Trauma changes your relationship with your own body. This retreat is about rebuilding it — through the ocean, through the work, through surfing and through the kind of safety that lets real change happen.
This Retreat is hosted in collaboration with the Hopewell Foundation and The Surf Psychologist Lisa Davidson.

 

Surfing didn't use to feel like this

A quiet sensation the night before, an underlying current of something you can’t put your finger on.

Like your body and mind is always bracing for impact.

Some days it’s there, some days it’s not, but you feel your world quietly shrinking.

What once felt familiar, fun, exciting now feels scary.

You don’t recognize yourself out there.

Your body has reactions your mind can’t explain.

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This is what's going on
Something happened that your body hasn’t forgotten.

Your nervous system learned to stay on guard.

It did that to protect you. It’s still doing it now.

Your sense of safety was lost along the way
and now you constantly doubt yourself.

You lost trust in your body and in yourself.

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Rebuild trust in your body, rebuild trust in yourself

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This retreat is built around one idea: that healing trauma means working with the body, not just the mind. Talk alone doesn’t reach what lives in the nervous system. So we don’t rely on it.

 

Over the week, you will work with the ocean and surfing as a genuine therapeutic tool. The water creates conditions your nervous system can’t intellectualise. It requires presence. It surfaces fear, and then it gives you somewhere to meet it.

 

Alongside daily surf sessions, the week moves through structured group sessions with me, somatic work, and evening nervous system regulation through breathing techniques, relaxation exercises and hypnotherapy. Each element is designed to work together — activating, processing, and resetting — so that by the end of the week, something has actually shifted.

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