25 Benefits of Vinyasa Flow Yoga
Vinyasa flow links yoga poses into a continuous sequence timed to the breath. Research on yoga in general suggests it can help…
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Vinyasa flow links yoga poses into a continuous sequence timed to the breath. Research on yoga in general suggests it can help…
Jaco is the closest big beach town to San José, and these three hotels offer quieter alternatives to its busy main street…
Costa Rica's Central Pacific coast is the closest beach region to San José. Jaco is the busy surf-and-nightlife town, Manuel…
A regular vinyasa flow practice can make you more flexible and stronger, improve your balance and help you manage stress, and…
Asana Yoga was a small clothing label based in Nosara, on Costa Rica's Pacific coast, making tank tops, hoodies, yoga pants and…
Ahki Retreat was a hilltop retreat house with an ocean-view yoga studio near Garza, south of Nosara, founded by Karen and Greg…
Alya is a small retreat on a 19-acre forest property in the hills above San Juanillo, on the northern Nicoya Peninsula. Today it…
AmaTierra is a small retreat and wellness center on 8 acres of hardwood forest in San Pablo de Turrubares, about an hour's drive…
Hatha yoga is the branch of yoga that works through the body, with postures (asanas) and breathing practices (pranayama). In a…
Vinyasa flow is a modern style of yoga that links poses into a smooth sequence, with each movement timed to an inhale or an…
Anamaya is a hillside yoga and wellness resort above the village of Montezuma, on the southern Nicoya Peninsula. It runs its own…
Ananda Samsaara Yoga was a studio in Santa Ana, west of San José, that taught aerial yoga and ashtanga. Its website no longer…
Aurora Yoga is a walk-in yoga studio in the middle of Jaco, on Costa Rica's Central Pacific coast, a couple of minutes from the…
Beija Flor Resort & Yoga Retreat was a small boutique hotel with a yoga deck in Mal País, at the southern tip of the Nicoya…
Bella Vista Mar is a small hilltop hotel above Playa Pelada in Nosara, Guanacaste, with 9 rooms, a pool and views over the…
Many yogis go vegan because of ahimsa, the yogic principle of non-harm, rather than for health alone. A well-planned vegan diet…
Blue Osa Yoga Retreat + Spa is a beachfront yoga center on Playa Tamales, near Puerto Jiménez on the Osa Peninsula, founded by…
Blue Spirit is a large retreat center on a hill above Playa Guiones in Nosara, Guanacaste. Visiting teachers run week-long yoga…
Boca Sombrero is a beachfront lodge at Playa Sombrero, near Cabo Matapalo on the tip of the Osa Peninsula, used mostly by…
Bodhi Surf + Yoga is a small surf and yoga camp in Uvita, on Costa Rica's southern Pacific coast, with surf lessons in Marino…
Bodhi Tree is a large yoga and fitness resort in the hills above Playa Guiones in Nosara, Guanacaste, with four yoga shalas…
Buddhi Retreats ran small all-inclusive yoga and surf weeks at Rancho Burica in Punta Banco, near Pavones in Costa Rica's far…
Casa Zen is a budget guesthouse and yoga center near Playa Carmen in Santa Teresa, on the southern Nicoya Peninsula, with dorm…
The Central Highlands, around the Central Valley and San José, are where most Costa Ricans live: a high valley of coffee farms…
The Central Pacific is the beach region closest to San José, from Jaco and Playa Hermosa down to Quepos and Manuel Antonio. It…
Cocos Island is an uninhabited national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site about 550 km southwest of mainland Costa Rica, famous…
The Costa Rica Surf Institute (CRSI) was a surf school and camp in Tamarindo, Guanacaste, that included weekly yoga sessions with…
Costa Rica Yoga Spa is a small hilltop retreat on a private ranch above Nosara, looking over the Pacific and the Ostional…
Costa Rica Yoga Spa is a small hilltop lodge above the Montaña and Nosara rivers near Nosara, Guanacaste, built around a tall…
Danyasa Eco-Retreat is an adults-only yoga retreat center and boutique eco-hotel in Dominical, on Costa Rica's south Pacific…
Danyasa is a small eco-retreat and yoga and dance studio in the village of Dominical, on the South Pacific coast. It rents rooms…
Hotel DoceLunas is a small hotel with about 20 rooms, a pool and large tropical gardens at the foot of the forested hills behind…
Downtown Yoga was a small studio in central San José, run as a community project with Costa Rican teachers and classes in…
El Silencio Lodge & Spa is a small luxury lodge in its own cloud-forest reserve in Bajos del Toro, north of San José, with a free…
Encanta La Vida is a small, solar-powered jungle lodge at Cabo Matapalo, on the tip of the Osa Peninsula, with a two-storey yoga…
Espiritu Salvaje was a retreat center on a hillside near Uvita, on Costa Rica's south Pacific coast, used for week-long programs…
A gap year in Costa Rica can mix daily yoga with surf, Spanish and volunteering, without needing a luxury budget. Santa Teresa…
Goa YogaWear was a small Costa Rican yoga clothing brand designed by Daniella Muñoz, the teacher behind Zen Yoga Studio in…
Of the six yoga teacher-training centers we listed in 2015, Anamaya still runs 200-hour trainings in Montezuma and Marianne Wells…
Guanacaste is Costa Rica's driest, sunniest province, in the northwest, with a long Pacific coastline, volcanoes inland and its…
Hacienda del Sol is an all-inclusive wellness retreat in the jungle near San Juanillo, about 14 km up the coast from Nosara in…
The Harmony Hotel is a boutique hotel in Nosara, Guanacaste, set in native gardens a 2-minute walk from Playa Guiones. Its…
Holman Health Connections is a small retreat company from Washington State, run by yoga teacher Roy Holman, that has led yoga…
Horizon is a small hotel and yoga center on the hillside above Santa Teresa, on the southern Nicoya Peninsula, with daily classes…
Horizon Hotel and Yoga Center is a small hillside hotel above Santa Teresa, on the southern Nicoya Peninsula, with wooden…
The Magellan Inn, now listed as the Magellan Boutique Hotel, is a small hotel in the garden and jungle at Playa Grande, just…
Impulso Sano was a small wellness studio in Playas del Coco, Guanacaste, offering vinyasa yoga with beginner classes, Reiki…
Inti Resort and Villas is a small resort in the jungle outside Cahuita, on Costa Rica's southern Caribbean coast, built around a…
Inward Bound was a small retreat company that ran week-long yin yoga, meditation and juice-cleanse retreats in Costa Rica in the…
Kindred Spirits is a small farm in the hills of Cocles, near Puerto Viejo on the Caribbean coast, where founder Terry Newton and…
Krama Yoga is one of the longest-running yoga studios in the Central Valley, now based in Pozos de Santa Ana, west of San José.…
La Colina Lodge is a small budget lodge on the edge of Monteverde, close to the cloud forest reserve, which offered yoga classes…
La Escuela del Sol was a small school in the center of Montezuma that combined yoga classes with Spanish lessons, surfing, scuba…
La Paz Waterfall Gardens is a private nature park in Vara Blanca, between Poás and Braulio Carrillo national parks, with trails…
Los Altos de Eros is an adults-only boutique hotel and spa on a jungle hilltop about 15 minutes from the beaches around…
Luna Lodge is a small eco-lodge on a forested hillside above Playa Carate, at the edge of Corcovado National Park on the Osa…
Marianne Wells Yoga School is a teacher-training school that runs residential 100, 200 and 300 hour trainings in several…
Montezuma Yoga was a well-loved open-air yoga studio at Hotel Los Mangos in Montezuma, on the southern Nicoya Peninsula, run by…
Nosara is a beach town on the Pacific side of the Nicoya Peninsula in Guanacaste, known for its surf, protected coastline and…
Playas del Coco is a lively, easy-to-reach beach town on Guanacaste's Gulf of Papagayo, about 30 minutes from Liberia airport. It…
San José is Costa Rica's capital and biggest city, in the Central Valley, and most international visitors pass through it. It's…
Tamarindo is a lively surf and beach town on Guanacaste's Pacific coast, about an hour's drive from Liberia airport, with plenty…
Mother Nature Yoga Retreat was a small yoga week held at Villa Cortes, a group rental near Playa Guiones in Nosara, and organized…
Mundo Tranquilo, also known as Gentle Earth Retreats, ran juice and healthy-eating retreats with daily yoga in the village of…
Mystica is a small lodge and retreat center on a hillside above Lake Arenal, between Tilarán and Nuevo Arenal, with views of the…
Namasté Yoga Studio was an ashtanga shala near Hospital México in San José, founded in 2001 by Mariela Cruz, the first Central…
Nautilus Surf & Yoga Villas, once called Nautilus Boutique Hotel, is a small villa hotel in Santa Teresa on the Nicoya Peninsula…
Nicole Loría is a Costa Rican yoga teacher and clinical psychologist who, when we wrote about her in 2012, taught hot vinyasa…
Nosara Wellness is an integrative wellness clinic on the upper road to Playa Pelada in Nosara, open since 2000, with physical…
The Nosara Yoga Institute was a yoga teacher training school in Nosara, Guanacaste, founded in 1994 by Don and Amba Stapleton and…
Nosarananda was a small beachside yoga center near Nosara, Guanacaste, known for teacher trainings capped at 10 students in…
Ojo del Mar is a small eco-lodge on the beach near Cabo Matapalo, about 20 km south of Puerto Jiménez on the Osa Peninsula, with…
PachaMama is an eco-village and spiritual community in the forest near San Juanillo, about 40 minutes north of Nosara, founded by…
Panacea de la Montaña was a small, quiet yoga retreat with cabins, a pool and a labyrinth in the hills of Guanacaste, inland from…
Pasión de Tres was a small clothing label run by three members of the Tobón family, selling one-off skirts, blouses, swimwear and…
Pavones Yoga Center was a boutique yoga retreat and teacher-training center in Pavones, a remote surf village near the Panama…
A Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) is a course of at least 72 hours that teaches you to design farms, gardens and homes that…
Peace Retreat is an intimate retreat center at Los Pargos, near the surf town of Playa Negra in Guanacaste, with a screened yoga…
Rancho Delicioso is an organic farm and eco-village on the southern Nicoya Peninsula, between Montezuma and Santa Teresa, that…
Go between December and April if you want the driest weather on the Pacific side, where most yoga towns are; May to November is…
Playa Hermosa Lodge was a small hilltop bed and breakfast above Playa Hermosa, just south of Jacó on the Central Pacific…
Playa Negra Yoga, founded by Hali Love, is a yoga studio and teacher-training school in Los Pargos, close to the Playa Negra surf…
La Fortuna de San Carlos is the town at the foot of Arenal Volcano, in Costa Rica's northern lowlands, and a base for the…
Portasol is an eco-community in the rainforest along the Portalón River, between Quepos and Dominical on Costa Rica's Pacific…
Prana Rainforest Retreat is a private rainforest villa in the hills of Manuel Antonio, rented as a whole for up to 14 guests.…
Prana Yoga was a small private studio in San Rafael de Escazú, west of San José, where Evelyn Tellez taught vinyasa, prenatal and…
Pranamar Villas and Yoga Retreat is a small beachfront hotel at the north end of Santa Teresa, on the southern Nicoya Peninsula…
Pranamar Villas & Yoga Retreat is a small hotel of Balinese-style villas and bungalows on the beach at the north end of Santa…
Prenatal yoga is a gentle, adapted yoga practice for pregnancy, with modified poses, breathing and relaxation. Health bodies such…
Prenatal yoga is a gentle, adapted yoga practice for pregnancy. ACOG, the US college of obstetricians, says healthy pregnant…
Punta Mona was an 85-acre organic farm and center for sustainable living, reachable only by boat or on foot, between Manzanillo…
Pura Vida Adventures has run all-inclusive surf and yoga weeks in Santa Teresa, on Costa Rica's southern Nicoya Peninsula, since…
Rancho Margot is a working, off-grid farm and eco-lodge in the hills by Lake Arenal, about 40 minutes from La Fortuna. Stays…
Reflexion Yoga Tamarindo is a small yoga and wellness business in Tamarindo, Guanacaste, that teaches private, couples' and beach…
Restorative yoga is a slow, quiet style in which props such as bolsters and blankets support you in a few restful poses held for…
Río Chirripó Lodge is a small riverside lodge in the mountains of Pérez Zeledón, in southern Costa Rica, a few minutes below the…
Río Chirripó Lodge, once known as Rio Chirripo Yoga Retreat, is a 12-room boutique mountain hotel beside the Chirripó River near…
Rio Shanti was a small yoga, dance, massage and crafts center by the river in Monteverde, in the cloud forest of Costa Rica's…
Linial was a small clothing line started in Santa Teresa, on the Nicoya Peninsula, in 2008, making cotton tank tops, skirts and…
Samasati is a yoga and wellness retreat on 250 acres of rainforest above the southern Caribbean coast, about 20 minutes from…
Sattva Yoga was a small yoga practice based in Surfside, near Playa Potrero in northern Guanacaste, teaching a mix of hatha and…
School of the World is a small campus in Jacó, on Costa Rica's Central Pacific coast, where you can combine Spanish lessons, surf…
Selva Armonia is a private retreat center and event venue in the jungle hills above Uvita, on Costa Rica's south Pacific coast.…
Shaka Costa Rica is a surf camp for adults on Playa Hermosa, about 15 minutes north of Santa Teresa on the Nicoya Peninsula, with…
Shodhana was a small yoga and Thai massage studio in Sabana Norte, in San José, that opened in 2010 and taught classes tailored…
Shooting Star Yoga Studio was a beachside studio in Pavones, on Costa Rica's far southern Pacific coast, known for yoga for…
Sivana Yoga ran week-long yoga and spa retreats based at Hotel Costa Verde in Manuel Antonio, on Costa Rica's Central Pacific…
In 2015 we picked six beach-area yoga retreats around Montezuma, Santa Teresa and Playa Hermosa on the southern Nicoya Peninsula.…
Guanacaste, Costa Rica's dry northwest, has dozens of beaches, and these 5 cover the range: windy Bahía Salinas for kitesurfing…
Anamaya, a clifftop yoga retreat above Montezuma on the Nicoya Peninsula, runs all-inclusive yoga and surf weeks with daily yoga…
Stillpoint Yoga was a small yoga program run by Kripalu-trained teacher Janet Crump at Finca Las Cascadas, a farm in Turrubares…
Stressful to Soulful began as Janine Fafard's gentle yoga and stress-relief practice in Escazú, west of San José. Her old address…
Hotel Hacienda Sueño Azul is a large countryside hotel on a farm in Horquetas de Sarapiquí, in Costa Rica's northern lowlands…
This is our 2015 list of 10 yoga retreats in Costa Rica, rechecked in November 2026. Seven are still taking guests (Anamaya…
The Barkan Method is a style of hot hatha yoga developed by Jimmy Barkan, a former senior Bikram teacher, with a heated set…
The Goddess Garden is a yoga and wellness resort on 14 acres between the rainforest and the Caribbean near Cahuita, a 2-minute…
The Sanctuary at Two Rivers is a small yoga and meditation retreat center on a 40-acre forest property where two rivers meet…
The Yoga Farm is a simple, community-run yoga center and sustainable-living project on a hill above Punta Banco, just past…
Tierra de Milagros is a small, off-grid jungle retreat with thatch-roofed bungalows in a botanical garden on the Osa Peninsula…
Tierra de Yoga was a yoga center in the jungle at Playa Chiquita, south of Puerto Viejo on the Caribbean coast, with daily…
Three hotels in and around San José that we first listed in 2012, rechecked in November 2026: Hotel Grano de Oro, a boutique…
Alajuela province has 16 cantons; its first 5 by official number are Alajuela, San Ramón, Grecia, San Mateo and Atenas. This…
Cartago province, east of San José, has 8 cantons; its first 5 by official number are Cartago, Paraíso, La Unión, Jiménez and…
Guanacaste, Costa Rica's dry northwest, has 11 cantons; its first 5 by official number are Liberia, Nicoya, Santa Cruz, Bagaces…
Heredia province, just north of San José, has 10 cantons; its first 5 by official number are Heredia, Barva, Santo Domingo, Santa…
Limón province, on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast, has 6 cantons: Limón, Pococí, Siquirres, Talamanca, Matina and Guácimo. This…
Puntarenas province, along most of the Pacific coast, has 13 cantons; its first 5 by official number are Puntarenas, Esparza…
San José province has 20 cantons; its first 5 by official number are San José (the capital), Escazú, Desamparados, Puriscal and…
Five small hotels on Guanacaste's Pacific coast that we first listed in 2012, rechecked in November 2026: Los Altos de Eros near…
Hotel Tropico Latino is a beachfront hotel in Santa Teresa, on the southern Nicoya Peninsula, with daily all-levels yoga on an…
Vajra Sol Travel (formerly Vajra Sol Yoga Adventures) is a small yoga retreat company founded in Costa Rica in 2006 by teacher…
Via Yoga was a Seattle-based yoga travel company that, in 2012, ran yoga and surf retreats at the Harmony Hotel in Nosara…
Vida Asana School of Yoga is an all-inclusive yoga retreat center in the jungle near Playa Hermosa, south of Jacó on the Central…
Vida Asana is a yoga school and eco-lodge in the forest by a river at Playa Hermosa, near Jaco, about 90 minutes from San José…
Villa Cortes was a rental retreat center near Playa Guiones in Nosara, Guanacaste, with three houses for up to 17 people, an…
Waterfall Villas is a small eco-retreat with 6 suites set beside its own waterfall in Barú, just north of Dominical on Costa…
Costa Rica's silent and meditation retreats are mostly on the Nicoya Peninsula: PachaMama near Nosara runs week-long silent…
Wendy's Yoga was a small retreat company led by teacher Wendy, a former manager of International Yoga Pavilions, that ran…
For a yoga trip, most people choose the Pacific coast: Nosara for a quiet, structured week with more retreat centers than any…
White Cloud Sanctuary was a small Daoist temple and study center on a mountain farm near San José, where one guest at a time…
Women's Quest is a women-only adventure retreat company from Boulder, Colorado, founded by former world champion triathlete…
Ylang Ylang Beach Resort sits between the jungle and a quiet beach just north of Montezuma village, on the southern Nicoya…
You can combine yoga and surfing on most of Costa Rica's Pacific coast, and you can learn as a complete beginner: surf camps in…
Yoga is often sold as a way to detox, but there's no good evidence that yoga, sweating in a hot room or any particular pose…
Yoga can be a fun, low-risk way for children to move, breathe and settle down, and US health agencies say early research is…
Yoga Mandir is a yoga and Thai massage school in San Pedro de Montes de Oca, near the University of Costa Rica in San José. It…
Yoga Prairie was a yoga studio and state-licensed teacher-training school in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, run by long-time teacher…
Yoga Rica was a retreat program around Montezuma and Cabuya, on the southern Nicoya Peninsula, created by dancer and yoga teacher…
Santocha Yoga Center was a small hatha yoga and Pilates studio in the city of Cartago, in Costa Rica's Central Valley, founded in…
Yoga Shakti Wellness Center was a yoga and wellness program, run from Southern California, that held retreats at a private estate…
Yoga Sol was a yoga studio in the city of Cartago, east of San José, with step-by-step courses for beginners, classes for older…
You can do a 200-hour yoga teacher training in Costa Rica in Nosara, Montezuma, Playa Hermosa, the Osa Peninsula, the Caribbean…
This is our original 2014 list of 14 places that ran yoga teacher trainings in Costa Rica, with each one's status rechecked in…
Your Zen Yoga was a small yoga business in Guanacaste run by teacher Dori Matthews Thomsen, known for private classes, custom…
Zen Yoga Studio was a small studio in Lomas de Ayarco, Curridabat, on the east side of San José, teaching vinyasa flow, partner…
The best yoga retreat in Costa Rica is the one that matches your level, the time you have and the coast you want: Nosara and…