Ananda Lodge
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The career that no longer fits. The worrying, the constant bracing, the trying without lasting change. The version of you that knows there is more. The one who cannot seem to break through the patterns to reach it. You have started the work. This is what comes next.
Book an alignment call→Kimberly found plant medicine at the edge of her own breaking point. Corporate burnout, a body carrying more than it could hold, and years of therapy and coaching that opened understanding without reaching what was underneath. When she finally found the right container, something shifted that nothing else had reached. That experience became a question: why was this so rare? And then a commitment: to build the container she had needed.
She and Jason built Ananda Lodge above the Pacific in Playa Grande, Costa Rica, and run it with their family. A family-owned sanctuary for people who have done the work and are ready for what comes next. Psilocybin, Ayahuasca, and San Pedro, held with the preparation, guardianship, and integration depth that makes the change last. This is their life's work, and they are in it with you.
Somatic trauma-informed facilitator. 15 years in coaching. Her own path through burnout and plant medicine healing is what this sanctuary is built from.
Holds the operations, the property, and the on-ground care that make the depth of this work possible. Every detail, so you can be fully present.
The land, the light, and the quiet spaces where the work unfolds.
You have done the work. Something still has not shifted.
The Empowered Path is a 16-week arc of preparation, ceremony, and integration. Somatic psychology, structured microdosing, and three plant medicine ceremonies held by guardians who stay with you from the first call to the last. Built for people who are ready to do this differently.
Build the nervous system readiness that determines how deep the ceremony can go.
Three ceremonies. Held completely. You leave with a structure, not just an experience.
Where lasting change is built. What opened in ceremony moves into how you actually live.
This is what the retreat space has not offered. Not because it is impossible, but because the model that makes it possible requires a commitment to depth over scale that
most centers are not willing to make.We are.
This work demands depth. We get to know each guest intimately through thorough preparation, individual on-site sessions, and three months of integration. Eight guests maximum. That number is not a limit. It is the methodology.
We offer retreats designed for people facing particular thresholds in their lives or carrying specific burdens. Working in this way allows us to build real community among guests and go deeper than a general container permits.
Our guardians are not facilitators running a protocol. They are practitioners who have done this work themselves, who are committed to their own ongoing craft, and who bring that depth into every person they hold.
All accommodations at Ananda Lodge are single-occupancy. The depth of this work requires privacy. You will never share a room.
Sacred plant medicine paired with trauma-informed somatic work. Your nervous system held, regulated, and expanded throughout. Not just during ceremony.
The container, the facilitation, the somatic work, and the integration language are all designed around the female nervous system and the passages women specifically navigate.
From your first call to your last session. Every step held.
Preparation is where the work begins. Before you arrive, your guardian gets to know you. Your history, your intention, and what you are carrying. You arrive already known, already held, and with the option to begin building your relationship with the medicine through microdosing.
Eight days because real depth requires time. One ceremony opens the door. The second takes you further. The third integrates what the first two uncovered. The days between are not downtime. They are where the processing happens, held by your guardians and your cohort from morning to night.
The ceremony opens something. Integration is what makes it last. Three months of structured support ensures what shifted on-site takes root in your actual life. Your guardian stays with you. Your cohort stays with you. The work continues.
Every aspect of your stay at Ananda Lodge is intentionally designed to support deep transformation. You are held in comfort so you can do the real work.
Each medicine calls differently. Each program is built around what that medicine asks of you.
For those who have done the work and know something fundamental still has not shifted. The career that no longer fits. The constant bracing. The patterns that keep returning no matter how much you understand them. Psilocybin quiets the inner critic, disrupts fixed stories about what is possible, and opens a window where real behavioral change becomes available. The entry point to the 16-week arc.
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For those who have been doing the work for years and keep arriving at the same wound. The insight is there. The understanding is there. And yet the body keeps returning to the same place. Ayahuasca works at the root, clearing patterns that formed long before you were conscious of them. Confronting, purging, and profoundly clarifying. This medicine asks more of you. It also gives more.
For those who have survived so much they have forgotten how to feel. The fogginess. The flatness. The sense of moving through life without being fully in it. San Pedro is the medicine of the heart: compassion, reconnection, and the return of joy. Where other medicines confront, this one opens. Where you have closed, it makes space for you to soften.
Each offering is shaped for a specific woman, a specific transition, a specific need.
A wholly-female container for the woman navigating career reinvention, relationship change, new motherhood, perimenopause and menopause. Built around the female nervous system and the passages women specifically navigate.
A reset for the body and the nervous system. For the woman who needs to step completely out of her life before she can step into what comes next.
For two people who have been doing their own work — and are ready to do it together. A psilocybin immersion for couples navigating the moments that ask for more than good intentions. Ceremonial medicine, guided therapeutic exercises, and structured integration to restore connection and build a shared language for what comes next.
In partnership with CBL Consulting
We 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 need to go deeper, 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.
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 facilitators 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.
Book a free chat with one of our team members who will be on this journey with you.
Trauma-informed means recognizing that many people carry unresolved experiences in the body and nervous system, 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.
We work with psilocybin, ayahuasca, and San Pedro (Huachuma). Each medicine is held within The Empowered Path, a sixteen-week arc of preparation, ceremony, and integration. The Empowered Path currently runs with psilocybin. We are extending the same methodology across every medicine we serve.
Because they have done the therapy, the coaching, the courses and something still hasn't shifted. They choose Ananda because the container is small enough to be genuinely known. Because one guardian holds their thread from the first call to the final session. Because the methodology doesn't treat ceremony as the endpoint, it treats it as the deepest point of a process already underway when they arrive, and continuing for months after they leave.
The Empowered Path is for the woman navigating a significant transition who is ready for something deeper than what she has tried before. Career reinvention, relationship change, new motherhood, perimenopause and menopause, a body that has not felt safe, a nervous system that has not rested. She does not need prior experience with plant medicine. She needs genuine readiness, to go further than she has before, and to stay with the process long enough for it to do its work.
Safety is not a moment, it is the arc. Every guest completes a thorough health and psychological screening before enrollment. Your guardian knows your history before you arrive. Microdosing begins weeks before ceremony so the medicine is not a stranger when you sit with it. Ceremony is held by certified, trauma-informed guardians with somatic training. Integration support continues for twelve weeks after ceremony. We never hold more than eight guests, ensuring close guardian presence throughout the immersion.
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. We arrange shuttle transfers from both airports as part of the program.
Yes. Our guardians bring a depth of medicine experience and training that spans somatic trauma-informed facilitation, 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.
The Empowered Path is a sixteen-week arc in three phases. In Attune (six weeks), you begin microdosing, join weekly cohort calls, and work with your guardian to set intention and regulate your nervous system before you arrive. In Immerse (eight days at Ananda Lodge), you sit with three uniquely designed psilocybin ceremonies alongside daily somatic integration, breathwork, and art therapy. In Anchor (twelve weeks), microdosing resumes, guardian sessions and cohort calls continue, and the arc closes with a personalized go-forward plan and entry into the Colibrí Circle alumni community.
