• 6 nights accommodations (First night at a San Jose airport hotel and 5 nights at retreat center)
• 3 meals per day (excluding alcoholic beverages) starting with dinner on the first night and ending with breakfast on the last day
• In-country flight to Tambor from SJO International Airport and Shuttle to/from the retreat center
• Daily yoga practices
• Drum Circle Ceremony
• Tortuga Island Experience
• Personal retreat time (having time to nap, explore, walk, read, and just be)

Accommodations

The retreat will be held at an intimate beachfront hotel and yoga center located in Santa Teresa, a breathtaking white sand beach on the Pacific Ocean of Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula. Situated on four acres of unspoiled tropical beach, you will find beautiful swimming areas and also outcroppings of rock where natural tide pools form. Each room at this center is unique and the size of the rooms vary.

Throughout the day, you will be encouraged to explore the beautiful island as well as take advantage of our relaxing beachfront location. Restaurants and shops are within walking distance of this center.

Tara Lemerise

Tara Lemerise, E-RYT 200/E-RYT 500, is a yoga teacher based in the Washington, DC area and is a lifelong seeker. What she has wanted and needed has changed over time, including community, freedom, boundaries, healing, compassion, achievement, truth, spiritual connection, creativity, stability, and intellectual discourse. In every case, the tradition of yoga has always offered her whatever she has been seeking. 

Tara discovered yoga when she was studying philosophy and religion in college in 1999. Over the past 25 years of yoga study and 19 years of yoga teaching, she has engaged with great love and reverence with many different styles of yoga, including Ashtanga, Iyengar, Anusara, Yin, and Kriya Yoga.

Three things Tara values the most in her own practice and in her teaching are agency, self-trust, and empowerment. Students can feel this encouragement in her teaching and consider her to be a well-traveled guide, not an authoritarian who promises all of the right answers. Tara’s teaching is full of joy and compassion. She is an inclusive and responsive teacher, offering classes with dogma-free authenticity in harmony with honor for tradition and inspired by relatable stories rooted in yoga tradition that feels relevant to everyday life.

Testimonials

“Tara is a gifted yoga practitioner and instructor who organized a once a lifetime retreat experience in the Costa Rican rainforest that provided me ample time to practice yoga, relax and enjoy the gorgeous surroundings.” – Mary Lou M.

“My time on Tara’s retreats is always incredible. I returned from our last retreat in Costa Rica with a few new friends, some healing in my heart, magical moments in nature, the courage to move forward with the next step in my life, and amazing memories.” – Carrie D.

“Tara is a master teacher as well as a calm and steady leader. She creates a community of support where every person on her retreats feels valued and included. You will not regret working with Tara.” – Mary B.

“Tara is such an amazing teacher! She’s methodical in sequencing, builds on each pose, offers variations throughout. She encourages everyone to try their best, she gives agency for students to do whatever they need for their bodies, she’s genuine in her interactions, and even when she challenges you to try hard things, she makes it fun. There were many poses I didn’t realize I could do until she challenged me to do them.”

“What I love most about Tara’s classes and retreats are the people. Tara makes yoga so accessible that anyone is able to participate. Have injuries, no problem. Haven’t workout in years, no problem. Balancing on one leg isn’t your jam, you are welcome too.”

“I was so excited about the idea of going on a retreat to Greece with Tara that I asked my husband to join me. We were so relaxed and energized afterwards that we had to be part of the experience in Jamaica.”– Pamela S.

• Surfing Lessons
• Hiking in Cabo Blanco Natural Reserve
• Zip-lining/Canopy Tour
• Kayaking
• Karma Yoga Activity
• And More…

*Price of above Activities are not included in tuition.

SPA

Discover the true meaning of relaxation at the center’s Spa, offering a variety of first-class spa services performed by professional therapists. Treatments utilize 100% natural products. Offering massages, wraps, exfoliation treatments, facials, acupuncture, reiki, reflexology, and other beauty treatments, the Spa is located in front of Santa Teresa Beach so that you may enjoy the sounds of the sea and its cooling breezes.

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Getting There

True Nature specializes in curating and offering the best retreat experiences. For your flights, we recommend that you use Google Flights or a trusted travel agency. 

Travel Insurance

We cannot emphasize more the importance of travel insurance. As we all know, especially as travelers, “life happens.” Whether it’s family, work, mother nature, or a change of heart, it is important to be prepared in case you need to unexpectedly change your travel plans. Often for less than $150, you can purchase a travel insurance policy and be protected in the event that you need to make a change or need to be covered financially prior to or during your trip. 

We have partnered with Trawick International (available for U.S. Residents only). Read more about their policies here. We encourage you to research the insurance company and policy that best meets your needs.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Do you have questions about traveling abroad? After you register, we will provide you with a Participant’s Package with helpful information. Also, be sure to check out our Participant FAQs. If you have other questions, feel free to write to us at info@truenaturetravels.com and let us know how we can help!

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Save $300 on full-price (shared only) ENDS March 15th! 

Shared Accommodations – $3495 USD (Full Price $3795 USD)

Deluxe Beachfront Shared Accommodations – $3695 USD (Full Price $3995 USD)

Single Accommodations – $4895 USD

Deluxe Beachfront Single Accommodations – $5095 USD

To secure your tuition rate and reserve your spot, an initial non-refundable deposit is required: $350 for registrations more than 90 days before the trip, or $1,000 if booking 60–90 days prior. A non-refundable $35 payment processing fee will also be added to the tuition rate at registration.

If you select Deposit Payment, depending on when you registered, your remaining balance will be split into 1-3 payments and processed with your credit card on file on the dates indicated on your Confirmation Letter.

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Cancellation

• Initial deposits and the $35 registration fee are non-refundable and non-transferable.
• 50% of payments are refundable up to 90 days before a retreat excluding the initial deposit and the $35 registration fee.
• 89 days prior to a retreat, tuition is non-refundable and non-transferable.
• Full tuition is refunded* if the trip is canceled due to low enrollment. The $35 registration fee is not refundable.
• True Nature Travels is not responsible for any loss incurred due to currency conversion rates.

*Refundable amounts do not include applied credits.

If you wish to cancel your spot on a trip you must submit your cancellation by email to info@truenaturetravels.com.