What is a real surfer?
"I hurtle on too long through the pounding submarine mist. End over end in my caul of bubbles until the turbulence is gone and I'm hanging limp in a faint green light while all heat ebbs from my chest and life begins to leach out of me" -Tim Winton, Breath I grew up in the ocean. Saltwater is the smell of my childhood. The sea was the view from our kitchen window, our whole family on the water. We broke the skin of the sea [...]
PRANAYAMA – How learning to control your breath will make you a super-human
Have you ever met someone who was just so full of life, it felt like they were radiating? Someone that had a perceivable magnetism, and therefore seemed to be attracting all the good into their field… A freakin' gravitational force…!? The Chinese call it chi, [...]
Why Travel Makes You a Better Person
Traveling has never been this accessible. More and more, we are using school exchanges, working visas or just backpacking around as a common rite of passage. We all want to see the world, to live the dream, to pursue our passion and hopefully make money while [...]
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Everyone can agree that everything related to surf is pretty cool. So are surf competitions. They're fun to watch, they connect us to our surfing inspirations and it's pretty nice to see people killing [...]
Research shows that women’s pleasure is often more multifaceted and responsive to emotional, contextual, and psychological factors compared to men’s. Studies have found that women’s arousal and satisfaction tend to be influenced by a [...]
Have you ever met someone who was just so full of life, it felt like they were radiating? Someone that had a perceivable magnetism, and therefore seemed to be attracting all the good into [...]
How one woman is changing the face of El Salvador through Street Art
[*] artstigator /artsˈtɪɡeɪtor/ noun: street art aficionado who artstigates, or tirelessly covers the streets of a city on the quest to document the emerging street art scene. Slightly addicted. Meet art curator Alexandra Sol. She is the creator of Journey of an Artstigator, a group of artstigators on [...]
How to show your people you care…
I’m landing in Indonesia, coming straight from Central America. The last few hours before this 35-hour trip have been completely crazy and the whole journey hasn’t been less hectic: i’m still trying to catch my breath when I reach destination. I exit the arrivals door [...]
Les Salty Souls dans la série Surf Inc. de Ouisurf
L’automne dernier, Benjamin Rochette, fondateur de Ouisurf, nous a proposé de prendre part à son nouveau projet: Surf Inc. À travers une web série, on présente le parcours de 10 entrepreneurs qui ont choisi de s’expatrier afin de mettre leur passion au centre de leur [...]
Marie-Christine Amyot: “Make Your Own Reality”
We say things happen for a reason. Usually when someone is having a hard time in their life. My life is falling apart and you’re telling me “Everything happens for a reason”?! F*ck you… Seriously! Because, do you know what? Some things happen for absolutely [...]
The Urgency of Playfulness
This post was originally published in 2016. Some parts have been edited from the original for current day relevance. This article was written about in 2016 in Psychology Today by the late American game designer, author, lecturer and fun theorist Bernie De Koven, a pioneer [...]
Dear belly rolls; I am ridiculously in love with you
A love letter to my belly... Dude. I love you so, so much. I love how you remind me of my sister and my mother and my mothers mother, all possessing the same swell of flesh perched on the edge of our waistbands. And can [...]
How to find and land your dream job
So. You have finally reached that point; you’re done with school, you’ve managed to find a job that is more or less related to your field, you’re getting paid, you’re safe… But, between you and me, this job doesn’t really get you excited in the [...]
