Outside Magazine

Give the Gift of Adventure

Do you do an all-girls getaway every year? Surprise your most adventuresome girlfriend and book a seven-day surfing school and yoga retreat with Pura Vida Adventures in Costa Rica. The absence of guys results in a low-key vibe and quick results; plan on going from newbie to bona fide surfer by the end of the week…
Jennifer Magazine

Jennifer Magazine

She’s 54, still riding the waves, and for 20 years has taught others to do the same

Picture this: You’re on the beach. The sun is warm, the waves are rolling, and you’re ready to do something you’ve dreamed about for a long time but were afraid you’d missed your opportunity. Because somewhere along the way you got the message that you were too old to try new things…

Global Travel Junkie Podcast

Meet Tierza Eichner with Pura Vida Adventures. For over 20 years they have been hosting surf and yoga retreats. Tierza Eichner is the founder of Pura Vida Adventures, all-inclusive Costa Rica surf and yoga retreats. Proudly celebrating 20 years in business, Tierza and her team have brought the soul-changing, life-transforming, spirit-filling sport of surfing and yoga to thousands of people from all over the world.

POPSUGAR

The 10 Best Places to Go For Moms Who Want to Vacation All by Themselves

One way to assuage your guilt about leaving your little ones is to do something they wouldn’t — or couldn’t — enjoy. This empowering surf camp for women in the cool surf town of Santa Teresa, Costa Rica, is a great spot to remind yourself that you’re more than just a mama…

Travel Channel

10 Wellness Retreats to Check Into for New Year’s

Pura Vida Adventures offers a little bit of everything at its New Year’s Surf Camp, week-long surf and yoga camp on the Nicoya Peninsula. (Don’t worry, beginner surfers are welcome.) In addition to daily surf lessons and beachfront yoga classes, indulge in spa treatments at open-air huts and healthy, filling meals that focus on locally-sourced ingredients, not weight loss…

Reader’s Digest

13 Summer Vacation Packages Worth the Money

If yoga and or surfing is your passion, Pura Vida Adventures has week-long retreats that will be ideal for you. You get daily surfing instruction, sunset surf session, and yoga in the outdoor, oceanfront yoga studio. As you get mind, body, and spirit together, keep it going with healthy gourmet meals at the beachfront restaurant…

Los Angeles Times

The gift of an unforgettable experience

It’s women only — for the most part — at surf-and-yoga retreats in Malpais, on the coast of Costa Rica organized by Pure Vida Adventures. The weeklong getaways start on Nov. 11 and run regularly until August; occasional retreats — like the New Year’s one — are open to men as well. The beachside sojourns include daily surf and yoga lessons, meals and a massage…

PureWow

The 7 Most Luxe Eco Resorts in the World

There’s no shame in wanting to relax and be pampered among jaw-droppingly beautiful surroundings while you’re on vacay. But if you’re keen on conservation and preservation of the environment, why not do all that fun stuff at an eco-friendly hotel? Rest assured, you don’t have to sacrifice swankiness and splendor for the sake of Mother Earth…

MyDomaine 

5 Wellness Retreats That’ll Help You Become the Person You Want to Be

The monotony of daily life can leave you feeling lackluster and uninspired, so it’s important to flex your mental skills and learn something new. Pura Vida Adventures hosts surf and yoga retreats in Costa Rica, with a three-to-one student/teacher ratio. You’ll stay in a luxury beachfront resort in Santa Teresa, take energizing yoga classes in an open-air studio, and learn how to surf with a group of like-minded women…

Thrive Global

37 Limit Breaking Female Founders Share The Top Lessons Learned from Their Experiences

Tierza Davis founded Pura Vida Adventures , surf and yoga retreat in Costa Rica, in 2003 when “yoga” studios weren’t on every street corner and the word “retreat” wasn’t used for a vacation you were taking this year…

Fodor’s Travel

Our New Favorite Travel Trend

Nothing says connecting with yourself and nature like hitting the surf in Costa Rica. When it comes to surf retreats, there’s certainly no shortage to choose from. Nestled between the tropical rainforest and sandy beaches in Malpais, Costa Rica, Pura Vida Adventures offers beachfront rooms and women’s only as well as coed retreats for every level of surfer…

Swaay

The Female-Only Getaway

Perhaps a bit more accessible than the two aforementioned destinations is Costa Rica’s Pura Vida Adventures, a surf and yoga retreat for women that’s located in the coastal city of Malpais. Like Golden Door, Pura Vida does offer a handful of co-ed retreats throughout the year, but the majority of the year is reserved for women only…
Health Magazine Article About Pura Vida Costa Rica Surf Camp

Health Magazine

5 Amazing Fitness Adventures for Women

While Pura Vida, in the village of Malpais, alternates between surfing-focused and yoga-centric weeks, it’s their surf camps that are truly signature. The instruction is hands on—for beginners through advanced surfers…
Shape Magazine Article About Pura Vida Costa Rica Surf Camp

Shape Magazine

Make Some Waves

The vibe at this camp may be laid-back, but the services aren’t. During the week-long stay in a beachfront villa (shared or private rooms are available) you’ll ride the waves and enjoy three gourmet meals a day, sunrise yoga classes and a massage…
ABC World News Article About Pura Vida Costa Rica Surf Camp

ABC World News Now

Tips for the Perfect Weight-loss Vacation

Speaking about nice venues, let’s talk about your recommendation…and our personal favorite here. Costa Rica. Sounds so good. Ohh so good! This is the one that really makes me think vacation. This is Pura Vida Adventures and it is a surf and yoga camp…
Natural Health Magazine Article About Pura Vida Costa Rica Surf Camp

Natural Health Magazine

Well-Rounded Retreats

Looking for extra to the asanas on a yoga getaway this summer…Each day Pura Vida Adventures retreat for women begins with a two-hour yoga session. Additional activities include surfing, stand-up paddle boarding…
Whole Living Magazine Article About Pura Vida Costa Rica Surf Camp

Whole Living Magazine

Adventures in Om

Perk up your yoga routine by taking a retreat…Start each day with a seaside yoga class followed by surfing lessons. The instructors will have even beginners catching waves…
More Magazine Article About Pura Vida Costa Rica Surf Camp

MORE Magazine

Reinvent Yourself Abroad

After eight years in the dot-com business, Davis-Eichner was laid off in 2001 and never wanted to see another cubicle. . . Instead of diving into a job search, she headed for Central America’s beaches. . .”
Elle Canada Article About Pura Vida Costa Rica Surf Camp

ELLE Canada

Hot 100! Vacation Style

The happy holiday. At Pura Vida resort in Costa Rica, you practice “laughter yoga” on the beach.
Self Magazine Article About Pura Vida Costa Rica Surf Camp

SELF

Your SELF Challenge 2009

Win a Trip! Sign-up at Self.com for chance to nab a six-night escape to Pura Vida Adventures surf camp in Costa Rica…
Marie Claire Article About Pura Vida Costa Rica Surf Camp

Marie Claire

Keep Your Summer Body Strong

Learn to Surf – catch the next wave – easily – at the end of a 4×4-only road in the Costa Rican beach town of Mal Pais…
Glamour Magazine Article About Pura Vida Costa Rica Surf Camp

Glamour

The Life of Your Dreams

I picked up and moved to Costa Rica… In 2001 I got laid off from my job in San Francisco and decided to travel. My surf buddies suggested I go to Mal Pais…
Vogue Magazine Article About Pura Vida Costa Rica Surf Camp

Vogue

Presents… this holiday season’s 75 most coveted gifts

56: SURF CAMP – Pack a friend off to surf camp in Costa Rica…
Women's Surf Camp - LA Times

LA Times

The gift of an unforgettable experience

It’s women only — for the most part — at surf-and-yoga retreats in Malpais, on the coast of Costa Rica organized by Pure Vida Adventures… The beachside sojourns include daily surf and yoga lessons, meals and a massage…
New York Times Article About Pura Vida Costa Rica Surf Camp

New York Times

Everybody Calm? Let’s Surf!

KATIE ANDERSON is not someone you’d call a yoga-head. A 34-year-old mother of two, she has taken classes off and on for years, most recently at her gym in Oxford, Miss. But she never considered going away to an ashram…
Wormn Surf Style Magazine Article About Pura Vida Costa Rica Surf Camp

Womens Surf Style Magazine

Goodbye Corporate World…Pura Vida Adventures now has my heart.

In the early 2000’s, Tierza Eichner worked at now a defunct internet advertising agency until the dot-com bust left her unemployed…
Frisky Magazine Article About Pura Vida Costa Rica Surf Camp

The Frisky

Travel Diary: My Costa Rican Surf Adventure

“I recently crossed something off my bucket list. At 29-almost-30, I finally learned how to surf. Despite growing up in sunny San Diego, I’d never learned, and after a failed attempt to teach myself in Hawaii as a teenager — resulting in bloody knees and feet after a detour through a coral reef — I never tried again. Until this summer.”
Exquisite Weddings Magazine Article About Pura Vida Costa Rica Surf Camp

Exquisite Weddings

The Big Thrill…10 of the Hottest Adventure Honeymoon Destinations

Water babies who are either diehard surfers or gung-ho beginners anxious to learn a new sport together…
Pink Magazine Article About Pura Vida Costa Rica Surf Camp

Pink Magazine

Surfing for a Living

Each of these women found her passion – and lives it every day. (Psst! The dream is within reach.)…
American Fitness Article About Pura Vida Costa Rica Surf Camp

American Fitness

Surf’s Up, Mats Down

Pura Vida Adventures has created a unique program for women connecting balancing and the beauty of surfing with the rhythmic patterns of yoga practice…
Womens Running Magazine Article About Pura Vida Costa Rica Surf Camp

Women’s Running

Active Adventures

Escape snowy, cold days and learn to surf or improve your pop-up with Pura Vida Adventures…
Smarter Travel Article about Pura Vida Women's Surf Camp

SmarterTravel.com

Ten empowering women-only vacations

After years of being scared of drowning, I made the decision to learn to surf on vacation,” says New York-based acupuncturist Michelle Helfner. “I wanted to learn in an environment that would be supportive…
Miami Herald Article about Pura Vida Women's Surf Camp

Miami Herald

Crave the wave? Surf camps good place to start

Surfing pioneers have found great spots to pursue their main passion. And after establishing their own surf camps, they’re sharing the wealth…
Sacramento Bee Article about Pura Vida Costa Rica Surf Camp

Sacramento Bee

Surf’s Up, Ladies

Why should guys have all the fun riding the waves? With movies and television providing a showcase, women are taking up surfing in rapidly rising numbers…
Happinez Magazine Article About Pura Vida Costa Rica Surf Camp

Happinez Magazine

The Ocean As Your Master

Deputy editor Eveline Helmink had been dreaming of a surfing adventure for years. Not only because of sun, sea and sand, but also as a spiritual experience in surrender and control. On the Costa Rican coast she discovered that the ocean was her master ­ strict but fair…
Happinez Magazine Article About Pura Vida Costa Rica Surf Camp

Happinez Magazine

De oceaan als leermee ster

Al jaren droomt adjunct hoofdredacteur Eveline Helmink over een surfavontuur. Niet alleen vanwege zon, zee en zand – maar als een spirituele leerschool in overgave en beheersing. Aan de kust van Costa Rica ontdekt ze hoe de oceaan een strenge, maar rechtvaardige leermeester is.

The Wall Street Journal

Luxury Learning Vacations: Bring Back More Than a Tan

Ever wondered if yoga expertise might help you surf more adeptly? Or dreamed of sliding down a wave face in half-moon pose?
USC Trojan Magazine Article About Pura Vida Costa Rica Surf Camp

USC Trojan Family Magazine

Her Work is Play

While on vacation in a beautiful locale, most people think, at least once, “What if I stayed here forever?” Most people, of course, never do it. Then again, most people aren’t Tierza Davis ’92…
Luxury for Hotels Article About Pura Vida Costa Rica Surf Camp

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Explore The World – 5 Travel Adventure Trips You Need To Take In 2015

Pura Vida Adventures aims to provide empowering, inspiring and active retreats on Costa Rica’s best coast.

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