Small. Slow. In Costa Rica and Ikaria — two places known for how long and how well their people live. This is where you practice what the program teaches, in person, with women who have done the same work.
The retreat roadmap
A layered, intentional opening.
Retreats are the in-person stage of HER PRISM. They open in stages — alumni first, then, from 2028, women professionals more broadly who are navigating the same midlife transition. The method stays the same.
Spring 2027
Costa Rica · alumni-first
The first retreat. Reserved for graduates of the first Feel You Again™ group. Eight women. The Nicoya Peninsula. Restoration as the foundation.
2028
Costa Rica & Ikaria · expanded
Two retreats. Open to program graduates and to invited women professionals — lawyers, executives, founders, leaders — navigating the same midlife transition.
2029 onward
Two retreat traditions
Feel You Again™ Retreats in Costa Rica — women in medicine. HER Bio-Harmony Retreats in Ikaria — women professionals more broadly.
There is a moment I expect will come, somewhere in the second half of this work, when a woman notices something has shifted that she cannot quite name. She is sleeping again. Her shoulders are not at her ears anymore. She is laughing more often than she expected to. It happened to me. And then comes the question I already know is coming.
"What's next? I don't want to lose this."
The retreat is what's next.
It is the part of the work that cannot be done online: time away from your usual surroundings, with a small group of women who already know what you have been carrying. Five days in which your nervous system can settle, because nothing around you is demanding a response.
The retreat is the in-person stage of HER PRISM. The Method gives you the framework. The Program gives you the structure. The Retreat gives your body the actual evidence that another way of living is possible — because you have just lived it.
⸺ 01Why a retreat, and why these two places
Some changes only happen when you step out of your usual environment.
Costa Rica — Pura Vida
The Nicoya Peninsula is one of the original Blue Zones — one of five places on Earth where women routinely live, well, into their nineties. It is a place built around morning light, slow afternoons, real food, and a culture that does not pathologize rest.
We hold the Costa Rica retreat there for a reason: daily life in Nicoya already follows the habits HER PRISM teaches — morning light, slow afternoons, real food, and rest without apology. You do not have to create those conditions; you only have to take part in them.
Theme. Restoration, sleep, time outdoors, and the sense of having done enough.
Ikaria — The island where people forget to die
Ikaria, in the Aegean, is the other Blue Zone the world knows by name. The longevity there is not because of supplements or protocols. It is because of the structure of the day — late mornings, long meals, walking, gardening, naps that nobody apologizes for, and a community that gathers around the same tables for fifty years.
Ikaria is the second pole of the retreat year. Where Costa Rica is restoration, Ikaria is integration. It is for women who have already done the program, who have already attended Costa Rica, and who are ready for the next question: what to do with the rest of their life now that they feel well again.
Theme. Integration, identity, what you build next, and the long view.
Costa Rica
Ikaria
⸺ 02What the week looks like
Slow on purpose.
The retreat is built around the same neurobiological principles as the program — sleep, nervous-system regulation, real food, intentional movement, and conversations that mean something. The pace is unhurried. The structure is deliberate.
Costa Rica at a glance. Five days. Eight women. The Nicoya Peninsula. Small enough that everyone knows each other by the second morning.
A typical day, loosely held
Mornings. Light, breath, gentle movement, and a long unhurried breakfast. No phones at the table.
Mid-morning. One short, focused teaching block — never more than ninety minutes. Always tied to something the body can practice that day.
Afternoons. Open. Nap, swim, read, walk, write, sit with another woman, sit alone. The afternoon is the work.
Evenings. A long meal cooked from local produce. Honest conversation, with nothing to perform.
Once or twice in the week. A longer ritual — a guided integration session, an evening fire, a solo half-day, a shared writing exercise.
There is no agenda packed wall to wall. There is no optimization. There is no curriculum to finish.
⸺ 03Who this is for
A woman ready to be in her body again.
The first retreat is for women in medicine who have done the program. From 2028, retreats also open to women professionals more broadly, using the same method.
Year 1 — Program graduates first
Costa Rica 2027 is reserved for women who have completed the first Feel You Again™ group. It works because the women in it already share a common language — the methodology, the instruments, the months of preparation that came before.
Year 2+ — women professionals more broadly
From 2028 onward, the retreats open beyond medicine — to lawyers, executives, founders, healthcare leaders, and other high-achieving women navigating midlife transition. The underlying science applies beyond medicine.
Always — ready to slow down for real
Five slow days only work if you arrive ready to slow down. Women who try to bring the calendar with them tend to leave disappointed. Women who let it go tend to leave changed.
⸺ 04A note on what this is not
Not a wellness vacation. Not a conference. Not a workshop.
A weekend at a beautiful resort can soften the nervous system briefly. It does not change anything about the Tuesday morning you fly home into. The HER PRISM retreat is built differently — it is the integration phase of a longer arc of work that began the day you started the program. The slowness is not a perk. It is the active ingredient.
It is also not a teaching conference. The teaching is small. Most of the week is unstructured time in which the women already know what to do because they have been preparing for months.
Express interest
The first Costa Rica retreat is forming.
Dates, lodging, and price will be confirmed while the first Feel You Again™ group completes the program. Graduates of the first group have first invitation; the 2028 retreats open to women professionals more broadly. Leave your name and you will receive a full letter with the details when they are confirmed.
No spam. One letter, when there is something real to say.
