Bhakti Holiday Yoga Retreat w/ Stacey & Bryn at Blue Spirit Retreat in COSTA RICA

Saturday December 19^th – Saturday December 26^th, 2009

Give yourself the best gift and close out 2009 with a journey to Costa Rica, voted the happiest place on earth, for a SUN, OCEAN, NATURE & CELEBRATION SOAKED Yoga Retreat. We are so excited to share this holiday season with our yoga family! This retreat is open to all levels of practice & even family members who don’t practice yoga are welcome to enjoy the company, beach, pool, sun, sand, and food!

Price includes:

• 7 nights accommodation
• 3 organic gourmet meals a day
• 2 daily Yoga sessions with Stacey & Bryn
• Several evening Kirtan sessions with Bryn, Stacey & friends
• special Christmas Day Party
• beach access
• natural salt water infinity swimming pool
• library use
• WiFi

(Airfare Not included)

About Blue Spirit Retreat:
Located in Nosara on the northwest coast of Costa Rica, Blue Spirit Retreat is remote yet accessible. Perched on a peninsula overlooking the Pacific Ocean and a three-mile long white sand beach that is protected as a turtle refuge – Blue Spirit Retreat offers an extraordinarily beautiful and natural setting on one of Costa Rica’s finest beaches. Once you arrive, you will find yourself worlds away in a region renowned for its spectacular scenery, excellent restaurants, local cultural events, and an international community that gives the region a vibrantly creative and peaceful atmosphere – a combination you won’t find anywhere else in Costa Rica or perhaps the entire Western hemisphere. More info hare: http://www.bluespiritcostarica.com/blue-spirit-retreat

Blue Spirit Retreat’s largest classroom is the 3,000 square-foot Yoga Pavilion. It has sustainably harvested sprung wooden floors and is built in a Balinese style, offering breathtaking ocean and mountains views in all directions.

Blue Spirit Retreat offers a variety of massage and bodywork to complement the day’s activities (Not included in price)

There is also a café-lounge offering organic wine and beer along with freshly baked goods, raw food treats, natural fruit juices, locally made natural ice cream and fruit sorbets, and cappuccino and espresso (any food or beverage that is not offered at mealtime is not included in price). The café-lounge is adjacent to the library, which is ideal for reading, quiet conversations, and late night gatherings with friends.

Nosara is known as one of the top surfing destinations in the world. In your free time, you can take surfing lessons, horseback ride, or take a zip line through one of the most amazing jungle canopies! If you choose to spend your free time at Blue Spirit Resort, you will be able to swin in the natural salt water infinity pool, relax in a hot tub, have a massage, or simply find a cozy spot to read your book and have an afternoon nap or meditate.

Weather in Costa Rica:
We will be in Nosara during the winter, when it is always sunny, clear and warm during the day (with an average temperature around 80F), cooling down during the evening, though comfortably warm (around 70F).

Transportation to Blue Spirit:

There are two international airports in Costa Rica.

1. You can fly to Liberia International Airport (LIR), which has frequent flights from all over the United States. American Airlines, Continental, United, Delta, and others fly through their hubs, and there are also nonstop flights from international airports in the Northeast and West Coast of the United States. It is then a two-hour Shuttle drive from the airport to Blue Spirit Retreat.
2. You can also fly to Costa Rica’s capital city, San Jose (SJO). From San Jose you can fly further on directly to Nosara with Sansa Airlines (35–minute flight). For schedules and fares visit www.flysansa.com. You also can book a flight with Nature Air (www.natureair.com), although you will need to take a 20 minute taxi ride to change to the Pavas Airport. If you can get a very early flight to San Jose, you should be able to make a flight to Nosara in the same day. If you arrive too late in the day, you would need to stay one night in San Jose and then fly to Nosara the next day. Please note: Sansa Airlines can change or cancel their scheduled flights easily, if the weather conditions are considered precarious for their propeller planes (too windy, i.e.). With both airlines we recommend for your homebound traveling to plan for ample connection time, so that you don’t miss your departing international flight.
   

You may also take a shuttle arranged by Blue Spirit from the San Jose airport which is approximately a 5 hour drive.

You may arrange to take the Blue Spirit Shuttle from either Liberia International Airport (LIR) or the San Jose Airport (SJO). If you arrive and depart on our retreat dates (December 19th and 26th), the shuttle options are as follows:

From LIR – 2pm, or 9:30pm $50 per person

From SJO – 2pm $80 per person

If you are arriving on different dates or would like a different pick up time, you can arrange for a separate shuttle with Blue Spirit but the rates will be higher. Once you book your flights, we will send you a shuttle request form that you will fill out and send back.

If you fly into Nosara, you will just take your own taxi ride which costs $20.

Book your flights NOW so that you can get the best airfares!

Room Types and Prices (must have JavaScript enabled):

Non-refundable deposits of $600 are due by Oct 15th, with the remainder due by Nov 15th. After October 15th, we can only accept full payments. There are no refunds available after November 15th.