The Letting Go Art Experience Retreat · Priscila Soares
The Letting Go Art Experience
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For the “non-creative” High Achiever, Founder, or Leader

The Letting Go Art Experience Retreat

Seven days to find your way back to a life that feels right.

November 1–7, 2026Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica12 Spots Only
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A real conversation about whether this experience is the right fit for where you are right now.

Aerial coastline at Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica
Participant creating during The Letting Go Art Experience
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The Mirror

You’ve Built The Life You Were Supposed To Build. So Why Doesn’t It Feel Like Home Anymore?

It was supposed to be enough.

You've Pursued the career. Earned the recognition. Created a life that looks, from every angle, like exactly what you set out to build.

And yet, in the middle of building it, you became an spectator in your own life.

In the quiet moments, you keep thinking:

“I don't even know what I want anymore.”
“I miss the person I used to be.”
“I used to make time for myself.”

That gap between the life you built and how disconnected you actually feel inside it, is what no amount of reasoning has been able to close.

Because building the right life and feeling like yourself inside it are not the same thing.
There is a part of you the mind alone will never reach.
Creative expression during The Letting Go Art Experience
Creativity becomes the doorway back to the part of you that words cannot reach.
Why Nothing Else Has Worked

It’s Not That You Haven’t Done Enough.

Therapy gave you insight. Journaling gave you clarity. Self-help gave you frameworks.

All of it worked — to a point.

But every one of those tools speaks the same language: thinking. Understanding. Naming. Tracing.

And the part of you that’s gone quiet doesn’t speak that language.

You can’t think your way back to a part of yourself that went silent, because thinking was what silenced it.

That’s not your fault. It’s the ceiling of every cognitive tool.

There is a different way in.

The shift begins when you stop trying to solve yourself and allow yourself to experience.

Participant painting during The Letting Go Art Experience

Something in you already knows when another explanation is not the answer.

The Method

So What Is The Letting Go Art Method?

This is not an art class. It's a structured three-phase process that uses creativity to reach the part of you that thinking alone has never been able to touch.

Expression and Awareness art process
Phase One

Expression & Awareness

You begin creating without needing it to be good. What emerges is everything you’ve been holding. The canvas becomes a mirror.

Stillness and Listening practice
Phase Two

Stillness & Listening

Once what has been running becomes visible, the process slows. You stop generating and start receiving. You begin to hear the voice underneath all the superficial ones.

Integration and Embodiment practice
Phase Three

Integration & Embodiment

What surfaces in the first two phases has to be grounded or it disappears within weeks. Through voice work and intentional integration, what you experienced becomes something you carry in your body.

You leave with a clearer sense of what feels true for you and the ability to recognize it in real time and make decisions from it.
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What’s Included

The Letting Go Art Experience Retreat Seven Days. Fully Supported.

Breathwork, yoga, and ocean grounding
Breathwork, yoga, and ocean grounding each morning
Daily guided art processes
Daily guided art processes
Movement and somatic integration
Movement and somatic integration
Small group reflection sessions
Small group reflection sessions
Time in nature
Time in nature for nervous system reset
Nourishing meals
Two nourishing meals per day (breakfast & lunch)
Private boutique retreat space
12 participants - private boutique space
Pacific Ocean
Steps from the ocean
Priscila Soares
Pre-Retreat Support

Private Pre-Retreat Activation Session

A private one-to-one Pre-Retreat Activation Session with Priscila — to clarify what you’re bringing into the process before you board the plane.

Retreat participants with Priscila
Post-Retreat Support

Group Integration Call

A group integration call three weeks after you return home — because the weeks that follow are when what shifted holds.

Choose Your Room

Stay in the space that feels right for you.

Shared Room
Shared Room
Shared Room
Shared Room

Shared Room

$3,699
Two queen beds
Private Room
Private Room

Private Room

$4,299
Limited availability
Ocean View Room
Ocean View Room
Ocean View Room

Ocean View

$4,699
Premium placement
Limited to 12 Spots · Shared Room: $3,699 · Private Room: $4,299 · Ocean View: $4,699

NOT INCLUDED: Flights, international travel insurance, personal shopping, and any expenses outside the retreat program.

The Location

And Why Playa Hermosa?

The Pacific coast of Costa Rica has a way of softening people. The sound of the ocean regulates the nervous system in ways that are physiological. The warm air. The open space. The absence of the stimuli that keep you in your head all day.

This place is part of the process, you'll feel it even before you pick up a brush.

Palm-lined Playa Hermosa beach
Playa Hermosa beach
Aerial view of Playa Hermosa coastline
Sunset over Playa Hermosa
Pacific sunset
Costa Rica wildlife
Coati in Costa Rica rainforest
Quiet beach in Playa Hermosa
What Actually Changes

Imagine Your Life Looking Like This:

  • You start to feel like yourself again.
  • You start noticing the things that used to make you feel alive.
  • You make space for curiosity again.
  • You stop waiting until you have the time, the energy, or the perfect reason to create something.
  • You trust yourself to try things without needing to be good at them.
  • You feel more comfortable being seen as you are. Unfinished, uncertain and real.
You can feel the difference between what you want and what you think you should want, and for the first time in years, you trust the first one.

That is what seven days inside this retreat creates: A space to come back to the parts of yourself you thought you had lost.
Priscila Soares
Priscila Soares
Priscila’s Story

I know what it’s like to have it all together and still feel lost.

For years, I did everything right. From the outside, my life looked put together.But inside, something had gone quiet.

In my twenties, I started losing my hearing because of cholesteatoma. I adapted and kept going, until everything collapsed at once. Health issues, family life, a deep sense of lostness.

I tried everything: therapy, books, healing work. Nothing reached what was missing. Until one moment landed:

Trust. And let go.

I followed it.

I gave myself one rule: every week, I had to make something, anything, and bring it back to therapy.

That changed everything.

I started hearing myself in a way thinking never allowed.

Art wasn’t the goal. It was the way in.

Over nine years, I’ve refined this process with hundreds of High Achievers who had tried everything else.

When you stop analyzing and start creating, something shifts that understanding alone can’t touch
Priscila facilitating The Letting Go Art Experience
My name is Priscila Soares, Artist, Certified Art Life Coach, Certified Breathwork Facilitator, creator of The Letting Go Art Experience.

For nine years, I’ve guided hundreds of people through this work in the Bay Area, Costa Rica, and Mexico.
Most were not artists.Most came skeptical.Most left changed.
I know this work from the inside, because it’s how I found my way back to myself.
Priscila with retreat participants
The Guarantee

The Letting Go Art Experience Retreat Guarantee

“What if I go — and come home exactly the same?”

The fear I hear most often from people who feel called to this retreat:

If you give yourself fully to the process and within thirty days nothing in your relationship with yourself has shifted, I’ll work with you personally through up to three private sessions at no additional cost, until something does.

What Past Participants Have Said

Real people. Real shifts.

“I came in trying to get art right. I left knowing I didn’t need to. What happened in between changed how I see myself. I stopped performing and started creating.”
Glenn Kelsey · Walnut Creek
“I went from feeling like my life was behind me… to feeling alive, creative, and connected again. Something in me completely reopened.”
Chantal Derenesse · Los Angeles
“I came for a retreat. I didn’t expect it to unlock a childhood trauma around my creativity. And finally release it.”
Diana Tenes · Vallejo

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Frequently Asked Questions

What you may want to know before we talk.

No. Most participants describe themselves as not creative — or as someone who used to create and stopped. The art is a tool for accessing yourself, not a performance.
This works at a different level than cognitive or language-based approaches. The shift isn’t conceptual — it’s felt in the body.
The container is structured, the process is sequenced, and integration is built into every day. Safety is the foundation everything else is built on.
That is exactly who The Letting Go Art Method™ was designed for. The reason most experiences don’t produce lasting change is not the experience itself — it’s the absence of a structured process with real integration. That gap is what this was built to close.
Readiness is something we explore together. The Alignment Call is not a commitment, just a conversation.
The Letting Go Art Method™ Guarantee was designed specifically for this. You’ll hear the full details on your Alignment Call.
The nearest airport is Liberia Airport. Playa Hermosa is approximately a 30-minute drive from the airport.
Breakfast and lunch are included each day. Dinner is not included. Dietary requirements can be accommodated with advance notice.
The retreat is designed as an immersive experience. Limited wifi may be available, but participants are encouraged to disconnect as fully as possible to support the depth of the work.
The retreat is non-refundable. Travel insurance that covers trip cancellation is strongly recommended.
Flights to and from Costa Rica, international travel insurance, personal shopping, and any expenses outside the retreat program.
Is This For You

Are You Ready for the Next Step?

This retreat is for you if:

  • You feel disconnected from your creativity, your voice, or the aliveness you remember
  • You’ve spent years giving everything to others and have lost track of what you actually want
  • You don’t consider yourself creative — or stopped creating years ago
  • You’ve built the life you were supposed to build and still feel far from yourself
  • You’ve done the inner work — and something still hasn’t moved at the felt level
  • You’re ready for an embodied shift, not more understanding
  • You feel something calling you toward this, even if you can’t fully explain it

This retreat is not for you if:

  • You’re looking for a creative vacation or a wellness getaway
  • You want something purely conceptual or instructional
  • You are not ready to be witnessed in the middle of your own process
  • You are looking for therapy or psychological treatment

You didn’t land here by accident.

Something in you has been asking for this.

The next step isn’t a commitment. It’s just an honest conversation between us.

Let this be the first honest act of the new person you’ve been quietly becoming.
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A real conversation about whether this experience is the right fit for where you are right now.

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The Letting Go Art Experience Retreat · Priscila Soares · Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica · November 1–7, 2026