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One-Week Intimate Ayahuasca Retreat | Nosara, Costa Rica

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Costa Rica
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Up to 14 in group
Date
November 15 - 22, 2025

Retreat Highlights

  • Nosara, Costa Rica
  • All-Inclusive Plant Medicine Healing Retreat
  • 8 Days, 7 Nights
  • 3 Ayahuasca ceremonies with a family of highly experienced Shipibo Maestros
  • Comprehensive 1:1 therapeutic counseling and support
  • Facilitation team trained in trauma work, cognitive psychology, somatic healing, naturopathic medicine, and shamanism
  • Daily breathwork, yoga, meditations, and healing workshops
  • Sacred plant baths with healing Amazonian plants
  • Beautifully prepared organic meals
  • Hiking, waterfalls, nature
  • 3-month preparation and post-retreat integration support and group container 
  • Custom plant medicine integration journal
  • Nestled in the beautiful mountains overlooking the ocean in a luxury retreat center

About this Retreat

Details of this retreat

During our retreats, we encourage vulnerability and compassion in a heart-based container where profound transformation is catalyzed by the powerful healing properties of Ayahuasca served by deeply gifted Shipibo Maestros from the Peruvian Amazon. We complement traditional indigenous plant medicine ceremonies with a trauma-informed, body-based therapeutic approach, and long-term ongoing integration support to help you flourish in the ever-unfolding possibilities of sustainable and lasting transformation.
This intimate plant medicine retreat takes place near the town of Nosara, on the Guanacaste Penninsula in the generous lands of Costa Rica. Our luxury retreat space is immersed in a secluded environment surrounded by lush jungle, breathtaking ocean views and healing nature. The sacred land will submerge you into a supportive place to explore the beauty of nature while you embark on your personal plant medicine journey with a family of world-renowned Shipibo Maestros and highly experienced facilitator support.
This all-inclusive event includes 3 Ayahuasca ceremonies, with Ayahuasca grown, harvested, and brewed by our family of Shipibo maestros in the Amazon jungle of Peru. Included in your private retreat cost will be daily yoga, breathwork, hikes in nature, sacred plant baths, integration circles, community activities, and a highly experienced facilitation team there to support your process fully. All organic meals are included and intentionally prepared with love to best support your health and medicine work. This luxury retreat center offers beautiful rooms all equipped with private bathrooms, hot showers, and beautiful views of the Pacific Ocean leaving you feeling comfortable in your space and fully supported in diving deep into this immersive medicine experience.
We honor and acknowledge that each person's relationship with plant medicine and healing journey is intimate and highly personal, with an array of different needs. Our approach to this work is to meet each guest where they are at in their process, honor their individuality, and provide a safe container of connection and healing.

Getting Here

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Directions

You will be need to arrive to the retreat space by taxi from Nosara. It is a 20 minute drive from downtown Nosara.

Accommodation

This intimate medicine retreat will take place in the generous lands of Costa Rica, near Nosara. Immersed in a healing natural environment, surrounded by mountains and ocean lies our expansive retreat space. This beautiful and nurturing land will submerge you into a supportive place to explore the beauty of nature while you embark on your personal plant medicine journey.

Accommodation
Shared Casita | All Inclusive
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Luxury Glamping (shared) | All Inclusive
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Private Single Suite | All Inclusive

Venue & Amenities

Venue & Amenities
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Meals

Menu Types

We offer intentionally prepared, ayahuasca-friendly meals made with love, featuring local organic produce from small farms throughout Costa Rica. We offer organic chicken and locally caught fish.

What's Included

  • 3 plant medicine ceremonies
  • Meditation and breathwork classes
  • Daily yoga
  • Sacred healing plant baths & steams with Amazonian plants
  • All organic meals throughout the retreat
  • Intimate group size and 1:1 personalized care, counseling, and facilitation
  • Multiple workshops, talks, and group circles throughout the retreat to support medical work
  • 1:1 Preparation calls with your facilitators
  • Virtual group preparation and connection calls
  • Multiple 1:1 post-retreat integrations calls with your facilitation team 3 months post-retreat
  • Custom made 100-page plant medicine integration journal
  • Beautiful retreat venue nestled in the beautiful mountains overlooking the ocean

Customer Reviews

4.99 out of 5.0 average rating

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What a wow week
It’s hard to find words to describe this amazing week. The location, the experience, Neils&Francesca, everything was incredible. I felt held and guided through it all with love and deep understanding and I’m very grateful for all of it. A group of strangers became a family. We shared, we cried, we laughed, we learned and we healed. I have made new friends for life.

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Amazing!
Neils is amazing at holding space. I was in awe of the tapestry of experiences he is able to hold space for. He is a joy to be in the presence of. Neils embodies the name Anam Cara which means soul friend.

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A very kind soul
Francesca is such a kind and wonderful soul to be around! I trusted her guidance completely!

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Life Changing Experience
Words can not describe, the inner joy and peace I feel within my being. This was absolutely the best experience of my life. Thank you Francesca and Neils for your incredible space holding and support. I am returning home with a full heart and very grounded in my inner knowing. A completely magical experience.

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A Truly Unforgettable and Transformational Experience
My time at this retreat was nothing short of life-changing. From the moment I arrived, I felt completely held, seen, and supported by Neil, Francesca, and their incredible team. The level of care and attention to detail was outstanding- every aspect of the retreat was so thoughtfully and beautifully curated.

As a first-timer with the medicine, I couldn’t have asked for a more sacred, safe, and nurturing container. The energy, the space, the facilitators - everything was rooted in deep integrity and love. I felt supported through every step of the journey, and I walked away with profound clarity, healing, and a renewed connection to myself and the world around me.

I wholeheartedly recommend this experience to anyone who feels called. The quality, intention, and deep care that went into creating this retreat is truly rare and special.

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