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Active Mid-Life Celebration Retreat
March 5, 2022 - March 11, 2022
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You have been working hard and consistently month after month to get your body ready for travel, adventure, and doing what your heart desires. Join Andrea Trombley PT and E-RYT in the rainforest of Costa Rica for a week of yoga, hiking, meditation, and nature walks. Every day will include an open-air yoga practice, tailored to further nourish your vibrant mid-life body, as well as options for other movement adventures. Walk in nature, swim in the pool, and then eat delicious healthy meals, reflect and restore.
Feel yourself slowly unwind, breathe more deeply and get excited about practicing yoga in a community once again. With plenty of free time, you will have the choice to experience whatever excites you about Costa Rica. Go on a Chocolate Tour and make the “Drink of the Gods”, or grab your camera and find toucans on the Tropical Birding Tour. You may wish to experience the rainforest with a hike on the Cabalonga trail, or for those who want to venture further out, sign up for the Arenal Volcano and natural history tour, go kayaking, mountain biking, horseback riding or find your own special excursion.
This retreat includes two daily movement classes. One class takes place in the morning, either just before or just after breakfast. You will then have free time to explore, relax, or take part in optional add-on activities. We have one Karma Yoga Service Project planned as well. Lunch will take place during this free time, and you will have the opportunity to check out the local offerings as you desire. The second class will be offered in a more workshop-style, free form manner to work on specific yoga poses, in order to get the feedback on your form you have been craving all year. There will be open time for questions, and we will also make time for meditation.
Teaching Style:
Dr. Andrea Trombley PT and yoga teacher creates movement practices for both beginners and experienced yoga practitioners. She has studied with many teachers in the Hatha Yoga style. Her emphasis is on proper alignment for the body you live in. She enjoys using props and focusing on breath with movement.
Link to two Sample Classes:
Andrea’s Yoga for a Sore Back After Gardening
Basics of Yoga Inspired Movement
What’s Included:
- 6 nights accommodations
- 3 meals per day starting with dinner on the first night and ending with breakfast on the last day
- Group Ground Transportation to/from San Jose Airport to Retreat Center
- On-site Biodynamic Farm Tour
- Daily yoga practices
- Personal retreat time (having time to nap, explore, walk, read, and just be)
Accommodations
You will stay at a sustainable, rainforest eco-lodge hotel providing comfortable accommodations amidst acres of lush gardens, hiking trails, and a secluded jungle. The atmosphere at the retreat center is simple, healthy, and relaxed. Rooms are single, double, or triple occupancy with fans and hot water. The eco-lodge has a beautiful chlorine-free swimming pool and jacuzzi. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are prepared daily and include healthy vegetarian options. The food is organic and local when available, prepared with nourishing ingredients and lots of love. We do our best to honor your registration type. If enrollment pairings are such that we cannot honor the occupancy type you have selected, we will contact you 90 days prior to your trip. Feel free to contact us in the meantime if you have concerns.
Dr. Andrea Trombley, PT, DPT, E-RYT
Andrea is the owner of Andrea Trombley PT and Yoga, a combination online and in-person holistic wellness clinic focused on adults who want to retire healthy and fit. She teaches weekly, online yoga and weight training classes that will help you prepare for your active vacation. She also works individually with highly motivated clients one-on-one. Finally, she teaches monthly online Yoga and Anatomy workshops for yoga students and teachers who are eager to learn more about doing yoga safely. She holds a special place for women who have concerns about exercise after breast cancer, preventing osteoporosis, and achieving high-level exercise after joint replacements.
Andrea has both Master’s and Doctoral Degrees in Physical Therapy and is a certified yoga teacher. She has taught hundreds of classes to her patients, trained yoga teachers, and led workshops. She combines her love of anatomy and yoga to address challenges by working with the whole body, including breath, meditation, strengthening, and cardiovascular exercise (especially walking and hiking). She loves to take away the barriers that hold you back from exploring new ways of moving to allow for more joy by getting outside into nature.
Andrea lives in northern Vermont with her husband and her two college-aged sons. She does not plan to slow down as she stays active in her 50’s, and has many plans to do active travel retreats again and again in her future.
Testimonials
“I am working with Andrea Trombley on increasing strength and flexibility in my joints including neck, shoulders, and hips. I have developed a great deal of stiffness over the years after 2 neck surgeries and a shoulder joint replacement surgery. I am feeling so much better! She is amazingly knowledgeable of anatomy because of her passion and years of experience. She is intuitive and creative and designs an approach that is unique to your issues. She has also created a deep breathing/yoga routine that I do every day at home so that progress can continue on my own. I have complete trust in her. She is also a delight to work with – always smiling and joyful.”
“Andrea is a gift to body, mind, and spirit. I had the good fortune to work with her while recovering from cervical fusion surgery last fall. My goal was to return to gentle yoga classes. To my delight, Andrea showed me modifications that enabled me to do yoga postures from our first visit, which we build on weekly. She is a stellar physical therapist and yoga teacher, a delightful person and we had great fun working together. I have recently returned to yoga classes, confident that I am strengthening my body and protecting myself from injury.”
“Well done! I find your workshops a wealth of knowledge! The connections you make between anatomical structures and systems with yoga are so helpful. I always come away eager to apply the new learning toward making myself stronger. Thank you!”
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