How has your yoga practice had an effect on your surfing? I thought it would be something that would make my surfing improve and I’m pretty sure it did.
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Tommy Schulz
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In what ways has yoga benefited your health? Yoga comes to a person when it is the right time in their lives. Sometimes that takes a few go-arounds. At some point, when it’s supposed to, yoga will be right. Understand that it is ultimately a spiritual path, but embrace yoga however it comes to you. Physical and mental health are not to be taken for granted. Like a car, the body and mind don’t run well for the long term unless proper maintenance is performed along the way: proper exercise, proper breathing, proper diet, proper relaxation and proper thinking and meditation. Surfing is a similar path and when practiced together with yoga, it can bring great, long term benefits. Keep paddling, breathing through your nose and living with the Aloha spirit. What makes Wanderlust - taking place March 1st-4th at Turtle Bay Resort - special to you? Wanderlust is a modern day Woodstock of yoga. It's a soulful gathering of yoga instructors and music. A journey to Wanderlust will further anyone's yoga practice. This is a good thing for us, for humanity. We need to save ourselves before we can be truly effective in saving anything else. For more information and tickets for this year’s Wanderlust, visit Wanderlust.com.
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Dana Edmunds
Has yoga itself changed since you began practicing it? When I began to practice, yoga was presented as a complete lifestyle directed towards a realization of our God self. Today, yoga is most often practiced as a form of exercise separated from its traditional spiritual roots. So I find my own practice to actually leaning towards more Yin, which is about gently holding the asanas/poses for a long time, finding stillness and focusing on the breathing.