Our Future Retreat – Dao Ananda in Costa Rica

Imagine a place where the air hums with the sound of the forest, where the only schedule you follow is the rising sun and the rhythm of your own breath. A place where you wake to the sound of birdsong, practice QiGong on an open deck with the jungle as your backdrop, and spend your days reconnecting with the natural world — and with yourself.

This is the vision for Dao Ananda Retreat.

We plan to build a sanctuary in Costa Rica — a place where the wisdom of the Tao meets the healing energy of the rainforest. Here, guests will learn QiGong, meditation, grounding practices, and Taoist living skills. Not in theory, but in the living classroom of nature itself.

It will be a space for the exhausted to rest, the curious to learn, and the seekers to find what they didn’t even know they were missing.

But dreams like this take time, resources, and community. That’s where you come in.

We’ve set up a GoFundMe to help raise the initial capital — not overnight, but slowly, steadily, the way a tree grows. Every donation, no matter the size, brings us closer to breaking ground and welcoming our first guests.

If the idea of this retreat stirs something in you — hope, curiosity, a longing for stillness — we invite you to be part of its creation.