December 1st - December 31st
Nosara, Costa Rica
December at Tierramor is filled with immersive movement, meditation, and community gatherings.
Join us for a full month of special programming featuring guest facilitators including Dr. Swan Dao, Nico Michaelson, Ceibo, and more.
December 1, 2025
TO December 31st, 2025
December Programming
A full month of weekly workshops, classes and offerings with guest facilitators. Drop-in and experience Tierramor this high season.
Dr. Swan Dao
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Dr. Swan Dao is the founder of the Institute of Devotional Arts, a pioneering organization that designs transformative learning experiences through the expressive arts.
Swan studied and taught philosophy, theology, psychology, and theatre in Oxford, Melbourne, Paris, and Chicago, and earned a PhD from the University of Cambridge focused on personal and social transformation. Blending social science, embodiment, and the arts, his work revives the original spirit of psychotherapy: tending to the soul with depth, creativity, and care.
A certified coach and psychotherapist, educator, and experience designer, Swan has worked with Fortune 500 companies and major events across 20 countries. He collaborates with leading organizations in transpersonal psychology, including the Alef Trust, and contributes to Europe’s foremost trauma transformation conference alongside Gabor Maté and Esther Perel. Swan currently resides at a Stockholm-based community for culture makers founded by the creators of the Inner Development Goals.
Upcoming Offerings
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Sometimes the mind is too restless for stillness. Power Meditation bypasses the busy intellect with potent techniques to clear tension, release stuck emotions, and awaken fresh energy. It’s a dynamic practice that fully engages the body, opening a doorway to deep calm, clarity, and inner vitality.
Release stress and stuck emotions.
Make meditation dynamic and alive.
Drop into deep calm and clarity, fast.
December 12th - 7:00am-8:00am
December 19th - 7:00am-8:00am
December 26th - 7:00am-8:00am
January 2nd - 7:00am-8:00am
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In this session, we meet the voice as a finely tuned human instrument. Through embodied voice work, improvisation, and Roy Hart inspired practices, we gently expand your vocal range and expressive confidence. Moving between speech, song, and pure sound, you explore new pathways of resonance.
• Unlock the power of your voice.
• Meet tradition and improvisation.
• Come together in joyful harmony.
December 12th - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
December 19th - 7:00pm –8:30pm
December 26th - 7:00pm–8:30pm
January 2nd - 7–8:30pm
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This workshop invites you into a playful yet profound journey of self-discovery. Through expressive practices, embodied imagination, and archetypal exploration, you meet hidden and forgotten facets of yourself. You are supported to release outdated roles and step into new ways of living with greater freedom, authenticity, and joy. Together, we explore life as a stage and how to consciously re-script the story you are telling with your presence.
• Discover your raw, hidden selves.
• Drop old roles, find true authenticity.
• Awaken imagination, joy, and creativity.
December 13 - 7:00pm–8:30pm
December 20 - 7:00pm–8:30pm
December 27 - 4:30pm–6:00pm
January 3 - 4:30pm–6:00pm
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Intimacy begins with the courage to be fully present with another human being. In this workshop, we explore intimacy as an ongoing life practice that nurtures authenticity, trust, and deep connection. You are invited into new ways of relating that are both grounding and liberating. This is an opportunity to cultivate emotional and relational intelligence, speak from the heart, and meet others with openness, curiosity, and care.
• Build trust and authenticity.
• Practice intimacy as presence.
• Grow your emotional intelligence.
December 4th - 7:00pm–8:30pm
December 21st - 7:00pm–8:30pm
December 28th - 7:00pm–8:30pm
January 4th - 7:00pm–8:30pm
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Psychodrama Lab: Embodied Group Process is an intimate, high impact space where your inner world is invited to move, speak, and be witnessed. Through guided role play, dynamic group processes, and precise embodied exploration, you step beyond familiar patterns and safely rehearse new ways of being. Working with real-life themes in a finely held container, we translate insight into live experience and offer the nervous system a new imprint of choice, connection, and support.
• Transform stuck emotional and relational patterns through embodied action.
• Gain fresh perspective on key life themes, stories, and relationships.
• Leave with a felt sense of renewal and practical tools you can apply immediately.
December 13th - 10:00am–12:00pm
December 27th - 10:00am–12:00pm
January 3rd - 10:00am–12:00pm
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December 24th - 7:00pm–10:00pm
This temple is a special time outside of time, inviting new ways of sensing and being together. In this ceremonial space, we move between playfulness and prayer, dance and stillness, laughter and quiet reverence. Through music, movement, and ritual, we open a rich field of creative and soulful intimacy. It is an invitation to attune every sense, physical and subtle, and to celebrate the depth of being together on this special night.
• Experience intimacy as sacred connection.
• Awaken all senses, seen and unseen.
• Play and pray together.
• Leave with love.
Nico Michaelson
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Nicolas is a facilitator, guide, and shamanic practitioner guiding individuals and groups into deeper coherence between soul and action. After two decades as an entrepreneur and impact investor, he turned toward the inner dimensions of transformation, where healing, embodiment, and purpose meet. His work weaves developmental psychology, ritual, and relational practice to help people remember their natural wholeness and live in right relationship with life.
Upcoming Offerings
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Dynamic Meditation is meditation made alive. Through movement, breath, and expressive release, this practice helps clear the mind, awaken the body, and open deeper emotional space. It’s ideal when stillness feels impossible and energy needs to flow before settling. Receive what you need, in order to move into your day with clarity.
Move what’s stuck.
Awaken fresh energy.
Drop into clarity and presence.
December 2nd - 7:00am-8:00am
December 10 - 7:00am-8:00am
December 12 - 7:00am-8:00am
December 17 - 7:00am-8:00am
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Wisdom Talks are an invitation to slow down, reflect, and think together. Each session offers a short teaching drawn from psychology, philosophy, and lived experience, followed by an open conversation. It’s a space to explore life’s deeper questions and connect with others on the path.
Meet ideas that shift perspective.
Explore life with curiosity.
Leave with insight and inspiration.
December 11th - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
December 18th - 7:00pm –8:30pm
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Date to be announced.
This ceremony invites you into a quiet, reverent encounter with the land of Tierramor. Through guided sensing, walking, and simple ritual, you’ll learn to listen to the land as a living presence. We’ll slow down enough to feel its rhythms, receive its teachings, and experience a deeper sense of belonging.
Reconnect with the more-than-human world.
Listen to the land’s quiet wisdom.
Remember yourself as part of the living earth.
This gathering is offered at no cost.
Martina Törnvall
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Martina Törnvall is a devoted yogini, breathworker, and sound therapist with over a decade of experience in the healing arts. After leaving a high-stress career as a corporate lawyer, her quest for depth and personal healing led her to explore yoga, meditation, tantra, and the transformative power of sound.
Having guided over 100 retreats across India, France, Sweden, Costa Rica, and Spain, Martina is known for her calm voice, nurturing presence, and ability to hold warm yet potent feminine space. Her work weaves wisdom from diverse lineages into embodied and ceremonial experiences that support healing, transformation, and expansion through voice and mantra.
Upcoming Offerings
KIRTAN Tuesdays - 4:30pm-6:00pm
$20 Regular - $10 National
At Tierramor, Martina offers a heart-led kirtan experience where sound becomes medicine and our voices become prayer.
Kirtan is a devotional chanting practice where we sing sacred mantras together in a simple call-and-response style. It’s a heart-opening form of meditation rooted in bhakti yoga — using the voice to quiet the mind, open the heart and connect with something deeper. Inspired by the ancient traditions of India, kirtan blends sacred sound, rhythm, and community into an uplifting experience that invites presence, devotion, and inner stillness.
All are welcome, no previous experience needed. Feel free to bring your instruments!