Embodied
Woman
Retreat
Plant Medicine, Ritual & Community in Costa Rica
A sacred gathering for women longing to reconnect with body, earth, spirit, and community through ceremony, music, ritual, and rest.
September 2026 • Nereus Retreat Center • Costa Rica
The Intention
The Embodied Woman is a retreat for women moving through seasons of transformation, grief, awakening, transition, or remembrance.
This is a space for the women who feel deeply.
The women standing at thresholds.
The women longing to soften.
The women craving connection - to themselves, the earth, and one another.
Together, we gather in ceremony, ritual, music, nature, and community.
This retreat is not about fixing yourself or becoming someone else. It is about remembering the wisdom already living within your body.
Held in the lush jungles and beautiful coastline of Costa Rica, this retreat invites you to slow down enough to listen - to your body, your emotions, your intuition, and the living world around you.
There will be space here for grief, joy, laughter, tears, stillness, beauty, rest, and honest connection.
You do not need to arrive perfectly healed.
You are welcome exactly as you are.
Here’s what 2025 retreat participants had to say:
“My experience was one of deep healing: there is wisdom in learning to not only identify the parts within but more importantly how to take action bases steps to move through my discomfort, I loved delving into the inner connection with self and addressing past pain, trauma and tapping into my child like wonder and gratitude towards life. I loved being part of a community full of laughter, silliness, openness and joy. I felt seen, heard, appreciated and trusted on a soulful level.”
“This retreat was phenomenal! The intention, love, and care put into planning was evident throughout. Lauren and Robyn, you both held space so beautifully. There was a strong sense of safety (physical, emotional, and spiritual) in our group sessions and journeys. The location was excellent and added so much to the experience as well. I loved how there was no overbearing interpretation of anyone's experience, from you as facilitators or from others in the group. The tone was set very early on with the zoom meetings, which I feel were essential in creating that dynamic. I appreciated the quiet mornings and encouragement to sit with our journey experience until we could share as a group the next day. These guidelines gave me permission to be with myself and process my experience.”
What’s Included
Throughout the week, we’ll gather in shared experiences designed to support embodiment, connection, emotional expression, and collective healing.
Retreat experiences include:
Multiple medicine ceremonies
Microdose meditation circle
Cacao ceremony
Drum journeys & live flute music
Group processing & community reflection
Fire ceremony
Nature connection practices
Spacious time for rest & integration
Beach time & whale sightings
Three nourishing meals daily
Beautiful coastal accommodations
Optional massage add-ons
This retreat intentionally balances ceremony and depth with spaciousness, beauty, and rest.
Healing does not only happen through intensity. Sometimes it happens through safety, nature, music, and belonging.
Who This Retreat Is For
This retreat may be for you if:
You’re moving through grief, change, or a major life transition
You long for deeper connection with your body and intuition
You crave authentic community with other women
You want space where emotions do not need to be minimized or contained
You feel called toward ritual, ceremony, music, and earth-based healing
You desire both transformation and rest
Anyone who identifies as a woman or nonbinary person is welcome!
The Location: Nereus Retreat Center, Costa Rica
Nestled between the jungle and the ocean, Nereus Retreat Center offers a peaceful, regenerative setting for healing and transformation. With ocean views, open-air gathering spaces, and nourishing meals sourced locally, Nereus is designed to help you return to your natural rhythm.
You'll stay in comfortable, eco-conscious accommodations, enjoy healthy, organic meals, and have ample space for rest, reflection, and reconnection—with yourself and the natural world.
Your Facilitators
We’re Lauren and Robyn - friends, collaborators, and fellow travelers devoted to creating spaces for ritual, embodiment, community, and connection.
This retreat was born from our shared love of plant medicine, music, ceremony, nature, and the healing that becomes possible when women gather authentically together.
Our intention is to create a retreat space that feels grounded, relational, spacious, and deeply human, a space where all emotions are welcome and nothing needs to be performed.
Together, we bring backgrounds in ceremony, astrology, reiki, meditation, music, embodiment practices, and community healing work.
Together, we offer a retreat space that is relational, spacious, and deeply supportive
This retreat is not therapy or intended to be a substitute for therapy.
Dates & Investment
Retreat Dates:
September 5th-12th, 2026
Cost:
$3,000 for private room with shared bath / $3,333 for private room with private bath
Shared room option may be available at lower cost for folk who already know each other. Reach out if you have questions about that!
Includes: Accommodations, meals, group sessions, ceremony, all retreat programming, and airport transfer
Airfare not included.
If you register by June 1st, 2026, you’ll receive $200 off!
Payment plans available.
Ready to Join Us?
Space is limited to preserve the intimacy and depth of this retreat container.
If you feel the call, we invite you to apply.
Schedule a free consultation
Reach out if you have questions about the retreat or want to chat more!
INTENSIVE SESSIONS
Deep immersive healing container (full-day)
Intensives are extended sessions designed for deeper transformation. We may move between astrology, Reiki, parts work, cacao, and integrative dialogue depending on what emerges.
This is a spacious container for working at depth without interruption.
Intensives are designed as immersive, standalone containers. Some people come once during a major life transition, while others may return seasonally when deeper integration or reset is needed.
This session is for you if you want to:
Move through a significant life transition or threshold
Work deeply with multiple layers of your system
Experience integration across body, psyche, and spirit
Have uninterrupted time for unfolding process work
Reprocess trauma and release stuck energy
$1200 for 5-6 hour session, available in person in Portland, Oregon