RETREAT 3
Live A Longer, Fuller, Bolder Life
December 07 to 11, 2025
Join us for a week of transformative workshops, cooking classes and wellbeing activities led by Blue Zones Retreats & Hospitality expert Celine Vadam. During the retreat, you will discover the Blue Zones research-backed insights to help you live a longer, healthier, and happier life. Andaz Peninsula Papagayo is located 2 hours from the blue zones region of Nicoya.
Group Retreats Are Customized And Available Upon Request
Program Goals
- Discover the longevity secrets of centenarians from the world’s blue zones regions
- Reflect on your lifestyle and how to improve it using Blue Zones’
- Dig into the Power9 Principles
- Get the tools to change your environment to increase your happiness, energy levels and overall wellbeing
- Align your values and actions to serve your purpose and nurture supportive relationships
- Immerse yourself in the lifestyle of the longest-living people on the planet, learning how they cook, what they eat, how they move and what gets them up in the morning
- Use transformative thinking and tools to improve your happiness and health
- Declutter every aspect of your life to make space for what brings you joy
- Reshape your environment so the healthy choice becomes the easy choice
Experience the life-enhancing wisdom of the centenarians from the blue zones regions in this transformative retreat enriched by Costa Rican culture and well-being practices. Learn their longevity secrets and how to implement them into your day-to-day life. Reshape your surroundings so you can unconsciously make better decisions with simple and effective tools, for long-lasting health and happiness benefits for you and your loved ones.
About Blue Zones
The blue zones are the areas of the world where people live the longest, having registered the highest concentration of centenarians. The original blue zones hotspots are in Sardinia, Italy; Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica; Okinawa, Japan; Loma Linda, California; and Ikaria, Greece.
After identifying these areas, teams of scientists were taken to each location to study lifestyle characteristics that might explain these extraordinary longevity patterns. They discovered that across blue zones populations, the same cluster of habits exists that nudge people to do the right things in the long run.
These nine specific tenets are called the Power 9®:
Céline Vadam
Retreats & Hospitality Expert at Blue Zones
Along with her deep involvement and study of the blue zones locations, Céline creates inspiring wellness concepts and experiences by weaving together her holistic health and lifestyle expertise with her hospitality industry background. She is a certified health and lifestyle coach, reiki and crystals healer, yoga teacher, and breathwork practitioner and has worked in a range of strategic roles and projects across the globe, including as a Senior Manager of Development at Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, and as a Professor at ESCAET Business School. Her purpose is to empower people to live longer, healthier, and more purposeful lives.
Costs & Inclusions
Workshops and experiences are offered as a package for the retreat, focused on nutrition and learnings of the original blue zones hotspots.
- Scheduled program includes workshops led by Blue Zones facilitator, 1 Blue Zones cooking class, 1 welcome reception, 1 Huertas program experience with a Costa Rican traditional breakfast, scheduled cultural and wellness activities as part of the final program agenda
- 20% discount on spa treatments during stay
- The retreat package cost is $1,110.00 inclusive of taxes per person, excluding the room cost.
- The Blue Zones Retreat room rate for a Partial Bay View King room is $429 single or $459 double per night with breakfast, excluding 12% resort fee and 13% tax.
- Rates are available for additional nights based on availability. Upgraded room types are available at higher rates.