The Life Stylist Podcast

Today’s two-part episode was recorded in the mountainous tropical forest of Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula, featuring a play-by-play account of my eight-day experience at Soltara Healing Center.  These are my raw, intimate, and uncut thoughts after traveling to Costa Rica, dealing with an EMF nightmare of a hotel room, and embarking on four ayahuasca ceremonies, this time in the Peruvian Shipibo tradition — and, to be honest, I had second thoughts about putting these episodes out.  I’m pretty much an open book on this show, don’t get me wrong, but it’s hard to be more vulnerable than the morning after an ayahuasca ceremony. In addition to recounting the first six days of my time in Costa Rica, this episode also features an interview with Melissa Stangl, a Founding Partner and the Chief Operating Officer of Soltara Healing Center. Melissa left Corporate America back in 2015 and has since used her background in engineering, science, and management to help advance the plant medicine and psychedelic movements. She