Florestral Community

Florestral Community is located in the lush Forest of Southwestern Costa Rica. We live, work and play in a beautiful location that is abundant in nature, with fertile land and immense potential for growth and expansion. We are an open-hearted community based on friendship and service to Great Spirit, and we are blessed to provide a supportive ground for healing and self-transformation through a deeper discovery of love and oneself.

Our work is based on the creation of Sacred Music and Sound Healing.

At Florestral, we are working to establish a new way of life outside of the societal status quo. Our focus is to become a fully self-sustained village, living off the grid, growing our own food, and even challenging the paradigm of currency with our own coin.

Our community is made up of a diverse, international group of permanent residents who have built homes on their private lots within the land, a large crew of full time staff and volunteers, and a retreat center where we host visitors from around the world take part in our special way of life.

Florestral Retreat Center offers beautifully planned retreats year-round, in our comfortable accommodations, with optional yoga programs, sacred medicine ceremonies, and nourishing, locally grown meals. We also serve as a hosting center for those who are inspired to lead their own retreats in our beautiful space.

Whether it is as a guest, a facilitator, a volunteer or a resident of Florestral, we welcome you to join us in the Forest!

Mission

All of us that form the current core group of community members were born and raised in the city. A sense of gradually intensified yearning and the experience of not being satisfied with this quality of life has brought us to the forest, in search of a higher frequency of living. We don't want to be exposed to constant information waves and influences and pollution in its many forms. We want to live in community where we know our neighbors as friends that we trust and who support a common vision and practice of awareness.

On the land we live in an ever-expanding ecologically conscious way, searching and creating more ways for sustainability and less imprint, using less, growing more, trading, sharing and recycling.The land has enough space for each member and shareholder to own a private lot on which to build his/her own home and garden and maintain privacy. The majority of the Land is shared, a part being the Retreat Center and the remainder being cultivated for food and herbal gardens, re-growing the forest and other creative projects.

As members of community or of this tribe , we are also in the constant practice of expanding our own consciousness , to be more sensitive and attentive , to give as well as to receive. We hold sacred space for circling , where real communication can happen and visions realized. Each member can be as active in the community as desired. We respect and enjoy the lifestyle and culture of each person, and among ourselves there is a harmonious agreement of and intention to live in this ecologically conscious way.

We have our greatest Teacher in Nature, which surrounds us and gently embraces us with protection and guidance.