Costa Rica Retreat
April 11th - April 14th | Las Catalinas, Costa Rica
Join The Path founder Dina Kaplan for a fun, relaxing meditation retreat in the fairy-tale-land of Las Catalinas. Enjoy expert guided meditations :: & wisdom about cultivating joy :: while living amidst an Italian-style village on the beach. Together in community we’ll calm our minds, enjoy dinners under the stars, and experience mindful happiness in a place that feels — like a dream.
Retreat fee includes meditations, wisdom, and mindful exercises to cultivate joy.
Guests are responsible for travel to Las Catalinas, meals, and lodging.
Our special negotiated group rate is $244++ (nonrefundable) or $307++ (flexible).
LOCATION & SCHEDULE
Las Catalinas is one of Dina’s favorite places in the world – a little Italian village (modeled on Positano or Portofino) perched on the beach in Costa Rica (and a short drive from the Liberia airport so easy to reach). Our hotel is called Santarena.
Each day includes meditation sessions in the morning and afternoon, with wisdom and group discussions. There will be plenty of free time to enjoy the beach, surfing expeditions, and beyond. Or to just relax – by yourself or with our kind & mindful community!
We’ll begin Thursday evening and close Sunday morning.
COMMUNITY
The Path retreats are known for fostering community, and this retreat will nurture a spirit of kindness, friendliness & openness. As you meditate you become more authentic, more “you,” and with this, it becomes easier to connect with others on a deep level.
In Las Catalinas, we will live with no pretense, only the relaxation of being our true selves, and feeling accepted and supported as we are. Our retreats are renowned for forming life-long friendships, and we expect this Costa Rica retreat will do the same — we’re excited already!
MEDITATIONS
During this retreat we’ll step through phases of cultivating joy.
Day 1 | We’ll start by calming our minds, releasing circling thoughts and beginning to settle into spaciousness and openness. We’ll do this through a series of focusing mindfulness meditations designed to bring us towards stillness.
Day 2 | Next we’ll move towards a state of non-judgement, learning and practicing how to live without judging — ourselves and others. We will train our minds for this through meditation and a powerful positive psychology exercise.
Day 3 | On this day we will cultivate kindness towards ourselves and others, and practice a new positive psychology exercise to release lingering anger, bringing us towards a state of gratitude and loving-friendliness.
Day 4 | On our closing day, our meditations will bring us further towards openness, joy and non-duality, a joyful feeling of connection with others, including friends, loved ones and all living beings.
You will emerge from this retreat feeling calm, centered, relaxed — and inspired to continue living with more ease, joy, & delight.
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About The Path
The Path teaches meditation for the modern mind. We've taught thousands of people to meditate around the world, including at SXSW, Sundance and at events and companies across the U.S, Asia and Europe. The Path hosts weekly meditations, courses, retreats, social events, a certificate teacher training program and private one-on-one meditation coaching. We help you become more aware of yourself and your impact on others while making you happier, more relaxed, more focused — and better able to make decisions in all areas of your life.
About Dina Kaplan
Dina is a certified meditation teacher and leads meditations around the world at conferences, for large and small groups, brands, corporations and individuals around the world. She has studied and practiced dozens of meditation techniques, including Vipassana, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Vedic (or “mantra”) meditation, loving-kindness or (“metta”) meditation and more.
Before founding The Path, Dina was co-founder and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the tech start-up Blip.tv in web video. Before Blip, Dina was an Emmy-award winning television news reporter for local NBC stations. Prior to reporting, Dina worked as an associate producer for MTV News and at the White House as Director of Research for the Office of the White House Counsel. Dina was named one of Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs and Fast Company’s Most Influential Women of Web 2.0. She has a column about meditation for entrepreneurs on Forbes.com and has written articles for the New York Times, today.com, Time Magazine’s Motto, Marie Claire, Medium, Town & Country and more.
Dina has taught classes at Columbia Business School, Columbia Journalism School, NYU’s Stern School of Business and NYU’s ITP program for engineers and designers. She has spoken at SXSW, the World Economic Forum, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit, Le Web (Paris), TEDx Athens, DLD (Munich), Cannes Lions, Monaco Media Forum and CeBit.
Refund Policy: 100% refund until March 1st. 50% refund until April 1st. All refunds include a processing fee.