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Amplify! A GBTQ+ Sacred Plant Journey
Amplify! A GBTQ+ Sacred Plant Journey
5.004 reviews
San José Province, Tinamaste, Costa Rica
March 24 - 30, 2025
About this Retreat
Donovan is the founder of Amplified Yoga, for which he travels the world sharing his positive vision. His motivation is to encourage you to Amplify the greatest parts of yourself, using ancient yogic technology, presented in a modern & accessible way. In 1996, at the age of 20, he took his first yoga class in New York City. Struck by the clarity, vitality and peace he felt, this ignited a lifelong passion. He immediately completed his first teacher training at the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center, started meditating and began teaching.
Since then, he has trained and become certified in the traditions of Jivamukti, Ashtanga, Anusara, and Kundalini. He utilized all of these teachings and his years of experience to create the Amplified method which is fun, cathartic and quick in its ability to transform a person instantly. Since Amplified yoga’s recent inception Donovan has collaborated with some of the biggest names in the wellness industry including Wanderlust, Equinox, Daybreaker, Unplug meditation and Mindvalley to name a few.
Whether at a concert venue, festival, cooperate or private event Donovans wisdom, authenticity and positivity gives him the ability to take anybody on a soulful yogic journey that is extraordinary.
Paulo was born in the Brazilian Amazon, went to College in France and England, and immigrated to the US to pursue his Master’s in Counseling. During graduate school, he was introduced to the main models, ideas, and concepts that led him to pursue training in Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy. He has been trained in the MAPS protocol to work with MDMA and in the Mazatec tradition to work with psilocybin mushrooms. He is a Mindfulness, Integral Psychotherapy, Somatic Resourcing, Somatic Attachment Therapy, and Parts Work practitioner. He likes to offer the Enneagram of Personality as a map to support his clients in a non-judgmental perception of themselves.
Details of this retreat
We invite you to join a community of queer adventurers for a 6-day experience of wellness in the glorious Diamante Valley of Costa Rica. This experience will allow us to dive into deeper understandings of ourselves, cultivating our authentic essence and amplifying this in our life!
Our experienced facilitator, Paolo, will guide us through 2 sacred plant ceremonies as we access deeper parts of ourselves. Through the tool of the Enneagram, also led by Paolo, we will explore our personality type, our individual qualities and how we best operate in the world. With daily transformative embodiment practices, including Amplified Yoga, led by Donovan McGrath, we will harness and cultivate this exploration of our personal power to create positive change in our lives.
Hosted in the Jungle Gayborhood, enjoy staying in our exquisite hand crafted bamboo cabins in the rainforest of Costa Rica, as you spend your days immersed in the spectacular natural wonderland of our property, with several kilometers of forest trails leading to pristine natural waterfalls, rock pools and rivers. Surrounded by the abundance of nature and supported by queer community, this retreat is open to male identifying gender expressions, and all levels of practice and experience with yoga, meditation, and sacred plant ceremonies.
In addition to the scheduled elements of the retreat, we will have plenty of time to relax and savor the exquisite natural settings, and process our learnings, and grow from the supportive community we will create.
To create a safe environment conducive to healing and community development, we will ask all participants to adhere to these agreements throughout the week. While we will explore topics of sexuality, we will ask participants to refrain from sex during the retreat. This helps to create a safe environment, and encourages deep connections without the motivation of sex, which past participants recognize as a very refreshing change for queer men.
Our experienced facilitator, Paolo, will guide us through 2 sacred plant ceremonies as we access deeper parts of ourselves. Through the tool of the Enneagram, also led by Paolo, we will explore our personality type, our individual qualities and how we best operate in the world. With daily transformative embodiment practices, including Amplified Yoga, led by Donovan McGrath, we will harness and cultivate this exploration of our personal power to create positive change in our lives.
Hosted in the Jungle Gayborhood, enjoy staying in our exquisite hand crafted bamboo cabins in the rainforest of Costa Rica, as you spend your days immersed in the spectacular natural wonderland of our property, with several kilometers of forest trails leading to pristine natural waterfalls, rock pools and rivers. Surrounded by the abundance of nature and supported by queer community, this retreat is open to male identifying gender expressions, and all levels of practice and experience with yoga, meditation, and sacred plant ceremonies.
In addition to the scheduled elements of the retreat, we will have plenty of time to relax and savor the exquisite natural settings, and process our learnings, and grow from the supportive community we will create.
To create a safe environment conducive to healing and community development, we will ask all participants to adhere to these agreements throughout the week. While we will explore topics of sexuality, we will ask participants to refrain from sex during the retreat. This helps to create a safe environment, and encourages deep connections without the motivation of sex, which past participants recognize as a very refreshing change for queer men.
Getting Here
Jungle Gayborhood, San José Province, Tinamaste, Costa Rica
Accommodation
Shared 4 Bed Jungle Cabin
A beautiful bamboo cabin with four comfortable individual bunk beds. You will be have one bed to yourself and you will be staying with up to three other guests who will sleep in the other beds.
All cabins are equipped with elegant lighting, cooling fans, multiple outlets, comfortable beds and linens, and are fully enclosed in mosquito mesh netting. All cabins share a beautiful bamboo bathhouse with hot water.
Private King Cabin
A beautiful private bamboo cabin with a king-size bed.
All cabins are equipped with elegant lighting, cooling fans, multiple outlets, comfortable beds and linens, and are fully enclosed in mosquito mesh netting. All cabins share a beautiful bamboo bathhouse with hot water.
Shared Twin Jungle Cabin
A beautiful bamboo cabin with two comfortable twin-size beds. You will be have one bed to yourself and you will be staying with another guest who will sleep in the other twin bed.
All cabins are equipped with elegant lighting, cooling fans, multiple outlets, comfortable beds and linens, and are fully enclosed in mosquito mesh netting. All cabins share a beautiful bamboo bathhouse with hot water.
Private Deluxe Cabin
A beautiful private bamboo cabin with a king-size bed, en suite sink, and gorgeous jungle views.
All cabins are equipped with elegant lighting, cooling fans, multiple outlets, comfortable beds and linens, and are fully enclosed in mosquito mesh netting. All cabins share a beautiful bamboo bathhouse with hot water.
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
Customer Reviews
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Diamante Paradise
Such an amazing location, surrounded by pristine nature, bathed by the waterfalls and fountains.
The food is fantastic, always surprising and very fresh.
The level of the retreat teams is unbelievable and the love and care of the house team in incomparable.
Second time and many more to go back.
The food is fantastic, always surprising and very fresh.
The level of the retreat teams is unbelievable and the love and care of the house team in incomparable.
Second time and many more to go back.
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Life changing
The space is phenomenally beautiful, but it is nothing in comparison to the genuine, whole hearted, kind, and caring people that make this place so special. I attended a medicine of Eros retreat here and it was life changing. I am forever grateful to everyone that made it possible. What a beautiful experience! Thank you jungle family for making me feel welcomed, challenged and loved all at the same time.
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I found my tribe
I was going through a rough patch with my mental well-being and finding those that shared the same desire to better themselves.
This experience introduced me to a healthy gay community of men that were more than their trauma, without judgment or prejudice.
I felt liberated, free, loved and heard. There were so many beautiful souls here that shared their stories with me.
I found that the key was to take a leap of faith and come with an open heart and mind.
This experience introduced me to a healthy gay community of men that were more than their trauma, without judgment or prejudice.
I felt liberated, free, loved and heard. There were so many beautiful souls here that shared their stories with me.
I found that the key was to take a leap of faith and come with an open heart and mind.
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