Making a decision on how to spend your vacation is an important one. You should choose this retreat if these reasons sound familiar to you.
- You want to travel with like-minded people.
- You want to learn more about yourself and your possibilities.
- You wish to connect with other culture.
- You have stress in your life and need to rest and be pampered.
In yoga, you learn not to force any pose, but to find the depth of the pose in the moment. In surfing, you learn that you can’t force a wave or a set. Instead, you practice being fully present in the moment and in tune with the current so you can catch a wave. Therefore, it’s no wonder that pros, like Kelly Slater and Rochelle Ballard, use this old-school practice (roughly 5,000 years old) to complete their surfing skills. Whether you are a pro surfer or not, your surfing will definitely benefit from a special surf and yoga practice. You will see that practicing yoga will improve your surfing steadily.
Yoga is a great way to start and / or end your surf day by warming up your body and creating the energy on focusing yourself before a session or by stretching to help avoid neck, shoulder, and back stiffness, as well as relaxing your physical and mental bodies after a nice surf day. Practicing yoga on flat surf days can also keep you in great shape until the next big swell comes in.
Both yoga and surfing teach you to meet and overcome fear, to breathe deeply, and to ride the waves of life with grace and ease. Learning to concentrate during intense yoga poses plays out in the water. As you breathe deeply and calm your mind, you settle into a natural rhythm and balance on your board. Therefore, when the big waves roll in, you can stay cool and collected. Hang loose on yoga.
Here are some more benefits, how yoga will improve your surfing skills:
- Increased flexibility and stronger core muscles
- Better breathing techniques
- Improved balance
- More stamina
- Greater mental focus
- Restored and revitalized energy
Morning sessions
The morning sessions are composed of energizing and re-vitalizing Hatha yoga to strengthen and tone your body structure and posture. In the happy back sessions, you concentrate on postures to support a healthy and natural body posture and a strong healthy back. During "open your heart" sessions, you learn postures and frequencies to open your chests, release tension in your heart regions, and support a well-being. With the hip hip hurra sessions, you practice postures to open your hips. In addition to the benefits of an improved range of motion and circulation and decreased back pain, opening the hips can create an energetic shift or release as well. Opening the hips gives you access to freedom in the body and in your own unique expression - creatively, physically, sexually, and spiritually.
Sundown yoga sessions
With deepening Yin yoga, you reach out to the fasciae structures, connective tissues, and joints of your body, take your personal time out, let all the stress go, and just become aware of yourself in the present moment.
Meditation and pranayama
Not every way of meditation is equally effective and relaxing for everyone. Therefore, you will get to know and practice different ways of how to meditate.
The first guests arrive at the breakfast buffet, ready for a new day in paradise. Here, the yoga classes invite you to withdraw, clear the mind, and relax. The daily Hatha yoga classes are perfect to start your day, building strength and working on your individual body alignments. Special surf yoga sessions are designed to benefit your surf practice and help prevent sore muscles after a surf day. The Yin yoga classes in the evenings give you the chance to end your day completely relaxed. Several times a week, there are also beach yoga classes, where the rhythm of the waves and the salty air let you relax and calm your mind immediately.
Day 1: Arrival day
- 14:00-15:00 Check in
- 15:00-17:00 Free time
- 17:00 Sunset Hatha yoga
Day 2
- 08:00 Morning Hatha yoga session
- 09:15-10:00 Breakfast
- 12:00 Surf session
- 15:00 Free time
Day 3
- 08:00 Morning Hatha yoga session
- 09:15-10:00 Breakfast
- 12:00-15:00 Surf session
- 15:00 Free time
Day 4
- 09:15-10:00 Breakfast
- 12:00-15:00 Surf session
- 15:00-17:00 Free time
- 17:00 Sunset Yin yoga
- 18:00 Sunset ocean meditation
Day 5
- 08:00 Morning Hatha yoga session
- 09:15-10:00 Breakfast
- Surf day off
- Free time
Day 6
- 09:15-10:00 Breakfast
- 12:00-15:00 Surf session
- Yoga day off
- Free time
Day 7
- 09:15-10:00 Breakfast
- 12:00-15:00 Surf session
- 15:00-17:00 Free time
- 17:00 Sunset Yin yoga
- 18:00 Evening meditation
Day 8: Departure day
- 08:00 Morning Hatha yoga session
- 09:15-10:00 Breakfast
- 11:30 Check out
