A Plant Medicine Retreat for Deep Heart Healing
April 10–18, 2026 · Santa Elena, Costa Rica
A combination Sacred Plant portal and heart-healing immersion, designed to help every participant dissolve emotional barriers and return to love, softness, and soulful connection. Come rediscover your heart in the most magical setting, guided by Kat Courtney, a woman with 20 years of experience in the Shipibo-Conibo lineage, alongside a gifted team of trauma-informed facilitators and indigenous-trained healers.
Working with sacred plants like Ayahuasca opens pathways far beyond the mind, dissolving the defenses and emotional barriers that keep us guarded, tense, or disconnected from love. With intention, humility, and the willingness to be an open vessel, this process awakens extraordinary healing within the heart. Whether you’re grieving, longing for connection, feeling shut down, or simply ready to rediscover joy and softness, Mother Vine and her heart-centered sisters — Bobinsana, Rose, and Cacao — offer profound medicine for emotional restoration. This one-of-a-kind retreat weaves the deep teachings of these plants with the compassionate guidance of Kat Courtney, a ceremonial veteran of 20 years in the Shipibo-Conibo lineage, and a gifted team of indigenous-trained, trauma-informed facilitators.
We all carry a tender inner heart, one that longs to feel safe, open, and connected. Heart healing isn’t about perfection or spiritual bypassing. It’s about returning to your truth, softening the protective layers, and letting your natural warmth come back online. In this immersive retreat, we will use the teachings from each ceremony to gently unravel the places that have been hardened by life. Through guided rituals, embodiment practices, integration circles, fire ceremonies, and nature-based healing, you will learn to listen to the heart’s intelligence and allow it to speak again. This is an opportunity to integrate the medicine deeply, release stored emotions, and remember the love that has always lived within you.
This retreat includes 3 Ayahuasca ceremonies, 1 Bobinsana ceremony, 1 Rose ceremony, 1 Cacao ceremony, a traditional Temazcal, waterfall walks, heart-opening teachings, and daily integration. We offer a balanced mix of ceremony, emotional processing, rest, and nature immersion. This experience honors the tender healer inside each of us; it’s not about being spiritually advanced or emotionally perfect, but about reconnecting to authenticity, vulnerability, and resonance. If you’re longing to drop out of your head, into your body, and back into the heart’s truth, this retreat was made for you.
Your journey includes full preparation support and four weeks of integration after you return home. We will walk with you in community as you reintegrate the teachings into your daily rhythm and relationships, grounding this healing into your life.
All PMP retreats are dedicated to safety and intentional care. This adventure features six powerful heart-centered ceremonies, daily Rapéh offerings, a traditional Temazcal, a tree-planting ritual to honor the land, guided nature walks, and deep integration spaces. We create a beautifully safe and nurturing container so you can fully surrender, explore the depths of your heart, and experience profound emotional and spiritual healing.
Testimony From a Past Participant:
Testimonials
Here are a few actual testimonials from previous retreat guests. To see a complete list of verified reviews, go here.
This retreat was everything I hoped for and more! From the amazing staff and accommodations to the absolute dream team for sacred plant ceremonies! I am blown away by the way PMP holds their ceremonies! So much love, safety, integrity, magic! By far the best group of people I have sat with. I am beyond grateful for this experience, for the magic of the plants, for the plants, the safely held container, the new friends/family, and ALL of the healing and lessons I get to take with me. PS don’t skip the Temezcal it was an amazing experience as well 💗 Everything was so well thought out and put together and I’m already planning when I can come be with this beautiful group of people again! Gracias 🙏
- Lacey B, July 2024 Participant
Absolutely off the charts! The accommodations and facility was above and beyond what I expected. Everything was exceptionally clean and the food was phenomenal. The location was also stellar with what it provides and its beauty. This is second to the All-Star team of space holders for the retreat. Each one of them is an exceptional human with expert skill sets. I would return in a second. Highly, highly recommended!
- Aaron R, July 2024 Participant
What to Expect at This Retreat:
Ceremonies will be facilitated by Plant Medicine People Co-Founder Kat Courtney, who trained for a decade in the Shipibo-Conibo tradition. Kat has been leading ceremonies for over a decade, has more than 20 years of experience, and has completed over four years of Master Plant Dietas. All PMP retreats are fully focused on safety, integrity, and the creation of a beautifully held healing container. This heart-centered adventure includes 3 deep Ayahuasca ceremonies, a profoundly softening Bobinsana ceremony, a tender Rose ritual, a joyful Cacao ceremony, waterfall walks, daily integration circles, guided heart-healing practices, a traditional Temazcal, and a tree-planting ceremony to give back to the land. We create a truly safe and nurturing environment so you can open, soften, and explore the emotional and spiritual layers of your heart with full support.
The retreat price is all-inclusive outside of air travel and a single night accommodation at a hotel in San Jose our first night of the adventure (plus in-person cash fee for medicines). Participants will fly into San José, Costa Rica on April 10th, and will spend the night grounding and resting. On the morning of April 11th, a luxury shuttle will transport the entire group to our retreat sanctuary. We will also provide transportation back to the San José airport on the final day of the retreat, April 18th. Please do not book your plane travel until after your application has been accepted.
The schedule of events is:
Restaurant at the resort
Day 1 - April 10th - All participants will arrive at any time that is convenient into the San Jose, Costa Rica airport (SJO). You'll procure your own transportation (cabs are inexpensive) to a local hotel; we will reserve a discounted block of rooms and share the location with each participant. Everyone is encouraged to get a good night's sleep, as the shuttle leaves at 8 am the next morning from the hotel.
Day 2 - April 11th - The shuttle will leave the hotel at 8 am with all participants - it's about a 3.5 hour drive to our gorgeous sanctuary. Upon arrival, everyone will check in and receive a tour of the retreat, as well as access to their assigned tents. We will then have a light, nutritious lunch, and gather together for our opening talking circle. We'll get to know each other, discuss the format of the retreat, meet our Maestros/Maestras, and connect with the land, asking for permission to do our sacred work.
Day 3 - April 12th - After breakfast, the first Temazcal ceremony is offered for group 1, while group 2 will take a walk to a nearby waterfall. We will enjoy lunch, and then connect as a tribe to prepare for the first Aya ceremony, which happens later in the evening. After the ceremony circle is closed, we will light a spirit fire and invite folks to end the night in the vibration of this magical element.
Day 4 - April 13th - After breakfast, we will offer heavenly flower baths, working with our intentions and connecting with the land. We’ll then have our first workshop with Bobinsana, focused on healing the pain in our hearts around how the world is not what we expected it to be. We will also work to cultivate more self love and compassion. After dinner, we’ll come together for an integration circle, then get a good night’s sleep.
Day 5 - April 14th - The second Temazcal and waterfall walk is offered after breakfast, and then later in the afternoon, we will have personal interviews in preparation for the second Aya ceremony, scheduled for the evening.
Day 6 - April 15th - After breakfast and morning flower baths, we’ll have a lovely lunch, and then we will have an integration circle and give more language to the magic that is transpiring. We'll have more personal interviews, and dive into the third and finally ceremony with Aya that evening.
Day 7 - April 16th - Breakfast, morning flower baths, and time for rest will begin our day, and then after lunch, we will have a glorious heart-healing ceremonial workshop with Queen Rose. This experience will focus on honoring and healing past relationship wounds with friends and family. We'll have a nourishing dinner, an integration gathering in the evening, and a good night's rest.
Day 8 - April 17th - On our last day as a family; we will have a celebration with Mama Cacao - a magical heart-opening experience to complete our sacred time together. Then we will give back to the land in a beautiful tree planting ceremony. We’ll have a delicious celebratory dinner that night, and a fire ceremony as a grand send off!
Day 9 - April 18th - After a final breakfast and a chance to honor the incredible retreat staff, we will hop on a shuttle back to the San Jose airport. We encourage everyone to book flights home no earlier than 2:30 pm local time to ensure plenty of time to make our flights. For those that want to explore Costa Rica further, we are happy to offer suggestions and assist with transportation.
More About Our Glorious Home for This Adventure:
This will all take place at a positively luminous retreat in the hills of Costa Rica. The resort includes:
Single or Double occupancy rooms
WiFi
Excellent cell reception
Beautiful indoor/outdoor dining area
Ceremonial Maloka for all gatherings
Deck chairs to enjoy the views
Hammocks
Nearby river and waterfalls
On property sweat lodge facility
Fire pit for night time gatherings
Lots of hiking paths and nature walks
3 delicious organic meals a day
Organic high thread sheets and bath towels
Purified drinking water, smoothies, coconut water, and other tasty treats
Land that will take your breath away
Transportation and What’s Included:
All participants will fly to San Jose, Costa Rica airport - you will then travel by taxi or hired / rented car to a nearby hotel to rest and ground in the first night at a hotel we’ve reserved with discounted rooms
At 730 am on Day 2, a shuttle will transport all participants to the retreat from San Jose.
7 nights and 8 days accommodation in single or double occupancy rooms. Couples and friends welcome, as are solo travelers. Each room will have just 1-2 people, so if you are flying solo we will happily connect you with a like-minded and wonderful roommate if you don’t want a private room.
3 Aya ceremonies, 1 Bobinsana ceremony, 1 Rose ceremony, 1 Cacao ceremony, daily talking circles, flower baths, sweat lodge ceremony/temazcal, multiple offerings for Rapéh, and many other adventures.
The price includes a 30 minute preparation call and 4 small group integration calls after the retreat.
Lots of time for rest, play, and connection with the land.
2-3 organic, local meals from a highly rated international chef
What Makes This Retreat Special:
Authentic and Experienced Leadership – The Plant Medicine People team will guide this deeply heart-centered journey, led by Kat Courtney (medicine name Oshgu Mishy), a Western woman trained for a decade in the Shipibo-Conibo lineage with over 20 years of ceremonial experience. Kat is supported by a gifted team of compassionate, trauma-informed, and indigenous-trained facilitators who hold a profoundly safe and nurturing space for emotional healing.
Intimacy - We have a maximum of 30 participants; enough to make some lifelong friendships, but a small enough container to feel seen, safe, and supported. 5 PMP Staff members will be on hand to take care of the tribe.
Personal Connection - Everyone who comes will get a one on one connection with the facilitators. In many other ceremony cycles, sitters have very little opportunity to connect with the people that lead ceremonies in a personal way, and yet that is one of the core elements that helps people feel safe. There will also be lots of opportunities to ask questions and connect with the practitioners throughout the retreat.
Menstruating Women Welcome - Many retreats and ceremony circles forbid women on their moons, but the PMP team understand how to work with these energies. Women in all phases of their cycle are most welcome.
Safety - All participants discuss health and medication concerns prior to the retreat so as to ensure body, mind and spirit are ready for the adventure. The team assembled are also well trained to help folks through difficult processes, and everyone will have the support they need. Safety is our number one priority.
Preparation and Integration - The price also includes a 30 minute preparation call and four 60 minute small group integration calls with one of our trusted team members so that you have the support you need before and after the adventure. For those that need one on one support after the experience, that will be available as needed too.
Location - Completely private, lush landscaping, stunning/sweeping views, and the most attentive, heart-connected staff you will ever encounter!
Cost and Registration:
All inclusive cost is $3,450 for a double room, and $4,550 for a private room (does not include airfare nor the first night accommodation in San Jose), plus $250 cash in-person for Medicines (covers all medicines for the entire week). Price valid UNTIL February 20, 2026.
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