Yes! To Life
Embodying Your Vitality, Joy, and Wholeness
Join instructors Dr. Saida Desilets, Aaron Michael, and Barbara Collier
for an immersive awakening at Imiloa Institute in Costa Rica.
w/ support team members
Jameelah Creates, Dawn Angel Averitt, and Melissa Stager
December 11th - 18th, 2025
In Person Retreat
Yes! To Life is a journey of profound self-discovery, empowerment, and liberation.
Reserve your spot now
Space is limited
Are you feeling anxious, frozen, or disheartened?
In uncertain times, it’s easy to lose touch with your body, boundaries, and future desires. The Yes! To Life Retreat offers a safe, supportive space to reconnect with your sense of wholeness—and move from fear and stuckness into embodied joy.
At this retreat, discover how to make your sexuality, truth, and personal power sources of strength and peace. Joining in person is your chance to prioritize yourself, release what no longer serves you, and return to life with clarity, choice, and grounded energy.
Even when the world feels unstable, caring for yourself is the most fulfilling investment you can make. Break free from fear, uncertainty, and scarcity—learn to live from your own yes, no, and maybe.
Co-taught by Dr Levine’s trusted colleague Barbara Collier, along with experts Dr. Saida Desilets and Aaron Michael, this retreat brings together a skilled, compassionate team to guide you through the experience.
Through grounded presence, movement, breath, and attuned practices, we will begin to re-inhabit the self—not as a performance, not for anyone else— but as a sovereign being in relationship with their own aliveness. This is the foundation for embodied wholeness: a kind of inner alignment where truth, pacing, and choice are not just concepts, but felt realities within the body. Together, in a respectful and boundaried space, we create conditions for healing—not through intensity, but through safety. Not through catharsis, but through attunement. Here, we honor each person’s unique rhythm, history, and capacity. This is not about intimacy with others. It is about restoring the inner connection that makes authentic relationship possible.
During this retreat, nestled in the breathtaking beauty of Costa Rica, you will explore:
Self-regulation & safety in the body
Recognizing and honoring your body's yes, no, and maybe
Releasing shame
Consent & boundaries
Presence & attunement
Trust & thriving
Solo attunement & enlivenment
Healthy, playful partner dynamics
Cultivating sexual sovereignty, honoring wholeness:
Sexual sovereignty is not something we acquire – it’s something we remember. A return to the quiet pulse of aliveness within. To the body as a wise, sensing being—not an object to be shaped, judged, or performed. This work is not about sexual expression or erotic touch with others. It is about listening—deeply, slowly—to what lives inside. To the subtle rhythms of desire, the boundaries shaped by lived experience, the body’s own timing, intelligence, and need for safety. We unlearn the patterns that taught us to override ourselves. We disentangle from the cultural and familial scripts that told us how to feel, what to want, or who to be.
This retreat is not just about individual freedom;
it’s about cultivating a deep and respectful relationship with ourselves in a way that honors our bodies, desires, and boundaries. It is an invitation to step into an embodied, attuned connection with ourselves—one that embraces presence, consent, and the art of titration, allowing for healing, transformation, and the unlearning of inherited narratives that may have shaped our relationship with sexuality and our bodies.
Through sensory immersion and deepening awareness,
we reconnect with our innate wisdom and our bodies’ intelligence, awakening to the richness of sensation and self-trust. In a supportive and judgment-free space, we move beyond shame and cultural conditioning, reclaiming our wholeness. In doing so, we create a more fulfilling, nourishing, and inspiring intimate life rooted in self-trust, inclusivity, relational presence, and mutual respect.
“When we come back home to ourselves and start to trust and live by our inherent genius, we become the unstoppable force of nature we were born to be.” — Dr. Saida Desilets
If you’d like to schedule a discovery call about the upcoming Yes! To Life Retreat, please contact the office after you read more about the retreat here.
Retreat Offerings Tuition $1,495 USD
7-Night Imiloa fees range between $2,495 and $3,595 USD based on your lodging selection.
*The fees for your stay at Imiloa are all-inclusive—covering the hopper flight, beautiful venue amenities & grounds, lodging, stellar service, and gourmet meals.
Letter to Retreat Facilitator Barbara…
“Being in this space with you was unlike any other learning experience I’ve had. Your facilitation feels less like instruction and more like an invitation into presence—into the kind of learning that happens through the body, through relational field, through timing and resonance. You have a way of weaving poetic language, deep listening, and somatic attunement that made the entire experience feel alive. I could feel how you were tracking the group—not just what we said, but how we said it, what was underneath, and where the collective energy wanted to go. You model what it means to lead without control: there was clarity, there was steadiness, but also so much space. I felt both safe and free. These sessions weren’t just about content—they were transmissions. Something settled in me. Something remembered. Thank you for that.”
- Student from Argentina