Principal Scott Rodwin recently travelled down to Embody Costa Rica Yoga Retreat to help craft a Master Plan for this fledgling wellness center about 30 minutes west of San Jose.
There’s a modest house, a large partially completed yoga shala, a stone labyrinth, and a wealth of giant flora on the one acre site. It’s located in the charming small town of Atenas, which is noted for having the best climate in the world. The surrounding area abounds with Avatar-worthy trees, rivers, waterfalls and sublime secret swimming holes.
DTO (a well-known DJ & music-producer www.dtomusic.com) and Hemalayaa (yoga and retreat leader), are the wonderful Owners; they’re fluent in Spanish and are deeply embedded in the local tico community. The easily accessible site is in a mixed rural neighborhood, bounded by a creek and woods, a boutique hotel and a jungle hillside of custom homes.
During a weeklong visioning process, Scott & the owners created a campus site plan that includes a dozen charming casitas, a spa, an office & boutique, a commercial kitchen, café, & dining patios, two pools & a waterfall, a firepit, palapas, teacher/retreat leader guestrooms, a recording studio, a treehouse platform, a large terraced permaculture garden and extensive landscaping.
Several of these components are already under construction. The retreat is currently operating, and as they add more of these planned facilities, their offerings will continue to grow.
They are currently accepting investors – if you’ve ever dreamed of co-owning a beautiful eco-yoga retreat, feel free to contact Hemalayaa (embody@hemalayaa.com) for more information.
