Fearless-Retreat Bali

Welcome to a unique surf retreat that helps women overcome their fears and build self-confidence in the water. This retreat combines surf coaching, yoga and mental training in a tropical paradise where post-surf means sipping coconut water under a shady palm tree while enjoying the Balinese island life.

 

Teddy Sun will be leading the surf coaching with video analysis and teaching yoga, while Kim Chareonbood will lead the hypno-coaching, breathwork, and the fun adventures.
Next Retreat:
Sat, 22.6. – Sat, 29.6.24 (women only, surf level low Intermediate to Intermediate)
Tell me more

Do you want to improve your surfing but you experience mental blocks that prevent you from catching waves? Do you pull back at the last moment or wipe out on a take-off, just not catching enough waves? Do you get frustrated after a few attempts and develop negative thoughts?

Fear is at the root of most problems and has many faces. It can be obvious – like feeling anxious at the sight of a big wave rolling towards you – or feel like subtle anxiety in the back of your mind – similar to putting off pursuing your dreams. Your fear can be rational – because a big wave can be a real threat. But sometimes you know it can be irrational – and you don’t know why you’re overreacting with fear or panic, but you do. When this happens, it may feel like you don’t know what to do with it in the moment or how to overcome it.

BUT THERE IS A WAY! In our surf coaching retreat in Bali we want to give you the tools to overcome your fear, and use it to your advantage by turning it into courage!

Not only will this make you a better surfer, but you will see positive changes in your life where you’ve been feeling stuck.

Join us on this beautiful journey to reconnect with your inner strength, the power of your mind and the wisdom of your body! Bring more flow, lightness and playfulness into your surfing – and you will see how much more fun everything will be!

Bye bye fear, insecurity, frustration – hello waves!

The Fearless Retreat - What to expect

Every day we explore fear, self-worth, self-confidence and courage from different perspectives and with various activities. In the daily yoga lessons, you test your physical and mental limits. Practice enduring unpleasant feelings and transforming them into inner calm and serenity. Surfing is your mirror to yourself, your playground, your training field. Actively apply the mental exercises in the water and find back to playfulness, joy and flow in your surfing. Some of our mental blocks have an irrational and unconscious aspect about them. That’s when hypno-coaching comes into play. And all this on the beautiful island of Bali: delicious food, warm water, tropical vibes, and the friendly Balinese culture.

Surfing goals:
Depending on the level: improve your take-off, learn how to duck-dive, practice bottom and top turns, and train maneuvers like cutback or snaps.

Mental goals:
Overcome fear, build courage & confidence, get out of negative thinking, 100% commitment to the wave, connect with yourself, and harmonize your body-mind-soul connection.

Problems:
Does fear keep you from catching waves? When it gets bigger and steeper, do you lack commitment and often pull back? Do you lack confidence and feel uncomfortable in a crowded line-up? And maybe you’re struggling with some fundamental life questions like “Who am I?” or “What do I want in life”?

Online-preparation

Participate in our one-month online mental training to help outline your goals and unlock your full potential. This begins four weeks before your retreat. You will receive access to the online members area with videos on the basic techniques and weekly exercises to practice. Feel free to go through everything at your own pace at home.

Surf coaching & Analysis

Our daily surf guiding is about experiencing the water and the waves as a playground where you can be curious and creative. This is where it’s about connecting with yourself and the ocean’s energy. In the following video analysis, we’ll discuss your surf technique. The goal is for you to find confidence in yourself and the ocean.

Yoga & Mind

Daily yoga and mental coaching workshops will help you overcome fear, build confidence and courage, and find peace and serenity. It is also important to us that you find clarity for certain surf and life questions. With lots of practical exercises for the water, on land and in life!

Prices & Services

YOUR SURF LEVEL:

LOW INTERMEDIATE TO INTERMEDIATE

Many spots in the south of Bali are over reef and unsuitable for beginners or inexperienced surfers. That is why you need to be at least a low intermediate. You must already be surfing a hardtop board (no softtop, sorry), getting into the line-up independently and catch green waves, and have some paddle fitness. You also need to know how to do the turtle roll, or if you’re surfing a shortboard, how to do the duckdive. You know the rules of surfing etiquette. Just ask us if you are unsure about your level.

You surf a shortboard, a mid-length, a funboard or a longboard.

YOUR SURF LEVEL:

LOW INTERMEDIATE TO INTERMEDIATE

Many spots in the south of Bali are over reef and unsuitable for beginners or inexperienced surfers. That is why you need to be at least a low intermediate. You must already be surfing a hardtop board (no softtop, sorry), getting into the line-up independently and catch green waves, and have some paddle fitness. You also need to know how to do the turtle roll, or if you’re surfing a shortboard, how to do the duckdive. You know the rules of surfing etiquette. Just ask us if you are unsure about your level.

You surf a shortboard, a mid-length, a funboard or a longboard.

Your Challenges

You often pull back at the last moment when paddling for a wave. Fast, steep and bigger waves scare you quickly.

You feel uncomfortable in a crowded line-up—you don’t like to fight for a wave.

You feel insecure and that you lack confidence and courage.

You are very self-critical and quickly frustrated.

You had a bad experience once and fear is blocking you now.

Your Challenges

You often pull back at the last moment when paddling for a wave.

Fast, steep and bigger waves scare you quickly.

You feel uncomfortable in a crowded line-up—you don’t like to fight for a wave.

You feel insecure and that you lack confidence and courage.

You are very self-critical and quickly frustrated.

You had a bad experience once and fear is blocking you now.

Surfer girl on a wave in the tropics and it's about surfing without fear

What you want to achieve

You want to surf more waves and have even more fun. Maybe also go to new and more challenging surf spots.

You want to learn how to overcome your fear and use it to your advantage. And how to stay calm, focused and committed.

You want to be more connected to the energy of the ocean instead of constantly fighting it.

You want to create a mindset that allows you to experience more joy and flow in your surfing and life.

self-confidence

Fear starts in your mind. Courage as well!

 

The Location

Stay in one of the tropical bungalows at Salty Breeze Bali. Some of the bungalows have a small dip pool on the terrace.

Cool off in the big resort pool, work out in the gym, or socialize with other guests in the common areas.

Breakfast and dinner (vegetarian) are included.

The 10 bungalows are located on a hill above the surf spot Greenbowls in the very south of Bali. Various world-class surf spots such as Uluwatu, Pandawa, Bingin, Padang-Padang, Impossibles and Balangan are all easily accessible.

The Location

Stay in one of the tropical bungalows at Salty Breeze Bali. Some of the bungalows have a small dip pool on the terrace.

Cool off in the big resort pool, work out in the gym, or socialize with other guests in the common areas.

Breakfast and dinner (vegetarian) are included.

The 10 bungalows are located on a hill above the surf spot Greenbowls in the very south of Bali. Various world-class surf spots such as Uluwatu, Pandawa, Bingin, Padang-Padang, Impossibles and Balangan are all easily accessible.

Dates, Prices & Services

Sat, 22.6. – Sat, 29.6.24
Surf level: Low Intermediate to Intermediate, women only

Price per person according to the list below.

All bungalows with two beds (two participants share one bungalow). (Single occupancy on request and subject to availability, a surcharge applies.)

Bungalows
Hut I EUR 1490 per person. En-suite bathroom, AC, small private plunge pool on the terrace.
Hut II EUR 1490 per person. En-suite bathroom, AC, small private plunge pool on the terrace.
Boutique EUR 1540 per person. En-suite bathroom with outdoor shower, AC.
Twinnie EUR 1590 per person. En-suite bathroom, AC, small private plunge pool on the terrace.

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

  • 4-week online mental preparation (basic mental training videos & weekly exercises)
  • 6 x surf coaching incl. spot transfers by car (if you don’t bring your own board, we can provide one free of charge from our surf school).
  • 6 x video analysis (take a USB stick or an external hard drive with you, you can save all videos of you on it, we don’t charge anything extra for the videos)
  • 5 x mental sessions / hypno coachings
  • 5 x yoga workshops
  • Daily personal feedback & input from your surf coach and mental trainer
  • Duck dive training in the pool on request
  • Accommodation (7 nights in a shared bungalow, with private bathroom and terrace, some with private mini-plunge pool)
  • Delicious breakfast and dinner (usually vegetarian)
  • 1 x BBQ
  • 1 x 60 minute massage
  • Free WiFi

WHAT YOU HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF FOR YOURSELF:

  • Flights to and from Ngurah Rai airport (airport code DPS)
  • Transfer from the airport to Salty Breeze Bali (we can organise a transfer on request – cost: IDR 400’000).
  • All meals, drinks, snacks that are not breakfast or dinner.
  • Insurances (illness, accident, travel insurance)
  • Visa (most EU countries can enter with a visa-on-arrival if the duration of stay in Indonesia does not exceed 30 days). The visa-on-arrival can be extended for another 30 days after arrival through a visa agent. Currently, it is possible to apply for an electronic visa-on-arrival before arrival. You can apply for an electronic visa-on-arrival here: https://molina.imigrasi.go.id/ (please note that the visa is only valid for 90 days from the date of issue. This means you should apply for the visa at no earlier than 90 days before your planned entry. The visa entitles you to a 30-day stay.
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COVID:

  • We explicitly exclude any liability for flight bookings.
  • It is your responsibility to check in advance whether you can enter Indonesia. Unfortunately, we cannot take responsibility for COVID restrictions imposed by your home country or Indonesia. Ensure that your travel insurance also covers COVID-related cancellations. Check with the Indonesian Embassy in your home country for current entry requirements. UPDATE: > As of July 2023, you no longer need to be vaccinated against COVID to enter the country. We exclude any liability for the information provided here. You can find an informative list in an article by Indojunkie HERE.”

Your Mental Trainer

Kim is half Swiss half Thai and grew up in Switzerland. Her big passions are exploring the secrets of the mind, surfing and traveling . After working as a life coach, sports mental trainer & hypnotherapist for over 7 years in her own practice in Zurich, she decided in 2018 to focus on the mental challenges of surfers. Ever since, she has coached surfers worldwide to overcome fear, build up self-confidence in the line-up and have more fun in the waves!

Credentials: Over 6 years of hypno-coaching and sports mental training in my own practice in Zurich; Hypnosis certificate NGH with Gabriel Palacios, Bern; Diploma course sport mental coaching from Sport Mental Academy in Zurich; Certificate course Integral Coach ECA at Living Sense in Zurich

Your Mental Trainer

Kim is half Swiss half Thai and grew up in Switzerland. Her big passions are exploring the secrets of the mind, surfing and traveling . After working as a life coach, sports mental trainer & hypnotherapist for over 7 years in her own practice in Zurich, she decided in 2018 to focus on the mental challenges of surfers. Ever since, she has coached surfers worldwide to overcome fear, build up self-confidence in the line-up and have more fun in the waves!

  • I have over six years of coaching, hypnosis and sports mental training with my own practice in Zurich.
  • Hypnosis certificate NGH with Gabriel Palacios, Bern
  • Diploma course Sportmentalcoach with Roger Erni at the Sportmental Academy in Zurich
  • Certificate course Integral Coach ECA (life coaching) at Living Sense in Zurich

Your yoga instructor & surf coach

Teddy Sun is of Chinese heritage, grew up in the USA and lives in Bali since over 10 years. He’s an avid surfer, passionate yoga teacher and deeply interested in the human psychology. His upbringing and life experience has led him on an emotionally transformative path on which anger and fear played a major role. This is what he wants to share with the world – transformation through yoga: Getting to the roots of fear and stepping out of your comfort zone into nurturing your self-worth and self-confidence.

Yoga teacher Teddy Sun sitting on a yoga mat outside.

Your yoga instructor & surf coach

Teddy Sun is of Chinese heritage, grew up in the USA and lives in Bali since over 10 years. He’s an avid surfer, passionate yoga teacher and deeply interested in the human psychology. His upbringing and life experience has led him on an emotionally transformative path on which anger and fear played a major role. This is what he wants to share with the world – transformation through yoga: Getting to the roots of fear and stepping out of your comfort zone into nurturing your self-worth and self-confidence.

Reviews:

Here you can find some reviews of Kim’s work and the Salty Breeze Accommodation.

 

Thank you for this week and for putting that smile on my face! I cannot put into words how grateful I am for the things we talked through and the strategies and methods I‘ve learned 💛 Surfing is so much of a mental game (I think most sports are) and if your struggling with anything in that regard, it being fear, motivation, trauma, big waves, mindset for performance improvement, pressure or frustration, @fearless_surfer should be your go to! Kim has such a broad understanding of the mental game in sports and whatever I came up with I never felt judged, she took so much time for uncovering underlying issues with me and it really felt like she’s enjoying her work. There is so much more I could say but I just want to put it out there that I’m grateful for the work you do and I hope you will have a lot of success, a lot of waves and to see you again in the line-up some day 🌊
Lena, Germany

1:1 Coaching in Lombok

I started surfing in 2018 and although I’ve always been a water lover and extremely good swimmer, I’ve noticed that I have a great fear of currents and drowning when surfing. I also always put myself under a lot of pressure to perform in sports, which regularly led to mental blocks in the line-up. And then, of course, it was also about improving certain technical things, such as paddling into waves, correct take-off timing and becoming more confident in the line-up. I felt very comfortable at the retreat. The group was perfect with 8 participants, so it was easy to open up and share fears and challenges with the other women.
In addition, Kim has a very emphatic and gentle yet challenging way as a person, which has helped me to trust myself more and to approach surfing more intuitively. The coaching from Kim and Vasco and the week in the retreat have enabled me to analyze every spot I have been to since then correctly and to assess on my own whether I can go into the water. After that, I finally dared to go surfing all by myself and paddle into waves despite a high male quota in the line-up. And feel that I earn that place in the line-up. After almost 3 years of surfing, the reward came: A beautiful green wave for me and my longboard all alone in Witsands (South Africa).
Lisa, Germany, Surftraining Retreat Aljezur

Psychologist and yoga teacher, Founder of Circle Transitions

I was totally blown away from this retreat. The whole setting was so great, professional but really familiar as well. The daily Video analysis helped me to see what I have to change in the water. And on top of it learning the movements on the surfskate first and than try to make the transfer in the water really helped me to improve in just one week. The mental training put me in the right mindset and I learned more about me in general. Also I now know how I want to feel in the line up and how I can accomplish this with my mental warm up. This week gave me a lot of tools with which I can keep on working now and improve even more in the future.
I wished the week would never end. 😁
Nicole, Switzerland, Surftraining Retreat Aljezur

Physiotherapist, surf school owner in Nicaragua

It a magic place! Enjoyed staying there. I book a retro room with balcony and ocean view. The place itself is so quiet, best option for those who wants to have a rest near the beach. …
Nastya Maslova

Google-Rezension*****, November 2022

Excellent hotel with excellent location, extremely clean & comfortable. Upon arrival we were warmly welcomed by the friendly reception staff Indra, she makes our trip more interesting with her advices & tips about the city, supermarket shops and restaurants. Would definetely recommend this hotel to everybody! It’s a true sample of excellent hospitality. Thank you again for going just that little step extra for the guests!!!

Ana Maria

Google-Review*****, November 2022

The ideal place for a perfect getaway to connect with nature. Also is just a few steps away from one of the most beautiful beaches in Uluwatu 😍 Can’t miss out this gem.

Florencia Orazi

Google-Review*****, November 2022

Your results:

 

You have the confidence to surf faster and steeper waves.

You remain calm even in challenging situations. If fear or anxiety creeps up, you can calm down and regain composure.

You feel much more comfortable in a crowded line-up and can catch your waves more confidently.

You can concentrate on what’s important and keep your focus, no matter what! You know that as soon as the waves get a little more challenging, that’s one of the most important skills to have.

You have a positive mindset, and you can identify which surf conditions offer you the best opportunities and possibilities.

With every session, you’ll get more waves and have even more fun surfing!

Because you are more confident, you can also start exploring new surf spots.

And last, but not least — these techniques can also be used in your everyday life! That’s awesome, right? It’s not only about surfing, you are also learning how it applies in life! It’s not only about surfing, you are also learning for life!

Join our surf coaching retreats – for more waves, more fun and a strong mind!

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