Holly Beck Offers Holistic Surf Coaching in Huntington Beach

After 11 years living full time in Central America running Surf With Amigas Retreats, our founder Holly Beck is headed back to CA for at least a year. She is working on earning a Master’s in Counseling with plans to become a licensed therapist focusing on surf therapy.
Holly says,

“The ocean has saved me so many times in my life. From dealing with childhood trauma, relationship breakups, the loss of a family member, and even just day to day struggles, the ocean has always been the place I’ve gone to find healing, clarity, release, and play. I’ve been excited to learn about mental health counseling strategies to combine with my experience in surf coaching. I’ve been working with a friend to create a holistic surf coaching program that I’ll be offering while I’m in California.”

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Holly has teamed up with the crew at Groundswell Community Project, a 501c3 non-profit that provides research-based surf therapy curriculum and programs that are rooted in somatic, trauma-informed, nature, and community therapy models to best support the holistic healing of womxn and their communities overcoming various forms of trauma and its mental health effects. Holly will be volunteering to assist Groundswell with their existing programs for underserved communities who may have never even been in the ocean, as well as helping to develop programs for women who already have a surf practice.

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Mini Surf Retreat with Emily and Cherise in Ventura, CA

Anyone interested in doing a mini retreat without having to get on a plane? Our awesome instructors Emily Wratschko and Cherise Richards are hosting a 4 day retreat in Ventura, CA August 25-28. All the info is here! Get away without getting too far away. And if you just want to show up for the day, that’s an option too!
http://www.pacificcoastsurf.com/category/surf-retreat-info/em tube

For the Amigas in San Francisco…

klein_central_cal_jan2013_3224December was an amazing month for surf all over California. The combination of all day off shores, perfect sandbars, pumping north swells, and sunny days made for a month to remember up and down the coast. Check out this video of an areal perspective of some huge waves at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach a couple weeks ago.
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For more photos and videos of this memorable swell, check out Surfline’s story here:
http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/happy-holidays—-swell-story_105443/

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