Belonging to Ourselves and Each Other: Inner Parts, Relational Life & Sacred Community

Belonging is not something we earn. It is already alive beneath the roles we play and the strategies we have built to protect ourselves, waiting to be rediscovered. This wellness retreat at Blue Spirit Costa Rica, in Nosara, Guanacaste, invites you to turn toward the tender, reactive, guarded, or afraid places within you with curiosity and respect, rather than turning away.

Belonging to Ourselves and Each Other: Inner Parts, Relational Life & Sacred Community gathers world-renowned teachers in parts work, embodied relational practice, and sacred chant, including Richard C. Schwartz, Prentis Hemphill, and Sah D'Simone. Together they explore how healing unfolds within the individual, between people, and in the wider collective. The week begins on a Saturday and runs as a seven-night stay among Blue Spirit's ocean, jungle, and land.

If you are weighing whether to come, the invitation is to meet yourself and others with more courage, more self-compassion, and more room to laugh along the way, and to build relationships rooted in presence, choice, and wholeness rather than fear, obligation, or old patterns.

What to Expect

The program weaves together parts work, relational inquiry, somatic practice, sacred chant, and movement. Scheduled teachings and workshops with the faculty are part of your tuition, and the week is shaped around meeting what feels difficult with greater understanding rather than bypassing it.

- Parts work grounded in Internal Family Systems
- Embodied and somatic practice
- Relational inquiry and community
- Sacred chant and movement

About the Lineup

Richard C. Schwartz, PhD is a psychotherapist, Teaching Associate in Psychiatry at a Harvard Medical School affiliate, and the creator of Internal Family Systems, a therapeutic model that de-pathologizes the multi-part personality. He is the founder of the IFS Institute and the author of more than ten books, including No Bad Parts.

Prentis Hemphill is a therapist, somatics teacher, facilitator, and bestselling author of What It Takes to Heal. Their work centers embodied leadership, collective healing, and the relationship between personal transformation and social change. They are the founder of The Embodiment Institute and a former Healing Justice Director at Black Lives Matter Global Network.

Sah D'Simone is a spiritual teacher, humanitarian, and bestselling author. He created the Somatic Activated Healing Method, which integrates Buddhist contemplative practice with trauma-informed care, and his work carries the message that healing is possible and freedom begins in the body.

Dené Logan is a Los Angeles-based relationship therapist, coach, and group facilitator. Her work draws on depth psychology, archetypes, and metaphysics to help people reclaim authentic aspects of themselves shaped away by cultural conditioning. She is the author of Sovereign Love.

Nicole Sachs, LCSW is a psychotherapist, bestselling author, and leader in mind-body medicine. She created JournalSpeak®, a neuroscience-informed writing practice, and hosts The Cure for Chronic Pain podcast.

Shadeen Francis, LMFT, CST is a licensed marriage and family psychotherapist and board-certified sex therapist. She is the founder of The People's Therapy Group and President of AASECT.

Deva Premal and Miten carry a 5,000-year-old chant tradition and are at the forefront of the worldwide chant phenomenon.

Stephan Rechtschaffen, MD is an integrative physician and the founder of Blue Spirit Costa Rica, the Nosara Longevity Center, and the Omega Institute.

Venue & Logistics

The retreat takes place at Blue Spirit Costa Rica in Nosara, on Playa Guiones. The rate includes a seven-night stay from Saturday arrival through Saturday departure, with single or double room options, full program tuition, and three daily buffet meals of gourmet vegetarian cuisine. Fish is served three evenings per week, eggs are available at breakfast, and vegan and gluten-free options are always available. Guests have access to the infinity pool, meditation spaces, yoga halls, walking trails, and direct beach access, with Wi-Fi in most areas of the property.