“ME” Week

Relax, Release, Indulge!

Experience the ultimate gift, giving yourself exactly what you need. We’ll offer you the space and the support to create the week that you need. Engage in what you’d like, leave the rest. Have an active week of adventure experiences or have a week of deep relaxation. Have time to yourself or join in with a wonderful group of women for activity and connection. Sleep in, head out on an adventure, or join us for morning meditation and vinyasa practice.

Late afternoon, we’ll return to the wind-kissed shala for a “restorative” practice.

Or perhaps you’d prefer to read by the pool, play in the waves, explore the beach…In the evening, come together to share the bounty of Blue Osa’s cuisine and share your day with others.

It’s your time.

Mar, 16 — Mar, 23 | $2190

About Your Yoga Instructors:

Annie Runkle

I came to yoga in my late 30’s in 2000 for physical reasons. I continued on and started teaching for the more profound effects. This stuff is magic. It’s soul salve. It’s the balm that finally calmed my Beast. I completed my 200-hour TT with Jennifer Elliott and Sandra Pleasants in 2005. I completed a 300-hour Yoga Therapy Training with Inner Peace Yoga Therapy in 2011. I am a 500 RYT and CT. Along the way, I have taken many workshops with many shiny souls. My classes are creative, playful, and inclusive. If you are breathing intentionally and moving mindfully with amazement, all will be well! Oh, and there is music, too.

MaryLewis Meador

I fell hard for yoga at first class—the space it creates in my mind and in my body, and the lovely peace that lingers beyond the mat. A 500-hour RYT and CYT, I completed my 200-hour TT with Jennifer Elliott and Sandra Pleasants in 2004 and a 300-hour Yoga Therapy Training with Inner Peace Yoga Therapy in 2011. There have been many enlightening workshops, classes, students, and teachers. My classes are flow-based, with modifications and challenges appropriate for all levels. My aim is to help others find joy, freedom, peace, and fun in yoga.

What's Included

Blue Osa Dessert | Blue Osa

Meals

Three delicious farm-to-table meals per day using homegrown, organic ingredients, plus snacks and more to keep you energized and satisfied the whole week long.

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Accommodations

Intentionally designed beachfront eco-friendly rooms with ocean views and the use of the 25-meter pool.

Take a flight to the osa peninsula || Blue Osa Yoga Retreat || Skyway

Transportation

Airport transfer from Puerto Jimenez to Blue Osa and return taxes.

More about getting to Blue Osa

Yoga

Daily yoga classes and yoga props including mats, blocks and straps.

Also included:

• Morning meditation
• morning and afternoon yoga asana practice
• 1/2 Day Matapalo Hike
• Early morning Hike
• Tapas + Sangria night
• $50 spa credit

Teaching methodology + practicum

  • Learn how to lead and market successful yoga retreats

  • Learn the principles of demonstration, observation, assisting/correcting, and instruction.

  • Learn different teaching styles.

  • You’ll learn specific techniques that will enable you to easily teach all levels

  • You’ll also learn how to sequence your asanas to create a natural, therapeutic and transformative arcs in your classes

  • Learn the qualities of effective teaching

  • Learn the business aspects of being a yoga teacher and gain the building blocks of how to build a thriving yoga career

Development of the Professional Essentials

History, Philosophy + Ethics

  • Identify your spiritual stance so you can step into it as a source of strength
  • Identify walls and develop strategies to take them down
  • Create a support network and support strategies and have them in place when you leave
  • Complete a physical and spiritual adventure challenge
  • Learn the business aspects of building a thriving yoga career
  • How to bring the practice of yoga into your everyday life and make it work for you
  • The science and application of mantra
  • An overview of the history of the yoga tradition
  • The ethical standards of teaching yoga

Yoga Humanities

Applied Yoga Anatomy + Muscle Activation™

  • Receive training in Applied Yoga Anatomy + Muscle Activation™ training for Yoga Teachers
  • Go further in your anatomy training
  • Learn how to access muscle function
  • How to sequence transformational yoga classes
  • Learn the energetic and deeper sublime effects of asana
  • The science and application of Mantra
  • Design classes based on Ayurvedic principles
  • Knowledge of both human physical anatomy and physiology (bodily systems, organs, etc.) and energy anatomy and physiology (chakras, nadis, etc.).

Anatomy & Physiology

Techniques, Training and Practice

  • A breakdown in the anatomical and energetic categories of postures
  • Develop a daily meditation practice
  • Learn pranayamas, kriyas, chanting, mantra, meditation, and other traditional yoga techniques
  • How to sequence and structure transformational 60 and 90-minute classes
  • Practical experience teaching postures, classes, and meditation
  • Learn deep relaxation techniques
  • Yoga Nidra, as taught by the Himalayan tradition and Western tradition
  • Learn how to conduct and lead fire rituals
  • Kundalini Yoga techniques
  • Learn the subtle energetic aspects of yoga like the Koshas and chakras
  • Kriya Yoga and Laya Yoga

Advance Your Own Practice in Yoga

Techniques, Training and Practice

  • A breakdown in the anatomical and energetic categories of postures
  • Develop a daily meditation practice
  • Learn techniques in pranayamas, kriyas, chanting, mantra, meditation, and other traditional yoga techniques
  • How to structure and sequence transformational classes
  • Practical experience in teaching postures, sequencing, and meditation
  • Learn deep relaxation and meditation techniques that come from the Himalayan tradition

Develop a Rock Solid Practice in Yoga

Applied Yoga Anatomy + Muscle Activation™

  • Receive training in Applied Yoga Anatomy + Muscle Activation™ training for Yoga Teachers
  • Develop an understanding of basic anatomy
  • Learn about muscle function and how to improve it (something you will not learn in any other YTT)
  • Knowledge of both human physical anatomy and physiology (bodily systems, organs, etc.) and energy anatomy and physiology (chakras, nadis, etc.)
  • The study of both the subject and application of its principles to yoga practice (benefits, contraindications, healthy movement patterns)
  • Skills to teach yoga classes suited to all levels of practice.

Anatomy & Physiology

History, Philosophy + Ethics

  • An in-depth study and application of the Yoga Sutra
  • How to bring the practice of yoga into your everyday life and make it work for you
  • The science and application of mantra
  • An overview of the history of the yoga tradition
  • The ethical standards of teaching yoga

Yoga Humanities

Teaching methodology + practicum

Get hands-on practice teaching so that you’ll be able to teach on day one after the training is finished. You will:

  • Practice teaching in small and large groups

  • Be ready to teach yoga as soon as you leave the yoga teacher training

  • Get hands-on experience teaching and give/receive feedback

  • Practice assisting students

  • Learn the principles of demonstration, observation, assisting/correcting and instruction

  • Learn different teaching styles

  • Learn qualities of effective teaching and adjust to the student’s process of learning

  • Learn the business aspects of how to build a thriving yoga career

Development of the Professional Essentials