The tourism world has been shifting throughout the last decade, as a more enlightened generation of travelers has been flexing its financial muscles and requiring more from a vacation than many hotels and resorts can give, and a new type of vacationing is becoming a popular alternative.
This type of tourist wants more from a vacation than just sightseeing, and one of the answers to this need has been hotels and resorts focusing on yoga wellness.
Yoga and Wellness Retreat Centers are becoming a great alternative throughout tropical areas such as Costa Rica and Hawaii.
Costa Rica’s popular tourist towns, such as Santa Teresa or Montezuma usually have many hotels to practice yoga, with more added yearly, and these resorts and hotels compete for which has the most amazing place to practice yoga.
Retreat Centers such as Anamaya Yoga Retreat Center in Montezuma have a large wooden deck overlooking the Pacific Ocean, fulfilling every yoga lover’s expectation of what tropical paradise will look like on their trip. This kind of yoga deck is very photogenic, and this helps a hotel to succeed in getting guests, since so many travelers choose their accommodations mostly from the photos of the places they hope to go to.
Teachers of yoga and pilates from many countries have traveled to Costa Rica for yoga retreats and have fallen in love with this country. Now some of them work for various hotels and resorts, and some even offer yoga classes at their homes or in the many luxurious Costa Rica rental houses.
Because of all these new and talented yoga teachers to Costa Rica, the tourist towns, such as Malpais have a variety of yoga options. While it’s not always the case, the guys go surfing and the girls do yoga.
There’s also a new variety of travel accommodation, known as a Wellness Center. These places usually offer Yoga as part of a greater program committed to their guests’ total health. This will also include healthy elements such as meditation, nutritional counseling, ultra-healthy diet, and a cleansing program.
Travelers who relax for a week or so at a Wellness Retreat Center often discover that not only are they more happy and relaxed, but they take back what they’ve learned about their overall health and well-being, and so they continue their new more healthful lifestyles when they return home.
Often these wellness retreats begin with fasting as part of a cleansing regimen. After several days with little but juice, they begin to add other foods, such as fruits and veggies. Sometimes they are raw foods and usually they’re organically grown.
To further assist to detoxify the system, these retreats offer a regimen of therapies such as a infrared sauna, massage (such as lymph drainage), colon irrigation, and acupuncture. Often they include a specific yoga program for cleaning the internal organs using specific postures for each.
Clients at these wellness retreats experience changes such as having more energy, better sleep, more radiant skin and clearer eyes.
If you’re interested in traveling to Costa Ricasoon, you may want to experience a wellness, yoga, or detox retreat to suit your personal needs. Like so many that have experienced this before you, you’ll probably go back to your life with excellent improvements in your health.
Geoffrey McCabe writes extensively about Green Travel and Wellness. For more information, visit the site for his own Costa Rica Yoga Retreat, Anamaya, in Montezuma.
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