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BellaVista Costa Rica - Curated Lifestyle Experiences in Montezuma, Costa Rica with public Massage Treatments and Personal Growth listing details. Use this dossier to verify legal context, people, logistics, consent, emergency planning, and integration before contact.
Legal context in Costa Rica
Most careful visible legal context: traditional use. Verify current local rules before travel or contact.
How to contact
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Shamans & Facilitators
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David Franklin Smythe
David did culinary apprenticeship in classically organized kitchens with European chefs while in high school near Lake George NY. His first chef’s position was 2 years at ‘The Good Karma Café’, a macrobiotic restaurant in San Francisco. His experience includes working as executive chef at hotels, country clubs and restaurants for 15 years then 30 years as professor of Global Cuisine at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY, where he taught the entire culinary curriculum, all continuing education culinary courses and traveled extensively as international consultant for the CIA to hotels, restaurant...
Verify roleJustine Adelaide Smythe
Justine graduated with a high honors baccalaureate degree from the Culinary Institute of America and from Cornell with an MBA in hotel and restaurant administration. Ms. Smythe has owned, operated and worked in numerous restaurants including her NY Times critically acclaimed ‘Oasis Café’, the ‘Nikko-Essex House Hotel’, ‘Tavern on the Green Restaurant’ and ‘World Yacht’ in NYC. She co-owns and operates with David and Monica-Jean the ‘Smythe House Inn’ in Saugerties, NY and ‘RENEWAL’ Retreats on the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica. Justine is Editor in Chief of ‘Ashtree Publishing’ owned by Susun Weed. She is also...
Verify roleMonica-Jean Adelaide Smythe
Monica-Jean studies performance art and acting as well as working and performing with Shauna Kanter, owner of ‘Voice Theatre’ a live-action and improv theater company in Kingston, NY, and with Patrick Wadden, owner of ‘Arm of the Sea Theater’ a larger-than-life ecologically themed handmade puppet theater at the ‘tidewater center’ in Saugerties, NY. MJ also studies contemporary and modern dance with Kristi Klinger, owner of ‘Diamond Dance Company’ in Woodstock, NY. She has 3 years of experience as a counselor and assistant teacher at ‘The Art Affect, Duchess Arts Camp’ in Poughkeepsie, NY. MJ loves surfing in t...
Verify roleAlexander Steller
presidente at Costa Rica Land and Houses Studied Ciencia económica at Universidad de Costa Rica Went to Liceo de Atenas Lives in Montezuma, Costa Rica From Cóbano, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
Verify rolePractical Logistics
Details to help you plan your questions, not to replace direct confirmation.
Getting there
Airport pick-up included, Airport drop-off included
Road & duration
8 Days Package, 11 Days Package +3 more
What's included
Private rooms available, Shared rooms available, Camping available, Vegan +8 more
What's not included
Listed from $600.00. Ask about flights, insurance, private sessions, and extra transport.
Integration & Aftercare
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- Aftercare details are still being verified before public display.
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Verified Matching Details
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- Starting price
- Starting price reported as $1,500.00.
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- Starting price reported as $1,800.00.
- Accommodation
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Listed Retreats & Ceremonies
Use these as public listing leads to verify directly.
- 1 week Work Exchange - Pura Vida Conscious Community with shared meals, permaculture garden, rescue animalsTraditional use
- Location
- Montezuma, Costa Rica
- Dates
- 8 Days Package
- Price
- $600.00
- Group size
- 10 listed
- Reviews
- Not listed yet
- Meals
- 3
- Accommodation
- Private rooms available, Shared rooms available, Camping available
- Transport
- Airport pick-up included, Airport drop-off included
- 10 nights in Costa Rica - Artists Self-Expression Retreat, art and body movement as self nourishment plus puppetry and paradeTraditional use
- Location
- Montezuma, Costa Rica
- Dates
- 11 Days Package
- Price
- $1,500.00
- Group size
- 10 listed
- Reviews
- Not listed yet
- Meals
- 3
- Accommodation
- Private rooms available, Shared rooms available, Camping available
- Transport
- Airport pick-up included, Airport drop-off included
- 15 nights in Costa Rica Cultivating Community Pura Vida Lifestyle GetawayTraditional use
- Location
- Montezuma, Costa Rica
- Dates
- 15 Days Package
- Price
- $1,850.00
- Group size
- 10 listed
- Reviews
- Not listed yet
- Meals
- 3
- Accommodation
- Private rooms available, Shared rooms available, Camping available
- Transport
- Airport pick-up included, Airport drop-off included
- 6 nights in Costa Rica - Equine Tropical Healing with Horses RetreatTraditional use
- Location
- Montezuma, Costa Rica
- Dates
- 7 Days Package
- Price
- $1,800.00
- Group size
- 10 listed
- Reviews
- Not listed yet
- Meals
- 3
- Accommodation
- Private rooms available, Shared rooms available, Camping available
- Transport
- Airport pick-up included, Airport drop-off included
- 6 nights in Costa Rica and Reiki Retreat - ENERGY HEALING ADVENTURE includes certification levels 1, 2, 3Traditional use
- Location
- Montezuma, Costa Rica
- Dates
- 7 Days Package
- Price
- $1,800.00
- Group size
- 10 listed
- Reviews
- Not listed yet
- Meals
- 3
- Accommodation
- Private rooms available, Shared rooms available, Camping available
- Transport
- Airport pick-up included, Airport drop-off included
- 8 night Culinary Retreat in Costa Rica Blue Zone - Studies in Holistic Nutrition and Culinary Perceptions with CIA chefsTraditional use
- Location
- Montezuma, Costa Rica
- Dates
- 9 Days Package
- Price
- $2,400.00
- Group size
- 10 listed
- Reviews
- Not listed yet
- Meals
- 3
- Accommodation
- Private rooms available, Shared rooms available, Camping available
- Transport
- Airport pick-up included, Airport drop-off included