Stay Human - Connection at the edge of capacity

With Stephen Odom PhD, LMFT, Andrea Jensen E-RYT 500 and Gina Brown E-RYT 500

March 3 - 7, 2027

Date and Time Details: Wednesday March 3 - Sunday March 7

Location: Alajuela, Costa Rica

Contact: Andrea Jensen
Andrea@cerrovr.com
1-805-312-2695

  • Private Cabina with Private Bath – $4,900.00
  • Private Room in Main Villa with Private Bath – $4,900.00
  • Shared Bunk Bed Room in Main Villa with Private Bathroom – $4,200.00
  • Shared Cabina with Private Bath – $4,500.00
  • Shared Room in Main Villa with Private Bath – $4,500.00

Stay Human is for people who are trying to make sense of it all — who believe in therapy, self-care, kindness, and hard work, and yet still feel an almost. An undercurrent. A sense of living close to the edge of capacity where anxiety or quiet angst creeps in — or never quite leaves.

This retreat is a pause — not to escape your life, but to experience it differently.

Through guided conversation, yoga and movement, breathwork, meditation, sound, and facilitated circles, we’ll work at the level beneath ideas. The level of nervous systems. The level of pacing. The level where connection either tightens or opens.

Together, we’ll explore how pressure accumulates, how isolation quietly grows even among capable people, and what restores our capacity to stay connected — to ourselves and to one another — when things feel tense.

This isn’t about fixing what’s wrong. It’s about strengthening what allows you to remain steady in the middle of complexity: regulation, repair, discernment, and relational courage.

You’ll leave not just restored, but practiced — with embodied tools for meeting pressure without hardening, and staying human when it would be easier to withdraw. 

About the Leaders

Stephen Odom PhD, LMFT

Stephen Odom, PhD, LMFT, has spent more than thirty years walking alongside strong people in hard seasons—first responders, healthcare professionals, leaders, creatives, and the quietly overwhelmed. As the founder of First Responder Wellness and a behavioral health executive, he’s built nationally recognized programs focused on resilience, recovery, and culture change. But at his core, he’s […]

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Andrea Jensen E-RYT 500

Born and raised in California, Andrea discovered yoga in her early twenties. For the first time, she experienced movement not as performance, but as medicine — a practice that helped her feel at home in her body. When Andrea was 27, she went through what she would call a "quarter-life crisis". She quit her job, […]

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Gina Brown E-RYT 500

Gina Brown is a 500-hour registered yoga teacher whose classes blend the heart-centered wisdom of Anusara with a soulful balance of depth and levity. Rooted in alignment, dharma, and the art of awakening, her teaching invites students to move with intention and return home to their own inner light. Gina has shared her love of […]

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