1) Fly into Panama City, Panama (Tocumen International Airport)

2) Take a taxi from Tocumen International to Albrook Gelabert Airport in Panama City for a flight with Air Panama from Panama City to Bocas del Toro airport. This taxi ride is about 40 min - 1 hour from one airport to the other. You will need to arrive at the Albrook Gelabert Airport 1 hour before for your Bocas del Toro flight (same on the way back).

3) From Bocas Airport on Isla Colon, Azul Paradise will shuttle you via boat taxi to take you to the retreat on Isla Bastiamentos. The boat ride to/from the resort to Bocas airport is about 40 minutes.

Estimate around 5 hours of travel time to arrive at the retreat between landing at Tocumen Airport and getting to the retreat. On the way home, give yourself about 6-7 hours buffer from retreat check out to arrive at Tocumen International for your international flight.

We highly recommend flying into Panama City the day before the retreat begins to stay one night near Albrook Gelabert Airport, then book your flight for the next day from Albrook Gelabert Airport to Bocas del Toro. The boat taxi from Bocas airport to our venue will depart around 2:30pm local time on March 23, and 11am on March 30 to bring everyone back to the airport on departure day.

Our retreat begins with check-in and orientation at 4pm on Monday, March 23rd, with departure on Monday, March 30th after breakfast, around 11am. Before you purchase your flight, check in with us to select the flight arrival time into Bocas del Toro that aligns with Azul Paradise’s shuttle. There will only be one pick up time arranged to take everyone to the retreat, the cost of which is included in the retreat.

Cat Valadez (E-RYT500, YACEP, NASM-CPT) connected with yoga in 2005 and pivoted away from a journalism career to teach in 2011 after it changed her life. She’s a full-time yoga teacher and mom based in North County San Diego. She has taught yoga and meditation in group, private, corporate, festival and retreat settings full-time since 2017. She’s passionate about wellness, movement, and blending tradition and science in yoga. She’s known for being relatable, nurturing, knowledgeable and empowering others to use this practice to benefit body, mind and heart. Teaching yoga is her calling, but her favorite part about it is connecting with students and supporting their well-being.

Kenna Crouch is a teacher, trainer, yogini, and artist based in Leucadia, California. She holds 1,000+ certified hours in Hatha-Anusara, Vinyasa, Yin, Yoga Therapy, Katonah Yoga®. Her background as a professional dancer combined with her continued education in human movement and energy is the foundation that embodies her practice. Her work and studies have taken her across the globe from India to Switzerland, but her ongoing practice is in Southern California. She continues to expand her wheelhouse to include tools and techniques for facilitating Yoga as an empowering, holistic, and healing experience.

Diverse in age range--from 24 years young to 70+! Mostly women with a few men joining us so far, from Southern California (San Diego) and the West Coast of USA. All who are on the path of yoga and have some experience with vinyasa flow yoga are welcome! If you're new to yoga, we still welcome you, so long as you have a desire to learn about this practice. :)

You can, but the venue will provide yoga mats, blocks and straps for our practice sessions.

We're here to help! If you have any additional questions or need more details about the retreat, please email us at retreats@insighttimer.com, and we'll be happy to provide you with all the information you need.