El Nido Yoga

I really enjoyed studying the incredible octopus the last week for my Animal People blog. They are mind blowing in so many ways. I hope you’ll spend a few minutes to get a glimpse into their world and see how intelligent, adaptable and extraordinary they are.

I also highly recommend the two beautiful films that I link in the blog to explore their unique traits and personalities and see how octopuses are able to connect and communicate with humans if we are open to it.

They deserve our respect, reciprocity and gratitude. Thank you octopuses!

The Incredible Octopus While researching commercial fisheries in Latin America, I came across an octopus fishery in Mexico that made my heart sink. As a policy analyst I try to objectively review catch data, the value of “resources”, population statistics and “sustainable” yields. However, seeing the annual catch ...

Join me on my new blog series about non-human animals! This first post focuses on how the rich, dynamic relationships we have with our pets reveals their intelligence, sentience and intrinsic value and the need to view wild and farm animals in this same light. 🌎❤️ Inspired by Robin Wall Kimmerer's "Braiding Sweetgrass," we will explore how our language shapes our perception of animals and the environment.

Each week I will highlight a species so we can identify with them on a more personal level and begin to shift our perspective from seeing animals as objects to respecting them as sentient neighbors in our shared ecosystem.

Read the full post now and let me know which animal you'd like me to explore next! We'll begin with the fascinating octopus next week!🐙 https://wix.to/6AOo5ei

To Be A Non-Human Animal Sharing a home with pets quickly reveals their unique personalities and quirks—what they love, dislike, get excited about and cower from. Through our time together, we develop ways of communicating despite not sharing a spoken language. While we often believe we teach our pets to communicate throu...

Come practice this week! Tues & Thurs at 9:30am!

Reopening next week with Smartflow yoga classes.

Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am. $12pp

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I will be closing the studio beginning June 16th for low season! Get your classes in the next few weeks 🙏

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From now until June 22nd I will only be teaching Tues/Thurs @ 9:30am. Then the studio will be closed until September. Come get your last classes in 💜🧘‍♀️💜

My favorite meditation buddy, Chile 😍 what helps you get to your mat? Is it a consistent routine? A yoga buddy? The feeling afterwards? Savasana?

The 14th yoga sutra says that the practice of yoga becomes firmly rooted when it is cultivated skillfully and continuously for a long time. Whenever I take a few days off from practice or even months off (as when my mother passed away), the hardest part for me is getting back to my mat and getting back into my routine. Everything feels harder, creaky and stiff. But once I am back to practicing consistently over a long stretch, I see and feel the benefits in my body, mind and most importantly my deeper awareness and wonder why I ever wavered. This is the practice.

Starting next week! I‘d LOVE to have you come try my classes and studio space if you haven’t already. So for the entire month of May your first class is on me! Smartflow Yoga (alignment-based vinyasa) every Tues/Thurs @9:30am Level 2/3 and every Wed/Fri @9:30am Level 1/2. Every class has a different focus and sequence.

Hi folks! I am cancelling class tomorrow due to two adorable children welling up in tears when I told them I couldn’t make it to their school performance 💔. I’m so sorry for any inconvenience but I hope you understand and I hope to see you on the mat Friday or next week! 🙏

If you’ve taken classes with me I need your help! I could really use honest reviews on Google to get my studio on the map - literally 😆! Thanks in advance 🙏

Nido Yoga · the Nosara River, 200 meters before, Guanacaste Province, Nosara, 50206, Costa Rica ★★★★★ · Yoga studio

I’ll be teaching Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri @ 9:30am for the rest of April. Wed/Fri will be best for beginners and those interested in a slower pace.

For the next two weeks our schedule is a little different.
Tues-Fri @ 9:30am with Kristin O'Connell!

Feliz Semana Santa!

The focus of tomorrow’s class! Subtle and yet so deep ❤️

Catch me tomorrow and Thursday at 9:30am for pelvic floor focus! Tomorrow will be more gentle and Thursday we will dive a little deeper. 💜

Don’t forget to schedule yourself in this week! Mon-Fri @ 9:30am

I’ll be teaching Gentle Vinyasa this morning at 9:30! There’s still time to make it. The hardest part is usually getting here! Give yourself an hour to restore and reset. 🫶

Love this! And teach this as a little mantra when forward folding and twisting. 💜

This Is the Secret to Getting More Out of Your Forward Bends “Going deeper” into your pose has nothing to do with how it looks.

New Schedule!

Ready for a reset after the weekend? Mon, Tues, Thurs at 9:30am Smartflow Yoga w/Heidi & Wed, Fri at 9:30am Gentle Vinyasa w/Kristin!

Join us at el nido (the nest) for yoga in Playa Pelada! New schedule starting next week every day Mon-Fri at 9:30am.

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Very excited to have my friend and amazing yogini, Kristin O’Connell, sub my class tomorrow at 9:30am! Also looking forward to adding her classes to our regular schedule: Wednesday’s and Friday’s at 9:30am! 💜

Starting back up with classes tomorrow! Tues/Thurs at 9:30am at my studio in Pelada - 200 meters before the boca (rivermouth) - Casa Kiskadee.

Catch me Tues/Thurs at 9:30 this week and next! Then I’m off for 3 weeks for the holidays.