Wildlife Wellbeing and CE Retreats

Upcoming Retreats 2024/25!

December 8-14 2024-15 CE credits Surviving and Thriving in Vet Med: Dr. Sonja Olson DVM

w/Dr. Galina Bershteyn DVM, CVA, CVFT

January 19-25 2025- 10 CE credits Design Your Life: Dr. Jennifer Edwards DVM, EP-MLI

Guest Speaker Agenda December 2024

Guest Speaker Agenda January 2025

See what past participants are saying...

"Pura Vida Veterinary Wellness Retreat is an incredibly fun, relaxing, informative continuing educational experience in the most magical country in the world. Costa Rica is beautiful! The people are friendly, the food is fresh, seasonal and delicious, there is a plethora of wildlife everywhere, and the jungle landscape and weather are fantastic! The Retreat was well organized with helpful people all around. International travel was easy and scheduled activities occurred on time without fail. My dietary restrictions were easily accommodated. The activities were geared for Veterinarians such as horseback riding in the jungle with local veterinarians, boating out to Spider Monkey Island and helping brainstorm environmental solutions, easy hikes through the nature preserve to gorgeous freshwater waterfalls and swimming in the cool water, visiting with the staff veterinarian at Wild Sun Rescue Center and seeing the gentle care of orphaned howler monkeys, and touring the grounds of the Scarlet Macaw Breeding Program. The Continuing Education was well presented by Dr. Bershteyn and quite eye opening. The accommodations were air conditioned and lovely with monkeys playing in the trees outside my window. I started each day with the best yoga class I've ever been a part of with the sounds of animals around us and Scarlet Macaws swooping through the open-air studio. Thank you, Galina, Jeremy (both of them!), Linea the yogi, Chef Roy, Dr. Gamboa, Dr. Jimenez, Alex the shuttle driver and everyone else that made this Retreat so memorable and life changing!!"

Pamela Dragos, DVM, Arizona USA
“If you have never done a CE retreat like this one you need to! Galina organized and put on an excellent stress free workshop with plenty of time for exploring. Our mornings started with yoga followed by CE lessons that were relevant to all practitioners in the most beautiful classrooms. Every day included a planned group activity to attractions in the area that never ceased to amaze us-from waterfalls to infinity pools to boat tours and scuba diving we got to experience it all. The accommodations were incredibleand every morning we woke up to wildlife right outside our window. We are leaving Costa Rica rejuvenated”

Emma Jerome Smith DVM, Alberta Canada
“You and Jeremy and all the rest of the people we encountered were so accommodating, kind and welcoming. You all made Costa Rica feel like home for the week and I am so grateful that the veterinary community has someone like you supporting them! Lots of love! ”

Robyn Baldwin DVM, Florida, USA
“ Everything was great! I loved that the CE was well timed so you still had time in the afternoon for individual activities before the planned activities began. The planned activities were all incredible and both Galina and Jeremy were so accommodating during the activities. The lodging was incredible - can’t imagine doing it anywhere else. The food was incredible (Roy is so lovely and accommodating!) and the variety was great - we never ate the same meal twice. Every person we interacted with on the retreat was so friendly. Overall it was such a fantastic experience!"

Lauren Vankuppenveld DVM, Alberta Canada