Costa Rica Wellness Retreat: A Dance with Duality

A Dance with Duality is a 6-day, 5-night immersive retreat held at Salvatierra Retreat Center on Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula — one of the world’s rare Blue Zones. This experience is an invitation to step away from the noise of everyday life and reconnect with yourself through embodied practice, nervous-system awareness, and meaningful connection.

Rooted in the exploration of opposites — fire and water, movement and stillness, activation and rest — this retreat does not ask you to choose one side over the other. Instead, it offers space to experience how both can coexist, inform one another, and create balance. Each day is thoughtfully designed to guide participants through energizing practices alongside deeply restorative rituals, supporting regulation, resilience, and integration.

The retreat blends yoga, somatic movement, sound healing, breathwork, meditation, and elemental rituals with time in nature, adventure, and rest. Experiences may include sunrise ocean vinyasa, restorative yin and yoga nidra, sound baths under the stars, ice bath and contrast therapy, guided waterfall meditation, cacao ceremony, and authentic relating circles.

This retreat is open to anyone and everyone, regardless of yoga or meditation experience. All practices are offered with options and invitations rather than expectations, allowing each participant to move at their own pace and honor their own nervous system and inner rhythm.

A Dance with Duality is an experience of return — to the body, to nature, and to the wisdom that lives in the space between effort and ease.