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The staff is an inspiring and spirited group of women!!! You will have the chance to play with women who are both phenomenal athletes and articulate teachers. You will receive cutting-edge instruction with heartfelt support and encouragement. The high staff-to-camper ratio allows opportunity for individual guidance, safe supervision of all activities, and personal attention to your feelings and needs. We organize the groups to accommodate all fitness levels and levels of experience. Don’t worry if this is your first time on a mountain bike, if you have not done much hiking, or your first experience with yoga-we LOVE to introduce the JOYS of these activities!
Colleen founded Women’s Quest after a highly successful career as a professional triathlete. In her racing days, she was World Champion in 1984, and National Champion in 1988 and 1990. She also was a multiple U.S. National team member.
Her passions, besides chocolate and being in nature, are liberating and empowering women through movement and balance, and targeting their true “hearts’ desire.” “Colleen continues to EVOLVE adventures for Women’s Quest, delighting in ways to ENCHANT women with the experiences that coax happiness grown from joyful physical experiences.”
Pia Plant
Pia came to Costa Rica over 11 years ago. She was looking for peace and quiet and she’s definitely found it here in Santa Teresa. After living in Buenos Aires, Argentina all her life she was seeking to live in nature and in a small community. She started to surf here and couldn’t stop doing it and now along with yoga it’s a very important part of her daily life. Pia is also a Spanish teacher and a Reiki and Bach flower’s practitioner. She loves to be a surf instructor as she wants every body to have the chance to experience the joy of playing with the waves. She’s a huge animal lover and loves cooking healthy yummy nourishing meals. And this will give you a good idea of who is Pia. One of her favorite quotes is “ You don’t have a soul, you are a soul , you have a body” from CS Lewis.
Nancy Goodfellow
Nancy Goodfellow began her Yogic studies in the Ashtanga tradition under the guidance of her first teachers, Dominic Corigliano, Tim Miller, and Sri Pattabhi Jois. At a young age she felt drawn to go inwards to gain insight into life’s great mysteries. For two years she practiced and studied daily with great discipline and devotion alongside her teachers and mentors. Following her dream of living a more simple life in deep connection with nature, she moved to Costa Rica and developed a strong self-practice, while continuing to study abroad with many international teachers of various traditions. Nancy has completed over 500 hours of Yoga Alliance Teacher trainings and began teaching in 1998. Yet it has been the challenge of overcoming one of life’s greatest tragedies and losses that opened up the inner-door to her heart and has allowed Nancy to infuse and channel her teachings with great compassion, confidence and joy.
Nancy currently dedicates much of her studies to the Anusara method with its amazing principles of alignment, Tantric philosophy and Bhakti-filled practice. She completed over 500 hours of certified Anusara teachings and has “Anusara-Inspired” teacher status. Her teachings are infused with a myriad of elements, which come together to create a highly educational, physically challenging, and deeply soulful experience. Nancy has been practicing Yoga for nearly 20 years and teaching for over 10 years. She and her family recently opened Pranamar Villas and Yoga Retreat on the beach in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica where she teaches workshops, retreats and daily yoga classes. Nancy invites all to step into the world of Yoga and connect to the beauty that lies within us all!
Amanda 
Amanda has always been a cultural chameleon, having traveled to many corners of the world and spent years living with different indigenous cultures, studying, volunteering, and traveling. As a Peace Corps volunteer from 2011-2013 she had the opportunity to fully integrate herself into nature, way beyond her comfort zone, and began to peel away at the layers of defense and fear that modern society had brought on.
Throughout her explorations she noticed that many cultures had something in common, they all had some sort of cultural teaching, mantra, or movement practice to help guide individuals find the inner divine knowledge. After working in the health and wellness industry in San Francisco, she began to see that there was a big lack of connection between the physical and the mental health. This inspired her to seek deeper understandings, ultimately leading her to India to study Ayurveda and dive deep in the origins of Tantra through the traditional Kaula system of Tantra at Shri Kali Ashram. She continued exploring the world of traditional medicine through studies of Herbalism and continues to complete her studies to becoming an Ayurvedic Health Coach.
Amandas intention is to share her knowledge of health, wellness and wholebody nourishment as a guide for others to find their own path to their own inner bliss.
She believes the foundation of our wellness begins with nature and our relation to it. Through the appreciation of all things in nature and integrating consciousness into all aspects of one’s life, you can be guided to find your own fountain of inner bliss. Amanda shares her passion of wellness through the teachings of Ayurveda, plant medicine, tantra, and yoga with the hopes to continue to expand consciousness, love and help guide others to access their inner healing light.