For seven days in Montezuma, Costa Rica, you can set everything down and come back to yourself.
Learn to clear emotional blocks, understand your chakras and train your intuition. You’ll paint watercolor as a meditation, sit in heart coherence circles and close the week with a Costa Rican fire dancer ceremony. All meals are included, along with the sauna, cold plunge and pool, and you’ll go home with practices you can keep using: Dec 5 – 12, 2026.
All bookings and coordination will be organized through the Retreat Leader Esther Hamar. Please FILL IN THE CONTACT FORM HERE to contact Anamaya’s Reservations Department in order for them to connect you directly with Esther for more information.
The Awakened Heart Retreat:
Learn the Language Your Heart Has Been Speaking All Along. This is a seven-night retreat built on a simple idea: once you understand your own energy, you stop working against yourself. Each day opens with Tantra Yoga and closes with Yin and guided meditation.
In between, Esther teaches the tools at the center of her work. Energy Alchemy helps you move through emotional blocks and self-sabotage, Chakra Psychology shows how your experiences shape your energy, and destiny learning and Night Echo strengthen your intuition.
The week also includes a nature excursion to meditate and swim at a waterfall, an evening oracle card workshop and free time for the pool, sauna and cold plunge. This retreat is also perfect for healers who want to deepen their practice, and for anyone who is ready to know themselves better.
Reserve Your Spot Today HERE.
Dates:
This Retreat is Perfect For You If…
You keep running into the same emotional patterns and want to understand where they come from.
This week is also for therapists, coaches and energy healers who want grounded tools to bring back to the people they support.
It suits anyone who has been curious about chakras, energy and intuition and wants a teacher who makes them practical and easy to apply.
If you’re drawn to slower practices like Yin and meditation, or you’d like to try watercolor as a form of meditation, you’ll feel at home here. Most of all, this retreat is for anyone ready to treat themselves with more kindness and to trust what their heart is telling them.
Seven Days, Every Layer of You:
Esther built this week to care for three parts of you: your body, your mind & emotions, and your spirit. Here’s what that looks like day to day.
Tantra Yoga and Yin with Meditation
Your mornings begin with Tantra Yoga to wake up your body and energy. Your evenings close with Yin and guided meditation, long, slow holds that let your nervous system settle before sleep.
Energy Alchemy Training
Esther teaches you how to work with emotional blockages and self-sabotage so you’re not carried along by them. These are practical techniques you can use whenever old patterns come up.
Chakra Psychology
You’ll learn what each chakra governs, how your experiences and beliefs show up in your energy body, and techniques for bringing each center back into balance. Past students include therapists who now use what they learned with their own clients.
Watercolor as Meditation
Esther combines color theory with intuitive expression, so you paint from feeling rather than thought. Many guests find it one of the most calming parts of the week.
Destiny Learning and Night Echo
These sessions focus on developing your intuition, giving you ways to notice and trust the guidance you already carry.
Heart Coherence and Healing Circles
The group comes together to practice heart coherence and talk openly about what’s surfacing. Many guests find that hearing others’ experiences helps them understand their own.
Oracle Card Workshop
An evening group session working with oracle cards as a tool for reflection and insight.
Waterfall Excursion
A trip into the jungle to meditate, relax and swim at a waterfall.
Time to Rest
Your free time is yours. You can spend it at the pool, in the sauna and cold plunge, or getting to know the people you’re sharing the week with. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks are prepared fresh by Anamaya’s kitchen.
Fire Dancer Closing Ceremony
The week ends with a Costa Rican fire dancer ceremony, a celebration of everything you’ve opened up to over the seven days.
Meet Your Guide, Esther…
Esther’s work has always been guided by the heart. For many years she has held space for clients as they reconnect with their strength, clarity and inner wisdom. Through The Awakened Heart Coaching, she helps people strengthen their self-worth, emotional resilience and heart-centered presence, combining grounded spiritual insight, nervous system awareness and practical tools.
Esther is a certified 400-hour yoga teacher, trained in Ecuador and Costa Rica. Her classes weave together Hatha, Yin, Kundalini and Tantra Yoga with breathwork and meditation, with a focus on nervous system regulation, chakra alignment and embodied awareness. She also teaches Chakra Psychology and energy education, showing students how emotional patterns, beliefs and life experiences shape the energy body. She leads these masterclasses, workshops and retreats both online and in person.
Creativity is another doorway for her. In her watercolor sessions, she guides participants to paint with feeling instead of thinking, which quiets the mind and lets the authentic self come through.
Across everything she offers, Esther’s belief stays the same: healing means remembering who you already are, whole, worthy and guided by the wisdom of your heart.
What other’s have to say…
“I recently completed Esther’s Chakra Psychology class and found it very beneficial, both personally and professionally. As a therapist, I’m always looking to expand my knowledge through holistic approaches to supporting others. Esther is a skilled, knowledgeable and passionate teacher who explains Chakra Psychology in a way that is both accessible and meaningful.” – Tanya, Vancouver Island, Canada
“Esther’s offerings are a moving prayer, a journey into self. She is a master at heart opening. Loving, wise, extraordinary. Run, don’t walk, to Esther’s offerings!” – Sarah, Nevada, USA
“I’ve been increasingly fascinated by the integration of mind, body and spirit. Esther is such a kind and bright light, with a passion for sharing this knowledge. I was sad when the seven days were over! I highly recommend this series for anyone who is even a little bit curious. I would give it 10 stars out of 5!” – Cathy, Vancouver Island, Canada
“Esther is a kind, wise soul who is deeply passionate about yoga and philosophy, and she brings all of it into her classes beautifully. It was a wonderful, deep journey into yourself, and I’d recommend it to anyone who needs to slow down in life. She meets everyone equally and brings spirituality onto a path we can all follow.”
– Isabella, Sweden
Accommodations & Pricing:
SPOTS ARE FILLING UP, so contact our Reservations Team HERE for more information on what rooms are available, pricing, and more details to save your spot today!
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