Yoga Retreat with NATALIA CHAVERRI

Natalia is a 40 years old Costa Rican who is passionate about different healing modalities. She has been involved in yoga, bodywork, and healing arts since the age of 16 when she recognized the desire of learning about the beautiful mystery of life. She first studied for 4 years at the GAIA Holistic Institute in San Jose, Costa Rica to become a Holistic Balance Instructor; which involved several techniques including Holistic Massage, Reflexology, Deep Tissue, Reiki, Bio-creation, and Holistic Hypnotherapy.

At the same time she took a program at the same Institute to become a Yoga Teacher, specializing in Hatha Yoga and Gaia Yoga; Sound Healing Vibrations and Meditation. A few years later, she did her 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training in Hatha Yoga in San José and then another 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training of Anusara Yoga Institute with International teachers.

In 2005 she started to explore Aquatic Bodywork where she found one of her favorite and profound passions. In 2011 Nati became a Watsu® and Aquadinamic Instructor, she founded Watsu® Costa Rica and then the Aquatic Therapy Institute of Costa Rica, and she started to organize international aquatic conferences and different aquatic therapy workshops such as Halliwick, Water Yoga, Watsu®, Ai Chi and other water healing modalities.

In 2006 and 2012 she travelled to Thailand to learn Thai Massage and Chi Nei Tsang (abdominal massage) and during 2014 she spent half a year living in Bali, where she was mainly teaching yoga and learning about Indonesian culture.

Besides holistic vision, in 2005 Natalia started to study Physical Therapy at Santa Paula’s College in San Jose, she graduated in 2012 and started to work with patients using Therapeutic Yoga and different Water Therapies as a way of rehabilitation.

In 2021 she studied for a Master’s degree in Therapeutic Exercise in Barcelona, which she combines with yoga, aquatic and land bodywork, and physical therapy.

She has taught at Anamaya several times and every time she is there, she loves to share her gifts with the people, giving sound healing therapies, Yoga, Meditation, partners yoga, Bio-creation and a workshop called Awakening the Senses, where she finds one of her biggest passions.

Natalia loves to travel to different parts of the world and for the last 3 years, she has been living mainly in between Costa Rica and Spain and also travelling around the globe to learn from different people and to share her gifts with love and joy.