Our Collab with ChoZen Retreat Center: A Sanctuary for Regenerative Living & Heart-Centered Growth
A Place Beyond Retreats — A Regenerative Sanctuary
Tucked into the lush, biodiverse landscape of Florida’s Treasure Coast, ChoZen Retreat is more than a wellness getaway. It is an eco-sanctuary, a living model of regenerative healing, and a gathering space for those who long to connect—with nature, with themselves, and with community.
On approximately 40 acres adjacent to the St. Sebastian River and bordering a 22,000-acre nature preserve, ChoZen is designed to integrate land conservation, regenerative agriculture, and human transformation into one coherent ecosystem.
Rather than merely sustaining the land, ChoZen aspires to regenerate it. Through wetland restoration, agroforestry, watershed renewal, and educational programs, their goal is to leave the land richer, healthier, and more alive than before.
Roots & Vision: Tony & Ximena Cho
At the heart of ChoZen stand Tony and Ximena Cho, co-founders and stewards of this land-born vision. Their story is woven with generational care, environmental awakening, and deep commitment to community.
Tony, in particular, has a strong personal history with this land: his grandmother founded the Kashi Ashram here in 1976. When Kashi faltered over time, Tony began acquiring and stewarding parts of that land, envisioning a future where ecological restoration, spiritual refuge, and earthly stewardship could coexist.
But this vision isn’t nostalgic—it’s forward looking. Tony describes ChoZen not as a “resort in nature,” but as a “Florida safari”—a place where people can meaningfully participate in nature, witness endangered species, walk food forests, and learn regenerative practices.
Ximena brings her own gifts: ceremony, heart-led gatherings, social impact orientation, and the capacity to weave the ritual and relational threads that allow people to feel seen, held, and transformed. Their partnership is oriented toward collective healing, not just of individuals, but of land, ecosystems, and culture.
One recent example of their commitment to collaboration and shared leadership is their partnership with namūna, where they co-hosted a “Spring Salon” to engage emergent spiritual landscapes, bridging identity, ecology, and social vision.
What Happens at ChoZen: Experience, Education & Regeneration
ChoZen offers a rich tapestry of experiences, combining wellness, nature immersion, and regenerative education. Here are some of their signature offerings:
Retreats & Immersions: From “Florida Safari Weekend Getaway” to longer soul shifting experiences, ChoZen welcomes spiritual seekers, creatives, wellness practitioners, and change-makers.
Eco-Tours & Permaculture Walks: Guests can join guided nature walks, permaculture tours, and wetland explorations. Their land includes over 3 miles of trails, food forests, native plantings, and regenerative gardens.
Farm & Soil Stewardship: ChoZen Farm runs regular volunteer days, farm education, and community gardening. They cultivate a biodiverse ecosystem, maintain gardens like the Gratitude Garden, Love Garden, Wisdom Garden, and nurture a food forest with 350+ fruit trees.
Wellness, Ritual & Gathering: Within ChoZen’s sanctuary, participants engage in breathwork, yoga, ceremonial gatherings, sound healing, community circles, and workshops in conscious leadership and relational practice.
Artisan Markets & Local Economy Activation: On the grounds, you’ll find ChoZen Artisan Markets, held regularly, offering local artisans, makers, food, and live music—bringing the regenerative model into the local economy.
ChoZen sees this work as regenerative placemaking—creating a space that models ecological balance, supports local livelihoods, and nurtures spiritual, emotional, and relational flourishing.
Love Is The Source Farm & ChoZen: Our Collaboration
When Love Is The Source Farm and ChoZen joined forces, it felt like a natural alignment of values, vision, and purpose. Here’s how our work together weaves into the larger fabric of regenerative wellness:
Hosting the Source Immersion Retreat
Love Is The Source hosts immersive retreats at ChoZen—offering yoga, breathwork, cacao ceremony, live music, and farm-to-table meals drawn from ChoZen’s own regenerative gardens.
These retreats strive to reconnect guests with the land, invite deep inner restoration, and ground spiritual practices in the ecology of Florida.Ecological Synergy & Shared Stewardship
In working with ChoZen, Love Is The Source contributes to and benefits from ChoZen’s regenerative infrastructure—soil health, food forests, agroecology, and biodiversity. We see this not just as backdrop, but as part of what guests participate in.Mutual Community Cultivation
Both our organizations care about building relational, heart-centered communities. Together, we help bring breath, ceremony, movement, love, and nature-based wisdom into dialogue—and create space for others to step into that.Growing a Regenerative Narrative
In combining retreat, farm, ecology, wellness, and relationship, we are co-creating a living example of how modern life can re-ground itself in earth wisdom. Your experience isn’t only internal—it’s relational, ecological, and generative.
Why This Matters
In a time when many retreat centers are “luxury escapes” removed from their environment, ChoZen insists that the land must be part of the medicine. Healing humans apart from Earth is incomplete. The land, the water, the soil, the flora and fauna—they’re not stage dressing; they are active participants.
By holding that posture, ChoZen offers more than rest or escape—they offer re-engagement, remembrance, and co-evolution. And in collaborating, Love Is The Source helps bring that model into new rhythms, new hearts, and new stories.
Invitation
If you’ve ever felt the pull to slow down, to recalibrate your inner compass, to step into deeper connection—with yourself, with others, and with the land—then ChoZen and Love Is The Source welcome you.
Join us at The Source Immersion Retreat, explore ChoZen’s trails and gardens, and tap into a sense of possibility for how we can live, love, heal, and regenerate—together.
