La Colmena Collective, Costa Rica

La Colmena Collective offers 200-hour, 300-hour and CEC YTTs and a great selection guides and faculty. More voices, more choices.

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Avani Gilbert

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Avani Gilbert is the founder and director of CYA programs. She is a Reiki master teacher, LMT, and clarity breathwork practitioner. Avani started exploring yoga as a teenager to counter participation in high school competitive sports. From there, she began a lifelong love, journey, and endless study. She has participated in yoga teacher training throughout the United States and Costa Rica while accumulating close to 4.000 hours of teaching experience. Avani is the director of the retreat and training center OM at Cashew Hill.

Navkiran

Navkiran and Satya are the parents of Raimundo and Milagros. They were born in Chile and the last 10 years have been traveling in different countries. Since 2022, they have been living on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. They are RYTs, YACEPs, light workers, and breathworkers.

Satya

Nicole Hudson

Nicole Hudson is a mental health counselor, yoga teacher, MS, MHC-LP, E-RYT, and integrative life coach. Today, Nicole works as a psychotherapist in Brooklyn, NY, where she combines Eastern yoga philosophy and Western counseling theories to offer her clients tools to reduce stress and anxiety, learn to explore and regulate their emotions and take steps toward fully engaging and creating lives of awareness and purpose.

Jenna Conner

Jenna Conner is a pre-natal yoga, doula, and trauma-informed trainer. Jenna has always had a passion for movement and spent nearly 20 years training as a dancer and performer. Jenna has been holding space, teaching yoga for over six years, has over 5000 hours of teaching experience, and has invested more than 1000 hours into her education as a yoga instructor, Reiki practitioner, birth doula, and trauma-informed teacher trainer.

Deron Perez

Deron Perez is a counselor, 250-hour certified yoga teacher, MS, MHC-LP, and advanced Reiki practitioner. He is also a psychotherapist specializing in complex trauma and grief for both children and adults. He integrates Eastern and Western philosophies to empower individuals to retell their life stories by tapping into their inner resilience, even in the face of adversity.

Shaka Xolani

Shaka Xolani is a Somatic sciences, trauma-informed, and Restorative trainer, yoga teacher, yoga philosophy teacher, psychic, massage therapist, and Reiki master. Shaka Xolani has been practicing yoga for over 16 years and teaching for seven. Training in Hatha yoga and completing her MA in Traditions of Yoga and Meditation at SOAS, Shaka’s practice is rooted in the Ashtanga method and the practice of Iyengar, which influence her teaching style and approach.

Amala Humphries

Amala Humphries is a RYT 500, physical therapist, sound healing therapist, and massage therapist.

Emma Clara Strand

from Sweden, January 2022

"I would recomend this training to everyone"

I am confident this is the best teacher training in Costa Rica. Everything was amazing. From food to lectures to accomodation.

Pia Kuran

from Germany, October 2019

"Tip top von vorne bis hinten!"

Alles!

Joanna Potts

from France, July 2019

"Very good all round yoga teacher training in a great place"

Quality yoga instruction, focus on the 8 limbs of yoga and not just asanas, mantra and meditation were given a key role, the creation of sacred space and rituals was explored well, personal development and insight also part of the curriculum, a great combination of Avani, Ryan and Adriana was very powerful, 3 different styles which combined well, linked strongly to hindu mythology and stories which created impact

Miguel Padilla

from Canada, September 2018

"200hr YTT with the best yoga team at OM Cashew Hill and CYA"

I’ve found so many highlights in this training that it won’t be fair to list them, but the best is the people, the instructors, the guys at the kitchen, everybody (even the dogs!) contributes to give you the best yoga experience. I’ve learned more than I’ve thought form this training ... thank you all, hope see you again!!!

Karin Westin

from United States, March 2018

"Cashew Hill "

Everything was great and way better than I could ever have imagined. The food, the area, the teachers and their way of teaching. Really impressive and I’d do it all over again.

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La Colmena Collective

Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica

Yoga Retreats (5)

45 Day Online Introduction to Kundalini Yoga for Teachers Course

3 Day 20-Hour Online Restorative Yoga Teacher Training Level 1

154 Day 200-Hour Online Foundational Level Yoga Teacher Training

30 Day Online Trauma-Sensitive Techniques 101: Foundations of Trauma-Informed Yoga Course

3 Day 25-Hour Online Yin Yoga Teacher Training Level 1