About Us

Welcome to Casa de Bienestar meaning “House of Wellness,” where your transformational journey awaits. Focus on your personal growth and build healthier habits to achieve a more balanced lifestyle. Awaken your highest potential with mindful eating, creating positive change, and aligning your mind, body, and soul to find inner peace for a more purposeful life.

What We Do

Yoga for Living

For our students, we empower and inspire with the tools and a customized roadmap for their dream of success in a teacher training career.

Yoga for Leisure

For class participants, our mission is to increase inner peace with classes designed to evoke increased self-reflection, while providing the appropriate physical challenges to connect the mind-body and soul.

Yoga for Life

For Ayurvedic wellness attendees, the mission is to make the world a healthier, happier, and more peaceful place through the science of yoga and the principles of its sister science, Ayurveda.

A Little About Me

As a teacher trainer with a calling to share the sacred lessons of yoga, I am deeply influenced by my personal journey. A self-professed serial entrepreneur, Tech Nerd and Boat Captain, I am grateful for the balance and insight Yoga infinitely brings. I completed my 200hr Yoga Alliance certification in 2009 and continued to teach yoga in Canada and Costa Rica while captaining
boats and talking tech. Life was great, full of abundance and indulgence, but something was missing. I was stressed and overworked and as a result, I became extremely sick.

As a cancer survivor, I transitioned away from a lifetime of professional stress and as a result, I found myself drawn to the safer, deeper, and more meaningful practice of teaching yoga.

In 2019, in the midst of the pandemic, yoga has brought me closer to my Absolute Truth, my Purpose, my Dharma. I completed my 300hr certification and thus began the dream of Casa De Bienestar.

Simone Ferreira

Founder & Program Director

chef judy

As a youngster, Chef Judy’s passion for cooking turned into a profession with a highly accredited Red Seal License, a Herbalist Degree, and a Hotel and Restaurant Management diploma. With a career spanning many borders, Chef Judy Lynn is a global food expert passionate about redefining healthy eating habits with fresh and raw organic ingredients. Inspired by the natural abundance of Costa Rica, Judy’s culinary magic is a flavorful fusion that is incredibly fresh and imaginative.

Join us for inspiring cooking workshops and learn some techniques, tips and tricks, for a lifetime of mouthwatering mindful eating for your family and friends.

Testimonials

"This place is not for crazy contortionists. If you are not aiming to be a super yogi, trust that this is a welcoming environment for all levels."

Lisa C.

"I am filled with gratitude for this life altering experience. Great food, beautiful venue, and kind teachers who care about each student. Go spend a few weeks at Casa de Bienestar you will not regret it!"

Renate M.

"Simone has an engaging ability to transform Yoga into fun, light-hearted experiences. A yoga class at Casa de Bienestar leaves feeling full of confidence, energized and at peace."

Archie B.

"A lot of information is packed in 2 weeks, but the instructors, other yogis and Simone made it fun and informative. I would recommend this training to anyone! It truly was an experience I will never forget."

Fred F.

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Yoga for Living, Leisure, Life.

Your Ultimate Wellness and Yoga Retreat for Transformative Change and Mind-Body Connection

Playas del Coco, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Our heart-centered approach donates 5% of our Teacher Training profits to Pets for Paws which cares for the local Coco street pet population.