To recuperate from the stressful challenges of heavy studying and working, the Studio’s facilities offer simple comfort, tranquility,  and contact with nature.   Massages and enjoyable  movement learning experiences will help you tune-up and regain vitality.  Please contact us for special offers.

Cordula Meyer, massage therapist of experience, has been living in the Studio Los Almendros since January 2011.  She has been working in the area for over 2 years and her services are quite appreciated by all.

The intention to deepen the subject of Ethics and Community has manifested with Alistair Holmes, a Tibetan monk on his third visit to Montezuma, who has been staying at the Estudio for two weeks. Quite a peaceful, quiet, yet joyful presence he is. He has been sharing Buddhist teachings to contribute to our spiritual growth, no...

The ‘Somatic Education and Health Research sessions’ are opportunities to investigate the wisdom of our bodies revealed by the incredible functioning of all its parts and the many self-regulatory mechanisms that help us maintain a balanced health despite the extreme stresses we might be under. In some of our past sessions we have been...

The children are our teachers. In the dance, play and movement fundamentals class for children 4-6 years old, Irèni and I propose the content and they give us the pace. So, I am letting emerge those ways of presenting challenges to them that also give them the reassuring comfort of building and enjoying ‘their own houses and huts’ with...

The individual and collective responsibility for recycling is manifesting more and more in our community. The success of the Recycling Extravaganza continues to manifest in many ways. We still need lots of collaboration from everyone— local people, tourists from abroad and the rest of Costa Rica. Do come and share your ways of handling,...

Jude Driscoll, a physical therapist from Prince Edward Island, Canada, and her husband Frank, a most talented handyman, stayed with us almost a week. She shared her knowledge and practice of TRE, Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises, created by Dr. David Berceli, very easy exercises based on the premise that the body has the mechanisms or...

By July 2009 I wanted to study non-violent communication (NVC) and started reading the Spanish translation of the first edition of Marshall Rosenberg’s classic book which was loaned by a colleague. It was hard to maintain the motivation to read it without the practice with someone. Several months later, by January 2010, Letitia Sisters, an...