In Person Retreat - Yes! To Life: Embodying Your Vitality, Joy, and Wholeness w/ Dr. Saida Desilets, Aaron Michael, Barbara Collier, and Jameelah Creates

Yes! To Life Retreat
Embodying Your Vitality, Joy, and Wholeness
Join instructors Dr. Saida Desilets, Aaron Michael, and Barbara Collier
for an immersive awakening at Imiloa Institute in Costa Rica.
✨ Support Practices with Jameelah Creates ✨

December 11th - 18th, 2025
Imiloa Institute, Costa Rica
Reserve your spot now
Space is limited

This is not about intimacy with others. It’s about restoring the inner connection that makes authentic relationship possible.

Yes! To Life is a journey of profound self-discovery, empowerment, and liberation.

It’s common to take time before saying yes. In fact, most people decide to join a healing retreat within the last six weeks. It’s not hesitation — it’s part of the process of preparing for real change.

Are you feeling anxious, frozen, or disheartened in life?

In uncertain times, it’s easy to lose touch with your body, boundaries, and future desires. The Yes! To Life Retreat offers a safe, supportive space to reconnect with your sense of wholeness—and move from fear and stuckness into embodied joy.

At this retreat, discover how to make your truth and personal power sources of strength and peace. Joining in person is your chance to prioritize yourself, release what no longer serves you, and return to life with clarity, choice, and grounded energy.

Even when the world feels unstable, caring for yourself is the most fulfilling investment you can make. Break free from fear, uncertainty, and scarcity—learn to live from your own yes, no, and maybe.

Co-taught by Dr Levine’s trusted colleague Barbara Collier, along with experts Dr. Saida Desilets and Aaron Michael, this retreat brings together a skilled, compassionate team to guide you through the experience.

Through grounded presence, movement, breath, and attuned practices, we will begin to re-inhabit the self—not as a performance, not for anyone else— but as a sovereign being in relationship with their own aliveness. This is the foundation for embodied wholeness: a kind of inner alignment where truth, pacing, and choice are not just concepts, but felt realities within the body. Together, in a respectful and boundaried space, we create conditions for healing—not through intensity, but through safety. Not through catharsis, but through attunement. Here, we honor each person’s unique rhythm, history, and capacity. This is not about intimacy with others. It is about restoring the inner connection that makes authentic relationship possible.

During this retreat, nestled in the breathtaking beauty of Costa Rica, you will explore:

Self-regulation & safety in the body

Recognizing and honoring your body's yes, no, and maybe

Releasing shame

Consent & boundaries

Presence & attunement

Trust & thriving

Solo attunement & enlivenment

Healthy, playful partner dynamics

Cultivating sexual sovereignty, honoring wholeness:
Sexual sovereignty is not something we acquire – it’s something we remember. A return to the quiet pulse of aliveness within. To the body as a wise, sensing being—not an object to be shaped, judged, or performed. This work is not about sexual expression or erotic touch with others. It is about listening—deeply, slowly—to what lives inside. To the subtle rhythms of desire, the boundaries shaped by lived experience, the body’s own timing, intelligence, and need for safety. We unlearn the patterns that taught us to override ourselves. We disentangle from the cultural and familial scripts that told us how to feel, what to want, or who to be.
This retreat is not just about individual freedom;

it’s about cultivating a deep and respectful relationship with ourselves in a way that honors our bodies, desires, and boundaries. It is an invitation to step into an embodied, attuned connection with ourselves—one that embraces presence, consent, and the art of titration, allowing for healing, transformation, and the unlearning of inherited narratives that may have shaped our relationship with sexuality and our bodies.

Through sensory immersion and deepening awareness, we reconnect with our innate wisdom and our bodies’ intelligence, awakening to the richness of sensation and self-trust. In a supportive and judgment-free space, we move beyond shame and cultural conditioning, reclaiming our wholeness. In doing so, we create a more fulfilling, nourishing, and inspiring intimate life rooted in self-trust, inclusivity, relational presence, and mutual respect.

"When we come back home to ourselves and start to trust and live by our inherent genius, we become the unstoppable force of nature we were born to be.”
— Dr. Saida Desilets

“A wild, robust life awaits—one that honors your wholeness and the vibrant interconnection that has always been your birthright.”
— Barbara Collier

“The retreat with Barbara was life-changing. The skill and professionalism of the team were an inspiration and far exceeded my expectations. I entered with the goal of taking my personal development further and beginning a new path. I left with the clarity I was seeking, a clear plan, renewed enthusiasm, more tools to help me succeed, and precious new friends.”
— Sedona Retreat 2022

“I have attended three in-person programs hosted by this team, and each time, they felt seamless in execution and plentiful in support. They are more than facilitators; they truly understand and embody their offerings.”
— Lisa, Participant

✨ Total Retreat Investment based on remaining lodging selections: $2,995–$4,995 USD (all-inclusive)
Includes 7-night stay at Imiloa Institute, gourmet meals, private round-trip hopper flight from San José, full retreat programming, and post-retreat integration support. Partial scholarship support may be available to eligible applicants.

*The maximum number of participants is 30, but we are planning on hosting approximately 20 to ensure a deeply personal and transformative experience.

We hope to see you in Costa Rica!