“I felt safe, energized, and surrounded by extraordinary moments of connection and powerful self-reflection.”
— Amanda
A Wisdom Well Becoming Retreat
She Remembered Her Fire
Costa Rica • April 18–24, 2027
A feminine-centered retreat rooted in remembering, rest, ritual, and the wisdom already living within you.
Opening Invitation
Women Carry Ancient Layers of Knowing
Wisdom held in the mind, heart, body, spirit, and ancestral line. Sometimes we simply need the space to hear it again.
She Remembered Her Fire is a soft, spacious retreat for you if you are ready to pause, reconnect, and return to the wisdom already living within you.
This is not about becoming someone else. It is about remembering what has always been there.
Why This Retreat
For the Woman Whose Life
Has Become Loud
Life can ask us to move faster, carry more, and listen to ourselves less. Over time, the quiet places inside us can become harder to hear.
This retreat is designed as a gentle exhale for the woman standing at a threshold — craving clarity, rest, reflection, and meaningful connection.
This retreat may meet you if you feel:
- “I have been carrying so much. I need space to hear myself again.”
- “Something is shifting. I can feel it, but I need room to listen.”
- “I am ready to reconnect with my instinct, my voice, and my inner fire.”
Here, you will be:
- Witnessed without pressure
- Supported with grounded care
- Nourished by the land, meals, rhythm, and circle
- Gently invited back into relationship with the wisdom you already hold
“There are parts of ourselves the world teaches us to quiet. This retreat is an invitation to listen again.”
The Foundation of This Retreat
The Wisdom Well is not a program to complete.
It is a practice of remembering and reconnecting with the wisdom already living within you.
This practice becomes the architecture that holds the retreat experience — gently woven through circle, rest, reflection, ritual, conversation, creativity, and the land itself.
The Wisdom Well Practice
The Five Ways of Knowing
Throughout the retreat, we explore the Five Ways of Knowing as a grounded framework for reconnecting with feminine wisdom:
- Mind — clarity, insight, meaning
- Heart — intuition, compassion, emotional truth
- Body — instinct, boundaries, presence
- Spirit — resonance, purpose, possibility
- Ancestors — lineage, memory, inherited strength
The Rhythm of the Retreat
A Week Designed with Spaciousness
- Slow mornings
- Grounding rituals
- Shared meals
- Reflective practices
- Creative exploration
- Spacious afternoons
- Elemental excursions
- Fireside conversations
- Rest without guilt
- Nervous-system-friendly pacing
This retreat is intentionally designed with spaciousness. The schedule may gently shift in service of the land, the weather, and the needs of the circle.
Daily Experience Flow
Your Week Inside the Circle
A spacious rhythm of arrival, rooting, listening, rest, ritual, creative reflection, ceremony, and integration.
Day 0 — Arrival & Gentle Landing
April 17
Arrival in San José, airport transfer to Buena Vista Chic Hotel, and time to settle in and rest.
Day 1 — Soft Entry
April 18 — Sunday
Breakfast together, Poás Volcano excursion, lunch at a local soda, journey to Finca 360, time to settle into the retreat, and opening gathering + dinner.
Day 2 — Rooting Into the Land
Morning grounding practice, opening circle, Wisdom Well exploration, connection to land + self, and evening reflection.
Day 3 — Listening for What Wants to Rise
Reflective practices, waterfall excursion, journaling + creative exploration, and spacious integration time.
Day 4 — Rest, Ritual & Remembering
Massage day, restorative rhythm, creative goddess portrait work, and fireside weaving / evening reflection.
Day 5 — Wisdom, Fire & Becoming
Eco farm tour, farm-to-table experience, archetypal exploration, and layered symbolic reflection work.
Day 6 — Ceremony & Integration
Cacao ceremony, closing circle, ritual + reflection, integration practices, and celebration dinner.
Departure — Carrying the Wisdom Home
April 24
Return to San José with overnight hotel stay included.
April 25
Departure home.
This is a living, breathing schedule — details and timing may shift in service of the group, the land, and what is most supportive for you and the circle.
Creative + Symbolic Exploration
Reflective Practices for the Deeper Layers
Throughout the week, you will engage in reflective and creative practices designed to help you reconnect with the deeper layers of your wisdom, voice, instincts, and becoming.
Reflection
Journaling + storytelling,intuitive prompts,and spacious listening.
Creation
Mixed-media work,layered textures + symbolism,and creative process.
Ritual
Grounded symbolic practicesfor presence, meaning,and integration.
The Venue
Hotel Finca 360, Costa Rica
Our retreat home is Hotel Finca 360, a private mountain retreat environment surrounded by rainforest, clouds, volcano views, and open-air spaces designed for gathering, nourishment, and slowness.
Here, Costa Rica becomes part of the container itself — the water, jungle, sky, textures, meals, and spacious views all supporting a deeper return to self.
The experience is intentionally held in a way that allows you to land fully, rest deeply, and feel connected to nature, the circle, and your own inner wisdom.
Retreat Reflections
What the Circle Has Held
Soft echoes from women who have experienced this retreat container.
What’s Included
- 2 nights in a San José hotel (April 17 + April 24)
- 6 nights at Hotel Finca 360
- All meals
- All transportation
- All excursions
- All activities + retreat session supplies
- Welcome kit
- Pre-retreat orientation calls
- Post-retreat integration support call
What’s Not Included
- Airfare to Costa Rica
- Health + travel insurance
- Passport renewal fees
- Personal spending / souvenirs
- Tips / gratuities
- Any accommodation or transportation outside the identified retreat schedule
Retreat Investment
A Small, Intentionally Held Circle
This retreat is intentionally designed as a small-group experience in order to preserve spaciousness, depth, meaningful connection, and individualized support throughout the week.
Space is intentionally limited.
Solo Retreat Experience
Enjoy your own private room and dedicatedpersonal space throughout the retreat.
Early Bird
$5,000 CAD
Before November 1, 2026
Regular Rate
$5,500 CAD
November 1, 2026 onward
Soul Sister Shared Experience
Some journeys become even moremeaningful when shared.
If two women choose to experience the retreat together while sharing one room, we offer a special shared investment.
Early Bird
$8,500 CAD
Base room investment of $5,000 + additional shared participant investment of $3,500.
Regular Rate
$9,000 CAD
Base room investment of $5,500 + additional shared participant investment of $3,500.
This option is available exclusively to women who will be participating fully in the retreat.
Payment Options
Additional payment schedule details will be provided upon registration.
Who This Retreat Is For
If You’re Craving Space to Hear Yourself Again
- You feel something shifting
- You are standing at a threshold
- You are craving spaciousness
- You long to reconnect with yourself
- You are seeking reflection, clarity, nourishment, and meaningful connection
- You feel called toward deeper remembering
If you feel the whisper, this retreat may be for you.
Your Guide
Lori Anne (LA) Jones
Lori Anne (LA) Jones is the founder of The Wisdom Well and CEO of SHIFT Strategies. For 25+ years, she has supported women, leaders, and communities through meaningful change, deep listening, and grounded transformation.
As a facilitator, guide, space holder, and leadership mentor, LA creates emotionally safe spaces where you can pause without pressure, reconnect without forcing, and remember what is already whole within you.
Her work is rooted in grounded feminine leadership, wisdom keeping, and the belief that becoming is not about fixing yourself — it is about returning to the truth already living inside you.
Your Invitation
Come home to yourself.
Come sit in circle.
Come remember the fire that has always lived within you.
Your Becoming begins the moment you say yes.