Via Sophia
Via Sophia
A Mystical Immersion into
the Living Wisdom Within You
October 16 - 24, 2026
Uvita, Costa Rica
Via Sophia is a path of embodied wisdom
inviting you into a lived relationship with the Mystical Feminine.
This intimate immersion offers you space to explore your inner knowing
and recognize the intelligence already alive within you.
There comes a moment when something within you shifts.
Not because life isn’t working, but because what once felt meaningful no longer feels like enough. You may not have words for it. You just know there is more of you here than has been lived.
You’ve done the work. You’ve shown up for your life, your relationships, your responsibilities. And still, there is a quiet sense that something deeper is waiting, not out there, but within you.
The Via Sophia Immersion is not about becoming someone new. It is about creating the space to listen, to feel, and to recognize what has always been present, but perhaps not yet fully lived.
In the rhythm of nature, in the presence of other women, and in a field that is both grounded and alive, something begins to open. Not forced. Not performed. Simply revealed.
And from here, you begin to live from a place that feels more true.
Entering the Field
There is a rhythm to this immersion that reflects the deeper intelligence you are already living within.
Via Sophia is not a path you study or achieve through effort. It is a way of embodied wisdom that unfolds through direct experience. It reveals more as your body relaxes, your perception becomes finely tuned, and your relationship with what is already moving in your life becomes known.
Each day unfolds naturally as we enter the field of feminine wisdom together. Through teaching, practice, ceremony, and shared exploration, you begin to recognize the subtle patterns of your own inner landscape. You’ll discover the places where Life is asking to open, soften, or shift.
Surrounded by the beauty of nature, you explore the living rhythms of the feminine through cycles and the unfolding spiral. You begin to interact with the presence of the Mystical Mothers as guiding intelligences, experienced not as concepts to understand, but as fields you sense, relate to, and embody in your own way.
Living the Rhythm
Space is woven throughout each day, offering you time to rest, relax, and reflect. A walk in the jungle. A dip in the pool. Journaling in silence. Laughing with friends. Taking a nap. As the pace softens, what is opening within you has the space to settle.
This spaciousness is not separate from the path. It is how wisdom becomes embodied so it can be lived within your everyday life.
Evenings carry a different rhythm. As the day quiets, something deepens. What began as insight or recognition starts to take root as lived experience. As something you can feel, trust, and begin to live from.
Your own emerging wisdom becomes part of the shared field. Something is spoken, felt, and known. This flows through you, through the land, through the women beside you.
This is Via Sophia. A path where wisdom is not something you seek, but something you recognize, embody, and live.
Over time, what begins as a moment becomes a way of being.
These retreats are like a cocoon of love, sacred energy, and expansion that cultivate a nesting and deepening into self. Kathy is a masterful teacher who approaches sacred work with a beautiful balance of humanity and divinity. This safe space invites a relaxed openness for you to process emotions, insights, and shifts.
Kathy’s energetic and spoken language in her teachings, meditations, and guidance resonate with me deeply. She has a gift for nuanced and intuitive articulation of emotions, thoughts, and experiences that are often hard to describe. Yet, her presentation is digestible and applicable, allowing the wisdom to sink into the mind, heart, and soul.
-Ahaji, Pennsylvania
Your Days Unfold in a Place Designed for Rest, Beauty, and Connection
The Immersive Retreat is designed to invite you
to soften, receive, and be present.
Your Jungle Home
Your living space is nestled within the jungle, with private and shared cabanas thoughtfully placed throughout the retreat grounds.
You’ll move along open-air pathways, settle into rooms designed in natural materials, and rest in a space that feels both simple and quietly beautiful. Each cabana offers comfort and privacy, allowing you to land fully and be supported by the surrounding environment.
The natural beauty of the tropical landscape invites you to move slowly and relax fully. So that you may arrive to the gatherings refreshed and at peace. And return each evening prepared for rest.
Walking in beauty. Breathing as peace.
You'll select your room at the time of registration.
CASA GRANDE
BALI ROOM
PRIVATE CABANA
BUNGALOW SUITE
DELUXE BALI SUITE
Nourishment & Meals
Community meal time offers relaxed dining in the open air platform. Surrounded by nature and warm friendships, this becomes a beautiful part of the retreat experience.
You’ll be served three daily farm-to-table vegan meals, prepared with fresh, locally sourced ingredients. The food is vibrant, nourishing, and thoughtfully prepared, offering both simplicity and a sense of care for you and the environment.
Enjoy your morning coffee while gazing across the jungle to the sea. While relaxing around the pool or on a shaded deck, you may enjoy a smoothie or tea from the elixir bar.
Fresh air. Fresh food. Fresh beginning of each day.
Inside the Experience of Via Sophia
A rhythm begins to take hold here.
Mornings may open in stillness. The air warm, the sounds of the jungle already alive around you. You find yourself moving more slowly, not by effort, but because something in you no longer needs to rush.
As you gather in circle, you notice that conversations deepen naturally. What is shared is real. Honest. Sometimes unexpected. There is space to speak, and just as importantly, space to listen. To feel what is true for you without needing to perform, protect, or resolve it.
You are introduced to the Mystical Mothers not as ideas, but as living fields of wisdom you begin to recognize within yourself. Through guided experiences, reflection, and ceremony, something begins to reorganize from the inside.
There are moments of beauty woven throughout the week. A carefully prepared meal. A conversation that lingers. Time by the water. Laughter that comes easily. Silence that feels full rather than empty.
Evenings carry their own texture. Candlelight. Ceremony. A softening into something more subtle. You may find yourself sensing, knowing, or trusting in ways that feel both new and strangely familiar.
Nothing is forced or worked on with effort here. And yet, something begins to shift. You notice a quiet reorientation toward yourself, toward life, toward what you already know but may not have been living.
You begin to experience true mystical living. This deep, natural intimacy with life. As close as each breath and alive in each moment.
What Is Included
Your Stay
- 7 nights at Selva Armonia in the Costa Rican jungle
- Double occupancy accommodations, with limited private upgrades available
- 2 nights at the Hilton near San José for ease of arrival and departure
- Group transportation to and from the retreat center
Experiences & Gatherings
- Explore living within the field of Feminine Wisdom
- Daily Via Sophia teaching, dialogue, & practice
- Evening gatherings, spiral light ceremony, sacred experiences
Movement & Restoration
- Yoga, chanting, movement, and breathing
- Sound healing experience
- Spacious time for rest, pool, nature, and reflection
Nourishment
- All farm to table meals throughout your stay
- Fresh smoothies & elixirs on select days
- Community meals in beautiful, natural setting
Exploration
- Discover the beaches of Costa Rica
- Waterfall immersion & jungle walking
- Via Sophia Integration ZOOMs (before & after)
What Is Not Included
- Round trip airfare from home
- Personal medical and trip cancellation travel insurance (required)
- Personal hotel nights and transportation within Costa Rica outside of program.
- Massage sessions at retreat center
- Snacks, gifts, food, meals, and beverages outside of program
What you experience here doesn’t follow a single path. It flows naturally.
Uncertain what to expect and hesitant to attend the Sacred Immersion Retreat alone, I reached out to Kathy. She welcomed me warmly, invited me to come as I am, and encouraged me to trust the process.
Through carefully arranged workshops, open discussions, energy healing, chanting, meditations, and ceremony, I was opened up far more than I anticipated. All that I was seeking was revealed to me and then some.Through the retreat, I reconnected with my inner guidance, found my people, and came home to myself. What I experienced was nothing I expected and everything I needed.
-Colleen, Pennsylvania
A Practical Approach to
Living Sacred
The Via Sophia Immersion offers you the opportunity to step out of your everyday rhythm and into a space of deep connection, nourishment, and reflection. And then, after a delicious retreat, you return home. Back into your everyday life. I understand this shift and will support your return.
You’ll explore how your lived experience of the Way of Feminine Wisdom may be practically applied in your everyday life. And how it is possible and deeply practical to inhabit your life with love, beauty, and wisdom.
Your Via Sophia Immersion empowers you to embrace your life as sacred.
Working with Me
I’ve been guiding individuals and groups for over 40 years as a clinical psychologist and spiritual mentor. For the past 20 years, I’ve worked exclusively with women who are interested in deep transformation and spiritual evolution.
I offer intimate classes, weekend trainings, immersive retreats, and international journeys such as Via Sophia.
Many of my offerings are centered in the living exploration of the Mystical Feminine and the intelligence of the relational field. This work is both deeply experiential and grounded in real life.
I draw from a range of wisdom traditions, integrating skills, practices, and lived experience to support meaningful inner work within a space that is steady, clear, and well held. The Via Sophia Immersion is held within that same depth of presence and care.
If you’d like to get a fuller sense of me and my work, you’re welcome to explore my WEBSITE.
If you feel the call to immerse within Sophia, you are warmly invited.
Space is intentionally limited to preserve the depth of the experience.
Attending the Sacred Immersion Retreat deepened my understanding of how we are in relationship with the Universe. The energy was incredibly powerful and healing. I found myself moved in ways I hadn’t expected. Through the experiences, the teachings, and the community of women, something shifted in me.
The spiral light ceremony, in particular, gave me exactly what I needed, even though I didn’t know I needed it. I left feeling protected, safe, and deeply supported—by something greater, and within myself. I have a new foundation now. I feel changed.
-Rachel, Oregon
Your Questions Answered
This immersion is for women who feel a genuine pull toward living more intimately with their own life.
Via Sophia is not about learning something new as much as it is about entering a different rhythm of being. One that is attentive, relational, and deeply connected to what is already unfolding within you.
There is nothing you need to be or become to attend. Only a willingness to be present, to listen, and to engage your life more directly.
If you feel the call, we begin with a conversation to explore whether this immersion is a good fit for you.
Yes. Because of the intimate nature of this experience, we begin with a conversation. This allows us to connect, explore whether the retreat is the right fit for you, and ensure the group is aligned in a way that supports the depth of the work. Come prepared with any questions and hesitations.
There is very little you need to do to prepare.
At the same time, you may find it supportive to begin noticing your own inner rhythm, where you feel open, where you feel contracted, and what quietly draws your attention in your daily life.
Prior to the retreat, you will receive a few simple materials to help you become gently familiar with the tone and orientation of this work. This is not something to study, but simply to experience.
Come rested, present, and willing to engage. Everything else will unfold naturally once you arrive.
That’s perfectly understandable. Know this, you will be welcomed and nurtured through our time together. This immersive journey will offer nourishing space for connection with yourself and a lovely group of women.
You will be connecting with other women on ZOOM prior to traveling, so you know who you are meeting. Once in Costa Rica, all participants will be staying at the same hotel upon arrival and will be transported as a group to the retreat center.
If you feel called to join this experience, please schedule a call with me.
You’ll choose from four accommodation options, including shared and private rooms.
If you select a shared room, you will be thoughtfully paired with another participant. If you are registering with a friend and would like to room together, please be sure to register at the same time and note your request.
All accommodations are located within the retreat grounds, allowing you to settle easily into the rhythm of the experience.
While at the retreat center, you’ll receive three farm to table vegan meals. Once registered, you’ll be asked about dietary needs and allergies.
When eating out in Costa Rica outside of the retreat center, you can make choices that align with your dietary preferences.
This is a substance-free retreat. No alcohol, plant medicine, or recreational substances are part of the retreat experience. All participants are asked to honor this agreement.
You’ll fly into the Juan Santamaría International Airport airport (SJO). You’ll need to arrive on October 16, 2026 (or before if you choose). The program begins on October 17, 2026 when the group will be picked up at the hotel to be transported to the retreat center.
Your program price includes two nights at the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel for ease of arrival and departure. October 16 and 24, 2026.
You must plan your arrival in Costa Rica on October 16 so not to miss the group’s transport to the retreat center. If you are flying to another airport, you are responsible for finding your way to the hotel.
You do not need a visa. Costa Rica requires a valid US passport. (6 months validity is recommended). You must show proof (flight reservation) that you are leaving Costa Rica within 180 days.
Travel insurance provides peace of mind and protection of your investment of money, time, and travel to another country. It is wise to have coverage in unlikely event you are unable to attend the trip, experience travel delays, or require medical assistance.
Assistance with travel insurance policy will be offered upon registration.
A Deep Immersion in the Way of Feminine Wisdom
October 16–24, 2026 · Selva Armonia, Costa Rica
This is an intimate, immersive experience designed for women who are ready to step more fully into their own knowing, rhythm, and way of being.
Prepare to be welcomed, nourished, and celebrated by every woman sharing in this immersion. It happens naturally. Every single retreat.
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