- January 15-21 & January 21-27
- March 3-9 & March 9-15
- June 3-9 & June 9-15
A once in a lifetime opportunity to heal yourself and learn to listen to your body while you practice two yoga classes a day, learn to surf, swing through the jungle, hike with the monkeys, receive healing and rejuvenating spa treatments, eat incredible vegetarian cusine, and so much more. This natural tropical environment has positive healing energy and wildlife surrounding you right on the white sandy beach in Costa Rica. Your morning Vinyasa flow classes will awaken your senses, energize your mind, and strengthen your body. Your evening classes will be a restorative class where we will teach you about the Chakras “energy centers” in your body. We will hold poses for longer periods of time, and open the specific Chakra for that day. You will feel something you have never felt before. It gets better! We will send you home with a workbook with everything we teach you during the week so you can take your experience home with you and practice it in your everyday life! This magical land is where Wendy and Lucy will guide you through a yogic and adventure journey designed to awaken your mind, cultivate self-awareness, create strength, rejuvenate your body, and find perfect balance.Restorative Yoga
Restorative yoga might best described as a supported, conscious body/mind relaxation practice. When supported with props, the body relaxes and opens, releasing tension and stored-up toxins that can cause illness. Restorative poses offer benefits to both the body and mind, for conditions ranging from insomnia to asthma to chronic pain to migraines to depression.
Chest-opening poses, for example, encourage breath and prana (energy) to flow through the entire body. Forward bends gently lengthen all the muscles of the back body. Done in sequence, a restorative yoga practice will bring your whole body into a deeply relaxed state, and allow your mind to become quiet and reflective, with your mental, psychological, and emotional bodies in blissful balance.
Vinyasa Yoga
Vinyasa, also known as Flow Yoga, is a word that can be broken down into its Sanskrit roots to assist us in finding its meaning. Nyasa means “to place” and vi means “in a special way”. Deeper esoteric interpretations reveal the core meaning of Vinyasa as “progressive steps towards enlightenment.” A Vinyasa Yoga practice is a profound breath to body linking mechanism, that will gradually unlock your body helping you achieve a peak Yoga posture that you never thought was possible for you. Linking the breath with the body in this way achieves a fierce mind that allows you to trust your body and safely push it where it hasn’t gone before. Vinyasa Yoga will help you build a closer connection with your body, and leave you feeling strong and in control.
Chakras
The human body contains hundreds of locations where there is focused and concentrated energy. There are, however, seven major energy centers, commonly referred to as “chakras.” Chakra is a Sanskrit word which means “wheel.”
The chakras are similar to wheels in that are spinning vortexes of energy. They are centers of force located within our etheric body, through which we receive, transmit, and process life energies. Each chakra in the body is recognized as a focal point for life-force relating to spiritual, physical, emotional, and mental energies. The chakras are the network through which the mind, body, and spirit interact on a holistic system. The seven major chakras correspond to specific aspects of our consciousness and have their own individual characteristics and functions. Each has a corresponding relationship to one of the various glands of the body’s endocrine system, as well as to one of the seven colors of the rainbow spectrum. The main purpose in working with and understanding the chakras is to create integration and wholeness within ourselves. In this way we bring the various aspects of our consciousness from the physical to the spiritual, into a harmonious relationship.
How do we combine the three?
We will begin each morning with a dynamic Vinyasa yoga class designed to awaken your body, mind and senses using the breath. Learn how to cultivate self- awareness, promote circulation, create strength, and achieve balance that will inspire you to “play with your edge.”
Our evening class will begin with guided meditation and blissful restorative yoga to melt layers of stress, soothe the nervous system, clear the mind, and lift the spirit.
Each day in both classes we will focus and learn about a new chakra in the body. You will learn where it is, how to awaken it, how to feel it, postures that open its energy from within, and possibly feel something you have never felt before.
Your Teachers
Wendy
I began practicing and fell in love with yoga in the spring of 1995. My journey began as a Bikram Yoga student, which I continued to practice for many years. After moving to San Diego in 1998, I began practicing Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Hatha, and Iyengar yoga as well as exploring the many benefits of pranayama & meditation. I started to notice many changes happening within myself, not only physically but mentally and spiritually as well. Yoga was changing my life & all I wanted to do was learn more about this amazing lifestyle and philosophy. I completed a 200 hour Yoga Alliance certified program focusing on Power Vinyasa Yoga in San Diego. This experience is what inspired me to become a teacher.
For the past 6 years of my life I have been traveling the world to learn more about myself, more from other incredible teacher’s and to live the life of a “yogi.” I have integrated the teachings and various traditions I have learned and experienced along the way into my own classes to make the practice & understanding of “living yoga” accessible to all.
As the manager of International Yoga pavilions, I have taught classes and retreats in San Diego, Guam, Thailand, Morocco, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.
This has brought to my life a positively serene consciousness that I intend to expand & spread to others!
I like to encourage my students to flow with their breath, open their heart, live in the present moment, & relax the mind. I truly love teaching, seeing the transformations my students experience and hope to inspire others through-out my life long journey.
Lucy
I have been practicing yoga for 8 years, and was originally inspired to find peace of mind. The extensive benefits of practicing yoga, including strength and flexibility, have helped me remain dedicated. The practices of yoga including Meditation and Pranayama, have furthered my personal practice and the step to becoming a yoga teacher seemed a natural progression.
I chose to train in Flow Yoga, a dynamic approach designed to work with the breath, moving through the postures, calming the mind and strengthening the body, providing a demanding yet rewarding class. As my journey of yoga has continued, I have trained and taught Restorative Yoga as well.
A strong, still, yet effective style of holding the postures for up to ten minutes, in order to let the muscles relax into their position, allowing the mind to become reflective and the body to detox. I like to include Pranayama in my classes, the art of breath awareness and control, to harness energy. This is essential in all yoga practice but ideal for the less-abled which welcomes mindfulness into the body.
I’m currently teaching classes in Eastbourne, on the UKs south coast, where there is always a positive vibration and energy surrounding me, I believe a combination of Flow Yoga and Restorative Yoga bring a inner & outer balance to the practitioner. I now have taught in the magical countries of Morocco, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica which has allowed me to fully dive into the flowing water element of yoga where I combine yoga, surfing, and adventure.
My colleagues have described me as “an inspirational and experienced teacher who will guide you through yoga classes in a variety of styles suitable for all levels.” I look forward to getting to know to you soon.