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Costa Rica Surf Camp and Yoga Retreat
Enjoy surfing with Pura Vida Surfers while connecting with yourself. The fun, playful, and challenging surfing together with the mindful, relaxing, and balancing yoga is a combination that many love. Join your hosts in Costa Rica, and enjoy daily yoga classes and surf lessons. By finding focus and clearing the mind, you will progress more in surfing. Breathing is also crucial in surfing and the main focus of yoga. Experience the best of two worlds and go crazy but keep it simple!
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Highlights
- Daily yoga classes
- 4 fun and playful surf lessons
- Transportation to and from the beach
- Video analysis from every surf lesson
- Daily breakfast, fruits, and water
- 6 nights accommodation
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Yoga styles
Accommodation
During this retreat, you can stay in a private room with a shared bathroom or a private room with a private bathroom at the Pura Vida Surf Camp. They have a new-built house and apartments just 150 meters away from Playa Santa Teresa. The hostel is beautifully decorated and has a nice swimming pool area. It is located just by the main road with stores, bars, and restaurants just a walking distance away.
They also offer many different activities on and off the site. All rooms have air-conditioning and a good Wi-Fi connection.
Program
The schedule during this retreat is flexible. One can decide to do yoga in the morning and surfing in the afternoon, or vice versa. It is also possible to do yoga and surfing head to head in the morning, and have the afternoon off.
You will normally surf at 7 a.m., 10 a.m., or 3 p.m, surf lessons will be scheduled according to ocean conditions. The yoga schedules vary depending on the yoga studio. Throughout the retreat, you will enjoy four surf lessons and six yoga classes.
The yoga classes are held at different yoga studios in Santa Teresa to provide you many different yoga styles and various hours to practice them. You will build strength, increase flexibility and energy levels, bend, twist, breathe, and release tensions in yoga to become a better surfer.
A day can look like this:
- 07:00 - 10:00 Breakfast
- 10:00 Surf lesson
- 13:00 Lunch
- 18:00 Yoga
- 19:30 Dinner and video analysis of your surfing
The retreat can be customized. For example, you can add an extra day of surfing or yoga, a rest day, etc. Please contact Pura Vida Surfers with your request.
Instructors
Victor St. Clair
Victor St. Clair has been a professional surfer, competing around the world and teaching surf lessons for decades. Growing up in Puerto Viejo on the Caribbean coast, he surfed Salsa Brava, Costa Rica’s largest wave from an early age, and has been in love with the sport of surfing since he was a kid.
Christian Castillo
Born and raised in the Santa Teresa area, Christian competes nationally and is famous for big airs and 360s.
Andrés
Andrés is one of the instructors at Pura Vida Surfers.
Retreat location
This retreat and surf camp will take place in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica. Santa Teresa is a beautiful beach town that many people return to. This is a perfect place to connect with nature and also with yourself. Despite being a small town, it is still for everyone. Whether you want to come here for surfing, yoga, with your partner, family, or friends, Santa Teresa is the destination. It is a friendly place with a mix of Ticos and internationals.
Santa Teresa is located in the southern part of the Nicoya Peninsula. With its many and long beaches, it is an ideal place for those who love surfing or want to learn to surf. Santa Teresa also has many different yoga studios, as well as activities, in its biodiverse and beautiful nature. Some of the activities that one can do include horseback riding, zip-lining, ATV tours, visit national parks, and fishing, just to name a few.
Distances
- Santa Teresa Beach, 50 meters
- Tambor - 45 minutes
Unique features
Activities
- Surfing
- Swimming
- Swimming pool (outdoor)
General
- Air-conditioned rooms
- Beach
- Kitchen
- Restaurant
Services
- Bicycle rental
- Free Wi-Fi
Food
Daily breakfast and snacks are included in the package.
Breakfast is offered at 2 different restaurants within a few minutes walk of the accommodation. You are given vouchers to pay for the meal. The options are a local café that offers vegan and gluten free options or a local soda that serves typical Costa Rican breakfasts.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Snacks
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Lacto-ovo Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Gluten Free
- Organic
- Raw food
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
- Pescatarian
- Hallal
- Naturopathic
- Fruitarian
- Lactose Free
- Whole food
- Paleo diet
Things to do (optional)
- Stand up paddling
- Enjoy an all-terrain vehicle adventure
- Enjoy canopy
- Enjoy kayaking
- Go fishing
- Horseback riding
- Take a massage
- Visit Cabo Blanco National Park
- Visit the Montezuma waterfalls
- Visit the Tortuga Island
What's included
- 6 yoga classes
- 4 surf lessons
- 6 nights accommodation
- Daily breakfast, fruits, and water
- Photos and videos of your practice
- Transportation to and from the surf lessons
What's not included
- Additional activities
- Airfare
- Airport transfers
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Juan Santamaría International Airport
111 km
Transfer not provided
Tambor Airport
19 km
Transfer not provided
Arrival by bus
The direct bus from San José leaves from the terminal in Santa Teresa from 7 a.m. - 10 a.m. This bus takes about six hours and leaves San José at 6 a.m. and 2 p.m. As of July 2017, the cost is 7545 CRC, which includes the cost of your ferry ticket of about 800 CRC. If you are a senior, ask for the senior's price. Surfers will pay an extra 2000 CRC for your surfboard.
If you are near the airport you don’t have to head all the way to the 7-10 terminal. Instead, have a taxi take you to the Villa Bonita Bridge in Alajuela. The bus to Santa Teresa, Mal Pais, and Montezuma passes this spot at about 6:20 a.m. and 2:20 p.m. after leaving downtown. This time could be a bit longer.
Arrival by shuttle
Bus departure time from San Jose Airport is at 6 a.m., 8 a.m., and 2:30 p.m. from Juan Santa Maria International Airport Terminal arriving at Santa Teresa at 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., and 8:30 p.m. There is a daily shuttle service. Normally, this service is provided on a 10 to 15 passenger minibus. The price per person is 50 USD, including ferry fees.
This service is sometimes operated by third-party companies. (Normally our vehicles are branded with the Tropical Tours Shuttles logo). Bus stops are provided along the way to specific locations. The door-to-door minibus shuttle service will take you safely and directly from San Jose International Airport Airport SJO Terminal to Santa Teresa beach, Costa Rica.
The departure time from Santa Teresa is at 6:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. arriving at SJO Terminal area at 12:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. There is a daily shuttle service. Normally, this service is provided on a 10 to 15 passenger minibus. The price per person is 50 USD, including ferry fees. Remember that surfboards are allowed at no extra charge in the mini busses.
Pura Vida Surfers has set a departing time for each destination, however, the minibus has to go through the town picking everyone up and that takes a few extra minutes. Costa Rica is a beautiful country, but the infrastructure is uncertain and the geography doesn’t help either, that’s why in some sections of the route you will have to go through bumpy and dusty roads on your way to San Jose city.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 14% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.
