The Executive Recalibration Protocol
A complete walkthrough of the 9-week private process. Every phase. Every assessment. Every safeguard. From clinical screening to your 90-day Stabilization Report.
Designed for founders, executives, business owners, and high-functioning adults who appear successful on the outside but are carrying chronic internal overload, disconnection, or quiet collapse.
Everything on this page is discussed in detail during your private conversation with Faisal. If you've seen enough, you can skip ahead.
Protocol at a Glance
Weeks 1 to 4: Psychological screening, medical clearance, private preparation
Days 1 to 9 on-site: Full private immersion and guided deep work
Weeks 6 to 9: Integration into real life, relationships, and leadership
90 days: Follow-up and measured reassessment
Phase 1: Excavation
Weeks 1 through 4. Remote. Four private sessions.
We build the container before we open it.
The Excavation phase is a thorough diagnostic and preparation process. Four weekly private sessions with Faisal, each 60 to 90 minutes. This is where we map your nervous system, identify your core patterns, and prepare your body and mind for the intensive work ahead.
Baseline Screening and Readiness Review
Before anything is scheduled, every applicant completes a structured in-house screening process led by Faisal. This includes a confidential intake interview, standardized self-report measures for mood, stress, sleep, and emotional regulation, and a readiness review to assess fit, stability, and support needs. This is not a psychiatric diagnosis. It is a responsible first-layer screening process designed to understand your baseline, identify red flags, and determine whether this protocol is appropriate or whether further outside review is needed.
Depression indicators (PHQ-9), a standardized screening tool used in clinical settings worldwide.
Anxiety levels (GAD-7), measuring severity across seven validated dimensions.
Sleep and Recovery Baseline, assesses how stress is affecting your sleep, recovery, and nervous system, including rest quality, tension, and your ability to fully settle and restore.
Emotional Regulation and Overwhelm Baseline, assesses how you relate to stress, pressure, and emotion, including patterns of suppression, numbness, irritability, overwhelm, and emotional shutdown.
These scores become your baseline. They create a clinical starting point that is measured again at 90 days. This is how we document change, not with feelings, but with validated evidence.
Medical Screening and Health Review
A structured in-house health review looks at your medical history, current medications, and potential contraindications. If anything raises concern, additional outside medical review or clearance may be required before moving forward.
Not everyone is accepted. Certain medications, psychiatric conditions, cardiovascular concerns, or active instability may require postponement, additional oversight, or make this process inappropriate. That is part of responsible care.
Psychological Profiling and Pattern Mapping
Across four weekly sessions, Faisal conducts a deep psychological profiling process. This goes far beyond a surface intake.
Wheel of Emotion Mapping. A structured emotional mapping process that reveals which emotional capacities are suppressed, overactive, or disconnected. This map informs every aspect of the on-site work.
Custom exercises designed around your specific nervous system patterns and your daily life. These build capacity for the deep work ahead. They are not generic worksheets.
Dietary guidance and body preparation aligned with the traditional protocols required for safe, effective ceremonial work.
Intention refinement. You arrive with clarity about what you are addressing and why. This prevents the common retreat experience of wandering into deep work without a target.
Between Sessions
Faisal checks in personally through voice notes and encrypted messages. You are not left alone between calls. You are held from week one.
By the time you arrive on the land, your guide already knows you. He knows your history. He knows your patterns. He knows where the work needs to go. The Descent is precision-targeted from the first hour.
Phase 2: The Descent
9 days on-site. Ruhani Wellness Centre, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
The entire centre is exclusively yours. No other clients. No shared schedules. No institutional atmosphere. No group dynamics.
One guide. One helper. One individual.
You fly into Liberia International Airport (LIR). Ruhani arranges your transfer. From the moment you land, logistics are handled. You focus only on the work.
The 9-Day Structure
A carefully sequenced process that moves through distinct stages. Nothing is random. Everything builds.
The pace, depth, and practices are adjusted according to your screening, your nervous system capacity, and what is actually arising in real time. Nothing is pushed for drama.
Days 1 to 2: Arrival and Purification. Settling into the land. Grounding. Beginning the process of letting the noise drain out of your system. The body needs time to arrive even after the plane lands. Cleansing with a Shamanic purifying bath and Kambo (optional).
Days 3 to 7: The Deep Work. Guided inner processing using both Jungle traditions (ayahuasca) and Desert traditions (wachuma). Daily private sessions with Faisal that process what surfaces, connect it to the patterns identified during Excavation, and ensure nothing is left unresolved. This is a single, coherent arc of deep emotional processing, not a series of disconnected ceremonies.
These experiences are never treated as spectacles or shortcuts. They are held within a larger therapeutic arc of preparation, processing, and integration.
Days 8 to 9: Integration and Grounding. Gentle re-entry. A guided nature immersion outside the centre. Reconnecting with the world before you return to it. You do not leave abruptly. You leave grounded, clear, and prepared for what comes next.
What the Days Feel Like
Mornings are calm. Three nourishing meals are prepared for you daily. The schedule is built around your energy and your process, not a rigid timetable.
Some days involve guided intensive inner work with traditional plant remedies. Other days involve rest, sound therapy, nature immersion, or reflective practice. The rhythm responds to you.
Faisal walks with you through every phase. He goes first. He has sat with hundreds of individuals in the most difficult moments of their lives. He is not afraid of what you are carrying. That safety, the felt experience of being with someone who is genuinely unafraid of your pain, is what allows the walls to come down.
Logistics
Airport transfers from Liberia International Airport (LIR). Three meals daily. All scheduling handled. Private, secure facility. You carry nothing except the willingness to face what's underneath.
Safety Infrastructure
Deep emotional processing requires a container that is physically, psychologically, and medically sound.
Before acceptance: Thorough medical and psychological screening. Formal physician clearance. Certain medications and conditions require specific protocols or may preclude participation.
On-site: CPR-trained staff. AED equipment on premises. Faisal has over two decades of direct experience and has safely guided hundreds of individuals through intensive processes.
During Reconstruction: Weekly sessions monitor integration. Direct access to your guide if anything unexpected surfaces.
During Stabilization: 90-day follow-up provides an additional safety net. Clinical re-assessment confirms stable outcomes.
For more information, visit our [commitment to safety page](https://www.ruhaniwellnesscentre.com/our-commitment-to-safety)
and our [safety dieta guidelines](https://www.ruhaniwellnesscentre.com/safety-dieta).
Phase 3: Reconstruction
Weeks 6 through 9. Remote. Four private sessions.
This is where most retreat experiences fail. Someone does deep work. They feel opened, shifted, clear. They fly home. Real life resumes. Within days, old patterns creep back. Within weeks, the shift feels like a memory. Within a month, they wonder if it happened at all.
That pattern is a structural failure, not a personal one. The opening happened. Nobody guided the landing.
Reconstruction at Ruhani is an engineered phase with the same structure and attention as Excavation and Descent.
Four Weekly Private Sessions
Each session processes what emerged during the Descent and translates it into your actual daily life. This is where breakthroughs become behavior. Where insights become practice. Where the shift becomes permanent.
Personalized Reconstruction Protocol
Specific practices tied to YOUR breakthroughs, calibrated to YOUR schedule, YOUR relationships, YOUR responsibilities. This is not a generic journaling checklist. It is an operating system for your new baseline.
Relationship recalibration guidance. Decision-making clarity work. Nervous system regulation practices you can do in 10 minutes between meetings. Boundary-setting frameworks for your specific professional context.
Voice Note Check-Ins
Between sessions, Faisal stays with you through encrypted voice notes and messages. The transition from the immersive container back to real life is where the most important work happens. You are not alone in it.
Optional: Partner Reintegration Support
When you change, your closest relationships feel the shift. Your partner has been living with the "old version" for years. Coping mechanisms were built around it. If the transition isn't handled, the relationship becomes the thing that pulls you back into old patterns.
Partner Orientation Call. A 30-minute call with your partner where Faisal explains what the process involves, what to expect, and how to be supportive during the transition.
Facilitated Reintegration Session. A 60-minute guided conversation between you and your partner to create shared language for what happened, what is changing, and what to expect going forward.
Coming Home Guide. A practical guide for returning to the people who know you. How to communicate changes without alienating. How to hold space for a partner who didn't go through the same experience.
When your partner feels included and supported, they become an advocate for your growth. The ripple effect through your family, your team, and your organization starts here.
Formal Closing Ritual
A structured ceremony marks the completion of the 9-week protocol with the same intentionality with which it began. This is a psychological anchor. It marks a clear before and after in your own narrative.
Phase 4: Stabilization
90-day follow-up. Measurable outcomes documented.
Check-ins at 30, 60, and 90 days post-closing. Brief sessions to course correct if anything unexpected surfaces.
At the 90-day mark, the same validated assessment battery administered during Excavation is re-administered including PHQ-9. GAD-7.
Your Stabilization Report
A formal one-page document that includes:
Your clinical assessment score changes from intake to 90 days, across every validated dimension.
A qualitative summary: where you started, what emerged, where you stand.
Specific recommendations for the next six months.
An invitation to an annual Recalibration session if desired.
This report is yours. It documents change with the same rigor you would expect from any serious diagnostic process. It is evidence, not anecdote.
Annual Recalibration (Optional)
Past Elite Immersion clients can return for a shorter engagement: a 3-day on-site revisit with targeted preparation and integration sessions. This creates a yearly tune-up that deepens long-term stability.
Meet the Guide Behind the Protocol: Faisal Khattak
15+ years in integrative healing
guided hundreds of individuals
works at the intersection of preparation, immersion, and integration
experienced with high-functioning professionals carrying pressure, trauma, and emotional shutdown
Most people in this industry hide behind a wall of certificates because they are afraid to show you who they actually are. That is balderdash. If you are going to trust me with your life, you need to know I’ve already walked the path I’m asking you to take.Here is the truth about who is leading you.
I am your Holistic Sherpa.
I am not a guru, a savior, or a clinical researcher. I am a Holistic Sherpa and a transformational guide. My job is to walk beside you through the hardest work of your life. I am the person who makes you feel safe enough to finally be honest with yourself.
I have walked through the fire.
What qualifies me to sit with you in your darkest moment isn't a title. It is the fact that I survived childhood abuse and spent nine years across three continents searching for a resolution to my own quiet despair. I built a life that looked admireable on the outside while I was quietly falling apart on the inside. Over the last 15 years, I have guided hundreds of individuals from four continents through this exact process. I do not stand above you. I go first.
I built a method that actually lands.
Most retreats sell you a spiritual high and send you home to figure it out alone. I built the Arbol Method because I realized that healing that doesn't integrate into daily life isn't healing. My process is a structured, nine-week precision strike on the patterns that keep you numb. It is private. It is one-on-one. The entire center is exclusively yours. We don't do spiritual theater. We do safe, slow, and honest resolution.
"I am not here to give you a spiritual high. I am here to help you find a resolution. To walk you through the opening and, more importantly, to guide you through the landing."
Faisal Hameed Khattak
Founder, Ruhani Wellness Centre
Licensed NLP Practitioner | Certified Hypnotherapist | 15+ Years in Integrative Healing
In Their Own Words
These words come from real people who arrived carrying years of pressure, confusion, emotional shutdown, and disconnection. Not all were executives by title. Many were leaders by burden.
“I was at the bottom of the barrel. This was my hail mary. I had come to terms with never being happy again, and that realization was eating me alive. I was ready to be done trying.”
— Jason W, Florida, USAToday, he is grounded, laughing, and doing work he loves. He did not just heal. He came back to life.
“The changes that happened to me as a result are profound and long lasting. I had been interested in doing this kind of deep work for 15 years but never found the right person to guide my journey, until I met Faisal.”
— Mercedes K, BelgiumFifteen years of searching. One experience that finally went deep enough. That is what the right guide and the right process can do.
“I came with doubt, anxiety and anger. I am leaving with a clear mind, excited about the future ahead. This is a remarkable outcome for someone who never believed in therapy.”
— Clara L, Alberta, CanadaShe came with doubts and left with clarity.
“Before working with Faisal, my struggle was being okay with being myself in every room. By not having my heart and my words aligned, it caused anxiety and discomfort. Faisal created a space for me to reconnect with my inner self and start to feel a deeper respect and confidence in my feelings and heart.”
— Josh R, Oregon, USAHe returned four times. He now inspires others to pursue this work. His team at work says they can feel the difference in how he leads.
“Working with Faisal has been the most impactful journey into understanding my true self. Being able to connect deeply with my inner child has opened my heart to rebuilding relationships with people that matter most in my life, most importantly myself.”
— Kevin S, Montana, USAHe came for healing. He left with himself back.
Is This For You?
The Elite Immersion is a high-stakes, precision-guided intervention. It is not for everyone. It is for the person who is done performing and ready for a resolution.
This was built specifically for you if:
You are the "Strong One" everyone leans on. You carry the weight of the company, the family, and the community, but you have zero place to set your own burden down.
You have "Everything" but feel nothing. You built the life everyone admires, but you wake up with a pit in your stomach and a quiet disappointment that success didn't fix the internal ache.
You are a high-functioning performer. You can still close the deal and run the meeting, but the "mask" is getting heavy, and you’re terrified of what happens if you finally take it off.
You have tried the "Standard Tools." You’ve done the therapy. You’ve read the books. You’ve been to the weekend retreats. You understand the "why," but the pattern is still running your life.
You value privacy over theater. You don't want to share a maloka with 20 strangers. You need a discreet, 1-on-1 container where you can be brutally honest without an audience.
This is NOT for you if:
You are looking for "Spiritual Tourism." If you want a cool story about the jungle and a temporary high, find a 7-day group retreat. There are plenty of them.
You are seeking a quick fix. Transformation is not a weekend trip. If you aren't willing to commit to the 9-week arc of preparation and integration, we are not the right fit.
You are primarily price-shopping. We don't compete on cost. We compete on resolution. If you are looking for the "cheapest" way to see plant medicine, this isn't it.
You expect me to do the work for you. I am a Holistic Sherpa, not a savior. I walk beside you, but you have to face the truth yourself.
The Final Question
Let's be straight. You’ve been negotiating with your own happiness for years. You’ve told yourself "next quarter" or "after the next launch."
How much longer is that negotiation going to last?
If you read these points and felt a "holy crap, he’s talking to me" hum in your chest, it is time for a conversation.
Confidentiality Architecture
Many of our clients hold positions where public association with this type of work could create professional or personal complications. We built the confidentiality infrastructure accordingly.
Scheduling is arranged to preserve privacy. This protocol accepts one individual at a time, and the center is reserved exclusively for your process during your stay.
Mutual NDA signed before any information is exchanged. Standard practice. Non-negotiable.
Pseudonymous booking available. Book through an assistant, intermediary, or case number.
Encrypted communications for all exchanges. No regular email. Signal or equivalent.
Zero documentation policy. No photos, no video, no social media mentions without written, revocable consent.
Discretionary invoicing. "Ruhani Wellness Consulting" or "RWC Executive Services" on credit card statements.
Data handling policy documenting what is collected, who has access, how it is stored, and when it is destroyed.
This will never appear on your Instagram feed, your credit card statement as a retreat, or anyone else's story.
The Investment
$20,000 USD
All-inclusive. No additional fees.
This is not priced like a retreat. It is priced like a full private intervention with preparation, immersion, integration, assessment, and follow-through.
This covers the complete Executive Recalibration Protocol:
Clinical baseline assessment. Validated instruments (PHQ-9, GAD-7).
Medical screening and formal clearance.
Four weeks of private Excavation sessions with Faisal. Custom exercises. Voice note check-ins.
Nine days where the entire centre is exclusively yours. One guide. All meals. Airport transfers from LIR.
Four weeks of private Reconstruction sessions. Personalized integration protocol. Encrypted check-ins.
Optional partner reintegration support (orientation call, facilitated session, Coming Home Guide).
Formal closing ritual.
90-day Stabilization phase with check-ins at 30, 60, and 90 days.
Second round of validated clinical assessments at 90 days.
Formal Stabilization Report documenting measured change.
Everything is included. There is nothing additional to purchase, arrange, or figure out.
The Real Cost Calculation
How much have you already spent on therapy sessions that gave you insight but no resolution? On meditation retreats that felt good for 72 hours and faded by Tuesday? On executive coaching that optimized your performance but never touched the wound underneath?
And what is the cost of another year living the way you're living right now? The compounding distance in your closest relationships. The health consequences your body is already signaling. The missed presence with your children during years you never get back.
The price is visible. The cost of continuing like this usually is not, until the damage becomes public, relational, or physical.
The application process confirms fit. This experience accepts one individual at a time.
Common Questions
-
A carefully sequenced combination of private guided sessions, ancient healing practices, deep psychological processing, nature immersion, and structured rest. Every day is built around your specific needs and the patterns identified during your preparation phase. The full protocol is discussed during your private consultation.
-
Therapy and coaching typically operate within weekly sessions over months or years. This process is an intensive, immersive intervention. It reaches layers that conventional talk-based modalities often cannot access. The combination of structured psychological preparation, experiential on-site work, and guided integration produces a depth of shift that weekly sessions are not designed to deliver in this timeframe.
-
The Elite Immersion is $20,000 USD. This covers the complete 9-week experience: all preparation sessions, your private 9-day on-site immersion, meals, airport transfers, all integration sessions, personalized protocols, the closing ritual, and a 90-day follow-up. There are no additional fees.
-
Most individuals who are appropriate for this work recognize themselves in the description on this page. If you are high-functioning, emotionally burdened, and have found that conventional approaches have not reached deep enough, a private conversation is the best way to determine fit. The consultation carries no obligation.
-
Completely. Many clients describe this simply as a private wellness immersion in Costa Rica. Your participation is never disclosed. All communication is handled personally and securely.
-
Ruhani Wellness Centre is located in the Guanacaste region of Costa Rica, 90 minutes from Liberia International Airport (LIR). We arrange all airport transfers. Clients regularly travel from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East.
-
A 90-day follow-up session is included at no additional cost. Many individuals also choose to return for a deeper experience or join our group retreat program to continue their growth within a supported community.
-
Safety is the foundation of every aspect of this work. We conduct thorough medical and psychological screening prior to acceptance. Our center has CPR-trained staff and AED equipment on-site. Your guide has over two decades of direct experience and has safely facilitated hundreds of intensive transformational processes.
-
This experience is designed for one individual. The center is exclusively yours during your stay. If a partner or companion wishes to pursue their own experience, we can discuss options separately.
What Happens Next
Request a confidential conversation
Private fit call with Faisal
If aligned, formal intake and screening begin
Medical and psychological review
Invitation, scheduling, and preparation
This experience serves one individual at a time.
If something on these pages resonated, it is worth a conversation.
All inquiries handled personally by Faisal Khattak.
Confidential. Personal. No obligation.