PrimalCon Oxnard 2015 – The One and Only!

We started PrimalCon in the Southern California beach town of Oxnard back in 2010, visited an assortment of venues all over North America in the ensuing years, and now are nestling back in at our favorite spot of Oxnard to present one (and only one!) grand PrimalCon event in 2015. That’s right, we are going big next September and taking over the Embassy Suites Mandalay Beach Resort and Oxnard Beach Park for a four-day event from Wednesday Sept 23rd through Sunday September 27th, 2015. Yes we’ve expanded from our usual 3-day template to have both more presentation options and more relaxation!

While my team and I loved our sojourns to Lake Tahoe, Austin, New York, Tulum, Mexico, and of course returning to Oxnard annually to deliver a total of nine PrimalCon events over the past five years, we are eager to harness all of our resources to deliver a bigger, better, more diverse event next September in Oxnard. Here’s the thing––based on our aggregate ticket sales from the various cities over the past couple years, we expect this event to sell out promptly at 200 spots; ditto for rooms at the fabulous oceanfront Mandalay Beach Resort.

I realize we’re a long way off from late September 2015, but we’ve been inundated with eager PrimalCon enthusiasts wanting to make advance plans and secure a coveted spot at 2015 PrimalCon. So here’s your heads up: the shopping cart is now open and PrimalCon tickets are $1,695. The usual discounts apply: $100 for return attendees and $100 off for couples buying two tickets (just choose two tickets in the shopping cart). We have a payment plan available, so you can commit to the event with a partial deposit while respecting your monthly budget (call 888-774-6259 to discuss).

PrimalCon 2015 Agenda

With a larger group size than that of previous events, we’ll have more presenters and more choices throughout our daily agendas. Each day, we’ll offer lecture/seminar presentations in hotel breakout conference rooms, as well as all manner of outdoor activities at the adjacent beach park. We’ll utilize our popular free-choice format that allows you to rotate into a different presentation each hour and enjoy a delicious lunchtime feast at the beach. We’ll also convene in the grand ballroom for keynote presentations each evening before dinner. And when I say dinner, I really mean a lavish Primal feast so full of color, diversity and deliciousness, that it will knock your socks off from the first appetizer to the final morsel of dark chocolate as you linger and enjoy social time in the ballroom.

You can catch a glimpse of past PrimalCon feasts in this slideshow, but photos don’t really do justice to the food experience at PrimalCon. I’ve heard from many guests that our meals get them re-inspired and motivated about Primal cooking and eating, because of the amazing possibilities they see coming to life in front of them. Suffice to say you’ll have plenty of high quality food to eat, and meals are included in your registration fee. Every morning you can hit the resort’s custom-made omelet bar or grab a Primal Fuel smoothie at the beach park. At midday, we present a fabulous lunch buffet at the beach park, featuring grass-fed wagyu hamburgers from Thompson River Ranch with bacon, guacamole and NotSoFastFood Truck’s world-famous roasted banana chips, and of course the evening buffets centered on assorted meats and vegetables in ballroom. And if you’re not a dark chocolate aficionado already, you will become one when you sample the assortments from awesome sponsors like eatingEvolved and Santa Barbara Chocolate.

The agenda will feature all the classic Oxnard favorites, like the battle royale Survivor Team Challenge, the friendly-casual-low-key-fight-to-the-death , and of course the world-famous Primal Ocean Plunge/Jacuzzi Sprint (yes, we actually did get kicked out of the hotel Jacuzzi again in 2014, lest you think I’m embellishing my past storytellings…). We’ll have a deeper and more diverse presenter lineup than ever before, but you can count on many of our favorite PrimalCon veterans returning for more fun and games in 2015.

We’ll start each morning off with meditation/gratitude sessions with my wife Carrie, and energizing VitaMove exercise sessions with Angelo dela Cruz. We’ll be reminded how to really play (and push vehicles through the parking lot!) with the dynamic Darryl Edwards. We’ll learn how to add more movement and variation into daily life with Katy Bowman, how to run with correct technique and cultivate an ideal mindset for peak performance with Brad Kearns, and introduce safe techniques for weight training and bodyweight resistance exercise for all ability levels, and also learn about the dynamics of a winning coaching relationship, with Adam and Vanessa Lambert.

Dr. Cate Shanahan will be there to discuss ancestral living and answer your questions from a medical perspective, and Luke Shanahan will help make your dream of writing your life story (or any other story) a reality with his creative writing workshop. We’ll get into the emotional aspects of succeeding––or struggling––with body composition and other fitness and lifestyle goals with Dr. Alessandra Wall, a living, breathing impressive combo of CrossFit studette and cutting-edge psychotherapist. We’ll have an assortment of one-on-one opportunities with bodyworkers, therapists, and movement assessment experts to give you the personal attention you need to dial in optimal function and relieve pain and misalignment.

For the first time ever at PrimalCon, we are branching out beyond our wonderful primal/paleo/ancestral health family of expert presenters to bring in some exceptional keynote presenter talent on topics relating to general healthy living, peak performance, and personal growth. On that note, I’m excited to introduce New York Times bestselling author Ashley Merryman as a keynote speaker. Ashley and her co-author Po Bronson wrote NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children, and Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing. They are known for their fresh, provocative, and often counterintuitive look at our closely held conventional notions regarding parenting, competition, and winning and losing. Take a quick look at Top Dog and I guarantee you will be drawn in by the surprising insights that make you rethink conventional wisdom about competition.

We’ll be updating the presenter list as we secure commitments over time (and of course cancellations might occur), but be assured that you will engage with some of the most interesting, knowledgeable, and fun-loving folks in the health and fitness industry. You can see our continually updated list of PrimalCon presenters at the PrimalCon page.

Making It Happen

Shortly before this post went live, we did the courtesy of informing our past PrimalCon participants that we were doing only one event, and that ticket sales were going live today. The response was excellent so we are already quite far down the road to our 200-ticket sellout point. Sorry, but we felt we owed the people who have supported PrimalCon from the very beginning a bit of a head start for 2015! However, if you’ve never been and want to go, I urge you to act right away as follows:

Purchase Your PrimalCon Ticket: Visit the PrimalCon page and pay in full now for best value or call 888-774-6259 or email to discuss a payment plan option if necessary.
Book Your Suite: Call the Mandalay Beach Resort (805-984-2500) or click on the PrimalCon custom booking page with awesome discount rates to reserve your suite for the September 23-27 event (you can extend a bit in either direction at the same discount rates if desired). The resort is totally sold out every September with weddings and people escaping the prolonged hot summer weather inland. We’ve already fought off some eager wedding parties to grab a sizeable room block, but it’s going extremely quickly.

Once we sell out, the shopping cart option will convert to a waiting list placement with a small deposit required. We fully expect to have some attrition as we have every year, and your chances are good that you will roll into an open spot if you pop for a ticket to the waiting list.

I hope to meet you in person in Oxnard next September! Of course, this is my company’s event so I’m gonna highly recommend it, but I’m not kidding when I say Carrie and I have as much fun, and get as much fulfillment, from being part of PrimalCon as any participant. It really is the highlight of the year for us! I’ve engaged with so many incredible people that any accolades I receive are dwarfed by what I get in return from the experience: our amazing presenters, our incredibly hard-working staff, the wonderful guests from around the globe, and of course countless Ultimate Frisbee victories for my team!

Well, time is a wastin’ right now, but if you are still not convinced that one weekend can change your life and strongly reaffirm your commitment to and passion for Primal living, why don’t you check out a couple of these highlight videos that give a great flavor for what PrimalCon is all about?

PrimalCon Oxnard highlights video
PrimalCon Tulum highlights video
PrimalCon Lake Tahoe highlights video

Lock In Your Spot and Purchase Your PrimalCon Ticket Today!
P.S.

If you can’t make it to PrimalCon in Southern California this September, join me for three days of transformation on beautiful Manly Beach, Sydney, Australia this March 13-15. I’ll be joined by a world class group of primal and paleo peers.

You can find the full program details here. Final tickets were just released. Don’t miss out on the premier Southern Hemisphere ancestral health conference!

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