Date: Choose you own
Duration: 5 days, 4 nights
Cost: $1400 USD for one person
Max Participants 1.

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Yoga is defined as a process of binding. Therefore it is a process of physical and mental bridging and  to impart this knowledge accurately, the students physical position needs to be one in direct physical relationship with the teacher. 

​Yoga occurs and therefore you become where the  physical is unified with the non physical. Once we are aligned, we share our alignment with others. Whilst on-line learning has become a method of convenient practice, it also represents a step further removed from a natural physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual interaction between the student and teacher. We have magnetic fields. Our language is not just ,mere sounds generating syllables, it has a sonic resonance. The teacher being able to see the student brings accurate alignment and understanding to the practitioner so they can begin the mind and body bridging process. ​

Yoga is humanity and in a world fast trending towards artificial experience we feel it is imperative that individuals have the opportunity to maintain the physical tactile association with their own bodies and others. based on our deep philosophical values and our dedication to yogic science we are prepared to gift an individual with individualized attention at the price of a group retreat. This is to demonstrate the non-material interaction that is required between student and teacher for developing understanding of what yoga was always intended  to be. Undivided intention in wholeness through perseverance of observation. In our time today, there exists no better time to become stronger as an individual so that people can once again be together - welcome to your retreat. 

The view from Ikara retreat centre in Costa Rica - the sun setting over the pacific ocean. Every day it is different.

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​INCLUSIONS

• 5 days and 4 nights accommodation in your own private room with ensuite. You will be staying on the top level of Ikara Retreat Centre that has the best view of the ocean.
• 4 hours of yoga per day - morning and afternoon sessions
• All vegetarian meals and snacks
• Access to all our facilities
• All yoga equipment will be supplied but you may bring your own if preferred. We will be using bolsters, bricks, belts and mats during the sessions..​​
• Cost $1400 for one person. ​ 
• For a couple $1000 USD per person. $2000 USD total.
• Reduced per person rate if more than one person.
• For small groups contact us for the rate.

This workshop will run with 1 participant only.. This enables the trainer to give specialized attention and instruction plus will satisfy all COVID-19 restrictions. 

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.

​FOOD
We will provide 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. 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

LOCATION and ACCOMMODATION
This retreat will be held at Ikara Retreat Centre. Ikara is located high in the hills above the small town of Portalon. It is a boutique retreat centre that is quiet and secluded. Situated outside of an authentic Tico village, a true Costa Rican experience awaits.

​Our retreat centre has a purpose built yoga deck overlooking the ocean. A pool to cool off in and manicured gardens to explore. Growing on the property we have bananas, aguacate (avocados), pipas (coconuts), jengibre (ginger), mazana (apples) and more. ​

The centre is quiet and as a result we have  regular animal visitors to the property. Everyday we see colibri (hummingbirds), tolomuco (tayra), pezote (white nosed coati), mariposas (butterflys) and a wealth  of frogs, amphibians, monkeys and lizards. There are sloths and wild cats (ocelot, jaguar, puma and margay) but they are all elusive. ​

​MEET US

JAMIE ATHERTON

HATHA YOGA INSTRUCTOR

​A Certified Hatha Yoga Instructor and a dedicated student of Iyengar yoga. Over 20 years of plant medicine experience, Jamie has a life long, self perpetuating, commitment to all things promoting the individual. A passion for accelerating and learning the great esoteric wisdoms of bridge building between mind, body and soul through Yogic science. Ongoing continuous research into undivided wholeness through comparative philosophies, disciplines of science, including epigenetics, earth bioenergies and archeoastronomy. A devotion to the great minds and sages that have come before and laid the foundations for the eternal knowledge that we all receive the priviledges of. .
​Most importantly a devotion to the active observance and awareness of the self for without the self, there is no truth.

MELINDA ATHERTON

HOST

​Melinda is a Certified Hatha Yoga Instructor and also a dedicated student of Iyengar yoga. Melinda came from a background in Science and obtained her PhD in Astronomy in 1998. She was institutionalized by choice for a further 8 years working as a research associate at the Univeristy of NSW. During this time she ran her own electronic music label, distribution company and toured internationally. Throughout this time she conducted her own practical research into entheogenic plants and their effects. In 2006, she decided that that was enough externalization of thought and moved from Sydney (Australia) to a quiet town in the Snowy Mountains and became a School Bus driver. The true lessons of life were learnt outside of society from here. Now disengaged from the machine and with the love and support of her eternal soul mate - the real research could begin.,

She uses her scientific methods and all that she affectionately learnt while contained within the system to apply to her inward study of the self. One thing that Astrophysics has taught is that the focus should never be outwards into an unknown universe but simply towards the creation of the self. Which could in fact be termed the "Big Bang"  ?