V - ALTERNATIVE HEALING / HEALTH IN COSTA RICA

VITAMINS - HEALTH "FOOD" STORES / MACROBIOTICA'S
(note - "Healthfood stores" in Costa Rica are called "Macrobioticas")


NOTE: Have anyone coming from the States/Canada to visit you? You may want to ask them to bring you a few months supply (though not too much as you don’t want Customs thinking you’re buying them for a business).

Shipping: You might SERIOUSLY want to rethink that as those items, if properly labeled WILL most likely get stopped and you get to jump through LOTS of hoops, time and expenses to get them out of the Eduana including YOU getting some special Health Permits.

For now, Holistic treatments are ok (operative word - “ok”) in Costa Rica but there has been much talk about getting it all licensed (who in the U.S. government are they hanging out with or might it be the LARGE drug manufacturing company presence that is here?).



BIO SALUD
They have many natural products and LOTS of imported things
Escazu - MultiPlaza - across from the Food Court (201 6138)
Curridabat - Plaza del Sol (2-234-2475)
(I think I heard there was one in Heredia but I can't find anything about it)


NATU VIT
Escazu (San Rafael) (289-8965) - OWNERS: Jose & Zeneida HOURS: 9:30am-7pm. LOCATION: in the little strip mall behind Mas x Menos on Calle Vieja, just West of San Rafael (THANX Margie).


MACROBIOTICA TIBAS
One of the oldest in the country and they sell a tons of products every week. DIRECTIONS: In front of Burger King in Tibas Centro.


NATURASTYLE
(http://www.NaturaStyle.com / 2-235-7654 / 8-386-0092)
They DELIVER to you!! My only complaint (other than it is pricier but it IS more of a one-stop shopping place [well - by CR standards] and ya pay for convenience) is in rainy season - like everywhere - it does not always look very good. They have everything from veges/fruits to herb pots, skincare, vitamins++++!


GNC
(2-221-8986 / http://www.GNC.co.cr / info@GNC.co.cr)
Escazu - Plaza Laurels(2-228-4162) - HOURS: 10am-6pm Mon.-Sat. LOCATION: ON Calle Vieja 200 mts West of Calle Country Club
Escazu - MultiPlaza-West - 2nd floor towards the middle of the mall by the eisle leading to the Food Court (2-201-6070)
Curridabat (2-224-0741)
Heredia (2-237-2900) - Paseo de las Flores
MultiPlaza East (2-253-7958)
Papagayo (2-667-0883) - Do it Center
Pavas (2-231-6033)
San Pedro Mall (2-253-2300)
San Ramon (2-447-7104) - Plaza Occidente
TerraMall (2-279-9494)
(note: I have found their prices can be nearly/at least double that from the States. I was able to find Tea Tree here SOMETIMES [though it is not like what I'm used to)


OMNILIFE
(http://www.OmniLife.com/english/home.php /
LOCATIONS: http://www.omnilife.com/centros_distribucion/centros.php
San Jose (La Uruca - Juan Paulo Secondo Bridge)
Cartago
San Ramon
San Pedro
Guaplies
Liberia
Perez Zeledon (THANX Gabriel)


SUNRIDER
Rick at the Costa Rica School of Integrative Massage in Heredia (8-398-6670 / ZenMormon27@yahoo.com) is a Distributor


NATURES SUNSHINE
For an additional list of locations or distributors, go to their website at http://www.nspcentroamerica.com/Centers.aspx
San Jose - Paseo Colon (2-256-1265 / ClienteSunshine@correo.co.cr) - 50 mts East of Sobre Paseo, de la Torre Colo
Perez Zeledon (2-771-8627 / jbogap@ice.co.cr) - 200 mts West and 75 mts North of the gas station/estacion bomberos
San Pedro (2-225-8062 / NSPSanPedro@ice.co.cr) - 200 mts North of Pizza 2x1.


NEW CHAPTER
(2-468-0352 / 8-369-7415 / orgbot@sol.racsa.co.cr / www.NewChapter.com) grows MANY of their FANTASTIC ORGANIC products that are sold in the U.S. and Canada at their Luna Nueva Farm in La Tigra 2 1/2 hours north of San Jose, on the road from San Ramon to Fortuna.
DAY TOUR: They offer a 3 hour Rainforest Mysteries Day Tour on Food Medicine Habitat (http://fincalunanuevalodge.com/costa-rica-day-tours.html) where they say “Guests will walk through majestic, towering rainforest alongside poison dart frogs, colorful birds, and howler monkeys, through our Sacred Seeds Sanctuary where the rainforest’s most powerful and important species are housed, and in to our organic biodynamic gardens. Visitors will have a chance to sample some of the Earth’s most potent plants and participate in the systems that make a sustainable human environment possible.”
ACCOMMODATIONS: And they even have a Lodge at their BEAUTIFUL Finca Luna Nueva Lodge in San Isidro de Penas Blancas in San Ramon (2-468-4006 / 2-68-0352 / http://FincaLunaNuevaLodge.com / info@FincaLunaNuevaLodge.com) with prices starting at $60 for 2 (less $10 for a solo) in Green Season (+$10/n in High Season plus 16.39% tax) and that includes a full Breakfast Buffet PLUS a Cultural Tour around the finca plus the use of their Natural Spring-fed pool, a solar heated Jacuzzi, WiFi, a Restaurant serving home cooked, natural and organic meals - 90% of which is created from fruits and veges from their garden and they have their own goats and cows producing their own yogurt and cheeses (yummmm) and bake their own breads (what meat and fish they offer for meals is raised in healthy settings), Hot Water, Hammocks, Climb their 16-mtr/50 ft Observation Tower and catch a glimpse of the Arenal Volcano, Volleyball, Ping-Pong, Table Soccer, Board Games and they also offer Spa/Massage Services, Laundry Services, Mountain Bike and Horseback Riding.
CLASSES: They are a Working Farm and Education Center specializing in growing Ginger and Turmeric and offer such classes as Biodynamic and Organic Farming, Sustainable Living and Preservation of Natural Resources and even courses in Culinary Arts and MORE!! Contact Paul Schulick & Steven Farrell