Why Costa Rica?

Why Nosara, Costa Rica is our home?

Nature: The ocean and jungle environment is highly conducive for maximizing the benefits of Hatha Yoga. Practicing yoga within this natural environment mirrors to use a deep state of relaxed awareness. In terms of contemporary brain physiology, our mirror neurons immediately respond to nature and impact us on all levels from physical to the sublime. The brain works more efficiently in the natural environment.

Vitality: Traditionally, yoga practice begins with addressing the health and vitality of the physical body. But as we now face the imperative of attuning to the health and vitality of our planet, Nosara Yoga honors the planetary body as the foundation for our physical well-being. The environment in which we live-- from the weather to vegetation-- interfaces with our physical, mental and spiritual health. Being a short walk to the warm waters of the Pacific allows for a daily immersion into the salt water, a perfect chemical composition for balancing our electro-magnetic and subtle bodies.

Culture: Just as yoga gives you a new way of experiencing your physical body, the act of stepping outside the comfort zone of your own culture automatically initiates the possibility of seeing yourself in a new way. To experience other ways of living and doing things awakens you to options that were hidden beneath the ordinary, habitual ways of being and interacting with your life choices. Visiting other cultures is a wonderful and fun way to begin to question, Who Am I?

Peace Loving Costa Ricans: We have chosen Costa Rica for the peace loving people that have created a sacred space of safety and beauty.  Being in a country that abolished its army in 1949, allows us to release fear-based, on-guard reflexes, and to open to more creative, love-based evolutionary impulses our 21st century life on the planet requires. We new we had a lot to learn from these beautiful people.