Costa Rica
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A return to yourself, each other, and the living Earth
Six nights in the Costa Rican jungle.
Costa Rica
A return to yourself, each other, and the living Earth
Six nights in the Costa Rican jungle.
The place
For seven days we'll make our home at The Nëst, a secluded sanctuary held within the Costa Rican jungle.
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. Natural pools, jungle nets, sauna, cold plunge and an open-air shala become part of the rhythm of the day.
The jungle isn't scenery surrounding the experience. It's something we'll be living in relationship with.
A week to step outside the usual rhythms of life and into something slower, deeper, and more alive.
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, sauna 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 — not the one you think you ought to take.
Three two-storey lofts inside the main lodge, each with a king bedroom on both levels — thatch overhead and jungle through the glass.
The upper and lower bedrooms share one bathroom. If you take a loft on your own, you'll be sharing it with whoever has the other — which is why it's the least expensive way in.
Your own room $2,750 · Sharing $2,300
Also in the main lodge — a king bed, your own bathroom, and a plunge pool a few steps from where you wake.
The stone tub in one of them looks straight out into the trees.
Your own room $3,200 · Sharing $2,700
Separate houses among the trees, each with a private kitchen, plunge pool, and jungle net suspended over the hillside.
Roble has one bedroom. Ceiba has two, which suits a pair travelling together.
Your own room $3,500 · Sharing $2,950
Every rate includes six nights, all meals, transport from Cobano airport, and every session the three of us offer. Nothing about the teaching changes with the room.
A word about sharing, because it means two different things. In a casita, the queen splits into two singles — two people, two beds, one room. In a loft or suite there is one king, so sharing means sharing the bed. That rate is for couples, and for friends who ask for it. It is never something we assign.
Flights are arranged by each guest. Most people fly into San José or Liberia and take a twenty-minute connecting flight to Cobano, from about $120.
What we're bringing
We aren't bringing one method and asking everyone to follow it.
We're bringing three bodies of work that each enter experience through a different doorway — and letting them live beside one another.
Movement. Exploration. Imagination. Conversation. Rest. Nature. Food. Laughter. Silence.
Each morning
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 arriving in the day by arriving first in the body.
Pilates Bodies Denver
Three afternoons
One enters the territory of self-expression, and what happens to everything we've learned not to say. Another returns to the stories we've inherited about ourselves, and asks what becomes possible when we begin writing from somewhere new. And one brings us into direct relationship with the living world through herbalism — learning about plants, working with them, and making something with our own hands to take home.
Embrace Your Space
Three evenings
Enter the jungle within. Become tree, forest, creature, element — and listen for what returns with 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 — experiences meant not simply to be pictured, but inhabited.
We may become a tree and feel its roots beneath the earth. Follow water underground. Gather around a fire. Enter the forest and discover ourselves as part of something larger.
Living Alchemy moves quietly beneath these journeys as a way of meeting whatever arises. Not becoming someone new — remembering how to be in relationship with what is already here.
Living Alchemy
Everything here is offered. Nothing is required — including the schedule.
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
Bio to come.
Leads morning Pilates on the open-air deck, five days of the week.
Voice and the space you take up
Bio to come.
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.
Leads three Journeys into the Living Imagination through the elements and the jungle landscape, and a sunset yoga practice on the sand.
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. Sauna. Cold plunge. Jungle. Hammock. Conversation. Solitude.
Dinner together. Food, conversation, laughter, and whatever the day has turned up.
On three 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 the water at Santa Teresa — an afternoon with nothing asked of you. We end it 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. Then we close the circle together.
What's included
Seven days · six nights
And something we consider equally important: unstructured time, defended.
Flights, travel insurance, spa treatments and personal expenses are not included.
Dates are confirmed. Pricing is being finalised and will be listed here. Guests arrange their own international and domestic flights. Short domestic flights to Cóbano are available from San José, and we will provide detailed arrival guidance before booking. Ground transfer between Cóbano Airport and The Nëst is included.
Who this is for
If you've done the work. Years of it. And you don't need another introduction to yourself.
If you are tired in a way that sleep doesn't reach.
If something in you has gone quiet, and you'd like to find out whether it's gone or only waiting.
You don't need to arrive open. You don't need to arrive ready. You don't need to know what you're looking for — most people who come to something like this don't, and the not-knowing is usually the honest part.
And it isn't for everyone. If you want a week that keeps you busy, or one that will fix something specific, there are better retreats than this one. This one moves slowly. It asks very little of you and offers a great deal, and what happens depends more on what you bring than on what we do.
No prior experience of Pilates, yoga or meditation is needed, and no shared spiritual language. Open to all genders.
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.
$2,300 – $3,500
Depending on the room you choose. Six nights, all meals, transport from Cobano, and everything we offer.
$200 holds your place. It comes off your total, and payment plans are available for the rest.
Apply for your seatA 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.