Ape Vision 20/20

Florestral, Costa Rica, April 14 - 18, 2020

Discover your inner great ape in the heart of the Diamante Valley.

Rewild your body. Rewire your mind. Regenerate your health and happiness!

Join Zander Hathaway and friends at Florestral, a magical retreat center where pristine jungle, fruit trees, gardens, and spectacular waterfalls abound. Enjoy an abundance of organic tropical fruit and simple raw vegan cuisine. Enjoy nature in a safe clothing-optional environment. All activities are included yet optional. Feel free participate or just follow your bliss... Pura vida!

All-Inclusive Activities & Amenities

Eat the highest quality local, organic, seasonal fruits and simple raw vegan cuisine.

Eat straight from the food forest and enjoy an all-you-can-forage buffet of fresh fruits, leafy greens, and savory salads. Go ahead, eat with your hands and play with your food!

Engage your body with movement inside and outside the yoga temple.

Integrate your mind and body with an intuitive and interactive flow of techniques to restore your natural breathing and movement patterns.
​Ape see, ape do... ape feel better.

Access epic waterfalls and secluded river with natural pools anytime.

Explore the river, swim in natural pools, climb boulders, make a splash!

Feel free to go without shoes or clothes. Even cover yourself in mud!

Feel the profound health benefits of connecting with the Earth's electro-magnetic field. Allow fresh air, direct sunlight, and earth elements on your body, as all wild apes do. This is a safe, respectful, clothing-optional, and family-friendly environment. The use of cameras and phones will be limited to certain areas and times. 

Detox from modern technology and lingual communication.

Experience deeper peace and increased sensory awareness with silent mornings, sun gazing, and a full day without symbolic language, electricity, and other technologies.

Enjoy massage trades and social grooming.

Connect with others through massage while practicing communication and respect of personal boundaries.

Revive your true nature!

Let go of the conditioning of industrial culture. Restore your youthful vitality, creativity, playful spirit, and sense of wonder.

Experiment with primitive tools and fallback foods.

Humans once thought of ourselves as the only tool-making animal, but now it is well known that other apes make simple tools to forage fallback foods.

Find new like-minded friends to go ape with!

Best buds may be few and far between, but at an Ape Living retreat, you'll naturally meet new pals who share your interest in natural living.

Hang out in a hammock or make a tree nest.

All activities are optional and there will be plenty of free time to kick back and listen to the songs of the jungle.

Go bananas!

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Go with the Natural Flow

Our daily flow will transition from being associated with numerical time to the natural light cycle. We will stay up past dark the first night, with a bonfire for our opening circle. The fire will be doused in a ceremony marking our movement away from modern technology and into our primal nature. During the retreat, we will transition from using symbolic language to more basic communication. Our diet will consist of simple raw vegan cuisine that encourages sequential eating and mono-fruit meals. On the last night, we will rekindle the flames, conclude our experience, and celebrate our return to civilization. We will depart feeling rejuvenated and more deeply rooted in nature.

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Dawn: Wake up with the howler monkeys, gather in the lodge for relaxed stretching and hydrating
Daybreak: Yoga at the rainforest deck, nature walk, tree climbing, foraging, massage trades
Mid-Morning: Juicy fruit breakfast in nature, free time, adventure down to the lower falls
Noon: Sweet fruit lunch at the lodge, workshop on communication or primitive tool making, free time
Mid-Afternoon: Exotic fruit dinner, foraged salad, workshop or short film with discussion
Dusk: Yoga on the lawn or in the lodge, massage trades, social grooming, free time
Dark: Quiet time for winding down, reflecting, intention setting, meditation, lots of sleep

Lodging & Pricing

The all-inclusive price for a single bed in a shared room (with 1 to 2 other guests) is $535 per person. Payment plans are available, by request, between January and March 2020. Space is limited to 12 guests, so if you are eager to attend, register soon!

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Florestral Retreat Center