New Year's 2019-2020 · Costa Rica · Blue Osa

Blue Osa — Costa Rica 2019

Yoga, jungle adventures, and Pacific coast time as we welcomed the New Year at Blue Osa.

The week in photos

Blue Osa — Costa Rica 2019

About twenty joyful retreat participants in matching black tank tops and white shirts pose on dark sand at the beach, many with arms raised, with gentle waves and an overcast sky behind them.

Seventeen smiling retreat participants pose in front of a massive ancient tree on a jungle hike at Blue Osa, dressed in activewear and hats amid dense green foliage and dappled sunlight.

About eighteen retreat participants in colorful summer clothes pose together under a wooden pavilion at night at Blue Osa, smiling beneath bottle pendant lights with dark tropical foliage behind them.

About fifteen retreat participants smile waist-deep in calm ocean water during a group swim, with one woman sitting on a man's shoulders, distant hills on the horizon, and soft cloudy skies.

Roughly fifteen retreat participants sit in a circle on stone pavers around a small fire pit at Blue Osa, surrounded by jungle greenery and a thatched-roof building during an evening sharing circle.

Four women smile for a beach selfie on dark volcanic sand in Costa Rica, one with a red hibiscus behind her ear, with a green jungle treeline and overcast sky behind them.

A woman in a red bikini smiles while holding a Wild Thing yoga pose on the white edge of the Blue Osa lap pool, with tropical palms, vine-covered gazebo, and blue-shuttered lodge behind her under a bright sky.

Three women in blue helmets and black tank tops smile while horseback riding brown and white horses on a lush jungle trail with the ocean visible in the distance under cloudy skies.

A smiling woman in a Hamsa-hand tank top and floral headband holds a banana blossom stalk in the jungle while a man in a Spider Monkey shirt stands behind her among broad tropical leaves.

Three dolphins swim through clear turquoise water seen from above during a boat excursion off the Costa Rica coast.

The long blue mosaic lap pool at Blue Osa stretches toward palm trees and clear sky, bordered by white stone, lounge chairs on a vine-shaded deck, blue-shuttered buildings, and tropical plantings with no people in view.

Wide panoramic view of the bright blue lap pool at Blue Osa with four women relaxing in the water, lounge chairs on the patio, wooden buildings with turquoise doors, and lush jungle surrounding the resort.

View from under a wooden roof overhang across a manicured tropical lawn with a circular hedge labyrinth, fan palms, and tall coconut palms at Blue Osa under a bright partly cloudy sky.

About twenty retreat participants share a communal dinner at a long wooden table in an open-air pavilion at Blue Osa at night, with plates, drinks, and warm lighting as people talk and eat.

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