Few places on earth concentrate as much quality surf into as little coastline as the Uluwatu area, on the south-western tip of Bali’s Bukit peninsula. Spread across roughly five miles, from Nyang Nyang down to Balangan, you will find nine or ten genuinely distinct breaks, and because each one prefers a different combination of tide, … Continued
A surf and yoga retreat in Bali pairs two things that work well together: daily time in the water and a structured yoga practice, built around proper recovery, decent food and enough rest to make use of both. Bali covers more ground than it looks on a map, and where a retreat is based changes … Continued
These yoga exercises target the hip mobility and strength behind a strong pop-up, the move that decides whether you stand cleanly or get dumped at the start of a wave. A clean pop-up goes straight from chest to feet in one motion, without pausing on the knees, and how freely your hips move has a … Continued
Our sauna and ice bath sit on site, a short walk from the rooms and the pool, so a hot-cold recovery session is built into the schedule rather than treated as an occasional extra. Heat, cold and steam each work on the body in different ways, and used together they make for one of the … Continued
In the realm of personal development and self-improvement, few books have left as profound an impact as “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz. This small but mighty book offers a code of conduct based on ancient Toltec wisdom, providing a pathway to authentic living and personal freedom. In this blog, we’ll explore the four … Continued
Yoga for office workers does not need much more than a chair and a few minutes between meetings. It combines physical postures, breathing and short meditation, none of which need a studio or special equipment, which is why it works well fitted around a desk-bound day: better posture, less back pain, sharper focus and lower … Continued
Meditation is a simple mental exercise: training your attention on one thing, whether that is the breath, a sound, or a feeling of goodwill toward others, for a set stretch of time. It does not require any particular belief system or equipment, just a few minutes and a willingness to sit with a wandering mind. … Continued
Some setbacks are unavoidable, but how much they throw you off course often comes down to attitude. Four mindsets, resilience, gratitude, openness and compassion, do a lot of the work when it comes to handling difficulty without it tipping into something worse. Resilience Resilience is the ability to recover from a setback and carry on, … Continued
“Ikigai” (生き甲斐) is a Japanese term that roughly translates to “a reason for being,” or “a reason to wake up in the morning.” It is a way of thinking about the overlap between four things: The overlap of all four is your Ikigai: the point where what you love, what you are good at, what … Continued
Tossing and turning, or waking up groggy no matter how many hours you got, often comes down to how wound up your body and mind are at bedtime. Yoga before bed helps with both: it calms an overactive mind and releases the physical tension that can otherwise keep you up. Yoga reduces stress and anxiety, … Continued