We built this place slowly, the way the forest builds itself.
A cabin first, then a path, then a garden, then a kitchen. Over many seasons it became a small community that learned how to live here without needing very much.
You will find ten rooms scattered into the trees, a three-storey wooden shala on the beach, and the people who make your breakfast and look after this place. Some of you come alone, to rest. Some of you arrive with thirty students and a program to teach. All of you will leave with a memorable experience.
Ocean Forest sits on a secluded mile-long beach south of Drake Bay, at the edge of Corcovado National Park. Fifteen acres of permaculture gardens grow fruit, teas, aromatic herbs and medicinal plants for our kitchen.
At its heart stands our pagoda building, a three-storey wooden structure inspired by yoga philosophy and feng shui, built slowly from fallen trees. The ground floor is an open hall to talk, rest and look out over the gardens. The second floor holds the yoga shala and, along its north side, the Lapa Lapa rooms. The top floor is a smaller space for massage and meditation, with views of the sea and the garden. It rises 46 feet (14 meters), and no living tree was cut to build it.