My Trip of Passion

2010-04-16T15:39:00.000-07:00

Two days away from the Surf Into Yoga Healing from Within Retreat at Sunset Beach. The spa treatment room is being finished this weekend. It looks amazing. Iron wood from the beach, recycled glass pieces in lava rock tile around the jacuzzi, Reused Hawaii for the sliding glass doors and cedar for the roof.
Yoga under the shower tree
cooking classes
meditation
music
surfing
sup
and more
check it out at surfintoyoga.com for more details or call Natasha at 808-222-1064, by apt only limited space

deep into YogAlign training in the jungle of Kauai

2009-11-06T19:45:00.000-08:00

Spending my time off with my family on the west side. My brothers are so fun!
I have been journaling my journey in self awareness and watching my body change. I came here thinking I was going to turn into a modern hippy and am more of a nerd. I absolutely love the anatomy and learning how the body functions.

The yummiest live bowl of fruit ever. Real coconut milk, passion fruit, bananas, dates, papaya, almonds and mac nuts..

The sweetest fruit in the world, so good when it hits your lips..

Allison is amazingly balanced...
Yoga in Hanalei at the beach. What a view...

The last two weeks has been transformational for me. I have been breathing in ways that are changing my structure and making my body loosen up. We do yoga for four hours in the morning. Going through sequences on the floor, standing sun salutations and warriors that draw the power and and integrity of the joints and ligaments in. Lengthening the body lengthening what feels tight and strengthening what is loose. It is all using the breath through the diaphragm, activating the Psoas, engaging the scapula, and breathing in and out through the ribs. you don't go into pain to get out of pain. Using PNF to unwind the tissue from its tension creating blood flow, strength, and flexibility.

Allison in Hanumanasana she is such a strong flexible human. She makes it look easy. Actually it feels good when you breath into it and use the blocks

Kauai is so amazingly beautiful. Surfing, hiking, hanging with the family, jumping in the cold pond...loving life! Up next, our journey to the Hindu temple in the deep mountains of Wailua. The surroundings of lush forests, gardens, and bliss...

Living on the North Shore ofKauai going to Yoga school

2009-10-22T20:20:00.000-07:00

Day 9 in my yoga teachers training course. I set out to blog everyday, but that never seems to happen for me. So, here is a little bit of everything from the last few days. I am on Kauai for 6 weeks. Staying in the yoga studio out behind the yoga teachers house on the Mauka(mountainside) of Princeville. The yoga studio has no electricity and is all natural wood with big screen windows. I can here the crickets and the frogs at night and the birds early in the morning. I wake up to a huge mountain side that ha a big valley and the Hanalei river that runs through it. It goes all the way to the center of the Island.

Being back on Kauai has been amazing. Feeling the energy and beauty of the Garden Isle and the Island I grew up on brings me back to just out of high school. I got out of school and went to massage school when I was 19. Michelle Edwards was in the class, she is now my yoga teacher. She teaches a technique called Yogalign. It is a technique using the breathe movement in the diaphram and the surrounding breathing muscles through postures that keep the natural curve in the spine free from tension and stress on the ligaments and joints in the body. So really its pain free yoga, putting the body back into postural alignment.

I've already noticed a difference. My chest is open, shoulders are back, and my lower back is loose and legs feel good. I feel light and grounded.

Here are some pics from the class and the country side.

Enjoy and aloha,

Rochelle

JR GUARDS IN SOLONA BEACH, CA.

2009-09-01T17:33:00.000-07:00

I Left the summer in California just before the kids went back to school. The head life guard at Solona Beach asked me to come down and talk to the kids and share some stories and yoga with them. At the end of it all I think the most thing that got them pumped up was expressing to them that they should do what they love and love what they do in life.

Live, Life, Love...

Rochelle

2009-08-10T09:47:00.000-07:00

From Hawaii to San Francisco, life is full of surprises, variety and observation. Met up with my best friend from high school after fifteen years, walked all over the shop, ate amazing food, n checked out some cool bars n bands. Yesterday the Moma and a man that shared some enlightening information with meditation and the power of the mind. Will share soon...Alooohaaa!

2009-08-09T18:25:00.000-07:00

I had the honor of spending a couple of days with John Peck. He is an amazing person, his surfing is pioneering and graceful, he shapes what he calls the Penetrator, is a Yogi, a facilitator of wellness and bodywork, and has a van that he can live out of for days with only the finest basic things in life to live on. He came with me to the Surf Into Yoga workshop at the Motel. It was so cool having him there and learning from him.

love Sambazon soooo yummy and amazing for my tummy

Julie Cox came to partake, she has a classic style, so graceful and free

More to come playing in San Francisco today...

Cali fun part 1

2009-08-08T10:37:00.001-07:00

OK I love cruzin in Cali, so much to do, people to see, and moments to share...from Solana Beach to Oside and beyond. Fun with friends, shredding the kelp beds, n inspiring people with yoga..

Motel No tell

2009-07-30T14:07:00.000-07:00

Motel No Tell was a blast! I met a lot of great people and had a great time teaching. Thanks to everyone who came out. Thanks to Nike and Sambazon for supporting me and this event. I hope everyone had as much fun as I did and I look forward to see everyone again.

Surf Into Yoga has been a really unique and exciting passion project. Working with a team, choreographing sequences, scripting, directing, producing, web lay outs, sales, and all kinds of other things that feel a bit foreign yet really interesting and exciting to learn and experience.It’s amazing when a project that is an idea becomes reality.

I’ve been going to classes since I was 19 and experiencing yoga in my life over the years of competing. It has always given me balance, great recovery, focus, and inspiration in my career and personal life. Now that I am not competing I have the privilege of creating, being inspired, inspiring, and sharing my experience of yoga and surfing with people in my community and wherever my slippers, surfboard, and yoga matt take me.

When I came to San Diego, California, Sambazon asked me if I would share some yoga with the crew at the Nike Notel Motel. As excited as I was, I was also a little nervous thinking about guiding a big group on my own through yoga. I’ve done it with friends and at my camps and resent workshops, but with my brother Hoku, and other yogi’s. I made it a point the few days leading into it, to lead yoga with my friends on the tour, like Sofia, Lyndsay, and Beck Woods. I was on the no partying, gotta be on it mode. Of course the night before I went to bed late n was so excited n nervous I couldn’t fall asleep for a while. Just like a contest, only way different.

I was up at light with a smile and a cup of Mate headed for the Motel. It was a great turn out, the sun was shining and the class was fun. I had Christa another yoga teacher that works for Sambazon helping to correct postures while I lead the group through restorative hip opening sequences from the DVD and a few core strengthening postures.

It was fun and felt good to share with the group.

I love inspiring people with surfing, yoga, wellness and a light approach to life. Making your body feel good, facing fears, overcoming obstacles, and finding the smile inside that feels good no matter what is going on around you.

The sun was cooking and everyone was happy with a yummy Acai’ bowl after the workshop. Nike had the yoga blocks embroidered with Surf Into Yoga on them. What a cool trip! What an amazing thing for all of us to share, thanks to Sambazon and Nike for being so cool! Think I’m gonna like this…feels good to share with people and see a big peaceful smile on there face when they walk away.