Welcome to the Soul Alchemy Pilgrimage - A Women's Retreat in Costa Rica
This is going to be more than a retreat, it’s an alchemical soul pilgrimage into the heart of Being, where devotion, rest, ritual, and joyful community connection sit at the altar of transformation.
On this journey, you’re invited to bring every part of yourself–the tender, the radiant, the uncertain, the fierce. We’re going for full feeling, full expression, full expansion, and total return to what’s real and right.
We gently drop old ways that we’ve been dragging along behind us, come into remembrance that we are here as illumined light in complete and whole brilliance and belonging, and then we turn to our visionary wisdom to the necessary pathways for Soul Alchemy.
If you feel called, join us for this pilgrimage to the heart.
For years, we’ve been walking with the dream to hold a group of beautiful women who are in a life season of going all in.
Women who want to fall in love again…
with Life, with Self, with Community, with their own Brilliant, Loving, Creative, Peaceful Self.
Women who are craving emptying the Self of the self.
To access a wild liberation through purposeful, devotional, nurturing practice and connection.
This retreat is going to be gloriously joyful, regenerative, and supportive.
We’ll play with the balance of:
deliciously still, quiet, contemplative spaciousness
AND
enlivening our own bold, powerful, authentic voice-activated visionary Self.
In the Blue Zone of Nosara, Costa Rica—where jungle meets ocean, where some of the longest-living and happiest people in the world thrive, we’ll gather above the shoreline, in the tree tops in a gorgeous retreat space that we’ll have all to ourselves!
Here, in our studio with sweeping views of the ocean below, we’ll:
Sing our way into Divine Loving Presence through Mantra, Sacred Sound, & Bhakti Yoga.
Enter the luminous practices of rest, creativity, and regeneration through Yoga Nidra, Meditation, & Ritual.
Work with Visionary Practices to attune to the Dharmic Life in the way that’s most authentic for the Soul Season you’re currently in.
Steep in the Remembrance and Feel Good Community Togetherness that naturally returns the Body-Mind-Spirit System to a beautiful coherence.
Yes, we’ll definitely practice some yoga asana for a divine re-patterning of the physical system, but really this is a Full Being Retreat.
It’s as much for You as it is for Each Other, as it is for how we’re living in a way that ripples something of beauty into the Field.
A Win-Win-Win.
You are so welcome to join us!
Bring your devotion, your longing for more depth and connection, your voice, your grief, your wonders and cravings….all of it.
All of you is welcome.
Amber and Melissa
Your guides are dedicated practitioners and ceremonialists who weave together decades of devotion, study, and lived experience, and who are over the moon about crafting a week of super lush and deep nourishment and enlivening practices for you.
Melissa & Amber will hold you in a gorgeous container of Bhakti Yoga, Kirtan, Voice Activation, Yoga Nidra, Shamanic Practices, & Ritual Wisdom.
Together, they hold space with skill, heart, and ceremonial artistry, with a bit of discipline and an ocean of devotion. They bring traditional lineaged wisdom transmissions into the everyday, through rich and simple rituals practices.
Amber Tande
Melissa Lundsgaard
Amber is a lifelong student and guide of the inner world, devoted to helping others access their own sanctuary of stillness, wisdom, and empowerment. With 30 years of experience and practice in the yoga arts, meditation, and shamanic practices, she weaves together ceremony, ritual, yoga nidra, and sacred journeying to create safe, transformative spaces for healing and growth.
Holding degrees in Holistic Health Psychology (Bastyr University) and Integrative Studies in Psychology (Antioch University), as well as certifications as a Reiki Master, Shamanic Practitioner, and Meditation Teacher, and Yoga Nidra Teacher, Amber brings both depth and a light hearted touch to the work. Blending ancient teachings with practical tools, her approach invites presence, insight, and a joyful embodiment of the spirit-led life.
Melissa is a kirtan artist, singer, holistic vocal coach, and yoga teacher devoted to the healing power of mantra, voice, and devotional practice. With over a decade of teaching, she creates grounded, joy-filled spaces where music becomes prayer and every voice is welcome.
Her path has taken her from the corporate world to India, where she studied with Yogrishi Vishvketu, Mataji Devi Vanamali, and Mataji Keya Goswami. Certified in both Akhanda and Bhakti Yoga, she blends classical training with a heart-centered, intuitive approach.
Through kirtan, Bhakti Yoga, and vocal empowerment, Melissa guides students into a flow of breath, sound, and presence where expression arises naturally—transforming self-consciousness into self-discovery. Whether in the call-and-response of chant, a circle of singers reclaiming their voices, or the quiet intimacy of retreat, her work is an invitation into devotion that is alive, embodied, and deeply transformative.
The Pillars of our Practice:
Bhakti Yoga | Love, Devotion & Song
Through mantra, song, and sacred story, the voice becomes a bridge to Divine Loving Presence. Singing together, we awaken joy, dissolve barriers, and open to the bliss of devotion.
Yoga Nidra, Journeys, Meditations & Visioning | Rest, Awakening, Creation
Practices to guide us through doorways of conscious rest and insight to restore the nervous system, awaken clarity, empower intention, amplify creativity and deepen spiritual satisfaction.
Yoga Asana & Ceremony & Ritual
Each day we’ll weave movement through our practices of deep rest, devotion, sound, and envisioning in a way that honors body as a sacred vessel.
We’ll practice Bhakti Vinyasa, Yin Yoga, Restorative Yoga, and some creative free form movement as well. Movement will be beautifully balanced for optimal energy throughout the week.
