7 DAY COSTA RICA RETREAT
The Medicine of your Voice Method Voice Work™ & Inner Horizon Life Coaching™
‘VOICES & VINES’
-Exploring the neurobiology of your Voice within the Spiral of the Labyrinth-
Transformation through Voice Work, Inquiry & Nature!!
27th Jan–2nd Feb 2027
6th EDITION of this annual retreat!
Personal Development and Transformation through Voice Work, Life Coaching & Nature!
For emotional resilience, self leadership & embodied expression.
with Bettina Maureen & Ann Vervoort
27th of Jan – 2nd of Feb 2027. 7 days, 6 nights.
Join us for a unique retreat where self-expression and personal growth meet in harmony with the energy of nature.
Unlock your voice, explore your patterns and beliefs, meet what still feels uncomfortable, elevate your confidence, open your creative channel, and discover your inner power in the serene atmosphere of La Senda.
“Whether addressing limiting beliefs, physical discomfort, or disruptive patterns, the voice always shows up as a mirror of our internal landscape. At the same time, it is a tool and an instrument that can support us in expanding into a wider, more liberated experience of self.
The Medicine of Your Voice Method™ & Inner Horizon Coaching offer a structure and a compass that help us stay present within this process of awareness, compassion, letting go, discovery, and expansion.”
Bettina Maureen
What will happen in a retreat?
This retreat is for women and men who:
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Seek to explore the full potential and expressive range of their voice whether in personal healing, professional contexts or singing.
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Are curious about the scientific and therapeutic dimensions of vocal practice, including its impact on the nervous system, emotional regulation, and overall wellbeing.
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Wish to integrate evidence – based vocal and breathwork techniques into their personal healing journey or professional toolkit.
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Aim to strengthen and empower their speaking voice for public speaking, facilitation, teaching, leadership or singing.
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Are committed to cultivating a more embodied, resonant, and authentic presence in their communication.
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Want to explore how vocal vibration can support emotional clarity, energetic alignment, and resilience in daily life.
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Are drawn to spend time in nature with a community of growth oriented, conscious individuals.
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Wish to learn devotional and traditional songs from various cultures as a way to connect, ground, and inspire.
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Feel called to deepen their self awareness and sense of service through the voice.
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Are ready for meaningful personal or professional transformation.
What we will learn:
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Guided meditations: designed to reconnect you with the natural instrument of your voice, deepen embodied awareness, and cultivate inner stillness and presence.
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Transforming limiting beliefs and shadow patterns: using vocal inquiry to uncover habitual patterns and reclaim parts of the self that may have been silenced, shamed, suppressed, or overlooked.
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Voice and breathwork practices: including techniques rooted in the Indian musical scale (Sargam), to deepen listening, expand vocal awareness, and cultivate resonance, grounding, and presence.
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Working with the Inner Critic: learning to recognize the internal voices of judgment, perfectionism, comparison, and self-doubt and exploring how they influence your voice, expression, and capacity to be fully seen and heard. Through awareness, inquiry, and embodied voice practice, we begin to transform criticism into discernment, compassion, and greater inner freedom.
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The wisdom of the Enneagram: exploring the Enneagram as a map of habitual patterns, motivations, defenses, and ways of relating. Rather than using it as a fixed personality label, we draw upon its wisdom to recognize where we may contract, protect, perform, or disconnect and to open new possibilities for authentic expression, presence, and choice.
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Singing devotional songs: drawing from global traditions to invite connection, reverence, surrender, and joy, while experiencing singing as a shared and deeply human practice.
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The voice as a self-healing tool: discovering how sound, vibration, breath, and conscious vocal expression can support nervous system regulation, emotional release, self-connection, and overall wellbeing.
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Embodied emotional awareness: learning to recognize patterns of contraction in the body and psyche and gently exploring how they can move toward greater space, presence, vitality, and expression.
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Integrative voice work: meeting your truth with clarity and compassion and developing the capacity to express yourself more authentically in daily life, relationships, creative expression, and professional settings.
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Living fully in a disconnected world: cultivating embodied presence, deep listening, meaningful connection, and expressive aliveness as antidotes to fragmentation, overstimulation, and disconnection.
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No musical or singing education is required in order to participate in this retreat! We will go home with new tools, skills and inspiration for our personal, professional and musical lives.
Schedule includes:
- The Medicine of your Voice Method & Inner Horizon sessions with Bettina Maureen
- Transformational Sharing Circles with Bettina Maureen
- The Inner Critic Workshop with Ann Vervoort
- Temascale (Sweatlodge) with Aya Natan
- ‘Meeting & Listening with the Plants’ session with Bettina Maureen
- Breath Work Session with Yati Or
- Yoga with Catherine Paulson
- Labyrinth Walk with Ann Vervoort
- Lectures & Dialogues with Bettina Maureen, Ann Vervoort & Griet Depypere exploring the Diamond Approach teachings, Enneagram & Voicework as a powerful tool for inner transformation, laying the foundation for authentic systemic change
- Spa, Pool & Beach including Lunch at Cala Luna Hotel
There will be plenty of time to rest, connect with other participants or practice.
Schedule a 15min discovery chat to discuss any of the programs.
The Venue
La Senda Retreat Center | Costa Rica
Santa Rosa, (near Tamarindo) Guanacaste, Costa Rica
(Retreat will be facilitated in English!)
THE PROPERTY: On a prime location in a valley surrounded by hills, the 74-acre property provides an environment of seclusion. We are privileged of being sheltered by nature and its tropical dry forest, along with howler monkeys and countless mammals, while we listen to the sweet song of many tropical birds.
FARM TO TABLE: You’ll experience where your food is cultivated while savoring the ingredients at best freshness, bursting with flavor and vitamins, all artfully and passionately prepared by our Cala Luna Chef, right in front of you and at the vegetable garden.
THE LABYRINTH: Labyrinths in the western world are mostly found in churches, cathedrals, and recently in many hospitals. Are known as sacred gateways and have been found at the entrance of ancient sites around the globe. Often are located at the center of subtle Earth energies. These temples enhance, balance, regenerate and realign our biochemistry. Labyrinths have only one path, same that symbolizes our journey in life, and takes us inward, guiding us to discover who we are.
The Instructors
Facilitator
Bettina Maureen: Bettina is a visionary and transformational guide, a voice alchemist, and emerging thought leader! Particularly in the intersection of sound, embodiment, and personal liberation. She is internationally certified as a Coach and Mentor in the field of Personal Development and Transformation using The Voice as a main tool bridging sound, spirit and science. She is an Author and Musician with more than 20 years of experience working with hundreds of people worldwide.
She is educated in Indian Classical Music with Pandith Shivnat Mishra, Varanasi, India and she has accreditation in sound therapy with Harmonic Sounds in Spain (2007) and in sound, voice and music healing with the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, California (2012), focused on neurology and mental health based on the studies of Dr. John Beaulieu, Mitchell L. Gayner M.D. and Dr. Jeffrey Thompson. Bettina is a certified Life Coach with Erickson Coaching International. She also deepened her studies on Transpersonal Psychology inspired by Grof, Maslow and Sutich, Family Constellation by Bert Hellinger, Vipassana Meditation by S.N. Goenka, Trauma Work by Peter Levine, The Compassionate Inquiry Approach by Dr. Gabor Mate and Ancestral Medicine with Dr. Daniel Foor. In 2007 she founded the NON Profit organisation Samasound Association for Healing Music bringing music to elderly homes, hospice and cancer support communities in Europe and the US.
Bettina is from Germany and currently lives in Spain.
Co-Facilitator
Ann Vervoort: Ann is one of the co-creators and owner of La Senda Wellness Center Costa Rica & Cala Luna Hotel. While she has a master in economics, her heart is always on a quest for inner knowledge. Creativity, be it as tax advisor in a multinational consulting company, as the owner of a shop in luxury home decorations or as the principle of the Waldorf Highschool in Belgium, was always infused with the search for inner depth and strength in (wo)mankind. Life’s guidance led her from Belgium to Costa Rica, and to the path of the Diamond Approach. A spiritual teaching emphasizing personal transformation through inner work, self inquiry and exploration of the deeper layers of one’s being.
The inner critic work is based on the book ‘Soul without Shame’ by Byron Brown, a Diamond Approach teacher offering a very practical tool to deal with our inner judgements and our should and should not.
Ann is from Belgium and lives in Costa Rica.
Yoga Instructor
Catherine Jane Paulson is a student of yoga and Ayurveda. From her 3 plus decades of practice, she shares her experience with students in service to their radiant well being, self discovery and personal growth.
Temazcal Facilitator
Aya Natan: Aya has been walking the Red Road of indigenous ceremonies and sacred rituals since 2006 after receiving permission by the elders of the path. She is holding the space with dedication, love and respect for this ancient tradition. Aya is also the founder of Cura Sana Remedies and holds herbal plant and flower essence workshops.
Aya is from Israel and lives in Costa Rica.
Breathwork & Nervous System Facilitator
Yati Or: Yati Or is the founder of CosMica, a nervous system regulation methodology combining breathwork, HRV training, CO₂ tolerance protocols, and vagal tone development. A certified Wim Hof Method instructor with over six years of uninterrupted daily practice, Yati leads breathwork and nervous system regulation sessions from Bhakti Shala in Ostional, Costa Rica, where the method has been refined into a practical, science-informed path back to calm, resilience, and presence.
Yati is from Israel and lives in Costa Rica.
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Prices & Booking
Prices include:
- Online group gathering two weeks prior to the retreat
- Special rates for additional nights before or after the retreat
- Personal one-on-one inquiry with Bettina Maureen for each participant after the deposit has been received, supporting your individual process leading up to the retreat
- 6 nights of luxury glamping, with all tents featuring private bathrooms. Double occupancy with either one double bed or two single beds. A limited number of single-occupancy tents are available, please inquire for special rates.
- Two special farm-to-table dinners prepared by the Cala Luna chef
- Breakfast, lunch, and dinner throughout the entire retreat
- All The Medicine of Your Voice Method™ sessions and activities with Bettina Maureen
- The Inner Critic Workshop with Ann Vervoort
- Guided Labyrinth Walk & The Medicine of your Voice session with Ann Vervoort & Bettina Maureen
- Temazcal (Sweat Lodge) guided by Aya Natan
- Breathwork session with Yati Or
- Listening & Meeting with the Plants session with Bettina Maureen
- The Wisdom of The Enneagram with Bettina, Ann & Griet.
- Spa, pool & beach experience, including lunch at Cala Luna Hotel
- Two post-retreat online integration gatherings
- Special rates for post-retreat one-on-one follow-up sessions with Bettina Maureen
Jan 27 – FEB 2, 2027 (6 nights)
- LOCATION: La Senda Wellness & Retreat Center, Santa Rosa, near Tamarindo
- https://lasendacostarica.com/en/
- Nearest airport: Liberia (ca 1.5 hours drive to La Senda)
- San Jose Airport (ca 4 hours drive to La Senda). Public Transport is available.
- Airport shuttle: Costs are not included into the retreat price! La Senda can organise the shuttle for you though.
- START : Wednesday, 27 January, 2027 | 4 pm
- END: Tuesday, 2 February, 2027 | 12 noon
RESERVE YOUR SPACE FOR $750
- Price is all inclusive!
- Only double rooms! Few single rooms available. Please inquire price!
- Group is limited to 12 people.
Per Person
- All tents are beautifully furnished and located deep in the tropical jungle surrounded by the sounds of local birds and howler monkeys.
Special Discount
- Get a 10% discount on your retreat price, if you bring one full paying person! Or come as a couple and share the discount!
* If you have not yet worked with Bettina, in order to participate an interview with Bettina is required. Please reach out to Bettina via email or WhatsApp to schedule. Or schedule directly.
Email:
WhatsApp: +1 808 346 7645
Schedule directly: visit the calendar scheduler
