We are honored to invite you to…
Six days of deep nourishment and restoration in the beautiful lush jungles of Costa Rica. Our days will include somatic movement, craniosacral biodynamics training (the Breath of Life Course, Introductory Level*), delicious meals, nature excursions and hot springs immersions. Together, we will cultivate a safe space to unravel, unwind, and explore the art of embodied presence.
*This course offers a Certificate of Completion for 28 CEU’s through NCBTMB. It does not, however, certify you to become a craniosacral practitioner. Consider this a beautiful beginning, a jumpstart into a lifelong path of cultivation, embodied presence and resonant attunement.
This container has transformed my life forever and is perhaps one of the most precious cultivations I’ve experienced over the past years. These immersions are so profound and truly a favorite.
— Thais, Participant
Brave Earth Retreat Center is a living laboratory for regeneration, devoted to stewardship and service to Life. It is truly a unique space, built sustainably and in harmony with the land, the waters, and the powerful nature surrounding it.
Retreat Center & Temple Space
Every morning we will gather for different somatic practices, allowing our bodies to become more porous, more available, more present.
We will move and allow our energies to awaken and restore vibrancy. This will be followed by two sessions of craniosacral training throughout the day.
Evenings will be spent either relaxing, in simple rituals, sitting with the fire or soaking in the nearby hot springs.
The Flow
Our intention is to invite your inner medicine to be revealed. As the world gets more and more chaotic it is easy to lose contact with our own wisdom. Through the healing practices that we will cultivate together and by emptying and slowing down, you will be able to listen to the medicine that you hold — the medicine that is so needed in these transformational times.
This immersion is open to everyone seeking in the cultivation of their own healing and development.
The Intention
Our Schedule
April 5th
2pm: Arrivals
4pm: Opening Ceremony
6:pm: Opening Dinner
April 6th-9th
8am: Breakfast
9am: Movement + Stillness Practice
10am-1pm: Craniosacral Biodynamics
1pm-3pm: Lunch + Rest (river, pool, rainforest, walks)
3pm-6pm: Craniosacral Biodynamics
6pm: Dinner
7:30: Optional Evening Sessions
April 10th
8am: Breakfast
10am: Closing Circle
1pm: Lunch
2pm: Departures
The food at Brave Earth is as fresh as you can imagine and cooked from the beautiful chefs. It is always a feast for the eyes and deep nourishment for the belly.
You will have the chance to notify us of any dietary restrictions on your application.
Food & Nourishment
Accommodations
FARM LOFT
Facilitators
Koa Kalish
Koa is a healing practitioner, artist, educator and facilitator with fifteen years of extensive training in craniosacral osteopathic medicine, as well as a deep well of learning from indigenous medicine keepers, mystic spiritual leaders, and the initiation of her own healing journeys (including concussion, chronic pain, brain injury and recovery, near-death experience).
She has held her private practice since 2016 and has been teaching internationally since 2021. Humbly guided by the healing forces of nature, she lives and works in devotion to the potency of transformation, trauma integration, and collective liberation.
Koa has been recognized as a natural healer for her unique gifts of tapping into the unseen, working with subtle energies, transmitting divine frequencies, and creating space for true healing to occur. Both her private sessions and group immersions are known to be deeply transformative, restorative, and healing.
Emilia Cianci
Emilia is an Italian-born facilitator, therapist, doula, herbalist and first and foremost human in profound devotion to life. She has been extensively studying different healing modalities and spiritual traditions from both mystical paths and earth-based medicine people. She works both 1:1 in therapeutic sessions with a background in depth psychology, expressive arts therapy dreamwork, trauma and embodiment work and different touch therapies and in group work through workshops and retreats.
She is in reverence of thresholds and holds spaces for ritual and ceremony that often revolve around the theme of death and rebirth. She is also a birth keeper and doula and holds women and couples in the profound rite of passage of becoming parents. Water has been central to her work as an aquatic bodyworker and water doula and often her sessions involve bathing and cleansing rituals with water. Finally she is a gardener and herbalist and uses the medicine of plants to support others in their healing journeys.
All Prices Include
28 CEU's for the introductory level Breath of Life Course
Daily workshops, meditation and somatic practices
Three delicious meals with local products
Access at the natural hot springs for healing and restoration
Accommodation at spectacular center of Brave Earth
Access to magnificent walks in the rainforest jungle surrounding the center
What is Not Included
Flight to Costa Rica (if coming from abroad)
Transportation to the center
FAQ’s
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San Jose, Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO).
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2.5 hours each way.
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Transportation with our preferred driving company costs $160 each way. We can schedule this for you ahead of time once we receive your flight information.
Packages include 6 days + 5 nights of accommodation, course tuition and training, rituals, hot springs excursion, rainforest walks, and all nourishing meals plus snacks each day.
Packages
A Payment Plan of 3 Monthly Payments is available.
Early Bird Rate is available until March 8th, 2024.
A non-refundable deposit of $500 reserves your space.
I keep thinking that if everyone took this class there would be peace on Earth.
— Kimberly
Hard to put into words the complete fullness, wholeness and expansiveness I experienced from taking this course. So inspired by the way Koa transmits these teachings. I am so grateful for her devotion to her students, her care and her communication. She holds the space so beautifully. Highly recommend studying with Koa!
— Amanda
This container has transformed my life forever and is perhaps one of the most precious cultivations I’ve experienced over the past years. These immersions are so profound and truly a favorite.
— Thais