As a subscriber to David Whyte, we are offering you early access to register for David’s 2024 Costa Rica retreat, Rest, Renewal & Re-Imagination, at the beautiful Blue Spirit retreat center in Nosara. Reservations are first-come, first-served for this limited capacity event. Until July 15th, Substack subscribers will have the first opportunity to secure a spot and select their accommodation preference for what is one of David’s most popular retreats. After July 15th, we will extend this invitation beyond Substack subscribers. Registration will be open until the retreat sells out.
Join David Whyte for a week of poetry, insight, sun, sea and yoga at Blue Spirit Retreat Center, an architecturally splendid facility in Costa Rica, built above the broad Pacific.
David will speak daily, offering poetry and thoughtful commentary as a foundation for the day's conversation. As the focus of the week is rest and rejuvenation, there will be plenty of time for you to choose from a variety of activities: yoga, swimming, longevity teachings, walks, and most importantly, time for contemplation. This year, David will be joined by Henry Shukman, as well as Leslie Salmon Jones and Jeff W. Jones.
Henry Shukman
Henry Shukman has been a poet since youth, inspired by the countryside around Oxford where he grew up, and not just by poets of the British Isles, but also the ancient Zen poets of China. He began a lifelong meditation practice as a young man, under teachers who guided him through a long training in the mysteries of Zen koans. Today he lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he leads the Original Love online meditation program, and directs the Mountain Cloud Zen Center. His poems have won many prizes and been widely published, and his latest book is the spiritual memoir, One Blade of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart.
Afro Flow Yoga
Two years ago, David met the marvelous yoga practitioners - Leslie Salmon Jones and Jeff W. Jones (husband and wife), who introduced him to the art form Afro Flow Yoga. Their own description of its effect: Grounding, Energizing, Rhythmic, Peaceful - is more than accurate. We are very happy to welcome again their musical and rhythmic genius to join us for a daily offering.
Registration & Accommodations
To find out more about Blue Spirit Costa Rica accommodations offered for this retreat, and to reserve your spot, visit the Blue Spirit retreat registration page.
Sincerely,
and all of us at Many Rivers