Retreat to Heart
May 8-15, 2027
Retreat to Heart
A Retreat on Transition, Relationships, and Becoming
Montezuma, Costa Rica | May 8–15, 2027
This retreat is for people navigating identity shifts, relationship patterns, grief, endings, growth, and becoming.
What if this season of your life is asking you to become someone new?
Retreat to Heart is an 8-day immersive retreat for people navigating identity shifts, relationship patterns, grief, endings, growth, and becoming.
You are not the same person you were before.
Maybe life has asked you to let go of an old identity.
Maybe a relationship changed you.
Maybe grief, transition, burnout, success, loss, or growth has reshaped the way you see yourself and the world around you.
Most people are taught how to perform, achieve, and survive. Very few of us are taught how to move through change consciously.
Retreat to Heart is an invitation to slow down and explore the patterns, protections, identities, and relational dynamics that shape who we are and who we are becoming.
Through workshops, embodied practices, reflection, and community, participants are guided toward a deeper understanding of themselves, their relationships, and the transitions they are navigating in this season of life.
The intention is not to force transformation. It is to create enough space, honesty, and awareness for people to hear themselves more clearly.
Sometimes the deepest shifts happen not through striving, but through finally slowing down long enough to understand what has been shaping us beneath the surface.
Relationships as Mirrors
Relationships often reveal the parts of ourselves we do not fully see on our own. They reveal our attachments, fears, boundaries, protective patterns, longing for connection, and the ways we learned to survive emotionally.
Many of the struggles people experience in relationships are not simply about communication or compatibility. They are connected to deeper patterns formed through earlier experiences, family systems, identity, shame, grief, and the nervous system.
Over time, these patterns can begin to feel automatic.
Retreat to Heart creates space to slow those patterns down with honesty, compassion, and awareness, not to judge them, but to better understand them.
Because awareness creates choice. And choice creates the possibility for a different relationship with yourself and others.
Why Costa Rica
There is something about the rhythm of Costa Rica that naturally supports this kind of inner work. Montezuma is a small coastal town where the jungle meets the ocean, a place where life slows down enough to hear yourself again.
Surrounded by rainforest, waterfalls, wildlife, and expansive ocean views, the environment invites reflection, spaciousness, rest, and reconnection.
The land itself becomes part of the experience, supporting the process of stepping away from the noise of daily life and reconnecting with what feels true beneath it.
The Retreat Experience
Retreat to Heart is intentionally designed as an intimate and spacious retreat experience. The rhythm of the week balances meaningful inner work with time for rest, reflection, nature, and integration. Rather than rushing from activity to activity, the structure allows space for insight to settle into the body and daily experience, not just remain intellectual.
Through workshops, embodiment practices, reflection, and community, participants are invited to explore the transitions, patterns, identities, and emotional landscapes shaping this season of their lives. The intention is to create an environment that feels grounding, honest, supportive, and deeply human.
What’s Included
Accommodations
→ 7 nights at Anamaya Resort in Montezuma, Costa Rica
→ May 8–15, 2027
Meals
→ Three daily vegetarian, plant-forward meals
→ Arrival day dinner and departure day breakfast included
→ Tea, coffee, and healthy snacks available throughout the day
Retreat Programming
→ Daily yoga and embodied movement
→ Breathwork and nervous system regulation
→ Meditation and silent reflection
→ Workshops on relationships, identity and nervous system awareness
→ Guided journaling
→ Integration circles
→ Cacao ceremony and closing ritual
Wellness & Integration
→ One complimentary 60-minute massage
→ One 60-minute private integration session with Dr. Sanaa (virtual within 3 months after the retreat)
Transportation
→ Roundtrip transportation between Tambor Airport (TMU) and Anamaya Resort
→ Travel guidance provided for participants arriving via Liberia International Airport (LIR)