Community Connections
Your personalized path to community living in
Costa Rica
You Don’t Need More Websites
You Need To Talk To Someone Who’s Been There
Looking for communities in Costa Rica that align with your values, budget, and lifestyle?
I can help.
Costa Rica is home to one of the highest concentrations of intentional communities in the world, from mission-driven communities to emerging regenerative neighborhoods. The trick is finding the right match without wasting months on research or costly visits to communities that aren’t aligned with your vision.
I believe it’s fair to say that I have the most comprehensive list of community projects in the country and have been to more of these locations than just about anyone you can find. If you’d like to broaden your options while narrowing the number you need to research, you’ve come to the right place.Â
Your Search For Community Connection
Needs More Than Buzzwords & Catchphrases
If you’ve been searching on your own, you already know the pattern. You open a website, then another, then five more. Every one of them uses the same handful of buzzwords (regenerative, conscious, aligned, sustainable), and after an hour of scrolling, you’re not sure you know any more than when you started.
Maybe you’ve already spent real money visiting a place that looked stunning in photos and felt completely wrong once you arrived. Or you’ve heard whispers about a community that sounds like exactly what you’re looking for, except it barely has a website at all and nobody’s responded to your emails or texts.
And even when a website looks promising, it rarely tells you the things that matter most: how decisions actually get made, what the real monthly costs look like beyond the lot purchase, how established a community actually is versus how established its marketing describes it as being, or whether the day-to-day culture is one you’d genuinely thrive in.
You don’t need a longer list. You need a shorter, more targeted one.
Learn The Questions That Matter
“We made our choice and have moved to Costa Rica to build our new home”
– Richard & Inna
While a curated list of aligned projects is valuable in and of itself, taking a strategic approach to community seeking should continue into the vetting process as well.
Nearly every community seeker who comes to me says they’re looking for a place where residents value eco-friendly practices, personal growth, organic food, and connection to the local culture. Those are baseline intentions – beautiful, important, but nearly universal. Having them at the top of your list is great, but it isn’t going to help in your discernment.
Where these projects actually differ is in areas like their governance, how decisions get made, how conflict is handled, their financial structure, and what stage of development they’re in. Those are the factors that determine whether you’ll still be thriving somewhere once the honeymoon phase ends and everyday life sets in.
Most people don’t know to ask about these things until after they’ve already invested time, money, or trust in the wrong place. This is your opportunity to take a more informed approach.
What Your Consultation Package Provides:
Three steps, one clear path forward
Step 01: Before the Call
The Assessment Form
(15–25 min, mostly checkboxes)
Before our call, you’ll complete a comprehensive, insight-inducing questionnaire, allowing you to communicate your first-layer preferences. It’ll help me arrive at the call informed and ready to go deeper.Â
Step 02 · Your Session
The Call
(live, one-to-one)
60-minutes to ask me about Costa Rica living, communities you’ve heard of, or anything else you’d like insider insight on. I’ll have my own follow-up questions from your assessment for us to work through, as well.
Step 03 · Within a Week
The Follow-up Email
(everything, in writing)
I’ll spend the next few days after our call processing my notes, matching your preferences to my database of projects, contacting locations to confirm information, and crafting an email that’ll include the following:
- 6–12 Personalized Community Recommendations: a shortlist matched to your specific values, budget, and lifestyle, to keep your investigations targeted and efficient
- A Comprehensive Profile for Every Recommendation: existing member demographics, governance, real monthly costs, development stage, and a long list of other details that actually matter, all in one place, organized for easy comparison
- An Interactive Map: see exactly where your recommended communities sit relative to each other and other points of reference that are important to you, to help you start planning your trip
- Your Call Recording & Transcript: revisit anything you want to remember, or share it with a partner who wasn’t on the call
- The Community Seeker’s Handbook: my complete guide to evaluating and approaching communities, yours to download and study
- Direct Contact Information: for every community on your list, so you can reach out with confidence
- Other Resources: I have a vault of resources that I’m happy to share as our call reveals relevance
(Note: You’ll typically hear back within a few days. Occasionally, if I’m waiting on a community representative to confirm details, it can take up to a week.)
Beyond the above-mentioned deliverables, you’ll also receive:
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- Clarity:Â your idea of what you’re looking for will likely change after our conversation
- Confidence: you’ll know which details to look out for, which questions to ask, and why
- A guide: someone who knows this terrain well, to call on as your search develops
Your Investment
$397
(includes your 60-minute consultation and your complete follow-up package)
The Path Ahead
After you book, you’ll receive a confirmation email with your intake questionnaire. Complete it at least 24 hours before our call.
To help streamline our focus, I’ve asked each community founder to complete a similar questionnaire covering more than 50 data points that I’ll match against your shared preferences. With this, I’ll arrive at our call with a pre-filtered list and a strong foundational understanding to help guide us in refining it.
What You Need is a Guide, Not a Search Engine
“Like the drive down, building and hosting was very exciting, enlightening, confusing, and exhausting.”
Paving the way
Hi, I’m Jason Thomas. I’ve called Costa Rica home since 2009, when my family and I drove our veggie-oil school bus down here from Minnesota. My first ecovillage tour in Costa Rica consisted of 3 months driving around the country, visiting every community project we could find a website for or hear a rumor of. It was exciting, enlightening, confusing, and exhausting.
That was how I earned the wisdom of not trying to go to all the places just because you can. I now recommend, instead, taking the time to thoroughly vet places over a call BEFORE committing to the expense of showing up.
That wasn’t the only wisdom I learned in that search and my years building community since. I’ve made many mistakes. So many that I’ve written a book on the topic, trying to save today’s seekers from the same pitfalls.
Evolving my approach over time
In the end, we bought our own farm and spent the next twelve years founding and running a permaculture education center and land cooperative, hosting hundreds of volunteers, students, interns, and prospective members. Like the drive down, building and hosting was very exciting, enlightening, confusing, and exhausting.
When I left that project in 2022 and was no longer bound to focus on one project so deeply, I founded Regeneration Nation Costa Rica to serve the movement from a broader perspective through a podcast, events, and online education.
Today, I also serve the movement as the program director for Ecovillage Tours here in Costa Rica, personally guiding groups to visit intentional communities, meet founders, and get a firsthand feel for what community living is really like.
Why my recommendations are different
As of today, I’ve personally been to 24 of the more than 30 active communities in my database. They’re no longer just places I’ve researched from a desk. I’ve walked the land and sat with the people building them.
Unlike search engines and AI chatbots, my recommendations don’t depend on who can afford the best SEO. I know these founders personally, and I understand the nuances that make the difference between a community that looks good online and one that’s actually a great fit for you.
A few words from folks I’ve worked with
We were ready for a new way of living, one that’s more sustainable, more harmonious with nature, and more connected to other humans. While I was successful in capitalism, I didn’t feel supported in that society. The calling to something greater than myself, to be part of a community where we share responsibilities and joy, brought me to Jason.
I received kind, active listening and specific, detailed recommendations from an expert who personally knows the communities and understands our needs and skills. I LOVE the community profile sheets — they make it very easy to compare the different options. I put the data into a spreadsheet, and things became very clear. It was very valuable to read the communities’ input in their own words.Â
We were determined to leave the USA and move to a community somewhere tropical, and Jason’s direction in selecting and vetting communities made all the difference.
Jason helped us find and evaluate communities we’d be interested in, introduced us to a contact person at each one, planned our 2-week trip, and supported us while we visited. It was exactly what we needed. In the end, we made our choice and have moved to Costa Rica to build our new home. I confidently recommend Jason to help you find your ideal community in Costa Rica.
It was really helpful to talk to Jason! He listened attentively to my story and my ideas, gave me a truly bespoke response, directed me to appropriate contacts and useful reading materials, and offered a lot of insight into the community scene in Costa Rica. He even reached out to me later, remembering me when an opportunity came up to get involved in a project that suited my profile!
I feel a lot more equipped now to step into the community movement, with realistic expectations around what to expect of others as well as of myself. And I know there’s always someone I can reach out to if things get confusing or overwhelming.
Still Undecided?
You can be sure this is for you if…
- You feel called to community living in Costa Rica and are beginning to imagine what community life could look like for someone like you
- You’re tired of research that leaves you more confused than clear
- You want to visit communities that are actually worth the trip, not just the ones with the best websites
- You’d rather learn from other people’s experience than repeat their missteps
- You’re ready to move from scrolling and wondering to connecting and visiting
Whether you’re still planning and just getting oriented, or you’ve got a trip booked and need to move fast, this call meets you where you are.
Your community’s out there
Let’s find it together
Click the button below, select a date and time that works for you, and let’s activate your exploration together.
Your investment includes the consultation plus your complete follow-up package — personalized recommendations, community profiles, an interactive map, and curated resources.
Jason Thomas
Regeneration Nation Costa Rica · Ecovillage Tours
Frequently Asked Questions
How many communities will you recommend?
How current is your information?
What if I need help planning my trip once I have my list?
What if I need help deciding on which community to choose after I've narrowed down my choices?
Do you speak Spanish? Will I need to?
I'm not sure I'm ready — I don't even know what I'm looking for yet.
What if the community I'm curious about isn't in your database yet?
“The best time and money I’ve spent on my journey to find our new community.”
— Aniko Nemesh
Any other questions?
I'd love to hear from you. Don't hesitate to reach out.