Events and Retreats

Press pause on your every-day reality and join me for a transformational experience in beautiful natural locations dedicated to reawakening your connection to your body and all it contains.

 

Upcoming Retreats

COSTA RICA

JUNE 18 - 23 2025

MA: A Women’s Retreat in Costa Rica

Welcome to a week long container devoted to the Goddess, within and without.
Through ritual, practice, ceremony, counsel, communion with nature, and time together with women, we come home to the embodied knowings: 

You are the child of the Great Mother, and She incarnate.

You are meant to be wild. 

You are meant to create, to play, to dream.

You are meant to have a body of pleasure. 

You are meant to dance with the divinity your body holds. 

You are meant to receive the gifts that come from healing the deepest of pains in your body. 

You are meant to stand with dignity at the forefront of change.

You are meant to enjoy this human ride.

You are meant for freedom. 

Together over six days and five nights - including the Summer Solstice - we will honor the feminine, we will express, we will journey, and we will fall deeper in love with ourselves and with this life. We will dive deep, tending, exploring, igniting, reverencing, and replenishing the physical body and all it contains. 


This retreat is for all women ready to step into a version of themselves that is confident, steady, and connected to the divine life force they carry.
This retreat is for all women ready to experience a liberated and empowered relationship with their unique body. 

What you will experience:

Practice: 2x Daily Practices with Erin Rose Ward and Chelsea Didier. Pulling from the various embodiment and meditative methodologies Erin Rose teaches, the practices will weave together to create a healing and empowering experience for all bodies - and all they contain. 

Journey: One night of a plant medicine journey held by Erin Rose, Chelsea Didier and a team of trusted guardians. Ingesting the medicine is optional. 

Restoration: Free time to be at the waterfalls, to rest on the land, to enjoy expert bodywork, or lounge in the comfortable common space.

Nourishment:  All meals will be sourced from the properties' gardens or local farms. All allergies and dietary needs will be tended. We will engage in mindful eating techniques and explore what it means for food to be medicine. 

Touch: An exploration of touch through a Blue Clay Ritual at the waterfall.
Sacred Boruca Body Painting: Discover the history and cosmology of an indigenous tribe local to the Diamante Valley and participate in a temporary tattoo ritual. 

THE LOCATION

Nestled in the Diamante Valley of south west Costa Rica, HOLOS is a private retreat and residency space dedicated to connection with nature, holistic health, and a spirit of stewardship. They are committed to reciprocal relationship with the indigenous community and are devoted to a mutually beneficial relationship between the land and those who come to stay. 

The accommodations are luxurious bell tents with high ceilings, air conditioning, comfortable full-size beds and replete with conveniences to make you feel like home. You'll have a view of the valley from your home for the week and are steps away from the practice temple the dining area, and walking paths to the nearby waterfalls.

It is truly a magical space that will hold you well as you journey through the week. 

TRANSPORTATION

Holos Basecamp is located about 200km southwest of San

Jose, the capital of Costa Rica. Juan Santamaria International

Airport (SJO) is located within San Jose and the closest

international airport to Holos.

There are a few options for getting to the land from SJO:

• Ground Transportation: SJO to Basecamp: A shared shuttle or

private taxi to the property.

• Domestic Flight: SJO to Quepos: A 25-minute flight to

Quepos/Manuel Antonio (XQP), where a shuttle will be waiting

to bring you to the property. Please note this requires booking

an additional flight from San Jose to Quepos using one of the

domestic airlines, Sansa or Green Airways.

What’s included

  • Room

    5 nights and six days of lodging at HOLOS Costa Rica

  • The 360 Emergence

    A movement practice based in free-form spirit driven expression and intentional somatic guidance.

  • Yang Practice

    Fiery embodiment practices inspired by various methodologies and philosophies. These practices will generate transmutative heat in the body, build strength, and foster resiliency.

  • Meditation

    Accessible and impactful meditation practices to cultivate stillness, presence, and acceptance.

  • Breathwork

    Holotropic and deeply restorative breath practices bring us into communion with the subtle and psychic bodies.

  • Yoga Nidra

    A practice for deep healing and restoration. Effortless and surrendered to grace.

  • Psilocybin Ceremony

  • Nourishment

    All meals at HOLOS created with love by Chef Emmy.

  • Blue Clay Ritual

    Using blue mineral clay found in the valley, we will nourish our skin and support the shedding of tension, excess energy, and any heaviness that can be pulled from the pores.

  • Waterfall Ritual

    A prayerful experience that asks us to connect with the waters all women carry , the waters we come from, and the waters that give us life.

Upcoming Events


RESOURCE: How to stay sane this holiday season
Dec
7

RESOURCE: How to stay sane this holiday season

Join Chelsea Didier and Erin Rose for two hours on Saturday Dec 7th.
This virtual gathering will be a resource for you as you navigate this holiday season.

Harness the power of your body, breath and mythic imagination. Create stability, ease, and a joy that is not contingent on halls being decked or family members aligning with your point of view.

Come as you are and leave feeling fully resourced and ready to dance through this season with ease.

$40

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DATE NIGHT: An Evening For Couples
Nov
10

DATE NIGHT: An Evening For Couples

Join Erin Rose Ward and Andrew Griffes for an evening of deepening connection. Whether you and your partner have just begun dating or you have bene together for decades, this guided experience will create the conditions for more trust, vulnerability, and intimacy. An alternative to dinner and a movie, this Date Night will be a gift that keeps on giving.

Join us in-person in Ojai, CA or virtually via livestream.

$50/couple

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Election Week Virtual Meditation Group
Nov
4
to Nov 8

Election Week Virtual Meditation Group

Due to this big week in the US, I have decided to extend the Autumn Sangha Virtual Meditation Group through November 8th, and I am opening up this week to anyone who would like to join for 5 days of practice. 

Join me and the Autumn Sangha cohort each morning of election week for a 30 minute meditation practice. 

There is such benefit in meditating in community, and we welcome those who feel like they could use a space to pause, ground, and find a bit of peace. 

 These meditations are designed for all levels.
All practices are recording in case the time does not work for you. 

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Steady As We Go: Pre-Election Movement Meditation
Nov
3

Steady As We Go: Pre-Election Movement Meditation

Join me for a community practice that will include pranayama (breath practice), guided movement, and systematic relaxation. 

Come as you are and place your opinions, preferences, and predictions aside in favor of a shared place to move your energy through the body and arrive in your center - steady and awake come what may. 

All are welcome to this space, whether you live in the US or not. We are all impacted by the reality of our global political climate. There will be extra time after our 90 minute practice for those who wish to share and connect in community. 

 Let's set our nervous system's up well so that during election week we can be the humans who hold the center, who prioritize kindness, and who can see through the illusion of separateness to the humanity that threads us all together.

 Sunday November 3rd
11am - 12:30pm pst
$30

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BODY: An 8-Week Virtual Circle for Women
Sep
24
to Nov 5

BODY: An 8-Week Virtual Circle for Women

Join Erin Rose Ward and a community of women on the path of coming home to the body and the power it contains. This group is a chance for us to connect weekly and explore through practice, ritual, and group connection all the aspects of living in a female body. From our own personal body narrative to that of culture and collective, together we will rewrite the stories we want to tell for ourselves, each other, and those that follow. This is a circle of courageous exploration, healing, and sisterhood.

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Autumn Equinox Sangha: A 40-Day Daily Meditation Group
Sep
23
to Nov 1

Autumn Equinox Sangha: A 40-Day Daily Meditation Group

Join Erin Rose Ward for 40 days of committed meditation practice. Deepen your presence while connecting to spirit and receiving the medicine spirit. Pause each weekday to be guided through intelligently sequenced meditations designed to harness and direct energy, promoting peace, ease, and empowerment.

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BODY: An 8-Week Virtual Circle for Women
Mar
19
to May 14

BODY: An 8-Week Virtual Circle for Women

Join Erin Rose Ward and a community of women on the path of coming home to the body and the power it contains. This group is a chance for us to connect weekly and explore through practice, ritual, and group connection all the aspects of living in a female body. From our own personal body narrative to that of culture and collective, together we will rewrite the stories we want to tell for ourselves, each other, and those that follow. This is a circle of courageous exploration, healing, and sisterhood.

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