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Toby - Yoga Retreat Participant 2010loved getting up in the morning and starting the day with Bikram… I thought the trip was planned out so well that we had just enough downtime and to do what we wanted IF we chose to do something besides relax .. I don’t know how you could ever improve on an already amazing trip.
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Todd Phillips | Certified Bikram Instructor
I began practicing Bikram Yoga in 1998 in one of the first Bikram Yoga Studios in the Pacific Northwest. Within just a few months of practicing regularly I experienced profound physical and mental transformations. Chronic back pain ceased and the seemingly constant stress of everyday life melted away. From then I knew I wanted to share this gift with others. Five years later after graduating from the University of Colorado I attended teacher training with Bikram in Los Angeles and have been enjoying sharing yoga and it’s powerful benefits ever since.
I first visited Costa Rica during college to study Spanish abroad. A dear friend of mine, now the owner of Casas Pura Vida, and I drove from Colorado to Costa Rica in approximately 3 weeks. My love affair with the country, it’s energy and people began here over 8 years ago. I’ve returned as often as possible and every time after spending time in the sun and sand, eating pure, fresh tropical cuisine and maintaining a hatha yoga practice I leave feeling powerfully refreshed, rejuvenated and ready to get back to work and all activities of life. My goal for hosting the Yoga Beach Retreat is to share a slice of the paradise, provide a healthy and rejuvenating week that leaves you feeling relaxed, rested, fulfilled and ready to take on whatever life beckons you to.
Additional Classes available from: Christina | Hatha yoga instructor
Biography | Kalyani (Cristina Paes) was born in Brazil in 1979.
After an early urge to enlightenment and truth as a child, at 30, Kalyani, or Cris (how she is known in Costa Rica) already has 12 years of experience in the practice of yoga.
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When Kalyani turned 18 she was a constant student of Hatha and Bhakti yoga, and from this daily practice began her official apprenticeship, learning several lineages of yoga, living and traveling a yogic life in communities for about 4 years. Kalyani spent a few months in a vaishnava “Hare Krishna” ashram in the mountains of Chile, and then went to India to observe the Hindu way of life and practice of yoga.
She was a full time student at Swasthya Yoga School in Brazil where she studied for 1 1/2 years, and finished her teacher training as well as participated in many work shops and asana choreography. In Guatemala, she had a short encounter with the practice of Kundalini yoga of Sri Bhajan.
Cris also participated in a pilgrimage by horse where she travel with a group of twelve people and fifteen horses, monkey and a dog presenting asana choreography and introducing yoga to the poor and disadvantaged people from the mountains of Peru. To know more about this humanitarian project go to www.nomadasunited.com
Cris has been living and teaching yoga in Costa Rica for the past 7 years as well as working as a massage therapist. While in Costa Rica Cris has worked with many celebrities, including Giselle Bunchen, Jill Hensey, Kate Moss, Leonardo Di Caprio, Mel Gibson and more.