Enjoy Yoga and Organic Food in a Stunning Costa Rican Ocean View Villa.
Warning!
The Full Reset Retreat is only for people who are ready to make powerful changes in their life. If you want to stay stuck in the same old patterns, this retreat is not for you!
When is the retreat?
This 5 night retreat can be booked anytime between September 22th and November 11th. Choose the dates that work best for you! Simply fill out the intake form to let us know your preferred dates
Where is the retreat?
You will be staying in a breathtaking ocean view villa immersed in the lush Costa Rican jungle in Santa Teresa. Pura Vida is the Costa Rican way of life. Literally translating into "Pure Life". And Pura Vida it will be once you are eating organic food with it's pure life force preserved and activated.
Each bedroom is equipped with a comfortable queen sized bed, air conditioning and it's own bathroom.
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Retreat Benefits:
- Gain new perspectives on life
- Break out of toxic patterns and conditioning
- Improve your gut health – remove toxins and improve digestion
- Increased strength and flexibility through yoga asana
- Begin healing chronic pain, injuries and ailments
- Increased ability to focus through meditation
- Awaken to your higher purpose
- Heal your body mind and spirit
- The retreat is customizable! Choose which practices and activities work best for you!
What's Included?
- 5 nights stay – Private bedroom and bathroom in a luxurious ocean view Costa Rican jungle villa!
- Daily Detox Shot made fresh
- 2-3 Organic Freshly Prepared Detoxifying Vegan meals per day. (there will be two nights where we eat dinner out which you are responsible for)
- 1-2 Yoga Classes per day
- Breathwork and meditation sessions
- Workshops that will teach you how to nourish your body by preparing truly healing food
- Self Care/Self Massage Workshop
- Sacred ceremonies and community events (e.g. ecstatic dance, kirtan, cacao, mushrooms, hapé, kambo, sound healing, ice bath, flower bath). There are lots of activities to choose from!
- 1 body assessment/discovery session in which we will find your points of tension and trauma – 30-40 minute
- 1 deep tissue or Thai massage – 90 minute
- Sunsets at the beach
- Additional excursions such as surfing, waterfall hikes, horseback riding or atv excursions (additional cost)
What's not included:
- Transportation to/from the retreat center
- Any meals outside of the retreat center
- Extra excursions such as surfing/renting ATV, etc
How much will it cost me?
Cost for 1 person:
$2100 $1800 – GREEN SEASON DISCOUNT!
Cost for 2 people (shared queen sized bed)
$1400 $1200 per person - GREEN SEASON DISCOUNT!
Bring a friend Discount – Receive a $100 discount when you bring a friend to the retreat with you
Full Villa Discount – Fill the villa with 4 people and the price drops to $1100 per person.
Is this retreat for me?
The retreat space holds a max of 4 people (2 couples) so there will only ever be between 1-4 people at any given retreat making it a very personalized experience for you! You will be able to choose what activities you prefer and we will customize the retreat to meet your needs and desires.
During this retreat, we will guide you to break old unwanted cycles and patterns in order to step into the best possible version of yourself. The power lies within you. We are just here to show you the way.
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How do I get to the retreat?
We are located in Santa Teresa Costa Rica. For most people, the best way to get here will be to fly direct to San Jose or Liberia Costa Rica, and then take a short flight to Cobano (or Tambor) airport using Sansa or Green Airways.This flight is about $100-$120 each way. From Cobano its a quick 25-30 minute shuttle or taxi to our villa. There’s a chance I can even pick you up in my quad! If you fly in to Tambor it is about 45 minutes away ($50 shuttle). Cobano is preferred.
Is it safe?
Costa Rica is the safest country in Central America. At the property you will be very safe. When we leave the property, the house and our belongings will be protected by a security guard. The town of Santa Teresa is quite safe too, but it's always good to have an awareness of your belongings and surroundings when we are out and about. We will make sure to keep you safe and feeling comfortable. Recently, some monkeys stole my bread though, so watch out!
Things to Note
This retreat center is located in the jungle. There will be ants, spiders, mosquitos, butterflies, birds, bats and monkeys on the property but it is nothing to worry about. If you keep your door closed, they won't make their way into your bedroom. It's highly recommended to bring bug spray to protect against mosquitos. We will be outside most of the day. We will do our best to keep them at bay buy burning incense, citronella and using other types of repellents.
How's the weather?
It's pretty warm here and very humid. Usually it gets into the mid 80s F in the day and drops to the low 70s at night. October is quite rainy which will help keep things a little cooler. All bedrooms have air-conditioning and there is also a pool that you can cool off in. Expect to sweat a little. This is part of the detox process.
What should I bring?
- Sandals
- Insect Repellent
- Bathing Suits
- Headlamp
- yoga/exercise clothing
- light rain jacket
- Journal/pen
- Any clothes/jewelry/possessions that you might want to wear or bring to a ceremony
- An open heart and mind
- A powerful intention
Meet your Hosts:
Damian Shchur
Damian has had a successful career as a mechanical engineer. A back injury left him bed-ridden and transformed his perspective on life. Western medicine doctors offered no real solution, other than taking ibuprofen and acetaminophen for the pain. Damian began his own journey of healing which involved yoga, massage, chiropractic, floatation tanks, plant medicine, meditation, physical therapy and other non traditional modalities. He learned that he could heal his body through movement, meditation and touch. As his path progressed, he left his old career and life behind to pursue a path of yoga, massage and plant medicine.
Damian has studied hatha, yin and vinyasa yoga. His love of receiving massage turned into a love of giving massage. Seeing the smile and calm on peoples faces after teaching a yoga class or giving a massage gave Damian great joy and he soon realized his calling was not sitting in front of a computer screen looking at numbers. It is to work with people. To help others heal the way he learned to heal himself. The power to heal and achieve our true potential lies within each of us.
Gitte Meldgaard
A raw vegan chef. A master of mushrooms and cacao. Gitte will be concocting beautiful meal plans with high quality organic ingredients that will help promote detoxification and rejuvenation. She will also be leading us in ceremonies of cacao and mushrooms. Her retreats have been featured in French Vogue
"The quest for vibrant energy serves as the major theme of the stay, which aims to reset all the toxins that poison both the body and the mind" - French Vogue
Born and raised in Denmark, filmmaker and Photographer Gitte Meldgaard moved to London as a teenager and began her career as fashion director for Attitude. She then helped launch the
influential fashion, art and lifestyle publication, Tank Magazine, before moving to Los Angeles where she worked as a costume designer for feature films and became an in-demand stylist for major music stars, including P!nk, Usher, Christina Aguilera, and Aerosmith. After a brief tenure as fashion editor for Sportswear International in Milan she returned to L.A. and launched a successful photography career. Years into her photography carrier she started to feel that Fashion no longer fulfilled her and she became interested in helping people heal using nutrition to reverse so called “incurable diseases” she became passionate spreading the knowledge about the powerful link between our health and the nutrition we choose to put into our bodies.
Benefits of a Raw Organic Detox
“We have been taught to believe that food doesn’t matter”. When people come down with various diseases and ask their doctors about what diet they should eat, they are usually given the misleading advice that make the condition worse (some are waking up and finally recommending a plant-based diet for various conditions) but oftentimes, the hospital food is the absolute WORST food-recovering patients should be eating. People are often so confused as to what to eat because they are getting so much confusing information from seemingly “credible sources.” But the proof is in the budding as Hippocrates put it “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” My advice would be to take the next step and EAT FOOD UNCOOKED OR RAW whenever possible. Raw food is food that is uncooked, unheated, unprocessed, and most ideally organic.
Food, like fruits and vegetables, naturally have live enzymes, which are very sensitive to heat. You are killing the enzymes or the life force of the food when you cook at temperatures above 118 degrees. These enzymes help break down the food you eat and also help your body to absorb the nutrients from the food. Most Raw recipes are very quick and easy to make so it’s actually timesaving, Better digestion Plant-based food has natural fiber and contain antioxidants. These fibrous raw foods help in digestion by cleaning your intestines and regulating your bowel movements. That means you don’t have to worry about constipation at all!
Another benefit of raw food is the antioxidants. Our bodies have accumulated lots and lots of toxins over time because of the cooked food we have consumed in our lives. Because the enzymes have already been destroyed, nothing is aiding our body in the digestion of the food we eat. So our body takes more time to digest and all the toxins it could not eliminate build up. The antioxidants work to remove all these toxins that are slowly poisoning our bodies.
Another of the benefits of eating raw food is that you will feel less tired and sleepy. You get to wake up in the morning ready to take on the day without that feeling of wanting to sleep in. With a proper raw food diet, it feels like you’re energized the entire day. One reason is because with a proper raw food diet, your body won’t have to use more energy and work harder at digesting the food that you eat. Protein that comes from plant-based foods are also much easier for your body to digest and absorb. And even when you’re full, you won’t feel heavy. You will also be able to sleep well because you won’t be constipated.
You can eat substantially when you’re on a raw food diet. You will lose weight mainly because your body will get rid of all the toxins it has accumulated. Yet once you adapt to the raw food lifestyle, you won’t have to worry about storing toxins anymore because your body will regularly get rid of them everyday. A lot of fresh fruits and vegetables and other raw food are also low on calories but packed with vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients, so you will be able to sustain weight loss without going on a hunger strike! These weight loss benefits of raw food are actually healthy and natural.
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