About OM yoga:
Join Sarah and Brian at beautiful Pura Vida, Costa Rica as we explore how mutual support of hatha yoga and Buddhist meditation helps bring our bodies & minds into balance. Each flowing vinyasa style OM yoga class will explore how the breathing, balancing, stretching and strengthening of yoga provides an ideal opportunity to invite wakefulness derived from Buddhist meditation techniques of watching the mind, recognizing our habits and opening our hearts. Come connect with your mind, body and spirit!

About the teachers:
Brian Liem and Sarah Trelease are OM yoga senior teachers who have both assisted and studied closely with Cyndi Lee.

Brian Liem's basic interests are connecting the practices of mindfulness and kindness within the worldly issues of human rights and relationships through his living and work. He teaches numerous weekly classes at OM yoga as well as serves as OM's Director of Programming. He is a graduate of OM yoga’s Joining Heaven & Earth teacher training, Judith Lasater's Relax & Renew restorative yoga teacher training, the Shambhala Buddhist meditation program and is registered with the Yoga Alliance. Brian has represented OM yoga by teaching at Change Your Mind Day, co-teaching the Fire Island Retreat Experience, serving on the advisory board & design team of the Gay Spirit Culture Project, teaching at Omega’s Living a Fearless Life and Being Fearless conferences and co-teaching an OM retreat with Sarah at Inner Harmony Utah.

Sarah Trelease is known for infusing great joy, a sense of community, and love into her classes. She is a graduate of OM's 2002 Joining Heaven & Earth teacher training and Judith Lasater's Relax & Renew restorative yoga teacher training. She has also earned a certification with Don and Amba Stapleton in Nosara, Costa Rica. Sarah comes to Inner Harmony/Pura Vida after twice visiting Inner Harmony Utah, assisting Cyndi Lee in 2003 and co-teaching with Brian in 2004.

About Costa Rica - An Amazing Country
A unique feature of Costa Rica is that it does not have an army. Costa Ricans decided there would be less chance for military coups without one, and thus it has become the global model of democracy. During the last 50 years, the money that would have gone into the military has been spent on education and health care. Today, Costa Rica has one of the highest literacy rates in the world and the highest standard of living in Central America.

A special gift Costa Rica gives to the world is a system of National Parks, Biological Reserves, Indian Reserves, Wildlife Refuges and Wildlife Corridors, more than 25% of the nation's land is dedicated to preservation. Costa Rica contains an astonishing diversity and abundance of tropical flora and fauna. Caribbean and Pacific beaches border a land filled with white-water rivers, waterfalls, tropical rain forests, active volcanoes, mountain cloud forests, and exotic wildlife.