Want to go deeper into yoga without feeling called to become a teacher? The Awaken Your Truth Live Experience offers the depth, rigor, and embodied wisdom of a 200-hour training, without the pressure of certification or performance. Set within the lush rainforest and expansive Pacific coastline of Costa Rica, this immersive week invites you into yoga as a living practice: one that shapes how you breathe, move, think, feel, and meet life. You’ll explore alignment, sequencing, philosophy, and subtle anatomy alongside modern nervous system science, not as abstract concepts, but as tools you can immediately integrate into your daily living.

This is not a retreat where you escape your life, it’s one that changes how you inhabit it. Through intentional practice, guided inquiry, and nervous system–informed embodiment, you’ll learn how to regulate stress, respond rather than react, and create a self-guided home practice that evolves with you. By the end of the week, yoga is no longer something you “do” on a mat, it becomes the ground from which you relate, choose, and live. You leave not just rested, but recalibrated, rooted in clarity, self-trust, and a felt sense of inner mastery that continues long after you return home.

Hi, I’m Courtney, an ex-gymnast, spinally fused, 18-year yogi, Ashtangi, trained in India, whose practice draws from hatha, kundalini and vinyasa. My heart-centered approach evokes an understanding of interconnectedness through a focus on self-love, nature and seva (service). The intention being for my students to discover the light within that ignites their path to inner peace, the connection which opens the heart to universal love.

After 10 years as a competitive gymnast, lower back surgery brought my athletic ability to a halt. Looking for a way to ease the pain and regain strength and flexibility, I discovered yoga and immediately fell in love with the practice, quickly learning its transformational power over the mind and path to freedom. Embarking on this journey meant a lifelong quest for self-knowledge, love, and humility. In 2010 I volunteered in India and earned my yoga teaching certification. My time in India inspired me to establish my own NGO, Kids’ Foundation for Uniting Nations which connects and inspires kids around the world to initiate positive change through service.

The first time I stepped on a yoga mat was the first time I pulled at a string that seems to be endlessly unraveling. Here I am, years later, pulling and unraveling, pulling and unraveling – only to remember that the work never really ends. This practice has given me my power back – the power of being aware enough to learn in every moment. I’ve learned that the only action between wanting to change and change is choice, that the ability to feel is a gift, & that this moment, right here, has all I need to “know”.

My teaching opens up the door for you to experiment with what you’ve got going on right here. I want to teach you to listen + be heard, to see + feel. Feel home in your body, and most certainly, sexy in your skin.