She Flourishes and Softens
August 5 - 11, 2025
Uvita, Costa Rica
Hi, I’m Fern Olivia—a transformational women’s somatic coach, RYT-500 certified yoga instructor, and retreat guide with over 14 years of experience leading women home to their bodies, their intuition, and their joy.
This 7-day group retreat is especially close to my heart, because it's the retreat I've needed in those moments of life where I am calling in sisterhood, support, space to cry, feel, dance, be wild and free, and be surrounded by women who are embodying their feminine essence & her true nature with confidence.
Together, with my co-facilitator Astara, we wecome you to She Flourishes and Softens, a retreat for women from all walks of life, ages and phases, to return home to herself, blossom, and receive.
Welcome to She Flourishes and Softens, a retreat for women from all walks of life, ages and phases, to return home to herself, blossom, and receive. You are invited to step in this Sanctuary, to revive the Inner Radiance / Holy and Wild Grace that is buried in your body.
This is a week of remembering the art of inner listening, slowness, deep softness and inner strength. It is in that space that inner listening starts and their true voice and movements come alive. It is a safe space of inner and outer exploration of our Creative Fire, pulsing through us. A ground to remember how to self-heal, and the gifts longing to bloom within you.
Through this inner exploration together, we get to dive within our inner worlds, bringing awareness to parts of ourselves that have been repressed, overly contained and ended up knotted in our bodies. We are together learning how to access these energetic pathways through our breath, movement and sounds to bring life to the silent .
It is a deepening into the Feminine Somatic Arts that go beyond performing of our own doing, and becomes a living, breathing, dancing play . Your body remembered as the Temples where your joyous inner child comes to play. And where your Muse naturally joins the collective dance. A space where Sensuality is celebrated as aliveness.
Discovering how to harness your life force to nourish you from within.
We create a safe cocoon for your unfolding, witnessing also the blooming of women from all walks of life longing to revive their aliveness. To access that roar and play.
Together, we will practice a new movement vocabulary, a way to wake the roaring power nestled in your pelvic floor and womb, and in the organic sound of your voice.
Feminine Somatic Movements will bring us to the slowness of inner listening, breathe re-patterining, sound and dance sequences designed to release blockages, express your emotions and unlock your creative power.
Dance becomes a medicine, an alchemical tool easily accessible.
You will be held, witnessed, and honored exactly as you are—in your vulnerability, your power, and your unfolding beauty.
If your heart feels the call, come. The circle is awaiting your presence.
7-Day All Inclusive Women’s Retreat
What awaits you:
Himalayan Kriya Yoga: An ancient energy yoga of purification and attunement, the ancestor of Kundalini Yoga. A blend of dynamic movements, breathing patterns, tapping allowing you to shift your awareness into an inner lense and experience somatic release, and bliss.
Tantric & Somatic Healing Workshops – Through guided movement, touch, and breath, you will explore the language of your body. These sessions are designed to unlock stored emotions, dissolve blockages, and awaken the innate wisdom that resides within your cells. Somatic work invites you to reclaim your sensual aliveness and meet yourself beyond words—through the intelligence of your felt experience.
Rebirthing Breath Ceremony & Bliss Breathwork – Breath is the bridge between body and spirit. In these ceremonies, guided breath techniques will take you into expanded states of consciousness—allowing old emotional imprints to surface, clear, and transform. The breath becomes a portal of release, a key to unlock the life force energy that longs to move through you.
Temezcal Ceremony – Through sweat, prayer, and ancient songs, you will shed layers of what no longer serves and emerge renewed—reborn into your essence.
Waterflow Sessions and Sound Healing– Held in salt water, this deeply nurturing practice invites your body to surrender fully. Through gentle movements and cradling, sessions allow for a profound release of tension, emotional holding, and a return to trust, bliss and flow.
Ecstatic Dance – In the wild embrace of music and the jungle’s pulse, we will surrender to the rhythms of life. Dance becomes a ritual of embodiment, celebration, and prayer—a way to commune with the primal intelligence moving through us.
Vocal Activation - Invoking Ancestral Wisdom through the Voice - Together, we sing as one with our Ancestors—calling forth their prayers, their healing songs, their ancient knowing. Through the voice, we awaken memory: of silences once kept, of truths once hidden, of power once restrained. We journey through the layers of inherited silence to reclaim the sacred sound of our lineage. In this ceremonial space, our voices become vessels—woven with intuition, devotion, and remembrance—singing a tapestry of ancestral wisdom and global unity.
Yoga Nidra Sound Journey for Feminine Radiance - Rest. Receive. Remember. - Enter the temple of stillness and surrender. This is a journey home to the luminous essence of your feminine radiance—through the healing portals of Yoga Nidra and celestial sound. As you are guided into deep rest, the mind dissolves, the body softens, and the soul begins to speak. Woven with crystal bowls, vocal toning, and channeled light language, this experience opens the subtle gateways of your inner world—awakening beauty, intuition, sensuality, and the quiet power that lives within you. This sound journey is a love song to the feminine. A prayer of remembrance. A radiant cocoon of sound and silence where your spirit can unfurl.
Mantras & Medicine Songs - Opening & Closing Sacred Space through Voice, Prayer & Devotion - Enter the sacred circle where song becomes ceremony and the voice becomes a vessel for healing. In this devotional journey, we sing the timeless prayers of the Earth and the stars—Bhakti and Buddhist mantras in ancient Sanskrit, medicine songs in Spanish, woven with the breath of Spirit and the heartbeat of the drum, shakers, and the Shruti from India, Together, we open and close sacred space through ritual, prayer, and sound—inviting in the unseen, honoring the elements, and anchoring divine presence through collective voice. The practice of mantra is a meditation, a calling, a remembering. Through call and response, we soften the mind, awaken the heart, and attune to the eternal—a stream of devotion that has carried seekers home for centuries.
Who This Retreat Is For:
This is for the woman who feels the quiet whisper in her bones…
The one who longs to slow down, soften, and finally listen to what’s stirring within.
For the woman who’s been holding so much for so long—and is ready to be held.
For the mystic, the wild one, the mother, the maiden, the artist, the healer, the dreamer.
This sanctuary is a sacred invitation for women from all walks of life—those yearning to return to the holy ground of their bodies, to reawaken their sensuality, their joy, and their voice.
It’s for you if you are craving connection with your womb wisdom, your breath, your movement—if you desire to feel fully alive and at home in your own skin.
You do not need to have the words.
You only need to feel the pull.
To know there is more to you—buried in your hips, your voice, your silence, your fire.
This is for the woman ready to shed layers of performance and protection,
and root herself in the truth of her body’s wisdom.
It is for the one who is ready to feel again. To dance again. To trust herself again.
To let the medicine of movement, voice, stillness, and sisterhood open the petals of her becoming.
If you are longing to be witnessed in your rawness and your radiance,
to play with your inner child and awaken your inner muse,
to rise in devotion to your feminine essence—
then yes, beloved, this is for you.
Come.
The circle is cast.
The temple is open.
Your sisters are waiting.
Meet Your Guides
Astara Rose
Astara is a co-visionary of "The Edge of the World" retreat center, creating a Sanctuary for the Feminine Restoration grounded in somatics, sacred feminine embodiment and Tantric living.
Rooted in the tantric somatic arts, Feminine Holistic movement, breathwork, and the ancient wisdom of Himalayan Kriya Yoga, Astara curates immersive journeys that invite deep inner listening, softening, creative expression, release and reclamation.
Reviving the life force and Eros within women's womb and heart has been her devotional path. A path of unravelling what has been stored in our cellular memory, to deepen our capacity to feel the fullness of life, our emotions and embrace the art of alchemy and transformation through breathe, movement and sound.
With a blend of intuitive bodywork, vocal activation, energy healing, and meditative guidance, she creates a sanctuary for those longing to find safety in release and fullness in their authentic expression and sensuality. Her presence is both gentle, nurturing and powerful, offering an alchemical container where nervous systems soften, and the body remembers its own sacred intelligence.
Her own healing path has been the catalyst of her studies. In 2014, a period of depression led her to meditation and yoga, igniting a search for deeper truth. Years later, a life-altering illness in India awakened the kundalini energy within her, an experience that reshaped her existence and set her on a path of devoted practice. Through the deep study and exploration of Kriya Yoga, breathwork, feminine embodiment arts and quantum healing, she experienced the depths of inner energetics through spinal surges of energy, release of old traumatic imprints, and experiences of states of profound clarity, connection to Source and bliss.
She is studying the shamanic tradition of tobacco and master plant dietas to continue to deepen her understanding of purification, protection, and energetic sovereignty.
FERN OLIVIA
Fern walks the path of the wise woman—where ancient remembrance meets embodied leadership. A devoted student of the Earth and the unseen, she weaves together over a decade of experience in integrative health, trauma-informed somatic healing, and sacred feminine arts. Her journey has led her across continents and through initiations of spirit, studying with master teachers in breathwork, sound healing, yoga, massage therapy, and energy work.
As a certified integrative health practitioner and trained facilitator in conscious connected breathwork, sound therapy, somatic trauma release, and ceremonial healing, Fern creates spaces where women can soften into their truth, reclaim the wisdom of their bodies, and rise rooted in their feminine essence.
She is the founder of retreats and trainings, and Embodied Voice Breathwork®, a unique method of breathwork and somatic embodiment, to invite deep transformation through voice, ritual, movement, and stillness—where intuition is honored, the body is a temple, and the feminine is free to flow, feel, and flourish.
Pricing:
Private Luxury Accommodation with Bathroom
This is the most deluxe option, a private room and private bathroom, with shared pool overlooking the jungle.
All meals and programming included.
$3550
Shared Room & Bathroom
This is a shared room and shared bathroom, with shared pool overlooking the jungle.
All meals and programming included.
Price per person.
$1850
Our 7-Day Program
Each day includes a mix of guided experiences, shared meals, personal time, and group offerings.
Sacred silence will be honored every morning until after the first workshop.
Day 1 - August 5th:
Arrivals & Check-in
Settle into your beautiful room, explore the grounds, and enjoy organic local fruits and a welcome smoothie
Sauna and medicine songs
Bobinsana Tea Ceremony (from Peru)
Cleansing flower bath
Days 2-6 - August 6th - 10th:
Sacred silence until after 1st session
8am - Morning practice
9:30am/10am - Brunch
Free time
Workshop / Guided Gentle Practice
Snacks
Sharing Circle
Dinner
Day 7 - August 11th: Departure Day
Sacred silence until after 1st session
8am - Morning practice
9:30am/10am - Brunch
Farewell Ceremony
