Heart of Intimacy

A private five-day immersion into Tantra, sacred union, and the experience of being fully met, set in the lush jungle of southern Costa Rica, just ten minutes from the Pacific Ocean.

5 Days / 4 Nights

Private — One Couple

All-Inclusive

Savegre · Costa Rica

An Invitation

A doorway into Tantra and somatic awakening

Heart of Intimacy is a living retreat — a five-day journey into Tantra and the cultivation of presence, energy, and love within a relationship.

Tantra invites you to see the body as sacred, the relationship as a powerful teacher, and intimacy as one of the most profound paths toward self-realization.

As part of this work, you are invited to awaken sexual energy and learn how to cultivate it in a balanced, sustainable way — both within yourself and within your relationship.

This retreat takes place at Flourish Within Sanctuary, a boutique luxury villa tucked into the rainforest mountains of Savegre and reserved exclusively for one couple at a time. Every detail is personalized to your intentions, your bodies, and your story.

The Path of Tantra

Six gateways into presence, connection, and expanded love

Tantra is far more than popular culture often suggests. It is a complete system of inner cultivation, bringing body, mind, energy, communication, and spirit into a living practice of relationship.

01 Somatic Awakening

The body holds unspoken words, unfelt grief, and unexpressed pleasure. Through breathwork, dearmouring, and somatic therapies, the body is supported in remembering its innate intelligence and returning to ease.

02 Nervous System Regulation

True intimacy asks for real safety. Kriya Yoga, conscious breathwork, and embodied practices gently retrain the nervous system to stay open, receptive, and present, even in tender spaces.

03 Sacred Sexuality

Approached with maturity and reverence, Taoist Tantric Arts teach how to cultivate sexual energy and transform it into vitality, creativity, and deeper connection with your partner.

04 Conscious Communication

Much relationship pain lives in the space between feeling and expression. This retreat offers practical, embodied frameworks for listening with full presence and speaking with clarity and love.

05 Masculine & Feminine Polarity

Tantric arts illuminate the sacred dance of polarity — how the depth of the feminine and the steadiness of the masculine come together to create magnetic aliveness between two people.

06 Ceremonial Container

Cacao ceremony, guided ritual, and the medicine of place — the sanctuary, the jungle, and the Pacific — create the sacred architecture for transformation to unfold.

This is for you if

This retreat is intentionally not for everyone. It asks for a willingness to be seen, to soften, and to allow something real to happen. No previous experience with Tantra or somatic work is required — only a sincere desire to meet yourself and your partner more fully.

Whether you are newly in love and want to build on a sacred foundation, or have been together for years and are ready to rediscover one another, this space can hold both.

Couples craving deeper intimacy

You feel the love between you, but something remains armored, contracted, or unspoken. You want to return to each other.

Those navigating communication breakdowns

You are two good people who keep missing one another. You want the tools and the safety to truly be heard.

People curious about Tantra

You sense there is more available in your body, your sexuality, and your relationship, and you want a grounded, mature introduction.

Those who want adventure and depth

Waterfall hikes, Pacific beach days, and jungle mornings balance profound inner work with authentic Costa Rican adventure.

Long-term couples ready to evolve

After years together, it is possible to fall in love again — more consciously and more completely. This retreat is held for that rediscovery.

What You Will Explore

Practices that open the body and awaken the heart

🌬 SOMA Breathwork Ceremonies

Rhythmic breathwork that moves beyond the thinking mind and into the somatic field, helping release held emotions, expand energy, and open doors of perception words cannot reach.

🧘 Himalayan Kriya Yoga

Morning Kriya practice awakens the spine and subtle body, building vitality from the inside out. Astara has practiced and taught this self-realization technology for years.

🙌 Dearmouring & Bodywork

Gentle, consent-based somatic release work that helps the body let go of chronic tension, armor, and stored emotional material, making space for aliveness and greater capacity for pleasure.

🔥 Tantric Arts & Sacred Sexuality Workshops

Heart-centered teachings from the Taoist and Tantric traditions, exploring energy cultivation, polarity, presence in lovemaking, and how to meet one another more fully.

🍫 Cacao Ceremony

The retreat opens with ceremonial cacao, a heart-opening plant medicine that invites warmth, receptivity, and presence — a meaningful threshold into five days of deeper feeling.

🌊 Nature Immersion & Adventure

The Pacific Ocean, the Nauyaca waterfall, and the rivers become part of the medicine. Beach days, jungle hikes, and elemental moments add depth and vitality to the experience.

🗣 Conscious Communication & the Alchemy of Relationship Through the Lens of Tantra

Tantra reveals that the way we speak to one another is itself a practice. Communication becomes a living art that can transform conflict into intimacy and misunderstanding into deeper knowing.

Your Days

A rhythm of practice, adventure, and rest

Your retreat is fully customized and co-created before arrival. After booking, you will receive a personal questionnaire, followed by a call to explore your intentions, your relationship, and what you most need from this time together. From there, the five days are shaped around you.

Each day flows with its own balance of practice, adventure, rest, and nourishment, woven together with spaciousness and care.

In Their Words

What others have experienced

Every retreat is private. These words come from real couples and individuals who trusted the process.

The way we experience intimacy with each other now has shifted so much. We're so much more open with each other, our communication feels honest and alive, and there's a depth and ease between us that we didn't know was possible. After thirty years of marriage, there was a lot that needed to be felt — and this was the only place we truly felt safe enough to come undone.

From the moment we arrived, the atmosphere felt incredibly special — supportive, open-minded, and deeply personal. Michael and Astara's thoughtful guidance made us feel understood and supported every step of the way. The bodywork and breathwork sessions were standout highlights, offering powerful moments of connection and growth for both of us. This nurturing environment helped us break free from traditional roles shaped by our cultural backgrounds, opening new paths for communication and intimacy. We left feeling grateful for the personalized approach and the meaningful shifts we experienced. It's an experience that truly helped us flourish together.

Their work is beautiful, intuitive and has so much grace. We spent time exploring tantric relationships and their sharing has helped us continue to grow our conscious relationship to another level. We are eternally grateful.

I was able to release deep tension stored in my body and experience a true orgasm in a way I never had before. Our communication and sex life has improved significantly. Their guidance was supportive, grounded, and transformative — for us as a couple and for me individually.

Your Guides

Michael & Astara

What makes this retreat rare is that it is rooted in lived devotion — as a married couple with a child, walking the path of Tantra and conscious relating together. They do not only teach these practices; they live them.

Michael

Somatic Healer · Breathwork Facilitator · Tantric Arts

Michael's path into this work began with a profound spiritual awakening in 2010. After growing up within modern Western conditioning, he spent the next decade studying Tantra, shamanism, somatic healing, and sacred sexuality, learning how to reconnect with soul and body in a healthy, integrated way. His approach weaves mental and emotional exploration with somatic healing into a holistic process that supports lasting transformation. He holds formal training in massage therapy, Chi Nei Tsang abdominal massage, and breathwork facilitation, and has also immersed himself in traditional Amazonian diets, spending weeks at a time in solitude with the support of master plants in the Mamankunawa lineage.

Astara

Himalayan Kriya Yoga · Radiant Touch Bodywork · Sacred Feminine

Grounded in the Tantric somatic arts, feminine holistic movement, breathwork, sacred sexuality, womb healing, and the wisdom of Himalayan Kriya Yoga, Astara creates immersive journeys that invite deep inner listening, softening, and reclamation. Her presence is both gentle and powerful, offering a container where wounds unravel, nervous systems soften, and the body remembers its sacred intelligence. Her own healing path — through depression, a profound kundalini awakening in India, and the transformative journey of motherhood — is the living source of her work.

Investment

Your Place in the Heart of Intimacy

$7,200 Per Couple · All-Inclusive · 5 Days / 4 Nights

Scholarships may be available for those truly in need — reach out and we will find a way.

4 nights luxury jungle suite

All meals by private chef

Daily somatic & Tantric sessions

SOMA Breathwork ceremonies

Himalayan Kriya Yoga mornings

Cacao ceremony

Dearmouring & bodywork

Saltwater infinity pool

Sauna & ice bath access

Gym use

Pacific beach day

Waterfall hike (optional)

Optional microdosing ceremony

Pre/post retreat support

Pre-arrival co-creation call

Integration practices to take home

A deposit holds your space · Payment plans available · Free cancellation up to 1 week before arrival

Michael and Astara personally respond to every inquiry. There is no automated system on the other end — only two people who have walked this path and want to walk beside you.