Date: Feb 10 – 17, 2018
Prices: Check our Rates and Reservations
Packages: We have a number of Yoga Retreats. Try our Yoga & Adventure, Yoga & Rejuvenation, Yoga & Surfing, or Pure Yoga. For more info check out our Anamaya Retreat Packages (ARP). Or for those who are not totally into yoga, there’s no need to choose a yoga package at all – you can book all your activities and excursions A La Carte. We call it the Relaxation Retreat.
We are also now offering a Scuba Certification and Yoga package to our guests.
Workshops: This week we have three special workshops for our guests. The first one is a Yin Yoga Workshop, the second is an Introduction to Meditation, and the third a Yoga Fundamentals Workshop. Please see more details below.
Guest Yoga Teacher Anna Hardwick
Anna is a passionate yogini and movement junkie, a Certified Interdisciplinary Yoga Teacher and Personal Trainer Specialist, teaching in studios, offices and homes across Toronto, Canada and internationally, since 2008. Her love of yoga began at the age of 13, when she attended a class with her entire family. She completed her Teacher Training in 2008 at The Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica, studying with Don and Amba Stapleton. She has continued her studies in Toronto with an advanced training in Yin Yoga, as well as prenatal, therapeutics and restorative yoga. Anna is passionate about the transformative potential of the practice, and is in awe at its ability to bring awareness, balance and peace to life. The relationship between creativity and yoga is integral to Anna’s practice, with her background as a performer. Anna creates a powerful, fluid, meditative experience in her classes, with an emphasis on breath, rhythm and creative sequencing. Guided by compassion, Anna inspires her students to live more present, fluid, and integrated lives.
Anna is overjoyed to return to the Anamaya community to teach her third retreat here, on her fifth visit to beautiful Costa Rica.
Anna’s Philosophy on Yoga
“Yoga for me is about coming home. My mat is my “home,” no matter where I am in the world. It allows me to check in with my self, return to balance, find my breath and re-calibrate my internal compass to my “True-North.” Yoga is my life-long practice and I am a life-long student – deepening, evolving, questioning, training, reading and mixing it up. I feel such gratitude that I am able to share this practice with others as a yoga teacher.”
Anna’s Intention for the Retreat
A Yin Yang Yoga Retreat to Uplift the Spirit
We will join together on this retreat to deepen our practice and open our hearts and uplift our spirits. At the root of the yoga practice is compassion, first and foremost for the self. A deep understanding and compassion for the self is the foundation for a free spirit and open heart. During this precious time of transformation, we will nourish our hearts in one of the most beautiful and light-filled places on earth.
Each day will begin with creatively sequenced morning classes in the Hatha and Vinyasa flow style, accessible to all levels. I will lead grounding meditations, offering us the opportunity for Svadhyaya, or deep reflection, on our experiences of the past year, creating space to cultivate awareness and equanimity for the coming months. In the early evening I will offer Yin Yoga classes, to help you wind down from your day in the surf. Yin Yoga is a slow, deep, transformative practice, encouraging awareness, integration and a sense of wholeness.
Most of all, we will have a lot of fun and soak up the sun and the Prana-filled environment of Costa Rica, connecting with our true hearts’ desires. I am honoured to join you on this week-long journey of self-inquiry.
Workshops
Introduction to Meditation Workshop:
Does the idea of sitting still for 10 minutes terrify you? Are you curious about meditation but don’t know where to start? Meditation is called The Path of the Warrior for a reason. It’s challenging and there are no quick fixes, but over time, it does provide clarity, integration and peace. Anna will share with you some ancient techniques, applicable in our busy modern lives. She will guide you through powerful Metta (Loving-Kindness) and Karuna (Compassion) meditations, from the Buddhist tradition. Breath-work (Pranayama) and visualizations will be incorporated. You will leave with the tools to begin your own meditation practice at home. 1 hour, $45
Yoga Fundamentals Workshop:
Can’t tell a Downward Dog from a Sleeping Swan? Are you intimidated by all the bendy people at yoga studios? Do you need a little refresher after taking a bit of a break from the practice? With a lighthearted approach, Anna will help to demystify yoga, offering a brief introduction to the philosophy and practice, and then guide you, step by step, through some of the basic poses and flows, emphasizing safe alignment. You’ll leave more confident to enjoy the retreat, and maybe even want to slap your mat down at the front of the next class! 1 hour, $35
***Two workshop package: $70
