Costa Rica Pura Vida Pole Yoga Retreat
Polistic recently hosted the first annual Pura Vida Pole Yoga retreat in gorgeous
Costa Rica with a group of amazing women!
This was the very first International Pole Yoga retreat and the women who attended gained more than they bargained for!
They each came expecting adventure, Pole Yoga, a little pampering, and a lot of sunshine, but what they encountered was a life-changing,
transformative, soul-expressing experience that levelled them up to new heights!
We were there a week, but it felt like a year with all we were able to see, do, taste, and explore!
On the first day the women were greeted by Ronald, our personal driver and the best tour guide in the country, at the airport.
Most of the ladies brought their own Lupit Poles.
The Lupit carry bag makes a perfect “checked bag!”
Having Ronald waiting at the airport to assist with the bags made everyone feel so safe and welcome as they were arriving.
Having your own, trusted, chauffeur for the week eases any tension about being in unfamiliar territory. 
Ronald brought the ladies to the Matapolo Mansion where we had the welcome reception prepared.
It was a delicious way to welcome them to their new home away from home before going to my favorite restaurant, Father Roosters.
The ladies loved dining by the water, eating the best vegan sushi you can imagine, and watching the sunset.
We played in the water and enjoyed having our photos taken by Jessica, the professional photographer who
joined us for the retreat to capture our moments, so we could simply enjoy them.
On the first full day of the retreat, we set the poles up at the Yoga studio and began the day with journaling and breakfast.
After our journaling session Zare, a local Costa Rican medicine woman came for our first Pole Yoga session.
She smudged each of us with plants from all over the world, then led us in a Sacred Cacao Ceremony.
After we drank our Cacao and opened our hearts, we practiced our first Pole Yoga session as she played the sound bowls.
Check out this video from that day!
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♬ Skate – Trees and Lucy
We were all buzzing with so much bliss! It was the perfect opening ceremony to christen our new home for the week.
The next day we woke up early to make it out to see the Whales.
September is whale season. Momma whales come in closer to land where the water is shallow enough to have their babies and teach them the ways of the water.
It was magical seeing the mommas with their babies! A real life birthing center for whales!
We were able to make it to a sweet reef spot and do some snorkeling.
On our way back to land 10 dolphins came and gave us a show! We saw huge turtles and so many sea birds. It was pure perfection!
After our day on the sail boat, we invited a group of locals to the yoga studio for an evening Pole Yoga session. This was our way to give back to the community.
I had the Polistic Yoga Guide translated into Spanish and took a copy for each of my attendees to gift a local, as well as encouraged them to each bring a gift.
One woman brought her 11 year daughter, and another was from Russia. In one room, we had many sizes, colors, and races and ages of women, all enjoying and finding healing with the Yoga Pole.
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It was truly the most magical day of my life. (Did I mention it was also my 41st birthday and I was showered in gifts and love all day! Truly, amazing way to begin a new year)
Pura Vida means “Pure Life” and the next day that is what we did, we experienced the Pure Life of a Blue Zone in Costa Rica.
I took the polers to the jungle where we zip lined, river rafted, took a mud bath with the mud from the volcano and soaked in the hot springs.
We each faced our fears, took leaps of faith and basked in the joy of being out in the jungle.
Exotic birds, huge wild trees, hollering monkeys..there is so much to take in and it so different than the concrete jungle many of us are used to back home.
Experiencing the feeling of flying through the jungle, or floating down the river is simply indescribable.
The feeling of doing something that brings you a little fear, then totally loving it, and even owning it, is a feeling of freedom, power and bliss. Pure Epic Bliss.
Our grand finale was, well, grand!
Ronald drove us to a waterfall where we set up the Lupit Stage Pole.
It is always a show taking it out. Next time, we will go somewhere a little more private, or if we come back here, NOT on a weekend!
As it was full of people making it tough for our epic photo shoot.
Thankfully, we took the best photographer and she captured the moment perfectly.
People are always curious about Pole Yoga and it is always fun educating them and showing them how the pole can be used as a tool to feel better.
Back to the mansion where we had massage therapists waiting to pamper us!
What a magical way to end the retreat.
Well, not totally end the retreat as there was a game of dirty charades and skinny dipping still to come!
LOL, yes, some of us stripped down and cooled our bodies in the salt water infinity pool over looking the ocean, and learned one of our polers has a dirty vocabulary big enough to impress Alex Trebek!
Laughter is the best medicine and we laughed until our eyes watered.
We were all moms or business owners, ya know, serious kinda women, doing serious business most of the time.
Having this time to unwind, laugh, explore, be pampered, nurtured, tended to.. is exactly what the Pura Vida Pole Yoga Retreat was about.
Shifting into more alignment with who we really are, while feeling safe, seen and supported is not our normal routine in the hustle and bustle of life back in the United States.
There is a frequency, a vibration in Costa Rica that is unlike anywhere else on earth.
It is healing and transforming, pure yet exciting.
It is life there. More animals, more loving people and more fresh air than we get daily on turtle island.
Retreating to Costa Rica with the pole has added years to my life.
Restorative and Preventive medicine is the best medicine.
Living life checking items off the bucket list, that’s a BIG YES for my soul.
How about you?
For what good is a life not lived?
We are here for a short time, but a good time,
It is our little choices, one by one, that add up over time to create an incredible life.
Since we have returned home, I am witnessing the lasting affects of the retreat on the attendees.
Several of them are starting new career paths based on what they discovered was their life’s highest purpose in Costa Rica.
There is a new story in you right now, waiting to be told, it just needs the canvas to come out and shine on.
The new you awaits in Costa Rica!
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Reserve your spot for next Pura Vida Retreat February 28-March 6 here
These are luxury, intimate, exclusive retreats designed with safety, transformation, nurturing and YOU in mind.
We work with a world class retreat team that helps us make curate an event of a lifetime.
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Namaste at the Pole,
Jennifer Rollins
Founder
Polistic Yoga
