Stay Wild
Welcome to Wild Spirit Yoga Retreats! We're here to facilitate your ability to reset, reconnect and return hOMe. We provide opportunities to help you find peace and relaxation in beautiful natural spaces. We want to help you deepen your yoga, meditation and breath work practices, connect with amazing community, and discover the magic of coming hOMe to yourself.
Costa Rica Yoga Retreat
Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica September 14-18, 2024
“Keep close to Nature’s heart…and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods [or jungle!] Wash your spirit clean.” -John Muir
Join us to reconnect with Nature and your own Wild Spirit in the Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica- one of the world’s five Blue Zones. We’ll spend 4 nights during the Full Harvest Moon at our private yoga retreat center, The Sanctuary at Two Rivers. This center is 100% off-the-grid and solar powered, with modern luxury accommodations. It’s directly across from the Pacific Ocean, yet hidden 1,000 yards in the jungle on its own private land nestled between two rivers.
Practice yoga in a jungle shala, hike to a waterfall (or two!), or choose to take part in amazing local experiences like surfing, swimming with horses, snorkeling and more.
*This retreat is open to all, regardless of your level of yoga experience.
Fees include:
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4 nights of modern eco accommodations
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3 daily vegetarian meals (vegan and gluten free available)
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Daily yoga and meditation sessions
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Breathwork sessions
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Cacao ceremony
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Waterfall hikes and beach excursions
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Choice of additional excursion*
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Ground transport from select nearby areas to retreat center and back
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Total Fee = $2,800/guest
Fee does not include:
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Airfare to/from Costa Rica (we’ll have details and plenty of guidance)
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Travel insurance (highly recommended!)
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*Some excursions have an additional fee
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Spa services
Testimonials from our Pink Full Moon Yoga Retreat
St. Thomas, USVI April 23-27, 2024
“I continue to be blown away by the beauty the two of you created on our retreat. It was so thoughtfully designed and flowed beautifully...You struck the perfect balance between providing support and sharing, and navigated it so well. Thank you , thank you, thank you for your #jenergy” -Jenny
“What a blessing the retreat was. So very, very lucky/fortunate to have been able to attend! Especially to spend quality time with Jen X and to get to know Jen H. What a great couple you two are! Absolute perfection! Can not thank you enough!Sad it is over." -Diana
"Thank you for creating and cultivating a space and experience that was pure healing, welcoming, flexible and intentional. Each of you has a gift and it's wonderful to see you use them. You are sharing your calm and healing energy with all you come into contact with.
I am deeply grateful for the experiences that you both gave me. I have walked way feeling an unfamiliar sense of freedom that I didn't even know was missing.
Jen X, thank you for leading healing and powerful practices. Thank you Jen H for cultivating an experience filled with such intention to every detail. Thank you both for listening to a nudge and chasing a dream.
It was a thought provoking, self reflective, healing experience. " -Angela
“I had my first yoga retreat experience with Jen X and Jen H , Wild Spirit Yoga Retreats. My daughter and I joined, and what they put together would be hard to exceed. The accommodations, vegan catering, transportation, and excursions were will thought out and executed. Thank you J and J for a wonderful first venture and a memorable trip for us."-Beth
Your Hosts
Come get away with us to rest, reconnect, and return hOMe!
Jen Xanders, ERYT500
Yoga, Meditation & Breathwork Teacher
I have been blessed to be teaching and sharing the gifts of yoga since 2007. It’s been a journey that continues to expand beyond my dreams. I teach not only in-studio classes but also created and run Flourish Yoga + Wellbeing's 200hr and 300hr teacher training programs. As a teacher, I look to encourage students to reconnect with their bodies and intuition. I aim to hold space to help them realize how powerful, loving and happy they are beneath all the distraction and negativity they don’t need. My teaching style is physically challenging and a compilation of every teacher and student I have had the joy of practicing and studying with. Expect to sweat, smile, let go of the outside world and reconnect to yourself, to return hOMe.
Some special interests of mine include neuroscience and the overlap of yogic practices, philosophy of yoga, and modern & medical overlaps of breath work. I aspire to cultivate and share these tools to help each of us show up as our best most grounded selves day in and day out.
I’m so very excited that my love for travel and my love for holding space for personal growth are merging together. I can’t wait to share yoga’s magic in beautiful inspiring places with each of you. Looking forward to adventuring and returning hOMe together!
Jen Handley, RYT200, Facilitator
I started practicing yoga in 2001, when I took a class for college credit at Ball State University. I fell in love with the movement, the tradition and philosophy and how great each class made me feel. I’ve practiced ever since, and in many ways, I feel like my journey is still just beginning.
I’m a creative person at heart, a lifelong painter, a curious researcher and an entrepreneur. I’ve built and grown a social media research firm, a creative co-working space, and recently a yoga retreat business with my partner, Jen Xanders. And now I’m so honored to have the opportunity to be the co-owner of Flourish Yoga + Wellbeing with her as well and to help guide this incredible community into its next phase.
I believe I’ve been able to successfully manage the demands of my career and family life because of the tools I gained from practicing yoga- the ability to turn inward, having enough physical and mental energy, flexibility, strength, balance, focus, and most important of all, Santosha- contentment.
I am fascinated by and continuously researching the mind-body-spirit connection and our enormous capacity to heal our bodies and our hearts. I have seen immense benefits of this practice in my life. Since losing my husband of 17 years to pancreatic cancer in 2021, I have had an even greater appreciation for the healing power of yoga- through all of its 8 limbs. It is my passion to now help others to find joy, peace, and hopefully some healing through their own practice.
When I’m not on my mat, I’m spending time with my 2 teens- Quinn, 15 and Darby, 14- my partner, Matt, and my 3 rambunctious dogs. I’m happiest when I’m balancing my time working with being outdoors, painting, gardening, boating, traveling, reading way too many books at once, and learning new things.
