Costa Rica

Your Gateless Facilitators:

Suzanne Kingsbury is an award-winning, internationally acclaimed author whose work has been translated widely abroad and optioned for film.

In 2007 after graduating from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop with Frank Conroy, and the Bennington College Masters in Fine Arts in Writing and the Literary Arts program, Suzanne founded Gateless Writing, a global literary arts organization whose unique methodology combines brain science, ancient Zen techniques, and therapeutic nurturing to develop writers’ unique talent and singular genius, enabling them to move through residual blocks and create domain-changing prose.

Suzanne is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and the Oxford Town Fiction Award and her work has been profiled in Rolling Stone Magazine (European edition), The Guardian, The L.A. Times, O Magazine, BuzzFeed, Bustle, Ms Magazine, Thrive Global (named Top Writing Retreat of 2017), NPR syndicates, and more.

Suzanne is also trained in Reiki and certified in Thai head massage and can “read” a writer through touch. She began working as a scribe channel while she was leading her first Gateless Teacher Training in 2014, receiving messages from a divine source of unconditional love that helped writers find clarity and power in their words. As a writing intuit, she uses the sacred spirit of the word to understand deep patterning and repeated archetypes in a writer’s work, that leads to profound alchemy in their lives.

Through retreats, workshops, one-on-one intensives, and career training programs, Suzanne has helped countless writers on their way to landing top agents, signing lucrative book deals and winning prestigious literary awards. Her writers have also been profiled in some of the world’s top media outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, USA Today, The Jane Pauley Show, the Today Show, CBS, NBC, ABC and more. She believes if you are a writer, you have been tapped by the divine to be a conduit for a message only you can tell and that writers can move a crowd with the power of their story.

Emily Pereira is an international retreat leader, yoga teacher, mindful mama and author of the internationally acclaimed memoir: The Quest: from the Hollywood Hills to the Amazon Jungle, One Woman’s Search for Enough

Emily’s raw, vulnerable storytelling laced with mind-blowing insights about women’s empowerment have reached over five million people worldwide, landing her speaking engagements and workshops at Wanderlust, Spotify, Assemblage, Summit Outside, H.E.R. Global Network, Buti Yoga, and Lorna Jane to name a few. She lives in Santa Teresa, a little seaside village along Costa Rica’s Pacific coast.