MoonRoot Folk Presents
La Perla
19 acres in the Southern Zone of Costa Rica.
Being built slowly, honestly, and from the ground up.
This page will grow as the land grows.
Come back.
The Honest Beginning
In August, I will walk this land barefoot.
In silence.
For the first time as its steward.
There is nothing built on these 19 acres yet. No pavilion. No casitas. No stables. No trails. No cedar lockers waiting on a ridge line.
Just land. Jungle. A river. A waterfall. And a woman who has known for years that this is where something real is meant to grow.
I am telling you this at the beginning, before anything is built, before any membership is offered, before any infrastructure exists because MoonRoot Folk was born from honesty. And what is being built here deserves that same honesty from its very first moment.
La Perla Sanctuary will become a physical space for the philosophy that has been building inside this ecosystem for years, a place where women can stop performing their lives long enough to hear themselves again. Where the land holds what words can only approximate.
That is the vision. It is real. And it is not yet built.
What exists right now is the land, the philosophy, and the intention.
Why This Land
The Uncovering has always been moving toward something physical.
MoonRoot Folk began as a philosophy born from a real season of returning after years living abroad in Costa Rica, coming back disoriented, sitting in stillness long enough to hear what was actually true.
Costa Rica is not incidental to this story. It is the origin of it.
The land in the Southern Zone, jungle, river, waterfall, nineteen unencumbered acres, is not a retreat venue chosen for its aesthetics. It is the natural physical home of a philosophy that has always understood that the deepest uncovering happens not just in the mind, but in the body, and in relationship with land that is itself unhurried.
Grounded in 30 years of Buddhist practice and the Stoic philosophy at the foundation of the Uncovering framework, La Perla will be built the same way the philosophy was built:
Slowly. Honestly. Without rushing what is not yet ready.
The Build In Honest Sequence
This is the order. No shortcuts.
First
The August Walk
Barefoot. In silence. Letting the land show where each space wants to rest before a single structure is planned.
Then
The Home
Built and funded by Abrihet before any membership is offered. The steward must be rooted on the land before the land can hold anyone else.
Then
Water & Solar
Water concessions and the solar grid. The infrastructure that makes the land livable, sustainable, and genuinely off-grid. Functional before it is beautiful.
Then
The First Casitas
Small. Intentional. Built for the quality of rest the philosophy describes, not for the aesthetic of luxury.
And only then
The Founders Circle Opens
Not as a fundraising mechanism. As an invitation to women who have been watching this build honestly from the beginning and feel genuinely called to anchor here.
The membership will not be offered until there is something real to offer.
That is the commitment.
Follow the Build
This is where the build will be documented.
Honestly. As it actually happens.
Starting in August, after the first walk, this section will grow. Photos from the land. Voice notes from the trail. Honest reflections on what is harder than expected and what is more beautiful than words.
The specific quality of light through the canopy in the Southern Zone morning. What the waterfall sounds like from the ridge.
Not a construction newsletter. Not a marketing campaign.
A woman building something real, sharing it honestly with the people who are paying attention.
Something is being built here, not as a destination, but as a place to return to yourself. Walk with us as it unfolds. You will receive updates when something significant happens on the land. Nothing more, nothing less.
Where This Is Going
When it is built this is what it will hold.
A Home for the Steward
On the ridge. The foundation everything else grows from.
Main Wellness Pavilion
Open, multi-level, sustainably built, serving as the communal heart of the land.
Canopy Casitas
Small, private, intentional where women come to stop performing and start hearing themselves again.
Equine Somatic Space
Because horses cannot be performed for, and that honesty is its own kind of medicine.
Suspended Bamboo Decks
Above the waterfall where moving water becomes an auditory container for release that cannot be scheduled.
Permaculture Farm & Private Chef
A farm that feeds the kitchen. A chef who removes every food decision from the woman who has been making decisions for everyone her entire life.
Trails to the river. Swimming holes. Silence.
And the unhurried, available-never-scheduled quality of presence that the MoonRoot Folk philosophy has always pointed toward, made physical, made landable, made real.
The membership conversation will begin when the land is ready to receive it.
Something is being built here.
Not quickly.
Not for everyone.
Not before it is ready.
But genuinely, honestly, from the ground up.
Come back as it grows.
— Abrihet
