Mindfulness and Surfing - Reflections for Saltwater Souls

Informationen zum Autor 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.   Klappentext Mindfulness and Surfing  casts a fresh perspective on this popular sport, and explores how riding the waves can be the ultimate meditation. Through lunar cycles and river surfing to the Taoism of nature, this book reveals an acute awareness of what the oceans can tell us about our place in the natural world.  Zusammenfassung 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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sam Bleakley, Sam Bleakley
• Verlag: Ivy Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781782403296
• ISBN: 978-1-78240-329-6
• Seiten: 144
• Abmessung: 135 mm x 210 mm x 15 mm
• Serie: Mindfulness series
• Themen: Ratgeber > Sport; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Mindfulness & Meditation, Mind, body, spirit: meditation & visualisation, Surfing, windsurfing, water skiing, Mind, body, spirit: meditation and visualization, SPORTS & RECREATION / Water Sports / Surfing