COSTA RICA YOGA & RETREATS
Mystica is proud to host many Retreats in Costa Rica through the year, as well as offer classes with our own Registered Yoga Teachers. All Retreats can be customized based on leaders’ preferences to combine Yoga with Healing and Adventures, exploring a luscious beauty of Nature in Costa Rica.
One of Mystica’s jewels is ‘La Esencia’, the Yoga Sanctuary by the river. A spacious, covered, wooden platform embraced by the forest provides an unforgettable, natural ambience for Yoga practice, as well as offers an ideal space for purely relaxing, Costa Rican style hammock therapy.
During the busier months of the year, in addition to the hosted Yoga & Retreats schedules, we provide early morning Yoga classes with our resident skilled and compassionate Yoga Instructors, available for both the community and the guests. The style of Yoga we offer at Mystica is Hatha Flow – a blend of the traditional Yoga practice with a Vinyasa element, linking breath with movement. All levels of Yoga practitioners, as well as those new to Yoga, are welcome to come and breathe, stretch, and be inspired.
Our Staff Yoga Teachers and Healing Practitioners
Francesco Carullo
Francesco is co-owner of Mystica. He became a registered Yoga Teacher in 2004 after completing the 200-hour Teacher Training course with Don and Amba Stapleton in Nosara, Costa Rica. Francesco is a Reiki Master, a massage therapist, and also a practitioner of Pranassage, which is a yoga relaxation experience.
Lori Myles-Carullo
Lori practices integrative healing – combining her skills as a professional counsellor, Reiki master, Aromatherapy Health Practitioner, and Registered Yoga instructor. She completed a Master’s Degree in Transpersonal Psychology in 2007, and is also an author in the field of health and well-being. Lori teaches Yoga at La Esencia (Mystica’s Yoga Sanctuary by the river) and offers Massage, Reiki, and Psychotherapy sessions in the Tree of Life (Mystica’s healing tree room).
All our services are available to enhance the healing experience of Yoga Retreats hosted at Mystica. Please inquire about schedules and details.
COSTA RICA YOGA & RETREATS SCHEDULE
FEBRUARY 14 – 21, 2015
Into the Essence Costa Rican Yoga Retreat
with Lori Myles-Carullo
“Love is the Essence”
Give yourself the precious gift of a Yoga-based retreat week in Costa Rica’s luscious natural landscape, including Arenal Lake & Volcano and Sugar Beach on the Pacific Coast. Disconnect from everyday stresses and savor the awakenings that come from reconnecting with your Source. Your body, mind, and soul will thank you.
We will enjoy 5 nights at magical Mystica Lodge and the final 2 nights at Sugar Beach Hotel, with its beautiful open-air yoga space by the ocean. It will be a transformational and inspiring week in which to go deeper in your Yoga practice, regardless of your level of ability, and to explore personal growth and healing connected to your highest intentions, goals, and dreams.
Contact Lori at lorimyles@hotmail.com for all the detailed information and see you soon in Paradise!
FEBRUARY 28 – MARCH 7, 2015
Soul Awakening Retreat
with Tara Antler and King Gabriel
Join spiritual leaders & healers, Tara Antler and King Gabriel, on a beautiful, Soul Awakening journey that will elevate your life, strengthen higher self connection, and cultivate a deep feeling of inner joy. Create an AHmazing life filled with clarity, insight and awareness!
This week long retreat includes:
– Daily Yoga/Qi Gong, Meditation, and SOUL sessions
– Time to relax and tap into the creative energy of the Arenal Volcano
– Arenal Hanging Bridges hike followed by warm and healing Ecotermales Hot Springs
– Floating River Trip along the tranquil and beautiful Tenorio River
– A BEACH DAY!
Please contact Tara Antler at tara@tarahealingsanctuary.com for detailed information and to reserve your space today.
MARCH 13 – 20, 2015
Discover Your Sacred Self…Experience the Bliss of Being
Yoga and Transformational Retreat
with Ray Rolando, Intuitive, Transformational Coach & Energy Healer and Colby Rolando, 500 Hour Yoga Teacher
Embracing Costa Rica’s pure life, or “Pura Vida”, we will connect back to the peaceful simplicity of life and the Sacred Self that resides within. In a land of magical beauty, with conscious support and guidance from Ray and Colby, you can retreat into your true essence and be filled with an expansive light powerful enough to transform your life. Mystica’s jewel is ‘La Esencia’, the Yoga Sanctuary by the river, where Colby will host daily yoga, meditation and philosophy. In addition, Ray will lead Morning Manifestations and PM Perspective circles, and facilitates his highly regarded inspirational playshops. We will also be adventuring to beautiful hot springs and waterfalls. Come with us and learn how to experience and express your life from your Sacred Self’s truth and bliss!
We are very excited that this will be our third time returning to Mystica and would love to have you join us! Please contact Colby for more Information and all details (colby@oceansofcalm.com), and you can read more about Ray and Oceans Of Calm at www.oceansofcalm.com
Namaste and See You There!
MARCH 20 – 27, 2015
Vibrant, Awesome You!
With Jane Durst Pulkys
What would you do if you felt nothing was holding you back from living your dreams and being the best you can be? In this week long retreat you will partake in a full mind-body health and wellness revamp. You will leave with a new understanding of your personal health makeup as well as cutting edge tools to grow to a whole new level. Take a dive into realizing why you feel the way you do, and begin to see the light to an amazing life.
You will discover something incredible about yourself and start to live the life you were born to live.
You can control your happiness and your health. This retreat will show you how.
During this retreat, you will enjoy the first 5 nights at magical Mystica Lodge in the Arenal lake and volcano region, and the final 2 nights at beautiful Sugar Beach Hotel on the Pacific Coast. The week includes daily yoga & meditation, five health and wellness conferences, a jungle hike on suspended bridges near the volcano followed by healing hot springs, one lymphatic drainage massage or Reiki session, and a purifying infrared sauna.
Please contact Jane at jane@creativehealth.ca or 416-529-6326 for all details and to guarantee your spot. Visit Jane’s site for full retreat details
APRIL 6 – 13, 2015
Days Road Writers’ Workshop Presents:
Mystica Writing & Yoga Retreat
with editor and instructor Allyson Latta
Escape winter and immerse yourself in writing at charming Mystica Lodge, set against the backdrop of majestic Arenal Volcano and Costa Rica’s largest lake.
Enjoy guided writing workshops and exercises, solitary writing time, a private half-hour consult with Allyson on a work-in-progress, group reading salons, and inspiring discussion with other writers. Optional yoga practices, suitable for beginners, will relax and restore your body and feed your creative spirit. Excursions include a trip to Eco Thermales hot spring.
Join us for this intimate travel and writing experience as we explore the central highlands’ scenery, culture, and cuisine.
Open to writers of all levels interested in fiction, memoir, or creative nonfiction. For a Retreat Guide with details and rates, email lattamemoirs@gmail.com. Applicants will be asked to submit a short (max. 500 words) writing sample.
An award-winning editor of literary fiction and creative nonfiction, Allyson is also an instructor at University of Toronto and has led writers retreats in her native Canada, the U.S., Chile, Grenada, and Costa Rica. Find out more on her website for writers: www.allysonlatta.com