Health advocate and bestselling author Diana Stobo opened The Retreat Costa Rica to help
coach guests back to good health.
Diana Stobo, a celebrity chef, best-selling author, health and wellness life coach and founder
and owner of The Retreat Costa Rica, wasn’t always a health advocate. But she knows well the
challenging journey to optimum wellness and has found a way to share her wisdom with others
on a similar path.
Now an innovator in the global wellness industry and self-proclaimed “spa junkie and detox
diva,” her passion for helping people heal themselves is rooted in her past struggles with
physical challenges that traditional medicine failed to offer permanent solutions for. Battling
multiple conditions while raising three children, she decided to take control of her health and
research health practices from around the world until she was educated enough to heal herself.
Through a combination of nutrition, detoxification, exercise and meditation, she turned around
her health, lost 100 pounds and became a passionate advocate for helping people after seeing
first-hand how tapping into her own power and desire to change completely transformed her
life.
While Stobo’s specialty has always been food as a modality for change, her education and
expertise lies in life transformation and spirit coaching, through quantum physics and the Law
of Attraction. Her goal at The Retreat Costa Rica – a tropical luxury resort nestled among lush
vegetation in the arms of a quartz mountain with stunning views of the Nicoya Peninsula and
Pacific Ocean — is to offer a transformational wellness center where guests can escape their
daily chaos and stress and reset their internal sense of balance in a nurturing and gentle
environment. Her signature wellness programs and gastronomic concepts are offered in a
peaceful setting that stills the mind and inspires the soul.
"I have a passion for healing and a deep understanding of the true nature of the body and its
metaphysical connection,” says Stobo, whose work has been featured in HuffPost, Epicurious,
W Magazine, Cooking Light, Women's Health, FOX News, ABC News, among others. “My
purpose is to help people uncover their desires to live better, balanced, wholesome lives and to
facilitate their transformation.”
The author of 15 books including the popular “Get Naked Fast,” Stobo is a classically trained
chef, nutrition expert and early pioneer in the raw food movement who has now coached
thousands of people back to good health and is known for her ability to create tools and practices
that empower and facilitate transformation. She is the creator and lead formulator of Truth Bar,
an innovative prebiotic and probiotic gut health bar available in boutique health food stores
across the U.S. Now a trusted and sought after speaker on a host of subjects, including digestive
health, food as a modality for change, hormone balancing, sex, aging well, weight management,
wellness travel and more, Stobo is bringing her knowledge to guests at The Retreat Costa Rica,
which has won numerous awards including "Best Wellness Spa of the Americas" by World
Boutique Awards and #1 Detox Spa Worldwide by W Magazine. Currently, she is venturing
into wellness community real estate as well as expanding The Retreat and completing
construction on the first Ayurvedic Healing Center and Spa in Costa Rica.
“I believe everyone who comes to The Retreat Costa Rica comes to be healed in some way,”
says Stobo. “They may not know it at the time, but as soon as they step foot on the property, the
crystal mountain begins to do its magic. It brings to the surface that which we need to see, feel
and release. It is a place of surrender.”