REMEMBERING THE FEMININE WAY
7 day Yoga Retreat in the jungle of Costa Rica with Dance, Cacao, SoundBath, Ritual, Ceremonies and much more.
Nosara, Costa Rica, December 4-11, 2022
Women's Retreat in Costa Rica with Yoga, Cacao, Dance, Sound Bath and Rituals
Women, Mother, Sister. We invite you to come together, connect in a sacred way and celebrate life with us.
Have you lost that unique feeling of love and gratitude by just observing a sunset?
Do you have a sense that you want to awaken your inner woman, but have no idea how?
Is nature a place where you feel at home, yet want to learn to connect deeper to the Great Mother and remember the sense of belonging just by being born on this Earth?
Do you long to connect with other women in a pure, raw way and experience true sisterhood?
Are you ready to light that fire in your heart and remember your soul's purpose?
Then this is your retreat. The time is now. What are you waiting for? If you hear the call, say yes and come with us on this journey! We would love to meet you.
☾☾☾ Highlights ☾☾☾
☾ Women circles
☾ Full Moon Ceremony with Cacao
☾ Free Dance
☾ Women’s Tantric Practices
☾ Crystal Bowl & Gong Sound Journeys
☾ Music around the fire
☾ Daily Yoga Classes
☾ Raw Chocolate making Class
☾ Self-care Rituals
☾ Hikes to Secret Sites
Our intention is to create a place where you can fall in love with yourself. Where you can connect to your true feminine essence, and your sisters, in a pure, raw, way in a safe container.
Let's gather to remind ourselves of the divine feminine spirit and experience the power of women gathering. Together we embrace our own unique bodies as much as each other and bring back a sense of joy for the simple gift of being alive.
Let's dance barefoot together in the lush tropical forest of the jungle. Come bathe in the nature of Costa Rica, wake up from the birds of the jungle, spend time together and alone, and find back stillness and peace within.
Let's reconnect to our hearts and remember why we are here. Take this time for YOU. We are all here to listen to our own inner voice, can you hear it? What do you truly long for? What is your purpose? How do you want to live your life? Only YOU can know.
During this retreat, we will embody our beauty and shadow, innocence and strength, darkness and light, through dancing, sharing, singing, connecting to all four elements of nature, and celebrating the Full Moon.
Let's start weaving together Sisters.
Yoga, Movement & Meditation
You will try different styles of yoga, including vinyasa, kundalini, restorative and yin. You will make the move from the head, into the body, so your soul can thrive.
Rituals & Ceremonies
You will learn self-care rituals especially designed for women. You will also explore different ancient tantric practices to connect with the feminine.
Sound Baths & Gong
You will experience deep relaxation and a softening of your wjhole body and soul through different sound healing techniques, including crystal and tibetan bowls, flute and the gong.
Sisterhood & Togetherness
You are invited to a place where you can fall in love with yourself and connect to your true feminine essence, and your sisters, in a pure, raw, way in a safe container.
Yoga & Meditation
We could not think of a better way to start the morning than with yoga and meditation. So we start every day on the mat, connecting with our bodies and our breath, finding our anchor inside for the day. You will also learn how you can bring a daily practice of yoga and meditation to your everyday life.
During the week, we will try different styles of yoga, including vinyasa, kundalini, restorative and yin. We will also try different forms of meditation, including active (shaking, dancing, walking, breathing, singing) and passive (sitting in stillness).
Rituals & Ceremonies
You will learn self-care rituals especially designed for women. Together, we will also dive into ancient tantric pratices that can help us connect to our more soft, feminine side and became more alive in our bodies.
Sisterhood & Togetherness
We are connected all ready. As women, we carry a collective wound of competing, and instead of falling into this trap, let's come together and connect from a raw, pure place. We will meet in circle and share our hearts to connect even deeper to each other - and thereby ourselves.
Sound Bath
Sound therapy helps to work on many levels of personal development. It has been used to enhance memory, learning, creativity and energy. Sound therapy helps relax the brain and muscles in the body, reducing the clutter in our minds – making it easier to retain information. Almost everything we experience in the universe is simply our perception of energy, frequency, and vibration. When sound waves reach our ears, they are converted into electrical signals that travel up the auditory nerve into the auditory cortex, the part of the brain that processes sound. Once sound waves reach our brains, they trigger responses in our bodies. This process alters our emotions, releases hormones, and triggers certain impulses. The deep sound vibration causes relaxation of the tissues and opens the lymphatic system, bringing the body into a state where it can heal itself.
Sister, we are honored to meet you.
We, Julia and Martina, met at an another eco community in the jungle, and sooner than later we found our shared passion for the feminine and cultivating true sisterhood. We also share a background as yoga- and meditation teachers with different talents and qualities. Since the beginning it was clear that we wanted to create an experience like this together and now we can’t wait to share all this yumminess with you!
JULIA
Julia has been a yoga practitioner for over 10 years, specifically Hatha, Ashtanga, Power flow and Yin Yoga. Coming from the background of a professional fencing athlete, shaped her into a strong warrior, and developed a strong spirit and love for freedom. Yoga helped Julia connect, love and accept herself, disconnect from a competitive mindset, and learn how to get into deep relaxation mode. For over 10 years Julia lived in New York and London working in a corporate environment, in 2018 she quit her job and began her spiritual journey and moved into an eco-community in the jungle of Costa Rica where she lives now. In the past few years, Julia started to work with sound, she is hosting magical sound baths with crystal and Tibetan bowls and offers unique and profound healing session called vibroacoustic massage.
You can contact Julia here.
MARTINA
Martina has created over a hundred retreats in India, France, Sweden, Spain and now also in her home Costa Rica. She is a certified kundaliniyoga teacher with a passion for guiding people back home. Which often means out of the mind and into the body, using different methods and techniques, so we again can find our centre. She believes that this is really a journey back to the heart from where we can live a more true, honest and loving life. Martina has a background as a environmental lawyer in corporate Stockholm, and even if she knew deep down that this was not the life she was dreaming of, it took her many years before deciding to take the chance to be free and quit her job. Since then, she has dedicated her life to different holistic therapies, including yoga, meditation and tantra. The last four years, she has deepened her experience in tantra by both taking part and assisting tantra groups in Europa and Costa Rica. Martina is also a vegan chef, massage therapist and holistic therapist.
You can contact Martina here.
Our magical jungle home
We have found the most perfect place for our retreat, Alya, nestled in the Costa Rican jungle yet just five minutes away from a beautiful paradise beach. This serene eco-retreat centre is located on a secluded 19-acre property on the Nicoya peninsula in Costa Rica which is considered a Blue Zone. Here, we enjoy the luxury of simplicity and live close to nature in facilities designed to heal, cleanse and rejuvenate you.
The beach village of Nosara, where you can find vegan cafés, surf shops and fancy restaurants, is just a 40 minutes car ride away if you would like to come and enjoy this before or stay after the retreat.
You can choose from different accommodation options; (i) a single room, (ii) a shared room or (iii) a dormitory. See under ”Prices” below for options.
A place for women to fall in love with themselves.
The Food
Nourishing, fresh, yummy, healthy, delicious, organic. Just a few words to describe the food you will have the absolute pleasure to indulge in during this week. Our private chef, specialised in healthy, raw, vegan food, will source these vegetables and fruits locally, and satisfy not only our physical bodies but all our senses.
Three meals are included per day, plus snacks in between if needed. There will always be free water and tea. And a yummy raw dessert ;)
We let everything be a medicine this week, including the food!
A Day With Us
Feminine energy is like water. A flow, unpredictable yet constant, following our energy and intuition. During this retreat, we will let this feminine principle guide us, yet we have created a schedule for you to have an idea of how a day could look like. And remember, this can change anytime depending on what our group of women want and need ..
7.00-8.30 am Morning Yoga (Kundalini Yoga or Vinyasa + Meditation)
8.30-11.00 Breakfast in silence and Relaxation Time
11.00-13.30 Feminine Practices / Women’s Circles
13.30-14.30 Lunch
14.30-17.30 Free time for the beach, walks in the jungle, relaxing in the hammock, body treatments.
17.30-19.00 Afternoon class: Restorative yoga, sound bath, active meditation
19.00-20.00 Dinner
20.00-21.30 Evening class or free evening.
During this time we will also have space for many many more things, including relaxing ”doing-nothing-just-being” time. Here are some of the highlights you can expect.
How to get here
Our retreat is located close to San Juanillo, on the western coast of Costa Rica in Guanacaste, located 17 kilometres from Nosara. Travelling can easily be achieved by flying into Liberia International Airport, which is approximately two hours away, or through San Jose, which is five hours away. You can also choose to take a domestic flight to Nosara Airport, which is a 40 min taxi ride away from our retreat place.
Shuttles, taxis and car rentals are readily available, and we are happy to help you arrange this.
http://www.alyaretreatcenter.com/
Accommodation and Cancellation Policy
☽ SINGLE ROOM EARLY BIRD: $1700/€1620
☽ SINGLE ROOM REGULAR: $1800/€1710
☽ SHARED ROOM EARLY BIRD: (2-3 people per room): $1500/€1430
☽ SHARED ROOM REGULAR: (2-3 people per room): $1600/€1520
☽ DORMITORY EARLY BIRD: $1200/€1240
☽ DORMITORY REGULAR: $1300/€1140
To secure your spot, pay now a deposit of 390$.
The rest will be paid in two parts, a second part two weeks before the retreat starts, and a third part at the start of the retreat.
In case of cancellation more than two weeks before the start of the retreat, the deposit can be saved for a future retreat with us.
In case of cancellation less than two weeks before the start of the retreat, the deposit is non-refundable.
