6 Day Private Breathwork & Bufo Alvarius Retreat in Costa Rica

Astara is a Transformational Retreat Facilitator and co-manager of the “Edge of the World” retreat center in Lagunas, Costa Rica. She is Psychospiritual Life Coach, Breathwork Facilitator, Tantric somatic facilitator and Kriya yogini. As a visionary somatic facilitator, she curates Sacred Transformational journeys with a unique blend of modalities including vocal guidance, intuitive bodywork, acupressure, meditative guidance and energy healing. She is a dedicated guide specialized in the tantric somatic arts, assisting individuals to transmute their deep seated wounds and pains, and creating a compassionate containers for release and coming back to safety and the reclamation of the innate life force we all carry. She guides clients through release and repatterning, employing dynamic techniques such as breathing exercises, movement, and sound healing, drawing from her training in Himalayan Kriya yoga to ignite deep inner transformation. With a nurturing presence, she creates a safe space for healing, utilizing Somatic Arts and Quantum Theta Healing to shift deep-seated patterns and belief systems, alongside specialized services such as Inner Radiance Bodywork, Watsu Waterflow, Womb Healing and Tantric Arts. Astara is dedicated to helping individuals integrate their experiences, crafting lifestyles that nurture growth and sustain revelations, illuminating pathways to healing and self-discovery. Michael and Astara have held private and couple’s retreat in Costa Rica, working in the realms of Tantra, Transformation, Sacred Union and sexuality, Trauma healing. They also facilitate spaces of integration of plant medicine, through themselves holding ceremonies with plant/animal allies, and their continued apprenticeship with the purifying and psychic qualities of the tobacco master plant. Their experiences in this “beyond in realm” mysteries, embodied knowledge of yoga and Tantra and Somatics is continually teaching them how to ground safely in the body the teachings of the plants and experiences when the space was not held in safety and integrity . We work with the integration of Mind, Body, Spirit to assist you in a conscious processing and integration. We are in Union in Life and Purpose to use the synergy of our embodied polarities and Unified Heart Consciousness to catalyze and sustain lasting transformation for individuals magnetized to this journey of Transformation. In 2014, Astara felt a calling to the Healing arts after experiencing depression , that guided her on the path of self discovery across the world, starting with Vipassana Meditation and Yoga. A few years later, after experiencing a severe illness in India, the kundalini awakened in her body, changing the course of her life forever. After spontaneous surges of energies, she felt the call to study the mystical yogic science of Kriya yoga that allowed her to understand deeper this process of purification and alignment and to ground it safely through this practice. Studying and practicing very consistently for a full year, she witnessed the power of this somatic art able to release deeply rooted traumas out of the body, and heightened her psychic abilities and ability to experience mystical blissful experiences, to know the depth of inner Union with Creator\Source. At this time, she met her divine Union Michael, breaking patterns of relating that were previously unhealthy. Their Union was an acceleration and leap into their purpose , as they started to hold space together for workshops, ceremonies and later on retreat spaces. She then studied Quantum healing, to deepen her ability to rewire the subconscious brain and assist beings on magnetizing their desired reality and purpose in life. Through devoted study and exploration for the past 8 years in the realms of Kriya Yoga, breathwork, feminine embodiment, inner child work, voice activation, bodywork, plant medicine, somatic experiencing, sound healing, emotional alchemy, sacred union, I have cracked my heart wide open to forge authentic, deep and intimate connections ,with myself, others, the Divine and all of Creation.

Michael is a Transformational Retreat Facilitator and co-manager of the “Edge of the World” retreat center in Lagunas, Costa Rica. He is a Psycho-spiritual Life & conscious re Coach, Breathwork and Tantric somatic Facilitator, ,Taoist detoxifying abdominal massage therapist, & kambo facilitator Michael, a multifaceted somatic practitioner, blends ancient wisdom with modern modalities to address deep-seated imbalances, both physical and emotional. Specializing in deep tissue manipulation, Chi Nei Tsang, fascia release, intuitive bodywork, and quantum healing, he assists individuals to liberate themselves from entrenched narratives and emotional imprints stored within the body. With foundational training in bodywork, and a focus on Chi Nei Tsang abdominal massage, Michael helps to facilitate the release of stagnant energy and emotions, promoting a more comfortable and present experience of life. He empowers others to embark on their own paths of self-discovery and vitality. He pursues his apprenticeship for the past 3 years with master plants & tree with the Mamakunawa lineage under the tutelage of Master Tobaquero (one who heals with tobacco as medicine) Ernesto Garcia-Torres.Tobacco, revered as a medicine in the Amazon, holds a significant role in indigenous cultures, where it's viewed as a teacher guiding cosmic knowledge and spiritual realms. Known affectionately as "The grandfather of all plants," Tobacco symbolizes blessings and protection. In indigenous beliefs, plant spirits, including Tobacco, impart wisdom on living harmoniously with oneself and nature, helping individuals recognize their true selves and understand their connection to the world. Traditional healers use Tobacco for physical and energetic cleansing, prophetic dreams, and to fortify and balance the energetic body. The Sanskrit word “Tantra” became our way of living. Making the unseen seen, bringing light into the darkness, what is unconscious, and allowing it to be the fuel of your transformation and empowerment, to be a conscious Creator of your life.