Our Costa Rica weeks will be led by Lucy Bremner or another International Yoga practioner in the Sunflower Retreats team;  Lucy is the co founder of Sunflower Retreats. and has been a holistic practitioner in the UK and worldwide since 1988. She specialises in a wide range of body work, therapies and energy and spiritual balancing treatments such as Chakra Balancing and Reiki.

Lucy was drawn to the practice of Hatha yoga and the yoga philosophy while studying holistic therapies professionally in London in 1989. In the late 80's and early 90's, then in her twenties, she travelled independently when at that time it was not common for women to travel alone, her journey took her to Nepal, India, Thailand, Malaysia,Indonesia, Bali, Australia, New Zealand, Sudan and the USA, where she broadened her studies of yoga, Eastern philosophy and the healing arts, including the American Indian tradition and philosophy.

Lucy is a qualified Holistic Therapist and international yoga teacher, accredited by the Friends of Yoga - a society and examination body for yoga in the UK and India which is recognised by Yoga Alliance©, as an international yoga school. Over the last twenty five years she has helped thousands of people with healing therapies and with yoga instruction, either through her yoga classes and treatments, or through all she has coordinated in the yoga and healing section at Sunflower Retreats' centre in Casperia. Lucy specialises in working with women’s issues and health and wellbeing and her interests also include Ayurveda, Soul food cooking, Shamanism, Astrology, art and the study of the sacred and divine feminine.

Lucy's group yoga classes are holistic and grounding, fusing the elements of Ying and Yang. She specializes in Restorative Yin Yoga. Yoga asanas and practices with some flow sequences and traditional asanas in order to bring balance (union) to the body, mind, emotions and spirit. She also teaches Water Yoga or Acqua Yoga where certain yoga asanas are practiced within the element of water; water being a supportive element for physical and emotional health and wellbeing.

Lucy loves to share and communicate the ancient knowledge of Western and Eastern traditions so to infuse our connection back to Mother earth, our body & self , this is done directly through the healing power of yoga and meditation and Yoga nidra, both in her classes and her treatments.

 She is a gentle teacher, encouraging and supportive in her teaching and holistic therapy work. 

A mother of two children born by natural childbirth methods, she also teaches pregnancy yoga and preparation for natural birth.

Empowering people is the most rewarding gift I can receive. With passion to help others find their magic within themselves- I've dedicated my teachings to others for the past four years.

My goal is to help people find movement- find their youth within their bodies. Having studied at Kripalu Schools of Yoga and Ayurveda, the outlook on yoga itself gave me a whole new meaning. Going deep into the studies of anatomy, our different levels within the body, and true yoga philosophy, it has became a way of living, rather than a practice of having.

I hope to spread as much knowledge as I can with others, exceeding their abilities to be here in the present moment; to be strong physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Practice with me and understand the underlying principles there is to yoga, rather than just the asana you are in.

My classes are fun, invigorating, renewing, and empowering. I hope you think so, too! 

As an enthusiastic student of yoga since my aunt first introduced it to me at age 17, I wanted to go deeper into my practice and so I went to Neyyar dam, Kerala, south of India on 2004, when I was 24, for a Sivananda Yoga teacher training course. The idea of the ashram was to mimic the way the old yogis who have lived with their guru, eating with him and spending their whole day with him. After practicing asanas, meditation, karma yoga, Ayurveda, philosophy, ceremonies, mantras, I was ready and excited to share my knowledge with everyone.

Through the years, and after becoming a mother to three beautiful children, I came to realize that yoga is a daily practice and manifests in all aspects of life. It is in everything we think, feel or act. It is though consciousness, understanding, self acceptance, ease, vitality, that we can reach high levels of frequency and live fully.

 Living in the jungles of Costa Rica over twelve years and creating a life in the pace of nature, have gotten me to keep the Sivananda teaching as a back round of classic hatha yoga in my classes and choose to teach more of a flowing Vinyasa sequencing.

I put a great emphasis on breathing methods and exercises, and use them as a meditative base of the practice.