Our Retreat

Nestling among wooded hills beside the fast flowing Chirripo River, Rio Chirripo Yoga Retreat and Hotel is a refuge from the pressures of a busy world, a place of refreshment for mind and body. Throughout its grounds the vivid hues of abundant tropical flowers and shrubs beguile the eye and enchant the spirit.

Below the main buildings of the hotel and retreat a tree-lined path leads down to the pool area, a free-form riverside pool and hot tub, a sumptuous hideaway overlooking the Chirripo’s tumbling waters.

The focal point of life at the yoga retreat is the Rancho, a unique architectural mix of rustic tropical Santa Fe with hints of Mexico, the Mediterranean and Bali. Its open spaces have been designed to bring the outside inside. Here you can breathe fresh mountain air as you eat our healthy meals of local produce while hummingbirds explore the nearby trees and bushes. And at day’s end, in the still of the dark, you can relax by a fragrant wood fire in the Rancho’s high-roofed hall.

Uphill from the Rancho is Rio Chirripo’s yoga room whose windows offer a magnificent view of tropical forest and lush green hillside. It regularly hosts yoga retreat groups for stays of up to a month.

Rio Chirripo Yogo Retreat & Hotel is a place where you can get a sense of the eternal, a place for winding down, a place to re-charge batteries, to take delight in spectacular natural surroundings. Visit our yoga retreat in Costa Rica – the perfect place to relax and rejuvenate.

Rio Chirripo Yoga Retreat & Hotel is located in San Gerardo de Rivas, near Costa Rica’s Chirripo National Park, 3.5 hours south of the Juan Santa Maria International Airport and 4 hours north of the border with Panama.

We are one and half hours from Dominical, Costa Rica and 40 minutes East from San Isidro del General in Perez Zeledon, Costa Rica.

The altitude is 1200 meters from sea level, that is 3700 feet.

Facilities

Wi-fi access

Rio Chirripo Retreat offers free wi-fi in the common area.

Video facilities

There is one 36” flat screen tv and dvd player available.

Laundry service

Rio Chirripo Retreat’s staff will do your laundry for $5 a load.

Sustainability

All our systems, cleaning products and practices take into account our policy of leaving the environment better than we found it.

Gallery

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Testimonials

I attended a 5 day yoga retreat in May 2009. It was my first time to a tropical climate and my first yoga retreat. The experience exceeded my wildest expectations. It was beautiful, the vegetation was luscious (including mango trees within reach of my balcony, the food was simply amazing, the climate was hot in the days but cool at night, and the accommodations were utterly comfortable without being the least bit hotel-like. I really felt like I was in another world. Thank you. I hope to return soon.
Barbara Todd, Troy NY and Montreal Canada