Holistic Offerings
Yoga
Duration: 60min
Price: $80
All-levels personalized multi-style yoga class, combining movement and breath to achieve balance between mind, body and spirit. According to the client’s needs, the style can be gentle, energetic or a mix of the following yoga styles: Hatha, Vinyasa, Therapeutic (Iyengar), Yin or Power. As a special addition to the savasana, Reiki and sound vibration are offered to deepen the state of relaxation and integration.
Meet your therapist
Ana Alvarenga is a Costarrican multi-style yoga teacher with 8+ years of experience and 500 hours of training in India and Costa Rica. Ana combines a variety of styles (Hatha, Vinyasa, Ashtang, Yin, Power and Therapeutic or Iyengar) into a gentle but energetic flow to achieve a better suited practice. She is also a vegan chef and a holistic therapist, working with Reiki, acupressure, sound healing and cacao. Yoga has been her path for self-discovery, and she offers her practice as a tool to return to a state of ease and calmness that gets forgotten during normal living.
Reiki & Sounds
Duration: 75min
Price: $150
Reiki is a Japanese healing technique where practitioners use their hands to channel universal life energy to promote relaxation, stress reduction, and overall well-being, while involving specific sounds and vibrations to help the practitioner release energetic blockages and deeper recharge each chakra.
Meet your therapist
Ana Alvarenga is a Costarrican multi-style yoga teacher with 8+ years of experience and 500 hours of training in India and Costa Rica. Ana combines a variety of styles (Hatha, Vinyasa, Ashtang, Yin, Power and Therapeutic or Iyengar) into a gentle but energetic flow to achieve a better suited practice. She is also a vegan chef and a holistic therapist, working with Reiki, acupressure, sound healing and cacao. Yoga has been her path for self-discovery, and she offers her practice as a tool to return to a state of ease and calmness that gets forgotten during normal living.
Bioenergetic Balance
Duration: 75min
Price: $150
Bioenergetic balance refers to the state of harmonious energy flow within the body and its systems, achieved through the technique of acupressure, that uses slight to medium pressure on the meridians (energetic channels) of the following organs: Lungs, Kidneys, Gallbladder, Stomach, Spleen & Pancreas, Pericardium, Bladder, Liver, Small intestine, Heart, Large intestine and Triple heater. The client can choose from an overall balance or choose from a specific organ to work on with the aim of promoting physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
Meet your therapist
Ana Alvarenga is a Costarrican multi-style yoga teacher with 8+ years of experience and 500 hours of training in India and Costa Rica. Ana combines a variety of styles (Hatha, Vinyasa, Ashtang, Yin, Power and Therapeutic or Iyengar) into a gentle but energetic flow to achieve a better suited practice. She is also a vegan chef and a holistic therapist, working with Reiki, acupressure, sound healing and cacao. Yoga has been her path for self-discovery, and she offers her practice as a tool to return to a state of ease and calmness that gets forgotten during normal living.
Cacao Ceremony + Sound Bath
Duration: 120min
Price: $150
Ceremonial gathering that involves the consumption of raw cacao in a ritualized manner, accompanied by meditation, intention setting, and sound bath, with the purpose of connecting with oneself and others with the healing properties of the cacao, to facilitate emotional healing and self-discovery.
Meet your therapist
Ana and James are a Costarrican couple who together share their passion for cacao, music, and holding space.
Ana is a yoga teacher, holistic therapist and vegan chef.
James is a photographer with knowledge of yoga, reiki and acupressure.
In a nonjudgmental and compassionate space, both love to bring the medicine of the cacao and activate deeper levels of healing along the waves from sounds and meditation.
Sacrocranial
Duration: 75min
Price: $175
The therapy consists of a gentle touch of 5 grams, where restrictions are released in the craniosacral system which allows to optimize the functioning of the central nervous system. It is useful as a complement to the body’s natural healing processes, as well as prevention.
Meet your therapist
Laura is a Costarrican artist, movement practitioner and researcher. She has a master’s degree in dance teaching from the National University of Costa Rica, has developed as a choreographer and professional dancer of contemporary dance, is a craniosacral therapist, instructor of the Gyrotonic® expansion system method, Cardiovascular Breathing GYROKINESIS®, VAYU®, pilates mat and researcher of the Somalab CR Collective Her experience in body awareness work has developed through 20 years.
Abdominal Massage
Duration: 60min
Price: $120
A combination of Mayan Abdominal, Thai Massage abdomen work and Reiki. It’s a deep dive into the area, improving digestion, reducing bloating, helps with IBS, SIBO,IBD. For women, it helps with the period, pelvic health, stronger post-baby recovery and smoother menopause.
Meet your therapist
Elena Gutierrez is a Costarrican Sound Therapist, Reiki Master, Holistic Psychologist, Hatha Yoga Teacher and Vipassana meditator sure that compassion towards oneself and towards others is the key to a better world. Her signature as a therapist is to combine all sessions with profound empathy and listening in order to tailor each therapy specifically to the patient’s wants and needs. She focuses on generating deep spaces of transformation for the physical, emotional and mental bodies. “May all beings be free and happy.”
Somatic Breathwork
Duration: 120min
Price: $350
Active Dynamic Breathwork is a transformative practice that utilizes deep, conscious breathing to release limitations, trauma, and negative thoughts stored in the body, facilitating healing, clarity, and peace of mind by bridging the conscious and unconscious realms and connecting with our innate intuition.
Meet your therapist
Callie David is a marriage and family therapist, holistic coach, and breathwork guide, with 10 years’ experience working in the health field. Worked at eating disorder clinics, drug and alcohol rehab centers, community mental health centers, and more. She takes a trauma-informed somatic approach to help people get from disconnected and stuck in their mind to deeply connected to their own intuition. She brings her big heart and joy to the table as those can be some of the purest and most healing energies needed, as she holds a safe, non-judgmental space and the use of natural tools to encourage the movement and release of energy.
The beauty of working with someone who’s trained both in traditional and nontraditional practice is that the experience much de can be taken to a much deeper level. By adding in embodiment tools and cognitive restructuring, the benefits of both sides of healing can be combined to experience, in a safe, non-judgmental space.
Acupuncture
Duration: 75min
Price: $125
Acupuncture is a traditional Chinese Medicine technique used for balancing the flow of energy, which flows through pathways (meridians) in your body. By inserting needles into specific points along these meridians, your energy flow will re-balance. Acupuncture can be good for reducing pains, stress, anxiety, headaches, low energy, insomnia, and also for stimulating your immune System.
Meet your therapist
Bharú is a Master Instructor and speaker of Qigong, Medical Qigong, Gong Fu, Meditation and Zen. Is the founder of Aknanda Method and Academy. He began studying oriental arts at the age of 9. He is knowledgeable in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and special breathing methods. He has delivered workshops, retreats and courses in Argentina, Vietnam, Nepal, Costa Rica and Italy. A Lifelong Practitioner of Qigong and Healing Systems: Zen Shiatsu, Acupuncture, Buddhist, Zen and Taoist Arts and Philosophy.
Qigong
Duration: 75min
Price: $125
Qigong is a body-mind training that integrates movements, postures, breathing and awareness. A real meditation in movement, an art that strengthens your health, promotes longevity and inner peace. Qi means (energy, life force), and gong means (work, development or cultivation).
Meet your therapist
Bharú is a Master Instructor and speaker of Qigong, Medical Qigong, Gong Fu, Meditation and Zen. Is the founder of Aknanda Method and Academy. He began studying oriental arts at the age of 9. He is knowledgeable in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and special breathing methods. He has delivered workshops, retreats and courses in Argentina, Vietnam, Nepal, Costa Rica and Italy. A Lifelong Practitioner of Qigong and Healing Systems: Zen Shiatsu, Acupuncture, Buddhist, Zen and Taoist Arts and Philosophy.
Tai Chi
Duration: 75min
Price: $125
Taiji Quan, was a spiritual practice that integrated mind and body for enlightenment through the discipline of Tao meditation and martial arts training. Nowadays, Tai Chi is a series of soft, fluid movements that help relieve our nervous, muscular tension and develop better energy and blood circulation. Taichi strengthens the body from inside and promotes a peaceful mind.
Meet your therapist
Bharú is a Master Instructor and speaker of Qigong, Medical Qigong, Gong Fu, Meditation and Zen. Is the founder of Aknanda Method and Academy. He began studying oriental arts at the age of 9. He is knowledgeable in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and special breathing methods. He has delivered workshops, retreats and courses in Argentina, Vietnam, Nepal, Costa Rica and Italy. A Lifelong Practitioner of Qigong and Healing Systems: Zen Shiatsu, Acupuncture, Buddhist, Zen and Taoist Arts and Philosophy.
Meditation Zen
Duration: 75min
Price: $125
This class is ideal for people who want to learn step by step how to practice meditation according to the traditional teachings of Zen Buddhism and the internal arts.
Powerful sitting practice to open the gates of internal serenity, mindfulness and self-discovering.
Meet your therapist
Bharú is a Master Instructor and speaker of Qigong, Medical Qigong, Gong Fu, Meditation and Zen. Is the founder of Aknanda Method and Academy. He began studying oriental arts at the age of 9. He is knowledgeable in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and special breathing methods. He has delivered workshops, retreats and courses in Argentina, Vietnam, Nepal, Costa Rica and Italy. A Lifelong Practitioner of Qigong and Healing Systems: Zen Shiatsu, Acupuncture, Buddhist, Zen and Taoist Arts and Philosophy.
Ceibo Soundz (Sound Journey)
Duration: 60min
Price: $315
Melt into a vibrational sound bath with Ceibo Soundz. Using his collection of crystal tones alchemy bowls and eclectic instruments from around the world while using his voice as an instrument to hold space for deep rest and recovery. Ceibo will guide you into a journey of deep relaxation and self-discovery.
Meet your therapist
Residing in Nosara, Costa Rica since 2014, Ceibo has been offering Sound Journey experiences to retreats, ceremonies, small groups and has been offering weekly sound journeys at Bodhi Tree Yoga Resort for the past 8 years. His specialty is alchemy crystal bowls and indigenous instruments from around the world.