A Transformational Ayahuasca Retreat Program for Leaders
Join 1heart for the most productive and profound week of your life in Costa Rica surrounded by people you never knew existed.
Not Just an Ayahuasca Retreat: A Journey Beyond
Invest in the most productive week of your life with 1heart.
We are the premier plant medicine program created for heart-centered leaders, change-makers, impact-driven professionals, and those ready to upgrade all areas of their lives and the lives of those around them.
Since its creation in 2018, 1heart has received over 200 verified 5-star reviews. We have also cultivated an epic global community of over 1,000 alumni. This community is unlike anything in the world – as our people blend the desire for heart-centered impact with a love for personal and spiritual development. And each person directly experiences how the work done personally and spiritually within community at 1heart directly correlates to the impacts one can have within their professional and creative ventures.
Our alumni network spans across the world from South Africa to India, Colorado to Columbia, across Europe and Canada and this community raves about the meaningful connections, lifelong friendships, and immense positive life transformation they’ve received thanks to their 1heart Journey.
Their biggest piece of advice? Join 1heart Journey when the calling hits. No week has altered the course of their lives as profoundly as their time with 1heart did.
SINCE 2018
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Upcoming Ayahuasca Journeys
1heart typically hosts 4 to 5 Journeys each year, which feature a highly curated group of 30-40 people curious and ready develop themselves. However, the organization is taking 2026 to pause, integrate, and reset. So you’ll see there’s only ONE Journey offered at the moment.
These Ayahuasca retreats feature cross-cultural medicine teams, incredible live music, and on Journey workshops that inevitably give someone the clarity they joined 1heart seeking. All the while, you’re with a group that feels like family, supported by impeccable safety measures, an ever-present joy and light-heartedness and world-class eco-luxe amenities.
There simply isn’t another healing retreat program specifically targeted for professionals like 1heart.
Our next Journey is on New Year’s 2026, from December 30th to January 6th, 2026/27.
1heart’s Ayahuasca Retreat – THE Life Elevation Experience
1heart is a leadership development experience for people who don’t always see themselves as leaders—yet are. Designed for quiet visionaries, moms, creatives, teachers, and entrepreneurs, this journey helps you leave Costa Rica knowing your voice, impact, and leadership matter.
More than a retreat, 1heart is a guided transformation. Guests are supported before, during, and after their time in Costa Rica through expertly crafted programming in a safe, nurturing, and awe-inspiring natural setting.
Blending modern and ancient modalities—including Ayahuasca retreats—with custom workshops, 1heart delivers exceptional results for those willing to do the work.
At its core is community. Each Journey creates deep connection, lasting friendships, and support most people don’t realize they’re missing.
This is the retreat for anyone at a life crossroads seeking clarity, spiritual connection, fulfillment, and meaningful relationships—without making it about work.
1heart is the Most Immersive Spiritual Retreat for Life Elevation
Some arrive at 1heart seeking spiritual connection. Many don’t. Often, guests come successful yet dimmed—having lost touch with the wisdom beyond the mind and the sense of feeling truly at home in their lives.
Type-A achievers and relentless doers become so focused on fixing life that they forget it isn’t a problem to solve. 1heart invites impact-driven individuals to pause, breathe, and remember. To look up at the sky. To learn more from a walk in the woods than another productivity podcast. To quiet the racing mind and listen—to the river, the body, and the truth beneath the noise.
When this shift happens, everything changes. Home fills with warmth and laughter. Work becomes clearer and lighter. Decisions come with ease. Relationships grow more honest and ecological. And guests feel a deep peace—trusting they are supported by something wiser than their own effort, and that they never have to walk alone.
The 1heart Journey includes expert-led sessions, guided resources, alumni support, and an integrated portal designed to help guests create lasting change. Our virtual preparation and post-Costa Rica integration ensure every insight becomes embodied—anchored into daily life long after the journey ends.
2-Week Virtual Preparation Program
7-Day All-Inclusive Transformational Journey in Costa Rican Journey
5-Week Living Beyond Integration Program
+ Lifetime Access to the 1heart Community
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FAR BEYOND 5-STARS
Gerard Adams
"The Millennial Mentor" Co-Founder of World-Class Leaders, Founder Elite Daily (SOLD to Daily Mail for $50 Million)
Journey #2
The 1heart experience was the most impactful Journey of my life. It allowed me to tap into a higher level of consciousness and self-love to become the greatest leader I can be in all aspects of my life.
Keith Ferrazzi
#1 New York Times bestselling author (2x), Chairman of Ferrazzi Greenlight, and former CMO @ Starwoods Hotels & Resorts
Journey #2, Journey #4, Journey #6, Journey #7, Journey #9
My journey with 1heart brought my work and life to a new level. Deeply grateful. Plan to make this tribe a permanent part of my life and want to help serve others who come through.
Jesse Adelaar
Founder, Investor, Entrepreneur & Advisor
Journey #22
I'm an analytical person and someone who doesn't accept things just at face value. I did a lot of research on 1Heart Journeys and decided that they seemed credible and that this would be a good experience for me. 1Heart blew through any expectations I could have had, and my experience was nothing short of miraculous.
Jocelyn Miller
Director of Business Operations of Centner Academy
Journey #2, Journey #4, Journey #5
'Transformational' isn't even sufficient to describe my experience with my 1heart -- it shattered everything I thought about myself and the world and built me back up… I know who I am, I know my purpose, and I know true love and pure happiness now thanks to my experience.
Abraham Casallas
Founder & CEO, TrenDigital
Journey #8
This was hands downs the most heart-opening and mind-expanding experience of my life. There is me before and after 1heart. Having gone through this experience with 1heart I can't imagine doing it with any other org. If you are considering working with them, it's for a reason. Trust it.
Julie Weber
Partner & Co-founder of Brlint Studio
Journey #5
I arrived a skeptic, a pessimist, an atheist. I left as an advocate, an optimist, and a true believer in the infinite. To say my life has been transformed is a true understatement… Transformation is not an easy or simple undertaking, but if you are ready, it's 1000% worth it.
Patrick Natilli
Chief Of Staff at Ferrazzi Greenlight
Journey #9
This is the most incredible community experience that an individual can undergo in their entire Life… A 1heart Journey is what happens when you bring together the operational excellence of business gurus, ancient knowledge/remedies of the past millennia, and humanitarian brilliance.
Charlene Li
NYT Bestselling Author & Entrepreneur
Journey #9
If you want a great vacation, go to ClubMed. If you want to change your life, come to 1heart.
Matthew Horeczko
Criminal Defense Attorney
Journey #7
The greatest gift I have given myself was the gift of this journey. My experiences on the journey were my greatest miracles, all inside me.
DAVID MILLER
Athletic Model/Music Producer
Journey #15
I hesitantly crawled in and danced out with self-love and joy that ignited my sense of purpose for the world.
SCARLETT MAGDA
Co-Founder/President VeterinariansInternational
Journey #15
If you are looking to be the best version of yourself, look no further than 1heart… I owe my life to 1heart, as every dream I have ever imagined has and is continuing to come true.
AMY SHEPLEY
President at Birkman
Journey #15
Thank you, thank you. The experience you cultivated gave me my life back. I am alive for the first time in over a decade. It's foreign and scary and wonderful and amazing.
Jay Melone
Founder Passive Profits
Journey #18
It's easy to throw around the phrase "life-changing," but this experience with 1heart was nothing short of just that… I can't recommend 1heart enough. It should be a rite of passage for all humans, especially for those of us leading communities, companies, families, and others.
Dee Hunter
Well Being Behavioural Change Coach, Speaker, Author, Founder MeInc 2002
Journey #16
This was a journey of a lifetime - beyond all expectations… It is gold standard, there are no chinks in the Armour of this journey…. If you want something different than your current reality, this journey is the construct of that change, and you will be empowered to be the architect.
Bianca Abbott
Best Selling Author, Coach, Holistic Nurse Practitioner
Journey #15
I consider it the Harvard of transformational work! I feel more alive and aligned with my purpose and spirit.
Our Not-So-Secret Sauce | Community as Medicine
Community is at the heart of 1heart. From the moment you arrive, you will know you’ve found your Tribe. As we tell each cohort, you’ll come in as strangers and leave as family. Over 1,000 diverse guests have joined the 1heart Tribe from 40+ countries and 150+ cities.
Over a dozen local 1heart chapters worldwide stay connected virtually with monthly get-togethers, online resources, and a new, improved community portal.
Alumni constantly tell us:
- I didn’t know people like this existed.
- I’ve been waiting my whole life to connect with THESE kinds of people.
- I can rest easy knowing I’ll have friends and a newfound family for the rest of my life.
- I never knew men like this, kind, safe, grounded yet deep, unassuming, were out there. (Women say this on every 1heart Journey.)
- I don’t know how I lived so long without this strong sense of belonging and community.
To join 1heart is to reunite with a soul family for life, one that truly has your back.
1hearters blend financial abundance, professional impact, creative pursuits, spiritual curiosities, and heart-centered home and social lives to create a Tribe unlike any in the world.
1heart is Far More Than an Ayahuasca Retreat.
Our Journey Beyond experience is an 8-week life-elevation program designed to create the life you’ve always dreamt of while being arm-in-arm with a heart-centered lifetime community. Each Journey includes:
All-Inclusive Journey to Costa Rica
At our out-of-this-world eco-lux home, you’ll be immersed in a natural wonderland of creeks, waterfalls, mountains, and jungle. From mandala gardens to stunning sunsets, Michelin-star-caliber meals to the most beautiful temple you’ve seen, your week-long eco-luxury Ayahuasca retreat also includes:
- 3 Ayahuasca Ceremonies: Led by our extensively trained,massively talented, warm-hearted, and highly relatablemedicine team.
- Temazcal (Sweat Lodge) and Ice Baths: Ancient and modern biohacking. This is 1heart in a nutshell.
- Immensely Valuable Workshops: Expertly crafted by leading practitioners to amplify the integration of our ceremonial experiences.
- Farm-to-Table Cuisine: Locally sourced and made with love, you’ll enjoy delicious meals for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert.
- Breathtaking Excursions: Waterfalls, horseback riding, mountain biking, and flower planting bring you intimately in touch with the magic all around you.
- Conscious Movement and Practices: Breathwork, yoga, and ecstatic dances drop you into the wisdom of your body, unlike ever before.
- Highly Curated Group: Everyone who joins 1heart is interviewed to ensure we are a great fit for one another.
- Elevation Groups: Small groups of 6 to 10 guests led by returning alumni for added connection, intimacy, attention, and support.
- Impeccable Safety: Creating a safe space for transformation is our top priority and something we do not compromise on.
- Play: Our team and workshops will bring out joy, fun, love, and surprises that upgrade everything you ever thought possible.
Living Beyond: A Pioneering 7-Week Virtual Program
Your 1heart experience begins the moment you say yes and doesn’t end after our 1-week Ayahuasca retreat. In fact, the work begins well before and continues after our time in Costa Rica together. True life change depends on your preparation and integration. And we give you EVERYTHING you need to excel in both departments.
2-Week Pioneering Preparation Program:
- 3 Zoom calls to connect you with your Tribe, small group, and small group leader, as well as a group chat, dozens of online resources, 1heart-specific exercises, diet-friendly recipes and more to ensure you land in Costa Rica fully prepared for this self-discovery retreat.
5-Week Living Beyond Integration Program:
- 8 Zoom calls to land your breakthroughs, create accountability, hold you in your integration process, and provide exercises critical to cementing sustainable life changes.
- Mobile App, Portal, and WhatsApp: Valuable digital support, community, and resources to guide you every step of the way.
1heart: A Global Community for Life
While the week-long personal development retreat in Costa Rica and 7-week Virtual Program are each worth the price of admission on their own, the community is what makes the experience priceless.
You cannot find another community in the world like 1heart’s.
- Curated Group of Like-Minded Leaders: Journey with amazing humans from all over the world doing inspiring work, all of whom felt a calling to be here.
- Lifelong Friendships with 1heart’s Team: Stay connected to the staff, facilitators, and medicine team you Journeyed with. Our friendly and approachable medicine team is yet another aspect of 1heart you rarely find elsewhere.
- Lifetime Global Community Access: Access monthly virtual Community Connections, a new-and-improved community portal, and real-life meetups close to home or during your travels.
- Local + Special Event Meetups: The 1heart community has 14+ local groups, ranging from Miami, San Francisco, and New York to Colombia, Europe, and Asia. These groups gather regularly for festivals, meals, song-and-dance workshops, and much more
In addition, a portion of your tuition goes to sacred reciprocity, in support of medicine carriers and lands in the Amazon and the 1heart Scholarship Fund.
1heart Activities
While each 1heart Journey is centered around three ayahuasca ceremonies, the additional programming we offer deepens your experience and results, to make the experience the best ayahuasca retreat you could ever have imagined.
Plant Medicine
Natural Wonderland
Surprise Excursions
Integration Workshop
Breathwork
Farm To Table Cuisine
Conscious Movement
Eco Lux Accommodations
Temezcal Sweat Lodge
Ice Bath
Ecstatic Dance
Cacao Ceremony
1heart’s Podcast: Transformative Stories with Plant Medicine
Hear our alumni stories of transformation due to joining 1heart and listen to how their lives, work, and missions improved after their Journey.
1heart Webinars: Transformative Stories with Our Alumni
1heart hosts 6 webinars per year to give you and other potential guests a behind-the-scenes look at how we operate.
These 60-minute online calls connect attendees with our team, unveil various parts of the program, AND bring you face-to-face with alumni who share their stories of transformation since joining 1heart.
Elevate Your Life
1heart is a Journey home: Home to your family, home to your new Tribe, and – most importantly – home to yourself.
Alumni walk away from their experience telling us, “I wish I didn’t wait so long to come on a Journey. I can’t imagine what my life would look like had I joined years ago.”
We’ve created THE place where professionals come to level up every area of their lives by focusing on personal development, plant medicine, and community.
Should you research other Ayahuasca retreats in Costa Rica – or anywhere, frankly – know you won’t find another organization like ours. If you’re here, it’s for a good reason.
Schedule a call with someone on our team and let the journey become your own. And the next chapter? That’s where the miracles begin.
EXPLORE OUR BLOGS
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- Podcast Feature
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frequently asked questions
Is an Ayahuasca retreat safe?
Safety is our top priority. Each retreat is conducted with experienced facilitators and includes comprehensive medical screening beforehand. We ensure that all participants are fully supported physically and emotionally throughout their journey.
What can I expect during the 1heart Ayahuasca retreat?
Our Ayahuasca retreats involve a blend of traditional ceremonies, guided meditations, and personal growth workshops. The experience is designed to foster profound personal transformations and insights in a supportive and safe environment.
How should I prepare for an Ayahuasca retreat at 1heart?
Preparation involves both mental and physical readiness. We provide a 2-week virtual preparation program that includes dietary guidelines, mental health assessments, and informational sessions to help you prepare for the transformative experience.
What are the benefits of participating in a 1heart Ayahuasca retreat?
Participants often report enhanced self-awareness, profound healing of emotional traumas, improved mental health, and deeper spiritual insights. Our retreats aim to provide tools and insights to integrate these benefits into daily life.
Who typically attends a 1heart Ayahuasca retreat?
Our retreats are attended by individuals from diverse backgrounds seeking personal growth, healing, and spiritual enlightenment. This includes professionals, creatives, leaders, and anyone looking to deepen their understanding of themselves and their place in the world.
Your Journey Awaits.
Spots are limited and sell out fast.
Apply today to join us for a life-changing experience.
1heart is known for its highly curated Journeys from start to finish, delivered with deep intentionality, love, and care.
This is NOT a retreat, it is truly an experience of a lifetime.
