Elemental Healing
Finca Mia, Costa Rica
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April 5-12 2025
or
April 12-19, 2025
Hosted by Sunny Strasburg and Michele Taggart
Elemental Healing Retreat, Costa Rica
Each April, Sunny Strasburg, LMFT offers the annual Elemental Healing Retreat in Costa Rica for a full group of brilliant minds and souls. It is a transformational experience for all of us. Collaborating with Michele Taggart who owns and produces events at Finca Mia is inspiring and humbling. Their enchanting site on Mt Chirripo is a true labor of love, and the food is local, organic, dieta-friendly, and outstanding!
The retreat protocol was structured around the Hero's /Heroine's Journey and each group experience incorporated the alchemical elements of the Four Directions. This was developed based on the theme of Mrs. Strasburg’s Master's Thesis at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and based upon the work of C.G. Jung, Joseph Campbell, Marie Louis von Franz, and Edward Edinger. Group processing, individual therapy utilizing EMDR and Internal Family Systems, as well as extensive integrative support, is integral to the retreat. The healing elements of creativity…dancing, singing, and painting are interwoven throughout the week.
Are you feeling the call to deepen self awareness and activation? Let’s find ways together to apply and sustain these insights into our daily lives.
Seekers yearn for insight, replenishment, and for belonging to a community. In this endeavor, we may have powerful and inspiring awakenings in visionary spiritual journeys. Often, however, we revert to habitual and sub-optimal ways of coping as the freshness and vividness of the visions fade. We desire to sustain visionary and mystical awareness from these experiences in daily life with practical applications.
This retreat focuses on enhancing durable and proven integration techniques and is unique because it brings two experienced facilitators and four journeys together for a direct mystical experience. We will anchor visionary experience into psychological insight with narrative re-framing. We also use somatic processing to retain lasting change. We are more likely to create resiliency and enduring clarity when the journey is safely combined with best practices facilitated in a profoundly mystical and scientifically sound way.
This week-long retreat with Michele Taggart and Sunny Strasburg incorporates and facilitates four journeys with proper support.
In addition to journeys, we will offer group processing, art creation, Kirtan singing, and dance. Optional individual sessions are available with the trauma specialist, Sunny Strasburg.
Held in the green mountains of Costa Rica, on the foothills of Chirripo, our journeys take us up high into the air element with spiritual insight and epiphanies. Our travels take place in a maloca situated along the banks of the sacred Rio Talari, where we experience the element of water…flow, surrender, and depth. We gather around the bonfire and share tales of courage from our Inner Warrior with the element of fire. Finally, we return with deep integration, coming back to be grounded on Earth. This Heroine’s/Hero’s Journey serves as a reminder of our inner alchemy~ that as we may go out to the furthest reaches of spirit, face our fears, go into our unconscious depths, we return back to be grounded, landing, and rooted back into the Earth Herself.
We return to our lives enriched and enlivened, ready to activate in sharing our own special Medicine with the world. Our intention is to serve as midwives for your psyche to awaken and articulate the Medicine that lives within you. We will begin to release the psychological obstacles that have blocked our full expression in this life.
Testimonial
I've attended 2 retreats hosted by Sunny and each time has been an incredible experience which gave me new insights on myself, insights on the future of my business, things I need to build for my clients. Sunny is unique in her ability to blend ceremony/tradition, Internal Family Systems therapy, Jungian psychology with ketamine journeys. Her retreats have helped me heal my past and create my future. I have and will continue to recommend Sunny for anyone who's looking to start or continue on their leadership journey.
- Rob Kalwarowsky, High-Performance Leadership Coach at Elite High Performance
Pricing
$1200 non-refundable deposit is due by February 15, 2025.
However, these retreats are first come, first served and your deposit holds your spot! Space is limited.
Check out the rooming options on the Finca Mia Website.
$6100 Solo
$5250 Shared
$3510 Eco Solo
$3100 Eco Shared
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Lodging
Ceremonies
Psychotherapy, medical and integration support
Three healthy, mostly organic, and delicious meals per day
Roundtrip Ground Transport in Group Shuttle SJO/FM/SJO ($100 pp value)
On-site lodging - Check-in is at 3 pm. Check-out of cabins is at 9:00 am.
Luxury Cabins and Eco Lodging Cabin. Additional glamping options are available.
Amenities
Yoga Studio 1600 sqft, Props for 30, Sound System
Maloca Sacred Temple 26' diameter
Dining Room
Juice Bar
Pizza Oven
Community Spaces
Swimming Pool
Therapeutic Hot Tub
3 Fire Pits
River and Jungle Trails
River swimming Holes
Boutique with handcrafted items
Healing Massage Huts overlooking the river
Free WIFI
Hot Showers
Delicious spring water.
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Intake psychological appointment with Mrs Strasburg ($250)
Airfare
Individual therapy
Optional add-ons such as yoga, massage, kirtan, horseback riding, etc.
The focus is on deep integration for the landing back into our daily lives.
Sunny is Internal Family Systems trained and certified in psychedelic-assisted therapy, EMDR, ego state, and Jungian archetypal psychology. Magic and Jungian Archetypal Psychology will be interwoven into the experiences. There will be optional add-ons such as hiking, horseback riding, massage, acupuncture, and more. Read more about Sunny here.
Live musicians will be presenting music specifically created for the healing journeys.
Martin Stensaas and Sunny will facilitate painting and group mandala-making. We will create a large piece made by the entire Sangha---a collective piece that incorporates the magic we cocreate into a tangible object and reference point for the week. Group dance will be part of the therapeutic process.
Please note: In attending any of Mrs Strasburg’s retreats, it is required you are already established with and meet regularly with a therapist who is knowledgeable and supportive.
Please reach out with more questions, specifics and to sign up.