Our Story
A family-owned sanctuary.
Founders
Jason & Kimberly Ocaña
Ananda is a family-owned, trauma-informed plant medicine retreat center in Costa Rica offering small-group ayahuasca, psilocybin, and San Pedro retreats designed for deep personal insight and meaningful life transformation.
After attending many retreats ourselves, we saw the same pattern again and again — groups were often too large, and facilitators did not always have the capacity to truly support what people were going through.
We created Ananda to offer something different.
Our retreats are intentionally small and trauma informed, recognizing that meaningful change happens not only in the mind but also through the body and nervous system. We hold space without judgment, at your pace. We remain humble students of this work, so we can serve each guest with safety, care, and compassion.
C.A.R.E. Philosophy
Four principles that hold the container.
Compassion
Without judgment, for your story and for your process.
Awareness
Somatic attunement to the body, the breath, the nervous system.
Reverence
For the medicines, the land, the lineage, and the human in front of us.
Empowerment
Tools and integration support so the work continues beyond the retreat.