​🌿 The Way of the Heart ​🌿
Yoga & Wellness Retreat in Costa Rica
​March 28 – April 4, 2026
AmaTierra Retreat & Wellness Center
🌱Return to What Matters Most
Step away from the noise of daily life and into the serene embrace of the Costa Rican mountains. The Way of the Heart is more than just a yoga retreat—it’s a soulful journey of reconnection, deep listening, and heart-centered living. Whether you're feeling called to rest, heal, expand, or simply breathe again--this is your invitation.
✨ This Retreat Is for You If You...
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  • Crave time and space to slow down and reconnect with yourself
  • Want to live more fully from the heart
  • Are open to spiritual growth, creative expression, and new experiences
  • Are recovering from personal challenges, trauma, or just the stress of daily life
  • Are curious about or want to dive deeper into practices like yoga, meditation, and tai chi
  • Love meaningful travel, nature, and soul-nourishing community
🌸 What’s Included

During our 7 nourishing nights at the beautiful AmaTierra Wellness Retreat, you’ll enjoy a mix of movement, stillness, creativity, nature, and ceremony, all designed to support your emotional, physical and spiritual health.

Your Retreat Experience Includes:
  • 🧘🏽‍♀️ Daily yoga/pranayama/mindful movement classes + meditation and sharing circles
  • 🏡 7 nights / 8 days accommodation
  • 🌀 Sacred Cacao Circle led by an indigenous tribal ceremonialist
  • 🐴 Horse & Soul Equine Experience at the beautiful 15 acre Sweet Prince Farm
  • 🎨 Soulful Art Playshop with Bermudian artist now living in Costa Rica, Kendra LaVonne
  • 💦 Waterfall excursion & swim
  • 🍃 Free time for hiking, spa treatments, rest, and reflection
  • 🎼 1x Sound Bath
  • 🍽️ 3x delicious, organic meals per day
  • 🚌 Round trip airport transportation
🌄 Why Costa Rica?

Costa Rica is known for being a country packed with lush rainforests, pristine beaches, and towering volcanoes. Famous for its biodiversity and commitment to sustainability, this small nation was voted Travel + Leisure's Destination of the Year for 2024. Costa Rica is home to one of the world's Blue Zones where people live significantly longer than the global average, often surpassing 100 years thanks to their balanced diet, active lifestyle, strong social bonds and integrated health care practices.

​"Pura Vida" is a common Costa Rican greeting that translates to “pure life,” but means so much more - it’s a lifestyle in which you choose to live to the fullest, while nurturing the mind, body and soul. The energy of "pura vida" flows through the whole country, and everything from connection with nature and nourishing foods to balancing movement and rest creates a lifestyle that everyone can tap into!
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🌸 Where will you stay?

AmaTierra Retreat & Wellness Center offers the perfect balance of rustic sacred space and modern comfort. A yoga retreat and wellness center nestled on eight acres of lush jungle forest in the Costa Rican mountains, it is located less than one hour’s drive west of the capital city, San Jose, and one hour north of the Central Pacific beaches.

AmaTierra invites you to unplug, breathe deeply, and return to nature—both around you and within you. A family-run boutique wellness center with deep connections to the local community, it provides the perfect refuge for you to re-balance yourself. This is your restful, secure and welcoming home away from home for 7-nights as you relax in a natural setting with breath-taking views, venture on day trips to a variety of area attractions such as waterfalls, Carara National Park, and perhaps even a zip-line through the jungle canopy!
Sample Schedule: 
This is not just a schedule. It is a rhythm of renewal, a daily flow that will help you to release the noise of life and remember the stillness of your own heart:

Day 2
Morning Yoga / Mindfulness Practice - 7am
    Breakfast - 8.30am
    Local hike + waterfall + swim - 10am
    Lunch - 1pm
    Free time / Spa services (optional)
Meditation / Journalling - 5pm
Dinner - 6.30pm

Day 3
Morning Yoga / Mindfulness Practice - 7am
    Breakfast - 8.30am
    Free time / Spa services (optional)
    Lunch - 1pm
    Cacao Circle with ceremonialist from local indigenous tribe - 3.30pm
Dinner - 6.30pm

Day 4
Morning Yoga / Mindfulness Practice - 7am
    Breakfast - 7.30am 
    Horse & Soul Equine Experience - 9am
    Lunch - 1pm
    Free time to relax, hike, read, nap, spa...
 Yoga Nidra - 5pm
Dinner - 6.30pm
💜 Your Retreat Leader: Shanell
I am delighted to invite you to The Way of the Heart, my first international yoga retreat since an awe-inspiring India retreat I hosted in 2017. This time, we’ll gather in the lush, healing mountains of Costa Rica at the charming and serene AmaTierra Retreat Center. 

With almost 20 years experience in facilitating healing circles, teaching yoga classes and offering complementary medicine through my practice Shambhala, I will not just be your retreat leader but your ally on the path to transformation and personal healing. All of your yoga, meditation and mindfulness classes will be led by me. And, thanks to the small size of our group, I'll be able to offer you maximum personal attention.

My hope is that you'll choose to put yourself first for just 7 days and allow the restorative power of the natural world, the thoughtfully selected therapeutic activities, and the professional expertise of the staff at AmaTierra and myself to provide a safe container for you to come home to your Self.

Pura Vida!
💫 Investment & Details

Dates: March 28 – April 4, 2026
Location: AmaTierra Wellness & Retreat Center, Costa Rica
Group Size: Space limited to 10 guests to keep this experience intimate and meaningful.

Pricing in US Dollars (Choose your pricing tier based on accommodation type):
  • Shared Room: $2,470 per person
  • Private Room: $2,720 per person
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🐦‍⬛Early Bird Discount:
Register and pay in full by November 15, 2025 and receive $200 off your total.

Payment Terms
  • $500 non-refundable deposit required to secure your spot. More trip details will be sent to you once deposit is paid.
  • Two payment plans available:
  1. Payment in full (after deposit) by January 5, 2026 (no discount); or
  2. Split balance (after deposit) into two equal payments to be paid by November 15, 2025 and January 5, 2026.

​🕊️ Ready to Join Us?👉 
Questions? Email me at [email protected]

💌 What Past Retreat Guests Say...“Thank you, Shantidevi. I was thoroughly blessed from this trip, the experience, and by the members of our group.”
— Retreat Participant, India 2017
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If you’ve been waiting for the right time to put yourself first, to rediscover yourself, and to realign with your Soul’s truth—this is it.
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Join us in Costa Rica.
Come home to your heart.