Costa Rica Yoga Retreat

Goddess Garden on the Caribbean

March 15-24 , 2013

Pura vida!  Come visit the amazing, wild, and wonderful Caribbean side of Costa Rica. After three years on the Pacific coast, this year we will move our yoga retreat to the less touristy Caribbean side.  We will hold our yoga retreat at the beautiful Goddess Garden (see below), but we will also have a relaxing first and last night of the trip at the lovely Adventure Inn, about 10 minutes from San Jose airport.

Activities and Schedule:   We will have morning and sunset yoga, healing workshops, 2012 Shift update, swimming (ocean or pool), hikes, wildlife sighting and photography, snorkeling, and other options such as zip line ride, indigenous village visit, sloth sanctuary visit, massage (great massage!), river rafting, and much more (see activities below).

Wildlife: We will probably see howler monkeys, white face monkeys, two toed and three toed sloths, various colorful frogs, morpho butterflies, coatimundi, aguti, toucan, iguana, and other amazing birds and critters.

Goddess Garden will be our home for 7 of the 9 nights. Goddess Garden sits right in the middle of a wonderful rainforest. The biggest tree in the area, a 340 year old "Sangrillo," grows within sight of the yoga facility, where we will see monkeys and sloths right from where we do our yoga.  There is also another good yoga deck, a pristine swimming pool, and very nice, good sized rooms with private baths. The place where we eat is elevated, also sitting right in the middle of the rainforest, where the prana is very healing. The Caribbean beach is only a five minute walk away, and the town of Cahuita sits three miles south of the Goddess Garden.

Roy Holman and Deirdre Wilcox are both 500 hour certified in the viniyoga tradition, and teach a heartfelt, breath connected, meditation in motion. Please see the instructor page for more info on each teacher. We welcome Deirdre back from her challenging recovery from Breast Cancer. May this retreat be healing and nourishing for her recovery, so she can continue to share her healing gifts. $100 will be donated to Deirdre’s recovery fund for every person who signs up for this retreat.

The prices below include 9 nights hotel, all meals for the 8 days (3 meals a day at the Goddess Garden, breakfast at the Adventure Inn, and ,two additional meals out), taxis and shuttles to and from the airport, and to the Goddess Garden, and a Cahuita National Park hike and beach day.

Yoga retreat prices are as follows (per person):

Double room                - $1,450

Triple room                   - $1,350

Dorm room (6 max)    - $1,250

Single room                  - $1,850 (if available)

Note: Please let me know if you wish me to help you purchase your flights for you (no extra fee). If you do your own, plan on arriving Friday afternoon or so, March 15, and most of us will leave Sunday morning, March 24.

Make deposit of $300 * (plus 3% paypal fee)   Double: $1450 * (plus 3% paypal fee)   Triple: $1350 * (plus 3% paypal fee) * To finish the registration process please complete and mail the Registration Form. Pay pal payments will incur a 3% processing fee that is added to the purchase price.

Some of the extra activity options (prices are per person, and may vary slightly):

SNORKLING IN CAHUITA ($30), MANZANILLO BEACH & WILDLIFE RESERVE ($35), CAHUITA NATIONAL PARK BEACH (Included in your package), AVIARIOS DEL CARIBE -SLOTH CENTER ($25), DOLPHIN WATCHING IN MANZANILLO ($50), SHAMAN MEDICINAL TALK & CONSULTATION ($30), CAHUITA BUTTERFLY GARDEN ($10), PACUARE WHITE WATER RAFTING ($95), BOCUARE JUNGLE ADVENTURE TOUR ($50), HORSEBACK RIDING AT THE BEACH ($45 minimum fee, for 2 hours), KAYAKING IN CAHUITA NATIONAL PARK ($35 for 3 hours), WATERFALL TREKKING ($45), RAIN FOREST CANOPY (ZIP LINE) ADVENTURE ($65), SURFING LESSONS ($60 for 2 hours), YORKIN INDIGENOUS RESERVE ($55), TREE OF LIFE WILDLIFE RESERVE ($12). 

Just so you know . . . since we are in the rainforest, even though this is the dry season, we may see some rain. Also, rainforests have mosquitoes, so remember that what you resist persists!  We can practice non attachment and non aversion, while visualizing bug-free surroundings and glorious sunshine! Last year we had no bugs and lots of sunshine.

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