Dear Lovers,
This gathering has been curated for the committed couple, devoted to divine union and dedicated to spiritual practice and soulful adventure.
This is your invitation to a week-long immersion in love, in ceremony, and in play.
Set in the luscious jungle, overlooking Costa Rica's South Pacific Osa Peninsula, these days will be a blend of connection, dance, prayer and reflection.
The intention of this gathering is to make meaningful memories, share profound transformational space, and deepen your bond to one another.
An intimate container crafted in collaboration with Temple of the Bird Tribes and Yacumama Eco-Village.
Space for Eleven Couples. Application based.
Please apply as a couple. ♡
DANCE • PRAYER • ROMANCE • ADVENTURE
CONNECTION • PLAY • CEREMONY
With a musical soundscape curated by Deva Runa and Ruby Chase.
What you can look forward to experiencing together.
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Ceremony & Ritual
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Local organic meals prepared with love
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Integration time together with the community and as a couple
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Romantic occasions to deepen bonds and make memories
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Mens' and Womens' Circle
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Waterfall Time
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Cacao and Council
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Beach Day Adventure
And a couple of solid dance parties because we like to pray and play.
Yacumama Eco-Retreat is a luscious nature sanctuary overlooking the expansive oceanview creating a perfectly romantic setting for your week together.
Surrounded by fresh flowing rivers, this will be our village space and ceremony grounds.
It has a variety of different accommodation options as well as unique and beautiful gathering spaces. The ideal location for a meaningful tropical immersion.
An Intimate Container
All inclusive experience includes lodging, daily guided experiences, ceremonies, organic local delicious food, epic dance parties, spaciousness to bathe in the beauty of nature together, forging friendship and alliance through alchemy and authenticity, secret surprises.
We are delighted to welcome you into this special celebration of LOVE.
Meet Your Hosts
David Brown | Deva Runa
Founding member of Bird Tribe - and Founding Minister of the Temple of the Bird Tribes - with 14 years of devotional service and study with master plants, originally with Tony Moss, as well as deep initiations in the Shipibo and Lakota traditions, David has woven a potent prayer for harmonizing the traditions and technologies of North and South, mind and heart, eagle and condor. With all of these lineages and sacred arts combined, as well as the longtime study of eastern and western philosophy & psychology, mythology & religion, David has integrated everything into the work as a ceremonialist & facilitator, recording artist & producer, multi-instrumentalist, coach, creator and Earth Guardian. His life force is dedicated to protecting the sacred plants and Mother Earth, stewarding the next generations, strengthening community relations, transforming consciousness and embodying love and sovereignty.
Ruby Chase
Ruby is a singer, DJ, and ceremonialist whose sets turn the dance floor into ritual. Blending tribal bass, ethereal live vocals, and her original music, Ruby crafts musical journeys that move bodies and open hearts. For this retreat, she brings that same ceremonial current into relationship: soundscapes for ceremony and stillness, dance floors built for connection and play, music as the medicine that helps partners meet each other,and themselves, more fully.
Destino Arroyas
Dustin Kyle Brooks is a community builder, land steward, ceremonialist, and devoted student of love, life, and the sacred. As co-founder of Yacumama Eco Village in Costa Rica, he has spent years cultivating spaces where people can gather deeply—through ceremony, music, prayer, movement, nature, and meaningful connection. His path has been shaped by pilgrimage, men’s work, plant medicine traditions, Vision Quest, and relationships with Indigenous elders and wisdom keepers across the Americas. Dustin brings warmth, passion, playfulness, and presence into the spaces he holds, and is especially inspired by the ways relationship can become a path of devotion, reflection, intimacy, and transformation
Roxanne Ruby
Roxanne is an experience curator and ceremonialist. She has followed her curiosity around the world to learn from an array cultures and traditions which have braided themselves into her unique appreciation for all of what life has to offer. She is passionate about modern village building and is the founder of inheritanceCOLLECTIVE, an international impact community. As a mother and musician, she makes art out of everyday and magic from the mundane.
Here in Costa Rica, the Scarlett Macaws
(locally known as Lapas) mate for life,
flying wing tip to wing tip with their beloved.
In honor of your love, with all of its challenges and all of its victories.
May you be wind beneath each other's wings