The people behind Libélula.
From England. Walked through years of addiction before finding this path. Tried everything conventional. Nothing reached the root. When plant medicine finally did, he knew this was his life's work. His father's passing gave him the reason. Costa Rica gave him the land. He built this place with his hands and his heart.
From England. Came to Costa Rica at eighteen and knew she'd come back. Together with Kene, she shaped Libélula into what it is: every garden, every meal, every detail of care that guests feel before they can name it. The retreat lives and breathes through her.
Born into the Huni Kuin lineage. Has walked this path since childhood, carrying ancestral knowledge passed down through thousands of years. Carries the jaguar lineage and his grandmother's songs. Leads ceremony from the heart, with a depth of healing that is felt before it's understood.
Txua's brother. Carries the same ancestral lineage with a lightness that fills the room. His songs bring joy, his presence brings ease. Where others go deep through intensity, he opens the way through celebration and warmth.
Txua's partner. Raised in the Huni Kuin tradition from birth. Carries the songs, the prayers, and the deep connection to the forest that her lineage has held for generations. Quiet presence, open heart.
From Argentina. Left home at twenty-one. Spent years traveling through Brazil before the Amazon drew him in, living and learning alongside Indigenous tribes. Over a decade holding ceremony in Peru's Sacred Valley. Trained with Shipibo and Huni Kuin teachers. For Fito, the medicines are teachers, and ceremony is a living relationship rooted in devotion.
Matías builds the systems that run Libélula: platform, website, marketing. So logistics never interrupt connection. Heart to heart.
He knows what disconnection costs. A twenty-year internal war kept him out of his own body. Ending it took 100-plus books, 50-plus courses, and many more practices for the body, emotion, mind and spirit. It worked. He now helps people feel alive again. In their bodies.
Thirty years of rehabilitation work in England: professional footballers at Southend United, private clients at a Mayfair clinic. He works with guests here, and his own clinic opens on the land, for people who travel to rebuild a knee, a back or a shoulder. He treats four things at once: what you eat, how you sleep, how you move, and how happy you are. A knee heals faster when all four are right.