Being in Self Energy:

A Retreat with IFS & Sacred Medicine

December 2025 | Nereus Retreat Center | Costa Rica

✦Come home to your Self ✸

Join us for a transformative week of healing, connection, and deep inner work through the lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and the sacred power of plant medicine, all held at the serene Nereus Retreat Center on the coast of Costa Rica.

The Intention

This retreat is for therapists, healers, space-holders, and seekers who are ready to reconnect with their Self energy—the calm, curious, and compassionate essence that lives beneath all our parts.

Through a carefully held week of IFS-based group work, sacred medicine ceremony, and integration practices, you’ll explore what it means to live from your Self—before, during, and after expanded states of consciousness.

What’s Included

Each day is anchored in the 8 C’s of Self Energy:
Calm · Curiosity · Clarity · Compassion · Confidence · Courage · Creativity · Connectedness

You’ll receive:

  • 🧠 Daily IFS group sessions led by experienced practitioners

  • 🍄 One optional sacred ceremony in a supported container

  • 🧘 Morning yoga and meditation to ground and integrate

  • 🌌 Astrology & reiki offerings to support spiritual insight and embodiment

  • 🫶 Integration circles for making meaning and anchoring transformation

  • 🥗 Three nourishing meals per day and beautiful coastal accommodations

This retreat combines the structure of therapeutic support with the wisdom of various practices to help you cultivate more Self energy.

🌺 Who This Retreat Is For

This retreat is for you if:

  • You have some experience with IFS and are curious about working with it in expanded states

  • You’re a therapist, coach, or healer seeking your own deep inner healing

  • You want to reconnect with your creativity, clarity, and sense of spiritual alignment

  • You want to bring more Self energy into your life - clarity, creativity, compassion, and confidence

🌊 The Location: Nereus Retreat Center, Costa Rica

Nestled between the jungle and the ocean, Nereus Retreat Center offers a peaceful, regenerative setting for healing and transformation. With ocean views, open-air gathering spaces, and nourishing meals sourced locally, Nereus is designed to help you return to your natural rhythm.

You'll stay in comfortable, eco-conscious accommodations, enjoy healthy, organic meals, and have ample space for rest, reflection, and reconnection—with yourself and the natural world.

Your Facilitators

Lauren Donelson Jones
Therapist · IFS Practitioner · Astrologer · Reiki Practioner

Robyn Merchant
Therapist · IFS Practitioner · Reiki Practitioner

Together, we offer a retreat space that is relational, spacious, and deeply supportive.

🗓️ Dates & Investment

Retreat Dates:
December 2025 – Exact dates coming soon

Cost:
Starting at $XXXX
Includes: Accommodations, meals, group sessions, ceremony, all retreat programming, and airport transfer
Airfare not included.

Payment plans available.

🌱 Ready to Join Us?

Space is limited to preserve the intimacy and depth of this retreat container.
If you feel the call, we invite you to apply.

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FAQs

  • Healing Intensives are $1500 for a full day session, plus a follow up call the next day.

  • I see all clients weekly for a minimum of four months. This is due to the nature of IFS therapy. It takes time to explore your system, and it needs to be consistent in order to be effective. After 4 months, we can reevaluate frequency.

    We can talk about this more in your complimentary consultation ✦ →

  • Yes! But not for psychotherapy. I cannot diagnose or treat mental health conditions for anyone outside of Washington. I cannot provide therapy to anyone outside of Washington.

    However, I can work with you utilizing both IFS and astrology as a coach anywhere in the world! We can work on business and career development, spiritual concerns, relationship issues, creative blocks, etc. But if you need mental health support, I will refer you to a mental health professional.

    Schedule a consultation to discuss your specific needs.

  • I recommend checking out the IFS Institute.

    My favorite IFS book is No Bad Parts, written by the founder of IFS - Richard Schwartz. The audio book is especially great, because it includes guided IFS meditations.

 Meet me, Lauren