Unlock Your True Potential and Step into 2025 with Clarity and Purpose
As the year comes to a close, it's easy to feel weighed down by unfinished goals, unhealed wounds, and the uncertainty of the future. But what if the start of 2025 could be your opportunity for a radical shift? What if you could step into the new year with a heart full of gratitude, an empowered mind, and a clear sense of purpose?
At Shankara Experience, our Gratitude & Abundance New Year’s Retreat is not just about relaxation—it’s about deep transformation. Located in the heart of Costa Rica’s vibrant jungle, this immersive retreat is designed to guide you through powerful practices and workshops that will give to the opportunity to reflect deeply, unlock your highest potential and align you with the abundance you deserve.
What makes this Retreat unique?
In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to feel stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected from your dreams. This retreat is designed to help you release limiting beliefs, reconnect with your inner power, and harness the creative energy needed to manifest the life you desire. Through carefully curated practices and experiences, you’ll transform old patterns, create space for new possibilities, and welcome abundance into every area of your life.
This retreat is not just an escape—it’s an opportunity to reset, realign, and design the life you want to create in the year ahead.
This retreat is for you if:
This retreat is for anyone ready to take control of their life’s narrative and step into 2025 with clarity, intention, and passion. If you’ve felt:
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Stuck in repetitive cycles or limiting beliefs,
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Disconnected from your goals or inner purpose,
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Overwhelmed by the pressures of daily life,
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Eager for tools to manifest abundance and fulfillment,
This retreat offers you the space, guidance, and community to break free, realign, and thrive.
If even a single reason calls to you, then you owe it to yourself to secure your spot with us.
What Will You Experience?
Each day of this retreat builds upon the last, guiding you through a deeply transformative journey:
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Ground & Reflect: Acknowledge and honor the lessons of 2024 with yoga, meditation, and coaching exercises that help you release what no longer serves you.
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Embrace Silence: Experience a full day of silence to cleanse your mind, create space, and foster deep inner clarity; closing the year with intention.
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Manifest with Intention: Dive into workshops like Limiting Beliefs and Clarity & Inner Wisdom Workshop to prepare you for your highest aspirations.
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Celebrate Transformation: Step into your future self during the “Manifest the New You” Party, a fun and empowering evening where you embody the version of you that already lives your dreams.
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Anchor the New: Start 2025 with rituals, meditations, and workshops like Vision board & Anchoring in New Beliefs to set the foundation for a fulfilling year ahead.
Daily Yoga and Meditation
During the six days of your stay, you will have a daily yoga and meditation sessions. Our yoga sessions will include the best practices from different yogas, such as Hatha, Flow, Bhakti, and Yin. This will ensure that you can dive deep within yourself and connect your inner self with the present moment. As we take everyone step by step, everyone feels welcome and supported.
Some of the highlights of this retreat:
Limiting Beliefs Workshop
Let go of past burdens by becoming aware of what is holding your back and leaving it behas you enter the new year.
Cacao Ceremony & Sound Journey
It is a heart-opening experience combining cacao's sacred energy with sound's healing vibrations.
Kirtan and Voice Activation
Find your true voice and allow yourself to fully express it. Unite your voice with others in a powerful expression of devotion, love, and joy.
Vision Board Workshop
A creative and empowering experience where you craft visual representations of your goals and aspirations, to inspire and manifest your dreams.
Deep Connection with Nature
The retreat facility is a tropical haven that provides the ideal setting for your adventure. Use your leisure time: Read an excellent book while relaxing on a hammock. Discover the jungle paths teeming with exotic fauna such as blue morpho butterflies, hummingbirds, and toucans, and cool down at a nearby waterfall or natural rock pool. You can also immerse yourself in meaningful connections with like-minded individuals, fostering lifelong friendships that will inspire and support you beyond the retreat.
Nourishing Vegan Cuisine
Savor colorful, lovingly prepared fresh plant-based meals. Every meal is created to assist you in changing and revitalizing your body with mostly organic ingredients, locally sourced. Feel contentment, lightness and deeply nourished with every meal.
Retreat Schedule
A Day in the Retreat Life
7:00 AM
Yoga and Meditation
9:00 AM
Healthy Vegan Breakfast
10:00 AM
Clarity & Inner Wisdom Workshop
1:00 PM
Lunch and Rest
4:00 PM
Voice Activation & Cacao Ceremony
6:00 PM
"Manifest the New You Party", Dinner, Kirtan, Soul Songs & Sound Journey
Each day will differ slightly, other activities like Limiting Beliefs Workshop, Vision Board Creation, Fire Circle, Life Dance, Anchoring in New Beliefs Workshop & optional Waterfall hike. Check-in is December 29th at 1pm and check-out is January 3rd at 12:30pm.
Included
Daily yoga and meditation sessions.
Voice Activation
"Manifest the New You" & Vision Board Workshop
Gestalt & Psychodrama workshop
Cacao Ceremony, Kirtan & Sound Journey
Three nights of accommodation in serene jungle surroundings.
Three nourishing, plant-based meals per full day.
Access the beautiful retreat grounds, including jungle trails and natural pools.
Optional guided waterfall hike.
Not Included
Flights
Cost of massages / treatments offered
Personal spending
Transport: There is various different transport options from and to SJO or XQP airport. Let us know if you need support. A WhatsApp group will be created prior so that you can also arrange transfer share with fellow retreaters to help minimize costs.
Anything else not mentioned in the 'included' list
Contact us if you are already in the area and do not need accommodation.
Your Accommodation Options
Choose from several cosy and eco-friendly options to suit your preference:
Flights, transfers, and travel insurance are not included. We can help arrange airport transfers for an additional fee.
Limited spots are available! Reserve your spot now!
Meet Your Hosts
Patricia Grimaldi
Patricia, the co-founder of Shankara Retreat Center, is an accomplished yoga instructor and transformational facilitator with over ten years of experience. Her enthusiasm for Ayurveda, Bhakti Yoga, psychology, spirituality and individual development inspires her to create safe, supportive environments where individuals can step out of conditioning and into their true selves.
Gabriel Grimaldi
Gabriel, the other co-founder of Shankara, is a professional musician but mainly a lifelong seeker of truth who focuses on self-discovery and Jnana Yoga. Influenced by Ramana Maharshi's teachings, Gabriel is committed to assisting people in discovering their inner truth and leading purposeful, peaceful, and clear lives.
Still Need a Nudge?
Are you ready to create a Life You Love in 2025? This retreat is for those ready to take ownership of their creative power and design a future aligned with their heart’s true desires. By blending deep introspection with joyful celebration, holistic practices & powerful workshops, you’ll leave with tools and confidence to manifest a year filled with purpose, bliss, and abundance. Take the first step towards your best year yet. Spaces are limited.
Testimonials
"Since the Retreat, I have become a kinder, lighter soul."
Alyssa S., Teacher
This retreat taught me practical tools I can implement in my life and it gave me a new perspective. I'm able to see the positive in places I previously was unable to (like at work). The retreat also made my aspirations for my future feel more within my reach. After 3 months I've already began setting into motion (or perhaps calling in) some of the things I desired to manifest over the next 3 years, and that makes me very excited and happy! I became more aware of some of the negative self-talk patterns that run through my thoughts. I gained more confidence (and decrease my anixieties) around my future.
Rachel R., Graphic Designer
Since the retreat, I have become a kinder, lighter soul. I feel more connected to my surroundings, more creative and able to connect with the life I feel capable of living. I learned to really fall in love with myself, to believe that I am capable of creating the life I dream of having. I accepted parts of me that I have previously hidden from, and in doing so am helping change the parts I no longer find true anymore.Patricia and Gabriel are incredibly special souls, both as individuals and as a couple! Patricia embodied sunshine. Whenever she arrived to a space, whether it be to yoga, a workshop, or breakfast, I felt immediately supported and guided towards the warm, joyous frequency she naturally vibrates from. Gabriel embodied a sense of tranquility I'd like to find more of within myself.
FAQs
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Is this retreat for everyone?Yes and No. This retreat is only for people who are willing to take responsibility for the lives, make some changes and do the transformation.
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I have a medical condition or injury, can I join?"It really depends. Please ask your medical doctor/physician and get in touch with us to see if it is possible for you to attend depending on what your personal condition is.
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I do not have any experience in yoga, can I join?"Yes. If you are eager to learn, if you are able to move, if you are open and want the transformation, then you are welcome to join.
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What happens if I have to cancel?We have a cancelation policy: - If you cancel up to 30 days before the start date you get 90% of your money back - If you cancel up to 15 days before the start date you get 60% of your money back - If you cancel up to 8 days before the start date you get 30% of your money back - If you cancel 8 - 0 days before the start date you get 10% of your money back We recommend you to make a travel & health insurance for this trip as it will make it easier for you in times of Corona craziness ;-)
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Will I have to attend all activities on the schedule?Yes! This is not a pool or beach holiday. This is an Immersion. You are joining because you want change. And change needs commitment. Of course special needs or situations are taking into consideration.
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What food will you serve?The food is plant based & refined sugar free. It is fresh, mostly organic, high quality, not much gluten and as natural as possible. We can cater to most intolerances so let us know beforehand.
Have more questions? Contact us.
This New Years set the stage for a year filled with abundance in all areas of your life.
By the time you leave, you’ll feel lighter, clearer, and equipped with practices to keep aligning yourself with gratitude and abundance during the year ahead. This is your chance to set powerful intentions in a high vibing container, release what no longer serves you, and step boldly into the life you’re meant to live. Don’t let another year pass by without stepping into the life you’ve always envisioned. Spaces are limited, so take this opportunity to prioritize yourself, your dreams, and your well-being. Don’t wait for change—create it.