7 Days Rainforest Yoga Holiday in Lake Arenal, Costa Rica

Facilities

Are you ready to deepen your yoga practice, transform your eating habits, and perception on life? Join Essence Arenal Boutique Hostel to learn being more mindful, relaxed, and enjoying every second of your life.

In this holiday, you will have Yin yoga and Vinyasa flow yoga sessions twice a day outdoors, with breathing techniques and guided meditation. During and after the retreat, you will become much more relaxed and less distracted by fleeting thoughts and you will be able to apply the newly learned skills in your everyday life.

There are hiking trails on this 22-hectare property farm and rain forest. You can even sign up for a relaxing massage in the Bamboo Spa after a magical hike. You will also have time for meditation, swimming, or anything you wish doing. You will even have a workshop where you learn the basics of designing your own practice. This experience will improve many aspects of your life as you will deepen your yoga practice.

You will get to go on a cacao tour and workshop in this holiday.

This retreat will be taking place in El Castillo, close to the Arenal Volcano and Lake Arenal area, Costa Rica. Costa Rica is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the east and south, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, and the Caribbean Sea to the east. Costa Rica is home to a rich variety of plants and animals.

El Castillo is a small neighboring village to La Fortuna, directly on Lake Arenal atop the hills overlooking Arenal volcano with 22 hectares of prime hilltop forested pristine land. With breathtaking views, the hostel takes pride in giving their guests an experience of a lifetime. From forest trails down to a majestic waterfall hidden in the rainforest, enjoying mystical free hot springs, horseback riding, and canopy tours, there is a rich amount of nature activities to experience at Essence Arenal.

During this retreat you will be served with three daily vegetarian meals with natural drinks and naturopathic teas depending on your detox needs. Essence Arenal Boutique Hostel's restaurant opens everyday at 7 a.m. for a delicious breakfast, coffee or tea, fruit plate and plate of the day. Essence Demo Cuisine is a vegetarian restaurant, with a basic central idea of cooking with love.

In this retreat, you will even have the chance to widen your culinary repertoire by trying delicious and healthy organic vegetarian and vegan dishes at this fairy tale like organic farm. The on-site restaurant will satisfy your hunger for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They even have dinner demo cuisines, that includes participating with the chef to learn about the unique international dishes with a vegetarian twist.

Sky trek

This canopy tour gives a stellar view of the volcano and lush rainforest of Lake Arenal. A silent gondola (the sky tram), slowly conveys visitors up above the canopy, and at the top, you can either take the tramt back down or fly down the zip lines.

Canopy Los Cañones

Based at the Hotel Los Lagos, it is one of the best values in the area with 12 zip lines, hot springs, crocodile pits, butterfly, and frog exhibition areas and hiking trails.

Canoa Aventura

Specialize in canoes and river floats trips lead by bilingual naturalist guides. Most tours are geared towards wildlife and bird watching, throughout the northern Costa Rican area.

Arenal Eco Zoo

The Eco Zoo offers guide tour and hands on reptile and amphibian demonstrations. The object of these shows is to educate and to increase knowledge and awareness of these animals, their positive roles in nature, and the need to preserve them.

Jeep Boat Jeep

It is one of the primary forms of transportation from Essence Arenal to Monteverde or Santa Elen, as it is incredibly scenic, reasonably priced, and saves you half day of travel.

Wave expeditions

It offers fun, professional white water rafting and kayaking on Rio Toro, Rio Sarapiqui Rio Peñas Blancas and Rio Balsa, rapid ranging from class I to class IV, for all skill levels.

Desafio

Go on Lost Canyon adventure canyonering. A guide will take you on a hike to an isolated area of the rainforest where you will rappel down four waterfalls, the highest one is 70 meters.

Horseback riding

Lilander Horse Tour is one of the best rides in the area. They will pick you up at Essence Arenal and take you up to the primary forest and you will be able to bathe in a hidden waterfall and witness spectacular view of Lake Arenal, the volcano and lush rain forest.

Waterfall

Essence Arenal's new jungle spa service is where you will be able to enjoy their personalized and professional services such as bamboo massage, sweat lodge (temazcal), mud wrap, and hydroptherapy at.

The spa is located in a privileged zone of the jungle, with a unique view to the Arenal volcano and lake, in the middle of a permaculture farm, where you will be able to find different plantations like cacao, coffee, sugar cane, corn, different vegetables, and a unique selection of medicinal herbs among others.

Additionally, you will also be able to enjoy a bath at the local hot thermal/spring river, with the transportation all paid by Essence Arenal Boutique Hostel.

• Daily 60-minute Vinyasa and Yin yoga class
• Daily personal hydrotherapy
• Paid transportation to the local hot thermal / spring river
• 60-minute massage
• 1 cacao tour and workshop
• 1 mud wrap
• 3 daily vegetarian meals or 6 functional detox smoothies a day
• 6 nights accommodation
• Tax and service charge

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• A reservation requires a deposit of 20% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
• The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.