Radiance and Rhythm for Women

Transformation and Embodiment for Modern Life through Ancient Ways

January 30 – February 4, 2025

Reunite with your most vibrant YES-FILLED self!

Join us for a 6-day, 5-night retreat where you will be immersed in an Ayurvedic and integrative health-informed curriculum to help strengthen your hormonal health, through healing movement, lush nature, nourishing meals and sistership – all designed to help gently strengthen your spirit, mind and body.

Feel the Magic of Our Community

On this retreat

You will learn the tools to carefully discern and determine what needs a shift in your life. What stays and what goes and what gets invited in. These tools will allow you to build deep awareness of your body and spirit, connection and re-connection to your inner wisdom, and learn new ancient practices that allow you to uplift your health and hormonal balance. These are powerful tools to take with you into your life after the retreat. They will allow you to meet the challenges of your life and this world with greater fortitude, joy, and resilience. The support of a circle of wisdom and care is so vital for living in difficult times.

Transformation and embodiment will be aided by expert guidance and a carefully developed program that integrates yogic practices – pranayama, mudra and movement along with sound healing through music, and workshops on hormonal health, ayurvedic self-care practices, neuroscience, food/spices as medicine as well as immersion in nature and sweat lodge practice.

Awaken Your Inner Light Through:

Outdoor Mindfulness Activities

Movement & Dance for Embodiment

Herbal Remedy & Hormonal Health Workshops

Self-Care Tools

Restorative Relaxation

Community Cultivation

Our Commitment to You

We nourish, awaken, inspire and empower every facet of your health through the lineage of yoga, ayurveda and cultural wisdom.

You’ll leave radiant, with tools to carry this energy home.

What You Can Expect

Facilitated by integrative medicine physician Geeta Maker-Clark, MD, and Hemalayaa Behl, both specialists in yoga, ayurveda and ancient healing practices of their Indian heritage.

You will be aided by expert guidance in this carefully developed program, drawing from our combined 50 years of teaching experience in their respective fields. As Indian women who have been deeply immersed in the healing practices of our heritage and culture, we are not performative in our adaptations of our culture to modern life- we are the channels through which this knowledge flows responsibly forward.

The Highlights of Your Journey

Delicious, organic, fresh meals prepared by our gourmet chef

Experience an Organic Coffee and Permaculture Farm Tour

Experience the natural beauty of Costa Rica’s Rivers and Waterfalls

Praise for Radiance and Rhythm

The Radiance and Rhythm retreat was a highlight of 2024 for me. Learning, laughing, and moving with Dr. Geeta, Hemalayaa, and all the other women helped me reconnect to my body, mind, spirit and life purpose while getting to create new friendships and memories. Even now, months later, back at home, the experience is still unfolding in my every day life in subtle and surprising ways. So glad I said yes. -Emily

I was lucky enough to participate in a Radiance and Rhythm Retreat at Embody with a virtual brain trust of successful women at the top of their career games. We arrived a pretty tightly-wound-up lot, but between the meditations, workshops, yoga, dance, sweat lodge, Ayurvedic teachings — not to mention the incredible food! — within a day or so we were all blissed out, emptied of stress and the outside world, and ready to fill ourselves up with positive energy. Hemalayaa and Dr. Geeta were an incredible team who balanced just the right amounts of education, information, and relaxation, along with personal attention and time for laughter and connection, to make this a blissful experience.

Embody Costa Rica is a beautiful place to enjoy the best of what there is — with a huge yoga shala, a labyrinth, winding walkways, and colorful lights at night, a great sound system (thanks, DTO!), and so much more, it is a magical place to attend — or host — a retreat. Highly recommended!
-Bridget LeRoy

I am still relishing the memory of my incredible experience at the Embody Retreat in Costa Rica. Hema and Geeta curated a truly spirit elevating journey that integrated each of their distinct areas of expertise. Their combined knowledge is expansive and the unique space they created at Embody was one that not only uniquely elevated and restored each of us in the individual ways we needed but also invited us into beautiful collective experiences as well. The setting was breathtaking, the food divine, and the opportunity to suspend the pressures and demands that define our lives and just let go for a bit was such a gift. The best part is that the program is also designed to give you concrete practices and skills to take back and integrate into your daily life. Don’t hesitate. Grab a spot while you can.
-Sharmila

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The curated daily program is built to bring about a new psychological and physiological state so the seeds we planted together will take root and grow, nourishing you to move into a new way of moving through the world. While you will have time on this retreat for massages and plenty of rest and reflection, you will also be guided through teachings of Ayurvedic herbalism, yogic practices like pranayama and mudra, and dance exploration of joy and play that is far deeper than a superficial concept of wellness… and can lead to lasting change.

Your Guides

Dr. Geeta Maker-Clark, M.D.

Dr. Geeta Maker-Clark is the Director of Integrative Nutrition and Advocacy at Endeavor Health and Clinical Assistant Professor, Co-Director of the Culinary Medicine program at the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine and guest faculty for the U Of Arizona Integrative Medicine and Ayurveda Fellowship. Geeta has spent two decades studying and practicing integrative medicine, nutritional science, botanical medicine, mind-body medicine, and natural childbirth in health clinics all over the world. She believes that food, plants, dance, music, and art are necessary, daily medicines. Geeta is also a professional dancer with the acclaimed Chicago African dance company Ayodele Drum and Dance and deeply enjoys and believes in the power of dance and storytelling. She believes in transforming the way we think about medicine and looks to ancient wisdom and modern struggles as opportunities to heal with the medicines that are all around us. As an Indian woman, a community organizer, and integrative physician, and a leader in the food as medicine movement, her work aims to help communities be well nourished- the heart of healing in our society and country.

Hemalayaa Behl

Hemalayaa Behl is a pioneer in the health, yoga, and wellness industry teaching. She has led Indian dance and yoga fitness programs on TV, DVDs, and streaming online for over 25 years, and is now the CEO and visionary of Embody Costa Rica. She blends ancient wisdom and modern mindfulness through guiding Ayurvedic principles and yogic sciences globally. Hemalayaa has led transformational experiences at conferences and festivals for over 2 decades. She makes ancient practices practical for modern lifestyles, igniting presence and potential in busy professionals. Her guidance empowers purposeful living aligned with soul truths. Hemalayaa amplifies leaders’ gifts through embodied wisdom cultivated over decades uplifting professionals worldwide.

We’d Love to Have You…

Join us on a rich cultural journey to learn practices that transform health and well-being. Allow these core medicines – food, plants, dance, connection – to help you thrive!

Join Us If You:

Want to rediscover your true self and creativity
Seek hormonal balance through new ways of being, eating and moving
Love being outside and waking to nature’s sounds
Want a cleanse from devices and news
Are ready to ignite your inner radiance!

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Private Room

Pay in Full TODAY for the SPECIAL EARLY BIRD PRICE of
$3,300 USD

[through October 21st, 2024]

$4,200 USD

Shared Women’s Labyrinth Room:

$2,900 USD

PRICING INCLUDES:

ALL MEALS, SHARED ACCOMODATIONS & TRANSPORTATION TO AND FROM AIRPORT to our Sanctuary

NOT INCLUDED: Airfare/Flight, Meals on our Outings (2-3 meals).

* BOOK A CALL TO ASK ABOUT THE OPTIONAL ACCOMMODATION UPGRADES