7 Day Costa Rica Retreat

The Medicine of your Voice Method

Transformation through Voice Work & Plant Medicine!

28th Jan–3rd Feb 2026

7 Day Costa Rica Retreat

The Medicine of your Voice Method

Transformation through Voice Work & Plant Medicine!

28th Jan–3rd Feb 2026

Personal Development and Transformation through Voice Work & Plant Medicine – For Emotional Resilience, Self Leadership & Embodied Expression.

with Bettina Maureenji & Ann Vervoort

5th edition of this annual retreat!

Join us for a unique Retreat, where self expression and personal growth meet in harmony with the energy of nature. Unlock your voice, elevate your confidence, open your creative channel and discover your inner power in the serene atmosphere of La Senda.

What will happen in a retreat?

This retreat is for women and men who:

  • Seek to explore the full potential and expressive range of their voice whether in personal healing or professional contexts.

  • Are curious about the scientific and therapeutic dimensions of vocal practice, including its impact on the nervous system, emotional regulation, and overall wellbeing.

  • Wish to integrate evidence – based vocal and breathwork techniques into their personal healing journey or professional toolkit.

  • Aim to strengthen and empower their speaking voice for public speaking, facilitation, teaching, or leadership.

  • Are committed to cultivating a more embodied, resonant, and authentic presence in their communication.

  • Want to explore how vocal vibration can support emotional clarity, energetic alignment, and resilience in daily life.

  • Are drawn to spend time in nature with a community of growth oriented, conscious individuals.

  • Wish to learn devotional and traditional songs from various cultures as a way to connect, ground, and inspire.

  • Feel called to deepen their self awareness and sense of service through the voice.

  • Are ready for meaningful personal or professional transformation.

 

What we will learn:

  • Guided meditations: designed to reconnect you with the natural instrument of your voice and foster inner stillness.

  • Transforming limiting beliefs and shadow patterns: through vocal inquiry reclaiming the parts of self that were silenced, shamed, or overlooked.

  • Voice and breathwork practices: including techniques grounded in the Indian musical scale (Sargam), to deepen awareness and cultivate resonance.

  • Singing of devotional songs: from global traditions inviting connection, reverence, and joy.

  • The Voice as self healing tool: supporting nervous system regulation, emotional release, and wellbeing.

  • Embodied emotional awareness: learning to identify patterns of contraction in the body and psyche, and transforming them into expanded presence and vitality.

  • Integrative voice work: to meet your truth with clarity and compassion, empowering authentic expression in daily life, relationships, and professional settings.

  • Living fully in a disconnected world: cultivating embodied presence, deep listening, and expressive aliveness as antidotes to fragmentation and disconnection.

 

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 sessions  with Bettina Maureenji  

Transformational Sharing Circles with Bettina Maureenji  

The Inner Critic Workshop with Ann Vervoort 

Song Circles with Bettina Maureenji 

Temascale (Sweatlodge) with Aya Natan 

Vocal Exploration (5 hour session) including Plant Medicine (moderate dosage) with Bettina Maureenji 

Sound Bath with Andrea Carboni

Yoga with Catherine Paulsen

Labyrinth Walk with Ann Vervoort

Lectures & Dialogues with Bettina Maureenji, Ann Vervoort & Griet Depypere exploring the Diamond Approach teachings & 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.

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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.

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The Instructors

Facilitator

Bettina Maureenji:  Bettina is an internationally certified voice and music healing facilitator, meditative musician and yogi, song writer, intuitive teacher, mystic and poet with accreditation in sound, voice and music healing from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, California. 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 and Ancestral Medicine with Dr. Daniel Foor.

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.

Temazcal Facilitator

Aya Natan:  Aya has been walking the Red Road of indigenous ceremonies and sacred rituals since 2006 after receveiving 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.

www.curasanaremedies.com

Sound Healing & Cacao Ceremony Facilitator

Andrea Carboni:  Andrea is facilitating sound healing and cacao ceremonies since years with great devotion to sound, vibration and the medicine of cacao. She is as well he manager of the Lahari Wellness Center at Cala Luna Hotel Costa Rica.

What people say…

“Gifted, wonderful Bettina and her well designed voice retreat supported by the incredible magic of La Senda’s labyrinth land?  Perfect! I am grateful for my intuition leading me to such unforgettable and transformative experience. Thanks to Bettina’s healing and professional facilitating approach I felt very safe. This allowed me to witness opening and trust of my true voice. She is capable to accommodate any level of voice experience in one united group consciousness. Exceptional skill! La Senda land was a mystical adventure from the first minute I stepped on it. The hosts are warm joyful open minded/hearted women with loving and co creative spirit and passion for good organic food. Soooo yummy!!! I highly recommend to let yourself be surprised as I was by the welcome, sense of ease and much more this retreat offers.” 

— MONICA, SLOVENIA

“I participated in Bettina’s retreat The medicine of your voice & inner quest and for me it was transformative. I could really feel the connection between my mind, body and soul. I felt and learned with my whole being to be in the present moment and that made me able to express myself through my voice and that is indescribable. When the reatret ended, I felt so full of gratitude, love, it was over flowing with such beautiful feelings that I cannot express in words. The workshop for me was so complete. I couldn’t have a better person to guide than Bettina Maureenji, I am so grateful that life has allowed me to have you be part of my life journey. I’m really completely grateful. For passing all the knowledge from the heart bringing us healing. And thank you so much everyone who was participating, it was a very beautiful exhange of knowledge, love, healing, experiences, of life. Thank you all.”
 

— GEO, BRASIL

“I absolutely loved all the kind hospitality along with the immaculate attention to detail that was present and available to us all throughout the retreat. The glamping tents were amazing and the amenities and food were beyond incredible as well. The whole experience was truly eye opening as I had never been a part of something so deep and transformative as a collective group in relatively such a short timeframe. It was beautiful that the collective support and work allowed us all to dig into deeper layers of the self and also allowed for us to trust that we could share and feel safe amongst our peers. Such an unforgettable experience that will never leave me 🙂.“

— Brian Hou, Kauai, Hawaii

“Oh so much to love! I do hope I remember everything here. The place is magical the labyrinth is powerful and the land in every direction is vibrating with such high energy it looks and feels a bit psychedelic even though no drugs were involved. There’s just a tangible energy emanating from every living thing. There aren’t enough nice words to say about Ann, Griet and Geo. The joy and love they bring is truly exceptional. Then there’s Bettina. I have such respect and admiration for her gifts as a teacher and a wisdom keeper. She holds space for everyone with such grace. She shares her wisdom gently yet there’s no denying the fierce loving warrior within if needed. She has developed a process that easily allows each person to follow their own path while staying in the learning. It can be as deep and powerful as you choose to pursue. “
 

— Dr. Tasha Bollermann, Canada

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Prices & Booking

 

All The Medicine of your Voice activities with Bettina Maureenji ♥ 6 nights Luxury glamping all tents with private bathrooms (double rooms only) ♥ 2 Farm to table dinners facilitated by Cala Luna chef ♥ Breakfast, lunch & dinner ♥ Ceremonial Concert with Bettina Maureenji & Moshe Halperin (UK) ♥ Walking the Labyrinth guided by Ann Vervoort ♥ Temazcal (Sweatlodge) guided by Aya Natan ♥ Special Vocal Exploration & Meditation including Plant Medicine with Bettina Maureenji ♥ Spa, Pool and Beach experience inlcuding lunch at Cala Luna Hotel. ♥ Visit Cala Luna Sound Healing Session & Cacao Ceremony with Andrea Carboni ♥ Post Retreat Online Gathering

Jan 28 – FEB 3, 2026 (6 nights)
 

  • LOCATION: La Senda Wellness & Retreat Center, Santa Rosa, near Tamarindo
  • START : Wednesday, 28 January, 2026 | 5 pm
  • END: Tuesday, 3 February, 2026 | 12 noon
RESERVE YOUR SPACE FOR $950
 

  • Price is all inclusive!
  • Only double rooms! Few single rooms available. Please inquire price!
  • Group is limited to 12 people total including our team!

Single Person

$2760
  •  All tents are beautifully furnished and located deep in the tropical jungle surrounded by the sounds of local birds and howler monkeys.
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Special Pricing

$2484
  • Get a 10% discount on your retreat price, if you bring one full paying person! Or come as a couple and share the discount!
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* If you have not yet worked with Bettina, in order to participate an interview with Bettina is required.  After the interview an Intake & Inquiry Form has to be filled out and submitted until the 20th of January 2026 in order to participate. Please reach out to Bettina via email or WhatsApp to schedule. 

Email: [email protected]
WhatsApp: +1 808 346 7645
Schedule directly: visit the calendar scheduler

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Medicine of your Voice

FREE introductory class.

 

Learn some basic tools for voice empowerment, a little bit about my self, and about the upcoming 4 week online class. No musical or singing skills required.

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