15 nights in Costa Rica Cultivating Community Pura Vida Lifestyle Getaway
With David Franklin Smythe, Justine Adelaide Smythe, Monica-Jean Adelaide Smythe and Alexander Steller
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RENEW
Come to RENEW in Costa Rica and celebrate the harvest of Mesoamerica in the Nicoya Peninsula blue zone, known for its positive effects on longevity and quality of life. Live longer, happier lives the blue zone way.
Relax, philosophize, hands-on cooking, eat, explore, drum, meditate, practice Tai Qigong, yoga, reiki, paint, ride horses, suspension bridge hike to waterfall, swim, snorkel, surf, laugh with our community and also expert Lifestyle Coaches and Professional Culinary Educators who trained and taught at the Culinary Institute of America and Cornell School of Hotel and Restaurant Administration.
Discover the relationship between your body, mind, and spirit with what and how you cook and eat.
Awaken new perceptions. Remember who you are. Remember your song.
Our Renewal Retreats are immersive, two-week experiences.
About the Leaders
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 […]
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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’ […]
Learn more about Justine Adelaide SmytheMonica-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 […]
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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
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