Ananda Lodge
Begin with a conversation
Together we listen closely, see the patterns and beliefs you are ready to move beyond, and empower you to rise to your word.
Begin with a conversationInsight is not what is missing. Follow-through is.
You know what needs to change. Something still has not shifted.
Sixteen weeks built around one thing: following through on the change you came for. Four weeks to name it and prepare. Eight days of ceremony with the medicine you are called to. Twelve weeks of accountability, so what you see becomes how you live. Held by Empowered Path guardians, a cohort of ten, and a psilocybin microdose ally throughout.
Three medicines, each a teacher: psilocybin, San Pedro (Huachuma), and ayahuasca. All-inclusive except the $150 plant medicine fee and microdose medicine.
Name the change you came for, and prepare body, mind, and intention to meet the medicine.
Three ceremonies. Held completely. You leave with a structure, not just an experience.
Where follow-through is built. Commitments you name, keep, and track, until what you saw is how you live.
This is what a standalone retreat has not offered. Not because it is impossible, but because the model that makes it possible requires a commitment to depth over scale.We are.
The medicine gives as much as you give. Attune and Anchor are where you give it.
Explore the Empowered PathKimberly came to plant medicine in burnout. Therapy and coaching had helped her understand the pattern. It took the medicine, and the follow-through after it, to change it. She and Jason built Ananda, a family-owned lodge in Playa Grande, for people ready to do the same.
Fifteen years in coaching, trained in somatic, trauma-informed care.
Operations and care on the ground, from arrival to departure.
The land, the light, and the quiet spaces where the work unfolds.
Ten guests on the Empowered Path. Most immersions hold 8 to 12, and Sacred Union welcomes eight couples. Every guest or couple has a private suite, and every guest is known by name.
The people who hold ceremony have walked this path themselves. They listen beneath the words, track what matters, and take a stand for who you are becoming.
Ceremony is one part of a longer arc. Every program includes preparation before you arrive and integration after you leave, with somatic, trauma-informed support throughout.
Every program begins with a conversation and a confidential health and safety screening. Trauma-informed principles keep the work safe; the work itself centers on empowerment, accountability, and ownership of your life today.
Master plants have long been known as tools of knowledge: teachers for growth, study, and understanding yourself, as well as healing. Each teaches differently, and none more deeply than another. Each program is built around what that teacher asks of you.
For the curious, self-aware seeker whose patterns keep running the show. The medicine composts what no longer serves and reconnects you to who you are beneath the pattern, so you can step into choice.
For the busy mind that has talked it through and still feels stuck. A master teacher of truth, held in daylight and in nature, that shows what is out of alignment and calls you to own your choices, words, and actions.
For those called to ayahuasca, new to the medicine or seeking deeper study. Held in the Shipibo tradition, the medicine travels to the root, personal and ancestral, and opens paths forward in a life. An apprenticeship of the self.
Somatics and plant medicine, explained plainly: practices to keep, what the research is exploring, and new immersion dates before anyone else.
Each specialty immersion has a narrower focus, held with the same care: preparation before you arrive, and integration after you leave.
San Pedro (Huachuma), the Illuminator · December 28, 2026 to January 4, 2027
Couples psilocybin immersion · February 10 to 15, 2027
For couples who are not in crisis and not willing to settle.
Explore Sacred Union
Held for women, by women, in a circle built with women in mind, for the passages that ask you to reclaim yourself: career, relationship, motherhood, perimenopause and menopause. Two medicine pathways.
Embodied Sovereignty
You have been everything to everyone. These are eight days that belong to you.
Reclamation
For the woman at a crossroads, ready to come home to herself.
The annual renewal for people who already work with medicine, breathwork, fasting, or ceremony.
Explore Sacred RenewalWe occasionally open a program to first responders by request. Reach out if that is you.
Beyond our group programs, the sanctuary can be held privately. For those who want the sanctuary to themselves, and for those who bring their own work to us.
For those whose material is too layered, too personal, or too significant for a shared container. No group dynamic, no fixed schedule. A ceremonial arc built entirely around your intention, your pace, and what you are carrying. The same depth of guardianship. None of the compromise.
For trauma therapists, psychedelic training organizations, somatic practitioners, and space holders who already work at depth and want a sanctuary that matches that standard. Ananda is not a venue. Bring your people. We hold everything else.
Every aspect of your stay at Ananda Lodge is designed with intention. You are held in comfort so you can do the real work.
These medicines are not ours. They have been carried for generations by indigenous peoples and lineages who kept them safe long before the world came looking. We hold deep reverence for those traditions and for the medicine carriers, the curanderos, huachumeros, and Shipibo Maestro Wilder who share this work with us.
We practice Ayni (sacred reciprocity) honouring our responsibility to the plants, the people, and the land that hold us.
A free 30-minute conversation with our team.
Trauma-informed means recognizing that many people carry unresolved experiences in the body, not just in the mind. It means we never push you past your window of tolerance. At Ananda, it shows up in how we screen guests, how we pace the arc (titrated, never rushed), how we hold ceremony with somatic support throughout, and how we continue holding you in integration long after the medicine work is done. Your guardian knows your history before you arrive, so nothing surfaces in ceremony without context and care. Trauma-informed principles keep the work safe; the work itself centers on empowerment, accountability, and ownership of your life today.
We work with psilocybin, San Pedro (Huachuma), and ayahuasca. We hold them as teachers, long known as tools of knowledge, for growth and study as well as healing. In 2027 the Empowered Path runs with all three: psilocybin February 18-25, San Pedro (Huachuma) April 9-16, and ayahuasca June 11-18.
Every program includes integration support after you leave. On the Empowered Path, that is twelve weeks of Anchor: group sessions, individual tracking calls, and commitments you name, keep, and track. On specialty immersions, it is three months of integration support.
Every program begins with a conversation and a confidential health and safety screening at intake, where every medication is reviewed with you. Groups are small by design: ten guests on the Empowered Path, 8 to 12 on specialty immersions, and up to eight couples on Sacred Union. Guardians trained in somatic, trauma-informed care are with you before, during and after ceremony.
All rooms are single-occupancy king-suite bedrooms with ocean views and open-air teak showers. You will never share a room. The sanctuary sits above Playa Grande with views of the Pacific and the Costa Rican jungle. Meals are prepared daily by a private chef using local, farm-to-table ingredients. There is a natural stone pool, a yoga shala, and a private healing hut.
Ananda Lodge is located in Playa Grande, Guanacaste, on Costa Rica's Pacific coast. Perched in the jungle above the ocean, five minutes from the beach.
The closest airport is Liberia International (LIR), approximately 1 hour 15 minutes from the sanctuary. San José International (SJO) is approximately 5 hours. Shuttle transfers from both airports can be arranged once your place is confirmed. The group shuttle is included only with The Empowered Path.
Yes. Our guardians bring a depth of medicine experience and training that spans somatic trauma-informed practice, psilocybin-assisted therapy, microdose coaching, trauma-informed integration, and sacred plant medicine ceremony. They do not hold you from theory. They hold you from having walked this path themselves.
