queer trans yoga retreat costa rica

Queer + Trans Yoga Retreat in Costa Rica

LGBTQIA + Wellness and Radical Revelry where the Rainforest Meets the Beach. Let’s heal together and reclaim our radiance!

A tropical beach Yoga Retreat in Costa Rica just for LGBTQIA+ folks? YES. Sacred play, nature connection, deep rest, radical spirituality, queer JOY!

Imagine feeling completely at peace with who you are.
Being able to fully breathe, relax and laugh.
To expand through strong, gorgeous embodied healing in community.
To feel fresh gratitude inspired by tender intimacy with nature.
To dwell in deep rest.
And open up to the pleasure of just being present…

Being queer is a blessing, but navigating a cis het world steeped in systemic oppression is exhausting, complex, and heartbreaking.

In order to survive, maybe you’ve sometimes disconnected from your body, your needs, parts of your sweet, sacred self. While it’s gotten you this far, you know it’s time for a deep shift.

It’s time for a deep care reset.

You are so worthy of this type of luscious, transformative journey. Give yourself permission to untangle the inner knots, to relax, and awaken to the deeper authentic expression of who you are.

In doing so, you create space for that journey for everyone around you, which empowers all the way we’re showing up for collective change.

Reserve Your Spot For This Yoga Retreat with Avery!

Mar, 12 — Mar, 19 | $2250

Double Occupancy per person $2350

Triple Occupancy per person $2200

Contact Avery about single or quadruple occupancy.

About Your Yoga Instructor:

Avery

Avery Kalapa (they, them) has a huge crush on life! They are a Certified Iyengar Yoga teacher, community weaver, and queer and trans wellness organizer; eRYT500, YACEP, BFA. Avery has over 20 years of experience in yoga; their approach is rooted in anti-oppression: yoga for inner healing and collective liberation.

They love creating affirming healing spaces that don’t require assimilation.
All people, especially folks who have been left out of or turned off by mainstream yoga spaces should have access to the revitalizing nourishment of deeply informed, classical yoga that goes beyond fitness.

Celebrated for their enthusiasm, accessibility, and depth of technique, their teaching reflects deep gratitude for the Iyengar Lineage.

They are a creative, rigorous, playful, and compassionate teacher who offers a vast knowledge of integrative functional anatomy, stability, and embodied philosophy that empowers their students to experience tangible positive transformation in body-mind, and consciousness.

Avery is involved in various yoga equity projects. They’re also a gardener, artist, and parent. Avery is a white, queer, trans, nonbinary settler grateful to live on unceded Tiwa land, in Albuquerque NM.

What's Included

Girls Enjoying Blue Osa Retreat | Blue Osa

Accommodations

Intentionally designed beachfront eco-friendly rooms with ocean views and the use of the 25-meter pool.

Blue Osa Dessert | Blue Osa

Meals

Three delicious farm-to-table meals per day using homegrown, organic ingredients, plus snacks and more to keep you energized and satisfied the whole week long.

Yoga

Daily yoga classes and yoga props including mats, blocks and straps.

Take a flight to the osa peninsula || Blue Osa Yoga Retreat || Skyway

Transportation

Airport transfer from Puerto Jimenez to Blue Osa and return taxes.

More about getting to Blue Osa

What makes this Retreat special?

• A week of a tropical ocean and rainforest gaycation rejuvenation at an off-the-grid, gay-owned gorgeous eco Retreat Center Blue Osa.
• Affirming, fun, transformational daily alignment-based yoga, meditation, and luscious pranayama with Avery Kalapa, CIYT, ERYT500, YACEP with assistance by special guest teachers.
• Affinity gatherings for BIPOC, Femmes of all genders, Trans + Nonbinary folks
• Inspiring, delicious farm-to-table organic meals, smoothies, and juices!
• Ample time to chill, play, nap, swim, explore, commune with Nature!
• Rituals rooted in land and lineage to weave a brave space container
• A special Bedtime Partner Yoga session
• Queer philosophy, community connection
• Dance party on the deck!
• Optional Gender-expansive Body-Love Naked Ocean Bathing Ritual
• Space to honor your heart’s truest yes, see where it leads, and soak up living your best life!

Reserve Your Spot For This Yoga Retreat with Avery!

“Avery’s yoga instruction provides an incredibly vital space for deep rest, rejuvenation, grounding, and reconnection with body. As someone living within a non-binary experience, and at times dysphoria, Avery’s yoga practice is always a helpful kind guidance back to self.”
— Mel (they, them)
“Avery has always made me feel at ease in their classes. As a genderqueer person, this has not always been the case in typical yoga spaces. Avery creates an environment of growth through their direction and presence. One that encourages me to challenge myself, working with my body, not against it, with gentle reminders to stay present.”
— -Patti (she/ her)

Teaching methodology + practicum

  • Learn how to lead and market successful yoga retreats

  • Learn the principles of demonstration, observation, assisting/correcting, and instruction.

  • Learn different teaching styles.

  • You’ll learn specific techniques that will enable you to easily teach all levels

  • You’ll also learn how to sequence your asanas to create a natural, therapeutic and transformative arcs in your classes

  • Learn the qualities of effective teaching

  • Learn the business aspects of being a yoga teacher and gain the building blocks of how to build a thriving yoga career

Development of the Professional Essentials

History, Philosophy + Ethics

  • Identify your spiritual stance so you can step into it as a source of strength
  • Identify walls and develop strategies to take them down
  • Create a support network and support strategies and have them in place when you leave
  • Complete a physical and spiritual adventure challenge
  • Learn the business aspects of building a thriving yoga career
  • How to bring the practice of yoga into your everyday life and make it work for you
  • The science and application of mantra
  • An overview of the history of the yoga tradition
  • The ethical standards of teaching yoga

Yoga Humanities

Applied Yoga Anatomy + Muscle Activation™

  • Receive training in Applied Yoga Anatomy + Muscle Activation™ training for Yoga Teachers
  • Go further in your anatomy training
  • Learn how to access muscle function
  • How to sequence transformational yoga classes
  • Learn the energetic and deeper sublime effects of asana
  • The science and application of Mantra
  • Design classes based on Ayurvedic principles
  • Knowledge of both human physical anatomy and physiology (bodily systems, organs, etc.) and energy anatomy and physiology (chakras, nadis, etc.).

Anatomy & Physiology

Techniques, Training and Practice

  • A breakdown in the anatomical and energetic categories of postures
  • Develop a daily meditation practice
  • Learn pranayamas, kriyas, chanting, mantra, meditation, and other traditional yoga techniques
  • How to sequence and structure transformational 60 and 90-minute classes
  • Practical experience teaching postures, classes, and meditation
  • Learn deep relaxation techniques
  • Yoga Nidra, as taught by the Himalayan tradition and Western tradition
  • Learn how to conduct and lead fire rituals
  • Kundalini Yoga techniques
  • Learn the subtle energetic aspects of yoga like the Koshas and chakras
  • Kriya Yoga and Laya Yoga

Advance Your Own Practice in Yoga

Techniques, Training and Practice

  • A breakdown in the anatomical and energetic categories of postures
  • Develop a daily meditation practice
  • Learn techniques in pranayamas, kriyas, chanting, mantra, meditation, and other traditional yoga techniques
  • How to structure and sequence transformational classes
  • Practical experience in teaching postures, sequencing, and meditation
  • Learn deep relaxation and meditation techniques that come from the Himalayan tradition

Develop a Rock Solid Practice in Yoga

Applied Yoga Anatomy + Muscle Activation™

  • Receive training in Applied Yoga Anatomy + Muscle Activation™ training for Yoga Teachers
  • Develop an understanding of basic anatomy
  • Learn about muscle function and how to improve it (something you will not learn in any other YTT)
  • Knowledge of both human physical anatomy and physiology (bodily systems, organs, etc.) and energy anatomy and physiology (chakras, nadis, etc.)
  • The study of both the subject and application of its principles to yoga practice (benefits, contraindications, healthy movement patterns)
  • Skills to teach yoga classes suited to all levels of practice.

Anatomy & Physiology

History, Philosophy + Ethics

  • An in-depth study and application of the Yoga Sutra
  • How to bring the practice of yoga into your everyday life and make it work for you
  • The science and application of mantra
  • An overview of the history of the yoga tradition
  • The ethical standards of teaching yoga

Yoga Humanities

Teaching methodology + practicum

Get hands-on practice teaching so that you’ll be able to teach on day one after the training is finished. You will:

  • Practice teaching in small and large groups

  • Be ready to teach yoga as soon as you leave the yoga teacher training

  • Get hands-on experience teaching and give/receive feedback

  • Practice assisting students

  • Learn the principles of demonstration, observation, assisting/correcting and instruction

  • Learn different teaching styles

  • Learn qualities of effective teaching and adjust to the student’s process of learning

  • Learn the business aspects of how to build a thriving yoga career

Development of the Professional Essentials