Rochelle Ballard offers exclusive private surf lessons. Her expertise and local knowledge will improve your technique, heighten your self awareness and introduce you to the beautiful waves of Kauai.
June 12, 2012
Take some time for yourself and enjoy one of our Spa Treatments, which will heighten your senses from stress relief, releasing injury and chronic pain.
June 2, 2012
Rochelle Ballard is one of the most influential women surfers of our time. She paved the way for young women and helped lift the sport to a whole new level.
June 1, 2012
I’d like to extend a warm welcome and ALOHA to our newest yoga instructor, Melanie Dagenais. She’ll be teaching Ashtanga Yoga at 5pm on Wednesday – be sure to check our schedule for the latest classes. Originally from Montreal, Melanie has been studying and practicing Ashtanga Yoga since 2000 and teaching since 2002. She is also studying macrobiotic lifestyle and cooking, earning her first degree in Boston. Melanie is passionate about health, healing and sharing positive energy through yoga practice. Ashtanga practices synchronizing Ujjayi breath with a progressive series of postures, producing internal heat, profuse sweat, detoxifying muscles and internal organs, improving circulation, relieving stress, and strengthening the body.
March 26, 2012
I was recently interviewed on local station KITV to talk about my career as a Pro Surfer and the upcoming Women’s Pipeline Pro. The SeaHawaii Women’s Pro at Pipeline waiting period is going to begin March 1st with the shortboarding contest finishing up on the 9th of March and the bodyboarding division coming to a close on the 15th of March. February 29th was the opening ceremony, hosted by Surfer The Bar at Turtle Bay Resort, and I was invited to Talk Story alongside world class paddler and bodyboarder Kanesa Duncan.
March 14, 2012
I’m proud to include dōTERRA Essential Oils into Yoga Practice and Spa Treatments, and now you can order essential oils directly through me to benefit the North Shore Wellness Retreat. For wholesale orders at 25% off retail, please email [email protected]
March 1, 2012
COLOMBIA MORE THAN A HOLIDAY Aura Boulton, from Venezuela, a surfer, environmentalist, lover of life, and passionate for change in our quick and easy fast pace way of living. Her mother Aurita Siso, now living in Colombia in a small but beautiful apartment overlooking the harbor in Cartagena. Aura spent the Christmas and New Year holiday’s at her mom’s with her sister Claudia and nephew Alex. She asked me to come and visit in the new year and see what is was like in Colombia. I had never been or even ever thought of going. I only new of a little short history and some good coffee of the place, and other sorts of things better not to mention. Always wanting more surf adventure, yet the cultural depth interest a little more flavor in my life of culture, history, and…
February 2, 2012
Hauoli Makahiki Hou…swimming with the dolphins over the summer. Observing nature simplify’s life’s purpose. Express aloha in each and everyday in whatever life presents to us. May your year be joyful, peaceful, and prosperous. From The North Shore Wellness Retreat.
January 4, 2012
Enjoy a sneak peak at the first Polynesian Dance movement class by Celeste.
October 6, 2011
Pascuales, Mexico is a destination a couple of friends have been wanting to share with me. Big barreling sand bar waves for days. Warm water, sunny days, starry nights, and amazing tacos. I went down with a good friend from Venezuela, Aurita Boulton. She founded a foundation for kids with a close friend in Venezuela. They teach the kids about gardening, wellness, and surfing. We both have a great interest in learning how to be more sustainable and share what we learn with the youth in particular to inspire the next generation. We spent a couple of weeks exploring, surfing, relaxing, eating amazing food, cooking, reading, doing yoga, and mingling with the locals. We became close to the familia we stayed with on the beach front to one of the heaviest sand bars I have ever surfed. In the next…
September 13, 2011
Working with kids is amazing. There is always so much to share and learn from them. As much as I inspire them, they inspire me. As I teach I learn. These kids are from around the world and will be some of the best surfers on the world tour some day soon. To be able to share yoga with them, my experience as a surfer through out my career with victory, defeat, injury, recovery, health, energy, and dynamic performance, is an honor. When I was there age none of this was available. To share with them information of body dynamics with breathe, structural movement, meditation, water, salt, and the power of awareness is a gift. Sharing information is feeding light energy and creating awareness for our kids, communities, our oceans, and this earth. It makes me aware of how much…
July 12, 2011