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“What we all need is to learn to live without walls. We have to let the illusion of separation fall away and replace it with active, lively engagement of every aspect of our lives.”
— Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams

Step into your fullest potential.

Healing Ourselves, Healing Nature is a 10-day, 9-night adventure in reconnecting with nature, community, and self.

We are honored to journey once again to Finca Camino Nuevo, tucked in the ethereal mountains and misty forests just below the Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Preserve.

This innovative eco retreat is guided by three questions:

  • What is ecological interdependence?

  • How can we promote belonging with community and nature?

  • Why are personal growth and well-being vital dimensions of wise environmental stewardship?

Together we delve into the dynamic interdependence of self, and nature, framed within a larger conversation about the textures and contours of sustainability, equity, and well-being.

Along our journey, we build community, practice eco mindfulness meditation techniques, explore embodied movement practices, ceremony, and expressive arts, engage in vibrant discussion, and rest. The living land is our central teacher.

Our goal for participants is:

  • Develop and enhance a lasting sense of interdependence with the living land through nature-based contemplative practices

  • Bolster resilience around climate anxiety, grief, fear, anger, shame and guilt

  • Foster a culture of belonging and inclusion, while building lasting relationships

  • Deepen understanding of interdependence and key ingredients of flourishing

  • Create unique pathways to wise environmental stewardship and compassionate community leadership, whatever one’s occupational path may be. 

Healing Ourselves, Healing Nature can help participants step into their fullest potential through considering their unique gifts, backgrounds, and life situations to envision actionable steps towards promoting a more socially and ecologically harmonious world.

Pricing Details

June 2025

$2800/per person

(early bird special)

We have scholarships funds for those interested 21-40 and BIPOC and traditionally under-represented groups

Pay in full or pay $1400 deposit. Final non-refundable payment by May 1.

Pricing is all-inclusive minus flights

Earn 20 hours of Yoga Alliance CE credit

*Participants must be 21 years or older.
50% payment is non-refundable
Booking is fully non-refundable after May 1, 2025.

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Program Includes

  • 10 days, 9 nights accommodation (doubles, singles are extra)

  • Land transportation

  • 3 nourishing, organic, locally-sourced vegetarian meals daily

  • Daily meditations

  • Forest bathing

  • Yoga

  • Conscious movement and dance

  • Guided creative arts

  • Collaborative music

  • Tea, cacao, and fire ceremonies

  • Themed talks and discussions

  • Facilitated circling and journaling prompts

  • Unlimited access to pool and jacuzzi

  • Excursions and mindful hikes

  • Downtime for rest and reflection

  • Integration opportunities post-retreat

Optional Add-ons

  • Watsu water therapy

  • Craniosacral therapy

  • Massage

Gratitude + Belonging

We begin by slowing down, grounding, and exploring what we are grateful for while taking some time to get to know one another. The combination of community building and gratitude practice engenders belonging, mutual trust, and kinship. From this foundation, we will awaken our senses, coming into relationship with our bodies, each other, and the living land.

Awareness + Expression

We reflect upon the deeper patterns, worldviews, and mindsets that shape our understanding of ourselves and relationship with nature while immersing ourselves in nature-centered meditation, embodiment practice, dance, art, storytelling, tea, and deep listening to attune us to our sense of presence and interdependence with Mother Earth. We have an opportunity to share any grief, anger, fear, despair, and sense of shame and guilt we feel about what is happening to our planet.

Purpose + Action

The third stage is an opportunity to reflect on what each of us can do to help others and serve as better stewards of the living land as well as excellent elders in society.   

Program Facilitators and Leaders

Dimensions Roadmap

  • Practices nclude:

    • Meditation, mindful movement, forest bathing

    • Voice activation, deep listening, and song

    • Conscious dance

    • Breath practice

    Frameworks are the mindsets and worldviews that influence how we understand and engage with the world and ourselves.

    Discussion circle topics include:

    • Flourishing, healing, and languishing

    • Authenticity and truthfulness

    • Kinship and interdependence

    • Climate change, sustainability, equity

    • Self and selflessness

  • Community building is central to our practice through:

    • Story sharing

    • Deep listening

    • Ceremony

    • Tea

    • Creative arts

    • Group hiking

    Discussion circle topics include:

    • Socially engaged mindfulness

    • Thinking critically, cooperating, and collaborating

    • Inner transformation and sustainability

    • Earth care and self care alignment

    • Worldviews, mindsets, perspectives

    • Socially-engaged mindfulness, networks, and resources

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Misty mountains covered in lush greenery.
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Sunset over forested mountains and clouds.
Colorful fruit market stall with customers.
Cozy wooden interior of a rustic cabin
Colorful yoga studio with mats and art
Woman sitting by a creek in a forest
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Group of people smiling on a forest bridge.
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Group hiking through dense greenery.
Man hiking through a dense forest.
Group meditating in misty forest park
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Start your next adventure.

Adventure again into the ethereal mountains and forests of Monteverde for Healing Ourselves, Healing Nature: Costa Rica! An immersive 10-day, 9-night journey open to those interested in reconnecting with nature and healing all our relations. Sign up to be notified when Costa Rica 2025 is booked!

Our Past Retreats

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Monteverde 2023 with Shayá, Bainawá, and Maiko Txana Kupi Huni Kuin (the “True People”) of the Pinuya Village near the border of Brazil and Peru. We are deeply grateful for them, their wisdom, and their joyous message of healing. They are pictured in the back row right, along with their representative and translator Marcos Vinicius (Vinny) Romão of Associação Povos da Terra.

2024 Costa Rica Retreat

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Monteverde, Costa Rica, June 2022. We were deeply honored that Abuelo Carlos Huizton and Paula Colandí joined us at Finca Camino Nuevo.

2022-2024 Costa Rica Locations

Thatched roof house in lush, green forest.

Alya Retreat Center

GUANACASTE PROVINCE
SAN JUANILLO, COSTA RICA

Alya retreat center is located in a secluded 19-acre property at the Nicoya peninsula in Costa Rica. Nestled in the beautiful natural forest environment, Alya offers a facility designed to heal, cleans and rejuvenate. Our environment honors your intention.

Enjoy simplicity and kindness, the Pura Vida (Pure Living) lifestyle, and take a break from the stresses of modern living. Reconnect with the sacred within.

Rustic wooden cabin interior with forest view.

SAN LUÍS DE MONTEVERDE
COSTA RICA

The Finca Camino Nuevo Retreat Center is a healing sanctuary hugged by the mountains of Monteverde with a sweeping view to the sea. Here your body and soul will be rejuvenated, nourished and supported.