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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
December 6 - 13, 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

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Meals

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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

5.0
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Life changing retreat
I am just home from my retreat with Anam Cara. 2 till 9 July I participated and my inner world has changed incredibly. I discovered so much old patterns and conditions and it changed my life. The retreat is been outstanding and on very high level. The crew is amazing passionate about healing there customers and I can’t be more thankful to them. Workshops, brearhwork, yoga, inner circles, healing food and beach life. It’s was all included. I became more authentic and my love is flowing true my vains.
Life changing experience. Love you all.
Jan

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An incredible retreat full of soul, authenticity and love
I had known about ayahuasca and had been interested in sitting with this medicine for some time, but it wasn't until this year that I felt a strong pull that the timing was right. Originally I had planned to travel to the Amazon because I felt it was very important to experience this medicine in a way that was authentic and close to the source. However, when I came across the Anam Cara retreats in Costa Rica, everything felt totally aligned. The strong relationship that Niels and Francesca have with the Shipibo Tribe and the respect and reverence they show for the lineage really shines through.

Throughout the entire experience I felt so safe, welcomed and held. The integration calls both before and after the retreat really helped to encourage the trust and openness within our small group, and to provide space to be meaningful with our intentions coming into the retreat. The week itself was thoughtfully planned, with plenty of time for reflection and downtime, as well as workshops and embodiment practices which really helped integrate the whole experience. I also appreciated how much space there was to just *be*, but with one of the team always there to lend a listening ear or guidance along the way.

I cannot say enough good things about Francesca and Niels. They pour their souls into these retreats and show up with true integrity and vulnerability, yet hold the space so expertly. The maestros Teo and Marina brought a warm and gentle energy that made our group feel very safe and the wonderful team of facilitators all brought their own unique energy, kindness and wisdom - Jamael, Ashley and Brie were fantastic. The yoga sessions led by Jamael were a particular highlight for me. Every person on the team showed so much genuine care and compassion towards every individual in the group. Some of the most magical moments that will stay with me forever were feeling how much love was created between us as a collective - each experiencing our own deeply personal, transformative healing, but simultaneously witnessing and holding each other.

The retreat space itself was beautiful - a peaceful sanctuary perched high above the busier parts of Nosara, so it felt like you were in a safe little haven. Everything from the nourishing food to the beautifully designed rooms was five star.

It's taken me a while to find the right words to articulate this review... I guess that's what this experience does - it unlocks something inside you that is ineffable, yet absolutely real. It's hard to sum up in language, but I'm so grateful for all of it. I would wholeheartedly recommend Anam Cara to anyone seeking a truly authentic, caring and soul-led environment in which to experience your own journey with ayahuasca.

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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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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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