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Healing Retreat with Dr. BetsyBlue Spirit Retreat CenterNosara, Costa Rica May 9-16, 2026Just a few rooms left - Sign ...
03/02/2026

Healing Retreat with Dr. Betsy
Blue Spirit Retreat Center
Nosara, Costa Rica
May 9-16, 2026
Just a few rooms left - Sign up closes soon

Feeling overwhelmed and anxious by life and the state of the world? This intimate retreat (fewer than 20 participants) is a chance to work deeply and personally with Betsy on aligning with your personal inner healer.

It has been said that the antidote to anxiety is creativity. When we can channel our energy into creative pursuits that align with our personal true north, we not only find relief but also purpose.

Betsy is excited to announce that broadway director and born creative Kristin Hanggi will be joining us on retreat to bring her magical perspectives on how to reclaim your inner creative intelligence as a living healing force.

Days include meditation, yoga, journaling, vision work, intuitive practices, imagination exercises, blueprint mapping, and embodied ritual. Plus plenty of time for swimming, walking on the beach, and nourishing your body with healthy fresh food.

Out with the Old & In with the New: Navigating Liminal Space in Springwith Dr Betsy Brandl RippentropWednesday March 4th...
03/02/2026

Out with the Old & In with the New: Navigating Liminal Space in Spring
with Dr Betsy Brandl Rippentrop
Wednesday March 4th, Noon CST

March into April is a liminal time. The weather ping pongs between Winter and Spring. Our moods alternate between irritability and fatigue. We feel excited about change but also feel resistance to the change. We have hope for something different but then wonder if this is really possible. Any of these sound familiar?

This time of year is often marked by highly variable emotions and energies that sometimes make us feel unmoored. We are going to explore this seasonal juncture point with lots of practical tips for moving through it with less suffering.

In this month’s free Wisdom Wednesday, we will explore:
The 3 tasks of Spring: Cleanse. Choose. Connect.
Depression, why it is often most intense in Spring, and rethinking it as signal rather than a pathology.
What is required of us in liminal spaces.
Creating space and tenderness for our newly emerging life.

Wisdom Wednesday is a free online webinar offered the first Wednesday of each month. Even if you cannot make it live, register and we will send you the replay.

Link to register in bio.

The amount of energetic shifts and change happening right now is mind boggling.We are experiencing the shift of Winter t...
03/02/2026

The amount of energetic shifts and change happening right now is mind boggling.

We are experiencing the shift of Winter to Spring as the light continues to increase and the weather warms. We have moved from the year of the snake (shedding) into the year of the fire horse (swift movement forward).

We may be feeling the shift of our mood as Spring time ushers in increased irritability and feeling both wired and tired. Culturally we are experiencing rapid technological change, climate anxiety, political upheaval, and increased intolerance for inauthentic systems.

This time would be what psychologists often call liminal space - that elusive threshold between what once was and what could be. We are still holding our old identity because the new one isn’t yet fully formed.

These liminal spaces are a period of dismantling before reorganization is possible, and they are some of the hardest periods we traverse. They are also ripe with potential. And are sacred.

Join me this coming Wednesday for a new Wisdom Wednesday where we explore liminality, markers of such time periods, and how to use this time to seed possibility versus get lost in the chaos and heaviness that are also present.

Betsy

02/25/2026

a little practice to ground within yourself.

Season 4 of Tend Her Wild has started! Hard to believe we’ve been at this for almost 200 episodes! 🙌🏽We released a new ...
02/07/2026

Season 4 of Tend Her Wild has started! Hard to believe we’ve been at this for almost 200 episodes! 🙌🏽

We released a new one that interviews our brave neighbors in MN and the power of love and solidarity. This art is from one of our guests who is channeling her righteous rage into creating beauty.

Check out episode 187 - and keep whooshing love, support, money and prayers to Minnesota!❤️

Let The World Break Your Heart OpenWednesday, February 4, Noon CSTIs your heart breaking these days? Is it hard to proce...
02/04/2026

Let The World Break Your Heart Open
Wednesday, February 4, Noon CST

Is your heart breaking these days? Is it hard to process the division that is happening in our world? How do we keep our hearts open during what can feel like increasingly chaotic, dark times?

In this week’s Wisdom Wednesday we will explore:
The dance of dark and light in the world, and the hope the ancient yoga texts provide about how to stay open in the midst of crisis.
The power of our heart, and how to face our breaking hearts using the wound as the portal.
Why an open heart in dark times is not naive, but rather a form of courage.
What we can trust during these times.
A heart based coherence practice to return you to the best and most dear part of you.

Wisdom Wednesdays are a free monthly webinar exploring the wise teachings from the disciplines of psychology, yoga, and meditation that offer us hope and heightened awareness as we traverse the challenging experience of being human.

If you cannot make it live, still register and we will send you the replay to watch later.

Let The World Break Your Heart OpenWednesday, February 4, Noon CSTIs your heart breaking these days? Is it hard to proce...
02/03/2026

Let The World Break Your Heart Open
Wednesday, February 4, Noon CST

Is your heart breaking these days? Is it hard to process the division that is happening in our world? How do we keep our hearts open during what can feel like increasingly chaotic, dark times?

In this week’s Wisdom Wednesday we will explore:
The dance of dark and light in the world, and the hope the ancient yoga texts provide about how to stay open in the midst of crisis.
The power of our heart, and how to face our breaking hearts using the wound as the portal.
Why an open heart in dark times in not naive, but rather a form of courage.
What we can trust during these times.
A heart based coherence practice to return you to the best and most dear part of you.

Wisdom Wednesdays are a free monthly webinar exploring the wise teachings from the disciplines of psychology, yoga, and meditation that offer us hope and heightened awareness as we traverse the challenging experience of being human.

If you cannot make it live, still register and we will send you the replay to watch later.

Let’s meet in 100 days.RetreatYou Are Your Own Inner HealerBlue Spirit, Nosara Costa RicaMay 9-16, 2026“We travel, initi...
01/30/2026

Let’s meet in 100 days.

Retreat
You Are Your Own Inner Healer
Blue Spirit, Nosara Costa Rica
May 9-16, 2026

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
-Pico Iyer

There are so many reasons I am drawn to teach retreats all over the world, but mostly, it is because I get to observe people make quantum leaps in their personal awareness and inner healing over a relatively short period of time.

I’ve come to the conclusion that retreats provide a magical combination of:

Getting Away from the daily grind
+
Beautiful Spaces in Nature
+
Time Slowing Down
+
Interacting with Like Minded Awakening Companions
+
Daily Yoga, Meditation & Healing Practices
+
Time to Integrate One’s Life

Whatever the special sauce is that makes retreat so powerful, I am a believer that investing in yourself in this way pays back big dividends upon your return.

I have just a handful of spaces left at what has become my favorite retreat center, Blue Spirit, in one of the few “blue zones” in the world in Nosara, Costa Rica. This is my final time here so if you have always wanted to visit here, now is your chance!

This will be a more intimate group than other retreats I teach (20 people or less), so there will be lots of time for more individual attention.

As of February 10, unreserved rooms will start to be released back to the Center. Currently there are a few singles and a shared room left. Sign up soon to join me in what literally feels like paradise in 100 days.

Would love to spend time with you,

Betsy

12/20/2025

Re-Wilding Retreat with Dr. Betsy Rippentrop
May 11–18, 2024 | Blue Spirit Retreat Center, Costa Rica

Step away from the noise of daily life and return to what is most natural, vibrant, and true within you.

Guided by Dr. Betsy’s unique integration of science, psychology, and spirituality, this week promises deep transformation, embodied insight, and lasting renewal. Come as you are—and leave feeling more grounded, open, and fully alive.

12/10/2025

Wisdom Wednesday today! Talking about embodiment and the scientific equivalent called interoception.

Lots of practical guidance today - including a quiz to help you rate your embodiment plus my top 10 favorite embodiment tools that I have learned over my several decades of study of yoga and psychology.

When we are more embodied we are more present, better able to emotionally regulate, make better decisions, and have greater access to intuition. Said another way - we can super powers! 🔥❤️‍🔥

Join me today at noon CST - its always free. Link in bio.

12/03/2025

a little practice for the goddess.

11/26/2025

Last night we journeyed through the 10 steps of the Heroine’s Journey in class 1 of Reclaim.

Still time to join this 13-week course but doors close Friday.

13 weeks of live content, live yoga, plus you get a beautiful 36 page colorful booklet and journal that accompanies course and 3 portions of sustainability raised cacao for the new moon cacao circles.

If you sign up before Friday, you also get 2 prerecorded yoga series - a series on the Root Chakra and a series on Enhancing Intuition - a total of 17 yoga classes.

All info in bio.

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