Drank Through Burnout: Ayahuasca Retreat Costa Rica | Danny Yepez & Sarah Lynn Thomas

Behold Retreats has now guided nearly 2,000 alumni through ceremony across its three locations, and co-CEOs Danny Yepez and Sarah Lynn Thomas talk through what that number represents: a network of people who went through something disorienting together and came out the other side still connected.In this conversation, Danny and Sarah trace how they each arrived at plant medicine from opposite directions — Danny via a decade-long sabbatical after his own experience with depression, Sarah via a corporate finance career that stopped fitting — and how a fireside moment on their third retreat together became the decision to build Behold Retreats. They get into the mechanics of a retreat week, the difference between ayahuasca, psilocybin, bufo and yopo ceremonies, why they think Western science is only now catching up to what southern and eastern traditions already knew, and the question they get asked most: should couples do ayahuasca together, or apart? Danny Yepez and Sarah Lynn Thomas are co-CEOs of Behold Retreats, running plant medicine retreats in Costa Rica, Mexico and Portugal built around ayahuasca, psilocybin and 5-MeO-DMT ceremonies, with a seven-week structure of preparation, ceremony and integration.Connect with Danny Yepez & Sarah Lynn Thomas:🌐 https://www.behold-retreats.com/💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielyepez/💼 https://www.linkedin.com/company/beholdretreatsJourney to Purpose is a personal transformation podcast featuring real conversations about mindset, trauma recovery, self-worth, spiritual awakening, resilience, and finding your life’s purpose. New episodes every week. 🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Of0Na1qWovS8Aw2X2FU8M 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philippa.bagley/ 🌐 Website: https://philippabagley.com/ Subscribe and leave a review — it helps others find the show.About your hostPippa Bagley is a clinical hypnotherapist specialising in burnout and sleep, and the host of Journey to Purpose. Based in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, she is passionate about helping people reconnect with what truly matters — and build lives and careers that feel genuinely sustainable. Pippa is also studying for an MSc in the Neuroscience and Psychology of Mental Health at King’s College London. Find out more at philippabagley.com