Visual

Sound

23 Feb - 1 Mar 2026 - Costa Rica

with Diana Olifirova & The Sound Shift

This is a recalibration of your creative self, offering a holistic approach to mastering the art of visual storytelling. Over 7 transformative days, you will step away from the noise of production and rewire your perception, ensuring every visual choice you make is powerful, deliberate, and undeniably yours.

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We recognise that truly impactful storytelling is an embodied practice, not merely a technical skill. This retreat is designed to fuse the grounding power of movement, sound, and breath with the intense precision of noticing, focus, and eye training. By regulating your nervous system and eliminating mental noise, you translate a calm, centered state into precise, artistic output. This creates a powerful feedback loop, rewiring your perception to make your visual choices instantly instinctive, confident, and original… the essential signature of an award-winning artist.

CORE THEMES

Noticing, focus and eye training

Creating and learning to give feedback together

Journalling, inquiry and stream of consciousess

Movement, flow and exploration

Connection with local culture

Sound and Resonance

“The ability to look deeply is the root of creativity.”

— Rick Rubin

 What’s included

ACCOMMODATION for 6 nights

ALL MEALS

Private Transfers from/to San Jose (SJO)

What’s not included

Flights & Travel Insurance

Taxi transfers outside of group transits

Example Day:

The Investment - £2300

*Klarna & Paypal payment plans available

Please reach out to hello@thesoundshift.co with and questions or to request further information

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The Team

  • Diana Olifirova

    Cinematographer

    With credits including Bridgerton, We are Lady Parts, Emmy-nominated "Heartstopper", and BAFTA-Breakthrough accolade, Diana crafts the visual side with high skillset and attention to detail, bringing deeply informed skills in narrative storytelling to everything she touches.

    Choreographing camera movements with rhythm and intrigue with a love of light that is simply breath taking.

    As an artist, she also is highly productive in a realm of art films, photography, movement and community, and by blending all four, she leads a life of interconnectedness, and is inspired and passionate about collective effervescence in anything she does

  • George Hammond-Hagan

    Music Producer & Sound Practitioner

    George is The Sound Shift Co-Founder - Creating immersive experiences designed to expand awareness and push the envelope they bring innovation and excitement to the transformational world of sound & breath.

    Utilising techniques like resonant frequency and live therapeutic soundscapes, their practice helps quiet the inner dialogue, opening space for deeper internal observation and creative flow.

    George is also an award-winning Songwriter, Music Producer and entrepreneur, having won an Ivor Novello & Cannes Lions awards, among others.