EgoZen Experiences The Taste
EgoZen Experiences The Taste
Peace Garden Bungalows Ole Caribe Road 350m from the main intersection, Limon province, Cocles, 70401, Costa Rica
Up to 11 in group
Jul 18 - 24, 2026
Retreat Highlights
- -Jaguar rescue Center Tour
- -Indigenous led Edible and Medicinal Plants Tour
- -1-on-1 diagnostic healing session with a Miskitu Medicine Man
- -Yoga and Mindfulness Sessions
- -Indigenous Led Tour of Bribri Pools and Falls
- -Walking tour of Playa Cocles and Punta Cocles
- -A rare Caribbean Coast Sunset meal
- -Ecstatic Dance
- -Fire Spinning
- -Farm-to-Table hand picked meal cooked in the old Indigenous ways
- -Tour of a traditional Bribri Cosmic house and Energy Cleanse with the shaman
- -Plant Medicine Ceremony including Peyote and Rape (Hoppe) with Harm Reduction and Integration
- -Cord Cutting Ceremonies with Medicine Women
- -Sacred Cacao tour where you learn to make chocolate 4 ways from the bean to the bar
- -Cacao Ceremony
- -Cacao Cleansing in a traditional Temescal (Sweat Lodge) Ceremony
About this Retreat
Angela de Pietro is a trauma-informed life coach, psychology professional, reverend, Indigenous wisdom advocate, and founder of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to health, healing, and human well-being. Originally from California, Angela brings more than a decade of professional experience working in the field of substance abuse treatment, addiction recovery, trauma support, and transformational coaching.
Trained through Landmark’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program, Angela has been coaching individuals since 2017, helping people break free from addiction, trauma patterns, limiting beliefs, and the emotional bondage of past experiences. Her work combines psychology, nervous system awareness, grief work, mindfulness, ancient wisdom traditions, and radical self-honesty to support deep personal transformation and lasting healing.
Angela is also an ordained Reverend with the Universal Life Church (who's motto is we are all children of the same universe), a role she has held for over 12 years. In addition, she brings nearly two decades of experience guiding and supporting psychedelic journeys involving DMT, ketamine, LSD, psilocybin, and peyote in intentional, ceremonial, and healing-centered settings. Her approach emphasizes safety, integration, personal empowerment, spiritual exploration, and trauma-informed care.
Angela’s work is shaped not only by professional training, but by profound lived experience. Having survived kidnapping, SA, complex trauma, and the devastating loss of two younger brothers, she brings a rare depth of compassion, resilience, and understanding to her work. Her personal journey through PTSD and C-PTSD has fueled her passion for helping others reclaim safety, purpose, joy, and freedom within themselves. She has also served as a death doula and is deeply experienced in supporting individuals through grief, loss, transition, and emotional healing.
In addition to her healing work, Angela is a retired chef trained in fine and luxury dining with the expert culinary team at Ocean Grill inside Restoration Hardware. Her background also includes years as an international pyrotechnic performer, touring and performing for audiences around the world.
Today, Angela’s work centers on helping others remember their innate wholeness through healing, self-expression, conscious living, spiritual exploration, and the preservation of ancient wisdom traditions.
Medicine Man & Shaman
Botsu is a Bribri shaman and medicine man who has lived on his people’s land for over four decades. He is an expert in plant medicine and Bribri oral tradition, history, and rituals and desires nothing more than to pass on his vast knowledge. Founder of Escuela de Magia Verde, for decades he has provided tourists and locals alike with medicines and education about medicinal and edible plants. He is an exotic foods jungle chef, creating masterpieces of texture and flavor using ingredients you watched him harvest before your eyes, often times using nothing but his machete.
Medicine Woman & Guardian of the Soul’s Awakening
A holistic integrative therapist, medicine woman and guardian of the soul’s awakening. She accompanies processes of spiritual expansion and consciousness from truth, tenderness, and the power of love. Her path has been guided by life, her wounds, and luminous teachers through Akashic records, Ho’oponopono, Angel therapy, channeling, and ancestral wisdom.
She creates a safe space where the soul can remember its mission. She does not consider herself a healer: she is a mirror, a lighthouse, and a sister on the journey. Her religion is love, and her medicine is the reconnection with inner truth. She will be holding space with you and doing energy healings at the plant medicine ceremony.
Kiany Brown is a medicine woman from the Caribbean of Costa Rica, guiding healing and transformation through ancestral practices, metaphysics, meditation, and spiritual therapies. Her journey began at 16 with a deep awakening through diet, nature, and sacred ceremonies that reconnected her to her essence. She has walked with shamans from Costa Rica and Mexico, learning about Temescal and peyote ceremonies, gathering sacred tools to open the heart, heal, and align with one's purpose. Her mission is to share these teachings with those seeking balance and spiritual reconnection. With warmth and wisdom, Kiany creates a safe space for healing, transformation, and spiritual rebirth. She is also the Owner of Como Vivo the company responsible for the Holistic food in your welcome bag!
Poy is a third-generation master of medicinal plants. He is a traditional herbalist and healer from the Caribbean side of Costa Rica. He dedicates his life to sharing ancestral wisdom through medicinal plants, natural healing, and deep connection with nature. He spent over 20 years living in the Caribbean jungle guided by the ancestral wisdom of his grandfather and mother — both indigenous healers. Poy cultivates and studies the sacred plants that grow in this land. His lifelong connection with nature has given him profound knowledge of how to help people heal from various illnesses and restore balance to body and mind.
Details of this retreat
This is not a vacation disguised as healing work. It is a deeply immersive, transformational experience designed to help participants reconnect with themselves, release emotional weight, restore balance, and remember what it feels like to truly be alive.
The EgoZen Retreat experience was not created from theory alone, but from lived experience — forged through trauma, healing, loss, resilience, spiritual exploration, and years of guiding others through profound personal transformation. Every aspect of this retreat has been intentionally designed to support healing of the mind, body, spirit, and nervous system through a blend of ancient wisdom, trauma-informed guidance, holistic wellness practices, meaningful connection, and immersive experiences in nature.
Over the course of this intimate one-week group retreat, guests are invited into a carefully curated journey that combines Indigenous-led ceremony, plant medicine traditions, nervous system restoration, self-discovery, adventure, nourishment, and community.
Experiences may include:
• Sacred cacao ceremonies
• Rapé rituals
• Temescal ceremony and energetic cleansing
• Cord-cutting and emotional release work
• Indigenous-led plant medicine experiences
• Guided integration and transformational coaching
• Holistic wellness and mindfulness practices
• Waterfall hikes and jungle immersion
• Bicycle adventures into Puerto Viejo
• Community connection and intentional conversation
• Deep rest, reflection, and nervous system reset
Food is approached as part of the healing experience itself. Guests enjoy a blend of chef-inspired meals prepared on-site, hand-selected farm-to-table offerings, and carefully chosen local restaurant experiences that celebrate both nourishment and the vibrant flavors of Costa Rica and are encourage to intermittent fast to connect deeper with their habits and to learn about comfort vs need..
This retreat is designed for those seeking more than temporary escape. It is for individuals ready to release old stories, reconnect with their authentic selves, move through grief or emotional stagnation, deepen spiritually, cultivate inner freedom, and experience healing within a safe and supportive environment.
Whether you arrive seeking clarity, peace, healing, inspiration, reconnection, or transformation, the intention of this experience is simple: to help you remember your wholeness.
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On Mon, May 25, 2026 at 3:14 PM, Angela de Pietro
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Angela de Pietro is a trauma-informed life coach, psychology professional, reverend, Indigenous wisdom advocate, and founder of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to health, healing, and human well-being. Originally from California, Angela brings more than a decade of professional experience working in the field of substance abuse treatment, addiction recovery, trauma support, and transformational coaching.
Trained through Landmark’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program, Angela has been coaching individuals since 2017, helping people break free from addiction, trauma patterns, limiting beliefs, and the emotional bondage of past experiences. Her work combines psychology, nervous system awareness, grief work, mindfulness, ancient wisdom traditions, and radical self-honesty to support deep personal transformation and lasting healing.
Angela is also an ordained Reverend with the Universal Life Church (who's motto is we are all children of the same universe), a role she has held for over 12 years. In addition, she brings nearly two decades of experience guiding and supporting psychedelic journeys involving DMT, ketamine, LSD, psilocybin, and peyote in intentional, ceremonial, and healing-centered settings. Her approach emphasizes safety, integration, personal empowerment, spiritual exploration, and trauma-informed care.
Angela’s work is shaped not only by professional training, but by profound lived experience. Having survived kidnapping, SA, complex trauma, and the devastating loss of two younger brothers, she brings a rare depth of compassion, resilience, and understanding to her work. Her personal journey through PTSD and C-PTSD has fueled her passion for helping others reclaim safety, purpose, joy, and freedom within themselves. She has also served as a death doula and is deeply experienced in supporting individuals through grief, loss, transition, and emotional healing.
In addition to her healing work, Angela is a retired chef trained in fine and luxury dining with the expert culinary team at Ocean Grill inside Restoration Hardware. Her background also includes years as an international pyrotechnic performer, touring and performing for audiences around the world.
Today, Angela’s work centers on helping others remember their innate wholeness through healing, self-expression, conscious living, spiritual exploration, and the preservation of ancient wisdom traditions.
The EgoZen Retreat experience was not created from theory alone, but from lived experience — forged through trauma, healing, loss, resilience, spiritual exploration, and years of guiding others through profound personal transformation. Every aspect of this retreat has been intentionally designed to support healing of the mind, body, spirit, and nervous system through a blend of ancient wisdom, trauma-informed guidance, holistic wellness practices, meaningful connection, and immersive experiences in nature.
Over the course of this intimate one-week group retreat, guests are invited into a carefully curated journey that combines Indigenous-led ceremony, plant medicine traditions, nervous system restoration, self-discovery, adventure, nourishment, and community.
Experiences may include:
• Sacred cacao ceremonies
• Rapé rituals
• Temescal ceremony and energetic cleansing
• Cord-cutting and emotional release work
• Indigenous-led plant medicine experiences
• Guided integration and transformational coaching
• Holistic wellness and mindfulness practices
• Waterfall hikes and jungle immersion
• Bicycle adventures into Puerto Viejo
• Community connection and intentional conversation
• Deep rest, reflection, and nervous system reset
Food is approached as part of the healing experience itself. Guests enjoy a blend of chef-inspired meals prepared on-site, hand-selected farm-to-table offerings, and carefully chosen local restaurant experiences that celebrate both nourishment and the vibrant flavors of Costa Rica and are encourage to intermittent fast to connect deeper with their habits and to learn about comfort vs need..
This retreat is designed for those seeking more than temporary escape. It is for individuals ready to release old stories, reconnect with their authentic selves, move through grief or emotional stagnation, deepen spiritually, cultivate inner freedom, and experience healing within a safe and supportive environment.
Whether you arrive seeking clarity, peace, healing, inspiration, reconnection, or transformation, the intention of this experience is simple: to help you remember your wholeness.
Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer
On Mon, May 25, 2026 at 3:14 PM, Angela de Pietro
wrote:
Angela de Pietro is a trauma-informed life coach, psychology professional, reverend, Indigenous wisdom advocate, and founder of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to health, healing, and human well-being. Originally from California, Angela brings more than a decade of professional experience working in the field of substance abuse treatment, addiction recovery, trauma support, and transformational coaching.
Trained through Landmark’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program, Angela has been coaching individuals since 2017, helping people break free from addiction, trauma patterns, limiting beliefs, and the emotional bondage of past experiences. Her work combines psychology, nervous system awareness, grief work, mindfulness, ancient wisdom traditions, and radical self-honesty to support deep personal transformation and lasting healing.
Angela is also an ordained Reverend with the Universal Life Church (who's motto is we are all children of the same universe), a role she has held for over 12 years. In addition, she brings nearly two decades of experience guiding and supporting psychedelic journeys involving DMT, ketamine, LSD, psilocybin, and peyote in intentional, ceremonial, and healing-centered settings. Her approach emphasizes safety, integration, personal empowerment, spiritual exploration, and trauma-informed care.
Angela’s work is shaped not only by professional training, but by profound lived experience. Having survived kidnapping, SA, complex trauma, and the devastating loss of two younger brothers, she brings a rare depth of compassion, resilience, and understanding to her work. Her personal journey through PTSD and C-PTSD has fueled her passion for helping others reclaim safety, purpose, joy, and freedom within themselves. She has also served as a death doula and is deeply experienced in supporting individuals through grief, loss, transition, and emotional healing.
In addition to her healing work, Angela is a retired chef trained in fine and luxury dining with the expert culinary team at Ocean Grill inside Restoration Hardware. Her background also includes years as an international pyrotechnic performer, touring and performing for audiences around the world.
Today, Angela’s work centers on helping others remember their innate wholeness through healing, self-expression, conscious living, spiritual exploration, and the preservation of ancient wisdom traditions.
Schedule
This is a typical schedule for our Immersion Retreat. It is subject to change any any time, but provides a general idea of what you are in store for during this very immersive week
Day 0 — Arrival in Playa Cocles!
Settle in and Receive your Welcome Gifts (including a Beautiful Custom Locally-made Waterproof Fanny Pack, Yoga Mat, Local Fruits and Treats and More)
Dinner Together at a Quaint Local Soda
Gather around the Fire Pit for an Opening Circle.
Day 1 — Earth
Ground into your Purpose with Sunrise Beach Yoga and Meditation on Beautiful GiGi Beach
Visit the Jaguar Rescue Center and Learn about Native Birds, Caiman and much more!
Local Plant Medicine Tour and Health Consultation with Poy
Tuk Tuk to Dinner and Sunset in Puerto Viejo
Day 2 — Water
Full Day of Getting Back to Nature and Humanities Roots
Travel to the Majestic Bribri Falls on Indigenous Land
Journey with an Indigenous Medicine Man into the jungle for Cacao, Waterfalls, Meal Ingredients and Deep Release with Indigenous Guidance.
Enjoy an amazing Jungle Farm-to-Table Meal Prepared in the Ancient Ways including Ingredients You Helped Gather
Evening Fire in BriBri Accompanied by Indigenous Singing
Day 3 — Air
Sunrise Yoga and Meditation at Cocles River Beach
Silence, Movement, and Integration
Free Time to Explore Everything the Area has to Offer.
Huna's Ecstatic Dance
Optional 1:1 Integration with Angela Marie
Day 4 — Fire
Purification through Cacao Cleanse and Traditional Temescal Sweat Lodge Ceremony with Local Fruits After
Shared Home-Made Dinner back at Peace Garden Bungalows
Evening Movie or Past Life Regression Session
Day 5 — All Elements
Bike Ride to Puerto Viejo for Breakfast
Travel to Home Creek for a Powerful Overnight Sacred Hallucinogenic Plant Medicine Ceremony
Day 6 — Integration
Local Fruit Breakfast
Rest, Reflect, and Integrate Your Previous Night's Experience.
Homemade Dinner at the Fire Pit
Closing Circle
Day 7 — Arrivederci
Checkout
Early Morning Bike To Beautiful Playa Cocles Point and Puerto Viejo Farmer's Market
Optional 2 hr Surf Lesson to Bond with the Waters
Day 0 — Arrival in Playa Cocles!
Settle in and Receive your Welcome Gifts (including a Beautiful Custom Locally-made Waterproof Fanny Pack, Yoga Mat, Local Fruits and Treats and More)
Dinner Together at a Quaint Local Soda
Gather around the Fire Pit for an Opening Circle.
Day 1 — Earth
Ground into your Purpose with Sunrise Beach Yoga and Meditation on Beautiful GiGi Beach
Visit the Jaguar Rescue Center and Learn about Native Birds, Caiman and much more!
Local Plant Medicine Tour and Health Consultation with Poy
Tuk Tuk to Dinner and Sunset in Puerto Viejo
Day 2 — Water
Full Day of Getting Back to Nature and Humanities Roots
Travel to the Majestic Bribri Falls on Indigenous Land
Journey with an Indigenous Medicine Man into the jungle for Cacao, Waterfalls, Meal Ingredients and Deep Release with Indigenous Guidance.
Enjoy an amazing Jungle Farm-to-Table Meal Prepared in the Ancient Ways including Ingredients You Helped Gather
Evening Fire in BriBri Accompanied by Indigenous Singing
Day 3 — Air
Sunrise Yoga and Meditation at Cocles River Beach
Silence, Movement, and Integration
Free Time to Explore Everything the Area has to Offer.
Huna's Ecstatic Dance
Optional 1:1 Integration with Angela Marie
Day 4 — Fire
Purification through Cacao Cleanse and Traditional Temescal Sweat Lodge Ceremony with Local Fruits After
Shared Home-Made Dinner back at Peace Garden Bungalows
Evening Movie or Past Life Regression Session
Day 5 — All Elements
Bike Ride to Puerto Viejo for Breakfast
Travel to Home Creek for a Powerful Overnight Sacred Hallucinogenic Plant Medicine Ceremony
Day 6 — Integration
Local Fruit Breakfast
Rest, Reflect, and Integrate Your Previous Night's Experience.
Homemade Dinner at the Fire Pit
Closing Circle
Day 7 — Arrivederci
Checkout
Early Morning Bike To Beautiful Playa Cocles Point and Puerto Viejo Farmer's Market
Optional 2 hr Surf Lesson to Bond with the Waters
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change
Getting Here
EgoZen Experiences, Peace Garden Bungalows Ole Caribe Road 350m from the main intersection, Limon province, Cocles, 70401, Costa Rica
Directions
You can Fly into SJO and take a flight from there to the local Limon airport and take an Uber, or you can take a shuttle from SJO straight to us Playa Cocles. We are happy to arrange transport to and from the venue for additional fee. Transport costs vary wildly depending upon what time your flight gets in. It is HIGHLY recomended that you take a flight that arrives in SJO in the morning such that you can take the least expensive possible transports which are available at around 5am and noon. If you arrive late at night in SJO it is recomeended to stay the night there, as night transport can cost up to 5x more. Due to our remote location, for those retreat attendees who enjoy travel, we recommend taking your time to get here and enjoy stopping at some lovely sights along the way.
Accommodation
Peace Garden bungalows were created using local resources, local workforce and the wisdom of local people who live and work in connection with the nature. The development of Peace Garden bungalows has created jobs for local people and supported them to move on with their lives. Many people’s hands and hearts touched this project. It has been created with love, care and respect for the environment. Each bungalow is designed with the purpose of close contact with nature. You will fall asleep to the delightful sounds of the jungle or relax in the hammock on the deck. You will be able to satisfy your senses while listening to the amazing sounds of toucans, monkeys, parrots, frogs and admire beautiful flowers, trees and much more. Each Bungalow sleeps up to 5 people, with both shared and single occupancy rooms available. Each bungalow is equipped with a full kitchen & high power ceiling fans, and hammocks. By the end of your stay, you’ll feel deliciously relaxed, rejuvenated and full of positive energy!
Program Price
Venue & Amenities
A/C in Rooms
Free Wifi
Spa
Sauna
Pool
Towels
Free Parking
Kitchen
Tour Assistance
Hot Tub
Coffee/Tea
Cafe
Restaurant
Fitness Center
Yoga Studio
Housekeeping
Bicycles For Rent
This transformational retreat is located just a few steps away from the breathtaking Caribbean beaches where you can dip in the deliciously warm waters or relax on the pleasant gold and black sands of the sea. You will have access to miles of beach for walking or jogging, jungle hiking trails. It’s a beautiful location right in the middle of the jungle, a few minutes away from colorful Puerto Viejo. The venue contains a lush, beautiful medicinal and edible plants garden and a community fire pit.
Meals
Menu Types
Vegan
Vegetarian
Pescetarian
Ayurvedic
Includes Meat
Organic
Gluten Free
Dairy Free
Nut Free
As a retired Chef we are able to cater to most dietary needs.
What's Included
- 6 nights accommodation
- Bike Rental
- Gift bag including a Waterproof Handmade crossbody bag and holistic food and wellness products from local Costa Rican artisans
- 8 meals (some at local restaurants, some onsite, some at outside activities)
- Cacao ceremony and tour
- Visit to the Cosmic House with a cleansing by the Bribri Shaman
- Ecstatic Dance during a day of silence
- Waterfall Tour with Grief, loss, and Trauma Processing
- Temescal (Sweat Lodge) Ceremony
- Peyote ceremony with Professional Harm Reduction Supervision and Integration
- Rape (Hoppe), Cord Cutting, and Energy Cleansing Ceremony with the Medicine Woman
- Tour of an Indigenous Farm and Living Pharmacy with a hand-picked Meal
- Professional Integration Sessions during and after the event
- Multiple Yoga and mindfulness sessions
- Medicinal and Edible Plants tour with Indigenous Miskitu guide and a one-on-one diagnostic session with our resident Medicine Man to heal what ails each individual
- Daily Workbook and Assignments to foster personal, spiritual, and community growth with a Landmark-trained Self-Expression and Leadership Coach
- Tour of the Jaguar Rescue Center to meet sloths, toucans and monkeys up close and contribute to their well-being
What's Not Included
- Airfare
- Transportation to and from the Airport
- Some meals (This retreat encourages intermittent fasting as part of the retreat, If you engage in this with us, all the provided meals are all you should need, though we understand that some people must have more meals than the 8 we provide)
- Final Day optional activities such as surf lessons or horseback riding
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