We are excited to announce more Surf Coaching Retreats with Surf Pro Techniques coach Chapin Kreuter. We will be back at the Surf Lodge here in always offshore southern Nicaragua. Expect a full season of more unlimited boat trips, wave hunting, crowd dodging, beer drinking, barrel chasing, goal reaching, good times!

We are offering surf coaching, accessible waves and opportunity for all levels on this retreat. From the sandy beach break barrels Nicaragua is known for to long peeling longboard point breaks to practice your cross stepping style or simply perfecting your popping up! 

A simple homemade Coffee scrub delight!

My favorite all-natural energizing home-remedy body scrub...

All you need is two simple ingredients,
*Leftover morning coffee grounds
*2 tsp coconut oil

We know that personal change has to come from a decision made by the individual. One can receive advice and input over and over again but until we truly understand and personally feel the necessity of changing our behaviour we will never actually chose to do something different.  

Making a change requires action. A willingness to move forward that comes from the visceral understanding that your current habit or choice is not serving your highest self and in order to grow a commitment to new choices must be made. Only when you have a personal experience in understanding your misperception will the change be made. 

I live in a beautiful, lush, sunny and hot climate and for these very reasons I need to be extra mindful and aware of my skin. I've made time once a week, where I take the morning to pamper myself. Enjoy a slow start, sip my coffee, listen to easy music and make homemade face masks and body scrubs. 

Here is one of my favourites: The What's In my Kitchen Face Mask Recipe...

Four Sea Gal Travel Tips:

A huge part of the lifestyle that we LOVE is travel. Travel presents us with the opportunity to experience different cultures, see and appreciate our natural environment in new ways and for us surfers, surf new WAVES! The experience as a whole is expansive and enlightening. The less glamorous reality of travel is the time we spend getting from A to B. Aside from being pretty environmentally un-mermaid like, standard methods of travel can be pretty grueling on the body.

Surf Strengthening Tips:

Check out these 3 simple moves to warm your body in preparation for charging big waves! 

I meet myself in an interesting place as a teacher of yoga. Yoga as a practice brings peace, health and balance to the body, mind and spirit of it’s practitioners.

In sharing this practice, I am forced to face myself on many levels.

A familiar struggle I meet is an inner battle between my self imposed expectations and lack of personal acceptance (two habitual perceptions of mine in a dysfunctional symbiotic relationship). When letting fear rule, I struggle to fit my own ideal of the image, “yoga teacher”.  

Check out this awesome blog on "the Golden Spice" from our golden queen Lauren Bristowe! 

As our society becomes more concerned with wellness in general, the search for healthy alternatives begins. Supplements, minerals, vitamins, powerful antioxidants, second home at the gym, all means in which to achieve optimal health.