Join us in the mountains of Costa Rica for a week-long retreat unlike any other. Where the herd, the land, and ancient healing arts meet -- your Pathway to Peace begins here.

Tucked into 85 acres of rainforest, volcano views, and spring-fed streams, Tula Vida's free-roaming herd of rescue horses are ready to co-facilitate healing in the kind of stillness that makes deep work possible. And this Is deep work: over one week, Gigi Grady and Monica Nagy guide you through highly focused sessions designed to remove blocks to Peace, Forgiveness, Love, and Joy.

This isn't a passive retreat. It's active, guided release, supported by energy work, sound baths, and the healing power of the horses, all held in a landscape built for surrender.

This retreat includes exclusive use of the property for a guided, magical, full-circle experience of surrender, release and healing.

• A clear, guided process for releasing the emotional blocks holding you back.

• Hands-on Reiki and sound healing to fully move stagnant energy out of the body.

• A felt-sense of awareness, intuitiveness and embodiment supported by Tula Vida's herd and 85-acre sanctuary.

• A renewed flow of energy and connection to Peace, Forgiveness, Love, and Joy. 

Nervous System Reset & Felt Sense

• You’re ready to release emotional blocks that keep you stuck.

• You give so much to everyone else that your own well has run dry.

• Your nervous system has been on high alert for so long it feels normal and you are ready to finally exhale – to rest, restore and remember what stillness feels like.

• You want space to actually process what you've been carrying, not just talk around it.

• You're running on empty and craving a felt sense of stillness — not more advice about how to relax.

Heart-Centered Healing & Wholeness

• Old wounds are still quietly shaping your relationships, and you're ready to let the heart heal what the mind wouldn't.

• You're ready for a heart-centered exchange of energy — with the land, the herd, and yourself.

• You're carrying grief, resentment, heartbreak or loss you haven't fully set down.

• You don't have to be in crisis to deserve this — just ready for the energy work to shift something in you.

• You don’t need your spiritual path figured out – just a willingness to be guided.

Emotional Release & Energy Work – Coming Home to Yourself

• You sense specific emotional blocks are standing between you and Peace, Forgiveness, Love, and Joy, and you want them released, not just discussed.

• You yearn to remember who you are underneath the roles, routines, and responsibilities.

• You're ready to trust your own inner wisdom again, instead of seeking answers outside of yourself. 

• You crave active, guided work that gets to the root of what’s holding you back.

• You want to leave lighter than you arrived, carrying only what serves you.

Horses & Land as Co-Facilitators

• You  are drawn to horses and nature as healers, and you’re ready to let the herd guide you toward a felt sense of safety and presence.

• You believe animals can teach us, and you're ready to let the free-roaming herd mirror what's really going on inside you.

• You crave a meaningful connection to nature, the herd and the support of a like-minded community.

• You want exclusive use of 85 acres of rainforest, volcano views, and spring-fed streams as the backdrop for your inner work, not a hotel conference room.

Body, Rhythm & Nourishment

• You're ready for a week where quiet integration time follows every deep-release session, allowing your whole self a well-deserved rest.

• You want your evenings to end with a sunset over three volcanoes and the cloud forest, not a phone screen.

• You enjoy nourishing, home-cooked, locally sourced cuisine where Costa Rican farmers work to restore and regenerate the land.

The Bigger Promise: Surrender = Release = Peace

• You're ready to trade surviving for surrender, allowing for release to open yourself up to peace.

• You've felt a pull toward this kind of energy work for a while now, even if you can't fully explain why. You’ve just felt there was something more.

• Are you ready to choose yourself again? It’s long overdue.

• Treat yourself to a guided, magical full-circle experience.

Your journey begins before you ever set foot in Costa Rica with a Heart-Wall Removal session to clear the protective barrier of trapped emotions that have built up around the heart over the years.

From there, several more sessions target the specific blocks holding you back from: Peace, Forgiveness, Love, and Joy — each identified and released through the Emotion Code and Reiki sessions. In between, you're not just processing — you're integrating horse energy work, sound healing, hiking, yoga, a food garden tour, and a Costa Rican cooking class giving your nervous system time to catch up with the shifts happening underneath.

Here, surrender becomes release, and release becomes peace.

What this process offers:

• Release the root causes behind emotional and physical patterns.

• A quieter mind and a lighter heart as you break free from old trauma, anxiety, and self-sabotage.

• Renew tenderness and compassion in your closest relationships by clearing blocks to connection. 

• Restore mental clarity, focus, and creative flow. 

• Make room for a genuine renewal of Joy, Peace, Forgiveness and optimism to take root.

The Gift of Horse Energy

Horses meet us beyond language, beyond story and directly within the energetic field. They are exquisitely attuned participants, responding to what is genuinely present in the body and nervous system.

The herd supports regulation through relationships, providing a living mirror that reflects our truth without judgment. Their grounded sensitivity creates a field where safety and vitality coexist, allowing long-held patterns to soften organically.

Facilitating alongside horses restores our trust in our primordial instinct, natural timing, and the organic intelligence of our inner oracle that already knows how to move and awaits our arrival with courage.

In the presence of a horse, without words, We remember the truth. 

Away from the sights and sounds of busy human life, we have created an oasis for both humans and horses. Every time we step onto the land we feel the power of the natural world to soothe, nourish and restore us. 

Tula Vida Ranch

Tula Vida Ranch is an 85 acre sanctuary surrounded by 3 volcanos, on the edge of the cloud forest, offering expansive sunset views, and a pristine rainforest, with rivers, springs and ponds - the horses roam freely in this stunning environment where you will find you can breathe more deeply and re-discover your flow.

Accommodation

Our rooms are beautiful and comfortable with a terrace and individual bathrooms.  

The Villas are double rooms with private bathrooms and a stunning terrace. The Horse Manor has private rooms with a shared kitchen/living area and a stunning terrace where the horses may come and join you for your morning coffee. 

Our communal lodge is where we share meals, practice yoga and is a safe, comfortable space to rest. 

Please Note: The Tula Vida property is an alcohol and smoke-free environment.

Nourishment

Meals are home-cooked with love, using fresh local ingredients.  Our water comes from our abundant natural springs and we have air fresh from the trees to breathe - everything is designed to be in harmony with the surroundings and support your mind, body and spirit to rest, re-energize and renew.

Environment

We are 100% off-the-grid with our own solar power and fresh spring water living in harmony with nature while remaining a safe, comfortable human retreat. We even have good internet!

We have planted 1000s of trees and plants already, including a food forest and a nursery for endangered trees, to encourage the forest to regenerate and give wildlife corridors to pass through the neighboring national parks.  It is a true sanctuary for all visitors, which includes shy tapirs, rare bell-birds and plenty of toucans, sloths and monkeys.

We spend a lot of time out on the stunning 85 acre property - with trails, rivers, waterfalls, valleys, primary rainforest and abundant wildlife - truly accessible nature.  

The kind of place where your nervous system starts to settle before you’ve even unpacked.

Herd

Our herd of rescue horses roam freely across the property — you'll see them in the fields, on the trails, sometimes right outside your window. 

An integral part of the Pathway to Peace program, the horses are co-facilitating healing and release for all of the participants.

Tula Vida Foundation is a 501c3 charity registered in the US with a mission to rescue horses in Costa Rica and sponsor people to come for transformational horse experiences and retreats.

A visit to us supports not just yourself but also the natural environment, the rescue horses, the local community who work with us and people without the means to have these kinds of experiences.

Visit the Tula Vida website for more details.

• Accommodation ~ 6 nights at Tula Vida in either a private or shared room on this beautiful ranch

• All meals ~ Home-cooked, nourishing breakfast, lunch & dinner

• Airport Transfers ~ Private group transport to and from Liberia Airport (LIR) at set times (plan to arrive by 2pm & book flights to depart after 1230pm)

• Exclusive Use of the Property ~ 85 acres of trails to explore filled with forests, pastures, rivers & springs & vast volcano valley views

• Emotion Code Energy Healing ~ Multiple individual sessions throughout the entire 7 days designed to remove blocks to Peace, Forgiveness, Love, and Joy

• Reiki ~ A compassionate, heart-centered energy practice that perfectly supports your Emotion Code sessions with balance, relaxation, and inner harmony.  Each session is guided by intention and presence, creating space for gentle healing and transformation

• Sunset Gatherings ~ Gather for a mindful pause to watch the sun sink over the horizon & 3 volcanos

• Sound Baths ~ A wash of sound meant to promote inner calm, release tension, and balance energy centers, helping you unplug and find clarity. It is a passive experience designed to move your focus from the thinking brain to a more relaxed, dream-like state, opening your receptivity for the deeper, more active energy work

• Horse Facilitated Healing, Partnering, Mindfulness, Qi Gong, Sand Play, Art, Mediations and Learning ~ Practice presence, discover authentic connection, a felt sense of safety, power, self-discovery, intuition, relationships, creativity, wellness, harmony, nature ..and much, much more – this is their world

• Garden and Regeneration Project Tour/Food Forest Tour ~ A guided tour of our food forest and garden will show you where your meals come from and how we’re working to restore and regenerate the land. We’ve planted thousands of trees and created wildlife corridors connecting the surrounding national parks. This isn’t a backdrop — it’s a living, growing project, and you’ll get to walk right through the heart of it

• Authentic Costa Rican Cuisine Cooking Class

• Trip Insurance ~ We require that travel insurance is purchased in case of any need to cancel, travel disruption or medical emergencies.

• Tips ~ This is optional but often people want to leave tips for staff and drivers.

Gigi Grady

After three decades of working in corporate America and 14 years of experience as a mediator, Gigi listened to a deep inner calling and transitioned to focus on her work as an Energy Healer.

Gigi offers a highly unique framework centered on multiple areas of energy healing, designed to assist in clearing subconscious blocks associated with limiting beliefs, anxieties, traumas, fears, and imbalances in the body that may be preventing clients from experiencing their full potential for happiness, joy, creativity, love, forgiveness, and peace.

Gigi brings a distinctive combination of insight, knowledge, intuition, compassion, kindness, and energy healing expertise to her work. Combined with her unique vision, business acumen, and strategic skills, each client experience is designed to be empowering, results-oriented, and enjoyable. Gigi works diligently to help clients achieve both their energy healing and broader life objectives.

She is also passionate about helping clients discover and align their unique strengths and talents with what they love to do and feel most passionate about. This process can open the door to exciting, fulfilling, and inspiring personal and professional paths.

Gigi holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and a Doctor of Law degree with an emphasis in Environmental and Public Interest Law. She is also a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach and a Certified Emotion, Body, and Belief Code Practitioner.

Monica Nagy

Monica Nagy is the Managing Director and CEO of Heart-Forward, a nonprofit dedicated to making transformative retreat experiences accessible to all. After 20+ years supporting CEOs in the Napa Valley wine industry, a 2022 journey to the Amazon Rainforest sparked her calling to bring healing and peace to more people.

Monica is certified as a Reiki Practitioner and Sound Healer and is training toward certification in the Quantum Counseling program with the Power of Love Ministry.

Through light touch or hands-off techniques, Reiki promotes deep relaxation and encourages the body’s natural ability to restore balance. Sessions are calming, non-invasive, and ideal for anyone seeking clarity, stress relief, or emotional and energetic support. 

Quantum counseling focuses on the present moment rather than past events. We identify where you want to go and how you will get there. If you have a strong intention to transform and transcend limiting beliefs alongside an intention for deep healing, transmutation and miracles can happen. 

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