Pura Vida Collective
Pura Vida Collective
A luxury women's healing & longevity retreat
in Costa Rica's Blue Zone
Sanctuary, science, sisterhood, and the return of the sacred woman underneath.
You have built the career, held the family, kept the promises, and carried what no one saw. You have done the therapy, read the books, optimized the sleep. And somewhere along the way, quietly, politely, completely, you set yourself down and forgot where.
REVIVE is an eight-day luxury women's retreat at our jungle sanctuary on Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula, one of five Blue Zones on Earth. Its purpose is simple: to pick her back up. Sacred ceremony and somatic release. Fire ritual and cold water. Ancient medicine and modern measurement. A circle of women who will not need you to perform a single thing.
Pura Vida Collective is a trauma-informed sacred medicine retreat ecosystem designed to support neuroplasticity, nervous system resilience, emotional repair, relational depth, and profound inner transformation. This January, for the first time, we hold that container for women only: for the woman standing in burnout, midlife, perimenopause or menopause, divorce, grief or an empty nest.
These dates were not arbitrary. They were chosen with intentionality and presence. You arrive under a waxing moon, and every night of your descent the light above the Pacific grows, as you soften, as you open, as you remember. On the evening of January 22, the first full moon of the year reaches its peak over Playa Junquillal: the Wolf Moon, the ancient name for the first full moon of the year. Under her light we gather the way women have always gathered: in circle around the fire, each carrying what is hers, all of it held by the collective, moving and dancing what no longer serves into the flame.
That night, we gather in fire ceremony under her fullness, the culmination of everything the week has opened. What you have carried for decades meets the flame. What remains is yours. The next morning, you leave the way the moon does: full.
Descend · The Arrival. You land, you exhale, and the circle forms. An opening ceremony welcomes you the first evening, and your personal baseline is gently established, so that what changes in you this week will be known, not guessed. The performing stops here.
Burn · The Deepening. The heart of the journey, curated to build day upon day. Ceremonies deepen in intention as the moon grows over the Pacific, and the container breathes with you: a sacred pause midweek for stillness, journaling, and shoreline earthing at the beach, because rest is not a break from the work. It is the work. Somatic practice and integration are woven through every day, and the cold water is always waiting.
Rise · The Wolf Moon. The final days turn toward embodiment: the ocean, the sisterhood, the body fully inhabited. And on the second-to-last night, the culmination the entire week was built toward: powerful energetic activation work, the fire ceremony under the full Wolf Moon, and ecstatic dance beneath her light. You leave the next morning the way the moon does. Full.
Your complete day-by-day itinerary arrives with your private welcome guide.
Every woman's path at REVIVE is her own. But some of what happens here happens between us: in the drum by firelight, in the dance under the Wolf Moon, in being witnessed by women who were strangers a week before.
There is a name for what happens when we gather. Researchers call it collective effervescence: the shared emotion and sense of belonging that can rise when people come together in ritual, rhythm and ceremony, and the feeling of being part of something larger. Modern research is beginning to describe what ceremonial traditions have long understood. You are never asked to become the circle. You are held by it.
The research →
At REVIVE, no two women walk the same medicine path. During the invitation process, in private conversation, we compose your journey together, informed by your history, your intentions, your readiness, and what you are choosing to step into. Some medicines will call to you. Others will wait for another season of your life. Nothing is mandatory; everything is chosen with you.
Four sacred medicine ceremonies anchor the week. You may choose to sit in all four, or fewer; every threshold is yours. The medicines held within this container:
Rapé. Sacred Amazonian snuff, blown in ceremony: a grounding medicine of clarity and presence that stills the mind and opens the breath, opening and decalcifying the third eye to clear a pathway for deeper clarity.
Kambo. The warrior frog medicine of the Amazon: a powerful physical purification honored for centuries as a cleanser of what the body holds, and a reset of vitality.
Bufo. The sacred toad medicine of the Sonoran Desert: the most direct doorway we hold. A brief, complete dissolution into what remains when everything else falls away. Served with the deepest reverence, preparation, and care.
Acacia & Syrian Rue. The Tree of Life medicine of Ancient Egypt, where acacia was used for spiritual initiation. Lost for millennia, this medicine is resurfacing to support the rise of the divine feminine. Her spirit is nurturing and empowering, guiding you gently into the depths of your being toward higher consciousness and the awareness of your own infinite light.
Psilocybin. The teacher mushroom, held for the women whose path calls for its particular gentleness with grief, connection, and the remembering of wonder.
Every ceremony is held by experienced facilitators in a trauma-informed container: medical screening before anything is served, consent at every threshold, sovereignty and autonomy honored. You will never be urged deeper than you choose to go, and you will never go alone.
Full preparation, contraindication & screening details are provided during the invitation process.
Most retreats ask you to trust that something changed. REVIVE shows you. Every woman receives the REVIVE Baseline: a before-and-after portrait of her own biology, woven through the entire arc:
Your baseline: established through advanced diagnostics as your journey begins, so what changes in you can be witnessed in your own biology, not just your own words.
While you are here: the work itself is the work, and measurement is woven discreetly around it: at arrival, in rest and recovery, and through the days of integration. Ceremony space is sacred and kept private, held for presence alone. What shifts in you is read in the quiet moments between, and told in full afterward.
After you return: eight weeks of guided group integration, included for every woman, and a follow-up reading of what shifted, written into your personal Transformation Report.
You will arrive with data. You will journey far beyond it. And you will leave with proof.
Real voices from past REVIVE cohorts, answering plainly: Was it worth it? Were you safe? What changed? We share them without names; the testimonies speak entirely for themselves.
Written reflections from REVIVE alumni, shared with permission
Depth requires safety, and safety is built, not promised. Every REVIVE woman is medically screened before any medicine is composed for her. Every ceremony is trauma-informed, consent-led, and held by facilitators with years in service. Every threshold is yours to cross or decline; your sovereignty and autonomy are honored at every step, from application to integration.
The circle is deliberately small. The pace is deliberately human. And the container does not close when the retreat ends, eight weeks of guided group integration carry you home, because integration is where transformation becomes real. After the ceremonies comes the deeper, intentional work, the part of the path where the gold lives: returning to partners, family, friendships, work, and cities or countries that may not feel the same, the life that did not journey with you, and weaving what shifted into your ordinary days so it takes root instead of fading. That is why the container does not close when the retreat ends.
The complete REVIVE journey, undiluted: every ceremony, the full REVIVE Baseline, every baseline assessment and every longevity measurement offered during the retreat, chef-prepared nourishment, and eight weeks of group integration. Shared sanctuary suite with a sister on the same path.
Request an InvitationEverything in the Shared Suite, with a private room to descend into, and one private integration session with Susan in your first month home.
Request an InvitationThe deepest container we hold, for three women only. The finest private suite. A private preparation session with Susan before you arrive, a private closing session on the final day, six private integration sessions across your twelve weeks home, and a three-month follow-up assessment: proof of your return, written in your own biology.
By Reserve OnlyReserve with a $1,500 deposit · Balance in up to three installments · Final payment January 1 · Flights not included
Questions about safety, legality, ayahuasca and first-time guests are answered on The Medicine.
Eight days and seven nights at our private jungle sanctuary, January 16 to 23, 2027: your suite, chef-prepared meals, round-trip shuttle from Liberia airport (LIR), every ceremony on your individually curated medicine path, somatic release and breathwork, cold water immersion, EMDR, the Wolf Moon fire ceremony, the full REVIVE Baseline and every longevity measurement offered during the retreat, and eight weeks of guided group integration after you return, with your personal Transformation Report. Flights are not included.
Shared Suite $5,999, Private Suite $7,499, and The Phoenix Reserve $9,999 (three places). A $1,500 deposit reserves your place, and the balance can be paid in up to three installments, with final payment due January 1. In every circle, one place is held through the REVIVE Fellowship.
January 16 to 23, 2027, at our private jungle sanctuary above Playa Junquillal in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, inside the Nicoya Peninsula Blue Zone. Fly into Liberia International Airport (LIR). A shuttle to the sanctuary is included, leaving the airport at 3 pm on arrival day, and a return shuttle leaves the sanctuary at 10 am on departure day, so please book your flights to fit those times.
A circle of only eight to ten women, one group at a time, at a private sanctuary with a ceremony shala, waterfall and crystal cave pools, and sanctuary suites steps from Playa Junquillal. Chef-prepared meals, airport transfers, and a facilitation team that holds every woman individually, from the first conversation to eight weeks after she returns home.
No. Your medicine path is decided together in private consultation, after medical and psychological screening, based on your history, your intentions and your readiness. Every threshold is yours to cross or decline, and you will never be urged deeper than you choose to go. More about the medicines →
Yes. Many women come to REVIVE in perimenopause, menopause or the years around them, often alongside burnout or a major life transition. REVIVE offers nervous system restoration, ceremony and integration in a circle of women who understand this season. It is not medical treatment, and we encourage you to keep working with your own physician.
The longevity side of REVIVE. Your personal baseline is gently established when you arrive, measured discreetly through the week, and read again afterward, so what changes in you is known, not guessed. It becomes your personal Transformation Report. We measure and observe; we do not make medical claims. More on the Baseline →
The container does not close when the retreat ends. Eight weeks of guided group integration carry you home, followed by a reading of what shifted in your personal Transformation Report. The Private Suite and The Phoenix Reserve add private integration sessions with Susan.
REVIVE was scheduled so the January Wolf Moon reaches fullness on the retreat's culminating night: the fire ceremony under the full moon, and ecstatic dance beneath her light. Read the Wolf Moon essay →
REVIVE is composed woman by woman. Share who you are and what you're stepping toward; we'll respond personally to begin the conversation, your intentions, your questions, your medicine path, your place.
Before you write a word, a moment to arrive. If it serves you, close your eyes for three breaths, and ask yourself what you are truly ready to set down.
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