Step into your fullest potential. 

Healing Ourselves, Healing Nature is a 10-day, 9-night adventure in reconciling and deepening our relationship with Mother Earth.

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.

Our stories of separation from nature and each other are the seeds of the global challenges we face. Creating a compassionate culture of belonging from which to change the world is a crucial part of global healing. 

This revolutionary eco retreat is guided by three questions: 

• What is the nature of embodiment and interdependence?
• How can we promote belonging?
• Why is personal growth and renewal a vital dimension of flourishing and wise environmental stewardship? 

Together we delve into the dynamic interdependence of self, community, and Mother Earth, framed within a larger conversation about sustainability, equity, and well-being. 

Along our journey, we build community, practice mindfulness meditation techniques, explore embodiment practices and ecstatic dance, ceremony, enjoy tea ritual and expressive arts, engage in vibrant discussion, and rest. The living land is our central teacher.

We guide participants through three phases that correspond to some of the key factors involved in flourishing such as gratitude, belonging, awareness, insight, expression, resilience, purpose and action. Along the way, we foster skills that help us be present to and work with climate anxiety, grief, fear, anger, shame, and guilt. 

• Develop and enhance lasting connection to 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 inclusivity, and build 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.

Program Includes

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

Land transportation

3 nourishing, organic, locally-sourced vegetarian meals daily

Daily meditations

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

Excusions and mindful hikes

Downtime for rest and reflection

Integration opportunities post-retreat

Optional Add-ons

Watsu water therapy

Craniosacral therapy

Massage

More information about our program is available on our website. 

“The healing of our bodies and minds must go together with the healing of the Earth.” –Thich Nhat Hanh, Love Letter to the Earth

“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, Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace

“[T]o know oneself you must first know the earth.” ­– Gregory Cajete, Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence

“There’s a revolution that needs to happen and it starts from inside each one of us.” ­ –Thich Nhat Hanh, Paris 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference

“Delving into stillness, we might discover that the pathways to sustained individual, collective, and planetary well-being are intrinsically interlinked.” – Christine Wamsler, “What the Mind has to do with the Climate Crisis”