Dream Awake Retreat
An 11-Day Lucid Living, Dreamwork and Yoga Retreat in Costa Rica
September 28–October 8, 2026
The Yoga Sanctuary and Tirimbina Biological Reserve
La Virgen de Sarapiquí, Costa Rica
Wake up within the life you are already living.
What if your life is not simply happening to you?
What if your thoughts, beliefs, memories, dreams, and nervous system are continually influencing how you experience the world, and you could learn to meet all of it with greater awareness?
Dream Awake is an immersive 11-day retreat for those ready to step out of unconscious patterns, reconnect with their imagination and live with greater presence, clarity, and intention.
This is an invitation to slow down enough to notice what has been shaping your reality, listen to the wisdom of your body and dreams, and become a more conscious participant in your becoming.
You will spend ten nights surrounded by the Costa Rican rainforest, resting at Tirimbina Biological Reserve and gathering each day at The Yoga Sanctuary for nourishing meals, yoga, somatic movement, dreamwork, storytelling, ceremony and sacred community.
This is not about escaping your life. It is about learning to meet your life with open eyes.
What Does It Mean to Dream Awake?
In a lucid dream, you become aware that you are dreaming while the dream is still unfolding.
Lucid living brings that same quality of awareness into everyday life.
It means noticing the beliefs, emotional patterns, inherited stories and automatic responses influencing how you see yourself and the world. It means creating space between what happens and how you respond. It means recognizing where you have been living from habit, fear or survival—and choosing to meet your life with greater intention.
During Dream Awake, we will explore the idea of projected reality as a reflective spiritual and psychological inquiry: How does our inner world influence what we notice, expect, interpret and create?
Rather than treating every thought or experience as absolute truth, we will learn to observe our inner landscape with compassion and curiosity.
The intention is not to pretend that we control everything that happens to us. We do not. It is to recognize where we do have agency: in our awareness, choices, boundaries, responses and relationship with the present moment.
This Retreat May Be for You If…
You feel as though you have been moving through life on autopilot.
You are navigating a transition and want space to hear your own inner guidance.
You are curious about dreams, symbolism, storytelling and the unconscious mind.
You want to understand the patterns influencing your relationships, decisions or sense of self.
You are a healer, artist, guide, teacher, caregiver or community leader who needs time to receive.
You desire a spiritual experience that is embodied, practical and connected to everyday life.
You want to reconnect with your creativity, imagination and capacity to dream beyond survival.
You are ready to rest, reflect and participate honestly in your own becoming.
No previous experience with yoga, meditation, dreamwork or lucid dreaming is required. All practices will be offered with options so you can meet your body where it is.
Two Sacred Spaces, One Immersive Experience
The Yoga Sanctuary
Our meals, yoga classes, workshops, storytelling circles and ceremonies will be held at The Yoga Sanctuary, a modern, open-air treehouse held within the lush landscape of Sarapiquí.
The sanctuary is where we will practice, eat, share, create and gather in community. It offers an intimate space where spiritual exploration can remain grounded in the body, the natural world and the rhythms of daily life.
Tirimbina Biological Reserve
Guests will stay next door at Tirimbina Biological Reserve and Rainforest Lodge, located less than a 2 minute’s walk from The Yoga Sanctuary.
Tirimbina is more than a place to sleep. It is a living center for rainforest conservation, environmental education and biological research. Surrounded by tropical forest, wildlife, gardens, trails and the sounds of the Sarapiquí rainforest, your accommodations become part of the retreat itself.
You will have space to rest privately after each day’s experiences while remaining deeply connected to nature.
Together, Tirimbina and The Yoga Sanctuary create a rare balance: comfortable accommodations, immersive rainforest living, intimate spiritual practice and genuine community.
The Dream Awake Experience
During our time together, you will be guided through:
• Daily yoga, meditation and embodied practices
• Somatic movement and nervous system regulation
• Dream journaling and practices for strengthening dream recall
• Symbolic exploration and conscious dreamwork
• Lucid-living workshop
• Exploration of projected reality, perception and personal agency
• Dreamwork through Black literary and storytelling traditions
• Storytelling circles exploring memory, identity, imagination and liberation
• Conscious breathwork
• Restorative Yoga Nidra
• Live violin experiences
• Immersive sound therapy
• A heart-opening cacao ceremony
• Burn and tea ceremonies for release, reflection and renewal
• A traditional Temazcal experience
• Guided connection with the rainforest
• Stargazing beneath Costa Rica’s night sky
• Spacious periods for rest, journaling and integration
A Day at Dream Awake
Every day will have its own rhythm, but a typical day may unfold like this:
Morning
Wake to the sounds of the rainforest and a live violin ,inviting you to enter the day slowly and intentionally.
We will gather for meditation, breathwork, yoga or somatic movement, followed by a nourishing breakfast at The Yoga Sanctuary.
Midday
Late mornings will include dreamwork, lucid-living workshops, storytelling or embodied classes.
After lunch, there will be space for rest, massage, journaling, quiet reflection or time in nature. On selected days, we will explore the rainforest and other nearby natural spaces.
Evening
As the day softens, we will return to ceremony, community and integration.
Evenings may include a storytelling circle, sound therapy, cacao, a burn and tea ceremony, stargazing or Yoga Nidra before returning to Tirimbina for rest.
The schedule will remain intentional without feeling rigid. This retreat is designed to offer meaningful inner work while still leaving room to breathe.
What You May Carry Home
Dream Awake is designed to help you leave with:
• A stronger relationship with your dreams
• Practical methods for remembering and reflecting on your dreams
• Greater awareness of the patterns influencing your daily life
• Tools for regulating your nervous system during stress and transition
• A deeper connection with your body, imagination and intuition
• More clarity around the life you want to consciously create
• Practices that help you pause before reacting automatically
• Renewed trust in your inner guidance
• A supportive community of fellow dreamers
• The courage to live as both the dreamer and the dream
We cannot promise that ten days will resolve every question or change every circumstance. We can promise to create a carefully held space in which you can listen, practice, rest and begin relating to your life differently.
Your Retreat Includes
• 11 days and 10 nights in Sarapiquí, Costa Rica
• Shared accommodations at Tirimbina Rainforest Lodge
• Three nourishing meals each day at The Yoga Sanctuary
• Daily yoga, meditation, breathwork or somatic movement
• All scheduled dreamwork and lucid-living workshops
• Storytelling and integration circles
• Cacao ceremony
• Temazcal experience
• Sound therapy
• Live violin experiences
• Burn and tea ceremonies
• Evening Yoga Nidra experiences
• Guided nature experiences at Tirimbina Biological Reserve
• One therapeutic massage for restoration and integration
• All retreat materials
Please let us know about allergies or dietary needs before reserving so we can confirm whether they can be accommodated.
Additional costs
• Shared roundtrip airport transportation: $50 per person
• Waterfall and La Fortuna experience: $65 per person
Not Included
• Flights to and from Costa Rica
• Travel insurance
• Optional excursions unless specifically listed as included
• Personal purchases and souvenirs
• Additional massages or private healing sessions
• Transportation outside the scheduled retreat transfers
Your Guide
Dream Awake is hosted by Yogini Jo, founder of The Yoga Sanctuary and Brown Girl Yoga Tribe.
Jo is a 700-hour trained yoga teacher, Thai massage therapist and instructor, Level II Reiki practitioner and lifelong student of embodied healing, spiritual practice and alternative medicine.
Her work brings together yoga, nervous system awareness, ceremony, Maya philosophy , nature and practical inner work. She created The Yoga Sanctuary as a space where spiritual teachings can move beyond theory and become part of how we breathe, relate, rest, choose and live.
Guest facilitators and artists will teach and lead selected portions of the retreat, bringing their unique gifts to the Dream Awake experience.
Investment
Shared accommodation: $1770 per person
A deposit of $500 reserves your place.
Payment-plan options are available to match your needs.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I attend alone?
Yes. Many retreat guests travel alone. The experience is intentionally designed to create connection while still respecting your need for privacy, rest and personal reflection.
Do I need to be experienced in yoga?
No. Yoga and somatic practices will be accessible to different levels of experience. You will always be encouraged to listen to your body.
Do I need to remember my dreams?
Not at all. Dream recall is something we will explore and strengthen during the retreat. Curiosity is more important than previous experience.
Is this a lucid-dreaming training?
Dream Awake includes dream recall, symbolism and lucid-awareness practices, but it is broader than a lucid-dreaming course. The central focus is learning to bring greater awareness into both your dreaming and waking life.
Where will I sleep?
Guests will stay in shared accommodations at Tirimbina Rainforest Lodge, located directly next door to The Yoga Sanctuary. Meals, classes, workshops and ceremonies will take place at the sanctuary.
Which airport should I use?
Guests should fly into Juan Santamaría International Airport in San José, Costa Rica (SJO).
Please plan to arrive by 3:00pm on September 28 and schedule departing flights after 1:00pm on October 8.
What should I bring?
After registration, you will receive a complete preparation and packing guide. Recommended items will include comfortable movement clothing, rain protection, closed-toe walking shoes, insect repellent, a reusable water bottle, a journal and any personal medications.
What happens if it rains?
Sarapiquí is a tropical rainforest environment, and rain is part of its beauty. Most classes and ceremonies are held in covered spaces. The schedule may shift when necessary to keep the group safe and comfortable.
What is the cancellation policy?
Cancellation Policy
All retreat payments are nonrefundable.
If you are unable to attend, the amount you have paid may be applied as a credit toward another retreat hosted by The Yoga Sanctuary within one year of the original retreat start date.
Retreat credits are subject to availability, may only be used by the original guest, and have no cash value. Any difference in price for the future retreat will be the guest’s responsibility.
By submitting your payment, you acknowledge and agree to this cancellation policy.
Is travel insurance required?
Travel insurance is strongly recommended to protect your investment in the event of illness, travel interruption, cancellation or another unexpected circumstance.
Reserve Your Place
If you feel the quiet knowing that it is time to step out of autopilot, reconnect with your imagination and become more present within your own life, Dream Awake was created for you.
Come rest in the rainforest.
Come listen to your dreams.
Come remember what becomes possible when you are no longer sleeping through your own becoming.
Dream Awake. Live lucidly. Meet your life with open eyes.
An 11-Day Lucid Living, Dreamwork and Yoga Retreat in Costa Rica
September 28–October 8, 2026
The Yoga Sanctuary and Tirimbina Biological Reserve
La Virgen de Sarapiquí, Costa Rica
Wake up within the life you are already living.
What if your life is not simply happening to you?
What if your thoughts, beliefs, memories, dreams, and nervous system are continually influencing how you experience the world, and you could learn to meet all of it with greater awareness?
Dream Awake is an immersive 11-day retreat for those ready to step out of unconscious patterns, reconnect with their imagination and live with greater presence, clarity, and intention.
This is an invitation to slow down enough to notice what has been shaping your reality, listen to the wisdom of your body and dreams, and become a more conscious participant in your becoming.
You will spend ten nights surrounded by the Costa Rican rainforest, resting at Tirimbina Biological Reserve and gathering each day at The Yoga Sanctuary for nourishing meals, yoga, somatic movement, dreamwork, storytelling, ceremony and sacred community.
This is not about escaping your life. It is about learning to meet your life with open eyes.
What Does It Mean to Dream Awake?
In a lucid dream, you become aware that you are dreaming while the dream is still unfolding.
Lucid living brings that same quality of awareness into everyday life.
It means noticing the beliefs, emotional patterns, inherited stories and automatic responses influencing how you see yourself and the world. It means creating space between what happens and how you respond. It means recognizing where you have been living from habit, fear or survival—and choosing to meet your life with greater intention.
During Dream Awake, we will explore the idea of projected reality as a reflective spiritual and psychological inquiry: How does our inner world influence what we notice, expect, interpret and create?
Rather than treating every thought or experience as absolute truth, we will learn to observe our inner landscape with compassion and curiosity.
The intention is not to pretend that we control everything that happens to us. We do not. It is to recognize where we do have agency: in our awareness, choices, boundaries, responses and relationship with the present moment.
This Retreat May Be for You If…
You feel as though you have been moving through life on autopilot.
You are navigating a transition and want space to hear your own inner guidance.
You are curious about dreams, symbolism, storytelling and the unconscious mind.
You want to understand the patterns influencing your relationships, decisions or sense of self.
You are a healer, artist, guide, teacher, caregiver or community leader who needs time to receive.
You desire a spiritual experience that is embodied, practical and connected to everyday life.
You want to reconnect with your creativity, imagination and capacity to dream beyond survival.
You are ready to rest, reflect and participate honestly in your own becoming.
No previous experience with yoga, meditation, dreamwork or lucid dreaming is required. All practices will be offered with options so you can meet your body where it is.
Two Sacred Spaces, One Immersive Experience
The Yoga Sanctuary
Our meals, yoga classes, workshops, storytelling circles and ceremonies will be held at The Yoga Sanctuary, a modern, open-air treehouse held within the lush landscape of Sarapiquí.
The sanctuary is where we will practice, eat, share, create and gather in community. It offers an intimate space where spiritual exploration can remain grounded in the body, the natural world and the rhythms of daily life.
Tirimbina Biological Reserve
Guests will stay next door at Tirimbina Biological Reserve and Rainforest Lodge, located less than a 2 minute’s walk from The Yoga Sanctuary.
Tirimbina is more than a place to sleep. It is a living center for rainforest conservation, environmental education and biological research. Surrounded by tropical forest, wildlife, gardens, trails and the sounds of the Sarapiquí rainforest, your accommodations become part of the retreat itself.
You will have space to rest privately after each day’s experiences while remaining deeply connected to nature.
Together, Tirimbina and The Yoga Sanctuary create a rare balance: comfortable accommodations, immersive rainforest living, intimate spiritual practice and genuine community.
The Dream Awake Experience
During our time together, you will be guided through:
• Daily yoga, meditation and embodied practices
• Somatic movement and nervous system regulation
• Dream journaling and practices for strengthening dream recall
• Symbolic exploration and conscious dreamwork
• Lucid-living workshop
• Exploration of projected reality, perception and personal agency
• Dreamwork through Black literary and storytelling traditions
• Storytelling circles exploring memory, identity, imagination and liberation
• Conscious breathwork
• Restorative Yoga Nidra
• Live violin experiences
• Immersive sound therapy
• A heart-opening cacao ceremony
• Burn and tea ceremonies for release, reflection and renewal
• A traditional Temazcal experience
• Guided connection with the rainforest
• Stargazing beneath Costa Rica’s night sky
• Spacious periods for rest, journaling and integration
A Day at Dream Awake
Every day will have its own rhythm, but a typical day may unfold like this:
Morning
Wake to the sounds of the rainforest and a live violin ,inviting you to enter the day slowly and intentionally.
We will gather for meditation, breathwork, yoga or somatic movement, followed by a nourishing breakfast at The Yoga Sanctuary.
Midday
Late mornings will include dreamwork, lucid-living workshops, storytelling or embodied classes.
After lunch, there will be space for rest, massage, journaling, quiet reflection or time in nature. On selected days, we will explore the rainforest and other nearby natural spaces.
Evening
As the day softens, we will return to ceremony, community and integration.
Evenings may include a storytelling circle, sound therapy, cacao, a burn and tea ceremony, stargazing or Yoga Nidra before returning to Tirimbina for rest.
The schedule will remain intentional without feeling rigid. This retreat is designed to offer meaningful inner work while still leaving room to breathe.
What You May Carry Home
Dream Awake is designed to help you leave with:
• A stronger relationship with your dreams
• Practical methods for remembering and reflecting on your dreams
• Greater awareness of the patterns influencing your daily life
• Tools for regulating your nervous system during stress and transition
• A deeper connection with your body, imagination and intuition
• More clarity around the life you want to consciously create
• Practices that help you pause before reacting automatically
• Renewed trust in your inner guidance
• A supportive community of fellow dreamers
• The courage to live as both the dreamer and the dream
We cannot promise that ten days will resolve every question or change every circumstance. We can promise to create a carefully held space in which you can listen, practice, rest and begin relating to your life differently.
Your Retreat Includes
• 11 days and 10 nights in Sarapiquí, Costa Rica
• Shared accommodations at Tirimbina Rainforest Lodge
• Three nourishing meals each day at The Yoga Sanctuary
• Daily yoga, meditation, breathwork or somatic movement
• All scheduled dreamwork and lucid-living workshops
• Storytelling and integration circles
• Cacao ceremony
• Temazcal experience
• Sound therapy
• Live violin experiences
• Burn and tea ceremonies
• Evening Yoga Nidra experiences
• Guided nature experiences at Tirimbina Biological Reserve
• One therapeutic massage for restoration and integration
• All retreat materials
Please let us know about allergies or dietary needs before reserving so we can confirm whether they can be accommodated.
Additional costs
• Shared roundtrip airport transportation: $50 per person
• Waterfall and La Fortuna experience: $65 per person
Not Included
• Flights to and from Costa Rica
• Travel insurance
• Optional excursions unless specifically listed as included
• Personal purchases and souvenirs
• Additional massages or private healing sessions
• Transportation outside the scheduled retreat transfers
Your Guide
Dream Awake is hosted by Yogini Jo, founder of The Yoga Sanctuary and Brown Girl Yoga Tribe.
Jo is a 700-hour trained yoga teacher, Thai massage therapist and instructor, Level II Reiki practitioner and lifelong student of embodied healing, spiritual practice and alternative medicine.
Her work brings together yoga, nervous system awareness, ceremony, Maya philosophy , nature and practical inner work. She created The Yoga Sanctuary as a space where spiritual teachings can move beyond theory and become part of how we breathe, relate, rest, choose and live.
Guest facilitators and artists will teach and lead selected portions of the retreat, bringing their unique gifts to the Dream Awake experience.
Investment
Shared accommodation: $1770 per person
A deposit of $500 reserves your place.
Payment-plan options are available to match your needs.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I attend alone?
Yes. Many retreat guests travel alone. The experience is intentionally designed to create connection while still respecting your need for privacy, rest and personal reflection.
Do I need to be experienced in yoga?
No. Yoga and somatic practices will be accessible to different levels of experience. You will always be encouraged to listen to your body.
Do I need to remember my dreams?
Not at all. Dream recall is something we will explore and strengthen during the retreat. Curiosity is more important than previous experience.
Is this a lucid-dreaming training?
Dream Awake includes dream recall, symbolism and lucid-awareness practices, but it is broader than a lucid-dreaming course. The central focus is learning to bring greater awareness into both your dreaming and waking life.
Where will I sleep?
Guests will stay in shared accommodations at Tirimbina Rainforest Lodge, located directly next door to The Yoga Sanctuary. Meals, classes, workshops and ceremonies will take place at the sanctuary.
Which airport should I use?
Guests should fly into Juan Santamaría International Airport in San José, Costa Rica (SJO).
Please plan to arrive by 3:00pm on September 28 and schedule departing flights after 1:00pm on October 8.
What should I bring?
After registration, you will receive a complete preparation and packing guide. Recommended items will include comfortable movement clothing, rain protection, closed-toe walking shoes, insect repellent, a reusable water bottle, a journal and any personal medications.
What happens if it rains?
Sarapiquí is a tropical rainforest environment, and rain is part of its beauty. Most classes and ceremonies are held in covered spaces. The schedule may shift when necessary to keep the group safe and comfortable.
What is the cancellation policy?
Cancellation Policy
All retreat payments are nonrefundable.
If you are unable to attend, the amount you have paid may be applied as a credit toward another retreat hosted by The Yoga Sanctuary within one year of the original retreat start date.
Retreat credits are subject to availability, may only be used by the original guest, and have no cash value. Any difference in price for the future retreat will be the guest’s responsibility.
By submitting your payment, you acknowledge and agree to this cancellation policy.
Is travel insurance required?
Travel insurance is strongly recommended to protect your investment in the event of illness, travel interruption, cancellation or another unexpected circumstance.
Reserve Your Place
If you feel the quiet knowing that it is time to step out of autopilot, reconnect with your imagination and become more present within your own life, Dream Awake was created for you.
Come rest in the rainforest.
Come listen to your dreams.
Come remember what becomes possible when you are no longer sleeping through your own becoming.
Dream Awake. Live lucidly. Meet your life with open eyes.