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The Invitation
Step away from the noise of daily life and into a deeply immersive experience designed to awaken your intuition and deepen your connection with animals—guided by internationally experienced animal communication specialist Beata Szablowska.
Over five transformational days (6 nights) in Costa Rica, you’ll slow down, listen deeply, and communicate beyond words with a variety of animal species which may include horses, monkeys, goats, dolphins, whales, turtles, birds, dogs, and cats, amongst others.
This retreat is an invitation to explore your unique skills in receiving information from animals - all the while enjoying the rich beaches, jungle, culture and experiences of Costa Rica. Pura Vida!
What to Expect
Marine Excursions
Animal Rescues
Yoga & Movement Classes
Wild life Walks + Sanctuary
Enjoy the Beach & its Creatures
Snorkel or Surf Lessons
DAILY WORKSHOPS WITH BEATA
You will learn the tools to facilitate practical animal communication. Discover how to ask clear, intentional questions, listen for responses, and receive information in multiple intuitive ways. With Beata’s guidance, you’ll discover how even the simplest question can open the door to deeper understanding and connection...
These workshops also prepare you for meaningful experiences during our excursions, where you will encounter animals of Costa Rica. Furthermore, they will allow you to connect to your animal companions back home.
ANIMAL EXCURSIONS
Throughout the week, you’ll head out by boat in search of whales or dolphins, visit a local wildlife rescue center dedicated to protecting native species, explore national parks, home to monkeys and birds, connect with rescue animals - both wild an domestic. You will also have the opportunity to connect with animals that have crossed into spirit.
DIVE INTO COSTA RICA'S SIGNATURE EXPERIENCES
Out side of the workshop, enjoy Costa Rica at your own pace — whether that’s a peaceful walk on the beach, snorkeling in the ocean, joining a yoga class, or trying a surf lesson!
Located in a Blue Zone
Nourishing Food
Balanced Living
The resort sits in a Blue Zone, a region where life flows in harmony with nature and the animals that inhabit it. Surrounded by wildlife and natural beauty, the environment naturally quiets the mind and deepens awareness—making connection with animals feel intuitive and innate. The rhythm of the land supports clarity and a renewed sense of vitality.
Nourishing, plant-based meals are thoughtfully prepared using fresh ingredients sourced from local gardens. Rooted in simplicity and flavor, each dish is vegetarian and/or vegan, designed to energize the body while supporting a sense of lightness, balance, and connection to the land.
Set right on the beach, the resort is surrounded by native trees and framed by lush jungle hills, creating a setting that feels both grounding and alive. While immersed in nature, you’re still just a short walk from local shops, cafés, and other amenities—offering the perfect balance of seclusion and convenience.
A Supportive Space for You to Connect
A JOURNEY OF GROWTH
Intuitive Connection
We are all irrevocably linked within this enduring cycle of life – humans, animals, plants and the beyond. Much of this connectiveness has been forgotten in this age of technology. Animals have always been a part of the human experience –
whether in the form of totems, teacher’s, familiar’s, friends, food, chattel, adversaries, even gods. It is to our great blessing that we learn to listen to their wild voices once more. In doing so, we touch the wilderness in ourselves
only to realize that we are not nearly as different as we would have once liked to believe. It is in this listening, that we can again reconnect in an integral way with nature - and on levels far more profound than we may have ever expected.
Costa Rica is an environment full of life and an energy that fosters integration on this level of animal communication.
All © Beata Szablowska & Leaping Wolf Productions 2005
Practical Animal Communication
In everyday life – practical Animal Communication can bring us into a dialogue with our pet friends and aides in not only our understanding of one another, but also in how to better attune ourselves to their physical, emotional and behavioral needs. Animals are fully conscious, sentient beings with complete and complex deep running emotional and social lives - and they can tell us how they feel.
Just a few examples: you will learn the Communication tools that will enhance your compassion and awareness of physical and behavioral symptoms in your pets. You will learn how to ask your pets essential questions that will aide in their care & well-being. You will learn to reassure your pets in a comprehensive, empathetic and effective manner that can ease stress for all parties.
All © Beata Szablowska & Leaping Wolf Productions 2005
You Will Leave With:
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The confidence to make decisions based on a deeper awareness of what your animal is truly experiencing.
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A clear understanding of your animal’s triggers and joys—and how to work together as a more connected, harmonious partnership.
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A deeper understanding of animals and a new-found love for various species, discovered via your encounters in Costa Rica.
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A sense of belonging & communion with the friends you have made and to the common cause of understanding animals.
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Ability to ask and listen to your own animal companions and support them in a whole new way.
Meet Your Retreat Guides
Beata Szablowska
Animal Communicator + Teacher
Beata has devoted her life to deepening the connection between animals and humans. With over 25 years of professional experience in animal communication, she has guided thousands of clients worldwide—offering insight, clarity, and healing to both animals and their people.
Beata’s work bridges the intuitive and the practical. She regularly collaborates with veterinarians, trainers, and animal welfare organizations and sanctuaries, supporting animals through behavioral challenges, health concerns, and deeper emotional or energetic imbalances. Her approach is grounded, compassionate, and deeply attuned to restoring harmony within the human-animal relationship. She communicates with animals across all species—from beloved household companions to wildlife species.
As a teacher, Beata is known for making animal communication accessible, empowering, and transformative. She has taught and lectured internationally, guiding both beginners and professionals—including veterinary teams—into developing their own intuitive abilities and strengthening their connection with the animal world.
At this retreat, Beata creates a supportive and expansive environment where you’ll not only learn the foundations and advanced techniques of animal communication, but also experience a profound reconnection to your own intuition, nature, and the animals around you.
This is more than a workshop experience—it’s an opportunity to step into a new way of relating to the living world.
Stephanie James
Retreat Organizer + Yoga/Fitness Teacher
A retreat coordinator, yoga teacher, and fitness guide with a deep love for animals and the natural world, she is based in Santa Teresa where her work is closely connected to the local environment and community. She is actively involved in dog rescue and wildlife preservation efforts in the area, supporting initiatives that protect and care for animals both domestic and wild.
Her passion lies in creating intentional spaces where people can slow down, tune in, and reconnect — with themselves, animals and the natural world around them. Through thoughtfully curated retreats, she weaves together movement, mindfulness, and meaningful encounters with animals, offering experiences that invite presence, awareness, and respect across species. Her work is rooted in the belief that when people reconnect with nature and animals, it fosters a deeper sense of care, responsibility, and harmony.
THIS IS FOR YOU IF:
• You feel a deep, soulful connection to animals and want to understand them better.
• You have had an experience with animal communication (or related intuitive area) and want to grow your ability with the guidance of a teacher
• You want to help animals and are seeking a community of like-minded souls on a transformational journey.
• You want to experience the healing presence of Costa Rica's diverse wildlife (option to bring a friend or partner)
• You want to develop a more meaningful connection within yourself and within yourcommunity
• You crave a sanctuary where you can slow down and reconnect with nature.
Beachfront Accommodations
Set in Santa Teresa along a stunning white-sand beach on Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula, the Tropico Latino resort is nestled within lush tropical gardens beneath a mature forest canopy. Thoughtfully designed bungalows crafted from rich hardwoods create a refined, modern space that feels like arriving in paradise, accompanied by the warmest hospitality.
Imagine waking up to the sounds of the ocean and the monkeys in the trees, walking from your room to the ocean for a swim or sunset walk. After a wholesome meal, you chat oceanside with your new-found friends or find a quiet spot alone in a hammock.
This venue is specifically chosen to bring it all together: a beautiful space set in nature with wildlife among, access to tours, various activities & walking distance to town.
In order to make this a versatile, all-encompassing retreat and vacation, you can bring a friend or partner (who will not participate in the animal communication workshop). Share a private room, do your own activities for part of the day and later, explore Costa Rica together. Contact us for details.
Accommodations - Shared Rooms
Shared Bungalow
For two people that want to share a room (2 friends/partners or 2 solo guests). The Garden View Bungalows are surrounded by abundant tropical gardens under a picturesque forest canopy.
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Two queen beds
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Private outdoor patio with hammock and chairs
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* contact us for bungalows that sleep up to 4 people
Shared 2 Bedroom Beachfront
This option is perfect for 2 people that want separate rooms but will share a bathroom (2 friends/partners or 2 solo guests). A tropical-themed room that is located steps from the beach.
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Two private rooms with a shared bathroom
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2 Queen beds or 1 Queen and 1 King
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Private outdoor patio with hammock and chairs
Accommodations - Private Rooms
*Option to bring a friend/partner who will not participate in animal communication curriculum.*
* Share a private room. Contact us for pricing*
Private Garden View Room
Great for one person who wants their own room.
Surrounded by garden jungle, it's a short walk along the garden trails will lead you to the restaurant, pool area, Spa and hammock area in front of the beach.
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Queen bed
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Private Bathroom
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Private outdoor patio with daybed and lounge chair
Private Bungalow/
1 Bedroom Beachfront Room
Great for one person who wants their own larger room. The Bungalows are surrounded by abundant tropical gardens under a picturesque forest canopy. Beachfront rooms are located close to the beach.
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Two queen beds
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Private bathroom
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Outdoor patio with hammock and chairs
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Option for Garden-view Bungalow or 1 bedroom Beachfront (based on availability)
Sample Daily Schedule
7:00 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Animal Communication Workshop
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Animal Excursion or Free Time to Explore Costa Rica
5:00pm
Optional Sunset Restorative Yoga or Movement class
Dinner
7:o0 pm
Note: Our daily schedule is designed to flow with the rhythms of nature and animals. While we maintain a core structure, activities and times may vary slightly based on animal movement, weather conditions, and intuitive flow.
Beata has been featured in media which includes: The National Post, Dogs in Canada Magazine and The Globe and Mail, amongst others. She has also been interviewed on number of media platforms and was even frontrunner for a new television program through Animal Planet.
She has also lectures and teaches at many different holistic and animal related organization events which have included The Ontario Association of Veterinary Technicians Annual Conference.
Inclusions & Exclusions
INCLUDED:
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6 nights accommodation at Tropico Latino resort
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all group workshops with Beata
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all animal excursions within the workshop setting
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yoga & movement with Stephanie
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3 meals per day at the resort or local restaurant
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access to the resort amenities
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post-retreat integration circle (via Zoom)
EXCLUDED:
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airfare
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travel insurance (mandatory)
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alcoholic beverages
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spa services
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transportation to/from airport & resort
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extra off-site meals/snacks unless mentioned
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tips/gratuities
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any optional activities (example: surf lessons)