THE SACRED STEWARDSHIP
@SACREDSTEWARDSHIP
MEET BROCKELL AND RUTHANN,
YOUR FACILITATORS
THE SACRED STEWARDSHIP
TRANSFORM YOUR
CRAFT INTO GOLD.
THE DREAM LEADERSHIP RETREAT YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR.
A 7-Day Alchemical Journey for Retreat Leaders
(April 12-19 2025)
PURA VIDA RETREAT AND SPA - Alajuela, Costa Rica
If you are a woman+ leader who is ready to take the next step in your facilitation and leadership skills, this magical retreat and training experience is for you.
The DREAM Leadership Retreat you've ALWAYS wanted to attend.
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.
Every unique therapist practices healing that comes from a place of profound love, presence, and genuine heart-touch. They don't just provide treatments - they truly channel insight, intuition, and wisdom to support you in your personal growth and development.
So whether you are struggling with mindset or confidence challenges as a leader, physical needs and challenges, or just want to pamper yourself with an experience of deep presence and love, these therapists offer age-old traditions and contemporary practices that leave you transformed.
This trip is guaranteed to help you level-up.
Steeped in the age-old wisdom of holistic healing and harnessing the potent energy of volcanic mountains, there are world-class bodyworkers, therapists, and healers of all kinds at the Pura Vida Spa.
It’s not just the curriculum content and overall experience that makes this retreat transformative.
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.
Who is The Sacred Stewardship for?
This training and retreat experience is ideal for healers, coachers, yoga teachers, corporate executives and heart-led leaders ready to deepen their facilitation practice, step into their next calling and transform their craft into retreat-level offerings.
Are you a leader who:
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Already has an established service-based business
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Has experience leading one retreat or mini-retreat (ex. day-long, weekend retreat) experience
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Understand that you have room to grow as an organizer, host, or group facilitator
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Feel like you are playing small with your retreats, but don’t know how to change it or get support to level up
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Ready and interested in expanding your events and your facilitation to another level
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Want to expand your skill set to hosting week-long (or longer) retreat offers OR multiple week-long retreats a year
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In your past events has struggled with either marketing, enrollment, profitability, offering transformation or a combination of some or all of these
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Want to create transformation for your clients by creating and hosting transformative events and retreats
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Have found yourself feeling exhausted and / or overwhelmed at previous events and are looking for tools to create a more sustainable model for hosting retreats
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Are ready to have the tools to weave together a transformative retreat experience that connects the threads of embodied experience, adventures and tours, cohesive workshops and deep rest?
Said YES to 5+ of these questions?
This is the retreat for you.
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 retreat 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 CORE VALUES
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 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.
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.
WHERE ARE YOU
PLAYING SMALL?
2025 PRICING
Starts at $5777
Single, Double and Triple accommodation options
Payment plans available
All Prices are Per Person and Include
All Accommodations, Retreat Inclusions (as stated above) and All Meals:
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.
Due to the limited number of rooms, early registration is strongly recommended to ensure your rooming selection.
MOVE, BREATHE, STRETCH
AND EXPAND.
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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Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Credits (for Yoga Teachers)
A LOOK AT YOUR WEEK
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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.
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
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 The Assistant Director of 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.
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