REVIVE  RETREATS

REVIVE RETREATS are a space for personal transformation toward collective planetary evolution. Join like-minded souls on a journey designed to expand your horizons, deepen into the divine wisdom within your heart, and support you toward living the fullest expression of your most authentic self.

REVIVE RETREATS are for the brave of spirit who wish to embrace their inner gifts for the greater good, recognizing that playing small is no longer an option for the change we wish to see in the world. Step into your wildest integrity, find the power within to live your dreams, and connect with others committed to personal transformation and global evolution.

Explore our upcoming REVIVE retreat offerings and reserve your space today!

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Upcoming Retreats



REVIVE

Surf + yoga + writing retreat for women

southern Costa Rica ~ December 2-7, 2024


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REVIVE is our signature surf, yoga and writing retreat in an idyllic jungle location, off the beaten path in southern Costa Rica. The REVIVE writing program is specially curated for self-connection and personal reflection, in supportive sisterhood among an intimate group of like-hearted women. Join us for this 6-day all-inclusive surf retreat immersion to enliven your senses and regenerate your being from the inside, out.

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Now in our eighth year running, we have perfected our signature retreat and curated this wildly inspiring experience for you, from start to finish. REVIVE women’s retreat features luxe off-grid living at a private resort in one of the most biodiverse landscapes on Earth. Experience daily yoga and meditation, massage and breathwork, surf lessons and coaching, gourmet organic and local foods, journaling prompts, writing workshops and fun surprises in our midst.

Experience the dreamiest tropical surfscape with multiple breaks in walking distance for all levels of surfing experience, from beginner to advanced. Surf lessons and coaching included.

Space is limited for this unique jungle immersion surf retreat to ensure an intimate experience as we regenerate our cells and spirits in a safe and supportive environment; nourished by the ocean, nurtured among the monkeys and trees.

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My experience at the retreat was one of healing, processing, and finding joy in the chaos of learning outside my comfort zone. The three focuses, writing, surfing and yoga, complimented and built upon each other to create a powerful balance which propelled me back into life feeling invigorated and intentional.
— Leeya

All-inclusive Retreat includes:

  • 5 nights + 6 days in off-grid luxury accommodations, just steps from the sea.

  • Professional yoga and local surf instruction for all experience levels.

  • Daily writing workshops, journal prompts and story-sharing sessions.

  • 60-minute professional massage by experienced and intuitive hands.

  • Breathwork and dance to regenerate our cells and spirits.

  • Jungle adventure excursions to explore the wild among us.

  • All healthy, gourmet meals with local, organic and farm-to-table foods.

  • Roundtrip overland transport to accommodations from the local airport in Puerto Jimenez on scheduled arrival and departure days (*flights not included).

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This retreat is one of the best investments you can make in yourself if you want to feel revived and inspired by women in the water. Our time and shared experience was pure jungle magic, and I can’t wait to go back on one of Tara’s retreats in the future!
— Mary Ellen

All-inclusive retreat options:

DELUXE Shared: $2095 per person in double accommodations (2 Full beds)

LUXE Private: $2495 in private accommodations (1 King bed)  

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Past Retreats

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Soul Immersion

online writing program // begins january 2021

As the new year beckons our collective resolve to write new stories of self and society, I am honored to be gathering a group of like-hearted women ready to clear creative blocks and deepen into the power of story to transform life as we know it. 

SOUL IMMERSION is an invitation to unearth the sacred seeds of our untold stories as women walking the world; a supportive space to shed, share, rewrite and renew.   

This 9-week writing program is designed to unblock your creative potential and help you cultivate a personal writing practice.  

SOUL IMMERSION combines my signature IMMERSION course (5 sessions) and follow-up SOUL SESSIONS series (4 sessions). You can choose to participate in the comprehensive 9-week program, or join for just one or the other.  

SOUL IMMERSION includes the full writing program eBook, featuring curated reading material and original writing prompts, along with 90-minute weekly group sessions facilitated live in real-time via Zoom. You will also join a supportive international community of 100+ writing women who have worked through these programs and continue to deepen their creative writing practice.  

Day and time schedule for weekly live sessions to be determined based on participant availability and time zone configurations. All sessions will be recorded for those who are unable or choose not to participate in the live meetings.

Writing Program Cost: To honor changing financial realities and new ways of practicing economy, SOUL IMMERSION will be offered on a sliding payment scale of $179 USD (minimum) to $479 USD (actual course value). For those joining for the first 5 sessions or last 4 sessions only, the sliding scale for the program cost is $89 (minimum) and $249 (actual course value). *Some scholarships available.

Space is limited to maintain an emotionally safe and intimate sharing experience.

Please reach out with any questions and to reserve your spot in the upcoming SOUL IMMERSION writing program, beginning January 2021.


Soul sessions women’s writing series

Virtual retreat // november 2020

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SOUL SESSIONS is a space for inspired self-connection and creative collective processing of our unique experiences as women walking the world, whose stories are ready to be written.

For this writing series, we will meet weekly for a total of four sessions, diving into original writing prompts and curated content focused around a different theme each week: intuition, divine inspiration, desire and freedom.

The virtual retreat includes the program eBook with curated reading material and original journal writing prompts for you to peruse and complete in your own time. Once per week for a series of four consecutive weeks, we’ll connect as a group for a 75-minute Zoom meeting, where we will discuss the session content and I’ll offer a fresh writing prompt for you delve a little deeper into the theme for the week.

With dedicated time for reflection, writing and optional group sharing, SOUL SESSIONS connects you to your own authentic creativity and enjoins you with a growing international community of inspiring women called to write new stories into being for the world.

Live sessions will be recorded for those unable to join in real time.

Writing Retreat Cost: To honor changing financial realities and new ways of practicing economy, SOUL SESSIONS will be offered on a sliding payment scale of $79 USD (minimum) to $225 USD (actual course value).

Space is limited to maintain an emotionally safe and intimate sharing experience.

Please reach out with any questions and to reserve your spot in the upcoming SOUL SESSIONS Women’s Writing Series, November 2020.

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ONLINE RETREAT / IMMERSION WRITING PROGRAM

October 12-16, 2020 / via Zoom Videoconference

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As we navigate these uncertain seas, writing is a powerful tool to support us in times of transition. Creative and cathartic, writing is a conversation with our consciousness. Our stories create our realities. And we might be finding that many of those stories are in desperate need of re-writing.

As a contribution to the wellbeing of women who want to write fresh stories into being, I am offering an online version of my signature IMMERSION Writing Program, facilitated and supported in real time with 90-minute workshops over 5 consecutive days.

To honor changing financial realities and new ways of practicing economy, I am offering this 5-day workshop on a sliding pay scale to fit your budget.

The sliding scale on offer is $89 USD (minimum) to $250 USD (actual course value).

All workshop sessions will be recorded for those unable to join the live sessions.

Space is limited to allow for an intimate writing and sharing experience, so if this offering resonates with your present process, please contact Tara to reserve your spot.

 
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Tierra madre

5-Night Retreat for Mothers + Daughters

June 19-24, 2020 ~ AmaTierra Retreat, Costa Rica

The powerful relationship between mother and daughter connects us in blood and spirit, womb wisdom and sacred maternal ancestry. As we strengthen the mother-daughter connection through meaningful practices of embodied, emotional and spiritual exploration, we create space for celebrating the beauty that runs through our DNA and healing any generational trauma that may be living in our lineage. As women, connected corporeally to the life-giving essence of our Earth Mother, nuestra Tierra Madre, our journeys are always inseparably rooted in the cyclical soil and seasons of the Earth we call home. Together, as mothers and daughters, we are blessed with the strength of our maternal ancestors to share in the complexities of our connections, and support each other in the healing of our lineage so vital to the well-being of the Earth, mother to us all.

Connecting with our maternal ancestry,

we sow the seeds of generational healing,

harvesting the legacy of our Earth-Mother lineage.

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As a safe and custom-curated space for cultivating connection, celebration and healing, we invite you to join us for Tierra Madre, a 5-Night Retreat for Mothers and Daughters, hosted at AmaTierra Retreat and Wellness Center by mother-daughter duo Jill and Tara Ruttenberg.

Retreat Includes:

  • 5 Nights’ Accommodation at AmaTierra Retreat and Wellness Center

  • All Gourmet Meals with farm-to-table, local and organic ingredients, catering to all diets

  • Daily Yoga and Meditation Practice

  • 60-Minute Spa Massage or Herbal Consultation

  • Daily Group Workshops: Medicinal Herbs for Women, Non-Violent Communication, Celebrating and Healing Our Maternal Lineage through Writing 

  • Mother-Daughter Empathy Coaching Session

  • Daytrips to the Pacific Coast beach and nearby waterfall

  • Traditional Latin Dance Evening

  • Earth-Mother Connection Ceremony

All-Inclusive Rate: $1495 per person

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About your hosts

Jill Ruttenberg is a Hatha yoga instructor, massage therapist and registered clinical herbalist with 30 years of experience in Chinese and western herbal medicine. Jill is AmaTierra’s Yoga & Wellness Director, resident herbalist and founder of AmaTierra Integrative Herbs. A lifelong student and teacher of natural medicine and alternative healing therapies, Jill has spent the past decade integrating her practice with a comprehensive knowledge of tropical plant medicine in collaboration with local Costa Rican herbalists and indigenous healers.

Tara Ruttenberg is a writer and empathy coach by trade, yogini by maternal ancestry and scholar-activist pursuing a PhD in sustainable tourism, by dharma. She created REVIVE Retreats as a supportive space to nurture women's personal transformation toward collective planetary evolution. Tara’s work has been featured in books, magazines, journals and blogs, as well as at gatherings including Envision Festival, ECHO, Surf + Social Good, and Yoga Trade’s Deep Ecology of Wellness and Sustainable Living Retreats.

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REVIVE: Surf + Yoga + Writing Retreat for Women

March 9 - 15, 2020 ~ Playa Hermosa (Santa Teresa) Costa Rica

Cultivate your inner artist. Connect with your most authentic self. Create from the divine feminine power within. Gift yourself the self-empowering space to shed old stories that no longer serve you. Develop the confidence and courage you need to write yourself anew.

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“This retreat gave me light, faith, and it showed me that I'm not alone on this path. That there are more people having the same fight, the same dreams, the same love for freedom, for living this one life and making the best of it. That we are all together in this. It gave me the opportunity to meet amazing souls - sisters - who I'll never forget, and from each of them I learned something, I received something positive, one shared passion. It reminded me that I have to keep fighting for my beliefs, and my dreams. To never settle or surrender. That there's always light at the end. It taught me to trust.” 

— Stephanie Fuentes, Puerto Rico

REVIVE 2020 is a transformative retreat designed to help you deep-dive into your personal blocks and clear creative space to feel confident and courageous in sharing your important stories with the world. This is a unique offering for aspiring writers on the brink of getting down to business and finally putting pen to paper. The cathartic process of writing our stories is the most terrifying, most healing, and most gratifying work we can do – for ourselves and for others whose lives can be touched by our words. You know your story matters. REVIVE is the supportive space you need to get out of your own way, find your authentic voice, and access your deepest state of creative flow.

This retreat is a one-of-a-kind offering with limited space available to ensure intimacy and depth of experience. If the writer’s path speaks to you, and you’re ready to do the work to make your writing dreams come true, I can’t wait to welcome you, share with you, and support you toward living the infinite possibilities of your divine creativity.

Retreat includes:

  • 6 nights + 7 days beachfront bungalow accommodations.

  • Professional yoga, meditation, and surf instruction for all experience levels.

  • Daily writing workshops, journal prompts and story-sharing sessions.

  • One-on-one private empathy coaching session.

  • Therapeutic massage on the beach.

  • All healthy, gourmet meals with local and organic foods.

$1495 all-inclusive.  

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“My favorite part of the retreat were the writing prompts, and the support that went in hand with that. Having the space in a supportive and nurturing environment to go inwards with the help of Tara's facilitation and prompts was a real luxury and important learning experience for my own personal growth.”  — Christina Baldwin, England

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REGENERATION

Surf + Yoga + Sustainable Living Retreat

June 4-9, 2019 ^ Indonesia

REGENERATION is an invitation into sustainable living with people who walk their talk, in a place created with the Earth and local community in mind.  

The collective wellbeing of our more-than-human Earth community calls on all of us to do our part – now, more than ever. Sustainability in the Western sense of the word isn’t enough. If we want to live well, in harmony with the planet and her people, we need to transform our worlds from the inside-out.

In this immersive retreat, you will: 

  • Learn the tenets of permaculture design, community economies, and deep ecology with hands-on experiential learning.

  • Embody the art of regenerative living practices.

  • Align your everyday life with greater Earth consciousness.

  • Deepen your commitment to being the change you wish to see in the world.

  • Recalibrate your lifestyle rhythm in integrity with the wellbeing of people and planet.

  • Adventure into pristine jungle off the beaten path - far, far away from the crowd.  

On retreat in tropical surf paradise, we’ll rise with the sun for a morning Hatha Yoga practice in the open-air shala with a view to the sea. A perfect right-hand reef break awaits our surf-hungry bones, just steps and a few invigorating paddle strokes from the shore below. Indulge in the farm-to-table delicacy of foods grown organically on-site, made by loving hands in the outdoor kitchen. We’ll gather for educational workshops and get our hands dirty in some permaculture farming. Take the afternoon to rest, write and reflect, or journey by boat to another nearby surf break.  

Your Surf + Yoga + Sustainable Living adventure awaits.

REGENERATION is an intensive immersion retreat limited to 6 conscientious humans ready and willing to step into the ideals and practices of living sustainably with the Earth we call home.   

Retreat Location

Ngalung Kalla ^ Indonesia

Permaculture Farm and Eco-Retreat

Situated on the southwest coast of the island of Sumba, spanning 250 hectares of oceanfront and cliffside adventures, Ngalung Kalla caters to the discerning traveler mindful of living lightly on the land, eager to get off the beaten path and into an adventure with just enough raw luxury to indulge the senses. The retreat features beautiful bamboo bungalows, an oceanfront restaurant serving farm-to-table and delicious locally sourced foods, an open-air yoga shala, breathtaking beaches with excellent surfing waves just steps from where you sleep, and a magnificent infinity pool for a stunning sunset dip.    

Ngalung Kalla is a family-run and community minded affair with fifteen years of experience on the island, built in alignment with the three tenants of Permaculture: Earth Care, People Care, and Fair Share.  

Your all-inclusive retreat experience features:

  • 5 nights + 6 days oceanfront accommodations in semi-private bamboo bungalow

  • All gourmet meals made with local, organic and on-site farm-to-table ingredients catering to all dietary needs

  • Daily boat rides to access the best uncrowded surf breaks on the island

  • Daily Hatha Yoga classes in the open-air jungle shala with a view to the sea

  • Daily experiential workshop sessions on sustainable living, community economies, deep ecology and permaculture practices

  • Empathic sustainability coaching to align your lifestyle integrity with your personal sustainability values

  • Shiatsu Spa Massage

  • Surf board rentals and equipment, as needed

  • Return transfers to the resort from the Waikabubak (TMC) Tambolaka Airport in Sumba

All taxes (10%) and service fees (11%) included.

*Surfers and non-surfers of all experience levels welcome!

Cost per person: $1765 USD

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