19/06/2026
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Would You Like to Achieve the HIGHEST Level of Pura Vida?
The Seven Steps to Becoming a "Pura Vida Certified Expat":
Step 1: Learn the Meaning of Pura Vida:
Understand that Pura Vida is much more than a phrase. It is an attitude of gratitude, optimism, patience, and appreciation for life's simple pleasures.
Challenge: Share what Pura Vida means to you in your own words.
Step 2: Connect with Costa Rican Culture:
Learn about Costa Rica's history, traditions, holidays, food, music, and values.
Challenge: Attend a local event, festival, feria, or cultural gathering and share your experience.
Step 3: Build Friendships with Ticos:
Costa Rica becomes magical when you build relationships with the people who call it home.
Challenge: Make at least three local friendships and learn something meaningful from each person.
Step 4: Speak a Little Spanish:
You don't need to be fluent. Making the effort opens doors and creates deeper connections.
Challenge: Hold a simple five-minute conversation entirely in Spanish.
Step 5: Give Back to Your Community:
The Pura Vida lifestyle includes helping others and becoming part of something larger than yourself.
Challenge: Volunteer, support a local project, help a neighbor, or participate in a community event.
Step 6: Discover Costa Rica:
Explore beyond your neighborhood. Visit beaches, mountains, volcanoes, coffee farms, rainforests, rivers, and small towns.
Challenge: Visit at least five different regions of Costa Rica and document your adventures.
Step 7: Live the Pura Vida Lifestyle:
Slow down. Stress less. Smile more. Appreciate sunsets, morning coffee, conversations with friends, and the beauty around you.
Challenge: Complete a 30-day Pura Vida Journal documenting moments of gratitude, joy, and personal growth.
These 7 steps will be carried out on your solemn promise that you have completed all necessary steps.
Graduation Oath. .
Upon completion, graduates will recite:
"I give my word that I have completed each of the Seven Steps required for Pura Vida Certification. I accept this recognition not as an ending, but as the beginning of a deeper commitment to living with kindness, curiosity, patience, respect, and gratitude. Wherever life may take me, I will carry the spirit of Pura Vida with me."
Upon completion of this oath and approval from the
Costa Rica Pura Vida Board of Directors, you will have earned the right to call yourself an
"Official Pura-Vida-Certified Expat™"
Awarded for demonstrating an understanding of Costa Rican culture, community involvement, personal growth, and commitment to the Pura Vida lifestyle.
Then every graduate receives:
🏆 Pura Vida Certified Digital Certificate
☕ Pura Vida Certified Logo with your image & name inserted
🎖️ The Peace of Mind that They Will Feel the Magic Forever
🌴 Access to the Pura Vida Certified Alumni Community
This valued and earned certificate becomes more than a title—
it becomes a symbol that someone didn't just move to Costa Rica. They became part of Costa Rica. Pura Vida.
Those who have an interest, contact Skip at. .
Skip Licht
[email protected]
(754) 423-8823