Festival Retreat 2022 Costa Rica | Pura Vida Festival Retreat

Alexandra Alden

Creating From What Is
Lean into what is alive in yourself, your community and our environment.

In this workshop Alexandra invites you to lean into what is alive in yourself, your community and our environment.

You'll learn how to tap into your inner knowing to create from a place that aligns with the flow of nature.

Alexandra is a curious being, interested in what it means to be on this ball hurtling through space.

Alexandra has historically gotten paid for her imagination and intellect. She's been lucky enough to work with the likes of IDEO, fuseproject, and various UN Agencies.

However, the more she pushed for change the more she realised change is not an external process.

These days she tunes less into her head and more into her inner sensing of the nature of nature.

Alexandra started entelechy, because she wanted a space to grow this ability with others as we return to interdependence.

To find out more about her work, please follow this link:

www.entelechy.studio
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Dj Bosque

Saturday Night Celebration
Let's gather under the stars for a beautiful Saturday Night Celebration with Dj Bosque.

Dj Bosque was raised in Costa Rica and started his music career in 2016.

He has been a resident artist for the acclaimed and legendary Envision Festival, and his style has a variety of eclectic influences.

Bosque brings a unique blend of many genres, specializing in electronic, funk & bass.
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Brina Stone

Opening, Closing & Cacao Ceremony
Brina will host three ceremonies that will be the bookmarks to frame and guide the transformational journey of our festival.

Brina Stone is a ritualist, artist and witch. She enjoyed a long and established career in the theater, until the beat of the shamanic path became so strong it could no longer be ignored, and she now dedicates herself to supporting healing and transformational processes on the individual and collective level.

She offers rituals, workshops, theater and performance, as well as personal healing sessions and channeling. She listens, feels, and creates. She is grateful, inspired and passionate. And on her best day, she is nothing, the hollow bone to allow the greater work to come through.

Dana Sertel

Jivamukti Yoga & Deep Sounds
In this morning class Dana will guide you through a well rounded Jivamukti Yoga Practice.

We will move through elements of breathing, asana and meditation as well as spiritual or philosophical teachings.

Energising for the body, refreshing for the mind and softening for the heart, we move from breath to breath so you can adjust the intensity of this body ritual at your own preference.

Dana will also assist you in your practice through hands-on assists, if you give consent for this. All levels of experience welcome! If you have a mat bring it. If not bring a towel.

Dana Sertel is a Berlin based advanced certified Jivamukti Yoga teacher. She practises and teaches daily - in Berlin or internationally. After having worked several years in the Berlin Startup Scene she decided to take her learnings and move on towards a more heart-centred life.
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Her ability to connect with all kinds of people makes it easy for her to offer relatable teachings - for all lifestyles. Her classes always come with carefully curated music and a deep experience of the Body-Mind-Soul relationship.
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To find out more about her work, follow this link:
www.danasertel.com

Duddha & Mâhfoud

Live Music Jam & Singing
Step into the groove on Friday night at our live music jam & singing with the magnificent duo Duddha & Mâhfoud.

Blending afro-brazilian sounds, soul, and jazz, Duddha adds color to life through uplifting and wholesome music.

Mâhfoud is a composer, producer, and musical multi instrumentalist who aspires to pull you into the present moment and get in touch with your real self, bringing together elements of neoclassical, electronic and folk music.

Listen to their music here:

www.soundcloud.com/mahfoudmusic‍

Fern Olivia

Sound Healing & Bonfire Chillout
After our dance, take a journey that blends deep shamanic vocals and sound medicine.

Take a journey with Lester Seal and Fern Olivia blending deep shamanic vocals and sound medicine featuring instruments from around the world, including Shruti from India, Crystal Bowls, Shamanic Drum, Kalimba, and more.

Fern Olivia is passionate about the power of sound healing and medicine music, sacred plant ceremonies, and intentional, sustainable lifestyle. A former Wall Street Exec in her past life, now has been living in Costa Rica for over 4 years and has been stewarding land in an Organic Fruit Farm in Santa Teresa where she is building community and working with Indigenous tribes and native wisdom keepers to weave in the Ancient Practices to preserve Mother Earth.

Fern Olivia is deeply passionate about being a “Conscious Real Estate Matchmaker” helping intentional soul-led investors and Earth Guardians to find their most aligned home in Costa Rica, with a focus on sustainability and regenerative community values.
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She also works with the energy of sacred plant medicine, tantric practices and shamanic healing arts to offer women and men the remembrance of their own sovereignty, freedom and intuitive wisdom. Fern is a multi-dimensional oracle trained in a multitude of spiritual and holistic healing modalities including Sound Therapy, Rebirthing Breathwork, Vinyasa and Kundalini Yoga, and Akashic Records Channeling.

She currently lives in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica, where she offers sound journeys, retreats and ceremonies for intimate groups and venues. She loves weaving with musicians and artists to co-create extraordinary multi-dimensional experiences.
She is eternally grateful that her soul called her to Costa Rica in August 2017 and has been here spreading love since - and each day has been following her passion to serve and protect this precious home and share it with all who feel called to join her.

Gerjet Efken

Awakening Breathwork
‍Join Gerjet for a morning practice that induces deep inner peace, clarity, happiness and joy.

Breath is the link between consciousness, physical, emotional, and mental well-being. This holotropic breathwork-based technique can eliminate cellular debris and toxins responsible for the patterns we create and live by. We’ll release stress, pain, grief and trauma – all root causes of illness and disease.

You’ll enter a meditative state quickly where you can quiet the mind and receive massive amounts of clarity and guidance.

Side effects include: self love, more loving relationships, deep inner peace, confidence, creativity, feelings of happiness and joy, internal awakening, and expanded states of consciousness.

Gerjet is a social entrepreneur, sports fanatic, yoga and meditation teacher and breathwork facilitator. His purpose is to provoke individuals and organizations to consciously live up to their true potential while effortlessly enjoying the process.

Jonathan Klodt / Seagull

Finding Your Allies: Visionary Speed Dating and Meaningful Connection
‍Join Jonathan for a deep and fun journey!

Get to know your best friends that you don't know, yet! If you can achieve your dream by yourself, you're not dreaming big enough!

This workshop will synchronistically connect you with exactly the right people to bring your vision to life and create a first impression, that will be the basis of a journey you will want to tell your grandchildren about.

Grand Rising Dance

Guiding us into a glorious morning dance, Jonathan Seagull will weave a carpet of powerful tracks that will support us to awaken our bodies, catalyze our emotions, integrate our experience from the previous day and align our intentions for the finale of the festival. You are free to express yourself through movement, dance, breath, sound, silence and consensual touch to create a reference experience of who are and want to be this day.

Drawing from a wide range of musical genres and styles, Jonathan Seagull channels eclectic sound journeys that invite the audience into an experiential unfolding. He guides them into weaving their own emotional narratives by paying particular attention to the dramaturgy of the composition and thereby inviting an individual expression of the experience through dance and movement.Mostly habitating in downbeat to ecstatic dance territories, his repertoire reaches as well into the depths of dark techno and deep house - yet always crafting his sets with soulful depth and intention. One of his specialties are sets for temple nights and eros affirmative spaces.

Throughout his professional life Jonathan has been bridging the business world with alternative ways of living. Before graduating from business school he lived in a co-living community with people with disabilities in Canada. After quitting his first company he moved to an ecovillage and worked for the Global Ecovillage Network.

10 years ago Jonathan co-founded Leadership³, pioneering the field of self-organization and new work before it was something every big corporation has in their marketing brochures.

He recently moved to Costa Rica to create pathways towards communal living and new paradigms of local development. One day, these seeds might offer solutions to global challenges and prepare for the massive changes ahead of us.

Lennart Hennig

From Vision to Reality: Through Transformative Leadership towards Deep Ecology
Connect through your somatic intelligence and develop a more profound relationship with the ecology of our planet.

There is a subtle red thread that connects somatic intelligence, our instincts, emotions, traumas, shadows and the collective developmental journey of humanity towards a profound relationship with the whole living ecology of this planet. This thread is leadership. We are going to look at it from different angles and dive into an experience to actually feel it in our body!

Lennart is a growth, intimacy, and leadership coach. He explores the edges of personal and cultural development through the angles of consciousness, embodiment, safety, trauma, and co-creativity under his coaching brand PSOAS using an integral framework of the kosmos. His deepest inquiry is the potential we tap into when we begin accepting and integrating every part of our being, embracing our full human experience and walking towards a state of wholeness and authenticity.

Lennart is particularly intrigued by the alchemical potential our collective and individual wounding and shadows hold for us, when we start honoring the darkness as a place of growth and rebirth, and how we can step into a dialectical relationship towards more truth instead of polarization when we take responsibility for an internally regulated somatic sense of safety.Bringing the principles of liberation, love, and leadership to individuals, families and organizations wanting to live from their true purpose is at the core of his work.

Marion Bott

Dream your Purpose into Being
Get a clear vision of your purpose through guided dreaming and automatic writing.

Through guided dreaming and automatic writing we will call forth the higher selves and their true messages for each and every participant. This workshop will support you in getting a clear vision of your purpose as well as enable you to receive guidance on the very next step.

Learn to use the exercises on a daily basis to gain more and more clarity!

Marion is a French-German author, performer and dreamcoach. Since 2017 she hosts creative dream circles, and performance workshops all over the world. She combines the embodiment of dream wisdom with entertainment.

Marion is currently writing her new book "Becoming the mother I wish I had" and is producing her new show. Both explore female archetypes throughout time, and care to create new ones for the next generations.

Ocean / Martin Ebeling

Awakening the Hero in You: Discovering Your Full Potential
Creating a container for self-reflection, in this workshop we will safely explore our heoric potential in connection with others.

We'll use a range of journaling and embodiment exercises to sharpen our vision, strengthen our resolve and move forward with confidence.

Ocean is a philosopher, co-founder of Pura Vida Festival and heads the business program of The School of Life Berlin bringing emotional intelligence to organizations.

Currently, he mainly thinks about co-flourishing as the deepest form of human happiness: How might we flourish in community with others, supporting one another along the way, holding space for authentic expressions of being and growing together? With an eye on scientific inquiry and another on human practice, he trains his third eye on the spiritual realm.

Rachel Rickards

Journeying Together: Tools for Growth in Connection
Experience heartfelt magic, ecstatic tenderness and empowering wildness.

Join Embodied Intimacy as we move into connection guided by the wisdom of your body, catapulted straight into the gigantic heart-field of what it means to truly be, together.

This workshop will focus on generating ecstatic tenderness and empowering wildness, innocent playfulness and heartfelt magic in a timeless, creative field of permission, exploration and play In this simple, yet profound relational intimacy practice we will use breath, sound, movement and touch to melt the walls of aloneness and and move together with a healthy dose of oxytocin.

As a result of fueling up on this depth of connection, you will notice a natural shift back into the festival from a place of abundance and ease. A new world of possibility opens up when we slow down enough to move at the speed of love.

Together we are utilizing the simple gift of nervous system awareness and incorporating co-regulation by weaving a Tantric field of embodied ecstasy and delightful presence.From this space of inner and outer connection we learn how to live from the wisdom of our bodies and heart, instead of the worry of our minds.

Rachel Rickards is an adventurous spirit in the realms of love, sex and relationship. Her natural exuberance gives permission to others to explore their authentic selves in uncharted territory. Enthusiast by nature, she is gifted with a never ending energy for transformational work and the ease of play.

Rachel is a group facilitator extraordinaire, event producer and intimacy catalyst. In 2014 she co-founded Embodied Intimacy, a thriving community of people interested in building relational intelligence through hands-on relating and experience-based education.

Rachel also brings a passion for alternative relationships by helping people find their truth in the way they want to love and be loved. She has been featured on ABC’s Nightline, as well as on a cutting edge, hit “docu-soap” on Showtime, and in 2018 she was selected to be part of Tamera’s Global Love School. Rachel absolutely loves creating group heart fields through synchronized nervous system regulation and activation.

To learn more, please follow this link: www.embodiedintimacy.com