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Spirit of the Soul Retreat | Mimi

Meet Mimi in the wild and wonderful Costa Rican jungle! Join our inspiring, transformational and healing week to explore various paths for personal excavation through strong and soft practices, ritual, and meditation to illuminate the innate spiritual and physical gifts present within each of us.

We invite you along with us on a transformational and inspiring journey where we will connect through practice, ritual, & meditation while immersed in the exquisite natural beauty of Costa Rican jungle. Expect to leave rejuvenated, balanced, and energized as you cultivate and shine a light on the innate spiritual and physical gifts that make you YOU! Expect to laugh (A LOT), gain strength and confidence as you connect with and celebrate life with an amazing crew of humans!

Mar, 8 — Mar, 15 | $1850

Cost (not including airfare):

$2850 | Single occupancy rooms
$2250 | Double occupancy rooms
$1850 | Triple Occupancy
$4800 | Penthouse Suite (sleeps 2- 4)
$4800 | Moksha Suite (sleeps 2- 4)

Contact Mimi to RSVP and for more information.

About Your Yoga Instructor(s):

Mimi Rieger

Mimi Rieger, E-RYT® 500, is an internationally recognized yoga teacher and founder proprietor of the eponymous MRY | STUDIOS, the Power of Teaching yoga teacher training program and PureFitnessDC, LLC. Rooted in a deep commitment to curiosity and her passion to serve, she studies in an array of schools of yoga including Ashtanga, Rocket Vinyasa, Progressive Ashtanga, Budokon, Vinyasa, Yin and Forrest Yoga. Mimi has taught First Lady, Michelle Obama, influential public figures, professional sports teams, corporate wellness programs, executive and worldwide retreats, global yoga festivals, community development events, workshops, and private clients in addition to her treasured students.

For her teaching philosophy, Mimi believes in encouraging students to explore their yogic journey with curiosity and courage. Designing methods to discover a confident sense of energetic power along with a graceful sense of ease is paramount in Mimi’s teaching. She leads with compassion at the helm and honors the path of each student as they seek a cohesive awareness of body, mind, and spirit.

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
“The people, the venue, the country, the teachers!! The classes offered were perfect! Workshops that are both fiery and restorative, a perfect Yin and Yang. The food was so healthy and yummy and prepared right in front of us with love. The staff at Blue Osa always make you feel like home. I loved the happy hours and the amazing spa treatments. Thank you Jamie and Mimi for a perfect retreat! I love you both! Everyone vibed and had an amazing time — it was just awesome!!!”
— Nicole
“The trip with Mimi and Jamie to Blue Osa is such a special experience. Imagine spendinf a week in paradise where you forget about time on a clock and instead embrace the rhythm and sounds of the ocean and jungle as your guide—waking with the birds at sunrise and quieting as the evening sets in. Mimi and Jamie offer such lovely and supportive yoga experiences to ground you each day, but also the encouragement to explore what resting and restoring looks like to you—whether that’s a quiet beach walk, an excursion to go surfing, a luxurious massage, or an afternoon spent by the pool. You meet a wonderful community of people from all sorts of backgrounds and experiences, and let ease take over. Leaving after a week is as hard you’d think.”
— Sara

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