Join us for nine nourishing and soulful days in the jungle as we close out 2023 and welcome in the new year with creativity, music, time spent connecting to nature, yoga, ritual, community and space for our spirits to feel fully expressed.
This will be our third year offering this retreat. As we collectively continue to navigate a rapidly changing and complex world - and step into the inquiry of our own evolving role within it - we have created this week with the intention of offering space to be inspired, to remember the medicine of joy, to make room for deeper wisdom and self-discovery to come through, to spark new and meaningful connections, and to quiet our minds enough to experience the profound guidance that comes from being with and listening to the voice of nature.
ACTIVATING THE VOICE
This retreat is inspired by the “Activating the Voice” online course—a personal, artistic, and ancestral exploration that helps individuals connect to an embodied and empowered relationship with their voice through the medicine of music and singing.
This course is grounded in the chakra system and each day of the retreat is inspired by one of the seven chakras, and we offer daily voice activation workshops.
*All activities are optional and we invite everyone to honor their inner guidance if you feel like opting out of any activities.
You do not need to be a singer or have any experience in singing or a sense of musicality - these practices are just as valuable for anyone interested in feeling more confident and connected to their voice in everyday communication and creative endeavors.
The location of the retreat is itself a very vocal field, with many animals making noises and singing. Birds, cicadas, and frogs are some of the louder voices.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Daily yoga with Yoga Teacher Claudia Gallo
Edible garden and permaculture tour
Soundbath with Doe Paoro & Friends
Temazcal Ceremony (traditional sweat lodge) with facilitation from Somos Flor de la Vida
Cacao ceremony with local, small-batch Two Monkeys Cacao
Breathwork
New Years Eve Festivities!
Daily voice activation, chanting and medicine song sessions
Workshops with Brave Earth founders
Song and fire circles with drumming
Stargazing
Year-Naming Ceremony for 2024
Day trip to healing hot springs in La Fortuna
Waterfall visit with rainforest hike
Hot river soak
Fuerza de Amor Community Day
BRAVE EARTH
Brave Earth, Center for Applied Cultural Transition, is a living laboratory rooted in principles of regeneration, resiliency and reciprocity. We provide immersive experiences in Nature that share alternative ways of living and being that are suitable for modernity and contextually relevant for the rapidly changing world we live in.
Immerse yourself in the majesty and mystery of the rainforest. Brave Earth is located between San Ramon and La Fortuna, nestled in between Arenal Volcano and the Children’s Eternal Rainforest, the largest reserve of protected wildlife in Costa Rica.
As a living lab, we have experimented with different building modalities using AirCrete and materials sourced on the land including bamboo and adobe. We have implemented biophilic design, closed-loop systems and permaculture design principles. Ornamental, food, and medicinal gardens surround the center as well as hiking trials to a nearby river, and a natural swimming pond.