Most people think of luxury surf camp in Costa Rica, a world-class destination for surfers, but many don’t know that yoga is an essential part of the surfing experience at the resort. The passionate surf instructors at Kalon All-Inclusive Surf Resort know that yoga’s wide range of movement modalities offer surfers unique benefits.
It’s common knowledge that flexibility decreases with age, but surfers can counteract this trend by practicing yoga regularly. When you maintain or even improve your mobility, you improve your agility and control on the board.
Surfing Takes Your Yoga Routine to a Whole New Level
Yoga alone relieves tension, reduces anxiety, maximizes flexibility, increases balance and improves posture. However, you maximize the positive effects of yoga when you pair it with a full-body cardio workout.
Learning to surf with Kalon’s expert instructors is an effective way to get fit and have fun for everyone. Surf coaches tailor their instruction to your current abilities and skill level.
Surfing begins with an aerobic workout as you paddle through the waves. You exercise your entire back and shoulders when you steer your board into the ocean. Then you use your legs and core muscles as you ride the wave back toward the white sand.
Combining the resort’s full surf experience with yoga sessions provides an unprecedented week of rejuvenation. After a day of top-notch surf lessons, relax on the resort’s outdoor yoga deck. Stretch while enjoying the sights and sounds of Costa Rica’s verdant rainforest. Let your worries drift away in the salty air while discovering the restorative power of nature’s beauty. It’s hard to find a more ideal way to integrate yoga and surfing.
To fuel this physical activity, Kalon chefs prepare delicious meals with farm-to-table ingredients from the resort’s organic garden. Treat yourself to healthy snacks between surf lessons and yoga classes. At meals, nourish your body and mind with gourmet dishes that pay homage to local cuisine.
To fully relax after your workout, take advantage of the Kalon’s spa and massage area, which offers breathtaking views of the Costa Rican rainforest. Light and relaxing massages, deep tissue massages, hot stone massages, bamboo massages, couples treatments and facials are available.
As the sun sets over the Pacific, take in the views while floating in Kalon Surf’s stunning infinity pool. If you prefer to relax in complete privacy, try the outdoor jacuzzi in your room or the plunge pool on your villa patio.
The benefit of a wellness retreat combining yoga and surf lessons
You can expect to surf almost every day at Kalon’s all-inclusive surf resort, and yoga maximizes that instruction. Yoga allows you to increase your time on the waves by reducing the recovery time your body needs between workouts.
Yoga allows you to reduce the risk of injury while surfing, relieve sore muscles, revitalize you physically and mentally, increase your endurance, improve your breathing, become more flexible and strengthen your body. In short, yoga improves your range of motion, balance, body awareness and posture, all of which are crucial to surfing.
Kalon’s yoga teachers know the routines surfers need most. Imagine yourself on your yoga mat while admiring the calming waves. As you relax your mind and body, use Downward Facing Dog Pose to strengthen your upper body, extend your legs, and lengthen your spine. Next, strengthen your core and develop stability with plank pose.
At Kalon Surf Resort, you prepare to take on the waves with focused yoga positions. Broaden your shoulders and chest and extend your neck and thighs as you come into upward-facing dog. Pigeon pose opens your shoulders and chest while stretching your glutes, groin, and psoas muscles. To increase your balance and endurance, try Warrior 2 pose, which is incredibly similar to a surfing position.
To improve your balance and focus, cross your knees and arms and come into eagle pose. Enter boat pose to re-engage your core. Finally, assume locust pose and strengthen all the muscle groups you use while surfing.
Mixing surfing and yoga benefits everyone who visits Costa Rica. If you previously focused only on yoga, your wave workouts will strengthen your body as a whole. If you’re a novice yoga surfer, you’ll find that yoga activates muscles you previously ignored, such as those involved in breathing, mental focus, and connective tissue. Kalon’s unparalleled surf lessons and yoga experience offer a demanding workout program and a new dimension of relaxation, so get your heart rate and your dose of zen up at the same time at this all-inclusive surf resort!