Level 1: 4 Day Retreat Feb 12-15 (check in Feb 11, check out Feb 16)

Level 2: 8 Day Retreat Feb 12-20 (check in Feb 11, check out Feb 21)

In both Level 1 + 2: ALL participants receive a delicious DAILY GROUP DINNER (and all hotel guests receive daily breakfast) on retreat days

ALL Retreat Participants may use the public spaces at the hotel including, pool, hot tub, cold plunge, nature mountain views/walks, hammocks, kitchen and outdoor showers.

$60 shuttles to and from Liberia are available for purchase and are not included in the booking price, but can be arranged in advance.

Morning Surf Lessons are not included, but free Surf boards are available for hotel guests. Lessons can be arranged in advance.

Schedule: (subject to minor changes)

7a -9:30a Breakfast for Hotel Guests

10a - 1p Morning Practice / Q+A

1p - 4p Lunch and Free Time

4:15p - 8p Evening Practice

8p DINNER

Daily Shuttles are provided into Guiones (main beach town) for those who wish to leave the resort during lunch breaks and off days. Online Food delivery is available onto the property, if you do not wish to leave for lunch or on free days.

Immersive Experiences in

Level 1 and 2 include:

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Cacao Ceremony

Intimacy Yoga Practice and Principles

Eye Gazing

Massage

Meditation

Contemplative Lecture & Philosophy

Fire Ceremony

Group & Partnered Bonding Practices

Men’s and Women’s Work

Shadow and Inner Child

Heart Opening

Level 2

T4ntric Rituals

KAP : Shaktipat and Shivapat

Couples Intimacy Practice

Temple Nights

Chakra Puja

Heart Opening

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**Local pricing is available for those who do not need overnight accommodations

NOW IN IT’S 5th YEAR…

Stefanie Marco has over 22 years of practice in these ancient spiritual sciences and sxxual yogas.

SCIENCE HAS PROVEN: TRUTH & LOVE ARE THE MOST POWERFUL FREQUENCIES ON THE PLANET

So many of us can hear this phrase, but only associate it with pain or pleasure, not being ‘hateful’, validation seeking, short sexual stints, bids for affection, lustful swaying of endless dualistic mental cycles, of being good or bad, winning or losing, hot or not, predator or prey. This is what many of us experience as ‘love’.

Distorted patterns of madness, addiction and impulsivity destroy our lives and our loved ones. Maybe you are in a state of defeat or nearly giving up right now. Maybe you have always found love to be a struggle.

What if because love and truth are the most powerful energies on the planet, we actually have to acknowledge that they take some real skills, practices and conditionings to master, if we are going to become skillful?

Similar to going to a gym, learning a martial art or wielding a sword, our bodies, hearts and nervous systems MUST fully adjust, and to get good at training for greater expertise.

What if there’s nothing ‘wrong’ with you whatsoever for not having tools for love, because you were never or barely shown unconditional love? I was exactly where you are, for YEARS.

If love was modeled to you like it was to me growing up, it was a manipulation, even violent, mistrustful, painful, strategic, anxious and transactional interaction based on bending oneself to be pleasing, or shutting down to be protected. Knowing how to love skillfully through these models may allude you. And you are not alone! I’ve spent 22 years curating these practices and putting them to use in my own life. This retreat is now in its 6th installment and 5th year, it has helped hundreds of people, many of whom meet their special person and even return to do this retreat over again and again.

We have all been deeply hurt in love. We have all created behaviors, masks and personas to 'get love'. There is no shame in this, but the game can end here.

The variety of ways we turn away from love, and the escaping mechanisms we create from our lack of consciousness and practiced reactions, often creates the exact environments, circumstances and mindsets that keep love from reaching us and from becoming our natural reality.

Our fears, resentments, masks, validation seeking, grasping and narratives are all armors to prevent our opening in love and allowing it to catch fire for decades instead of fading. Keeping us juvenile not only in sex and love, but in our relationships with money, time, energy, focus and everything we create. The potency of this energy goes way beyond sxx.

The truth is, the presence of real love brings to the surface all of the most unlovable parts of ourselves to be witnessed and healed and given LOVE TO, not shamed.

Maybe you have felt rejected or abandoned in the past and maybe you have already done some or a lot of healing, but turning this healing and spiritual work into deeply nourishing sexual pleasure and hotness!? Well now, that's a WHOLE other story :)

Relating and creating relationships which can consistently retain their passion amidst the ebbs and flows of life take an entirely other skillset!

Your love life can withstand a lifetime with one person and generate more heat with your healing as time passes.

And if you are single, reorienting your mindset and confidence in this way will make you highly discerning and sxxually magnetic. You will not allow just anyone into your sacred love. You will walk with a grounded container in a frequency of warmth and power, instead of leaking energy.

If you are single or in a couple we first begin by practicing self love as the basis of our ability to offer a safe, deep and intimately alive partnership. This is the foundation of every relationship we have.

Those who can't go deep, go wide. Many false teachings, tell us to be polyamorous, move our energy around, play and explore widely and laterally. And while everyone is free to do as they please and we must experiment to know who we are, ultimately this leaking and sucking of empty sxxualized experiences will l take its gloves off and smack you around. I’ve seen it.

This way of interacting with our sexuality is often called Tantra but is actually not Tantra at all. True, mature, love and Tantra teaches us to revere our bodies as sacred, to actually refrain from promiscuity and to devote love to another as a prayer and spiritual path of God consciousness as a way of reaching enlightenment. It is another form of Brahmacharya. When you devote yourself to honoring yourself and (eventually) another, this is the highest spiritual work we can do. And it all starts with you.

Forgive yourself and learn how to see your perceived 'defects' and desires as gifts of new awareness, hold more capacity to be seen as your true divine innocent self, see others with purity rather than as objects, to stop people pleasing, listen and feel what your body's intelligence is saying, stop grasping to your habitual impulses that distract your purpose and  become a leader of love and truth on this planet, whether you are single or in a couple.

The world needs you! Call in your highest partnership,  learn how to keep the space between yourself and your partner clean and honest in ways that heal you and also heat you both up.

Learn to build a fire that warms your life, feels powerfully honest and doesn't burn your house down.

In this Level 1 +2 (4 days each) Group Immersion we will journey deeper into our hearts, learning and practicing the step by step principles of awareness, sensitivity, equanimity, love, trust, polarity, devotion and desire. Bringing these aspects into our nervous systems with self and others in an innocent and powerful experience that you wish someone had given you back in High School!

Learn to hold more love without running away, sabotaging, drowning in resentments or dampening the fire.

Become a master of love.

Level 1 Feb 12-15 (class dates) for travelers, (Feb 11-15 )

Level 2 Feb 16-21 for travelers, (Feb 17-20 retreat days for locals)

Now in its 5th year, I have been called to go deeper by offering a Level 2 as an optional extended journey.

In Level 1, this gentle yet powerful awakening is a 4 Day transformation in the tropical surf paradise of Nosara, Costa Rica. You are not required to join Level 2 if Level 1 feels more aligned for you.

AND ALL EXERCISES ARE OPTIONAL

Level 2 opens participants to explore the Level 1 material in much more depth. Our Level 2 days are more restful and inwardly focused while evening temple rituals are explored in 2 body practice.

On this Level 1 +2 (4 Days each) immersive journey, we gently uncover and heal what has been blocking true love as we get to explore the real you, your most powerful desires, through the gentle opening of your heart chakra.

When reflected and celebrated in the light of a kind, confidential and conscious minded community, there is no greater experience of oneness.

LEVEL 1 (is required for Level 2 participation)

Level 1 Feb 12-15 (travelers arrive Feb 11 and depart Feb 16)

Over these first 4 Days in Level 1, we are in a process of deep purification. We create a safe, fun and potent healing container to support ann intimate space for men & women to have deep conversations, potent exercises & build true communion on each other’s journey. We learn the basis of Sacred Union & monogamous devotion through the lens of 22 years of Tantric studies with guide Stefanie Marco. Students must complete Level 1 to enter the Level 2 container.

LEVEL 2 is for graduates of the Level 1 immersion only. Here, we will have a slower pace with morning yoga and/or KAP, afternoon free time for reflection, nature, beach time and integration. Our evening Temple events are where we go deeper into receiving transmissions and intimacy practices that explore the sacred erotic art of sxxual polarity, unconditional loving and erotic innocence.

Do you feel stuck in a role in your relationships or in life?

(Nice Guy/Tough Guy or Nice Girl/Boss Girl)

Do you feel like there has to be more to sxx?

Are you wanting your passion to increase rather than to fade away in your partnership?

Do you feel like there is a wall inside or outside or of you in intimacy that you can’t seem to break down or out of?

Are you ready to free yourself from impulsive or destructive behaviors in romance and sxx?

Are you ready to be loved in the fullness of who really you are instead of hiding behind a “mask”?

Do you have a great life but romance is the one thing that isn’t coming together for you?

I have been where you are. Sleeping next to a stranger who was once a deeply connected partner and lover. Feeling like there is something wrong with who I am and that love would never find me. I have dated the narcissists, I have been ghosted, I have treated good partners poorly and I have spent my life healing the patterns I learned to survive ‘'love”.

Now I have helped countless clients to release themselves from cycles of desperation and shame, to find passion that grows and grows instead of drifting away into resentments or roommate friendships with no fire left in their dynamic.

Are you ready to turn your healing into hotness!??

Welcome yourself into this sacred and gentle journey,  Stefanie will guide participants through philosophies, concepts, practices and exercises that explore the foundational principles of monogamous, Divine Sacred Union, with :

- Meditations

- Conscious Relating Practices

- Bonding & Intimacy Games & Exercises

- Eye Gazing

- Breath-work  

- Group and Self Reflection

- Masculine and Feminine Sacred Polarity Practice

- S3xual Energy Cultivation & Exploration

- Fire, Cacao and various Ritual Ceremonies

- KAP

- Temescal Sweat Lodge Ceremony

and so much more!

COUPLES AND SINGLES ARE WELCOME

YOU DO NOT NEED A PARTNER to join! ...REALLY!!

** All exercises are optional. Confidentiality is upheld and collectively honored. Your ‘NO’ is welcomed and supported here.

** WHILE I SUPPORT THE USE OF PSYCHEDELICS BY THOSE GIVEN PERMISSION TO SERVE, THIS IS NOT A PLANT MEDICINE JOURNEY this is a sober retreat exploring the medicine of your heart and body’s wisdom. KAP, breath work and ancient ceremonies are the sources of our own deeply transformative and naturally psychedelic experiences and connections to infinite wisdom that is already living inside of you!

The magical energy of Nosara has been a holy initiator of LOVE as her identity. Nosara it is said was a Royal Indigenous Princess, who abandoned her title and wealth to follow her true divine soul mate to his land. Many still feel and speak of her as a fierce warrior priestess of the heart, a spirit that still lives in her lands and awakens us to our truest potential.

Costa Rica Wellness Spa has a rich history of blessings by the indigenous family who still occupy the land. The previous owner of this space guided healing through the potent sacred medicine of Iboga. The current owner has continued to support addiction recovery and its root cause by hosting sober retreats such as mine.

The property is set on lush jungle hilltops and overlooks the sunset over Ostional Beach and the Pacific Ocean. 5 luxury rooms and 4 shared rooms converge with an open dining room and kitchen adorned with hammocks which extend to a dipping pool, hot tub, cold plunge and 700 square foot hand built wooden yoga shala. The grounds also hold a sacred Temescal for sweat lodge ceremonies, permaculture garden and trails to explore a nearby waterfall.

The area is just outside of the famous Guiones Beach surf town and a quick 12 minute drive.