optional): Arrive Thursday @ 5 PM instead of Friday and enjoy a pre-treat dinner, singing circle and accommodations for $50+tax

*Late Departure (optional): Stay Sunday night with dinner and breakfast, departing Monday for $50+tax

Please note that these rates are offered at 50% less than the typical cost of a retreat to make this gathering as accessible as possible.

If you feel called to join but need financial support, we welcome you to volunteer during the weekend to help make it possible. Our intention is for everyone to be able to attend if they feel the call.

Your contributions, whatever the form or amount, help sustain the community, the traveling team, and the Just Love Forest sanctuary.

Thank you for being part of this living offering.

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thursDAY, JULY 31st

5:00pm: Optional Arrival One Day Early (+$50)

  • Dinner and fire

    FriDAY, August 1st

  • 5pm: Arrival  

  • 6:30pm: Aarti

  • 7:30pm Dinner

  • 8pm Introductions and Kirtan in the Yurt

    SaturDAY August 2nd

  • 7am: Silent Meditation with Bala

  • 8am: Aarti

  • 9am: Breakfast

  • 10am Satsang Chat: What is Grace?

  • 12pm: Lunch

  • 1pm - 5pm :  Summer Camp Experiences: Choose from:

    • Movement as Love with Sarah 1PM in the yurt

    • Plant foraging walk with Josh 1PM meet at the kitchen

    • Breath work experience with Naga Das 3PM in the yurt

    • Outdoor Yoga with Stephy Joy 3pm in the meadow

  • 5pm - 6pm: Personal Time

  • 6pm: Forest Therapy Experience - Journey to Bhakti Mountain Summit

  • 7:30pm: Aarti & Dinner on Bhakti Mountain

  • 8pm: All night Kirtan Begins on Bhakti Mountain

    • 10pm and 1am shuttling via car available

      SUNDAY, AUGUST 3rd

  • 8am Silent Meditation with Bala

  • 9am: Breakfast

  • 10am: Aarti

  • 11am: Satsang Chat - What is a life of surrender?

  • 12:30pm Lunch

  • 1pm: Closing Kirtan

  • 3pm: Satsang Closing Circle with Forged Forest Tea

  • 5pm: Departure

  • Optional overnight stay with dinner at 6pm +$50

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YOUR RETREAT AWAITS

Retreat Amenities

⚘ 3 Days + 2 Nights Accommodations* self camping or in your own single queen or twin mattress bell tent, plus enjoy group activities and meals all weekend:


⚘ 6 Nourishing Plant-Based Meals
⚘ Ceremonial Yurt Gathering Space
⚘ Personal Time for Reflection + Heartfelt Connection
⚘ Inclusive Community with Experienced Guides and Spiritual Seekers of All Levels

*Early Arrival (optional): Arrive Thursday @ 5 PM instead of Friday and enjoy a pre-treat dinner, singing circle and accommodations for $50+tax

*Late Departure (optional): Stay Sunday night with dinner and breakfast, departing Monday for $50+tax

Save your spot!
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Summer 2025 Registration for the

RAM DASS SUMMER CAMP

Self Camping

$150 plus tax

Twin Nylon Bell Tent

$300 plus tax

Deluxe Queen Bell Tent

$400 plus tax

+ add-on*

Early Check in

Thursday, July 31st @ 5 PM

$50 plus tax - includes pre-retreat dinner, bonfire singing circle and accommodations

Payment plan options are available. Please contact bala@justloveforest.com with your questions.

Join the 2025 Ram Dass Summer Camp Today!
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Check in Time

Friday August 1st @ 5 PM

Check out Time

Sunday August 3rd @ 5 PM

*Early Check In Time (+$50)

Thursday July 31st @ 5 PM

*Late Check Out Time (+$50)

Monday August 4th @ 10 AM

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HOSTED BY BALA & The satsang

We all have life wisdom to give and share. These are the beings who will guide shared conversations and experiences with us. We’re grateful to have a beautiful collection of their paths and gifts to offer.

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  • I’m a friendly spirit in a human body, honored to steward this beautiful forest. My spiritual journey began about seven years ago, leading me from Encinitas through India and eventually to Maui, where I was blessed to spend time with Ram Dass. It was during that time that I received my spiritual name, Balarama, though most people just call me Bala.

    Just Love Forest is the dharmic path that revealed itself to me through deep listening and practice. It’s been quite an adventure — and I’m happy to share the story with you if you’re curious!

    Before this chapter of my life, I was mostly an “ordinary guy,” working in digital technology and leading start-ups. But everything shifted for me just before Christmas in 2017. During a spontaneous meditation — sitting quietly in my family’s closet, of all places — I had one of those lightning-bolt moments of insight. It felt like everything I thought I knew dissolved in an instant, as if the universe itself was unfolding inside me. No plants, no psychedelics, just pure presence.

    That experience obliterated my old sense of self and rewrote the way I see the world. Since then, I’ve been learning to surrender — to listen, to trust, and to live from my heart.

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  • Naga Das

    Breathwork Facilitator • Holistic Guide • Devotional Healer

    Naga Das (Sean Owen) is a heart-centered healer and founder of All Heart Holistic Group, where he offers breathwork, meditation, and energy healing rooted in devotion, presence, and transformation.

    His spiritual path began in early recovery, where on day one of rehab he met Ganesha Deva, a devotee of Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati and Neem Karoli Baba, who became his mentor and guide. Soon after, Ram Dass’s Be Here Now landed in his hands, igniting a journey of tears, meditation, and deep spiritual awakening.

    Through years of practice, powerful transmissions came through Ma, Bhagwan Nityananda, and eventually Neem Karoli Baba, who appeared to Naga Das in a vision during a retreat in 2024 - cracking his heart wide open and flooding him with grace. Since that day, Maharaj-ji’s presence has remained with him, guiding his life and work through signs, inner knowing, and a current of boundless love.

    Today, Naga Das holds sacred space for others to remember who they are - guiding them through the breath, through stillness, and into the heart. His path is simple:

    Love All. Serve All.

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  • Tyler Gulick is an aspirant on the path of service guided by the lineage of love flowing from Neem Karoli Baba and Ram Dass. From the joyful rhythms of Hare Krishna ashram life to stewarding Hanuman Maui, his journey is one of pursuing devotion in action. Now nestled in the Colorado mountains, Tyler studies Social Work and strives to offer music as prayer, community as a practice, and honors Love as our souls natural expression.

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  • At JustLoveForest, I’ve served as a dedicated steward of the land—protecting, learning from, and co-creating with the local ecosystem. With 14 years of foraging experience in Georgia, I’ve taught over 1,000 people how to safely and respectfully identify, harvest, and build relationships with wild plants and mushrooms. My work at JustLoveForest has focused on honoring biodiversity, including the discovery and documentation of rare and endangered native species. I also helped establish a native herb garden to support pollinators, promote ecological resilience, and reconnect people to the healing power of plants. Rooted in reverence and reciprocity, my foraging practice blends ecological restoration with spiritual and gut-healing traditions.

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  • Sarah Loomis is a spiritual guide, wellness coach, and longtime personal trainer who sees the body not as a project, but as a home. Since 2008, she’s been helping others reclaim health as a soulful, daily rhythm—not a destination. Her work blends movement, meditation, ritual, and rest, inviting people to experience health as a way of being in right relationship with themselves and the world. In her free time, Sarah can be found seeking inspiration and healing through chanting, drumming and connecting with nature.

    Seeing Movement As Love

    This session invites you to move from a place of love, not force. Together, we’ll explore what it really means to relate to your body with kindness and intention. You can expect a soft landing in your body, intentional movement that honors what you need, and space to notice what shows up. We’ll close with room to share, reflect, or simply be seen. No pushing. No fixing. Just movement as a form of care and love.

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  • zander cole (they/them) is guided by sacred wisdom traditions and offers kirtan, film, music, and art in the journey toward collective liberation.  The heart of zander's services lies in singing the divine names during kirtan and they have chanted alongside globally recognized kirtan wallahs. They are the Community Organizer for the Sacred Community Project and the Brooklyn Kirtan Collective, and they also tutor for the NYC Children’s Dyslexia Center.

    Check out their budding work on their website: zandercole.com and IG: @cosmictheythem

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  • Stephanie Johnson is a passionate movement educator and embodiment guide whose work blends the science of biomechanics with the art of presence. An experienced Bowspring practitioner and professional movement facilitator, she supports individuals in reconnecting with their bodies through intuitive, functional, and heart-centered practices. Her teaching emphasizes dynamic alignment, fluid strength, and the awakening of primal intelligence—helping students build resilience, release chronic tension, and return to their natural, upright posture. With deep roots in the forest and a gift for somatic attunement, Stephanie brings a grounded, joyful presence to every class, inviting people to move not just for fitness, but for freedom, vitality, and belonging in their bodies and the earth.

OUR INTENTIONS IN OFFERING THIS SPACE

The intention of our spiritual summer camp is to mirror life in a forest ashram. This an invitation for self discovery in nature and community for five days. This isn’t religious. There are only spiritual tools that we are sharing. We offer these tools for people to listen to their own hearts and follow the truth of their intuition.

We are all travelers of our own paths coming together to rest, reflect and share what we know. Although we have people leading sessions, there are no “teachers,” for we are all the teachers. We are coming to hear from one another as part of the “satsang” - the community of spiritual seekers supporting one another.

We surrender to the forces and schedules of nature. We are guests of the forest and we treat all of its beings with thankful reciprocity and respect while having fun. The mindset here is wild tending.

We are sacred beings, each one of us a miracle of life and consciousness. Knowing this, we treat each as the divine beings that we are. This means that we all support one another on our journeys, encouraging us to find deeper compassion, understanding and equanimity.

We give freely what we can in our knowledge, experiences and resources. In being part of a forest ashram for up to five days, we recognize each other as the family we are.

We get to always ask, how can we help?

And most importantly, we get to live courageously with soft and open hearts.

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    Community with Sangha

    You’ll be part of this special forest tribe of likeminded souls sharing their journeys and learnings they’ve experienced along the path. Come share camping, food and camp fire camaraderie.

  • A wooden toy piano with colorful keys, surrounded by traditional African drums and rattles on a woven rug.

    Kirtan

    Come share in the heart opening practice of devotional chanting. Experience this core part of the Bhakti path of love and devotion. Whether you’ve done this before or not, everyone is included and welcomed to share in the miracle of music.

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    Nature and Forest Therapy

    Share in meditation, yoga and forest therapy in 716 pristine acres of nature preserve. You’ll enjoy some guided group experiences with trained guides and have free time to experience the forest in your own way.

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    MMTCP Meditation teachers

  • A large green and tan yurt in a wooded area with pink blossoming trees. Outside there are wooden chairs, a small wooden bench, and a wooden swing set.

    our gathering place

  • Four women are lying on separate mats on the floor, appearing to be meditating or relaxing with eyes closed in a cozy indoor setting. One woman is being gently touched or nuzzled on the forehead by another. The room has a wooden wall with backpacks and water bottles nearby. A hand holding a mallet or hammer is visible in the foreground, striking a large crystal or mineral formation.

    sound experiences

  • Three people meditating outdoors in a forest, with a man playing a small wooden harmonium and singing, and the others sitting with eyes closed on mats.

    heartfelt music

  • Landscape view of rolling green hills with dense forest of trees, mountains in the distance, and a colorful sunset sky above.

    716 pristine acres

  • People practicing yoga in a circular formation inside a yurt with wooden lattice walls and ceiling fans, with yoga mats, cushions, and an altar with flowers and candles in the center.

    mindful movement

  • People sitting around a campfire at night in a forest, some playing drums, with a bright moon behind trees in the sky.

    satsang

  • A canvas tent set up in a forest at dusk, illuminated with string lights inside, with two wooden chairs outside.

    canvas bell tents

  • Wooden sign with painted text that says 'Just Love Save Love Save Forever One' decorated with white swirling lines, placed against a background of dark dirt, rocks, a log, and green leaves.

    love everyone. serve everyone.

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    Bhakti Mountain summit camp