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The Imiloa Newsletter
Observing the beauty within, then giving form to it.
Imiloa is home.
You belong here.
At Imiloa, we believe through a spirit of service and a posture of learning — that together — we can create the individual and social transformation of the planet. Imiloa creates the experience of home for you to be able to awaken your consciousness in service to yourself and your community.
You get to be held.
For retreat leaders, we're your full spectrum strategic operations dream team. For our cherished guests, we're the most luxurious and heart-centered experience in hospitality you could imagine. Joining will feel like a never-ending dream grounded in a reality that you can take home with you.
Imiloa is an intercontinental institute for the education and advancement of humanity. We're building a center on every continent to serve the communities we call home, the team that has become our family and the guests and teachers that are making the world a safer, better place.
Come home to yourself.
Our uncommon shared humanity is expressed boldly at Imiloa.
For almost a decade, Imiloa has created accessible spaces of retreat for human beings to be able to create, play, explore and transform.
Since 2018, we've hosted 400+ retreat leaders and over ten thousand guests from sixty countries on our two campuses. Every modality, from yoga retreats, business and well-being retreats, speciality retreats like Ayurvedic experiences, continuing education programs for physicians, corporate gatherings like that of the United Nations, education retreats like those taught by Dr. Peter Levine or Dr. Jasmine Abrams from Yale or experiential retreats like those taught by best-selling author Dr. Martha Beck have all continued to host at Imiloa.
We celebrate an inter-disciplinary approach to mastery and we believe the future of education is experiential.
Named by a respected Hawaiian kupuna from the island of Moloka‘i, during a time of talk story with Imiloa's founder, the word “Imiloa” carries a deep, mystical spirit of exploration driven by a sense of wonder and imagination.
More like national parks than retreat centers, Imiloa campuses awaken the senses and invite a return home to oneself. We host some of the world's leading educators and entrepreneurs in high-content learning environments that are as exceptional as they are experiential.
And everything's always included. From the gourmet food designed to your specifications by a world-famous cuisine team that are scientists, artists and creators, to the private planes and luxury ground transportation, to the more than seventy team members that look after you while you're with us to the small touches by our renowned “Surprise and Delight” team that researches every guest before arrival curating true moments of wonder and awe, we are all about the lived experience of love.
At Imiloa, we believe that transformation can happen in an instant. All we have to do discover something new about ourselves, another human being or the world around us. We create the conditions for that discovery to happen on retreat. We can't wait to meet you and welcome you home.
Accommodations
Whether you’re in 200 year old homes from Bali on the cliff, Geodesic Domes deep in the Jurrasic Jungle or Jungalows with bathtubs out to our unofficial sloth sanctuary, you’ll have a story to tell about your stay at Imiloa.
Cuisine
At Imiloa, we like to call our food “conscious comfort food.” That means we serve healthy, locally-sourced, gourmet vegan meals that are as artistically plated, scientifically nourishing and delightfully crafted for all of our retreat guests.
INFINITY PLUNGE POOL Overlooking The Ocean
We have one main infinity plunge pool, and two private plunge pools, begging for you to lounge, create, learn and play. Chill areas throughout the upper ridge, overlooking the mighty Pacific, enjoy your time unwinding and rewind back in time 200 years to Indonesia as each of the homes are 160+ years old.
HoM(e)
It’s where the world comes to learn. It’s a 250m² Balinese super-structure and classroom, hanging 100 feet in the jungle. It’s equipped for your audio-visual needs. Often used for workshops, yoga, meditation, gatherings and dance parties.
The Heart of Imiloa
This is at the center of the property. The space is a blended design honoring the indigenous of Costa Rica and imported Balinese pieces. “Heart” is 200m² of dining, multi-use, loungy and relaxation space. Perfect for break out sessions, dining, dancing, deepenings, relaxing or individual meditation and rejuvenation.
Untouched Nature
Miles of jungle pathways that lead to different gems on the property, including our private waterfall, named by the priests of the Indigenous Tribe (Kogis, from Colombia) “Morundwa.” The tribe visited Imiloa, as many tribes do, and activated our waterfall.
The Way Home
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Transformational Retreats
Explore upcoming Imiloa experiences with world-famous masters & teachers, eat amazing vegan cuisine, deepen your practices, make unforgettable friendships and come back refreshed and enriched.
JUNE 22 – 27, 2025
JULY 12 – 17, 2025
AUGUST 4 – 9, 2025
Design Your Retreat
With almost 100 clients, Imiloa has surprised and delighted first time retreat hosts to veteran clients by providing full “Retreats Specialists” support to your events.
From ticketing to touchdown, transformation to takeoff, Imiloa’s high-end facilities, full nature immersion, gourmet conscious comfort food experience and kind-hearted team walk alongside you planning and executing every intentional detail of the gathering.
Whether you’re hosting a corporate event, transformational workshop, yoga training, painting or medical intuitive retreat, men’s gathering, international mystery school, educational certification or other gathering, Imiloa shows up like no other center on the planet.
Your journey starts with our Client Success and Happiness Team. They walk you through our Discovery Process until you choose to sign a contract to make sure we’re a great fit to be working with each other.
Then, you will be introduced to our Retreats Team, our Property and Finance team. We’ll ensure your retreat planning and flow is on track and aligned from the moment you onboard until the moment you arrive.
Then, once you land in Costa Rica, our Retreats Team seamlessly transition you to our Welcome Home Team. The Welcome Home Team ensures every aspect of the ground logistics, creative, food, transport, aesthetics and activities is handled. Their motto is “Yes… and?”
That means anything you, or any participant asks for, we accommodate. Since its founding in 2018, Imiloa has enjoyed 99% 4.9 and 5-Star reviews in our guest surveys and a 77% re-booking rate by those who choose to host with us.
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