Healing Spiritual Retreat in Costa Rica
Find your purpose, heal & discover answers in a serene Rainforest Retreat
From US$2277.00 – $3495.00 per person & 20% down to reserve
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Is This Retreat For You ?
If you are
- feeling lost or seeking purpose
- in need of rejuvenation & healing from some recent or past traumatic or stressful event
- sensing that life could be better or that something is missing from your life
- In a life transition and need help with finding the next step
- stagnant or stuck in spite of trying everything
Typical occupations, life experiences and circumstances of our guests include:
- those i high stress jobs such as nurses, psychotherapists, emergency first responders, doctors, fire fighters, entrepreneurs, executives
- parents who have been juggling too much for too long
- some who are now single due to death or a break up
- those retiring or whose children have left home and are now need to see what is their new purpose
- those who have recently suffered the loss of a loved one
- those who feel life is unfulfilling or do not feel in control of their lives
If this sounds like you, then a healing retreat could be what you need.
Signs You Are In Need Of Transformation
Your deeper issues can manifest itself in different ways – emotionally, physically & mentally. If you are facing the following issues:
- Feeling lost, stuck or a weighed down in life
- Unsure of your purpose in life or feeling lost at some level
- Have relationship issues (especially repetitive patterns) or have trouble finding loving and fulfilling relationships
- Having trouble coping with and adapting to a life transition
- Neglecting your needs for family, career and others in general and need to take time to connect with yourself
- Escaping pain by numbing them with drugs, alcohol, cigarettes or drugs
- Repeating negative patterns – either behaviors or thoughts
- Suffering from stress and are in need of a reset
- Overthinking or ruminating
- Poor sleep patterns
- Low energy or lack of zest for life
Hear From Our Guests
“Everybody is just filled with love and support. Community. Made life long friends. And healing that you can never get outside of this. And not only that you have support through your healing journey. The leaders are magic. The staff are earth angels.
I have lived 40 years in pain. And I now feel free.”
Kim C
“What happened was indescribable. I always thought that i was going to die of a broken heart. But these healers have healed me. And healed things that i did not know even existed in me. The experience really has changed the whole trajectory of my life. The place was mystical and the people enchanting. I made forever friends and cannot wait to get back.”
Amy Jo
“Over the past 39 years i have been through so many different heart breaks and losses. I came here because i wanted to truly do some deep healing. I am leaving with everything I needed. I asked for my heart to be healed and my heart is healed. I was able to actually let go. Forgive my body and see that my truth is beautiful and filled with a whole bunch of joy. I not only got everything I needed here but i am walking away with amazing friendships. I am an introvert and not a person who loves to mingle and connect and share my life story, but that just came naturally and everyone here was so opening for me.”
Julie
Typical Results From The Retreat
- Clarity and Purpose: Gain a clear sense of purpose and direction in life; learn what makes you repeat negative patterns and break them; address underlying reasons for feeling lost or stuck.
- Adapt: Find ways to cope and adapt to problems or a major life transition
- Emotional Healing: Address and heal from past traumas, breaking free from negative patterns and habits.
- Stress Relief: Restore balance, achieve deep relaxation and stress relief, crucial for those in high-stress professions.
- Improved Relationships: Address underlying reasons why you attract toxic people into your life and learn to foster deeper, loving and fulfilling relationships with those who are aligned with you.
- Mental Well-being: Experience reduced anxiety, depression, and overthinking, leading to a more balanced mental state.
- Physical Rejuvenation: Boost energy levels, improve sleep patterns, and address physical issues like weight control and moodiness.
- Inner Peace and Resilience: Cultivate inner peace, resilience, and a newfound ability to cope with life’s transitions and challenges.
- Holistic Integration: Learn to set intentions, access deeper states of consciousness, and integrate insights into daily life, ensuring long-lasting transformation and well-being.
- Improved Relationships: Address underlying reasons why you attract toxic people into your life and learn to foster deeper, loving and fulfilling relationships with those who are aligned with you.
The Retreat – A 4 Step Process To A New You
Our expert experienced guides will guide you on a 4 step process designed to help you achieve the transformation you seek.
Step 1 – Grounding – The Soul Cannot Speak Unless the Mind Is Quiet
Commence your transformative journey enveloped by nature’s soothing embrace within the Rainforest. Deepen the sense of calm and foster your healing state with guided meditation and breathwork. This is an essential precursor to prepare you to look deep within, where all your weaknesses, strengths, insights & answers reside.
Step 2 – Refine your intentions with Guided Mindful Preparation
To get the insights and answers you need, it helps to be very clear about your intentions. And they are very personal. Examples are:
What is causing me to feel lost and stuck and how can I find a way forward
I feel empty like something is missing in my life and i want to know why
How do i cope, adapt and find inner peace during this challenging time in my life
Why do i let my fears and insecurities from trying things i want or forming fulfilling relationships
I am carrying all this trauma within me and want to be free of it
I am a slave to my anxiety and depression and i do not want to feel like this anymore
Healing and finding a way forward cannot happen without setting clear intentions. WIth the help of guided reflective practices like mindful breathwork meditation, you will gain insights and find crystal clarity around your intentions. These intentional exercises will start to uncover truths and insights so you can become very clear on your intentions.
Be it healing, finding purpose, changing negative patterns & habits or generally taking charge of your life and moving forward with peace, serenity & confidence.
Step 3 – Insights and Revelations Through Guided Holistic Spiritual Practices
The most fulfilling yet challenging part of your journey is next. A phase rich in insights, revelations and courageous confrontation of past. Crucial prerequisite for the transformation you seek.
Surrender to and trust this phase and allow revelations to flow. You will get clarity on why you are where you are. And what has you stuck.
Through powerful guided holistic practices & rituals (eg movement, breathwork, deep guided meditation or spiritual ceremonies) you are transported into a deep, reflective healing state that primes you to uncover insights & truths locked within you. These could be hidden from you for various reasons. And they often result in unconscious patterns, behaviors & beliefs holding you back. By unveiling these truths and experiences tucked away within you, you can begin to engage with them and work on them.
Step 4 – Integration – A New You by forming new patterns, thinking, beliefs & habits
This is where the leaders’ experience will help you interpret the revelations you received during your journey. Reflect on the insights gained, employing mindfulness to assimilate these revelations into your life. You will gain a deeper understanding of where you have fallen short and why. You will be given and allowed to develop a personal prescription to attain the life you want through:
- Deeper understanding of what was limiting you and how to overcome
- forming new patterns & releasing limiting beliefs
- adopting new reactions in the face of challenges and triggers
This integration nurtures lasting transformation, fostering alignment with clarity, resilience, purpose, and a profound sense of interconnectedness within yourself and the world around you.
What’s included
- 7 nights 8 days accommodations | All meals & drinking water
- Deep Relaxation to quiet your mind and ease your body with gentle Yoga | Guided Meditations | Breathwork
- Guided Intention Setting supported by deep reflection and introspection with meditation & breathwork
- Healing Ceremonies to engage look within yourself to find answers, healing, purpose
- Herbal Bath for cleansing and protection
- Sweat Lodge
- Welcome Dinner | Beach Day Picnic | Final Night Celebratory Dinner
- Inspired dishes and authentic local cuisine
- A Rustic Retreat in the Rainforest with modern amenities including a pool overlooking the Rainforest & Caribbean Sea
Why Us?
For the last 25 years, we have hosted transformational retreats for those who seek purpose, are looking to heal, find answers or simply disconnect and de-stress.
We only work with trained & experienced guides who hail from a long lineage of elders, who will help prepare you and ensure a safe and effective experience. We also have a medical center with fully qualified doctors close by.
The effect of the serene and secluded Rainforest is ideal for healing because it provides a tranquil sanctuary for self-reflection, meditation, and mindfulness while preparing and after the ceremony.
Science has proven nature to be a powerful healer that quiets your mind and enhances your sense of well-being and opens your heart.
Your safety is our top priority. You will undergo a strict screening process that will determine if you are the right candidate for this ceremony. The intensity of the journey is not for everyone, and it takes an experienced guide to determine who can safely go through the ceremony.
Lodging
We have 2 different types of accommodations to to suit a range of budgets and experiences:
Guest House Rooms are hostel style rooms with shared bathrooms (one for men and another for women.) and a shared terrace. Perfect for budget conscious travelers or those who are traveling with friends.
Casitas are little Caribbean style villas with their own private terrace with hammocks and set in their own little garden with views of the Rainforest or Sea or both. Some have an additional bed in a sleeping loft.
All accommodations have fans and screened ventilation allowing for fresh air and Caribbean breezes. Also there are no TVs in the rooms so the sounds, sights and magic of the Rainforest immersion is pure.
Rooms at the Samasati Guest House
Sleeps one or two people
The Guest House is situated a short walk from the restaurant and reception area. It consists of 5 adjoining private rooms with two shared bathrooms, one for men and another for women. Choose from rooms with either two Single beds or one Double bed. This Guest House is a great option for solo travelers or groups of friends looking for cozy and inexpensive accommodations.
Features:
- Private Room with two Single beds or a Double bed
- Rainforest views, a terrace and lounge area with hammocks
- Linen and towels provided
- Fan (additional fans available upon request)
- Laundry service at additional cost
Casitas
Sleeps two to four people
Ten wooden cottages built with wood reclaimed from the area within walking distance from the main reception and restaurant area. All have spacious verandas overlooking the Rainforest or the Caribbean Sea. Some have an additional bedroom in a lofted area above the main floor. The Casitas can accommodate two to four people. Beds are either King size, Double or Single size.
Classic Casitas
These Casitas are each in their own secluded area in the forest and have an additional lofted sleeping area. There are two Single beds on the main level and a Double bed in the loft, a private bathroom and a terrace with a hammock and is set in a little tropical garden planted with local flora.
Preferred Casita
These Casitas have windows that open to prime views of the Rainforest or the Caribbean Sea. Each of them is in it’s own secluded area in the forest and has a King bed, a private bathroom, a quiet terrace with a hammock and is set in a little tropical garden with local flora. These Casitas are ideal for couples.
Features
- Views of Caribbean Sea and Rainforest
- Enclosed in its own secluded area within the retreat
- Private Bathroom
- Attached Terrace with Hammocks (additional hammocks available upon request)
- Linen and towels provided
- Ceiling fan (additional fans available upon request)
- Laundry service at additional cost
Your Guides
Ronit
Ronit is a gifted Yoga and movement teacher and gently helps participants maximize the benefit of the plant based healing through conscious movement and breathwork. Ronit also shares her knowledge of deep juice cleansing and other transforming detox tools.
As a dedicated Moon Dance practitioner, she practices this beautiful prayer ritual of the Mexican tradition. The Moon Dance gathers women from all over the world during the full moon. T. The tobacco spirit accompanies the sacred prayer dance and lasts four-night while the men hold and protect the space. At Mundo Gente Medicina, Ronit shares with us the purifying Temazcal sweat lodge ceremony that is an integral part of the Moon Dance ceremony.
Josue
Josue found his path in life in the meeting of music, medicine, and integration. His journey started as an apprentice during spiritual healing ceremonies with a gifted Peruvian Master. He soon was given the responsibility of holding ceremonies and retreats himself. His journey continued when he embraced the traditional Lakota Vision quest, a ritual of prayer, fasting, and isolation in nature.
From the assimilation of these various experiences, his healing call was was answered. A place where seekers can encounter these beautiful and different traditions and experience their healing benefits. As a gifted musician, Josue guides participants in their inner work with music and song that supports the healing journey.
Josue also gives great importance to the process of INTEGRATION, where the powerful knowledge gained through engaging with oneself deeply and insights can be assimilated into our daily life. Josue offers sacred coaching so that participants can keep the teachings alive once they return home.
Stephanie McKenzie
Stephanie has curated and facilitated countless life-changing experiences for those just like you seeking to live a life of peace that resonates with your deepest self. Using ancient healing practices and modern science to bring truth to the surface of consciousness. With love, kindness, empathy and unconditional acceptance. She reminds you how to play, how to to talk to the yourself and to listen – most importantly to yourself . She will listen to you. she will see you. She will understand your perspective. And guide you out of your current state to where you want to be. And, most importantly, she will help you adopt practices to deny you the path to return to your darkness.
In her words, “Embracing my pain has been an iron rod in my life. I’ve made my weaknesses my strengths. I sought refuge from a very early age in the quiet moments within a child pose held in a dark closet. I found freedom in losing my way in the forest. I have felt the vastness of diversity while floating upon the warm sea. I gained clarity from moments of silence that stretched for days and then years. I understand the shifting nature of the human mind because it was a matter of life and death to the youngest version of me. I’ve learned that nourishing and caring for my body, mind, and soul is an obligation I accepted at birth. I am a lightning rod for transformation. When you cross my path, you are in the midst of a personal transition. I know this with unabashed certainty. In the times of my own chaos, I have trained myself to extinguish my own voice to allow for the supreme self to be heard within the hum. I have inked into my skin a daily reminder of the message received when I truly paused. When I truly listened. I am a lightning rod for chaos. When you cross my path, you are in the midst of a personal transition. We have been brought together to learn from each other. I will remind you how to listen. You will remind me how to hear.”
Stephanie formally immersed herself in the study and practice of Sankhya philosophy, Yoga, Ayurveda, Curanderismo, Mindfulness, Herbalism, Nurat Boran, Classical and Ecstatic Dance, and Vipassana Meditation. She has led countless students through the practices she knows to be helpful to helping people find hope and peace where there was none; healing where there was only trauma prior; adapting and coping with life transitions & most of all enabling her guests to find lasting transformation and finding a way to live a life they love.
She has guided numerous ceremonies honoring moments in lives that are all too fleeting. She shared her vulnerabilities to encourage students to do the same for healing cannot occur unless we are willing to engage with our darkest shadows and made them our friends