Pura Vida Retreat

The Epic Experience

In Tamarindo, Costa Rica

• SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2025 - SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2025

A one-of-a-kind pura vida retreat! You can expect 2025 to offer the same soul-fueling fun but enhancements to keep it fresh!

Join us for an immersive experience in nature where we will vinyasa to the sounds of birds and monkeys, create new friendships and perspectives, and be healed and rejuvenated by sun, sand, and movement. It’s time to unplug, lean into community, and treat yourself to an unforgettable experience.

We’ve added an extra day & night as well as a cultural experience, sunset meditation, sunrise hike & more!

What past retreaters are saying…

“When I booked my spot for the Costa Rica Pura Vida Retreat, I was looking for a reset and a way to get away from the city and come home feeling healthy, refreshed & restored! This retreat did all that AND MUCH MORE. I instantly felt a sense of community and connection to the other participants and left with new friends and a love for a country (and its people) that I had never visited before! Couldn’t recommend enough - I will also say that the quality and instruction of yoga is top tier!!”

What’s Included

• 6 Nights/7 days (you heard that right, we’ve added a day for more fun!) of accommodations in a Pura Vida lifestyle cabina at El Sabanero with air conditioning and hot water
• 2-3 Vegetarian meals each day and a morning snack & coffee before yoga
• 1-2 Yoga classes/workshops per day with Krysta-Lyn and Sheila Anne. Some offerings include:
• Sacral awakening Buti yoga class
• Ocean of Love Group Reiki healing session
• Backbend and/or arm balance workshop
• Sunrise hike
• Daily journal prompts
• Beach sunset guided meditation
• Fire ceremony
• 1 Cultural experience (think dance class or local farm tour, you just never know!)
• 2 - 3 Beach days (by shuttle) and/or hang by the pool
• Virtual community sessions before and after the retreat
• Expert, heart-felt facilitation from Krysta-Lyn and Sheila Anne, supporting you wherever you are in your journey
• LIFE LONG COMMUNITY & FRIENDSHIP - there is a reason why our retreaters come back year after year!
• Transportation to/from Liberia airport (if you arrive within a window/time frame that will be provided closer to trip for group transport)
• Transportation to Tamarindo’s Local Night Market (food, art and dancing!)
• All tips for El Sabanero Staff
• Access to private yoga shala to use own your own as you wish

What’s Not Included

• Airfare
• Optional excursions - Such as the Adventure Tour (zip lining, water rafting, mud baths/hot spring and horseback riding), Catamaran tour, surf lessons, cacao farm tour, poolside boudoir with the one and only Katie Karlberg.
• Optional massage and other healing services that you can book once you arrive
• Community Sunset Dinner

Example day

• 6:30 AM - Wake up and enjoy coffee & fresh fruit
• 7:30 AM - Morning yoga class in the beautiful yoga shala & guided journaling
• 8:30 AM - Full Costa Rican breakfast
• 10:00 AM - Shuttle to the beach or hang by the pool
• 1:30 PM - Return back to the retreat center and have lunch
• 2:30 PM - Enjoy the pool, go for a walk, get a massage on site
• 5:00 PM - Evening yoga class
• 6:30 PM - Group dinner

Spend the evening talking with your new friends, journaling, or going for a night swim and go to bed with a full heart.

Disclosure: this is a Pura Vida Lifestyle Retreat and we are staying in the jungle in Costa Rica - there are bugs, creatures, & the beds aren’t luxe & plush, but the cabinas are part of the cultural experience. This is a full immersion into the lifestyle. If that lifestyle doesn’t suit you, we get it and want to be fully transparent!

More Love From Past Retreaters

“Transformative. Magical. Extraordinary. These are just a few of the words that come to mind when I think of the truly one-of-a-kind week I spent with Sheila, Krysta-Lyn and all my new friends at the Pura Vida Retreat. Whether you’re looking for a yoga retreat to deepen your practice, a place to heal and grow, an opportunity to make new connections and relationships, or soak up the sunshine - this retreat is for you. You’ll do all of that and BEYOND. You’ll discover new parts of yourself, you’ll experience the people, food and Pura Vida lifestyle of Costa Rica and you’ll be enchanted by the coastline and sunrises/sunsets. It was such a life-changing experience for myself and many others - I can’t wait to join this retreat again in 2025!!!!”

“I was a return retreater and the experience felt just as magical! The trip is flexible so that you are able to make it exactly what you need/want it to be.”

“Don’t hesitate, just do it! Do it for yourself; Trust me, you won’t regret it. I’ve gone on the Pura Vida retreat twice now and have loved every second of both years. Not only do I get to check in with myself and fill my cup, but I also get to connect with amazing people and build my community. The best way to explain it was my first year at the retreat helped me figure out where I want to be and what path(s) I need to begin to get there, and year 2 allowed me to stop from the craziness and check in with myself; make sure I was still on the path I wanted and was doing the right things for myself and my journey. Can’t forget the amazing leaders Sheila and Krysta-Lyn! They have created an amazing, fun, warming and welcoming safe space for us to all enjoy and be comfortable with getting vulnerable together.”

“When I booked my spot for the Costa Rica Pura Vida Retreat, I was looking for a reset and a a way to get away from the city and come home feeling healthy, refreshed & restored! This retreat did all that AND MUCH MORE. I instantly felt a sense of community and connection to the other participants and left with new friends and a love for a country (and its people) that I had never visited before! Couldn’t recommend enough - I will also say that the quality and instruction of yoga is top tier!!”

“This retreat was incredible. I got more than I could have possibly imagined from it - physically, mentally, spiritually. Just go it’s the best way to pause, reset & focus.”

El Sabanero Eco-Lodge & Costa Rica

El Sabanero Eco-Lodge is located within the Nicoya Peninsula, a Blue Zone! A Blue Zone is a place where the number of people that live to 100 is up to 10 times higher than the rest of the world. Other Blue Zones include places like Okinawa, Japan and Ikaria, Greece. El Sabanero is a 10 min drive to Tamarindo Beach Resort and only 15 min from world-class surf spots such as Avellanas Beach, Playa Negra and Playa Grande.

Krysta-Lyn arrived to El Sabanero in 2019 as a student and returned in 2020 as a yoga instructor being able to live and breathe its magic for an entire month. El Sabanero is a family, a safe space and a home for yogis around the world. It’s a true honor to share this special place with our community members.

This will be our third time hosting a retreat at El Sabanero and over the past couple of years it’s become home. We ask you to treat the staff, animals, and property with respect, and that it becomes a home for you too.

Meet Your Guides For The Week

Krysta-Lyn of Radiate Wellness

Krysta-Lyn found refuge in the combination of yoga, counseling and community after the loss of her mother in 2013. Overcome by the immense sense of peace yoga could provide, she immersed herself in her practice learning that life truly exists between the inhale and exhale. Krysta-Lyn sought to share her passion and received her 200 hour yoga teacher certification from South Boston Yoga in 2018. In 2019 she left the world of finance to seek a healthy, balanced career and life of healing. She earned a Reiki Masters Certification and a Masters of Science in Mental Health Counseling in May 2022. Her dearest friends call her their sunshine and she hopes to help others find what makes them radiate!

Sheila Anne of Sheila Anne Coaching + Wellness

Sheila visited Costa Rica for the first time in 2014 (where she also connected with long lost family!) and each time she returns feels like a special homecoming. Her favorite part of the annual retreat is getting to know individuals on a deeper level and experiencing transformational practices together like those from guest yoga teachers and time spent out in nature! Sheila received her 200 hour yoga teacher certification with Krysta-Lyn at South Boston Yoga. She actually missed the first certification weekend for her mother’s funeral service, so the training came at a potent time of healing and self evolution. She and Krysta-Lyn were meant to connect and collaborate due to their shared pasts and future goals! Sheila became an ICF Professional Certified Coach and works with individuals, groups, and businesses. In the last few years, she has added Buti Yoga and Reiki energy healing into her repertoire. She believes that when we come home to ourselves we transform our lives.

Investment

• SOLD OUT Single Cabina: $2600 (or 2 payments of $1150 after deposit) - room has one queen bed
• SOLD OUT Double Cabina: $2200 (or 2 payments of $950 after deposit) - bring friends or meet a new life long friend. Room has one queen bed and one twin bed.
• Triple Cabina (2 rooms left): $2050 (or 2 payments of $875 after deposit) - room has three twin beds.

All options are non refundable and non transferable.

Reserve Your Spot With A $500 Deposit

• Venmo/Paypal after making your payment, click here so we can capture your information
• Square pay to pay with credit card +$9 fee

When paying, note which Cabina option you prefer. The remainder of your balance will be due no later than December 1, 2024, we will send out payment details over time. Balances are to be paid via Venmo/Paypal and/or with credit card via Square Pay +3% fee.

All deposits and payments are non-refundable and non-transferable. Unexpected events do occur, so please consider purchasing travel insurance. It is your responsibility to read and understand our cancellation policies. Exceptions cannot be made for any reason, including weather, injury/illness, or personal emergencies. No refunds or credits for failure to attend or failure to complete the retreat, or for arriving late or leaving early. We reserve the right to cancel retreats with inadequate participant interest, in which case all money paid will be refunded. Please also consider: all itineraries are subject to change due to weather, excursions and delays.

Land Acknowledgement

Per the Smithsonian:

“Land acknowledgment is a traditional custom that dates back centuries in many Native nations and communities. Today, land acknowledgments are used by Native Peoples and non-Natives to recognize Indigenous Peoples who are the original stewards of the lands on which we now live.”

This retreat takes place in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica, the unceded territory called Matambú of the Chorotega people. Chorotega translates to “The Fleeing People,” representing the history of Chorotegas fleeing Mexico for Costa Rica in AD 500 to escape slavery. You can learn more here.