Deepen: A Couples Retreat
A 5-night couples retreat in Costa Rica for partners ready to deepen intimacy, strengthen communication, and grow into the next season of their relationship
September 27th- October 2nd 2026
Relationship is one of the greatest growth paths we walk.
It will ask everything of us —
our honesty, our humility, our courage, our capacity to listen, our willingness to repair, our devotion to truth, our ability to keep becoming.
And when it is tended well, relationship becomes more than something we sustain.
It becomes a place of profound nourishment, transformation, and life.
Thrive Together is a 5-night immersive retreat in Costa Rica for couples who want to deepen their connection, grow through relationship, and create a more intentional, alive, and nourishing partnership.
Whether you are newly coupled or have been together for 20+ years, this space is for partners who want to invest in the life they are building together.
This is not only for couples in crisis.
It is for couples with vision.
Couples who know there is more available.
More intimacy.
More truth.
More play.
More connection.
More depth.
More life.
This retreat is for couples who want to grow on purpose
Some couples wait until things are broken to seek support.
But thriving relationships are built by people willing to tend to them before disconnection becomes the norm.
This retreat is for couples who want to:
deepen emotional intimacy
strengthen communication
repair recurring patterns
reconnect through presence and play
grow their capacity for truth, listening, and partnership
create a more aligned and intentional foundation for the next season of life
remember what brought them together — and discover what wants to emerge now
Not just five beautiful nights away.
Not just important conversations in a beautiful place.
But a relationship that feels more rooted, more intentional, and more able to thrive in real life when you return home.
Maybe you’re in an incredible season and want to build on that.
Maybe you’ve felt distance creep in and want to reconnect.
Maybe you’re in a transition — parenthood, career shifts, burnout, healing, expansion — and you want to meet this season as a team.
Whatever season you’re in, if you want to deepen, thrive, and grow through relationship, this retreat is for you.
Why Costa Rica?
Costa Rica carries a certain medicine.
The warmth, the beauty, the water, the lushness, the rhythm of nature — all of it invites us to soften, slow down, and return to what matters.
So much of daily life pulls couples into urgency, responsibility, and routine. Costa Rica helps us step out of that and into a different quality of presence.
Here, the body can soften.
The nervous system can settle.
The heart can open.
And from that place, connection becomes easier.
Conversation becomes deeper.
Pleasure, play, and presence return.
This is not just a beautiful destination.
It is part of the medicine of the retreat.
What this retreat offers
Over 5 nights together, you and your partner will step into an experience that supports both depth and delight.
You’ll have space to:
reconnect without the usual distractions
explore the patterns shaping your relationship
strengthen the foundation of your partnership
grow your tools for communication, repair, and mutual understanding
experience each other beyond roles, routines, and responsibilities
rest, reflect, and remember what matters most
This is a retreat for couples who want both breakthrough and nourishment.
The inner work and the exhale.
The honest conversations and the beauty of being held by paradise.
Who this is for
This retreat is open to:
newly coupled partners who want to build a strong foundation
long-term couples who want to renew and deepen their bond
married couples
unmarried couples
couples without children
couples with children
couples in a good place who want to become even stronger
couples navigating challenge who want support, perspective, and reconnection
You do not need to be in crisis to come.
You only need to be willing.
Willing to show up.
Willing to grow.
Willing to deepen.
Willing to let relationship be a place that evolves you both.
A retreat that welcomes parents, too
This retreat is not only for parents — it’s for any couple who wants to deepen and thrive through relationship.
But if you are parents, we know childcare can be one of the biggest barriers to saying yes.
So we’ve created options to support you:
Kids Camp Option
We’ll have a kids camp available for children ages 3–7, so parents who want to attend can do so with support.
Bring a Caregiver
If you’d prefer to bring your own caregiver, you’re welcome to do that too — they can attend for the cost of accommodations only.
Because your relationship matters too.
Not just before children.
Not someday when life slows down.
Now.
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This retreat is rooted in the themes that help relationships truly thrive.
1. Communication that creates connection
Learn how to communicate in a way that fosters understanding rather than defensiveness, distance, or repetition of the same cycles.
2. Repairing recurring patterns
Every relationship has patterns. We’ll help you identify the ones shaping your dynamic and begin creating new ways of relating.
3. Emotional intimacy and deeper understanding
Move beyond logistics, assumptions, and surface-level relating into greater honesty, tenderness, and connection.
4. Partnership in your current season
Whether you’re newly together, raising children, building a vision, navigating change, or redefining your next chapter, we’ll support you in relating to this season as a team.
5. Shared growth and relational thriving
Explore how relationship can become a place where both people are supported to flourish — individually and together.
This is not about perfection.
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We believe relationships deserve to be nourished before they are depleted.
We believe couples need spaces where they can step out of the noise of daily life and truly see one another again.
And we believe that a thriving relationship is not built by accident — it is built through intention, care, truth, practice, and time devoted to what matters.
Our relationship has been a sacred path for both of us for a very long time. We have known each other since before we were teenagers. We still have notes from those early years, dreaming of the day we would wake up in the same bed and share the same last name. There was something in us, even then, that recognized the depth of what we were meant to become together.
We have now been in a committed relationship for 14 years, married for 11, and are raising three beautiful children together. Over all of these years, relationship has not simply been a part of our life — it has been one of our deepest teachers.
We do not believe relationship is meant to be a polished performance or the absence of challenge. We believe relationship is a path. A living orientation. A place where we are invited again and again into deeper honesty, deeper humility, deeper love, and deeper growth.
We know what it is to meet challenge. To misunderstand one another. To feel the weight of life, responsibility, parenting, and all that a shared life asks of two people. And we also know the beauty and strength that is forged when two people stay committed to listening, reflecting, repairing, telling the truth, and returning to one another again and again.
We know that love is not only revealed in the ease, but in how we fight, how we hold tension, how we stay when things are tender, how we soften, how we take responsibility, and how we choose one another through every season.
As a husband-and-wife team, we are not coming to this work from theory alone. We are living it. We are inside the practice of partnership every day. We are devoted to the work of building a relationship that is not only loving, but conscious, honest, nourishing, and alive.
This retreat was born from that knowing.
From our love for the work of conscious relationship.
From our deep belief that partnership can be a path of healing, devotion, and expansion.
And from our desire to create a space where couples feel supported not only to work through what is hard, but to build something truly strong, intimate, and life-giving together.
Imagine this…
Imagine five nights where your relationship gets to become the priority.
Imagine waking up in Costa Rica with nowhere to rush.
Imagine meaningful conversations with the space to actually finish them.
Imagine being supported to understand each other more deeply.
Imagine laughter, softness, beauty, truth, and renewed connection.
Imagine remembering yourselves not just as co-managers of life, but as partners. Lovers. Teammates. Humans becoming side by side.
Imagine being held by beauty while also being guided through the kinds of conversations and experiences that create real change.
Imagine leaving with not only beautiful memories — but with a stronger, more alive foundation for the life you’re creating together.
That is what Thrive Together is here to make possible.
What makes this retreat different
There are many beautiful vacations.
There are many relationship resources.
But this retreat brings together something unique:
A space where growth and connection meet.
Where your relationship gets to be seen as a living thing worth tending.
Where you are invited not just to “spend time together,” but to become more conscious in how you love, communicate, and build a life side by side.
This retreat honors that thriving relationships are created — through intention, devotion, honesty, and care.
Retreat details
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Our retreat will be held at Samasati Nature Retreat, a lush sanctuary nestled in the rainforest just above Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, one of our favorite towns in all of Costa Rica.
Samasati is perched on a jungle hillside with sweeping views of the Caribbean Sea, just a short 15-minute drive from the beach. It’s a peaceful, natural setting perfect for deep rest, inner work, and connection to nature.
Puerto Viejo is a vibrant coastal town known for its laid-back atmosphere, Afro-Caribbean culture, delicious food, reggae music, and stunning beaches. Between its crystal-clear waters, nearby waterfalls, and warm-hearted community, it’s a place that draws you into the rhythm of the Earth and invites you to slow down, soften, and receive.
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shuttle from San Jose to Samasati Nature Retreat *
5 nights in eco-retreat accommodations in the Costa Rican jungle
3 vegetarian meals daily, prepared with local ingredients
Daily Meditation & Yoga practices rooted in presence, breath, and awareness
Daily focused workshops
Time for rest, reflection, and embodiment
Post-retreat integration support
*There will be one shuttle picking guests up at Adventure Inn at 8am on September 27th. We are recommending guests to fly into SJO and book the night at Adventure Inn on September 26th to be ready to join the group shuttle the next morning.
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Base Retreat Tuition:
📿 $1,600 per person
(This includes all retreat sessions, practices, group processes, and facilitation)+ Your choice of accommodation & meal package:
*see “Support for parents” for children’s cost
Accommodation Options & Meal Packages:
All accommodations include 3 nourishing, locally-sourced meals per day.
🌿 Private Jungle Bungalows(4 total)
✨ 1 Large Bed • Private Bathroom
These peaceful, stand-alone bungalows are tucked into the jungle. Perfect for a couple.Double occupancy: $1,600 (tuition) + $1,350 (accommodation) = $2,950 per person
🌿 Loft-Style Bungalows(5 total)
✨ Sleeps 2–4 • Bathroom, Living Area & Terrace
Spacious bungalows with two single beds below and one full size in a private sleeping loft. A beautiful setup for a couple, or for a family to enjoy together.Shared accommodation: $1,600 (tuition) + $1,350 (accommodation) = $2,950 per person
🌿 Double Bungalows (2 total)
• 2 Beds Per Unit • Private Bathroom
Great for your caretaker! Simple and serene, these bungalows are perfect and in a quieter part of the retreat center.Accommodation:$1,250
🌿 Hostel-Style Rooms(5 total)
✨ Private (for caretaker) or Shared Room (for a couple)• Shared Bathrooms & Terrace
Budget-friendly and cozy, these rooms offer either a room with a full size bed or rooms with two single beds - with shared men’s and women’s bathrooms and a communal jungle terrace.Single Occupancy (for caretaker): $1150
Double Occupancy (for couples): $1,600 (tuition) + $950 (accommodation) = $2,550 per person
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We’re happy to welcome families! If you plan to bring your child(ren), we suggest reserving the Loft Style Bungalow for accomodation
✨ Kids Camp Option
We’re excited to offer a Kids Camp for children ages 3–7, led by our dear friend and experienced child care provider, Malati.
Cost: $585 per child
Includes:
🛏️ Shared accommodation with you
🍽️ Three nourishing meals per day
🎨 Daily Kids Camp during all adult group sessionsDuring Kids Camp, your little ones will enjoy:
Arts & crafts
Story time
Nature-based creative play
A warm, loving space to learn and explore
This option allows you to fully drop in and receive the retreat experience, knowing your child is nearby and cared for. There will still be plenty of free time to enjoy adventures together as a family.
👩🏽🍼 Prefer to bring your own caretaker?
If you’d rather opt out of Kids Camp:
Children under 3 years old are free
Children ages 4–8 can come for $160 each (meals + accommodation)
Children 9+ are $450 (meals + accommodation)
A caretaker joining you will simply pay for their accommodation + meal package
🌀 Not sure if bringing your child is the right fit?
We’re happy to connect personally and help you discern what’s best for your family.
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6:30am — Meditation
7:15am — Yoga
8:30am — Breakfast
10:30am — Group healing practice or workshop / Marma / Inquiry
1:00pm — Lunch & rest
4pm — Guided process / Waterfall / Nature immersion / free time
6:00pm — Dinner
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Shuttle to and from San Jose is included!
There will be one shuttle picking guests up at Adventure Inn at 8am on September 27th. We are recommending guests to fly into SJO and book the night at Adventure Inn on September 26th to be ready to join the group shuttle Saturday morning.
The return shuttle will leave Samasati around 7:30 AM on October 2nd heading straight to San José (SJO) airport. The drive typically takes between 4 to 6 hours, depending on traffic and weather conditions.
With that in mind, you have two options:
Book a later afternoon flight on October 2nd (to allow for travel time and airport check-in),
orStay overnight in San José on the 2nd and fly out the following day.
Airport Transfers The closest international airport to Samasati is Juan Santamaria Airport (SJO) in San Jose. This international airport is a 4-6 hour drive from Samasati or 90 minutes of travel via domestic flight to Limon airport with a shuttle ride to Samasati.
4 – 6 hour scenic drive with local food along the way
If you are in a road trip / exploration mood you can drive, take a private taxi or a shuttle service. The middle part of the drive is quite scenic as you will go through the mountains in a national park and you will get to stop over at spots serving local food. This drive duration will vary on traffic and how long you stop.
The shuttle ride is about $52 per person and the private taxi is $200. If there are more than 6 of you, we would charter a private shuttle for you which would be more cost effective.
Please check https://www.caribeshuttle.com/ for the latest schedule for departures from San Jose Airport to Samasati ( enter Puerto Viejo as the destination to get the schedule). Caribe recommends that you land 90 – 120 mins before the departure of the shuttle as it could take time to go through customs and collect luggage. However, our guests have made it with an hour to spare if you want to take that chance.
Local plane ( https://www.flysansa.com/en )
If you would rather just land and get here as quickly as possible there are local flights available:
– SJO To Limon Airport- 35 minute flight – about $100
Caribe Shuttle (https://www.caribeshuttle.com/) from Limon to Samasati – 40 minute drive – about $22Overnight Stay before heading to Samasasti
If you land too late to make the shuttle or the flight, then you can stay overnight at our partner hotel https://www.adventure-inn.com/ – they will give you a discount if you mentioned Samasati Yoga & Wellness Retreat referred you.
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✘ Airfare to/from Costa Rica
✘ Transportation to/from the retreat center if not on the shuttle*
✘ Additional excursions (surf lessons, horseback riding, etc.)
✘ Bodywork or healing sessions outside the group experience
✘ Snacks or beverages outside of provided meals
✘ Travel insurance*There will be one shuttle picking guests up at Adventure Inn at 8am on Saturday, September 26th. We are recommending guests to fly into SJO and book the night at Adventure Inn on September 25th to be ready to join the group shuttle Saturday morning.
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To reserve your space, a non-refundable deposit of $1,000 is required at the time of booking.
If you need to cancel for any reason, please notify us as soon as possible. The following applies:
All payments become non-refundable 45 days before the retreat start date.
Prior to that 45-day mark, any payments made beyond the deposit may be refunded.
If you are unable to attend, you may transfer your spot to another participant (pending approval).
This retreat is for the couple who knows there is more available
More intimacy.
More partnership.
More safety.
More aliveness.
More joy.
More truth.
More growth.
More us.
If you and your partner are ready to invest in your relationship — not because it’s failing, but because it matters — we would love to welcome you to Costa Rica.
How to Book
Prices are per person, so each retreat participant will need to book their own accommodation selection.
Choose your accommodation and any childcare add-ons, then add them to your cart.
If you are booking for additional children, first add your main accommodation to the cart. Then return to the product page, select “None” for accommodation, choose the childcare add-on for your additional child, and add that to your cart separately.
If you are bringing a caretaker, first add your main accommodation to the cart. Then return to the product page, select the caretaker’s accommodation option, and add that to your cart separately.
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No. This retreat is for any couple that wants to deepen, thrive, and grow through relationship — whether newly coupled or together for decades.
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Not at all. This retreat is not only for couples in difficulty. It’s for couples who want to be intentional and invest in the health and growth of their relationship.
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If you are parents, we have a kids camp option for children ages 3–7.
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Yes. If you want to bring a caregiver, you can — they are welcome to attend for the cost of accommodations only.