Aerial of the Imiloa Institute campus at sunrise, mist lifting from the Costa Rican rainforest with the Pacific Ocean beyond
REST & WELLNESS · IMILOA INSTITUTE. COSTA RICA

You haven't
stopped in years.

Six days in the Costa Rican jungle to finally exhale. A fully supported retreat for people who hold everything together for everyone else.

September 19–24, 2026

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I · The Feeling You Know Too Well

You're exceptional at holding it all together - and quietly reaching a boiling point.

It's the email that arrives mid-dinner and sends your heart rate spiking. It's snapping at someone you love because your cup overflowed three weeks ago. It's lying awake at 2am with your brain still running through tomorrow's list.

It's scrolling through your phone in the bathroom because that's the only place no one needs you for ninety seconds.

You're exhausted in a way sleep doesn't fix.

Somewhere in the constant pull, you've lost track of something. Not just energy. You. The version of yourself that used to have ideas, patience, presence - the person who existed before you became everyone's answer.

A guest sits on a teak deck at sunrise, looking out over a misty rainforest with a cup of Costa Rican pour-over coffee
“Your exhale drops the weight from your shoulders into the earth. Your head falls back. Dew on jungle leaves. The cloud forest breathing in front of you. And something inside you finally unlocks.”
A misty Costa Rican cloud forest at dawn, lush green canopy layers fading into golden fog

06:14 AM · Day One

Long before the first session begins, the land itself calls you. 

The air is warm and wet against your skin. Costa Rican pour-over in your hand, mist lifting off the jungle in slow ribbons. Your breath gets fuller without you trying. A stillness you can feel settle into your chest. Your shoulders drop an inch. You let out the kind of sigh that's been stuck for months. The leaves soften waht the noise or ordinary life has hardened. 

There's nothing on your calendar. No one needs anything from you.

II · The Reset You'll Carry Home

Six days that don't evaporate the moment you land back home.

01

Step Out

For six days, there is nothing to manage. Nothing to organise. Nowhere else you need to be. Your only job is to do nothing ,and to let your body remember how.

02

Reconnect

In unstructured hours, the answers you’ve been too busy to hear start arriving. What you actually want. What you’ve been avoiding. What matters when the noise is stripped away.

03

Return

It’s not that the tiredness vanishes. You finally remember you’re allowed to stop and you leave with that permission intact. A sense of your own pace.

An open-air wooden pavilion with brass singing bowls arranged on a woven mat, jungle and ocean beyond

III · A Gentle Spine

Structured enough to hold you. Open enough to set you down.

Optional guided experiences like gentle yoga and cacao ceremony are there if you want them, and easy to leave if you do not. In between the hours are yours. Walk the jungle trails. Wim in the pools. Rest in the hammoc. Read in the shade. Or do nothing at all, and allow that to be enough. 

Meals arrive unhurried, breakfast, lunch and dinner, with snacks throughout the day. Enjoy a spa treatment if you wish. Th eonly thing asked of you is to slow down.

 Some guests do everything; others spend three days reading the same novel in the same chair. Both are right.

IV · The Table

Forget wellness cuisine that tastes like an apology.

Pillowy gallo pinto with eggs from the farm down the road. A papaya salad bright with lime, toasted coconut, and herbs still warm from the sun. Roasted local squash glazed with tamari and honey. Grilled plantains caramelised at the edges.

Dinner is long. The jungle goes loud with nightfall as you eat - howler monkeys, cicadas, the whole chorus. By the time the dark chocolate mousse arrives (with a hint of chili) you've been at the table for two hours and nobody wants to leave.

Most of what reaches your plate was grown within walking distance. You'll taste the difference. You'll talk about it for months.

A long candlelit table with roasted squash, grilled plantains, papaya salad, and a bowl of coconut rice

V · Where You'll Stay

Seven sanctuaries cut into the cliff.

From 200-year-old hand-carved Bali villas to geodesic domes nested in the rainforest - every room is designed to hold you.

VI · What's Included

Held, from the moment you arrive.

  • 015 nights, 6 days luxury accommodation at Imiloa Institute
  • 02All meals, snacks & drinks -  farm-to-table vegetarian
  • 03All meals, snacks & drinks, vegetarian, organic and farm-to-table fresh & seasonal
  • 04Optional guided experiences such as gentle yoga and cacoa ceremony
  • 05Full access to jungle trails, pools, and secluded spaces
  • 06Community circles and quiet space. Engage as much, or as little, as you wish

This is for you if

  • You're running on empty and ready to admit it.
  • You want to reset without a rigid agenda. No 5am bootcamps. No mandatory circles.
  • You'd rather restore quietly than optimise loudly.
  • You're ready to be cared for instead of doing the caring.

This isn't for you if

  • You want a packed itinerary and nightlife.
  • You're looking for an intensive therapeutic program.
  • You're not ready to put your phone down for six days.
  • (If that last one stings a little - you might be exactly who this is for.)

Your Host · Rita Robles

“I spent decades being the person who held it all  together. I was very good at it, right up until the morning I realised I had nothing left to give.”

Costa Rica was a dream I followed. It's where I learned to stop. Not to quit, not to escape, but to truly stop. To let myself be held for instead of always being the one who holds.

I know what it is to pour yourself out completely. I am the mother of three young boys, so I know what it is to give everything you have, and then reach again for more that simply is not here. I know that quiet guilt, the feeling of wanting time for yourself and positioning it as something you have to earn, but can never quite attain. 

What I have found at Imiloa is that the land does the deeper work. The nature is untouched, and it is healing in a way I struggle to put into words. The trees, the stillness, the living jungle. They meet you, and they soften something old. The entire place is tended with intention. Everything here comes from love and care. 

I could not recommend a better place on this earth to come home to yourself, to one another, and to nature. That is the gift I want to give you. Six days to set it all down, to breathe, and to remember who you are underneath all the holding. I will be with you for every day of it. 

- Come and put it down.

SEPTEMBER 19–24, 2026 · IMILOA INSTITUTE, COSTA RICA

Step out of the noise.
Return to yourself.

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