It all starts with environment. The exact location of our experience will remain confidential until booking, by request of the local community, who want it to remain as magically raw and infrequently travelled as it is today. While we have explored some extraordinary corners of the globe, we’ve never experienced a place quite as magnetic as this enclave in Costa Rica. You experience a visceral slowing of your breath and heart rate and a deep clarity while there. It’s isolated, embedded in some of the more pristine wilderness you’ll find, and filled with many more four legged creatures than two legged ones. We’ll stay in an open air eco-lodge there to soak in the sea, fresh air, and star-filled sky fully. More detail can be provided on location via private message. Equally important are the practices we’ve planned to help you find, light, and fuel your inner fire. Each day will include a combination of yoga, meditation, pilates, and surf, with delicious, high-nutrient meals crafted from local produce to keep you fueled. We will also offer sessions to help guide and inform your journey to center and expand, including vision boarding, opening and closing intention setting ceremonies, and breathwork. These practices fuse the best of ancient and modern wisdom to help us strip away the noise and busy-ness of day to day life and prepare our bodies and brains for growth. They are also deeply nourishing, fun practices that have helped both Maddy and Katie set their lives on fire—and whatever your path, will help you leave the experience invigorated and smiling.
Equally important are the practices Fit Body Fresh Mind has planned to help you find, light, and fuel your inner fire. Each day will include a combination of yoga, meditation, pilates, and surf, with delicious, high-nutrient meals crafted from local produce to keep you fueled. The retreat will also offer sessions to help guide and inform your journey to the center and expand, including vision boarding, opening and closing intention-setting ceremonies, and breathwork. These practices fuse the best of ancient and modern wisdom to help you strip away the noise and busyness of day-to-day life and prepare your body and brain for growth. They are also deeply nourishing, fun practices that have helped both Maddy and Katie set their lives on fire and whatever your path, will help you leave the experience invigorated and smiling.
Finally, the retreat will curate a diverse, open-minded, high-human + high-octane community for this experience, and are accepting female participants with whom this experience truly resonates. Immersing yourself in an eco-lodge in the jungle and “setting your life on fire” is not for everyone which is perfectly ok! but a community of women excited to experience that journey together makes the journey even richer.
The practices that will serve as the backbone for our day-to-day throughout this experience include yoga, surf, pilates, and meditation.
The word yoga is derived from the Sanskrit root yuj, meaning “to yoke,” or “to unite”. The practice aims to create a union between body, mind, and spirit, as well as between the individual self and universal consciousness. Such a union tends to neutralize the things that keep your inert ego and fear creating a sense of spiritual awakening that allows you to achieve more in body, mind, spirit, and your life at large. The retreat will teach a mix of Vinyasa and Yin yoga to both push and nurture ourselves throughout the experience, all in the beautiful, private yoga shala nestled in the Costa Rica jungle.
As a pursuit, surfing is unique in its symbiosis with nature. It challenges you to feel, see, read the ocean more deeply than ever before, and to appreciate both its playfulness and power. It’s both a wildly fun and wildly humbling experience that pushes your strength, stamina, and balance, builds your mental focus, presence, and calm, and cultivates a primordial connection with nature. Whether you’ve never surfed before or are an expert, the location has access to the perfect surf break for you. And, you’ll be working with seasoned, certified surf coaches to ensure surf is accessible and fun for the full group.
Pilates, initially called “Contrology”, is designed to maximize the control you have over your muscles, starting with your core. Through a series of low-impact, slow and controlled, repetitive movements and stretches, the practice enables you to build long, lean muscles, great posture, and flexibility all key factors that keep your body feeling fantastic and going to work for you day in and day out through your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and beyond.
The human brain tends to want to live in the past, reliving memories both the good and the bad or the future, worrying, imagining, and planning for things that may or may not happen down the road. Meditation trains you to quiet the mind and be instead entirely focused on the only moment you can control right now the present.
The Buddha describes this as a singular path toward “the cessation of suffering”; a modern take you found quite powerful was actually from David Lynch, who said, “The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.” Whether you have a rich meditation practice or have never meditated, and whether the take of a 3000-year-old Eastern spiritual leader or a modern-day filmmaker resonates with you more (or neither!), the guided meditations will make the practice accessible to you. There’s a reason countless humans the world over, spanning thousands of years, have found solace and clarity from this practice, and Fit Body Fresh Mind believes you will as well.
The retreat's local personal chefs take great pride in the rich aromas of Costa Rican culture and prepare each meal from scratch, bringing both culinary education and a rich home cooking legacy to their craft. Each meal is prepared with sensitivity to personal tastes and dietary needs, making sure to add heaping portions of local flair.
Traditional dishes with a culinary twist served with the sounds of the jungle in the background, your meals will be loaded with both nutrients and flavor. All restrictions and preferences provided ahead of time will be accommodated (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, allergies, etc.).
Three meals a day fully included.
The following meals are included:
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Drinks
The following drinks are included:
Water
Coffee
Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
Vegetarian
Vegan
Gluten Free
Other dietary requirements on request
A reservation requires a deposit of 50% of the total price. The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled. The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.
