THE SACRED STEWARDSHIP
@SACREDSTEWARDSHIP
Maria
Josephine
Amy
THE SACRED STEWARDSHIP
THE DREAM LEADERSHIP RETREAT YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR.
A 4 Month Hybrid Coaching Container +
In-Person 7-Day Alchemical Journey for
Retreat Facilitators + Mission-Driven Leaders
(Online Coaching Container: February - May 2026)
(IRL Retreat: March 14-21 2026)
PURA VIDA RETREAT AND SPA - Alajuela, Costa Rica
If you are a woman+ teacher, facilitator, retreat leader or mission-driven leader who is ready to take the next step in your facilitation and leadership skills, this magical retreat and training experience is for you.
APPLICATIONS DUE JANUARY 19TH
Imagine for a Moment...
It’s a warm, golden morning in March. You’ve just returned from a grounding early movement practice—your bare feet still buzzing from the connection to the earth—and you step onto the balcony, overlooking the lush, emerald hills of Costa Rica.
The soft breeze carries the scent of blooming tropical flowers, and the distant sound of birdsong weaves with the gentle hush of the trees. The sunlight rests gently on your skin—not too hot, just right, holding you like an old friend.
And for the first time in a long time, you feel fully here—body, mind, and spirit in the same place at the same time
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But this is more than rest.
You didn’t come here just to unwind.
You came here to remember.
To step into the leader you were born to be.
Later today, you’ll gather with your circle—a sacred community of powerful women and femme leaders—each of you arriving at the same threshold of becoming. Together, you’ll sit in ceremony, share your truth, and reclaim the parts of yourself you thought you had to leave behind to lead.
There’s no need to perform here. No need to prove.
Just the clear, steady remembering of your own power, purpose, and presence.
By the end of this week, you’ll carry home not just new friendships, but a deeper relationship with your own leadership—rooted, embodied, and real.
THIS IS NOT JUST A RETREAT TRAINING.
IT IS A RECLAMATION OF THE LEADER YOU ALWAYS KNEW YOU WERE MEANT TO BE.
The Sacred Stewardship is for the space holders, facilitators, and leaders who are ready to root deeper, rise differently, and serve from a place of integrity and alignment.
WHO IS THIS EXPERIENCE FOR?
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Are offering services, experiences, or gatherings of any size — or feel called to
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Have hosted something before (a workshop, circle, day-long gathering, retreat, or community event) and want to grow from there
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Sense that your leadership and facilitation are ready to evolve, even if you’re not sure exactly how yet
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Feel the desire to expand what you offer — in scale, depth, or impact — while staying true to yourself
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Are curious about hosting longer retreats or more intentional gatherings, now or in the future
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Have encountered challenges around marketing, enrollment, energy management, or sustainability in past events (and want support, not judgment)
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Care deeply about creating meaningful, transformative experiences for the people you serve
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Have noticed yourself feeling stretched, tired, or over-extended in previous events and want tools to lead with more ease and nourishment
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Are interested in learning how to weave together embodied practices, thoughtful programming, adventure or place-based experiences, and true rest into a cohesive whole
You don’t need to have it all figured out. You don’t need to be “doing it perfectly.”
You simply need to feel the call to lead with more intention, care, and stewardship.
Said YES to 5+ of these questions?
This is the retreat for you.
This isn’t just a week-long experience — it’s a full journey of preparation, immersion, and integration.
When you join The Sacred Stewardship, you’ll also receive:
Pre-Retreat Group Coaching Calls to ground your intentions, meet your cohort, and prepare your nervous system and business for your retreat experience
Post-Retreat Integration Calls to help you integrate what you’ve learned, stay accountable to your leadership growth, and apply new tools to your real-world retreats
We believe that deep transformation unfolds over time — which is why our experience is held before, during, and after our time together in Costa Rica.
This is exactly why you are going to LOVE this empowering and growthful retreat!
This curated experience is designed especially for women+ just like you who are ready to grow, level-up their professional gifts, and step fully onto their strengths as leaders and facilitators.
From the educational workshops and embodied movement practices, to the constructive feedback sessions and portfolio-building photo-shoots,
this retreat is a nurturing and expansive environment that will foster your growth and transformation into the next phase of your leadership.
Held at one of Costa Rica's oldest and most celebrated retreat centers, you'll spend your week at Pura Vida Spa in the Volcanic Alajuela Hills. Nestled at a staggering 4,900 feet above sea level, this award-winning spa overlooks the enchanting Central Valley of San Jose, promising both panoramic views and a deep inner gaze.
OUR IMMERSIVE APPROACH:
TWO EXPERIENCES IN ONE WEEK
Our program offers a dual experience—immerse yourself as a retreat participant while acquiring the skills to facilitate your own retreats.
This is not just a training or certification program - it’s an immersive and embodied, one-of-a-kind,
retreat and training experience.
Our immersive approach gives you the opportunity to experience a retreat while learning essential tools to become an effective retreat leader and facilitator.
You’ll attend workshops, learn new facilitation skills, and have time to practice and receive feedback in a supportive container of other like-minded femme facilitators.
Learn from seasoned retreat facilitators while experiencing the magic of an all-inclusive retreat container.
PLUS!
This isn’t just a week-long experience — it’s a full journey of preparation, immersion, and integration.
This program includes pre and post retreat coaching calls, giving you the necessary time to prepare and make the most of our week together and sustain your visions and dream long after the week is over.
We believe that deep transformation unfolds over time — which is why our experience is held before, during, and after our time together in Costa Rica.
OUR CORE VALUES
Skillful Facilitation
A skillful facilitator is at the heart of every transformative retreat experience. Enhance your ability to guide groups with confidence and creativity while creating a grounded and stable environment from the mind, heart, body and soul.
Marketing with Heart
Emotional connections are at the core of every relationship. Establishing a deep sense of clarity is the foundation of a cohesive, authentic connection with your audience. Learn to build your connections through storytelling, empathy and vulnerability which creates a brand experience unique to you as a facilitator and leader.
Creating Transformation
Ignite passion and dynamic engagement in your participants using fire-inspired practices, ensuring they leave feeling inspired, empowered, and ready to pursue their goals. Your role as a facilitator is an essential component of fostering transformation for your participants. Curate your unique transformative experience through big picture thinking as well as tending to the tiniest of details.
Cultivating Inner Growth
To hold space, we must engage in held space ourselves. Practice self-reflection, self-care and engagement in our own transformative experiences to alchemize your growth. Alchemize your growth as a facilitator through self-reflection,self-care and your own transformative experiences to continue generative, empathic, holistic leadership.
TRANSFORM YOUR CRAFT INTO GOLD.
The DREAM Leadership Retreat you've ALWAYS wanted to attend.
Join us for an all-inclusive retreat immersion, in the lush and beautiful central valley of Costa Rica. Enjoy 8 days and 7 nights of a transformative retreat container while learning how to hone-in on your craft and turn it into a retreat offering.
In this unique retreat leader’s training program, you’ll get to experience the power of a retreat experience first hand while also learning essential tools for becoming a skillful retreat leader.
It’s not just the curriculum content and overall experience that makes this retreat transformative.
It’s also the hand-selected venue and Wellness Center at Pura Vida Spa that beckons all seeking profound transformation.
We believe that embodiment is an important part of the retreat leader process, which is why we leave space in the schedule and encourage students on the Sacred Stewardship to take advantage of the world-class massage and bodywork services available throughout our week.
This experience is guaranteed to help you level-up.
WHERE ARE YOU
PLAYING SMALL?
PURA VIDA
RETREAT AND SPA
Pura Vida Retreat and Spa is located in the Central Valley of Costa Rica. This retreat has a variety of rooms to choose from depending on your budget.
With budget-friendly 'glamping' tentalows to Luxury eco-suites, this wellness retreat can truly suit any budget.
You can create a curated experience
by choosing the accommodation style that will truly fill your cup.
Accommodation requests are filled on a first-come first served basis.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
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Transport to and from SJO International Airport
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7 nights of accommodations (duration dependent)
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All meals
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Daily Movement / Embodiment Practices (yoga, nidra, movement, integration)
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Daily Facilitation and Training Workshops
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Opening / Closing circle and Rituals
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Connection with other like-minded female facilitators who want to develop their craft into a retreat offering
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Retreat Marketing tools including templates, timelines, and strategy
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Professional Portfolio materials including headshot and facilitation photos
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Website design resources, and content creation instruction
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Deep dive immersion into facilitation training, space holding, and managing venue organizational logistics
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Learn from experienced retreat facilitators who focus on experiential learning and real-time feedback with over a two decades of combined experience in retreat production and event management
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Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Credits (for Yoga Teachers)
WHAT'S NOT INCLUDED
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Air Travel
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Travel Insurance
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Body Work
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Eco Adventure Tours
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This experience will be an immersive study in the art and structure of retreat facilitation and planning.
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You’ll spend the week refining your strengths and receiving constructive feedback while building your skillset and portfolio as a facilitator.
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Through daily facilitation workshops, role-playing exercises, and embodied practices, you’ll discover your leadership style and craft a vision for your next retreat.
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You will learn how to cohesively weave together the framework for a transformative retreat container, while honoring the needs for personal self-care, downtime, and integrative rest.
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At the end of the week, you’ll conclude your journey with a closing facilitation workshop focused on integration, closure, and preparation for re-entry into your everyday life.
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When you return home, you’ll walk away not only feeling inspired and nourished but also equipped with the clarity, confidence, and empowerment (not to mention the templates and marketing plan) needed to successfully plan, launch, and host your next retreat.
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PLUS: This isn’t just a week-long experience — it’s a full journey of preparation, immersion, and integration.When you join The Sacred Stewardship, you’ll also receive:
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Post-Retreat Integration Calls to help you integrate what you’ve learned, stay accountable to your leadership growth, and apply new tools to your real-world retreatsWe believe that deep transformation unfolds over time — which is why our experience is held before, during, and after our time together in Costa Rica.
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Pre-Retreat Group Coaching Calls to ground your intentions, meet your cohort, and prepare your nervous system and business for your retreat experience
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MEET BROCKELL AND RUTHANN,
YOUR FACILITATORS
Brockell facilitates transformational experiences for groups and individuals through embodiment practices, therapeutic coaching, integrative healing arts, yoga and somatic movement, and presence-based communication. She has guided retreats, trainings, and immersions globally for over a decade, an has led retreats in 5 countries.
Her passion lies in supporting people to experience embodied connection with their own fullness and human potential, and is honored bring this work into her role as a co-founder of the Sacred Stewardship experience. She is passionate about leading and guiding retreats as a sacred calling and believes it’s her medicine path. She sees the retreat container as a ‘portal space’; one that can transcend time and space, and deliver someone from where they are upon arrival to another completely unknown destination - a place to which they have never seen or gone before.
Brockell is an experienced registered yoga teacher (E-RYT500), Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT), the Founder of Wanderlust Women Travel Company, and is a faculty member at the Pacific Center for Awareness and Bodywork in Kauai, HI. She is also a passionate coach for women+ service-based entrepreneurs, and founder of the Profitable Retreat Leader’s Society - a 6 Month coaching program for female service based entrepreneurs where she helps them to double their impact and income with special events and retreats.
You can learn more about Brockell and her retreat work at www.wanderlustwomen.org. Or on Instagram at brockell_briddle.
BROCKELL BRIDDLE
Ruthann has spent the better part of two decades creating experiences for individuals all the way to large groups. Between retreats, festivals, conferences, summits, dinners of all sizes, she has come to deeply understand and master the amount of energy required to generate memorable experiences for transformation. Whether in the creation of a weekend retreat or month-long intensive, how we arrive to this facilitation magic directly impacts the creative outcome everyone part of the experience
She believes creative process is a sacred act that helps each of us bring our deepest callings and gifts forward. This creative courage allows us to take our dreams into reality and fulfill our callings. .
Ruthann has spent much of her career strategizing and catalyzing creative efforts through organized, thoughtful and collaborative architecture. With two decades of retreat and event production, she comes with logistical expertise, high attention to detail and the deep emotional and creative skills to help other find the radiance and confidence needed to execute their own offerings
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She holds a degree in Philosophy/Religion and Linguistics, has completed her 200 hr Yoga Teacher Training and 50 hr Meditation Teacher Training and continues her studies in Tantric Cosmology, Tarot Technology, Archetype and Shadow Work, Ritual, Ceremony, and Play
You can learn more about Ruthann at deicipher.com greatladiesclub.com.
RUTHANN GAGNON
