Trauma Transformation Retreat, Costa Rica

Retreat Highlights

• Please note that if only one booking is secured for these dates there will be an additional cost for single occupancy. Please feel free to send us a message for more details.
• Trauma work and healing can feel utterly overwhelming and all consuming. Maybe you've tried many different modalities and haven't quite found one that sticks, or maybe you don't know where to start.
• Allow us to guide you through a transformative 7 day journey with a carefully curated itinerary for lasting trauma transmutation and healing.
• We combine talk therapy with modalities that will help to shift trauma from the body, as well as a unique trauma release therapy that allows the mind to process your experiences in a gentle and non retraumatizing way.
• Our approach is to provide a safe and non judgmental space. All are welcome come as you are and allow us to hold and nurture you during this tender time.
• Our schedule intentionally includes two organic locally grown sourced meals per day to keep our bodies light and clear.
• We will keep this group to a maximum of 4 participants to honor a small and intimate space, with a group big enough to build meaningful connections but small enough to receive the necessary care during trauma work.
• We know how it feels to feel totally traumatized and powerless after our baby girl passed away in 2022. Since then our soul work has been to help others who are grieving and dealing with trauma.
• We see you, we understand you, we honor you.
• Our offerings include:
• Trauma informed movement
• Meditation
• Somatic therapies
• Nature immersion
• Qigong
• Frequency healing
• EFT tapping
• EMDR
• Trauma release
• Farm tour & plant talk
• Sharing circle
• Ceremony
• Nature immersion
• River trip
• Journaling
• Silence
• Cacao/tea sharing
• Pranayama / breathwork
• Two organic locally produced farm-to-table meals

About this Retreat

Your Guides

Emily

Mateo

Emily Lilapad

Co-founder of Finca Lilapad, Emily has been called a yoga teacher, reiki master, writer, designer and coach. But the labels that most resonate with her are beloved mumma to Ignacio Sol, proud angel mumma to Raiven Surya and devoted wife to Mateo. Passionate about exploring and teaching modalities to help facilitate remembrance, healing and growth, Emily creates beautiful containers to inspire introspection, presence and movement. Her medicine is nature, music, journaling, movement and being authentically vulnerable, all of which create deeper connections to pachamama, source, self and others. Before moving to Costa Rica in 2019 and co-founding Finca Lilapad, Emily visited 50 countries, mostly backpacking, traveling Europe in a van and living in Dubai for five years. In her earlier life after graduating law, Emily spent 12 years in the corporate finance world, before swapping high-heels for barefoot grounding and hair straighteners for dreadlocks! Emily is a manifestor in human design, a pisces sun sign, a Myers Briggs INFJ and enneagram type 1.

Mateo Padilla

A California native who garnered more than two decades’ experience in the restaurant and hospitality industry, Mateo is head chef and co-founder at Finca Lilapad. He is also founder of MAR•MENTIS. Since moving to Costa Rica in 2019, Mateo has had his hands in the dirt and taught himself farming and permaculture. He is master designer of the finca and pulls philosophy from time spent in nature and embodying presence. Spending most of his days working on the land, Mateo cultivates deep connections with his plant allies, but also loves to whip up tasty treats in the kitchen! During retreats, he cooks and gives tours and talks. Passionate about travel, Mateo has been to more than 40 countries, lived in a van and worked in Dubai. He is proud father to Ignacio Sol, angel daddy to Raiven Surya and furbaby father of four. Mateo is a virgo sun sign and generator in human design.

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