19th November 2019
Soul People – Blain
Soul People – Blain. A chat with our brilliant assistant manager at Soul & Surf Sri Lanka.
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20th August 2019
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Soul People – Mike Wakefield
The first time we met Mike – the photographer behind Pura Vida Cornwall – he took some seriously beautiful shots of our home and surrounding neighbourhood in Sri Lanka. We couldn’t resist getting him back out to the jungle to shoot some more for us, and luckily for us he agreed to share some words […]
21st May 2019
An update from Sri Lanka
Words: Ed Templeton It’s hard to believe it’s been a month since the attacks in Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, that devastated the country that Sofie, Kit and I – along with a large portion of our team – have come to call home. A lot has happened in the last month. There’s the initial shock […]
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30th October 2018
Video: Spinal Twist with Jessamin
Over the last month or so, we’ve been posting these short yoga videos, taking you through some simple twists and stretches you can do at home. Last week, Jessamin guided us through ‘thread the needle,’ which is all about gaining greater rotation and mobility in the shoulders and torso. This one kind of builds on […]
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20th October 2018
Video: Thread the Needle with Jessamin
Jumping over from Kerala to Sri Lanka for our next yoga tutorial – y’know, just to keep you on your toes. Jessamin explores ‘thread the needle,’ which is all about creating greater mobility and rotation in the torso, shoulders and neck. Surfers, this can help us out in the water with our turns…handy! YOGA – […]
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2nd May 2018
Where We Choose to Belong
Two men stand on the clifftop of Soul & Surf’s garden – one born in the hills, the other raised by the ocean – and discuss a mutual love of wave riding. Surf instructor Varghees, born and bred near Kovolam on India’s south west coast, could best be described as a lion-hearted surfer; his prowess […]
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9th January 2018
Stuff We Like – Mami Wata | Woza
“Woza” (“Come” in Zulu) tells the story of an African surfer who has been taken as a lover by the African water spirit Mami Wata. It features 22 year-old Transkei surfer, Avuyile Ndamase.
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31st July 2017
Shop Talk – Venita from Surfskinoil
We love working with people who do things differently. When setting up our shop in Sri Lanka we wanted to make sure whoever we stocked had an interesting story to tell. When we met Venita and she told us about her 100% natural skin oil, Surfskinoil , we had to find out more. This stuff […]
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8th July 2017
Stuff We Like – Florescence
Florescence from Morgan Maassen on Vimeo. A 2 minute underwater exploration in the Indian Ocean brought to you by Morgan Maassen.
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14th May 2017
Vesakha – Sri Lanka
On the full moon of May, Buddhists commemorate the birth, enlightenment and the passing away of Gautama Buddha. Simple offerings of flowers, candles and joss-sticks are brought to illuminated and decorated temples, where the celebration is an opportunity to reiterate their determination to lead noble lives, to develop their minds, to practise loving-kindness and to […]
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We are guests of yours (from May 9-May 25) at Soul and Surf. We are having a very nice time, thank you, but we wanted to say in particular how grateful we are that you have Sunil working here. He has done a superb job with helping us with the most odd requests (including finding […]
Clancy Martin
