MEET OUR FACILITATORS

Mark Royce

Co-Founder - Managing Trustee - Retreat Leader - Embodiment Coach

Mark Royce is a lifelong martial artist, coach, and entrepreneur who has dedicated more than 45 years to training and over 35 years to mentoring and coaching men in martial arts, boxing, functional strength, and personal transformation. As Managing Trustee and co-creator of Blisstopia Retreats, Mark brings a deeply embodied and no-nonsense approach to healing—one rooted in discipline, resilience, and lived experience.

Beyond the gym, Mark’s coaching extends into life itself. A father of four, he has walked through the fires of three divorces, bankruptcy, and foreclosure—losses that tested his strength but ultimately refined his purpose. These chapters gave him firsthand understanding of what it means to rebuild from the ground up, face emotional pain, and rise again with clarity, humility, and grit.

With decades of leadership in business and personal development, Mark has launched and managed multiple ventures—from martial arts schools, a security firm, and a janitorial service to a travel business, nutritional brand, and three TITLE Boxing Clubs he co-owned with Lana. This wide-ranging experience sharpened his ability to mentor others through adversity, self-doubt, and life’s relentless demands.

His professional certifications include:

  • NASM Certified Personal Trainer (CPT)
  • Certified Nutrition Coach – Precision Nutrition
  • Regenerative Health Practitioner – Institute of Regenerative Health
  • Certified Breathwork Coach – YogiLab
  • Certified 200-Hour Yoga Teacher – Blisstopia Institute
  • 5th Degree Black Belt – American Self Defense Systems

Whether leading a men’s circle, coaching one-on-one, or running a self-defense workshop, Mark meets every man where he is—with empathy, honesty, and the lived wisdom of someone who’s been to hell and made it back stronger.

Whether leading a men’s circle, coaching one-on-one, or running a self-defense workshop, Mark meets every man where he is—with empathy, honesty, and the lived wisdom of someone who’s been to hell and made it back stronger.

Lana Royce

Founder - Trustee - Retreat Leader

For over three decades, Lana Anderson Royce has devoted her life to guiding others through deep transformation, with a particular gift for helping men navigate challenge, resilience, and renewal. Her work bridges the clinical and the spiritual—grounded in psychology, infused with intuition, and rooted in compassion.

With a Master’s degree in Counseling and Psychological Services from St. Mary’s University, Lana draws from more than 30 years as a psychotherapist supporting men and families through trauma, grief, emotional suppression, identity shifts, and spiritual awakening. Her approach honors the masculine journey—recognizing both the quiet strength and the vulnerable truths that often shape a man’s path “through hell and back.”

A dedicated healer and educator, Lana is also an E-RYT500 yoga instructor, certified hypnotherapist, Reiki Master, Healing Touch Practitioner, and Vedic meditation and sound healing teacher. She integrates nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and practical tools for emotional resilience into every session, workshop, and retreat she leads.

From 2015 to 2021, Lana co-owned three TITLE Boxing Clubs and Yoga by Blisstopia studio in Minnesota with her husband Mark, cultivating community through movement, mindfulness, and transformation. She has also served on boards such as No Time for Poverty and Freedom Healthcare, extending her heart for service into global outreach and accessible wellness initiatives.

Now based in Peoria, Arizona, as Founder and Trustee of Blisstopia Retreats—a 508(c)(1)(a) nonprofit Private Membership Association—Lana continues to hold sacred space for healing in the Sonoran Desert. A mother of two sons, she brings deep empathy, experience, and fierce love to her work with men—helping them move beyond survival, reclaim emotional strength, and live in alignment with their highest purpose.

Gabe Crane

Life Coach

Spiritual Guide has spent over 15 years guiding individuals toward holistic, integrated ways of living — supporting health, well-being, and open and honest connection to the heart and true self. He holds graduate degrees in East-West Psychology and Conflict Resolution from CIIS and Columbia University and has trained extensively in somatic practices, meditation, Qigong, Process Work, and other mind-body-spirit modalities.

From a young age, Gabe’s life has been shaped by exploration and curiosity. He has backpacked and paddled canoes across multiple continents; studied spiritual and indigenous traditions in Israel, Peru, and beyond; and worked as a wilderness trail guide and in immersive cultural projects around the world. These experiences cultivated resilience, presence, and a deep understanding of human potential.

Yet his most profound lessons came closer to home. In recent years, Gabe navigated a painful divorce while becoming a father, all during a move to Maui amid the isolation of COVID. What many imagine as paradise became, for a time, a crucible: a season of disorientation, self-doubt, and deep reckoning. Stripped of familiar structures and assumptions, he found himself on the “ground floor” of life, confronting his own patterns, limitations, and inner authority. From this place of brokenness and humbling, he discovered the beauty that life is trying to offer us when we open to it with clarity, vulnerability, and love. 

Today, Gabe works primarily with men in their 30s to 50s who have faced relational collapse, identity upheaval, or life transition. Drawing on both his personal journey and decades of study, he helps them reclaim confidence, integrate their experiences without being defined by them, pursue new, healthier relationships, and live from a deeper place of purpose, values, and spirit.

Today, Gabe works primarily with men in their 30s to 50s who have faced relational collapse, identity upheaval, or life transition. Drawing on both his personal journey and decades of study, he helps them reclaim confidence, integrate their experiences without being defined by them, pursue new, healthier relationships, and live from a deeper place of purpose, values, and spirit.

Travis Williams

Guide

Guide who has spent years doing the real work of learning how to feel, lead, and live with integrity as a man. I’ve built businesses, led teams, held responsibility, and also faced the parts of myself that needed healing, honesty, and change.

My work centers on helping men slow down, reconnect with themselves, and build lives that actually feel aligned, not just successful on the outside. I don’t believe in fixing men or forcing breakthroughs. I believe in creating safe, grounded containers where truth can surface, emotions can move, and clarity can emerge naturally.

This retreat isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about remembering who you already are, strengthening your relationship with yourself, and leaving with more trust in your body, your instincts, and your direction. I’ll be here to guide, hold the space, and walk alongside you, not above you.