Mindfulness and Surfing
Leaping Hare Press (Verlag)
978-1-78240-759-1 (ISBN)
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Mindfulness and Surfing casts a fresh perspective on this popular sport, and explores how riding the waves can be the ultimate meditation. Engaging author Sam Bleakley takes us on a soulful journey across the tideline of his personal and philosophical travels. Through lunar cycles and river surfing to the Taoism of nature, he reveals an acute awareness of what the oceans can tell us about our place in the natural world. Meditating on one of nature’ s greatest elements – its salty swells, flow and peaks – he shares life lessons in mindfulness that will be relished by surfer and non-surfer alike.
Sam Bleakley is a writer, geographer, filmmaker, adventure activist, surf contest commentator, lecturer in sustainable tourism and former European longboard champion. Sam is a specialist on emerging surf cultures, with particular interest in a new wave of Asian surfers who advocate the ancient practices of mindfulness in Buddhism and Taoism.
Prelims pp1–7
Introduction: TAKING OFF pp8–17
Ocean healing
Surfing as meditation
The water curtain falls to a God’s applause
Chapter 1: OCEAN SWELL pp18–33
Landscape of the senses
Threefold way
The BodyMind
Coping with panic
Ecological perception & the coastscape
Mindfulness exercise: Sea Air Sound Therapy
Chapter 2: DROPPING INTO THE WAVE pp34–53
Breaking point
Caught between fish and bird
Music, improvisation and dance
Lunar cycles and tide lines
A geographical imagination
Mindfulness exercise: Celebrating the Salt Stain
Chapter 3: SURFING WITH THE ANCIENTS pp54–75
Hawaii to California: a brief history of surfing
Walk, don’t shuffle: the art of longboarding
Cornwall: Land of the dead-who-feed-the-living
Riding with the seasons
Mindfulness exercise 3: Creating Rhythm from Chop
Chapter 4: LETTING FREEDOM RING pp76–93
Beating hearts and drums: Surfing and slavery
West Africa: The animal pulse
Haitian vodou
The spirit of place
Mindfulness exercise: Visualising the Ride
Chapter 5: BECOMING CHILDREN OF THE TIDE pp94–117
Surfing in China: Entering the waves
Taoism: Taught by nature
Confucianism: Surfing etiquette
Buddhism: the still point at the centre of movement
Mindfulness exercise: Waxing Up the Board
Chapter 6: SURFING THE NEW WAVE pp118–139
Guardians of the ocean
The blue and green gyms
River surfing and wave gardens
Mindfulness exercise: Meditations for Saltwater Souls
Endmatter: Further reading, index & acknowledgements pp140–144
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.3.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Mindfulness series |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 130 x 200 mm |
| Gewicht | 500 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Entspannung / Meditation / Yoga |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78240-759-6 / 1782407596 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78240-759-1 / 9781782407591 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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