Your Body is the Medicine
Your Body is the Medicine
Ruhani Wellness Centre, Pinilla, Nicoya Peninsula, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica
Up to 20 in group
January 31 - February 1, 2025
Retreat Highlights
- A 20-Hour retreat experience to gently and intentionally work directly with the body to access your own unique inner wisdom.
- Powerful, connected intention setting for the year ahead.
- Overnight stay in a sacred outdoor maloka in the Blue Zone forests of Costa Rica.
- Guided yoga, breathwork, meditation, somatic practices, hypnosis, and other modalities led by trauma-informed practitioners.
- Learn non-invasive and effective somatic techniques to build safety in your nervous system.
- Experienced facilitators in the fields of yoga, spiritual coaching, somatic and nervous system therapy, hypnosis and energy work with over 27 years of experience.
- Opportunity to continue the practices beyond the retreat through ongoing online integration sessions*
About this Retreat
Joyanne serves as a Certified Yoga Teacher, Spiritual Coach and Wellness Consultant. She is known for easeful flows and creating nurturing, inclusive spaces that invite more awareness and connection with the body. With a 16-year practice, she has trained and taught globally, including Bali, Canada, Costa Rica and the Caribbean. Her coaching empowers clients to live with optimal energy.
“I believe that yoga is a full-spectrum way of living that offers a pathway to self-acceptance and deeper wisdom. It’s an honour to hold space for those ready to explore.”
Charmain has worked as a Therapist, Coach and Reiki Master for over 12 years. She draws from a multi-modal toolkit including: somatic/nervous system practices, hypnosis, energy work including Reiki, NLP and astrology, among many others. Her practice is to support people to move toward embodiment, allowing the strategies used to stay safe to fall away and for the authentic nature to shine.
After her own deeply transformative journey with her own trauma, by working directly and consistently with her nervous system towards understanding and embodiment of the wisdom of the body, Charmain now has a focus on bringing the body to the forefront of our journey of awakening and embodiment through creating a loving, nurturing and intimate relationship with our physiology. Tapping into the presence that is always there and available, to bring safety, awareness, release what is ready to move through, integration, embodiment and to hear guidance and our calling.
She is the founder of Beyond Satori, a publishing house offering a range of supportive materials for those on a path of deeper inner knowing and embodiment.
“My calling is to assist humanity in remembering who they are. All of nature knows, only we have forgotten, by design, momentarily.”
Details of this retreat
Your Body Is The Medicine is an immersive retreat designed to access the wisdom of your body through movement, regulation, de-conditioning, navigation, embodiment and deep trust of your own sacred vessel. The answers we seek are already inside of us. But so often, we doubt. We outsource our healing and validation, forgetting to connect within, first.
Working with powerful practices to create a deep safety within the nervous system through yoga, somatic practices, hypnosis and self-inquiry, we discover how to truly be within our body to access our unique wisdom and expression.
Our intention is also to keep these practices alive beyond the retreat through online integration and continued collective practice, so that you can truly experience lasting transformation.
Working with powerful practices to create a deep safety within the nervous system through yoga, somatic practices, hypnosis and self-inquiry, we discover how to truly be within our body to access our unique wisdom and expression.
Our intention is also to keep these practices alive beyond the retreat through online integration and continued collective practice, so that you can truly experience lasting transformation.
Schedule
6PM Welcome and opening circle
Yoga, movement and breathwork
Somatic Practice moving into the body and creating union with the body
Self and partner inquiry from the place of the body
Somatic release practice
Centering into the body practice
Releasing into the fire ceremony
Sharing circle
Personal reflection and journaling
Sleep
Next day walking meditation in nature
Breakfast gathering
Hypnosis for intention setting for the year ahead
Yoga and breathwork
Sharing Circle
12 Noon Closing Circle
Yoga, movement and breathwork
Somatic Practice moving into the body and creating union with the body
Self and partner inquiry from the place of the body
Somatic release practice
Centering into the body practice
Releasing into the fire ceremony
Sharing circle
Personal reflection and journaling
Sleep
Next day walking meditation in nature
Breakfast gathering
Hypnosis for intention setting for the year ahead
Yoga and breathwork
Sharing Circle
12 Noon Closing Circle
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change
Getting Here
Your Body is the Medicine, Ruhani Wellness Centre, Pinilla, Nicoya Peninsula, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica
Directions
Ruhani Wellness Centre is conveniently located near the small town of Pinilla in Guanacaste province, Costa Rica. We are just 75 minutes from Liberia International Airport (LIR) and 20 minutes away from the touristic city of Tamarindo.
Accommodation
As part of this immersive retreat and to experience the full blessing of the sacred Maloka, we will spend the night in this space. Bedding is provided, and you are welcome to bring a blanket or pillow if you wish. The Maloka, while covered, allows the natural breeze, moonlight and flavors of nature to enter through its openings. This brings about a feeling of being in nature while being held in the vast rooftop covering overnight. *Optional: Private cabinas are available with shared bathrooms at an additional cost.
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
Bask in the sublime natural beauty of the deeply peaceful Ruhani Wellness Centre in the Blue Zone region of Costa Rica. Enjoy the elevated views of the surrounding forests. Inside the sacred sanctuary of the traditional Maloka you’ll commune with like-hearted souls as we journey into ourselves. Receive healing rest there, under the night sky.
Meals
Menu Types
Vegan
Vegetarian
Pescetarian
Ayurvedic
Includes Meat
Organic
Gluten Free
Dairy Free
Nut Free
This overnight retreat includes a Costa Rican breakfast. You may want to have a meal before arrival as dinner is not provided. Vegan breakfast includes local fruits, gallo pinto and fresh juices.
What's Included
- Join us for this immersive 20-Hour retreat in the traditional scared maloka within the forests of the Blue Zone region in Costa Rica. Bring in a year of intentional, aligned and embodied listening to your own divine wisdom through deep connection with your body as the source of that wisdom.
- Overnight stay at the sublime Ruhani Wellness Centre. (Bedding provided)
- Thoughtfully guided yoga and movement sessions that allow you to listen deeply and truly hear your body’s wisdom. (Yoga mats provided)
- Gentle yet powerful somatic techniques to build safety in your nervous system
- Evening practices dedicated to releasing and morning practices designed for receiving.
- Powerful intention setting practice for the year ahead.
- Full vegan breakfast including fresh local fruit and traditional Costa Rican fare
- Support materials
- Access to a year-long online integration group to continue keeping these practices alive all year long.
- Venue:
- A sacred space to ground and connect. This is an intentional experience where we will journey collectively, building a supportive vessel together through our presence. Gathering in community in the aura of the Maloka allows us to respectfully build safety, practice listening more deeply and then, begin to embody.
- Arrival Time:
- 6:00PM Opening. (Pre-Arrival from 5PM)
- 12:00 Noon Closing
What's Not Included
- Airfare and ground transportation costs
- Dinner – we recommend choosing to fast or have a meal prior to arriving.
- Private rooms (available at an additional cost)
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