Explore: Out & Wild Adventure Retreats
Adventure retreats harness the wild power of Costa Rica’s jungles, rivers and oceans to awaken your courage, play, and embodied strength. Combining adrenaline-filled experiences with somatic practices, group connection, and mindful reflection, these retreats help you break through limitations and rediscover joy and confidence in your body and spirit.
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What is an Adventure Retreat at QASA?
Wild Play. Queer Community.
Seven days of sun, jungle, and unapologetic queer joy. We’ll surf warm Pacific waves, play in hidden waterfalls, hike through the jungle, and share belly laughs with a crew who loves adventure as much as you do.
Between the thrills, there’s time to lounge in hammocks, swap stories over shared meals, and soak in the beauty of Costa Rica. It’s adventure with heart, play with purpose, and a community that will keep you laughing long after you’re home.
What Makes an OUT & Wild Adventure Retreat Unique?
Immersive Nature Experiences
Hike through untamed landscapes, swim in jungle rock pools, and explore sacred waterfalls.
Embodiment Practices
Connect with your body through yoga, breathwork, dance, and movement-based exploration.
Inner & Outer Adventure
Challenge yourself physically while diving into deep self-inquiry and somatic awareness.
Queer Summer Camp Vibes
Play, connect, and rediscover the joy of being fully alive in a vibrant, supportive community.
Integration & Reflection
Time to slow down, absorb, and make meaning of the adventure through guided reflection.
For thrill-seekers, nature-lovers, and curious explorers ready to return to movement, awe, and aliveness.
Our Explore series invites you to reconnect with aliveness through adventure, awe, and play with chosen family. Each 7-day retreat offers a different seasonally attuned itinerary – one built for dry season, one for the rainy season. Whether you’re rappelling through waterfalls or riding whitewater rapids, you’ll discover what it means to move through the wild as your full, queer self.
Choose between:
Into The Jungle:
Seven days of getting wild in the Costa Rican wilderness: rafting, surfing, kayaking, and waterfall-chasing – with fresh pineapple and hammock time in between.
Splash:
If this isn’t the most epic waterfall adventure in the world, we want to know what is! From Costa Rica’s tallest, to its most famous waterfall – we’re swimming, sliding, and absolutely chasing waterfalls.
Each experience blends heart-pounding excursions with grounding time on site – offering daily integration practices like yoga, aerial arts, sound healing, and an optional microdose ritual – alongside community connection.
For thrill-seekers, nature-lovers, and curious explorers ready to return to movement, awe, and aliveness.
Our Explore series invites you to reconnect with aliveness through adventure, awe, and chosen family play. Each 7-day retreat offers a different seasonally attuned itinerary — one built for dry season, one for rainy. Whether you’re hiking to sleep behind a waterfall or riding whitewater rapids, you’ll discover what it means to move through the wild as your full, queer self.
Choose between:
- Waterfall Adventure (dry season): An epic hiking journey, complete with cave sleeping, waterfall rappelling, and a night under the stars.
- Splash (rainy season): A water-based adventure playground including rafting, surfing, and mangrove kayaking.
Each experience blends heart-pounding excursions with grounding time on site — offering daily integration practices like yoga, aerial arts, and sound healing alongside microdosing options and community connection.
The Qasa Way
Our unique methodology infused into every Qasa experience.
The Qasa Way is how we create unforgettable, life-shifting queer experiences – grounded in joy, safety, and belonging. While each retreat is unique, you’ll find consistent values, elements, and philosophy across all of our experiences. Every retreat is queer-centered, evidence-rooted, and designed for your whole self: mind, body, heart, spirit, and nature too.
All Qasa experiences center on:
- Authenticity – We create spaces where you can bring every part of yourself – messy, raw, evolving – without pretense.
- Connection – Creating space for belonging, not by asking you to fit in, but by welcoming you exactly as you are; through deep listening, shared vulnerability, and the embrace of nature.
- Queer Joy – We balance soulful, transformative work with celebration, creative expression, and the kind of playful delight that lights you up from the inside out.
- Embodiment – Embracing practices and moments that drop you into your body, awaken your senses, and root you in the fullness of the present moment.
All of our retreats feature
How it feels
Through our retreats, adventures, and festivals, we guide guests from shame, fear, and disconnection to joy, embodiment, and technicolor belonging. You’ll laugh until you cry, cry until you laugh, and remember what it feels like to be fully alive – in your body, in your truth, and in a community that celebrates you exactly as you are.
Expert
Facilitators:
Skilled, trauma-informed guides create immersive, heart-opening experiences that help you grow with care and clarity.
Inclusive Queer Community:
Join a vibrant, loving community that honors queerness in all its forms - where you are free to be fully, joyfully you.
Exceptional Natural Setting:
Costa Rica’s jungle, ocean, and pura vida spirit offer more than a backdrop - they’re part of the journey.
Holistic
Wellbeing:
Our programs engage the full spectrum of your being - mind, body, heart, and spirit - through rest, play, and connection.
The Arc of Your Qasa Journey
Every Qasa experience is more than just time on the land – it’s a journey with three powerful phases designed to support your transformation.
- Preparation – From the moment you say yes, we help you arrive ready – emotionally, physically, and energetically. You’ll receive resources, reflection prompts, and guidance to set intentions so you can step into your retreat with clarity and openness.
- Retreat – Immersed in the lush jungles of Costa Rica, you’ll move through a carefully crafted program of practices, rituals, and experiences that guide you from disconnection to connection, from holding back to living in full color.
- Integration – Transformation doesn’t end when you leave. We offer tools, practices, and community touchpoints to help you carry your insights, connections, and new ways of being into your everyday life.
At Qasa, we hold the container for your whole journey – before, during, and after – so your experience isn’t just memorable, it’s lasting.
Upcoming Adventure Retreats
Adventure retreats at Qasa are designed to awaken your vitality and shake off what’s been holding you back. Through movement, nature immersion, and group connection, we create experiences that are both exhilarating and grounding.
You’ll return to your body, breathe more deeply, and remember joy. With holistic wellness offerings, beautiful lodging, and space to rest and reflect, these retreats offer more than adventure – they offer transformation through play.
- December 7 - 13, 2025
- January 8 - 14, 2026
- February 1-7, 2026
- April 5-11, 2026
- May 10 - 16, 2026
- July 12-18, 2026
OUT & WILD Adventure Retreats
Is This for Me?
Out & Wild Adventure retreats are for you if:
You want to feel fully alive in your body and reawaken your senses.
You want more space in your life for play, laughter, and spontaneous joy.
You see movement, nature, and exploration as catalysts for self-discovery.
You are craving time away from screens and stress to reconnect with the present moment.
You want to challenge yourself in a joyful, supportive way.
You want to revisit the magic of summer camp - but queerer, deeper, and with better food and consent culture.
Ready to Rediscover Yourself and Connect with Others?
What participants say
Our Retreat Amenities include
Spectacular waterfalls
11 Gorgeous Bamboo Cabins (25 beds sleeping up to 28)
Camping area
Beautiful yoga shala
Communal bathroom and showers
Kitchen + dining to accommodate 30+
Gym
Pristine Nature
Abundant hiking
On-site bodywork
Accommodations include
All cabins are handmade primarily from locally-sourced bamboo, and while they are protected from the elements and enclosed in mosquito netting, they are open air and have spectacular views of the jungle. Private and shared accommodation options are available.
Private Deluxe Cabin
A beautiful, hand-crafted bamboo cabin with a queen or king bed.
SHARED TWIN JUNGLE CABIN
A shared cabin with two comfortable twin-size beds. You will have one bed to yourself and you will be matched with another participant who will sleep in the other twin bed.
SHARED 4 BED JUNGLE CABIN
A shared cabin with four comfortable single beds. You will have one single bed to yourself and you will be matched with three other participants who will sleep in the other beds.
King Jungle Cabin
A beautiful, hand-crafted bamboo cabin with a queen or king bed.
All cabins come with:
- Lights
- Electricity
- Overhead Fan
- Luxurious Bedding
All cabins share a gorgeous bamboo bathhouse and shower facilities.
A/C is unnecessary in our region.
Price includes accommodation, use of facilities, and morning embodiment classes (such as yoga, meditation, etc) offered several days per week.
This price does not include the cost of meals ($50/person/night).
PRIVATE
DELUXE CABIN
A beautiful, hand-crafted bamboo cabin with a queen or king bed.
SHARED 4 BED JUNGLE CABIN
A shared cabin with four comfortable single beds. You will have one single bed to yourself, and you will be matched with three other participants who will sleep in the other beds.
KING JUNGLE CABIN
A beautiful, hand-crafted bamboo cabin with a queen or king bed.
SHARED TWIN JUNGLE CABIN
A shared cabin with two comfortable twin-size beds. You will have one bed to yourself, and you will be matched with another participant who will sleep in the other twin bed.
All cabins come with:
- Lights
- Electricity
- Overhead Fan
- Luxurious Bedding
All cabins share a gorgeous bamboo bathhouse and shower facilities. A/C is unnecessary in our region.
Price includes accommodation, use of facilities, and morning embodiment classes (such as yoga, meditation, etc) offered several days per week. This price does not include the cost of meals ($50/person/night).
Meals include
We have an in-house chef who prepares fresh and delicious meals daily, using local, organically grown ingredients whenever possible. We will do our best to accommodate dietary restrictions.
Vegan
Vegetarian
Pescetarian
Includes Meat
Organic
Gluten Free
Dairy Free
Nut Free
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Qasa is a queer sanctuary nestled in the lush Costa Rican jungle. We are a hotel and retreat center offering a mix of transformative experiences, playful freedom, embodied pleasure, wellness, and connection — all centered around the LGBTQ+ community. Whether you’re coming for a retreat, a hotel stay, or an event, we welcome you with open arms (and optional clothes).
While our retreats are predominantly for GBTQ+ men, our hotel welcomes all guests who value conscious community, natural beauty, and authentic connection – regardless of background, identity, or how you love.
Qasa offers an eco-chic boutique hotel and transformational experiences, including sacred plant journeys, nature-based adventures and embodied pleasure retreats. We also offer intentional gatherings, parties, and festivals, as well as daily world-class classes, workshops, and events.
Yes! You can stay with us as a hotel guest during “off-retreat” times. It’s a beautiful way to enjoy nature, community, and rest. Check availability here.
Key community agreements include respect, radical self-expression, inclusivity and non-judgment, clothing-optional, consent, sex positivity, intentionality, responsible use of consciousness-altering substances, clear communication, and co-creation.
Absolutely. We celebrate body freedom and comfort. Nudity is welcome in common areas, and respected as a non-sexual form of self-expression. Please always sit on a towel 🙂
Yes. We are an adults-only space (18+). Our programming and environment are not suitable for children.
Yes, Costa Rica has a good track record in terms of safety, and its growing social acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community makes it a relatively safe destination.
In Costa Rica, personal participation in sacred plant ceremonies for spiritual growth is not penalized under current law, with enforcement focused on trafficking rather than individual practice. While the landscape remains unregulated and evolving, ceremonies conducted in genuine spiritual contexts may benefit from constitutional protections; we honor these traditions with full respect for Costa Rican law and culture.
Getting to QASA
- Qasa is located 3.5-4.5 hours from San Jose International airport (SJO), and roughly 1.25 hours from Quepos Airport (XQP) which has regular flights from SJO on Sansa Airlines and Green Airways
- After booking a stay at Qasa we will be happy to help you book a private taxi through a trusted provider. Private taxi rates (subject to change) are approximately:
- $180 from San Jose or SJO Airport
- $80 from Quepos or XQP Airport
- $90 from Manuel Antonio
- $30 from Dominical
- $30 from San Isidro
- If renting a car, a 4×4 is required to access the hotel in the rainy season
- The most economical option to arrive is to take a public bus to San Isidro or Dominical and then take a private taxi
Flexible Stays/Experiences
Hotel Stays in Costa Rica
Indulge in pure relaxation at our serene retreat. Just stay and enjoy the hotel, where every moment is designed for your comfort. Unwind in stylish accommodations, savor delectable cuisine, and relish in the tranquil atmosphere. Your escape begins here.