The magic of Costa Rica awaits you! Nature is a powerful healer, and on Living Yoga's Costa Rica Retreat you will be immersed in some of Nature's greatest wonders. You will experience the exquisite tastes and super nourishment of the colorful tropical fruits, the lush green of the jungle and gently rolling mountains, the inspiring power of the waterfalls and the refreshment of the swimming holes, the radiant warmth of the sun, the natural beauty and warm waters at the protected tropical beaches, and incredible flowers, birds, and butterflies.

Our retreat will include inspirational, educational visits with people who have found a way to live gracefully in harmony with nature. The journey available to you at this Retreat Intensive will open you up to greater possibilities for a life lived fully. With new self-awareness, a healthier mind and
body, toxins and mental/emotional blockages released,
and a new level of energy and vitality, dreams feel possible and life becomes very exciting indeed.

The benefits of a truly healthful raw diet and yogic lifestyle are too numerous to list! A healthy, cleansed and detoxified body brings about a healthy mind and balanced emotions. Exciting and unprecedented spiritual growth can be expected, along with daily experiences of profound joy. It's been said that knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Our daily format includes invigorating fresh-air morning yoga for all levels, inspirational and educational talks, outdoor fitness activities tailored to your abilities, hands-on food prep instruction, intensive group coaching sessions utilizing art therapy modalities (no art experience necessary), gentle afternoon yoga with guided meditation and contemplation, evening discussions, and time for rest and reflection in our beautiful natural setting. All meals will follow a 100% raw, 100% delicious, low-fat vegan plan. Our extra simple diet will facilitate maximum awareness and cleansing. Throughout the retreat you will have ample opportunities to have your questions and concerns addressed.

My mission is simple: to help you receive the tools, guidance, and support you need to awaken to your full potential for joyful health and the freedom to live your dreams. Your part in the deal is to show up and give your best. I have learned through extensive experience that a low-fat fruit-based raw vegan diet, along with appropriate exercise and other requisites of health, and a yoga practice that grounds you in self-awareness and acceptance is a powerful prescription for a life of greatness. I know that a live-in retreat setting is the most effective way for me to share the tools I have accumulated, and help you break old unhelpful patterns and habits and acquire a fresh new outlook and new healthful habits.

A maximum of 15 people will be accepted into this retreat, in order to insure the best learning and
transformative experience for each participant. This is IT – the culmination of all my learnings, and all my teachings, coming together in one powerful live-in week. If you are serious about living your life more fully, with much more vitality and joy, this experience may be just the one you need. I invite you to join me in living like every minute matters, and feeling like every day is beautiful.

I am so confident that this will be a life-changing, positive experience for you that I am offering a 100% money-back guarantee to anyone who can honestly say they did not get their money's worth, and more, at the close of the retreat. So what do you really have to lose? It's time to start getting the results you really want. This is no ordinary retreat. I am calling it a "retreat-intensive" because it's about real transformation. It's about engaging fully, with clear intention and a laser-beam focus, to uncover the patterns that are holding you back from the vitality you deserve. It's about empowering you with the tools and awareness you need to experience rapid positive forward momentum.

Here's what participants have to say about their experiences withLiving Yoga:

Dear Ellen, Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed and took away from this winter's raw retreat in Florida. It was just what I needed! Inspiration, motivation, delicious raw meals, warmth, sunshine, new like minded friends and most of all a gentle, knowledgeable teacher who exudes health and walks the talk of living life to its healthy fullest! I returned from Florida refreshed and renewed, feeling as though I had been given all the necessary tools to live and love a healthy lifestyle. I have you to thank for that great gift. Blessings, Lee Jenkins

My week-long retreat with Ellen Livingston, who has found and is a living example of true vibrant
health, was an absolutely priceless experience. Not only was I able to eat 80/10/10 for a week and feel truly wonderful, nourished, and satisfied, but I realized that it is about so much more than just what I eat. It is one thing to read about something or to hear about it from those who practice it, but it wasn't until I went on the retreat and was able to fully experience it myself that I made the connection of how important so many other elements of health are.
I learned so much from Ellen about the 80/10/10 lifestyle, natural hygiene, how to prepare food, and received amazing yoga and fitness instruction as well as numerous tips on continuing the process after I returned home to my family. Ellen's wisdom and counseling helped me come to some breakthrough self-realizations about my true hopes and desires and enabled me to see the possibilities of what I can achieve. She has a wonderful gift of bestowing her knowledge to others in a most helpful and non-judgmental way.
Going on a retreat with Ellen must be one of the quickest ways to catapult one's self forward on the path to true vibrant health. I plan to do everything I can to go on another retreat with Ellen in the future as it was one of the best growth experiences I have had in my entire life.
- Amy Brainard

I really appreciate all the knowledge that you share, and all the seminars you spend your time giving. You have really helped me in my quest for true health. Everyone one else in the raw food world is so hard to follow, with all their juicing and sprouting and whatever else they do. Your teachings are so easy to follow and understand, and your recipes are so delicious!! Thank you for the newsletters too, I look forward to them, they are a ray of sunshine to me! Thank you for everything, I really appreciate you. Have a very lovely day! Gratefully yours, Gabriela Gomez

The retreat was very special. It was great to do yoga at the lake every morning. I was detoxing, my frozen shoulder ached and felt like just sleeping in but the thought of meditating with yoga at that lake was too irresistible to stay in bed. I think you are just great to inspire us this way. You are a true inspiration and pioneer to health. - Kirsten Blok

I am continually impressed by Ellen's knowledge and expertise on what we go through when we're detoxing and changing our lifestyles, which is invaluable when making the commitment to stay raw. I am so grateful that Ellen has chosen to share her knowledge in this way.
– Julie Pfitzenmaier

My partner Billy Newmyer will co-host this retreat with me. He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience of Costa Rica's natural features and people. We have chosen a very special facility in which to hold this retreat. Our friends Brian and Jody have created a wonderful haven in the uniquely lovely Diamante Valley 3.5 hours south west of San Jose. It is end of the road privacy on 35 acres, surrounded by native jungle. Your accommodations are charming single or shared rooms, fully equipped with electricity, flush toilets and hot showers.

The Yoga Rancho is built of natural materials, and sits at the highest point on the farm, backed up to a dense forest and facing majestic ocean views. It is a space of serenity. The Harvest House is the farm's central gathering place for meals, recreation and wellness programs. This large rancho under a thatched roof has a kitchen, dining hall and lounging area. This is a space for relaxing in a hammock or on the sofa, plugging into the Internet with your personal laptop, sitting down for a conversation and eating dinner to the sunset. The Harvest House enjoys pleasant breezes, cool temperatures and incredible views of the ocean, valley and evening sunsets.

Please click here to visit the retreat facility: Finca de Vida – The Farm of Life

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Fortunately, our retreat takes place during the Off-Peak travel season for Costa Rica. However it is still important to book your airplane reservations as soon as possible, as the fares will continue to rise as flights fill. Spirit Air tends to have very good rates to Costa Rica, and they have a major hub in Detroit, Michigan.

We look forward to a week of rejuvenation, inspiration, education, detoxification, healing and growth with you in Costa Rica 2013!

Blessings on your journey to radiant health and the life of your dreams,

Ellen Livingston and Billy Newmyer