If you’re a woman struggling with fertility challenges, or wanting to plan ahead by optimizing fertility now, then join us for a preconception care retreat where you will release confusion and overwhelm and come away calm and confident, knowing and embracing exactly what your body needs to grow your family when you’re ready.
A howler monkey bellows outside your window, and you stir from your comfy King bed cocoon, suddenly remembering you’re in the lush rainforest of Costa Rica. The aroma of freshly brewed local coffee greets you as you meander out into the villa’s tropical gardens, where a toucan happily bites into a ripe mango.
As your private chef prepares the day’s offerings of delicious, nourishing cuisine, the fresh spearmint-lime infused water quenches your thirst in the balmy jungle. You settle into the friendly, relaxed conversations with other women who know exactly how you feel.
As scarlet macaws squawk and blue morpho butterflies flit overhead, you feel yourself grounding into the womb of Mother Nature—comforting and reassuring. Group coaching begins, and you notice how clear and focused your mind is as you inhale fresh air and exhale your stressors.
Wander to the cool sparkling pool and let the water wrap around you while you process these new—yet ancient—ideas about fertility and wellness. The pulse of the jungle holds you steady as you head into the afternoon session…It’s almost time for the heart-opening cacao ceremony.
Let the hidden waterfalls wash away all of your old perceptions about health and fertility, as you take your first invigorating breaths, integrating the refreshing realizations from our powerful holistic coaching work. Finally, a retreat designed just for you.
Are You Ready For These Shifts?
How confident and intentional would you feel to know exactly which foods, exercise and lifestyle changes promote your fertility?
So confident! On this retreat, as you learn to live your custom holistic Wellness Plan, you’ll know exactly which foods, exercise styles, and supplements are perfect to promote your fertility, so you can skip by trendy ads and say “no thank you” to unsolicited advice.
How refreshing will it feel to get back to normal, upbeat conversations with your family and friends, instead of hearing more unsolicited fertility advice?
So refreshing! Through the illuminating group coaching on our retreat, you’ll gain clarity about your fertility, so that you can calmly and confidently explain your process when friends and family ask for an update…again.
Can you imagine the flood of joy and relief washing through you, when you finally see your pregnancy test turn POSITIVE?
Yes! With personalized, individualized coaching with Dr. Juli, you’ll learn natural, holistic ways to optimize your fertility, so you can increase your chances of seeing that positive pregnancy test when you want to grow your family.
How freeing would it be to open a social media app on your phone and feel peaceful and genuinely happy to see someone else’s pregnancy announcement?
So freeing! Through the powerful fire ceremony on this retreat, you’ll release frustration and resentment, so that you can genuinely feel joy for other mothers again.
How comforting would it feel to be back on the same team with your partner, sharing the ups and downs of your fertility journey?
So comforted! Through facilitated group sharing circles with women who intimately know the strain fertility challenges can put on a relationship, you’ll learn how to shift back towards the joy of intimacy with your partner.
The Venue
As you slip into the nourishing tranquility of the rainforest, you’ll feel a sense of lightness as your everyday stressors and pressures fade away. You’ll enjoy the comforts of home in our nature-immersive boutique villa—intimate, with just 8 bedrooms and 8 bathrooms.
The inspired open-air great room connects you to Mother Nature for our group sharing circles and coaching sessions, while your air-conditioned bedroom beckons you for a deep, restorative sleep to fully integrate what you’ve learned. Private bathrooms offer ample personal space and convenient modern amenities.
Climb into your luscious King sized bed and peacefully drift to sleep to the sounds of the jungle birds outside your window. When you awaken to the monkeys calling at sunrise, more refreshed than ever, grab your robe and head down the path with luscious blooming jasmine to the sparkling pool for some much-needed “me time.”
Lounge in the thoughtfully placed hammocks with your favorite book, or enjoy your solo practice in the pristine yoga shala. Make yourself at home…for one week, this jungle villa, nestled in the mountains and surrounded by pure elements, is yours as you reconnect with Mother Nature and with your own nurturing, vibrant, feminine being.
The Cuisine
Our private chef will tantalize your senses with his Costa Rican fusion dishes and daily local fruit and herbal infusions. (Dietary restrictions? Let us know beforehand, so we can accommodate your needs.)
Laid back, grab-and-graze breakfasts are balanced with our hearty, engaging group lunches and dinners gathered around the long, hand-carved wooden table.
Local coffee, tea, filtered water, and light snacks are available anytime in our fully stocked kitchen. Wine is provided with dinner, to complement the international cuisine mains. Wait until you find out if your body would benefit more from white wine (cooling and yin building) or red wine (warming and blood moving)!
Rich, fresh, and nutritious, the food on our retreat will fill your belly and keep you satisfied. As we dive into the properties of different foods, learning discernments like whether avocados or yogurt will be more helpful for your fertility journey, each meal becomes a personal wellness experience.
Our Journey
Day 1: Arrive at the villa
Our driver picks you up at the SJO airport and shuttles you to our jungle villa. Over our delicious welcome dinner, we’ll get acquainted with each other, our space, and how to make the most of our transformative time together.
Explore your unique boutique accommodations, noticing the decorative lights glimmering in the tropical gardens as night falls.
You will not believe how comfortable your bed is when you lay down to decompress from your exciting travel day.
Day 2: Understanding your fertility
After a leisurely first morning, we’ll gather before lunch for a group coaching session designed to unveil and reconstruct your assumptions about fertility.
After a chef’s lunch (hey, you could get used to this!), it’s a private coaching session with Dr. Juli to start uncovering the root cause of your fertility challenges.
Once you’re done there, it’s a free afternoon poolside, if you please. After dinner, we’ll gather around the fire for our first reflective sharing circle.
Day 3: Ritual Fire Ceremony
Our morning group session will teach you a completely new—yet ancient—way of evaluating your health and fertility.
After a nourishing lunch, we’ll jump into tongue diagnosis in our group session.
After dinner, we’ll gather around the heart-shaped bonfire to experience a powerful ritual burning of our past struggles, negative emotions, and old notions about fertility, to cleanse our minds and make room for the flood of positive emotions and exciting new revelations.
Day 4: Woman, Sun, & Moon
Woman, Sun, & Moon: We’ll get hands-on in our morning group coaching sessions, learning how to feel the meridians and acupoints all over your body.
Then we’ll explore exercise styles to help you find out which activities are best for your body’s needs.
After lunch and an individual coaching session with Dr. Juli, we’ll head to the Pacific Ocean for sunset on the beach, illuminating our chat on menstrual and fertility cycles. We’ll be glowing all the way back to the villa for dinner.
Day 5: Jungle Waterfalls
Let the rainforest hug you and the cleansing waterfalls revive your senses, clarifying your thoughts and washing away confusion, overwhelm, and frustration.
As we hike to each waterfall, the essential oils of the flowering plants heighten your connection to the natural elements, deep in the womb of Mother Earth.
After lunch at an authentic Costa Rican family restaurant, we’ll have group coaching on easy ways to reduce your exposure to hormone disruptors.
Later, relax by the pool or indulge in a professional massage (at an additional cost) before dinner.
Day 6: Foods, Herbs, & Cacao Ritual
Our morning group coaching session weaves an invisible shield around you, making you invincible to the unrelenting stream of superfoods, fertility teas, and unnecessary dietary exclusion trends.
After lunch, we’ll participate in an ancient cacao ceremony to strengthen our connection to the nourishing earth and intimately experience the properties a food innately embodies, before refinement, genetic modification, or poison pesticides adulterate its purity and potency.
Day 7: Departure & Re-entry
While our time together at the jungle villa is drawing to a close, your transformation is just beginning. You’ll leave this retreat with complete confidence that you know the root cause of your fertility challenge and how to resolve it, naturally, to enhance not only your fertility but also your overall health and wellness.
On the ride back to the airport, you’ll hear the encouraging whispers of your new friends, and feel the hum of excitement as you get back to your life with an action plan and a totally different outlook on your fertility.
You will leave this retreat:
Empowered. You’ll discover which imbalance is —or will be–challenging your fertility, and learn exactly how to resolve it, so you can have the peace and clarity to move forward with purpose on your fertility journey.
Engaged. You’ll gain so much new insight on pregnancy and health, you’ll authentically and enthusiastically join in on conversations with your friends & family.
Confident. You’ll feel so free and intentional scrolling past the constant barrage of fertility product ads, because you know precisely which foods, supplements, and workouts are right for your body.
Self-assured. You’ll feel calm and comforted that you’ve done everything possible to enhance your health and fertility naturally, so that you can embrace IUI or IVF if that becomes part of your journey.
Relieved. You’ll cheerfully and contentedly look forward to the next steps on your fertility journey, peaceful that you’ve rooted into a time-honored, proven system of natural medicine that enhances your health and your future babies’.
This retreat is for you IF:
- You know fertility is declining and want to optimize yours with preconception care.
- Your doctors can’t tell you what’s going wrong with your fertility.
- You’re tired of explaining yourself to friends and family.
- You’re overwhelmed & confused by conflicting information & advice.
- You’re SO OVER peeing on sticks.
- You want to enjoy the conception process with your partner.
- You want to get back to your normal life and future plans.
- You want to improve fertility naturally before jumping into medicated cycles or IVF.
This retreat is NOT for you IF:
- Rainforests, mosquitos, scorpions or snakes TERRIFY you.
- You’d be miserable hiking in heat and humidity, or not having A/C in the common areas.
- You’re not open to learning from a 2,000 year old system of natural medicine.
- You’re not willing to make the lifestyle changes your body is calling for.
- You’re not trying to conceive now or in the future.
Bonuses
- Pre-trip individual call with Dr. Juli to make sure you’re the perfect fit for this retreat
- Post-retreat individual call with Dr. Juli to support the process of integrating new concepts into your real life
- Welcome gift with holistic tools to get you started on your natural journey
What’s Included
- 6 nights lodging in our majestic rainforest villa
- King bed (1 per room)
- Air conditioning (only in bedrooms)
- Essential oil diffuser (1 per bedroom)
- Private bathrooms with hot water and a shower & pool towel
- All meals from villa arrival through villa departure
- 6 delicious dinners & 4 delectable lunch spreads by our private chef
- 6 grab & graze light breakfasts
- 1 lunch at a family-owned Costa Rican restaurant
- Wine pairings with dinners, 1 glass per person nightly
- Local coffee, tea, filtered water and fresh herbal/ fruit infusions anytime
- Transportation from SJO airport to our villa, and back, offered twice daily at pre-arranged times on Days 1 and 7
- Authentic cacao ceremony
- Guided jungle hike & waterfall excursion, & transportation
- Sunset beach walk, & transportation
- Fire ritual
- Group coaching sessions daily
- Individual coaching sessions twice during the week
- Inspirational daily card pulls in the mornings
- Reflective group sharing sessions in the evenings
- Free time and space for yoga or other preferred solo exercise routine
- Free time to enjoy our pool and tropical gardens
- Custom, holistic Wellness Plan designed to resolve your root cause imbalances
- Wifi, electricity, and hot water at our villa, although not guaranteed
- All entrance fees, taxes, tips for transportation and excursions listed
What’s Not Included
- Airfare to and from San Jose International airport (SJO), in Costa Rica
- Valid passport (required)
- Any applicable visas, depending on your country of origin
- Travelers’ insurance, including emergency medical, evacuation, and repatriation (required)
- Trip cancellation, interruption, or baggage delay insurance (recommended)
- Beverages not specifically included
- Professional therapeutic massage (optional)
- Any meals, drinks, or other expenses incurred during your travels or delays to and from the villa
- Laundry or maid service
- Souvenirs, incidentals or optional purchases made on excursions
Your Host ~ Juli Yelnick
While navigating through my own fertility and reproductive challenges (endometriosis, ovarian tumor, laparoscopic procedures, secondary infertility, irregular periods, hormone imbalances, and MORE, ugh!) I was feeling, sensing, knowing something was broken about the healthcare system.
There is a better way…and we all used to know it, in our bones, in our souls, in our communities. But we’ve lost it in our modern society, isolated from each other and from the ancient wisdom that humans cultivated over thousands of years through trial and observation.
I know my purpose in life is to help people reconnect with the beautiful, effective simplicity of natural medicine, and in 2012, after 10 years as an Anthropology professor, I switched gears and got a Master of Science and then a Doctorate in Acupuncture.
I have the blood of my great-grandmother, a midwife, running through my veins, and I’m so passionate about teaching others to tap into the wisdom of the natural world, especially for reproductive health.
Let me be the tour guide on your fertility journey, helping you resolve your challenges from the root cause, like I’ve helped hundreds over the past decade, as an acupuncturist practicing Traditional Chinese Medicine, and as a woman, listening to her inner knowing.
FAQ’S
What if I am pregnant before the retreat, should I still come?
YES! Congrats, and this retreat is still for you. Our root imbalances do not disappear when we conceive, so it’s still so important to uncover them and resolve them, to support a happy healthy pregnancy, efficient labor, and fewer delivery and postpartum complications.
Can I bring my partner?
Not this time; this retreat is specifically for the women who want to conceive.
What if I do have a fertility-related diagnosis?
Contrary to popular belief, TCM does not consider conditions like PCOS, endometriosis, poor sperm quality, or low ovarian reserve as blocks to conceiving naturally, once their root causes are resolved.
What if I’m not trying to conceive just yet?
Kudos for thinking ahead! Let’s resolve your root cause imbalances & optimize your fertility now. Even if you aren’t actively TTC yet, why not enjoy better sleep, less PMS, and balanced hormones in the meantime?
What if I am going to use Assisted Reproductive Technology?
Should medicated cycles, IUI, or IVF become a part of your journey, you will want to be as healthy as possible first to further improve your chances of conceiving and carrying your healthy baby.
How bad are the jungle critters, really?
There will likely be some mosquitos, usually just around sunset, and you will likely see small gecko lizards. Scorpions and snakes are possible, but not likely. Non-toxic bug spray will be provided throughout the villa for your convenience. February is a drier season, so bugs are less prominent.
Tell me about the climate and terrain...
Our villa is nestled on a mountainside in the tropical climate of Costa Rica. The Pacific side of the country during February is hot (think 85 for the highs, 75 for the lows) and not usually rainy. Our location is on the rugged side, not easily accessible to walk to town, stores, or restaurants. There are short walks, hikes, and stairs to climb.
What about shots or medications to travel in Costa Rica?
Talk with your doctor about any vaccinations or medications that are recommended in your particular case. Malaria, Dengue Fever, and other mosquito-borne parasites and viruses are possible anywhere in Costa Rica.
Am I sharing a room?
Only if you want to! Each of our 8 bedrooms has one King bed and a private full bathroom, so most participants chose the Single occupancy option at registration. If you’re traveling with another participant or open to sharing a bed with a new friend, you can select the Shared occupancy option instead.
You can’t fix your fertility problems if you don’t know what’s wrong. Each person has a specific root cause imbalance that is (or will be!) obstructing their fertility and wreaking havoc around their body. Once you learn what it is, and have an action plan to resolve it, not only does your fertility improve, but so does everything else.
Your sleep, digestion, moods, skin, hair, hormones, PMS, and period problems all improve, too, by default, as you resolve your pattern of imbalance and optimize all of your body’s functions and systems.
Come on, let me teach you how to optimize your fertility, naturally, and for good.
~ Dr. Juli
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