Black Women Soft Life Retreats
June 6 - 12, 2023
Caribbean Of Costa Rica
Playa Negra, Costa Rica
Mission Statement
Black Women Soft Life Retreats is a retreat dedicated to black women who are intentionally creating and embodying a soft life. It is in an exclusive setting where women are hosted at an oasis villa, where they share meals at a communal table and curl up with a good book, by the pool after a lovely day at the beach. You can expect gentle yoga practices, womb + yoni steaming, intentional medicinal mushroom plant ceremonies and peace on the gorgeous beaches of Costa Rica. There will be plenty of leisure time where you can explore the beautiful Caribbean of Costa Rica or take some well-needed rest time as you nestle in your birthright of rest, self-love and a soft feminine life. Too often, are women forced to be workaholics or to measure their worth by what they do instead of who they are. Black Women Soft Life Retreat is a setting to return back to self where women can softly rest in their femininity and prioritize self-love.
June 6 - 12, 2023
Caribbean Of Costa Rica
Playa Negra, Costa Rica
Mission Statement
Black Women Soft Life Retreats is a retreat dedicated to black women who are intentionally creating and embodying a soft life. It is in an exclusive setting where women are hosted at an oasis villa, where they share meals at a communal table and curl up with a good book, by the pool after a lovely day at the beach. You can expect gentle yoga practices, womb + yoni steaming, intentional medicinal mushroom plant ceremonies and peace on the gorgeous beaches of Costa Rica. There will be plenty of leisure time where you can explore the beautiful Caribbean of Costa Rica or take some well-needed rest time as you nestle in your birthright of rest, self-love and a soft feminine life. Too often, are women forced to be workaholics or to measure their worth by what they do instead of who they are. Black Women Soft Life Retreat is a setting to return back to self where women can softly rest in their femininity and prioritize self-love.
IMPORTANT: Note that Black Women Soft Life Retreats is is NOT personal therapy or a detoxification program from recreational or pharmaceutical drugs.
Most of our faculty members are not trained psychiatrist and do not carry clinical backgrounds in PTSD, addiction or other mental health concerns. If you have a history of PTSD, addiction or other mental health concerns, it is important that you arrive to our program in a stable state with the intention of using the retreat for self regulation, personal healing & spiritual growth.
During the retreat, you will spend a lot of time in silence, in nature, in meditation and with the practice of yoga. You will eat delicious food, and you will be able to rest and restore. You will be invited to lean on these holistic wellness tools to support your healing and internal process. If you are seeking personal or clinical therapy then this retreat is not for you. We can't wait to meet you!
Black Women Soft Life Retreats
Includes:
Retreat Requirement
Black Women Soft Life Retreats is for women ages 21-49 years old.
It is for Black Americans, Caribbeans, Africans, and Black women worldwide.
Thanks for respecting the safe space created specifically for black women.
Includes:
Retreat Requirement
Black Women Soft Life Retreats is for women ages 21-49 years old.
It is for Black Americans, Caribbeans, Africans, and Black women worldwide.
Thanks for respecting the safe space created specifically for black women.
|
Accommodations
Lodging Black Women Soft Life Retreats takes place at a gorgeous boutique oasis Casa Mona where you will share meals at the communal table, and you will be able to curl up with a book by the pool after a sweet day at the beach. All rooms are shared. Daily Breakfast You'll be able to try local Costa Rican and Caribbean breakfasts and everything in between. Casa Mona will provide all food options. This is for anyone who is currently vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian and for those who eat meat. Although we promote and are aware that a vegan and plant-based lifestyle are the healthiest options, you are welcome to indulge in where you are in your wellness journey. All food options from meat to plant-based will be provided. Daily Lunch Delicious meals. Also offered: pure coconut juice, herbal teas, juices, superfoods, and smoothies to nourish, balance, and heal. Daily Dinner Fill your belly with delicious nourishing meals to nurture the mind, body, and spirit with our delicious family dinners. All meals included excluding the farewell dinner. All meals made with quality ingredients made with love 
|
Activities
Soft Yoga There will be 2 gentle yoga classes. The yoga classes are a gentle, slow-paced yoga. Intended to allow women to tune into themselves through introspection, pranayama (breathing techniques), meditation, and gentle yet challenging poses to ease the mind, body, and spirit. Our yoga classes allow women to work with their feminine energy, and it targets parts of the body that yang yoga may not. Yoga works with the nervous system, so it's not just spiritually but scientifically heals. With consistent practice, yoga has been known to cure depression, anxiety, and other chronic illness. It's an ancient practice and a form of healing. Meditation With a group of like-minded women, you will explore self-enlightenment, gratitude, and inner peace. Yoni Herbal Steaming: Womb Healing Session Yoni steaming is a powerful and ancient self-care practice used by women worldwide to support deep wellness, women’s wisdom, herbal medicine, and femininity. Yoni steams are used mainly to cleanse the uterus of menstrual difficulties, facilitate healing after birth, and more. In a session, you will sit in a unique wooden chair for about 20 minutes. Organic Womb Healing herbs are brewed in a steam pot, and a container of the hot liquid is placed under your open seated chair. Blankets and sheets are wrapped around your torso to create a kind of sweat lodge for your lower torso. You sit and receive the moist warmth of the healing steam. It enters your body directly through your yoni and penetrates to your uterus, pelvis, and up through a deep central channel connecting to your heart so you can feel better in your body and life in general. Immediately after steaming, you might feel extremely relaxed, emotionally vulnerable, or tired. The best way to describe the experience is a tender, warm internal embrace to your root and sacral chakras points. Silent Time There will also be periods of silent time during the retreat. This is a meditative retreat, so we practice calmness and allowing ourselves to tune within. Rest In Your Femininity: Picnic On The Beach There will be a picnic on one of the most beautiful beaches in Costa Rica. You'll enjoy delicate fruits and yummy food as you float in the blue Caribbean Sea. Mushroom Ceremony There will be an intentional plant-medicine ceremony where you will journey through the portals of your soul with sacred mushrooms. There will be a sound bowl session at the ceremony, and a sacred space where women will gather and share. |
Black Women Soft Life Retreats is held at a lovely boutique oasis
Sonora
A gorgeous boutique villa
in Playa Negra, Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica located in paradise
Sonora is an eco-friendly boutique lodge located about a 15-20 minute walk or a 5-minute car ride near Playa Negra Beach a stunning beach much less crowded than others. The eco-friendly boutique hotel is surrounded by powerful nature that gradually turns into a jungle, embraced by ancient trees, colorful flowers, and the sound of animals. The modern architecture of Sonora was created by Italian designers. It showcases elegant interior decorations, fine linen and cotton fabrics in soft colors, and warm touches of Caribbean wood. With luxury accomadations. The precision of each object has been chosen for guests. Combined with food selected with predominantly organic raw materials from the area that works with local eco-sustainable companies and the search for tasty and healthy dishes are ingredients that surround the idea of hospitality.
Sonora
A gorgeous boutique villa
in Playa Negra, Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica located in paradise
Sonora is an eco-friendly boutique lodge located about a 15-20 minute walk or a 5-minute car ride near Playa Negra Beach a stunning beach much less crowded than others. The eco-friendly boutique hotel is surrounded by powerful nature that gradually turns into a jungle, embraced by ancient trees, colorful flowers, and the sound of animals. The modern architecture of Sonora was created by Italian designers. It showcases elegant interior decorations, fine linen and cotton fabrics in soft colors, and warm touches of Caribbean wood. With luxury accomadations. The precision of each object has been chosen for guests. Combined with food selected with predominantly organic raw materials from the area that works with local eco-sustainable companies and the search for tasty and healthy dishes are ingredients that surround the idea of hospitality.
Soft Life is your birthright
Black Women Soft Life Retreats creates a space of rest, leisure and softness for black women.
Check out the Caribbean of Costa Rica here!
The South Caribbean is the most beautiful and magical place in Costa Rica and the world. Caribe is lush with green--plants, beautiful flowers, and trees so profound that they will leave a mark on you forever. It is surrounded and cut through water and jungle. It is where the jungle meets the sea! Costa Rica is home to about 6% of all biodiversity in the world. Every day you can see Howler Monkeys, sloths, wild horses, gorgeous tropical birds, and so many other creatures!
The air fills with the smells of delicious and flavorful Caribbean food. Coconuts fall from the trees, waiting to be devoured by you. While you are walking down the street, someone may say to you, “Pura Vida!” If something bad or good happens, someone may say “Pura Vida” to you. Pura Vida means “Pure Life” when translated directly, but it also means “Everything’s good.” Expressing that you are always exactly where you are supposed to be, and everything is good is a way of expressing gratitude and eternal optimism. This is Paradise. This is Costa Rica.
The South Caribbean is the most beautiful and magical place in Costa Rica and the world. Caribe is lush with green--plants, beautiful flowers, and trees so profound that they will leave a mark on you forever. It is surrounded and cut through water and jungle. It is where the jungle meets the sea! Costa Rica is home to about 6% of all biodiversity in the world. Every day you can see Howler Monkeys, sloths, wild horses, gorgeous tropical birds, and so many other creatures!
The air fills with the smells of delicious and flavorful Caribbean food. Coconuts fall from the trees, waiting to be devoured by you. While you are walking down the street, someone may say to you, “Pura Vida!” If something bad or good happens, someone may say “Pura Vida” to you. Pura Vida means “Pure Life” when translated directly, but it also means “Everything’s good.” Expressing that you are always exactly where you are supposed to be, and everything is good is a way of expressing gratitude and eternal optimism. This is Paradise. This is Costa Rica.
Reviews From Past Participants
I feel great, I feel amazing, I feel I inspired to take what I’ve learned this week and implement everything in a more intentional way. I plan to keep up my yoga practice, the plant based eating, the affirmations and just to level up my self-care. I know when I take care of myself, I know everything around me is taken care of. As preparation to coming here I started practicing plant base early but now after being at the retreat and eating all of the amazing delicious meals I am inspired to eat plant based from this moment on.
My experiences with the yoga classes were amazing, I was introduced to yin yoga. The yoga was comfortable yet you got a stretch. I am also someone who has been practicing yoga prior to coming here but this form of yoga speaks to me and my body. I mean I felt good everyday getting on and off the mat. There was no pain, and there was a level of comfort in yoga that I had not known prior to coming here. I enjoyed the group discussions on self care because we all had something to share and we all had a different perspective to the conversation and it was sharing and learning and it was very healing for me. I just felt comfortable sharing parts of myself that I may not have shared in other spaces.
- Cindy
I did enjoy the group discussions on self care and spirituality. I’m usually not as vulnerable to talk about things that I feel are just my business, but it allowed me to kind of take my spirituality to the next step and for me to reflect what I need to do for myself in self-care. I feel good, I feel more in touch with nature, more in touch with my spirituality. I feel excited to see how my life is going to change because of this. Thank you so much for showing us how to appropriately care about ourselves, how to appreciate the principles of yoga and the spirituality of the practice , thank you for opening us up to all these great opportunities in Costa Rica both in the jungle and other places, we really appreciated the whole thing.
- Gabrielle
This was not my first time trying plant based but this was my first time getting into it so I’m definitely inspired to continue as I go home. I really enjoyed the discussions on self-care and spirituality. I feel like I’ve been doing a lot of work with my own self-care and I felt like this is just the next step that I needed to keep moving forward.
- Amber
Thank you. This retreat has been everything, it’s been life changing for me. It has renewed my sense of self. I’ve learned to practice self care and self love. These are experiences I will never forget. You’ve created an environment and safe place for women to share their experiences, you’ve created an environment of trust. You’ve allowed us to connect with nature and our own spirituality. From the ocean experiences to our conversations. This is something I believe every woman should experience in their life time.
- Tonya
The yoga classes were challenging , rewarding and helpful. They were challenging because I was moving my body into poses I had never done before. The yin yoga was slower, we spent more time in the poses and really focused on my breathing. I also learned that yoga has a spiritual practice that can be taken off the mat as well. I’m very grateful for the retreat and I feel motivated.
- Monique
I thought the retreat was fabulous , my expectations were at a certain level and they were exceeded. I appreciated that it felt with our mind, our body and our spirituality and immersed us in a culture of Costa Rica only in a way that someone that knows this area could. I definitely will return. I thoroughly enjoyed the group discussions on self care and spirituality because we got to explore the internal aspects of what we do, not just with people but also the earth. All those things I thought were fabulous.
- Artina
I feel great, I feel amazing, I feel I inspired to take what I’ve learned this week and implement everything in a more intentional way. I plan to keep up my yoga practice, the plant based eating, the affirmations and just to level up my self-care. I know when I take care of myself, I know everything around me is taken care of. As preparation to coming here I started practicing plant base early but now after being at the retreat and eating all of the amazing delicious meals I am inspired to eat plant based from this moment on.
My experiences with the yoga classes were amazing, I was introduced to yin yoga. The yoga was comfortable yet you got a stretch. I am also someone who has been practicing yoga prior to coming here but this form of yoga speaks to me and my body. I mean I felt good everyday getting on and off the mat. There was no pain, and there was a level of comfort in yoga that I had not known prior to coming here. I enjoyed the group discussions on self care because we all had something to share and we all had a different perspective to the conversation and it was sharing and learning and it was very healing for me. I just felt comfortable sharing parts of myself that I may not have shared in other spaces.
- Cindy
I did enjoy the group discussions on self care and spirituality. I’m usually not as vulnerable to talk about things that I feel are just my business, but it allowed me to kind of take my spirituality to the next step and for me to reflect what I need to do for myself in self-care. I feel good, I feel more in touch with nature, more in touch with my spirituality. I feel excited to see how my life is going to change because of this. Thank you so much for showing us how to appropriately care about ourselves, how to appreciate the principles of yoga and the spirituality of the practice , thank you for opening us up to all these great opportunities in Costa Rica both in the jungle and other places, we really appreciated the whole thing.
- Gabrielle
This was not my first time trying plant based but this was my first time getting into it so I’m definitely inspired to continue as I go home. I really enjoyed the discussions on self-care and spirituality. I feel like I’ve been doing a lot of work with my own self-care and I felt like this is just the next step that I needed to keep moving forward.
- Amber
Thank you. This retreat has been everything, it’s been life changing for me. It has renewed my sense of self. I’ve learned to practice self care and self love. These are experiences I will never forget. You’ve created an environment and safe place for women to share their experiences, you’ve created an environment of trust. You’ve allowed us to connect with nature and our own spirituality. From the ocean experiences to our conversations. This is something I believe every woman should experience in their life time.
- Tonya
The yoga classes were challenging , rewarding and helpful. They were challenging because I was moving my body into poses I had never done before. The yin yoga was slower, we spent more time in the poses and really focused on my breathing. I also learned that yoga has a spiritual practice that can be taken off the mat as well. I’m very grateful for the retreat and I feel motivated.
- Monique
I thought the retreat was fabulous , my expectations were at a certain level and they were exceeded. I appreciated that it felt with our mind, our body and our spirituality and immersed us in a culture of Costa Rica only in a way that someone that knows this area could. I definitely will return. I thoroughly enjoyed the group discussions on self care and spirituality because we got to explore the internal aspects of what we do, not just with people but also the earth. All those things I thought were fabulous.
- Artina
-Space is Limited-
Total Cost of All Inclusive
Black Women Soft Life Retreats
Regular Price
$2,222
(retreat valued at $3,000)
$500 Deposit Reserves Your Space
Payment Breakdown
Your deposit of $500 reserves your space.
Once your deposit is placed down you will have a remaining balance of $1,722
Mid Balance Due
Your mid balance of $1,000 will be due within two months of booking.
You can pay in full or select an option to make your payments
Option A
2 monthly payments of $500
Option B
Pay the full balance of $1,000 within 2 months
Final Balance
Payment of $722 due April 3rd
The payment amounts above are our only options, and smaller payments will not be accepted.
You are also welcome to get it out of the way and make any payments in full.
Please Note: Our spaces fill up fast. If there are spaces left in February , the payment breakdown will change and your payments will be due earlier.
Total Cost of All Inclusive
Black Women Soft Life Retreats
Regular Price
$2,222
(retreat valued at $3,000)
$500 Deposit Reserves Your Space
Payment Breakdown
Your deposit of $500 reserves your space.
Once your deposit is placed down you will have a remaining balance of $1,722
Mid Balance Due
Your mid balance of $1,000 will be due within two months of booking.
You can pay in full or select an option to make your payments
Option A
2 monthly payments of $500
Option B
Pay the full balance of $1,000 within 2 months
Final Balance
Payment of $722 due April 3rd
The payment amounts above are our only options, and smaller payments will not be accepted.
You are also welcome to get it out of the way and make any payments in full.
Please Note: Our spaces fill up fast. If there are spaces left in February , the payment breakdown will change and your payments will be due earlier.
$500 Deposit Reserves Your Spot
Option A 2 monthly payments of $500
Option A 2 monthly payments of $500
$500 Deposit Reserves Your Spot
Option B Pay the full balance of $1,000 within 2 months
Option B Pay the full balance of $1,000 within 2 months
Questions? Be sure to read the
Frequently Asked Questions here
Our customer service team is also happy to assist!
Reach out to participants@blackwomenhealingretreats.com
BWHRRetreats, Experiences and Events are non-refundable. This includes for reasons of COVID-19 or any reason. We strongly suggest that clients purchase travel insurance for any cancellation reason because you can request a refund through your travel insurance for any reason. Refer to Booking Terms and Conditions for more information. We offer one-time transfers - please see terms and conditions for additional details. Clients will be responsible for the price differential if purchasing a more expensive product. A one-time transfer to another retreat may be made 120 days or more prior to departure of retreat. Transfers past the 120 day mark period will not be allowed. There are no refunds if transferring to a less expensive product. To transfer an experience please reach out to participants@blackwomenhealingretreats.com
Frequently Asked Questions here
Our customer service team is also happy to assist!
Reach out to participants@blackwomenhealingretreats.com
BWHRRetreats, Experiences and Events are non-refundable. This includes for reasons of COVID-19 or any reason. We strongly suggest that clients purchase travel insurance for any cancellation reason because you can request a refund through your travel insurance for any reason. Refer to Booking Terms and Conditions for more information. We offer one-time transfers - please see terms and conditions for additional details. Clients will be responsible for the price differential if purchasing a more expensive product. A one-time transfer to another retreat may be made 120 days or more prior to departure of retreat. Transfers past the 120 day mark period will not be allowed. There are no refunds if transferring to a less expensive product. To transfer an experience please reach out to participants@blackwomenhealingretreats.com
