Sunday, February 16th
Arrival Day
Shuttle departs San Jose 2PM
Monday, February 17th
8AM Embodied Earth with Jessi Marino
Small Break
11 Connection + Boundaries with Heather
Long Break
430 Breathwork with Chrissy Marie
Welcome Dinner 7:30PM
Tuesday, February 18th
8AM Embodied Water with Jessi Marino
Small Break
11AM Art Class with Erica
Long Break
430PM Song + Voice with Sarah Bishop
Small Break
730PM Botanical Self-Nourishment with Tori
Wednesday, February 19th
8AM Embodied Fire with Jessi Marino
Small Break
11AM The Whispers of the Ents with Kim
Long Break
430PM Latin Dance with Isa
Small Break
730PM Shamanic Shibari with Celia
Thursday, February 20th
Adventure Day to Waterfall + Natural Pools
730 PM Connection Circle / Ecstatic Dance on the Beach
Friday, February 21st
8AM Embodied Air with Jessi Marino
Small Break
11AM The Art of Play with Justine
Long Break
430PM Sound Bath with Fern Olivia Langham
Small Break
730PM Heart Coherence with Heather
Saturday, February 22nd
8AM Embodied More with Jessi Marino
Small Break
11AM Breathwork with Chrissy
Long Break
4:30PM Closing Ceremony
Small Break
Farewell Dinner 7:30PM
Sunday, February 23rd
Departure Day
Shuttle departs Puerto Viejo Cariblue at 6AM
C O M I N G 2 0 2 6
2025 Costa Rica Facilitators
Jessi Marino
Jessi is an artist of primal embodiment and tender of soma gardens, who poetically pours presence over soul whispersinging us HOME.
She curiously untangles all we think we know for sure - and crafts space for the emergent potential of limitless cycles of regeneration, creation, decay and wild soulfed living.
She’s has been guiding embodiment, and advanced energetics, while training hundreds of teachers around the world for almost 16 years. She’s mentored dozens of budding priestesses, energy workers, and wellness guides in their personal development, professional skills and conscious business practices since 2017. She’s lead sold out retreats in 4 countries and is ecstatic to be home deeply anchoring in CT after living in Costa Rica for just shy of 3 years, her husbands home place.
She is an animist who tends a deep kinship with the natural world, the seasons, and the agricultural - pagan wheel of the year. A practicing Witch, she believes that we weave our path in this life with a lot of trust and a pinch of magick.
Chrissy Marie Tucciarone
Chrissy Marie is a trauma-informed Embodiment Practitioner, Inner Child Liberator, Breathwork Facilitator, and founder of the Art of Aliveness Podcast. She comes alive helping people experience spaciousness, depth, catharsis and creativity through their voice. Her approach is playful, grounded, and co-creative. She draws from over 10 years of studying embodiment practices, inner child work, and neuroscience to bring a safe, warm and lighthearted flavor to the healing relationship. Her clients say they're drawn to her for her authenticity and playfulness, and stay with her because they unlock this in themselves. You can find her rearranging her home, singing in nature, or dancing wildly at the steering wheel.
instagram.com/comealivewithchrissy
Heather Bianca
Heather is fluent in subtle energy and stillness and finds immense peace and ease in conscious relating.
She believes it is an art form to have the ability to generously listen with presence and curiosity for how others show up in the world.
Heather works to understand the intricacies and nature of interaction between all living beings and things and is fascinated by the myriad of relating styles.
Through deep listening and observation, she approaches relationships with intentionality, respect and transparency.
Heather has trained with tantra practitioners and teachers from around the world and has been involved in global organizations for 7+ years focusing on personal development/growth.
She also received her RYT 500 with Wild Essence yoga schools in depth program.
With these Intensive Workshops, Tantra intensives and practitioner trainings she has discovered a love and passion for alchemizing and transmuting stagnant energy which has allowed her to cultivate a life with a deeper sense of joy and fulfillment.
Heather’s purpose is to support others in learning about authentic relating and conscious communication, and to bring these concepts to many beings as possible in order to dismantle and rework patterns that aren’t serving for their highest good.
Her intention is to give others a toolbox of resources, practices and rituals to embody a sovereign and autonomous way of living.
1:1 Sessions available @$100hr
Kim Jakubowski
Kim is an earth artist and a lover of both dirt and sky. An avid birder, forager, gardener, photographer and insect enthusiast, she embraces the natural world around her with gusto and deep reverence. She has been supporting individuals with mental illness, developmental, and physical disabilities for over twenty years and has been a student of Wild Essence for over ten years. She is a strong advocate for the unsupported and underserved, has a knack for blossoming one's appreciation for the microcosm of the world, and loves sunrise bird walks with friends.
Class : Whispers of the Ents What will the trees say when you actually stop and truly listen? We will take a journey through the forest and discover how to slow down and really hear the messages this land is waiting to tell us.
instagram.com/kimbuglycreations
Ala carte services:
Wild Woman Photoshoot- $200 Venmo or cash
Erica Treaster
After a revolutionary health journey @erica_ashdyn is returning to Costa Rica for our retreat to teach and receive! Alongside Kim, Erica is an OG a pivotal part of the Wild Essence world since 2013! Erica is an incredible artist, guide and human and it’s a gift to once again list her name on our schedule for the Costa Rica retreat in February!
Erica-Ashdyn is a Creativity Enchantress that translates the world through diverse, artistic lenses of Expressionism. She guides others to unlock their creativity, rooted through the imagination of their inner child, and celebrate their inventive levels of wonderment. Her desire to show up FULLY in spaces to awaken inspiration and raw expression is a dialect in which she communicates. With over 20 years of creative self-study, 12 of those years implementing creativity within trauma informed residential programs, Art education, and Art Therapy Certification, she has nested in Niantic as a full time Artist. This sacred space has supported her vision of weaving Ceremony into the tattooing industry through ink therapy.
Al a Carte:
45min private Cosmic Canvas sessions
Sigil tattoo -brown + red ink only
Sarah Bishop
Sarah Bishop @singwithbish Vocalist + Vocal Alchemy Teacher
Originally from a small town north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Sarah is a professional singer, actor, dancer, musician, songwriter and teaching artist. After graduating from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, earning her BFA in Musical Theater, she moved to New York City where she has worked professionally in musicals, theater, and commercials for the last 8 years. She has performed internationally, but her favorite credits include Roundabout Theater Company’s Tony- Award Winning Production of Cabaret, The Sound of Music (Maria), The Producers (Ulla), The Other Josh Cohen and various workshops and for upcoming Broadway shows, including Griswold’s Broadway Vacation.
She has taught for a decade, and began her teaching journey when she became Pennsylvania’s Junior Miss in 2011. Her non-profit platform, “Be Your Best Self- Exposure to the Performing Arts” educated adults and children alike on the importance of art education in school. Her project gained national attention when she was awarded the “Public Service Award” at America’s Junior Miss. She has worked through Roundabout Theater Company’s Teaching Artist Program, where she was able to educate kids across the country on the process of putting up full theater productions. Sarah was nationally recognized in competitive choir and participated in every PMEA festival that was available to her. Sarah has also served as the Artistic Director of the StrandTastics, a youth show choir, at the Strand Theater in Pennsylvania. Since 2020, Sarah has served as Associate Voice Teacher in the world renowned vocal studio EKMstudios. Sarah now loves connecting with her private students all over the world!
Tori Cummings
Tori Cummings is a Holistic Health Expert, Medicine Woman, Multi-faceted Healer & Folk Herbalist who yearns to liberate the people who choose to work with her into the deepest fulfillment of their soul.
Tori is a Hedonist, an Educator & Mentor, an Optimist, a Revolutionary woman walking the path of service to help people come home into the truth of who they are through crafting Herbal Medicines, sharing Plant Medicine Ceremonies, creating online offerings to educate and heal, and training those who feel called to walk the path of being a healer.
Tori fell in love with the path of Holistic Healing in 2014, where she was first introduced to yoga, energy healing & plant medicines that changed her life.
She dove deep into and studied or trained in Nutrition, Herbalism, Yoga, Energy Healing, Trauma Informed Leadership, Ceremonial Facilitation, Bodywork, Working with Expanded States of Consciousness, Wild Priestess Apprenticeship & all things Holistic Healing. She has studied with world renowned Healers across the globe and has traveled to other countries to study and work with healers around the globe to be in service to her community in beauty way.
She loves to serve her community in healing, in gaining education on how to lead a holistic lifestyle, training other healers on their path to be phenomenal well-resourced space holders of transformation, and sharing herbal medicines to welcome you back into your truth & the wisdom of the Ancients bridged with Modern Knowledge.
A La carte Services:
Alchemical Energy Healing Sessions
Plant Medicine Mentorship Sessions
Thai Bodywork Sessions
Celia Bostock
Shamanic Shibari guide. Celia is a Rope Faery, Energy Worker, and
Instinctual Chaos Witch. She has been a member of the kink/BDSM community for over a decade and fell in love with the art of Shibari/rope bondage early on in her journey. She has attended kink & Shibari conferences across the US and internationally; participated in gorilla rope bondage anywhere and everywhere from the middle of a crowded city to an abandoned town in the depths of the desert; has helped run community BDSM spaces; and taught kink education and rope bondage both in-person and online.
She brings a unique perspective, combining her love of rope and a passion for educating others with her background as a professionally trained dancer, RYT 200, and energy worker trained in Peruvian shamanism from the Q’ero lineage.
Professionally, Celia is an accountant who worked in public accounting before leaving to start her own business, Telling the Bees, which offers accounting and bookkeeping services with a focus on supporting entrepreneurs and small businesses.
She is excited to teach in the beloved Wild Essence community and share her practices that combine energetics, embodiment, and rope bondage.
A la carte services:
-Energetic rope bondage sessions
-Learning to tie foundational knots for rope bondage
Justine Wheeler
Justine Wheeler is your friendly neighborhood circus queen, self love facilitator, cacao enthusiast, and 200hr RYT.
She grew up an actress, singer, and dancer, aspiring to make it her career one day. After being told by her mom that she couldn’t go to college for her dreams, she ended up finding circus arts on her own and turning it into her career! This proved to Justine that everything happens for a reason and when you’re meant to do something, it’ll find its way to you one way or another. She has been professionally performing for 8 years now!
In 2018 Justine started practicing Yoga and loved how it changed her life. She decided to take a 200hr YTT in 2019 so she could help share the practice that changed her life with others in hopes it would change their lives too. Since then, she has dove down the rabbit hole of holistic healing and is on a journey to learn so much more!
Justine desires to inspire & help others find their inner spark to follow their passions and be the best versions of themselves that they desire to be.
A la carte
1:1 Council/Emotional Support
Private Hoop lessons
Private Fire lessons
Private cacao ceremony
Isa Wiskerchen
I’ve been teaching Latin rhythms in Puerto Viejo for the past 7 years and have had the privilege of being part of the Hedonism Retreat since its inception. It’s been incredible to witness the growth of the women who attend—seeing them gain confidence, embrace the beauty of connection, and explore the dynamic of leading and following through dance.
At this retreat, I’m excited to share my passion for Latin rhythms and guide you through the energy and joy that movement can bring. Whether you’re deepening your dance skills or stepping into partner work for the first time, I’m here to support you as you move, trust, and grow. I’m truly grateful to be part of this journey and can’t wait to see where the dance takes us!