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Retreats, workshops and seminars
AmaTierra offers Eco adventure retreats, workshops and seminars with a focus on wellness, meditation, creativity, yoga, self-improvement and FUN!!!
seminars with a focus on wellness
Give yourself time to relax
Give yourself time to relax and to learn something new while you enjoy the magic of Costa Rica. Choose from one of many fabulous retreats scheduled. More special events will be listed soon, so check back often.
Yoga Classes
AmaTierra offers daily gentle Hatha yoga classes for every body, no matter the age or ability level. Check our ongoing Yoga and Wellness Packages. Yoga retreats and other special events are offered frequently at AmaTierra. AmaTierra hosts group retreats for yoga , self-help, spirituality and creativity seminars. Bring your friends for group rates, or, if you are a teacher looking for one of the most inspiring places on the planet to bring your students, please call us for details.
At AmaTierra you can Get Into Practice and relax deeply into your body as you breathe and stretch with Gentle Hatha Yoga. Many interesting forms of yoga are being taught these days, and all have their merits, but the basic Hatha style taught at AmaTierra is the foundation for physical yoga practice and has stood the test of time —a few thousand years! With the addition of our new studio, we will be offering more varieties of classes very soon.
“I find this gentle Hatha style with an emphasis on breathing and deep stretching does the most good for the majority of people,” instructor Jill Ruttenberg says. “It certainly has helped me overcome chronic neck and low back pain. Someone who is experiencing yoga for the first time realizes, ‘wow! I can DO this…and it feels really GOOD!’ Practicing yoga is about more than being fit—it’s about tuning in to your true self, getting quiet, practicing being fully present in your moments and breathing into all the corners of your Being with focus and intention.”
Jill’s method of teaching is closely aligned with one of her teachers, Jean-Pierre Marques from North Africa who was a pioneer in bringing Eastern traditions to the U.S. in 1971, and who later initiated the Spiritual Awareness Center at Canyon Ranch Spa in Tucson, Arizona.
Yoga classes at the Ama Tierra Yoga and holistic spa center, Costa Rica in a beautiful open air studio.
Relax and enjoy yoga in AmaTierra's inspiring new open-air studio where the views will inspire profound transformation in your whole Self.
Expert massage therapies are tailored to your individual needs and include Shiatsu and Swedish massage, abdominal massage, sound therapy, deep tissue massage, exfoliation and detoxifying mud treatments from Costa Rican volcanoes.
emphasis on breathing and deep stretching does the most good 
Sound Therapy helps to re-align the body's subtle energy fieldSound Therapy
Vibrational Sound Therapy, being offered at AmaTierra, is a type of energy medicine that helps to re-align the body's subtle energy field and stimulate healthier cell activity. There have been many studies on the power of vibrational sound healing; perhaps you are familiar with ultrasound therapy?
The special quartz crystal bowls used in sound therapy are tuned to the body's "chakras" or energy centers, and can help to push through stagnant or blocked energy channels in much the same way ultrasound therapy is used to ease pain and even to cleanse clogged arteries.
People find it to be a mesmerizing and sensual experience that leaves them feeling renewed and energized, more in harmony with the natural rhythm and flow of the earth's own energy field. This is, by the way, no accident, as the bowls are aligned with the same electromagnetic frequency of the earth and made to resonate with the natural world which our bodies, when in balance, hum along with. Join in a special "toning session" with the bowls or experience them as part of an energy balancing treatment at AmaTierra. Learn more about the benefits of sound therapy and healing. More about the Basics of Yoga.
Therapeutic sound treatments at AmaTierra
"The weather was perfect, Jill, Bob and Dan were very friendly and welcoming. Food was excellent and so was the wine. Yoga was great and the view from dining room breath taking."