Our Story
ZÂRIA is not a resort.
It is a calling.
A rustic, oceanview sanctuary where the jungle meets the ocean. A platform for wisdom-sharers and a hive for sacred healing. A bridge between medicine and modernity, investment and impact. A community co-creating lives of extraordinary meaning.
El Valle, Samaná · Dominican Republic
What is ZÂRIA?
A retreat sanctuary unlike any other.
We're built on sacred ground in El Valle, Samaná — land where the peaceful Taíno people held ceremony for millennia. We're not a luxury resort adding "wellness" to the menu. We're a purpose-driven platform designed to amplify the work of retreat leaders whose teaching creates lasting change.
The Name
Our name, ZÂRIA, is woven from three ancient languages — each offering a piece of its deeper meaning:
Hebrew
God has helped
Divine guidance
Mongolian
To announce
Bold proclamation
Slavic
Sunrise
New dawn, transformation
“Guided to proclaim a new dawn.”
We don't just host retreats. We create family. We build community. We amplify missions.
The Land
El Valle, Samaná Peninsula
Dominican Republic
Jungle-covered cliffs plunging into the Caribbean. Roosters announcing the dawn. Ocean breathing against ancient stone. Land that has held sacred ceremony for over three thousand years.
This isn't backdrop. This is teacher.
The Taíno people — peaceful indigenous inhabitants of this peninsula — knew this land held power. Archaeological artifacts still emerge from our jungle. Guests report feeling the energy of ceremony, hearing whispers from the wind, receiving unexpected clarity from the trees.
We can't explain it scientifically. We can only honor it sacredly.
Built on a healing vortex, ZÂRIA sits at the intersection of earth and ocean, ancient and modern, mystical and practical. Over two hundred stone steps wind upward through sacred jungle to an oceanview perch that takes your breath — and gives it back transformed.
Ten open-air rooms. Twenty-five guests maximum. Intimate. Intentional. Unforgettable.
Walk ten minutes to a two-mile horseshoe beach surrounded by mountainous cliffs, palm trees, wild horses, and vendors selling fresh coconuts. Fall asleep to rain and croaking frogs. Wake to roosters and morning light streaming through your open-air room.
It's Bali meets Lord of the Rings — a short flight from Florida.
People exhale the moment they arrive. That's how you know it's not a center — it's a sanctuary.
The Stewards
Azaya Vega & Revan Vega
Co-founders. Family. Bridge-builders.

Azaya Vega and Revan Vega didn't plan to move their family to the jungle.
They'd built suburban success in Arizona — Azaya as an elite real estate expert, Mrs. American 2021, and Mrs. World Finalist; Revan as a strategic entrepreneur. After over twenty years building businesses together, they had everything most people dream of.
But the land was calling.
On January 1, 2023, they moved their young family to El Valle, Samaná, taking over a beautiful-but-undermaintained property and transforming it into the healing sanctuary it was meant to be.
Azaya and Revan are rare bridge-builders: they connect business success and spiritual elevation, profit and purpose, medicine and modernity, the esoteric and the embodied. Through Azaya's "Thrive Hive Show" podcast and Revan's strategic business guidance, they teach others how to heal, grow, and thrive in the most aligned, impactful ways.
At ZÂRIA, they're raising their children in an open-air international school, holding space for transformational retreats, creating meaningful local jobs, and building a conscious community of heart-centered entrepreneurs and visionaries.
This isn't their life's work. It's a calling to serve — and they're figuring out the rest as they go, inviting others to co-create alongside them.
Because sometimes the most extraordinary lives begin when you have the courage to say "yes" to callings that interrupt comfort and lead you toward unknown magic.
The Work
A place of sacred healing
ZÂRIA is, first and foremost, a place of sacred healing. The retreat leaders we partner with are wisdom-sharers whose work creates real, lasting transformation — holding sacred medicine ceremonies, plant medicine journeys, somatic and ceremonial healing modalities, and the kind of deep inner work that ripples outward into every part of a person's life.
The land itself does much of the work. Built on a healing vortex where ceremony has been held for thousands of years, ZÂRIA is held by something older than any of us. Guests consistently report unexpected breakthroughs, sudden clarity, whispers from the trees. The Taíno knew what we're remembering: some places hold the energy of transformation.
Come get quiet enough to hear what it's saying.
We hold every retreat leader and every guest with reverence. We are space-holders and bridge-builders — not gurus, not heroes. We've walked our own fires. We share our scars openly. And we believe transformation isn't transactional — it's relational, rooted in safety, and made possible by sacred ground.
If you're being called — to host the work, to receive the work, or to invest in its expansion — this is where that calling leads.
Our Values
Seven commitments we hold
01
Sacred Stewardship
We are temporary guardians of land that has held ceremony for millennia. We honor the Taíno people, honor what's holy, and build only what serves transformation.
02
Conscious Community
We create meaningful local jobs, partner with community organizations, and ensure our success means community thriving — economic impact that honors rather than extracts.
03
Amplified Wisdom
We exist as a platform for retreat leaders whose work heals the world. Their success is our success. Their ripple is our purpose. We offer support and autonomy in equal measure.
04
Profit Serves Purpose
Financial sustainability funds our ability to protect land, serve community, and grow impact. Investment and impact are partners, not opposites.
05
Bridge-Building
We connect worlds that usually don't touch: business and spirit, medicine and modernity, ancient wisdom and modern consciousness, the esoteric and the embodied.
06
Courageous Callings
We honor those who say “yes” to callings even without all the answers. Transformation requires stepping into the unknown and becoming upgraded versions of ourselves.
07
Authentic Voice
We share vulnerably, speak honestly, build trust through transparency. We're figuring it out as we go — and inviting others to co-create alongside us.
Answer the Calling
Three ways to step in
Wherever you're being called, there's a door for you.
For Retreat Leaders
Host Your Retreat
Bring your sacred work to land that has held ceremony for millennia. Partnership, not transaction.
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Step into a transformational container led by a wisdom-sharer whose work creates lasting change.
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