Private Recalibration Retreat
For High-Performing Leaders
A private 5-day reset in Costa Rica for founders and executives seeking more than a getaway — a true realignment of energy, clarity, and direction.
Hosted in Uvita, Costa Rica · Available Year-Round · Fully Customized Experience
A Private, Personalized Reset for Leaders Who Carry a Lot
Our Private Recalibration Retreat is a 5-day immersive experience designed for founders, executives, and creators who are in a season of transition, overwhelm, or reinvention. This is not a group retreat, vacation, or escape; it’s a custom-tailored recalibration for your mind, energy, and direction.
• Step out of the noise
Get distance from the pressure, pace, and constant decision-making that drains clarity.
• Reset your system
Through nature immersion, movement, breath, and structured stillness, your body and mind return to equilibrium.
• Realign your direction
Work 1:1 with your facilitators to gain clarity on what’s next (personally, professionally, or spiritually).
Everything in your retreat is designed around your specific intentions - whether you need rest, clarity, emotional release, creative renewal, or leadership reorientation. You choose the pace, depth, and focus, and we guide the process.
Choose the Retreat Style That Resonates With You
Every retreat is fully customized, but most guests begin by choosing one of three paths, each offering a different energetic focus and experience.
Path 1: Nature & Adventure Reset
Reconnect with the raw energy of Costa Rica’s jungle and coastline. This path blends waterfall hikes, jungle treks, grounding practices, and outdoor experiences that help you reconnect with your body, courage, and vitality.
Best for:
High-performers who feel disconnected from themselves, overstimulated, or stuck in their heads.
Path 2: Ceremony & Inner Journey
A guided inward experience through meditation, breathwork, somatic release, and optional plant-medicine or sound-healing sessions. Designed for deep emotional clearing, spiritual reconnection, and personal renewal.
Best for:
Leaders navigating transition, emotional buildup, or a need for deeper clarity.
Path 3: Surf & Flow Immersion
Wake with the sun, surf world-class waves, and balance the thrill of movement with recovery practices like yoga, breathwork, and integration sessions. This is a flow-state builder, perfect for recalibrating the mind-body connection.
Best for:
Creators and founders who thrive through movement or are seeking renewed inspiration and flow.
You can follow one path or blend elements from all three. We’ll design your retreat around what you need most.
Pricing starts at $3,000
A Glimpse Into Your 5-Day Personalized Retreat
No two retreats are the same, but here’s an example of how your experience may unfold. Every session, offering, and practice is tailored to your pace, intentions, and depth.
Day 1 – Arrival & Grounding
- 2:00 PM – Arrival & check-in (snacks, fruit + smoothie)
- 3:00 PM – Grounding practice + intention setting & offerings to the land
- 4:00 PM – Gentle movement practice
- 5:00 PM – Early dinner
- 6:00 PM – Blue Lotus tea meditation & sound healing
- 7:00 PM – Rest
Day 2 – Flow & Expansion
- 7:00 AM – Morning practice (yoga, meditation + breathwork)
- 8:30 AM – Breakfast
- 9:30 AM – Secluded beach hike
- 10:30 AM – Beach wellness activity
- 12:00 PM – Lunch
- 1:00 PM – Rest + integration
- 3:00 PM – Personalized spiritual life-coaching session
- 5:00 PM – Dinner
- 6:00 PM – Fire ceremony + songs
- 7:00 PM – Tea ceremony
- 7:30 PM – Rest
Day 3 – Nature & Deep Connection
- 7:00 AM – Head to nature reserve
- 8:00 AM – Plant medicine waterfall hike (optional)
- 12:00 PM – Lunch at a local restaurant
- 2:00 PM – Return home + rest
- 5:00 PM – Dinner
- 6:00 PM – Integration session
Day 4 – Release & Rejuvenation
- 7:00 AM – Morning practice (yoga, meditation, breathwork)
- 8:00 AM – Sauna + cold plunge spa
- 9:30 AM – Breakfast
- 10:30 AM – Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) session
- 12:00 PM – Lunch
- 1:00 PM – Rest
- 3:00 PM – Herbal cleansing bath + journaling
- 4:00 PM – Yin yoga
- 5:00 PM – Dinner
- 6:00 PM – Fire ceremony
- 7:00 PM – Rest
Day 5 – Integration & Departure
- 9:00 AM – Closing ceremony
- 11:00 AM – Brunch
- 12:00 PM – Check-out
Your retreat can be slower, deeper, more adventurous, or more ceremonial. This sample itinerary simply shows the flow, pacing, and intentional structure behind every journey.
Your Sanctuary in the Costa Rican Jungle
Your retreat takes place in the lush Pacific coast jungle of Uvita. A private, quiet sanctuary surrounded by waterfalls, wildlife, and tropical forest. It’s the ideal environment to disconnect from pressure, reconnect with yourself, and experience deep nervous system restoration.
Immersion in Nature
Wake up to the sound of the river, the breeze moving through the trees, and the natural rhythms that support real mental and emotional reset. Here, time slows down. Distractions fade. What actually matters becomes clear.
Designed for Stillness & Clarity
The property offers quiet indoor and outdoor spaces. Perfect for meditation, journaling, coaching sessions, and restorative practices. Whether you're grounding on the yoga deck, exploring the river nearby, or resting in your private room, the environment supports everything you came here to do.
Private, Safe, and Spacious
Unlike group retreats or shared environments, this experience is hosted in a private home set in nature - giving you the space, privacy, and safety needed to go deeper, rest fully, and move at your own pace.
Your Private Accommodation
You’ll stay in a modern, peaceful private room with a queen bed, A/C, and a private bathroom. The home also offers a spacious lounge area, large covered outdoor patio, healing room, fully equipped kitchen, high-speed Wi-Fi, and a pristine river with a private swimming hole just steps away.
Your room and the surrounding spaces are intentionally chosen to support rest, clarity, and deep rejuvenation.
This setting isn’t just the backdrop, it’s an essential part of your recalibration, helping your mind and body settle into a state where real clarity and renewal can happen.
YOUR FACILITATORS
Areli Luz — Mentor & Ceremonialist
Areli is devoted to the rise of the Divine Feminine. She guides women in returning to their essence and reclaiming their inner power through presence, ceremony, and connection with Spirit. Certified in Himalayan Kriya Yoga, EFT, and Spiritual Life Coaching, she blends business and leadership acumen with soulful ritual and intuition. Her values — sisterhood, sustainability, freedom, and integrity — guide her every offering.
James Diesel — Facilitator & Guide
James is a retreat facilitator, RYT, and plant medicine guide based in Costa Rica. With roots in Yogananda ashram practice and studies with the Shipibo lineage, he’s guided hundreds through transformational experiences blending yoga, breathwork, sound healing, and nature immersion. James curates each journey personally — balancing deep rest, exploration, and spiritual expansion to help guests reconnect with purpose, vitality, and presence.
Create Your Own 5-Day Personalized Retreat
Our retreats are offered by private request. Choose your preferred dates, share your intentions, and we’ll design a retreat that meets you exactly where you are — whether you need rest, clarity, emotional release, or a full energetic recalibration.
This is a high-touch, personalized experience. Because of the depth of the work, we host a limited number of private retreats each month.
We’ll connect with you personally to talk through your intentions, logistics, and availability.
Pricing starts at $3,000
What Past Retreat Guests Are Saying
Here are a few reflections from leaders, founders, and creators who’ve experienced this work.
Testimonials from our April, 2025 Retreat
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Testimonials from our February, 2025 Retreat
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Testimonials from our November, 2024 Peru Retreat
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Testimonials from our May, 2024 Retreat
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Testimonials from our February, 2024 Retreat
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Testimonials from our May, 2023 Retreat
Philip Guiliano
James and Areli have created something beautiful and have embraced it with respect and integrity to themselves, the medicine, the tradition, and to the people that they invite into their circle of healing and love. I have worked with medicine in the jungles of Peru, and while there is certainly benefit to having that experience if it calls to you, I hold this experience up to that standard in almost every way. There is calm, peace, love, and true intentionality to the space that they create. This is a place to come and be yourself in every way, to open to the wonders of your journey, of community and the medicine. It is a place to heal, to do the work, and know that you are held. I am forever in gratitude for having found this experience, and for all of the new wrinkles in the sea of endless magical wrinkles that were presented to me through it.
Alexandra Katzer
I’d love to thank the entire team from the bottom of my heart for this fantastic experience. Throughout the retreat, especially during the Plant Medicine ceremonies with Wilder, I felt safe, supported, and in good hands. The singing and musical accompaniment made it very special for me. I enjoyed the sharing circles as they brought another level of insight and made me feel immensely connected to the group. The retreat started with a welcoming and closing ceremony at the waterfall and river, and it couldn’t have been more perfect. I recommend this retreat to anyone ready to get in touch with themselves and get deep insights into their inner world. I’ll cherish this experience for the rest of my life and keep the messages received close to my heart.
Elizabeth I'Anson
A truly unforgettable experience. So happy I trusted the guidance of the Grand Mother and her calling. It felt like we created a family for the few days we were all together. Each person is accepted for where they are in life and who they are. Rooted in tradition and a lot of respect for the medicine. Wilder the Maestro made the experience even more magical with his great power of spirit. His songs along with James, Areli and Emmy supported you in your journey and really helped you to surrender into the healing. This experience changed me in a profound way and as I slowly integrate the teachings, I feel more will be revealed. Grateful for this time I was able to share with the Plant Medicine and the beautifully genuine souls along the way.
Testimonials from our February, 2023 Retreat
Deanna Swaney, former Lonely Planet writer & author
My husband and I attended the Shipibo Journey retreat in Costa Rica from 23 to 26 February, 2023, and I can say without hesitation that it was one of the most significant experiences of our lives. At first, we were hesitant because we are considerably older than any of the other participants, but those concerns were allayed on the first day, when it was clear that we were welcomed with open arms. For the entire time, the atmosphere remained positive, inspiring, full of love, and much like a very happy family gathering. The accommodation was simple but comfortable, surrounded by lush jungle vegetation, wildlife, and even a waterfall pool for cooling off, and the entire team remained accessible and genuinely cared for the concerns of every participant. Jimmy and Areli did a wonderful job setting up the program, Ra's meals were healthy and wholesome, and Michael's Kambo ceremony, as a detox measure prior to the Plant Medicine journeys, was heartfully prepared and administered. Most of all, though, the Peruvian Shipibo Maestro, Wilder, set the tone for the Plant Medicine ceremonies with his beautiful mystical singing and strong spiritual energy, and his assistant, Emmy's hauntingly beautiful voice provided yet another dimension. During the ceremonies themselves, everyone appeared to feel safe, in good hands, and prepared to meet the abuelita on her own terms. Afterward, everyone came away with their own individual experiences of that meeting, as revealed in heartfelt sharing circles on the following days, but it was clear that everyone who participated regarded their own journey as a life-changing event. We certainly did, and do hope that someday we can return to continue the journey, hopefully with Wilder's help, on Mama Plant Medicine's terms.
Emily Baselt, therapist & Costa Rica eco-retreat owner
Soulution's Plant Medicine Ceremony & Nature Immersion was so incredibly profound and transformative for me that it's hard to fully put it into words. A traumatic psychedelic experience a couple years ago had stolen my courage and left me feeling uncertain about myself and my path in life, so I wanted to do the Shipibo journey as a way to reset and settle my nervous system, regain my feeling of spiritual connection, and rediscover my purpose in the context of a responsible & respectful ceremonial environment. I accomplished all that and more during this retreat. By the end of the weekend, I felt like my life finally made sense to me; I have a better understanding of myself, I feel aligned with my purpose, and I found the confidence I need to go out into the world and put all the things I've been dreaming into action. The facilitators did a wonderful job supporting every participant before, during, and after the ceremonies, and they created a safe, sacred space for all of us to share and process our individual experiences. I felt fully supported and genuinely loved by the people in this group, and as a professional spiritual caregiver myself, I will never forget some of the amazing examples I saw of the facilitators holding space and providing authentic care when participants needed it. This was the perfect group and perfect setting for my first Plant Medicine experience. I would absolutely do this experience with Soulution again, and I've already recommended it to several friends.
Important Details
What’s Included
- 4 nights of private eco-luxury accommodation
- 3 organic chef-prepared meals daily
- Yoga, meditation, and breathwork sessions
- Sound healing, cacao & tea ceremonies
- Personalized coaching and integration calls
- Nature hikes and waterfall excursions
- Pre- and post-retreat support
Not included: flights, travel insurance, or optional plant-medicine ceremonies.
Designed for the Purpose-Driven High Performer
This retreat is for founders, executives, investors, and creators who don’t need to ‘get away’ — they’re ready to realign. It’s a space for high-achievers to step back, renew their energy, and reconnect with the deeper purpose behind their success.
Book Your Private Experience
Available by private request — curated for individuals, couples, or small groups. We’ll co-create your personal journey toward renewal, clarity, and soul-level alignment.