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Experts in all things wellnessDR. LIZ LINDH, ERYT-500
FOUNDER & PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Dr. Liz Lindh is the Founder & Program Director of Lakshmi Rising Yoga & Wellness, a portal for health, spirituality, creativity, and community. Currently based at The Sanctuary at Two Rivers on Costa Rica’s magical Nicoya Peninsula, Liz facilitates transformative, Yoga Alliance-approved Yoga Teacher Trainings, luxurious yoga retreats, and wellness workshops in Costa Rica and across the globe. She offers lifestyle inspiration for empowerment and awakening through movement, meditation, ritual, self-care, exploration of the natural world, environmental stewardship, and creative self-expression; all in support of personal and collective evolution and healing.
Liz is a Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, holistic skincare and natural beauty expert, yoga teacher, and yoga teacher trainer. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Health and a Masters of Oriental Medicine degree from the East West College of Natural Medicine, along with additional training and certifications across many health and wellness disciplines including Ayurveda, meditation, acu-point injection therapy, psychology, functional medicine, holistic nutrition, and herbal medicine.
Liz’s yoga education has been focused on the vinyasa lineage of Sri Krishnamacharya taught directly from his son TKV Desikachar, Shiva Rea, and other wonderful teachers over the past 25+ years. She also studies and practices classical tantra passed down through the teachings of Sri Kapilnath, Sri Mahendranath, and Dr. Robert Svoboda. Her passion and inspiration for conscious dance comes from the philosophy of 5 Rhythms taught directly by creator Gabrielle Roth and her son Jonathan Horan. Liz has also undergone intensive studies in classical Pilates in the direct lineage of Joseph Pilates with instructor Junya Tanner. She continues to study the timeless wisdom and cutting-edge knowledge of her beloved teachers: sages, artists, and scientists from cultures near and far. She integrates time-tested traditions, ancient wisdom, and modern innovation with direct experience to share her clear and informed perspective on yoga and wellness.
Liz Lindh has worked with award-winning musicians, actors, authors, dancers, athletes, and artists of all kinds to inspire creativity, beauty, and focus; enhance performance; and prevent injury. Her extensive experience in Integrative Medicine includes research with stroke patients at Health South Rehabilitation Hospital; a tour with a rock band as their private acupuncturist; presentations at the University of Miami Miller College of Medicine with her mentor Dr. James E. Williams; the development and implementation of a yoga, meditation, and wellness program for cancer survivors for The Wellness Community, an international non-profit support group; and the formulation of her own line of herbal elixirs and beauty products.
Yoga Journal, MindBodyGreen, and The Chalkboard Mag have all featured Liz’s yoga sequences, retreats, and wellness concepts. She frequently is featured online and on television and radio as a yoga and wellness expert, has been recognized by MindBodyGreen as a leader in the field of wellness, and received a Mercury Love Award for “Best Yoga Instructor.”

LIZ’S YOGA TEACHER TRAINING SCHEDULE
2023
APRIL 16 – MAY 6 SANCTUARY SANTA ANA, COSTA RICA
MAY 21 – JUNE 10 SANCTUARY SANTA ANA, COSTA RICA
JUNE 28 – JULY 18 VERONA, ITALY
JULY 23 – AUGUST 12 VERONA, ITALY
NOV 19 – DEC 9 SANCTUARY SANTA ANA, COSTA RICA
2024
FEBRUARY 4 – 24 SANCTUARY SANTA ANA, COSTA RICA
MARCH 3 – 23 SANCTUARY SANTA ANA, COSTA RICA
APRIL 7 – 27 SANCTUARY SANTA ANA, COSTA RICA
JUNE 25 – JULY 15 VERONA, ITALY
JULY 21 – AUGUST 10 VERONA, ITALY
AUG 15 – SEPTEMBER 4 VERONA, ITALY


BRITTANY’S YOGA TEACHER TRAINING SCHEDULE
2023
FEBRUARY 5 – 25 SANCTUARY TWO RIVERS, COSTA RICA
APRIL 9 – 29 SANCTUARY TWO RIVERS, COSTA RICA
JUNE 4 – 24 SANCTUARY TWO RIVERS, COSTA RICA
JULY 2 – 22 SANCTUARY TWO RIVERS, COSTA RICA
JULY 30 – AUGUST 19 SANCTUARY TWO RIVERS, COSTA RICA
NOVEMBER 5 – 25 SANCTUARY TWO RIVERS, COSTA RICA
DECEMBER 3 – 23 SANCTUARY TWO RIVERS, COSTA RICA
DECEMBER 31 – JAN 20, 2024 SANCTUARY TWO RIVERS, COSTA RICA
2024
JAN 28 – FEB 17 SANCTUARY TWO RIVERS, COSTA RICA
MAY 12 – JUNE 1 SANCTUARY TWO RIVERS, COSTA RICA
JUNE 9 – JUNE 29 SANCTUARY TWO RIVERS, COSTA RICA
JULY 7 – 27 SANCTUARY TWO RIVERS, COSTA RICA
AUG 4 – 24 SANCTUARY TWO RIVERS, COSTA RICA
NOV 3 – 23 SANCTUARY TWO RIVERS, COSTA RICA
DEC 1 – 21 SANCTUARY TWO RIVERS, COSTA RICA
BRITTANY LYNNE, E-RYT 500
Brittany Lynne, E-RYT 500
Brittany is passionate about helping others create a foundation for a more balanced and peaceful life. She guides her classes with creative, intelligent sequencing and the intention of cultivating present-moment awareness through movement, gratitude and stillness.
Brittany is a Yoga Alliance-certified E-RYT 500 yoga and meditation teacher and continuing education provider. She has studied meditation, yoga asana, sound healing, breathwork, the neuroscience of meditation and yoga nidra and has led over 3,000 hours of practice with her students. She is a teacher on Inner Dimension TV and Insight Timer and specializes in teaching mindfulness for company headquarters and workplaces including The Oscars, TOMS Shoes, Omaze and Thrive Market. Brittany strives to share her light with the world and encourages others to do the same.
ANNABELLE’S YOGA TEACHER TRAINING SCHEDULE
2023
FEBRUARY 5 – 25 SANCTUARY TWO RIVERS, COSTA RICA
APRIL 9 – 29 SANCTUARY TWO RIVERS, COSTA RICA
MAY 7 – 27 SANCTUARY TWO RIVERS, COSTA RICA
JUNE 4 – 24 SANCTUARY TWO RIVERS, COSTA RICA
JULY 2 -22 SANCTUARY TWO RIVERS, COSTA RICA
JULY 30 – AUGUST 19 SANCTUARY TWO RIVERS, COSTA RICA
ANNABELLE TERRY, RYT-500
Annabelle was born and raised in Boise, ID, where she began practicing asana to treat somatic stress symptoms. After experiencing dramatic improvements, she continued on to train with Boise Om School to receive her 200H credentials at the age of 18. She relocated to South Florida where she studied Psychology, Sociology & Exercise Science, and later graduated with a BA. Annabelle first connected with Lakshmi Rising when she completed her 300H training with Liz, and continued on to apprentice with the school. Today, Annabelle is passionately curious about the intersection between yogic teachings and western psychophysical research. Her teachings fuse ancient yogic wisdom and practices with modern understandings of neuroscience, physiology, psychology and evolution; coupling remedies for suffering with insight into why, and how, humans actually suffer. In addition to teaching with Lakshmi Rising, Annabelle facilitates intensive and empowering retreats through her company, Pranic Path Yoga.
CECILIA’S YOGA TEACHER TRAINING SCHEDULE
2023
APRIL 16 – MAY 6 SANCTUARY SANTA ANA, COSTA RICA
MAY 7 – 27 SANCTUARY TWO RIVERS, COSTA RICA
NOVEMBER 19 – DECEMBER 9 SANCTUARY SANTA ANA, COSTA RICA
2024
FEBRUARY 4 – 24 SANCTUARY SANTA ANA, COSTA RICA
CECILIA FOISSARD, E-RYT 500
Cecilia Foissard, E-RYT 500
Cécilia is a French certified 500 hours Ashtanga & Vinyasa Teacher. She discovered yoga after years of competition in gymnastics when shed moved to Canada for her law and journalism studies in 2012. Former gymnast and ballet dancer, movement was part of her daily life since a very young age. First introduced to asanas, meditation came along the way. During a year, yoga became part of a daily routine. Breathing, moving, (re)connecting and sharing moments was life changing.
A first big trip in Latin America in 2014/2015 gave her the opportunity to take classes with inspiring teachers in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. In early 2018, she took her first Ashtanga/ Vinyasa 200 hours YTT in Tampaksiring, Bali and started teaching in the French Riviera at Yoga studios, Hotels and with Private clients. The same year she taught as a guest teacher in Paraiso Yoga Studio and Anjali Casa Divina in Sayulita, Mexico. In 2021, she had the opportunity to take the 300 hour Lakshmi Rising Advanced Yoga Training Course in Costa Rica with Dr. Liz Lindh. Cecelia was invited to join the Lakshmi Rising team as a master teacher in 2022.
Through movements, Cecilia loves sharing sweet but strong flows, sharply intuitive mixing dance of the breath and poetry of the body. She loves facilitating and holding space (colorful and flowery, always) in order to help people to move and find their own voice, together.
For her, yoga is an art, a science, a dancing meditation as well as a real way to connect to others. It’s also a fantastic tool box to learn how to observe, how to understand, how to infuse, how to heal and finally, how to bloom.
She truly considers teaching as the sweetest and the kindest duty. Teaching is actually to be at the service of the world. Gently spreading the message and sharing as much as she can for the beauty of Yoga is the most precious gift.
SATYA’S YOGA TEACHER TRAINING SCHEDULE
2023
JUNE 28 – JULY 18 VERONA, ITALY
JULY 23 – AUGUST 12 VERONA, ITALY
SATYA MOSES
Satya Moses
Satya Moses can only offer a biography in the form of gratitude. He is thankful to his parents, Robert and Meenakshi, lifelong seekers on the yogic path, who raised him in a household full of practice, meditation, wafting incense smoke, and Sanskrit verse. He is eternally indebted to Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh, his family guru, by whose grace his parents met, and into whose lineage he has been initiated. He is grateful to his adopted uncle, Dr. Robert Svoboda, for guiding by example into the myriad worlds of tantric practice. He is thankful for Mark Morey and the lineage of nature school teachers who introduced him properly to the living, uncivilized world. In his late teens and early twenties Satya traveled the world synthesizing the treasures of his upbringing with the realities of life in a plethora of places, plying his trade as an artist and illustrator. He lived for six months in the Himalayas and there underwent formal yoga education and received certification with Swami Govindananda of Sivananda Yoga Vidya Peetham. He is currently in a transitional life-phase, moving out of an expansive roaming youth and toward a rooted deep-listening third era, always guided by meditation, art, and nature.
GABY’S YOGA TEACHER TRAINING SCHEDULE
2023
JULY 23 – AUGUST 12 VERONA, ITALY
GABY COLLETTA, E-RYT 500, YACEP, AHC
Gaby is a Yoga, Ayurveda and Meditation Teacher with over 12 years of practice in integrative wellness and healing arts. She facilitates nature-based retreats, guides mind-body courses and coaches individuals on how to create an ecosystem of internal resources that increase resilience and unveil intrinsic potential. Her teachings weave together the Ancient traditions of Ayurveda, Buddhism and Tantra, alongside modern-day neuroscience, somatic psychology and Earth wisdom. Gaby guides womxn’s circles and intentional collaborations committed to cultivating spaces of vulnerability, discovery, authentic expression and liberation. Through the tapestry of mind-body practices, Gaby shares tools for deeper intimacy and understanding one’s intuitive abilities, mental power and pathways to freedom. Gaby received her Ayurvedic training at the California College of Ayurveda in 2017 with additional study under Dr. Lad and holds a B.A. in Communication from New York University. Gaby is faculty of the Lakshmi Rising School of Yoga and Wellness, a Masters Candidate for Integral Counseling Psychology at the CIIS and co-founder of ClimbWell, an organization devoted to exploring the intersection of rock climbing, mindfulness and personal development.