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The staff is an inspiring and spirited group of women who truly embody the heart of Women’s Quest. You will have the opportunity to play, learn, and grow alongside women who are not only phenomenal athletes, but also intuitive, articulate teachers and guides. Our team offers cutting-edge instruction infused with heartfelt encouragement, humor, and deep care.
With our high staff-to-camper ratio, you’ll receive individualized attention, gentle guidance, and safe, supportive supervision—so you can relax, trust the process, and fully enjoy the experience. We thoughtfully organize groups to meet all fitness, surf, and experience levels, honoring where you are each day. Whether this is your first time on a surfboard, your first hike in the jungle, or your first experience with yoga, we love introducing women to the joy, confidence, and freedom these practices awaken.
This is luxury wellness the Women’s Quest way—where expert support, soulful connection, and playful adventure come together to help you feel radiant, capable, and deeply alive.
Colleen Cannon is the founder and guiding force behind Women’s Quest, a global adventure-wellness company she created after an extraordinary career as a professional triathlete. A fierce and joyful competitor, Colleen stood on the podium 93 times, earning the title of World Champion (1984) and U.S. National Champion (1988, 1990), and representing the United States as a multiple National Team member. Her impact on the sport and her leadership beyond the finish line led to her induction into the Triathlon Hall of Fame.
Today, Colleen channels that same strength, curiosity, and fearless spirit into empowering women through movement, balance, and adventure. She has spent more than three decades designing transformational experiences that help women reconnect with their bodies, awaken their senses, and listen deeply to their true heart’s desire.
Known for her ability to evolve and enchant, Colleen continues to craft Women’s Quest journeys that blend joyful physical challenge with deep nourishment of the soul. Each retreat is infused with wellness practices including Qigong, Awakening the Senses yoga, meditation, and mindfulness—woven together with laughter, nature, and meaningful connection.
When she’s not guiding women across mountains, coastlines, and sacred landscapes, Colleen can be found savoring dark chocolate, playing outside, and living by what she proudly calls her PhD in PLAY—the belief that joy, curiosity, and movement are among life’s greatest teachers.
Pia Plant
Pia Plant moved to Costa Rica over 11 years ago looking for peace, quiet and a smaller community. And she’s definitely found it in Santa Teresa having moved there from Buenos Aires, Argentina where she had previously lived her entire life. Initially seeking to live in nature and in a small community Pia started surfing when she moved to Santa Teresa and rarely a day goes by without her in the water with her beloved surf. In addition to surfing Yoga is a very important part of her daily life. Pia also teaches Spanish and is a Reiki and Bach flower’s practitioner.
Pia loves being a surf instructor as she wants nothing more than to give everyone the chance to experience the joy of playing with the waves. She’s a huge animal lover and loves cooking healthy yummy nourishing meals. Here’s one of Pia’s favorite quotes to give you a better sense of who she is: “You don’t have a soul, you are a soul, you have a body” from CS Lewis.
Amanda Terry
Amma or Amanda is a nature lover with a passion to help others to discover a more synchronistic and aligned way of living. She believes in a multifaceted approach to wellness in order to restore and maintain harmony within and without the body. Seeing the body as a whole system that functions in harmony with nature, Amma has been seeking holistic balance in herself and others since she began in the wellness industry in 2009. Originally a fitness instructor and personal trainer, Amma has shifted to share her knowledge through the lens of Ayurveda as a guide for others to find their own path to their own inner bliss.
In 2014 Amma was called to India to dive deeper into the Vedic studies of Kaula Tantra. Through the teachings of this non dualistic approach Amma discovered the power of letting go somatically through her yoga practice, and was able to meet a deeper version of herself – one she had not found through the intense styles of yoga in California. After receiving her 200 hour YTTC in Tantra Yoga with Shri Kali Ashram in India, she felt called to more deeply understand Ayurveda, so she went to the birthplace of Ayurveda in Kerala India, where she began her journey as an Ayurvedic Health Counselor. Amma has continued her studies in Ayurveda focusing on Ayurvedic massage and cooking, and continued to expand her knowledge of yoga through Dynamic Spiral Yin Fascial Yoga, Myofascial breathwork, and continues to study the art of gentle assists.
At the core of Amma’s being she believes that through the power of pure presence, slowing down, creating small rituals, and living in ceremony we can truly awaken to a new way of living. With deep reverence and respect for the 5000+ year old teachings, she believes that we are all deserving to live a symptom free life. Her classes are a unique combination of anatomy based asanas guiding you into rhythm with your breath, and finding deep relaxation in the body. Amma curates her classes to be balancing for all the doshas, holding the asanas longer, followed by savasana (corpse pose) and breathing exercises to fully integrate the effects of the practice.