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22 Day 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training & Healing with Horses in Caribbean, Costa Rica
Kindred Spirits, Caribe Colorado, Calle Ole Caribe, Cocles, Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica
200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Costa Rica Jungle, Beach and Horses
Introducing Kindred Spirits holistic wellness center. A unique yoga teacher training to discover yourself and live the full experience of a yogi. The first and only YTT to bring the noble spirit of the horse into the classes. Surrounded by the jungle, living in harmony with nature. Begin your path of self-realization through the practice of yoga, and learn skills to heal, and reconnect with your inner self. The herd of horses love to join in meditations and the surrounding jungle provides peaceful beautiful spots to expand your awareness, helping you to reconnect with your authentic self and to Mother Earth. Learn and understand the importance of Karma duty by sharing with others, how to "Save the Soil" from the teaching of Sadhguru.
Meet the instructors
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Highlights
- Discovering your true authentic self
- Living in the jungle on an organic permaculture farm with medicinal plants
- Yoga classes surrounded by the howling of monkeys and tropical birds
- Environment awareness practices and Karma service
- Sunrise and sunset yoga classes on the beach
- Close to the beautiful Caribbean beaches
- 21 nights' accommodation
- Daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Yoga styles
20 days with instruction in English
The organizer also speaks: French, Spanish
Group size: 4-12 participants
Airport transfer available:
Limón International Airport (US$ 85 per person)
Limón International Airport (US$ 85 per person)
Airport transfer available:
Juan Santamaría International Airport (US$ 65 per person)
Juan Santamaría International Airport (US$ 65 per person)
Accommodation
Check-in Time:
14:00
Facilities
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Meditation garden
- Terrace
- Yoga deck
- Yoga shala
- Bicycle rental
- Laundry
In a natural, peaceful setting, Kindred Spirits combine workshops with the relaxation practices of yoga, meditation, and massage. What they offer is a learning experience, a moment of peace to rediscover one's true self. The retreats offer reconnective healing, shifting consciousness, and raising personal and universal vibrations. Kindred Spirits' mission is to bring peace, harmony, and balance to the body, mind, and soul.
They have a variety of lodges from large double and triple shared rooms. All are open spacious rooms with big windows overlooking the tropical jungle. Very comfortable with hot water showers, orthopaedic quality thick big comfy mattresses. Living close to the jungle yet with all the comforts. A/C and high-speed Internet included.
They also have magical treehouses, which are private for one person, or for a couple or 2 friends. Each house has a double bed. Each is unique in its own style, from the flying Morpho treehouse to the Gecko treehouse and Sloth Treehouse. These are perfect if you want a private house to yourself or bring a friend.
The private Mindful Monkey Cottage, for one person, with its private Jacuzzi offers a next level of well being for those needing more privacy and comfort. It is also possible to bring a friend and share the king-size bed.
Each room type is suited to your personal needs, comfort and happiness.
Program
Certification
Successful graduates will receive a diploma. Students enrolled in the “EYTP” will receive the same diploma in addition to a certificate from EYTP: Equine Yoga Teacher Program certification.
Retreat program
Enjoy meditation practice surrounded by nature, giant trees, howler monkeys, and parrots. Mindfulness Meditation walks along the jungle paths and guided meditation with the herd of Kindred Spirits horses, will be some of the special activities you will experience, heal and learn from. Sunrise and sunset yoga classes where as a group you will create beautiful mandalas in the sand to express your creativity and use your right brain bringing you closer to whom you are.
Students will learn to teach Ashtanga Vinyasa, Hatha, Shivananda and Vinyasa Yoga styles deepening their understanding of Yoga and enhancing their professional yoga teaching careers.
Unique to the Kindred Spirits course they limit enrollment to a maximum of 4 or 12 students per training. This way they can offer more individual support and practical training to each student. The teachers and homey venues lend to a more intimate experience for the students.
The course includes daily pranayama, mantra chanting and asana practice to help each student enrich their practice. Lectures and practicums on Yoga philosophy, ethics, anatomy, and physiology, teaching methods will be covered in this course.
Daily journalling is encouraged and homework may include your personal writings or Kindred Spirits will choose a yama and niyama and you will be asked to contemplate and share life challenges while living the yamas and niyamas. The learnings of mantras and chanting, walking meditation, silent time, and Sanskrit names of the asanas are part of the training.
You will learn how to teach, how to guide and share your yoga practice, built on the foundation of your practice. The yoga training is to prepare you for sharing and leading yoga sessions, as well as incorporating the balance of mat yoga into your life and the lives you touch.
What makes this yoga teacher training different?
Kindred Spirits work in small groups of 4-12 students, for a more complete one on one and deeper training and practice time. The Yoga Teacher Training honors the original Indian heritage of yoga incorporating the important techniques of Pranayama, Meditation, Japa Mantra chanting, Mudras and how to see and influence the subtle energies that lie within you and around you, such as the Chakras and Nadis, as fellas the traditional practices of asanas and Yoga styles, of Sivannandha, Hatha, and Ashtanga, for a full mind, body and spiritual transformation.
Kindred Spirits incorporate the surrounding nature and animals as well as the horses into the classes for a more connective experience to all of life. Connecting with horses and practicing pranayama and meditation together helps to meditate and be in a state of presence and mindful awareness with more ease. The horse's energy helps to elevate vibrations into a feeling of well-being. Many studies have been done on this how the horse influences the heart, emotions and bring you into a state of oneness and happiness. Previous horse knowledge or experience is not necessary. Horses will be your guides and teachers.
Daily practices of Hatha Yoga, Sivanandha Yoga and Ashtanga Yoga and experiencing the benefits of Yoga Nidra, Yin Yoga and Restorative Yoga for a transformational experience to connect with your True Nature and Dharma, your life’s purpose.
You will be able to teach yoga classes and deepen your own experience of yoga.
Here at Kindred Spirits, you’ll be guided through the vast science of eastern Yoga. You’ll learn the ancient and modern wisdom of this practice and how to incorporate them into your daily journey of self-realization.
Once you experience yoga’s transformative potential yourself, you’ll be ready to show others the better life that’s waiting for them as well, becoming an agent for change in your community.
Daily Schedule
- 07:00 - 09:00 Yoga class with asana, pranayama and meditation
- 10:30 - 13:00 Lectures
- 15:00 - 17:00 Asana teaching class
- 17:00 - 18:00 Yoga class
- Evening meditation
Included excursions
Mindfulness walks to the Beach
Sunrise and sunset beach yoga
Walking with and swimming with horses on the beach, weather permitting
Riding horses to beach (for experienced riders only)
Kirtan Fire Ceremony: sing Mantras with a professional Kirtan singer around the open fire, calling in the energies and vibrations for healing and transformation.
Cacao Ceremony: discover the powerful meaning of the Mayan Cacao ceremony and your connection to its wisdom.
Instructors
Terry Lillian Newton
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Terry is an E-RYT 500 yoga certified instructor, a certified yoga therapist, Reiki Master and a Jin Shin Jyutsu practitioner. As a certified metaphysical energy healer and natural horsemanship trainer at liberty, she will also show you ways to connect with horses through their energy systems and yours.
Johanna Holst
2 Certificates
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Johanna is a 500-hour certified yoga teacher trainer, having done her studies both in Costa Rica and in India. Originally from Sweden, she spent the last several years in Costa Rica mostly teaching yoga. A passionate horse lover and professional horse trainer and rider. Johanna lives her life to the fullest, enjoying each moment and what it brings. She loves yoga and she lives it with her full open heart. She is an enthusiastic yoga teacher who loves to teach and guide students to become teachers themselves. She practices Ashtanga, Hatha, Vinyasa, and Sivananda yoga.
Enrica Andretto
After quitting her career in advertising, Enrica went on a spiritual quest where she found yoga and its powerful transformative tools. After training in India and Spain, she has offered her yoga classes in Dubai for many years. She then found a way to merge her passion for horses with her spiritual yogic calling when she landed in Costa Rica to become an equine yoga teacher under Terry Newton. Completely fascinated by the healing abilities of horses, she also studied to become a Horse Guided Empowerment Coach under Christina Marz.
Jessica Turner
Jessica is a professional nutritionist and works one on one with women to balance their hormones and find their optimal well being in energy, body, mind and soul
Adrianna Leiva
Adri has spent the last 11 years as a guest teacher for yoga teacher trainings, sharing her passion for the expansive tradition of Yoga. Born and raised in Costa Rica, she has dedicated over 20 years of her life to sharing Yoga wisdom and promoting wellbeing through bodywork and energy work. She became a certified Ayurvedic Yoga massage therapist in 2011 and continued her studies to become an Ayurvedic therapist and lifestyle consultant in 2018. With degrees in Physiotherapy and Metaphysics, Adri combines the scientific and the subtle worlds in her teachings, personal practice, and work.
Retreat location
Kindred Spirits is on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica. It is 5 hours away from the capital of San José.
Food
Vegetarian Vegan, Friendly Plant Based meals.
Your body is your sacred temple and what you put into it should be full of Prana/ Life force energy. This is key to creating a balanced, healthy and energized body and bring it into a state of harmony, Sattva.
Kindred Spirits offers seasonal, organic, local, vegetarian and vegan meals. They can also accommodate any food allergies you might have and/or a gluten-free diet.
Students come together at the main house for lunches. Typical lunches include gazpacho with a salad, Buddha bowls, burrito bowls, summer rolls, vegan tacos, and more. Fresh herbs from the garden and spices are used to balance your meals for digestion and assimilation of the nutrients. Their Chef puts all her love, thought and creativity into creating food that is beautiful to the eye, delicious to the palate and digestible for the stomach. Fresh ingredients will vary seasonally.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
The following drinks are included:
- Water
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Gluten Free
- Organic
- Lactose Free
- Other dietary requirements on request
- Ayurvedic
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
Things to do (optional)
- Jin Shin Jyutsu healing sessions
- Metaphysical healing sessions
- Mindfulness meditation healing with horses
- Yoga with horses
- Horse treks in jungle and to beach for experienced riders
- Riding lessons
- Nutritionist diagnose and evaluation
- Learn how to be a vegan and what to eat to stay healthy and happy
- Hike to Waterfalls
Spa treatments
Ayurveda massage and Cacao massage are available with additional cost.
What's included
- 21 nights lodging
- 18 breakfasts, 18 lunches, 18 dinners
- Yoga classes
- Yoga mats and props
- 200-hour certification
- Kirtan Fire Ceremony
- Cacao Ceremony
- Beach yoga
- Yoga with horses
- Swimming with horses
What's not included
- Airfares
- Optional activities and local tours
- Transportation from San Jose to Kindred Spirits and return
- Local transportation for shopping etc
- Travel insurance
How to get there
Recommended Airports
LIO
Limón International Airport
49 km
Transfer available for additional US$ 85 per person
SJO
Juan Santamaría International Airport
167 km
Transfer available for additional US$ 65 per person
Arrival by airplane
Please book your flight to arrive at Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO). Please contact Kindred Spirits. They are very happy to book your transfer for you and make your trip as smooth and enjoyable as possible.
Airport: Limón International Airport
Airport transfer available:
Limón International Airport (US$ 85 per person)
Additional charges may apply. You can request this in the next step.
Airport: Juan Santamaría International Airport
Airport transfer available:
Juan Santamaría International Airport (US$ 65 per person)
Additional charges may apply. You can request this in the next step.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 15% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.
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