MIND-BODY-SPIRIT
Much more than just
a surf holiday.
Experience the profound benefits of various holistic modalities and performance-based trainings by professional facilitators. Whether you’re an athlete looking to enhance physical performance, someone with years of experience in the eastern arts or simply intrigued by the addition of something new and healthy to add to your holiday, SWS has a unique integrated approach for all.
Our guests have access to Breathwork, Meditation and Yoga sessions by SWS professional facilitators all of which are integrated around water time.
Soul Water Surf has a private contrast-exposure therapy facility known as “Iguana Sauna & Ice Bath.” Through applied focus and awareness techniques we enliven our physical and mental well-being while supporting one another to push beyond our comfort zones .
SWS also offers personal breathing assessments and situational breathing techniques for everything from downshifting and recovery, intense physical activity and stress management.
Guests return home from their holiday with new integrated tools, perspectives and friends along with their fantastic memories.
Contrast Exposure Therapy
Recover from a full day in the surf and sun at our private Sauna and Ice Bath facility with daily guided immersions. Improve blood flow, reduce inflammation, enhance your sense of well-being, and challenge yourself to push beyond your comfort zone
What are the benefits?
Hot saunas, cold plunging are simply extensions of health routines that have actually been practiced for a thousand years and are known for their ability to induce deep mind and body relaxation. Science-based evidence proves the benefits are both physical and psychological, many of which are immediately noticeable.
Some additional benefits include: Personal empowerment, enhanced recovery time,, improved blood flow, decreased levels of inflammation, assisting with sleep, stress and many other physiological/ emotional challenges.
Daily cold plunges are also considered one of the most effective techniques for alleviating intense bouts of depression and anxiety .
Lifestyle & Performance
Guests will gain insights into their everyday personal breathing patterns, learn breathing and relaxation techniques to substantially reduce fatigue, stress and recovery time while expanding lung capacity and overall confidence both in and out of the water.
Activate & Enhance
In these sessions guests receive personal breathing assessments, learn a variety of situational breathing techniques to both activate and relax both the body and mind while learning about how our thoughts, emotions and physiology interact.
Additional Benefits: Substantially reduce fatigue, learn more about your threshold while increasing endurance, invigorating your body while expanding overall confidence both in and out of the water.
Integrated Approach
"Your certified facilitators will guide you through what we believe are some of the key components related to programs such as Wim Hoff, XPT (Laird Hamiltons Performance Training Course) and Patrick McQueens Oxygen Advantage."
Remarkably expand both your your breath hold time and comfort levels underwater, as well as your ability to navigate your internal environment.
-Personal breathing assessments
-Situational Breathing Techniques
-co2 endurance exercises
-Pool trainings
-Bio Mechanical Feeback
Conscious Breath & Meditation
Today, various forms of breathwork and meditation are being scientifically recognized for their overwhelmingly beneficial results both physically and mentally. Both are now being practiced by people from all walks of life: high stress executives, yogis, therapists, personal trainers, professional athletes and Navy Seals.
Just as much as our physical bodies need activity to retain optimal functioning our minds require stillness. Through combining his proprietary guided Breathwork & Meditation, Derek’s unique immersions offer even first time participants the ability to reach extremely deep meditative states.
Far beyond physical health and gaining confidence in challenging situations like the surf, participants report experiencing something many have referred to as a ‘vacation from themselves’.
As an Integrated Treatment Provider for therapists with a wide range of personal challenges, his workshops and breathing techniques have greatly improved the health and lives of countless individuals.
DYNAMIC YOGA
Through yoga we blend the physical and mental training elements together into a single session employing focus, stillness, connection, strength and release.
Together In Community
Our bodies physical wellbeing requires movement to balance inactivity, maintain longevity and ensure optimal physical integrity. It is quite the opposite however in regards to our minds and our mental/spiritual wellbeing. Our minds our most often incessantly busy and require periods of consciously disengaging from our fervent mind activity to create stillness for our mental health and wellbeing. A much need rest from the analyzing, projecting, ruminating etc.. which allows our highly functional unique human minds to do such fantastic things.
Yoga centers and realigns us as we broaden and sustain our physical dexterity, mental clarity, emotional intelligence and overall mind, body, spirit connection.
“There are not words enough to express my gratitude to Derek for having brought his Conscious Breath & Meditation Workshop to our sanctuary and Shala at Yoga In Nicaragua. What a surreal and incredible experience! I am still buzzing. Truly magical!”
HOLISTIC SPA TREATMENTS
Our authentic body-care treatment sessions go far beyond the perceivable physical aspects of the treatment. They afford us the opportunity to release ourselves from even our sub conscious thoughts, returning us back into our bodies through the scents, sounds, sensations and the releasing of energies.
Advanced Holistic Massage, Acupressure, Cupping and Facial Treatments
A session with Terra is a somewhat spiritual experience. This is some sacred skincare. Holding a natural ability to tune and balance her client's energies, Terra is a widely respected spa director, educator and expert in her field.
As the owner of the boutique wellness center Pure Spa, Terra offers a vast array of treatments using only organic natural botanical extracts and active anti-aging ingredients.
We are truly blessed to have access to her holistic treatments and therapies for our SWS guests. Please be sure to reserve an appointment when booking as she has limited availability.
Treatments & Therapies: Lymphatic Drainage Massage, Acupressure, Shiatsu Therapy, Deep Tissue Massage, Cupping, Hot Stone Massage, Swedish Massage, Pre-Natal Massage, Holistic Facials, Volcanic Body Wraps and Reflexology.