IKARA RETREAT CENTRE
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IYENGAR YOGA INTENSIVE​ with VAYA

Ikara Retreat Centre Costa Rica
​2nd till 8th June 2021
7 days, 6 nights, 5 days of Intensive Yoga.
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Iyengar yoga, as taught by the Iyengar family, provides an opportunity for you to open the portal to self realisation, to your freedom. Alignment, timing and the art of sequencing aid and encourage the sadhaka, the practitioner, to turn inward during their practice. 

This work potentiates the individual and facilitates a journey to the core of being, effecting all of the body’s compartments: Physical body, Physiological body, Emotional body, Breathing body and the Bliss body that combine the self. We experience decoding and rewiring,  synchronizing and healing in the journey from the self, by the self, to selflessness.

This work is a tool that teaches awareness, the ability to be in observation, to be the watcher and to learn to understand who is within us, who we are becoming always. Observing your action, your non-action and re-actions.  To learn and to understand the self in a deeper level of unity, understanding ones inextricably linked relationship with nature and being led to the oneness of self, to the place beyond time, and to become one with the ever creating, unified field of the unknowable.

A unique meditative approach using asana as a laboratory to observe how we are managing our life space and time here and now  to align and  to know ourselves.

Vaya, a meditator, teacher, a life coach,  with over 25 years experience of teaching yoga. certified directly by B.K.S. Iyengar will hold this intensive.
Join us for a week long retreat supported with intensive iyengar yoga that will create the container.
  • Daily yoga classes. Asana, pranayama & restorative.
  • Open Shala for individual practice with an individual time for questions.
  • Meet the yoga Asana family to bring awareness for effective effortless effort.
  • Enjoy being immersed in nature while practicing
  • There is an option to join this retreat and to be in silence. 
  • This yoga retreat is open to all levels.
  • Our borders in Costa Rica are open. 

Investment: $1450 USD pp
A deposit of $500  is required to secure your spot. All deposits and even full payments are 100% refundable should you  be unable to attend due to COVID-19

The following is included in the pricing
  • 7 days and 6 nights accommodation
  • All yoga sessions 
  • Catered vegetarian meals
  • Access to juice, coffee, tea and snacks
  • All Yoga equipment can be supplied. If you prefer to bring your own we certainly encourage it. We will be using bolsters, bricks, belts and mats during the sessions..​​
  • Our guests are invited to arrive earlier or extend their stay if they wish to discover more of the region. Please speak to us about these options.

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ABOUT IKARA RETREAT CENTRE

We are located high in the hills above the authentic Tico village of Portalón. We have the best of all worlds here -  quiet and secluded, set amongst old growth tropical rain forest. close to Matapalo beach, the beautiful Portalón river, and the Hills of Portalón Wildlife Sanctuary, We are located only 15 minutes from the community of Dominical and 30 minutes to Manuel Antonio National Park, Quepos. 

​We are biased of course, we chose this place and it is now where we call home so we should let the images speak for themselves!
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​​FOOD
Ikara Retreat Centre provides vegetarian meals prepared with local, organic ingredients that are ethically obtained from within the southern pacific zone. In Costa Rica, we are privileged to live amongst abundance and it reflects in our food and food choice. We also make our own high protein tempeh from locally available beans. A real nutritional treat for retreat guests!

The water at Ikara springs forth from the mountain and is mineral rich.

Our guests may be assured, that during their stay, they will be nourished and fueled optimally for the retreat. All dietary requests can be catered for.  Our food we serve you is not served out of necessity and obligation, rather it is a gift assigned with living intent as an extension of the wholistic experience of the retreat itself and our philosophies at Ikara.

Iyengar Yoga Teacher

Vaya Talia

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​Vaya Talia received her yoga teacher certification directly from B.K.S. Iyengar in Pune, India. She has practiced Yoga and Vipassana meditation since 1992 after receiving a B.A. degree in Philosophy and Cognition Science from the University of Tel Aviv. She studied with various teachers around the world including B.K.S. Iyengar, Getta, and Prashant Iyengar, and completed 4 years of yoga teacher training with Mr. Faeq Biria from France. She worked as an assistant of “Remedial Yoga classes” in Israel and the Iyengar Yoga Institute in India. Since 2007, Vaya has lived with her husband and their two boys in PachaMama in Samara Costa Rica and currently teaches yoga there as well as many other places in the world.
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