Small. Slow. In Costa Rica and Ikaria — two places on the planet that already know how to help women live longer. This is where the protocol becomes a body again, and where the women who have done the work meet what they have been preparing for.
The retreat roadmap
A layered, intentional opening.
Retreats are the embodied apex of HER PRISM™. They open in layers — alumni first, then the broader circle of women professionals navigating the same midlife transition. The methodology stays the same. The room widens slowly.
Spring 2027
Costa Rica · alumni-first
The first retreat. Reserved for Cohort 1 graduates of Feel You Again™. Eight women. The Nicoya Peninsula. Restoration as the spine.
2028
Costa Rica & Ikaria · expanded
Two retreats. Open to Cohort 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 in every cohort — usually around Week 10 — when a woman writes to say something has shifted 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. And then she asks the same question every single time.
"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 — the part that needs a different ocean, a different kitchen, a different sky, and a small group of women who already know what you have been carrying. Five or six days where the nervous system stops bracing because the environment finally stops asking it to.
This is a natural and intentional embodiment experience — the embodied apex 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 things only happen when the room changes.
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.
Our Costa Rica retreat lives there for a reason. The Nicoya rhythm is, in effect, an externalized version of what HER PRISM™ is teaching the nervous system to do internally. You arrive into a place that is already doing the work; your job is to let your body remember it.
Theme. Restoration, sleep architecture, sun-soil-sea, and the felt sense of 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 layer — the question of what to actually do with the rest of their life now that the body is back online.
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. Four to five days. Twelve women. The Nicoya Peninsula. A small enough container that the room knows every voice 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 what the place actually grows. Conversation that doesn't 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 retreat opens in layers. The first retreat is for women in medicine who have done the program. Future retreats expand to women professionals more broadly — the methodology stays the same; the room widens slowly.
Year 1 — Cohort graduates first
Costa Rica 2027 is reserved for women who have completed Cohort 1 of Feel You Again™. The container 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 science is universal. The room can be too.
Always — ready to slow down for real
Five days of slow only works if you arrive prepared to actually be slow. 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. The retreat trusts you. That is part of what it gives back to you.
Express interest
The first Costa Rica retreat is forming.
Dates, lodging, and investment are being held while Cohort 1 of Feel You Again™ completes. Cohort 1 graduates have first invitation; the 2028 retreats open to women professionals more broadly. Leave your name to receive the long-form letter when the waitlist opens.
No spam. One letter, when there is something real to say.
The retreat is the destination. The cohort is the road there.
Cohort 1 of Feel You Again™ is forming — starting Fall 2026.
