Guide to Quepos & Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica - Quepolandia

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

By Shelley Workman

Sensorimotor psychotherapy is supporting many of us to heal naturally from trauma and hurtful, life experiences!

Unique to Costa Rica, Holis Wellness Center is offering a style of body-centered therapy called Sensorimotor psychotherapy (SP). Sensorimotor Psychotherapy developed by Pat Ogden and Ron Kurtz in the early 80’s is gaining international recognition for its successes around treating trauma and hurtful life experiences. Unlike traditional forms of psychotherapy that starts in the mind, SP is a specific technique that assesses and works with the body and it’s sensations first. The client/therapist team is also a huge focus, for the secrete to this therapy is authenticity during the observations, interactive dialogue and experimenting to determine the course, pace, and format of treatment. Information and key points pertinent to the sessions are revealed through focusing and awareness of structural alignment and posture, balance, breathing, and movements. In each session, SP highlights physical, emotional and mental strengths. With this method, any “holes” in our health profile can be contacted more confidently. “Holes” tend to show up in form of locked trauma, fears, unresolved hurts and grief, pain/discomforts and deep physical and emotional wounds. As strength and holes work together side by side in the body, a more integrated person gets recreated. This also is a whole person who has the reinstated, organic ability to better metabolize stress and life’s challenges. Again, this technique approaches the body first through an acute awareness of it’s sensations and then incorporates elements of the emotions and the mind. The following are examples of resources that commonly are worked in sessions:

Balance - Leadership - Keeping things in Perspective - Self-awareness - Accountability to someone or something - Responsibility - Generosity - Gratitude - Hope/Joy - Resourcefulness - Sense of Humor - Flexibility - Handling Rejection - Courteousy - Time Management - Support - Learning - Conflict Resolution

For more information and free consultation, please call Holis Wellness Center at 2777-09-29 or visit us on the web at www.spaholis.com.

Filed under: Holis Wellness Center on April 29th, 2011
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Tico Talk – April 2011

By Keilyn Bermúdez Hernández

I. PARTE. Marque con una equis (x) la opción con la conjugación correcta en el tiempo verbal correspondiente que completa la oración.

1. Ayer yo (ir) ___________ a recorrer algunas tiendas en Quepos.

A) iría B) iré C) fui D)iba

2. Nosotros (caminar) ___________ para la playa cuando empezó a llover.

A) caminamos B) caminaríamos C) caminaban D) caminaremos

3. Carmelina (leer) __________ a sus hijos casi todas las noches cuando (ser) ___________ niños.

A) leía/fueron B) leyó/iban C) leía/eran D)leían/éramos

4. Marta (estar) __________ cantando mientras (bañarse) _____________.

A) está/bañó B) estaba/ se bañaba C)estuvo/se baña D) esta/baño

5. Emanuel (ir) _________ para su restaurante favorito, pero (estar) __________cerrado.
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Sesame Crackers & Roasted Garlic-Red Pepper Dip

I’m not fond of store-bought crackers, so I learned to make my own. Serve these easy to make Sesame Crackers with Roasted Garlic-Red Pepper dip while partying by the pool, as munchies before dinner, or for a snack while watching video-of-the-week.

Roasted Garlic–Red Pepper Dip (1 ½ – 2cups)

Ingredients

1 head of garlic
4 large red peppers
spray vegetable oil
½ C cream cheese
½ C plain yogurt
2 Tbs fresh lime juice
3 Tbs fresh basil
½ tsp salt
¼ tsp ground black pepper

Synopsis of Kids Saving The Rainforest

By Jennifer Rice PhD, President of KSTR & Pia Martin DVM, KSTR Manager and Wildlife Vet

Have you ever wondered what Kids Saving the Rainforest does? Well, now is your chance to find out:

• We have a MINAET licensed Wildlife Rescue Center in the heart of ManuelAntonio with over 4 acres of land, 11 cages, and housing for our vet and rehabber. Last year KSTR rescued and rehabilitated 116 animals and released 50% of them. The average in other center worldwide is 33% so we are very pleased with the success rate.

Lic. Gina Jiménez Artavia

(in English)
Por Carol Vlassoff

Traducido por Rosa Arechederra

Imagine que usted tiene 26 años de edad, que es mujer y que ha sido recientemente ascendida al puesto de Gerente de Operaciones del Banco Promerica en Manuel Antonio. Está a punto de tener su primera reunión con los ejecutivos de otras sucursales en San José. Ha llegado desde Quepos temprano en la mañana y entra en la habitación con su agenda y un bolígrafo. Hay que enfrentarse a un grupo de directivos, casi todos hombres de mediana edad con computadoras portátiles al hombre hablando por teléfonos celulares. Esa fue la introducción de Gina Jiménez a sus colegas profesionales en 2005. Read More…

Filed under: Carol Vlassoff, Personalidades en Medio Nuestro on April 19th, 2011
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Gina Jimenez Artavia

(en Español)
By Carol Vlassoff

Imagine that you are 26 years old, female, recently promoted to the job of Operations Manager at Banco Promérica in Manuel Antonio. You are about to have your first meeting with other bank executives in San José. You’ve arrived from Quepos early that morning and you walk into the room carrying your agenda and a pen. There you confront a group of officials, mostly middle-aged men with laptops slung over their shoulders, talking on cell phones. That was Gina Jimenez’s introduction to her professional peers in 2005. Read More…

Filed under: Carol Vlassoff, Personalities in Our Midst on April 19th, 2011
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Hail to the King of Fruits

By Donna Porter

The delectable, juicy and unsurpassed sweetness of the Mango fruit is enjoyed by more people on a world-wide scale that any other fruit. Mango is considered the “King of Fruits”. They are associated with fortune, abundance and fertility and are represented in religious themes of South Asia’s Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and Christian communities. It is said that the forbidden fruit or “apple” in the biblical story of the Garden of Eden was that of the Mango. Fossil records dating back 25 to 30 million years have revealed the Mango’s center of origin as northeast India, Myanmar/Burma and Bangladesh and their cultivation dates back more than 6,000 years.

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