Costa Rica
REMEMBER
A return to yourself, each other, and the living Earth
A six-night retreat in the Costa Rican jungle.
Costa Rica
A return to yourself, each other, and the living Earth
A six-night retreat in the Costa Rican jungle.
Three distinct bodies of work.
A small group of people.
A living landscape.
And enough room to discover what happens when we stop filling every space and begin listening to what is already there.
The place
For seven days we'll make our home at The Nëst, a secluded sanctuary held within the Costa Rican jungle.
A week to step outside the usual rhythms of life and into something slower, deeper, and more alive.
Here the boundary between retreat and landscape becomes a little less obvious. Tree villas rise among the green. Open-air spaces invite the forest in.
The jungle is something we'll be living in relationship with: its weather, its sound, the pace it sets.
Some things can be understood from the outside. Others have to be entered.
Where we stay
For one week, a small temporary world held within the jungle.
There will be places to gather and places to disappear. Tree villas for rest. An open-air shala for movement. Natural pools, saunas and cold plunge for the body. Jungle nets suspended among the trees simply to lie in and be.
Enough structure to hold us. Enough openness for the living world to enter.
Where you'll sleep
Some have more privacy. Some have a bathroom of their own. Some have water at the door.
Choose the one that calls you.
Three two-storey lofts inside the main lodge, each with a king bedroom on both levels, with thatch overhead and jungle through the glass. Each loft has its own kitchenette with a stovetop.
The upper and lower bedrooms share one bathroom. If you come on your own, the bathroom is the only thing you share. The bedroom is yours alone, with whoever has the other level as your only neighbor.
$2,650 · per person
Located in the main lodge: a king bed and a bathroom of your own, with the pool, jacuzzi, saunas and cold plunge a few steps from where you wake.
The stone tub in one of them looks straight out into the trees.
$2,850 · per person
Separate from the main lodge, houses among the trees, each with its own kitchen, plunge pool, and jungle net suspended over the hillside. Yours alone, not shared with the rest of the property.
Ceiba has two bedrooms, each with its own bathroom, which suits two people traveling together. Roble has one bedroom, and its queen splits into two single beds, so it suits one person alone or two who are traveling together.
$3,500 · Ceiba, per person
$4,500 · Roble, for one person
Every rate includes six nights, brunch and dinner each day with snacks between, transport from Cóbano airport, and every session the three of us offer. Every room has air conditioning.
Where a bedroom is shared, it is always between people who arranged to travel together. We will never put two strangers in the same room.
What we're bringing
We're bringing three complementary bodies of work.
What they make together is a week none of us could hold alone.
Movement. Exploration. Imagination. Connection. Conversation. Rest. Nature. Food. Laughter. Silence.
Five mornings
The day begins on the open-air deck with classical mat Pilates, adapted for the bodies actually in the room. Movement, breath, strength, attention. A way of beginning the day by arriving first in the body.
Pilates Bodies of Denver
Three afternoons
One workshop explores authentic self-expression through our relationship to our voice and remembering our innate gifts.
In another workshop, we’ll begin to identify what mental scripts have been running your life in the background. We can then begin to rewrite the narrative, so that you may truly live out your most authentic you.
One will bring us into connection with herbalism, our hands, and our creative side. You’ll walk away with a deeper relationship to plants and the world around you, as well as handcrafted unique gifts made for you, by you… plus the confidence and curiosity to create endlessly once you’ve returned home!
Embrace Your Space
Three evenings
Enter the jungle within. Become tree, forest, creature, element, and listen for what returns to you.
After dinner, after the jungle has gone dark, we'll enter another kind of landscape. Immersive guided journeys through imagination, sensation, symbol and the living world.
We may feel roots reaching beneath the earth, follow water underground, gather around a fire, enter the forest and discover ourselves as part of something larger.
You stay awake the whole time, and you are the one moving. It is closer to a lucid dream than to sleep: aware, choosing, and the landscape answers back.
Living Alchemy moves quietly beneath these journeys, as a way of meeting whatever surfaces without being swept into it, and of remembering how to be in relationship with what is already here.
And once, at sunset, on the sand
Lila Yoga. Lila is the play of the Divine: Cosmic Playtime. A deep meditation into movement, aligned with the silence, the breath, and the playful flow of the universe. We practice it on the beach at the end of the day by the sea.
Living Alchemy
Who you'll be with
No one of us is the sole teacher of this week. Each of us brings what she knows, and the retreat is what emerges among three distinct bodies of work, the people who gather, and the living landscape.
Movement and the body that carries you
Leah’s Pilates journey began in 2000, looking for relief from chronic lower back pain. Within a year her pain had resolved, but more importantly, she had discovered a lasting connection to the Pilates method and its transformative power. She went on to pursue her Classical Pilates certification in the lineage passed down through Romana Kryzanowska and has been teaching ever since.
In 2005 Leah opened Pilates Bodies of Denver with a vision of creating a studio where movement is taught with intention, integrity, and genuine care. She is a Breast Cancer Exercise Specialist through the Pink Ribbon Program, a certified CoreAlign instructor, and specializes in Pilates through pregnancy, in rehabilitation, and working with older bodies - which means that whatever body you arrive in, she has taught it before.
In 2017 Leah discovered Santa Teresa, a tucked-away surf town on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast and she fell in love. She now splits her time between Denver and Santa Teresa where she hosts retreats and lives immersed in the beaches, the vibrant community, and endless inspiration of being surrounded by nature.
She holds a BA in Fine Arts from Pomona College. When she isn't teaching, you'll find her playing padel, making jewelry, cooking, gardening, biking, reading, or dreaming up her next travel adventure.
Leads morning Pilates on the open-air deck, five days of the week.
Voice and the space you inhabit
Rachel is the founder and host of the podcast platform, Embrace Your Space. Established within the principles of human relating and scientific law, Rachel is on a mission to raise consciousness by redirecting us back to our innate wisdom, inner truth, and full, authentic expression. With over a decade of experience in patient-centered care through vulnerable moments, Rachel brings warmth, safety and curiosity to each person and container she holds. In her spaces, you’ll have the opportunity to awaken to your true essence, feel seen in your truth, stand taller in your authentic expression, grow closer to your purpose, connect more deeply with others, and find clarity in a busy world.
Rachel holds her BA in Biomedical Sciences and her MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She recently completed a 175-hour introductory herbalism course with a mentor in holistic plant healing, after years of working with plants as allies in her own life.
Leads three afternoon workshops: self-expression, reclaiming your story, and herbalism.
Imagination and the living world
Pneuma is a guide, teacher, and creator of Living Alchemy, an approach to transformation rooted in listening deeply to the intelligence of life itself.
Her work lives at the meeting place of consciousness, embodiment, the natural world, and the sacred. Drawing from more than two decades of intuitive, contemplative, and relational practice, alongside her work with BioGeometry, yoga, and living systems, she creates experiences that invite people out of striving and into deeper relationship with themselves, with one another, and with the living Earth.
She has been guiding people through meditative, visionary experiences like these for years, in courses she taught from 2019 and one to one with clients since.
She is a BG-EHS Independent Licensed Associate-Practitioner, trained in the system developed by Dr. Ibrahim Karim, and continues to study directly within that lineage.
She has been a certified yoga teacher since 2005, trained in Lila Yoga with its founder, Erica Kaufman, and has taught in Costa Rica and privately since.
Leads two Journeys into the Living Imagination through the elements and the jungle landscape, and a sunset Lila Yoga practice on the sand.
Follow along as it comes together · @remember.retreat on Instagram
How the week works
The retreat is the container. Your experience remains your own.
The shape of a day
There is a rhythm to the week, and a great deal of room inside it. We begin together with dinner and an opening gathering on the first evening. On the final night, we close with ceremony.
On five of the mornings. Movement before the day gathers around us.
Eat slowly. Swim. Read. Wander. Sleep. Talk to someone. Talk to nobody.
On three afternoons, an invitation to explore together. The others remain open.
Pool. Saunas. Cold plunge. Jungle. Hammock. Conversation. Solitude.
Dinner together. Food, conversation, laughter, and whatever the day has turned up.
On two evenings, those who wish to will lie down, close their eyes, and be guided on an inward journey through the elements, the jungle landscape, and the Living Imagination. You don't need to know where you're going before you begin.
Once in the week we leave the trees and go down to a secret beach near Santa Teresa. We end the open afternoon with yoga on the sand as the sun goes down, and come back up into the jungle for dinner.
Closing night
On the final evening, we gather to close the week together.
A simple ritual to slow down, reflect, and mark the transition home. What shape it takes we'll decide closer to the time, and with you.
We make room for whatever the week has turned up: what moved, what changed, what we're carrying with us, and how to carry it into our everyday lives. Then we close the circle together.
What's included
Seven days · Six nights
What we offer
What is provided
Not included: flights, travel insurance, spa treatments, alcohol, excursions and activities outside the retreat program, and personal expenses.
Dates are confirmed. Guests arrange their own international and domestic flights. Most people fly into San José or Liberia, then take a twenty-minute connecting flight to Cóbano, from about $120. We will provide detailed arrival guidance before booking. Ground transfer between Cóbano airport and The Nëst is included.
Who this is for
You've done the work. Years of it. You don't need another introduction to yourself.
You are tired in a way that sleep doesn't reach.
You have people around you and still feel unmet.
Something in you has gone quiet, and you'd like to find out whether it's gone or only waiting.
Most of us live inside a noise that never quite stops. Deadlines, expectations, a hundred small demands that ask you to be someone slightly other than who you are. You can live a whole life inside it. Something in you knows it doesn't feel right.
Nothing is expected of you here. Come as you are, take the masks off, and allow yourself to be met.
Everything we are building is for one purpose: to create the conditions where you remember. The silence. The birds. The hours with nothing scheduled inside them. The fire, the long table, the conversations that keep going past where conversations usually stop. Six nights deep in a jungle, among people being their actual selves.
The old traditions say some version of the same thing. An acorn has a nature, and that nature is to become an oak. A human being has one too. It is knowable, and it is yours by right to grow into, the way everything else in the living world does.
You already know this. What you need is enough quiet to notice it again.
And then to carry it home. Into your work, your mornings, your relationships, your ordinary Tuesday. The week is the beginning. What it is for is the year that follows.
No prior experience of Pilates, yoga or meditation is needed, and no shared spiritual language is required. Open to all people. If you feel the call, whatever your age, whatever your station in life, you are welcome here.
Before you ask
4–10 February 2027, at The Nëst in the jungle above Santa Teresa on Costa Rica's Pacific coast. Six nights.
Eleven guests, and the three of us. We have the whole property to ourselves for the week.
Fly into San José or Liberia, then take a twenty-minute connecting flight to Cóbano, from about $120. We collect you from Cóbano airport and bring you back at the end. You arrange your own flights, and we'll send detailed guidance before you book.
Six nights, brunch and dinner every day, every session the three of us offer, the day at a secret beach, the opening gathering and the closing ceremony, ground transfer from Cóbano airport and back, and the pools, saunas, cold plunge and jungle nets for the whole week. The full list is just above.
Flights, travel insurance, spa treatments, alcohol, excursions and activities outside the retreat program, and personal expenses.
Open to all people, all genders. The three of us leading are women, and the week itself is for anyone who feels the call, whatever your age, whatever your station in life.
None. No Pilates, no yoga, no meditation, no shared spiritual language. Every session is adapted to the people actually in the room.
No. Everything is an invitation, including the schedule. Come to Pilates in the mornings, or sleep. Join every workshop, or spend the afternoon under a tree.
No. Every rate is per person, and we will never put two strangers in the same room.
If you'd like to travel with someone and share, arrange it with us first so we can price it properly. In the lofts you share a bathroom, never a bedroom.
February is dry season, so rain is unlikely, but it will still be hot and humid. A light poncho is worth having just in case. Beyond that, less is more: flowy cotton, sandals, a swimsuit, something for the evening. You will want far less than you think.
Yes. The Nëst offers laundry through their housekeeper, $20 a load, arranged on site.
Brunch and dinner are cooked fresh on site each day, with snacks between. Tell us about any allergies or dietary needs when you reserve and we'll make sure you're looked after.
Yes. We recommend it for every guest.
Yes, and you are very welcome to. It depends on availability, so tell us early and we will put you in touch with The Nëst directly to arrange the extra nights with them.
Use the button below and tell us which room you'd like. We'll write back with your deposit amount and how to send it.
A 50% deposit reserves your place: $1,325 for a loft, $1,425 for a suite, $1,750 for Ceiba, $2,250 for Roble. Pay by Zelle to info@pilatesbodiesofdenver.com, or by check made payable to Pilates Bodies. You'll receive a confirmation once it arrives, and the balance is due by 4 January 2027.
Deposits are non-refundable. The balance is refundable only if we are able to fill your place.
The invitation
We're keeping this gathering small intentionally, because we want enough room for everyone to be known, and enough space for everyone to disappear when they need to.
$2,650 – $4,500
Depending on the room you choose.
A 50% deposit reserves your place. The balance is due by 4 January 2027. Deposits are non-refundable, and the balance is refundable only if we are able to fill your place.
Reserve your placeA return to yourself, each other, and the living Earth
Six nights in the Costa Rican jungle.
Three distinct bodies of work.
A small group of people.
A living landscape.
And enough room to discover what happens when we stop filling every space and begin listening to what is already there.