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Photos of Namaste Gardens Writing & Yoga Retreat, Costa Rica (2012)

My January 2012 writers’ retreat in Playa Herradura, Costa Rica, was a colourful and activity-filled adventure thanks in large part to host Jamie Wood, owner of Namaste Gardens. A wonderful group of writers followed me down to Costa Rica’s Central Pacific coast for this writing and travel experience and I’m grateful for their enthusiasm, their creativity, their willingness to share stories close to their hearts, and their warm support  and encouragement of one another. Thank you, Christine, Rick, Janet, Jerome, Mary, Gina, Amy, Linda, Sylvia, Patrick, Alison, Abbie — and Jamie too.

A special thanks also to our guest speakers, William Deverell and Sandra Shaw Homer, for sharing with us their insights on the writing life. Check out “10 Writing Tips from Author William Deverell (on a Costa Rica morning)” and Sandra Shaw Homer’s beautiful guest post “Writing from the Heart.”

Photos here are by Allyson Latta, Rick Brazeau and Christine Barbetta. Click a photo once to enlarge.

“I think doing a lot of documentary photography led me to write creative nonfiction. In the process of making photographs at events it occurred to me that whatever narrative I created would be considered the 'true' narrative.... This is an interesting challenge -- to select from all the information at one's disposal and to distill it down to just the bare essentials and still be accurate.”– Chris Cobb