Step Into Our Vision
Step Into Our Vision
At The Portal, we believe in the power of experienced guidance to facilitate your journey towards expansive healing. Our team of PortalKeepers are committed to creating a nurturing and supportive environment for your personal growth and transformation.
With diverse backgrounds and expertise in unique wellness modalities, we are here to inspire, empower, and guide you, every step of the way.
At The Portal, we believe in the power of experienced guidance to facilitate your journey towards expansive healing. Our team of skilled facilitators is committed to creating a nurturing and supportive environment for your personal growth and transformation. With diverse backgrounds and expertise in various wellness modalities, they are here to inspire, empower,
and guide you every step of the way.
MEET YOUR GUIDES
Alyee is a Wellness Visionary of all things growth and transformational, in ways greater than you can imagine. Alyee is the Creatress of The Portal Costa Rica & Conscious 360 Movement, as well as an Activational Speaker, Liberator and Transformational Life Leader. She works globally with men and women, supporting all to embody freedom, love and possibility through a clear mindset and balanced lifestyle. For over 20 years, she has walked her own path of going deeper- in devoted partnership with God, whom she experiences as the very evolution of human consciousness. Alyee sees the God-self within every client she meets, relating to each soul from their highest truth even as she meets them exactly where they are. Her gift, and her joy, is mirroring people back to who they truly are, to who they are capable of becoming, and who they came here to be. Alyee has alchemized her life hardships, guided by Rumi's wisdom: "The wound is the place where the Light enters you," to empower all humans to free themselves, stand in their authentic truth, and live their best life! Throughout her journey, Alyee has been honored with numerous awards including Women That Soar, and has been featured across 30+ media outlets and on-air segments, including VOGUE, the Today Show, and E! News, among many others. She has been a dedicated yoga practitioner for almost 30 years and lives by Ram Dass's profound statement, "We're all just walking each other home."
Alyee's trainings & certifications include:
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Peter Crone's Mastermind Intensive
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Trauma-Informed Facilitator Certification
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Ascension Leadership Academy: Transformational Personal Development, Emotional Intelligence, & Coaching Training
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Authentic Relating Training
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NLP Mastery Training and Certification
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Mastery of Leadership Certification: PHD Leadership, Coaching, & Public Speaking
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Off The Mat: 5 Day Yoga, Purpose & Action Intensive Training
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Grace: Premier Emotional Intelligence Training
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Transcendental Meditation Training
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Vipassana 10 day Meditation Course
Alyee Sakin
CREATRESS
Jamie Vogt
PORTAL CHEF
Chef Jamie's culinary journey began at the age of 13, driven by a desire to optimize her diet as a competitive athlete. While excelling at a high level in gymnastics, she recognized the importance of fueling her body for peak performance. This realization marked the beginning of her love affair with the art of cooking. As Jamie delved into the kitchen, she discovered a passion for crafting nourishing, delectable, and visually stunning dishes. Over the years, this culinary passion has only intensified. Today, Jamie seamlessly integrates her skills as a chef with her love for art, yoga, and healing, creating a unique blend of culinary magic for The Portal clients. Her diverse expertise converges to deliver a harmonious and enriching culinary experience, reflecting her commitment to both flavor and well-being.
Davida Moore
PSYCHOTHERAPIST
Davida is an indigenous psychotherapist and founder of Remedy Wellness, specializing in trauma resolution through EMDR, PSIP, using a truly holistic lens. Davida holds a Master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, a Bachelor's in Biology with a minor in Neuroscience, and is a graduate of the first cohort of the Entheogenic Medical Training Program at the Synaptic Institute. With training spanning neuroscience, entheogenic medicine, ancestral healing, and the sacred sciences of the ancients, Davida offers a remarkable blend of clinical rigor and innate wisdom. She also weaves IFS, DBT, mindfulness, movement, and sacred healing traditions into a path of full-spectrum healing.
Davida believes profound self-awareness is the gateway to real transformation, guiding clients from reacting to life into responding from their power. A world traveler and lifelong student of wellness traditions, she brings exceptional depth, range, and healing presence to every space she enters.
Meli Chandler
SOUND HEALER
Meli Chandler is a biofield tuning practitioner and sound bath facilitator with almost a decade of experience using sound as a therapeutic and restorative modality. Through her practice called Sounds Heart Sanctuary, she supports nervous system regulation, energetic balance, and deep relaxation through the gentle use of tuning forks and immersive sound experiences. With a grounded, intuitive approach, Meli creates safe, nurturing spaces where the body and biofield can release tension and reorganize naturally. Blending modern vibrational understanding with deep respect for the body’s innate wisdom, she offers sound as a pathway back to coherence, presence, and inner harmony.
Zai Villegas
EARTH ALCHEMIST
Zai is a Costa Rican healer whose hands carry the wisdom of the land itself. Raised on her mother's teachings of the power of natural remedies, she trained formally at Colegio Mexicano de Enfermeros y Terapeutas in Mexico City. She blends clinical therapeutic knowledge with a deep passion for permaculture and earth wisdom. Her sessions are a sacred ceremony of earth and touch, incorporating homegrown herbs, plants, stones, and local elements like cacao butter- bringing the land itself into the healing space. Every massage is tailored to the individual, intuitive and grounded in what the body truly needs, alchemizing tension into ease and lightness of being.
Aliza Rivka
DANCE & DJ GUIDE
Aliza is the visionary force behind Mariposa Movement - a movement modality & global community here to further our personal and collective awakening through dance. With over 15 years as a dance/movement therapist, DJ, ritual curator & embodiment guide, Aliza has helped thousands of people access liberation through movement. Her uniquely heart-centered & earth-based approach to dance inspires people all over the world to return to their wild essence.Aliza is a Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist with the American Dance Therapy Association, an ordained Kohenet Hebrew Priestess & a certified DJ Witch- graduate of Tasha Blank’s PhDJ program. She is a valued leader of the dance community in Costa Rica, and Creator of Flight School Dance Leadership Program, which continues to change women’s lives, offering personal empowerment through dance.
Jessica Garvin
TOUCH ALCHEMIST
Jessica’s journey began in 2012 when she became a Licensed Massage Therapist, after graduating from the Institute of Therapeutic Massage. Throughout the years, she has worked with a diverse range of clients seeking both relief and restoration. Her approach is deeply intuitive and client-centered, attuning to the body’s natural rhythms, breath, and specific needs. She specializes in a unique deep tissue massage that is both therapeutic and luxuriously relaxing, allowing the nervous system to soften while layers of long-held tension gently release. By listening closely to the body’s responses, she works only as deeply as the tissue allows, creating a safe, refined space for surrender, balance, and lasting renewal.
Taryn Swanepoel
BREATHWORK GUIDE
Taryn is a Breathwork facilitator with a background in nutrition and a passion for all things travel and nature. As a Transformational breathwork coach she helps individuals access their inner wisdom and create positive changes in their lives. After experiencing major burnout from an exhausting work load and having a major health scare in 2020, breathwork became an imperative part of her healing journey. Sharing all that she has learned over the past few years with enthusiastic compassion, her unique approach allows for each journey to be a customized experience based on the needs of each individual.
Sukha Sakin
PORTALKEEPER
Sukha Sakin is a true curandero healer, native to Costa Rica. She works with energy and non verbal communication, acutely aware of others, connecting to their hearts through her intuitive channel. She is the official greeter of The Portal, welcoming all into a new day, one heart at a time. Sukha’s energy calms and grounds, alchemizing any adversarial situation. She gives what is needed in every moment through unconditional love, touch, and relating to your Higher Self. Sukha’s name is the perfect reflection of her embodied self. Sukha in Sanscript means joy, pleasure, ease, and bliss, and the authentic state of happiness. She was born into this work, supporting plant & animal medicine ceremonies since she was very young. Sukha is the true medicine; always balanced, never wavering; guiding clients alongside her human mother, Alyee, to release their fears and live their greatest life.
