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One-Week Intimate Ayahuasca Retreat | Nosara, Costa Rica

Name: One-Week Intimate Ayahuasca Retreat | Nosara, Costa Rica | March 29 - April 5, 2025
Start: 2025-03-29
End: 2025-04-05
Location: Anam Cara Healing Retreats
Rating: 4.98

4.9861 reviews

Costa Rica

Up to 14 in group

March 29 - April 5, 2025

Retreat Highlights

Nosara, Costa Rica
All-Inclusive Plant Medicine Healing Retreat
8 Days, 7 Nights
3 Ayahuasca ceremonies with a family of highly experienced Shipibo Maestros
Comprehensive 1:1 therapeutic counseling and support
Facilitation team trained in trauma work, cognitive psychology, somatic healing, naturopathic medicine, and shamanism
Daily breathwork, yoga, meditations, and healing workshops
Sacred plant baths with healing Amazonian plants
Beautifully prepared organic meals
Hiking, waterfalls, nature
3-month preparation and post-retreat integration support and group container
Custom plant medicine integration journal
Nestled in the beautiful mountains overlooking the ocean in a luxury retreat center

About this Retreat

Your Guides

Francesca

Neils

Francesca Barone

Francesca is a naturopathic medical practitioner, holistic nutritionist, and plant medicine facilitator. Growing up in the Midwest, she sparked a desire at a young age to be of service to the world around her as she witnessed a health and spiritual epidemic. She left home at a young age and began traveling the world gaining knowledge in mind-body medicine and spiritual teachings. Her passion is rooted in guiding others through a variety of natural healing practices to help them restore their vitality and true essence. She is committed to helping others rediscover their empowerment through self-healing, compassion-based therapy, and connection to Spirit. Since beginning her work with shamanic healing practices and plant medicine, Francesca has helped hundreds of clients release the imprints of trauma and emotional imbalances they carried with them for years. She supports her clients intimately as they move away from Western medical practices that solely treat disease symptoms and inspires them to find emotional liberation and embodied aliveness through treating the root-causes of their pain, often originating in childhood trauma. Francesca is a trauma-informed practitioner and long-term student of Gabor Maté’s work specializing in early-developmental trauma, somatic healing, and addiction therapy. Francesca’s work is alive with passion and vitality. She believes wholeheartedly that every being on Earth is deserving and capable of emotional freedom and sustainable health, through integrating the parts of ourselves with unwavering compassion. She herself lived a life of addiction and disconnection for years before her first encounter with Ayahuasca, served by beautiful Shipibo maestros that have become her life-long teachers. Her love and reverence for the Shipibo lineage and healers she works besides is felt by her guests. A forever student and explorer of life, Francesca continues her ever-unfolding journey of deepening with plant medicine and working to bridge ancient indigenous practices with the Western world in need of deep collective healing.

Neils Nahm

Neils’ spiritual practice is primarily informed by the decade he spent living in Peru. During this time, he worked extensively with indigenous shamanic traditions of the Shipibo, Mestizo, and Quechua cultures. He has created, directed, and facilitated many Ayahuasca retreats throughout Latin America and guided thousands of clients through their personal plant medicine journeys.

Those who have worked with Neils are inspired by his deep sensitivity and connection to earth energy and spirit. He embodies an innate gentleness and profound trust in each person’s process and has a unique way of guiding other towards their sacred, heart medicine. He incorporates elements of Somatic Experiencing, IFS, Compassionate Inquiry, and a heart-based, humanistic approach in his work supporting plant medicine. The core of his work is centered around gently guiding clients back to presence, deep acceptance, and trust. At heart, Neils is a traveler and a seeker. He is passionate about honoring indigenous traditions and facilitating the remembrance of ancient wisdom. Neils is deeply committed to his mission to help others reconnect to self, source, reciprocity, and deep liberation.

Details of this retreat

During our retreats, we encourage vulnerability and compassion in a heart-based container where profound transformation is catalyzed by the powerful healing properties of Ayahuasca served by deeply gifted Shipibo Maestros from the Peruvian Amazon. We complement traditional indigenous plant medicine ceremonies with a trauma-informed, body-based therapeutic approach, and long-term ongoing integration support to help you flourish in the ever-unfolding possibilities of sustainable and lasting transformation.
This intimate plant medicine retreat takes place near the town of Nosara, on the Guanacaste Penninsula in the generous lands of Costa Rica. Our luxury retreat space is immersed in a secluded environment surrounded by lush jungle, breathtaking ocean views and healing nature. The sacred land will submerge you into a supportive place to explore the beauty of nature while you embark on your personal plant medicine journey with a family of world-renowned Shipibo Maestros and highly experienced facilitator support.
This all-inclusive event includes 3 Ayahuasca ceremonies, with Ayahuasca grown, harvested, and brewed by our family of Shipibo maestros in the Amazon jungle of Peru. Included in your private retreat cost will be daily yoga, breathwork, hikes in nature, sacred plant baths, integration circles, community activities, and a highly experienced facilitation team there to support your process fully. All organic meals are included and intentionally prepared with love to best support your health and medicine work. This luxury retreat center offers beautiful rooms all equipped with private bathrooms, hot showers, and beautiful views of the Pacific Ocean leaving you feeling comfortable in your space and fully supported in diving deep into this immersive medicine experience.
We honor and acknowledge that each person's relationship with plant medicine and healing journey is intimate and highly personal, with an array of different needs. Our approach to this work is to meet each guest where they are at in their process, honor their individuality, and provide a safe container of connection and healing. Read More

Getting Here

Anam Cara Healing Retreats, Costa Rica

Directions

You will be need to arrive to the retreat space by taxi from Nosara. It is a 20 minute drive from downtown Nosara. Read More

Accommodation

This intimate medicine retreat will take place in the generous lands of Costa Rica, near Nosara. Immersed in a healing natural environment, surrounded by mountains and ocean lies our expansive retreat space. This beautiful and nurturing land will submerge you into a supportive place to explore the beauty of nature while you embark on your personal plant medicine journey.

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Luxury Glamping (shared) | All Inclusive Read More

Private Single Suite | All Inclusive Read More

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

Meals

Menu Types

Vegan

Vegetarian

Pescetarian

Ayurvedic

Includes Meat

Organic

Gluten Free

Dairy Free

Nut Free

We offer intentionally prepared, ayahuasca-friendly meals made with love, featuring local organic produce from small farms throughout Costa Rica. We offer organic chicken and locally caught fish. Read More

What's Included

3 plant medicine ceremonies
Meditation and breathwork classes
Daily yoga
Sacred healing plant baths & steams with Amazonian plants
All organic meals throughout the retreat
Intimate group size and 1:1 personalized care, counseling, and facilitation
Multiple workshops, talks, and group circles throughout the retreat to support medical work
1:1 Preparation calls with your facilitators
Virtual group preparation and connection calls
Multiple 1:1 post-retreat integrations calls with your facilitation team 3 months post-retreat
Custom made 100-page plant medicine integration journal
Beautiful retreat venue nestled in the beautiful mountains overlooking the ocean

Customer Reviews

4.98 out of 5.0 average rating

Collett • Mar 23, 2025

5.0

Verified

Magic Goddess Woman!!

This woman is absolute magic. I am in awe and inspired by her in many ways. Don’t take my word for it, book with AnamCara… you won’t be disappointed to cross paths with her and her community. Just an exceptional, incredible human being. I feel so blessed to have shared space with her. Read More

Collett • Mar 23, 2025

5.0

Verified

Warrior! B@d A$$

Love love LOVE this man! Such an incredible human being with such beautiful gifts to share. I am BEYOND words grateful to have crossed paths with this fella! He is full of experience, wisdom, talent, kindness, love and devotion. I have an immense amount of respect for him, his wisdom, guidance and music. I highly recommend working with him if you are looking to expand and elevate your life with someone you can really trust to find a retreat he is facilitating. Read More

Collett • Mar 23, 2025

5.0

Verified

No words to convey

I’ll try to keep this short and simple.

There is not one single reason to not choose Anam Cara for your healing retreat journey. It was perfect, every detail. They have carefully crafted their programs in a way that encompasses all you need and more for your journey. The facilitators are exceptional and I am beyond words grateful for the universe guiding me toward this community for my journey. Confident beyond measure that you should choose them!! Read More

Kenny • Dec 15, 2024

5.0

Verified

Excelente

This was my second time at this retreat. It was more amazing then the first. Accommodations are very comfortable. The space they held for me really allowed me to process what I needed. Highly recommend this retreat. Read More

Jacob • Nov 24, 2024

5.0

Verified

Amazing

Such a powerful healing experience. The facilitators are excellent and the retreat location and amenities were perfect. I can’t recommend Anam Cara highly enough! Read More

One-Week Intimate Ayahuasca Retreat | Nosara, Costa Rica

Retreat Highlights

About this Retreat

Your Guides

Francesca Barone

Neils Nahm

Details of this retreat

Getting Here

Directions

Accommodation

Venue & Amenities

Meals

Menu Types

What's Included

Magic Goddess Woman!!

Warrior! B@d A$$

No words to convey

Excelente

Amazing

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