Inward Bound Healing retreats in Costa Rica
Inward Bound was a small retreat company that ran week-long yin yoga, meditation and juice-cleanse retreats in Costa Rica in the early 2010s. Its website now points to a domain sale page and we found no recent trace of these retreats, so this page is kept as a record of what it offered.
Update, November 2026: We couldn't confirm that the Inward Bound described here still runs retreats. Its old web address (inwardbound.com) now goes to a domain-for-sale page, and we found no current listings for its team or its cleanse retreats. A different company with a similar name, InwardBound, now lists psychedelic retreats in Costa Rica; it isn't the business described below, and this site doesn't cover plant-medicine programs. We've kept this page for the record.
When we wrote about it in 2013, Inward Bound was a small retreat company offering week-long stays that combined yin yoga, yoga nidra and meditation with raw-food meals and juice fasting. Its retreats were held at partner lodgings in Costa Rica, including Hacienda del Sol and Bella Vista Mar.
What the retreats offered
The team at the time included the company's director, who taught daily yin yoga, yoga nidra and meditation, along with a cleanse facilitator, an acupuncturist and a lifestyle counselor. The programs we listed then were:
- 7-Day Juice Cleanse, Yoga and Meditation Retreat: a week at Hacienda del Sol with raw-food meals, a 5-day juice fast, daily yin yoga, yoga nidra and meditation, talks on nutrition and dharma, and bodywork sessions.
- 5 Elements Retreat: a week at Bella Vista Mar built around the Chinese five-element idea (earth, fire, water, wood and metal), with a 3-day juice fast, acupuncture, daily yin yoga and meditation.
- Deepen into Divine Love Workshop: a 3-day workshop with visiting teachers that mixed gentle yoga, meditation and group energy-healing sessions.
A note on cleanse retreats
Juice fasts and "detox" programs are still common on retreat menus. If you're considering one anywhere, it helps to know what the evidence says. The US National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) says there have been only a small number of studies of detox programs in people, and that some of these programs can be unsafe. It warns that colon cleansing can have serious side effects and that very restrictive diets or fasting can cause problems such as dehydration and electrolyte imbalances. Talk to your doctor before you sign up, especially if you have diabetes, kidney or heart disease, or a digestive condition.
If you're looking for a yin yoga or meditation week today, our guide to choosing a yoga retreat in Costa Rica covers the centers we've checked recently.
[Updated on: 4 November 2026]
