Costa Rica June 6–15, 2024
“What we all need is to learn to live without walls. We have to let the illusion of separation fall away and replace it with active, lively engagement of every aspect of our lives.”
Step into your fullest potential.
Healing Ourselves, Healing Nature is a 10-day, 9-night adventure in reconciling and deepening our relationship with Mother Earth.
We are honored to journey once again to Finca Camino Nuevo, tucked in the ethereal mountains and misty forests just below the Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Preserve.
This innovative eco retreat is guided by three questions:
What is the nature of embodiment and interdependence?
How can we promote belonging?
Why is personal growth and renewal a vital dimension of individual + planetary flourishing and wise environmental stewardship?
Together we delve into the dynamic interdependence of self, community, and Mother Earth, framed within a larger conversation about the textures and contours of sustainability, equity, and well-being.
Along our journey, we build community, practice mindfulness meditation techniques, explore embodiment practices and ecstatic dance, ceremony, enjoy tea ritual and expressive arts, engage in vibrant discussion, and rest. The living land is our central teacher.
Our goal for participants is:
Develop and enhance lasting connection to the living land through nature-based contemplative practices
Bolster resilience around climate anxiety, grief, fear, anger, shame and guilt
Foster a culture of belonging and inclusivity, and build lasting relationships
Deepen understanding of interdependence and key ingredients of flourishing
Create unique pathways to wise environmental stewardship and compassionate community leadership, whatever one’s occupational path may be.
Healing Ourselves, Healing Nature can help participants step into their fullest potential through considering their unique gifts, backgrounds, and life situations to envision actionable steps towards promoting a more socially and ecologically harmonious world.
Pricing Details
June 6-15, 2024
$2800/per person
(early bird special)
Pay in full or pay $1400 deposit. Final non-refundable payment by May 1.
Pricing is all-inclusive minus flights
Earn 20 hours of Yoga Alliance CE credit
*Participants must be 21 years or older.
50% payment is non-refundable
Booking is fully non-refundable after May 1, 2024.
Program Includes
10 days, 9 nights accommodation (doubles, singles are extra)
Land transportation
3 nourishing, organic, locally-sourced vegetarian meals daily
Daily meditations
Forest bathing
Yoga
Conscious movement and dance
Guided creative arts
Collaborative music
Tea, cacao, and fire ceremonies
Themed talks and discussions
Facilitated circling and journaling prompts
Unlimited access to pool and jacuzzi
Excusions and mindful hikes
Downtime for rest and reflection
Integration opportunities post-retreat
Optional Add-ons
Watsu water therapy
Craniosacral therapy
Massage
Gratitude + Belonging
We begin by slowing down, grounding, and exploring what we are grateful for while taking some time to get to know one another. The combination of community building and gratitude practice engenders belonging, mutual trust, and kinship. From this foundation, we will awaken our senses, coming into relationship with our bodies, each other, and the living land.
Awareness + Expression
We reflect upon the deeper patterns, worldviews, and mindsets that shape our understanding of ourselves and relationship with nature while immersing ourselves in nature-centered meditation, embodiment practice, dance, art, storytelling, tea, and deep listening to attune us to our sense of presence and interdependence with Mother Earth. We have an opportunity to share any grief, anger, fear, despair, and sense of shame and guilt we feel about what is happening to our planet.
Purpose + Action
The third stage is an opportunity to reflect on what each of us can do to help others and serve as better stewards of the living land as well as excellent elders in society.
Program Facilitators and Leaders
Dimensions Roadmap
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Practices nclude:
Meditation, mindful movement, forest bathing
Voice activation, deep listening, and song
Conscious dance
Breath practice
Frameworks are the mindsets and worldviews that influence how we understand and engage with the world and ourselves.
Discussion circle topics include:
Flourishing, healing, and languishing
Authenticity and truthfulness
Kinship and interdependence
Climate change, sustainability, equity
Self and selflessness
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Community building is central to our practice through:
Story sharing
Deep listening
Ceremony
Tea
Creative arts
Group hiking
Discussion circle topics include:
Socially engaged mindfulness
Thinking critically, cooperating, and collaborating
Inner transformation and sustainability
Earth care and self care alignment
Worldviews, mindsets, perspectives
Socially-engaged mindfulness, networks, and resources
Start your next adventure.
Adventure again into the ethereal mountains and forests of Monteverde for Healing Ourselves, Healing Nature: Costa Rica! An immersive 10-day, 9-night journey open to those interested in reconnecting with nature and healing all our relations.
Our Past Retreats
Monteverde 2023 with Shayá, Bainawá, and Maiko Txana Kupi Huni Kuin (the “True People”) of the Pinuya Village near the border of Brazil and Peru. We are deeply grateful for them, their wisdom, and their joyous message of healing. They are pictured in the back row right, along with their representative and translator Marcos Vinicius (Vinny) Romão of Associação Povos da Terra.
Monteverde, Costa Rica, June 2022. We were deeply honored that Abuelo Carlos Huizton and Paula Colandí joined us at Finca Camino Nuevo.
2022-2023 Costa Rica Locations
Alya Retreat Center
GUANACASTE PROVINCE
SAN JUANILLO, COSTA RICA
Alya retreat center is located in a secluded 19-acre property at the Nicoya peninsula in Costa Rica. Nestled in the beautiful natural forest environment, Alya offers a facility designed to heal, cleans and rejuvenate. Our environment honors your intention.
Enjoy simplicity and kindness, the Pura Vida (Pure Living) lifestyle, and take a break from the stresses of modern living. Reconnect with the sacred within.
SAN LUÍS DE MONTEVERDE
COSTA RICA
The Finca Camino Nuevo Retreat Center is a healing sanctuary hugged by the mountains of Monteverde with a sweeping view to the sea. Here your body and soul will be rejuvenated, nourished and supported.
