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How To Improve Performance In Sup Yoga
We’ve sat down with Dashama Gordon, one of the leading voices in the SUP Yoga movement to give us a few tips on how to advance yourself in SUP Yoga.
Is Sup Yoga Better Than Yoga On Land?
I’ve been yoga instructor for over 15 years, and a SUP instructor for over 5 years and combining the two was what made my yoga practice more focused, more aligned and more purposeful than ever before. And I’ve been asked by many of my students, “Is SUP yoga better than yoga in the studio?” Better? Maybe.
6 Ways To Help Speed Up Recovery While You Are Injured
SUP racing World Champion, Seychelle, is no stranger to injury so we reached out to her to get her tips and advice on how you can help to speed up recovery while you’re injured to get you back on the water as soon as possible.
5 Basic Sup Yoga Poses For Beginners
Dashama Gordon is one of the leading voices in the SUP Yoga movement and together with her sponsor Starboard SUP, Dashama has come out with a series of SUP Yoga tutorials where she shares some standup paddle board yoga tips.
Sup Fitness: How Many Calories Does Paddle Boarding Burn?
How many calories do you burn while paddleboarding? Find out below.
Paddle Boarding In Algonquin Park, Canada
You pass by floating greens and thick trees. You feel the soft currents beneath your board. And you spot wildlife peeking through the leaves, only to disappear in a blur of fur and twitchy ears. This isn’t your average SUP adventure, and that’s the point.
10 Benefits of SUP Yoga for Beginners
For beginners, SUP Yoga offers numerous benefits that go beyond physical fitness, providing a holistic experience for the body, mind, and soul. Here’s a closer look at ten benefits.
4 Advanced Sup Yoga Poses For Experienced Paddlers
Once you learn and get comfortable with beginner and moderate SUP yoga poses, you should now be ready to challenge yourself and learn some of the more advanced poses.
Top Reasons You Need An Inflatable Paddle Board
Stand up paddle boarding is climbing in popularity around the world and becoming readily accessible to anyone and everyone.
Nutritional Tips For Finding Balance On And Off Your Sup
In order to achieve good balance on your board, it is important that you have a good balance of nutrition when you’re off the board. So, check out these three tips that can supplement your strength training and improve your game.
Top Mistakes To Avoid In Sup Yoga
Dashama is one of the leading voices in the SUP Yoga movement and we had a chance to catch up with her. Some of her credentials include: hosting Yoga and SUP Yoga retreats around the world; having her own SUP Yoga board made by Starboard
How You Can Help The Earth Through Paddle Boarding
There’s no better way to experience and enjoy the beautiful place that we call home by grabbing your paddle board and jumping in the water.
Are You Taking The Right Supplement?
Chasing health, anti-aging, staying young, keeping up with the latest health trends…I find these attributes true for most paddlers. But aside from that nutritious food you consume and those vitamins and minerals you take, do you know what the best supplement when it comes to health and longevity?
Paddle Boarding British Columbia, Canada
British Columbia is Canada's most westerly province, and is a mountainous area whose population is mainly clustered in its southwestern corner. BC, as it’s most commonly referred to as, is Canada’s third-largest province after Québec and Ontario, making up 10 per cent of Canada’s land surface.
Paddle Boarding Barbados
Barbados or Bim, as it is lovingly referred to by its local inhabitants, is a perfect island paradise for the progressive adventuring paddle boarder. With its rich history, Barbados packs a real punch in its 166 square mile package.
A Beginner's Guide To Sup Yoga
Not only is Seychelle a top stand up paddle racer, she also is an expert stand up paddle yogi. When not training for a race or world record attempt you will likely find Seychelle channeling her inner chi and practicing and even teaching SUP yoga.
5 Of Our Favorite Paddling Spots In Southern California
If you don’t know, now you know – Southern California offers some of the best paddle boarding spots in the United States. From Coronado to Catalina Island, there are an abundance of amazing places to cruise on your SUP. Lucky for you, we picked out the best five.
3 Foundational Tips For Stand Up Paddle Yoga
Breathe. Focus. Center. Regardless of experience level, always check in with your breath first. Why? Our breath is always real and honest with us.
Paddle Boarding Vancouver, British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia is widely regarded as one of the prettiest and most comfortable places in North America to spend time outdoors. Granted it’s fairly far north, so it’s quite cold for much of the year. But from spring through the early fall season, it’s mostly lovely outside, and as a result it’s something of a haven for travelers seeking outdoor activity.
5 Reasons To Take Your Yoga Off The Mat And Onto A Paddleboard
If you enjoy yoga and being out on the water you will love stand-up paddleboard yoga. You will of course need a paddleboard and paddle — look for a wider board which will help you with your balance.
Paddle Boarding Annapolis, Maryland
Annapolis, the state capital of Maryland, and commonly known as “America’s sailing capital, has been taken by storm by paddle sports!” Situated on the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Severn river, Annapolis offers a wide variety of paddling conditions. Protected creeks, wide open rivers, and the iconic Chesapeake Bay are paddled daily by paddle enthusiasts ranging from novice paddlers to professional SUP racers.
6 Amazing Places To Paddle Board In Japan
Although small in size, Japan is one place that has no shortage of places to stand up paddle board (SUP). As a nation completely surrounded by water there are endless opportunities to grab your SUP and find the perfect place to get on the water.
10 Sup Yoga Poses For Everyone
SUP Yoga is a popular yoga-fitness fusion involving practicing a yoga routine on a paddle board while floating on water.
Paddle Boarding Coron Island, Palawan, Philippines
Few destinations can hold a candle to the brilliance of Palawan. Located in the west of the Philippines, more than 1,780 islands form an archipelago that stretches almost as far south as Borneo and north to the island of Mindoro.
Paddle Boarding Cambodia
Cambodia is best known for its temples of Angkor Wat and its dark history with the genocide of Pol Pot. But even Angelina Jolie who has starred in and produced award winning films in Cambodia, has found the country to also be a great SUP destination.
9 Ways To Have Fun On Group Sups
Stand up paddle boarding is on the upward trend in participation and with that comes more opportunities for even more fun. In the past couple of years we’ve seen the rise in popularity for group SUPs, as in a paddle board that can hold a group of paddlers at one time.
How Sup Yoga Makes You A Better Racer
A huge part of paddle boarding is all about balance. When you’re paddleboarding, you’re standing on board balanced in the water. Even the slightest movement of the water beneath your feet could cause you to fall off balance and into the water.
7 Hot Spots On West Coast, USA
It’s safe to say that a major part of the stand up paddle (SUP) industry lies on West Coast of the United States. The West Coast of the U.S. is lit with a vast amount of places to paddle, not to mention that they are drop-dead gorgeous locations to match. Here, we’ve decided to list seven hot spots along the west coast that are worth a visit.
San Diego: The Ultimate Sup Destination
With constant sunshine, ocean views, and an abundance of flat-water locales, San Diego is a fantastic SUP city. Below are the best places to go paddle boarding in San Diego - and where to rent a board (if needed) for the adventure.
How To Choose Gear For Sup Yoga
As one of the leading voices in the SUP Yoga movement Dashama Gordon knows a thing or two about Yoga and paddle boarding.
5 Ways Sup Yoga Can Enrich Your Daily Life
Here, Aubrey Renee, a lover of SUP Yoga and stand up paddling shares five ways that SUP Yoga can enrich your daily life.
10 Nutrition Tips For Peak Sup Performance
Nothing puts more of a damper on your downwinder than quick crash of energy and stamina. And even the most proficient of paddlers, and strategic of strokes will lose steam if the fuel coming in is lacking the proper nutrients.
Four Core Reasons Why You Should Stand Up Paddle (sup)
By simply balancing on the water and paddling through the water and waves, Stand Up Paddle Boarding is a huge core workout. To get a bit more into this we have to learn a touch about our core muscles.
Paddle Boarding Tam Giang Lagoon, Vietnam
Hue city is renowned for being one of Vietnam’s imperial cities with a unique landscape with the west being mountainous and the east so blue with the ocean. One of the more picturesque sights is Pha Tam Giang (Tam Giang Lagoon).
Supcation Destination: Komodo, Indonesia
Looking to head out on a SUP vacation that is outside of the norm? Consider Komodo Island in Indonesia!
Paddle Boarding Oregon, U.S.A
Located in the heart of the beautiful Pacific Northwest, Oregon boasts a large collection of bodies of water and a myriad of environmental conditions to accompany them. Sun, wind, rain (so much rain!), Oregon’s topography manages to pull them all together some days, and sometimes all at the same time! What this means to a paddler is that flexibility in destinations, and knowing where the hidden gems are located, can make the difference between a picturesque day paddle and a grueling seven mile upwind grind back to your vehicle.
Paddle Boarding Slovenia
Slovenia is a miniature, picturesque country located in the heart of Europe between the Alps and the Adriatic sea. Due to its untouched nature and extraordinary geographic diversity it is often referred to as the beauty-spot of Europe, a perfect place for stand up paddling.
5 Moderate Sup Yoga Poses For Intermediate Paddlers
Once you learn and get comfortable with beginner yoga poses, you should now be ready to take it up a notch and learn some intermediate poses.
Paddle Boarding Nicaragua
Nicaragua offers variety of SUP experiences for SUP surfers and SUP yogis alike. By many standards Nicaragua is somewhat of a new frontier in Central America. Years of political and civil unrest left Nicaragua off the radar for most travelers.
Paddle Boarding Grenada Island
The Spice Isle’, as Grenada’s affectionately known, isn’t one of the first Caribbean islands you think of when talking about water sports. Often overshadowed by its more headline spot windward island siblings of Barbados and Tobago, Grenada sits towards the bottom end of the West Indian archipelago, quietly awaiting your arrival should you fancy discovering its delightful SUP pleasures yourself.
The Benefit Of Training Indoors
SUP and outdoor enthusiasts have a hard time staring at walls and going nowhere. We are outdoorsy people. We heed the call of the wild. We embrace fresh air with gusto, and seize the early morning glassy waters of sunrise. We don’t belong indoors. We can’t even sit behind desks without staring at a screensaver of some sort of outdoor scenery. Yet, sadly, even in the sunny summer months, we can’t always get out on the water.
5 Things To Make Your Sup Yoga Classes Covid Safe
The start of summer in the northern hemisphere also marks the start of a new SUP Yoga season. After months in lockdown, nothing sounds more enticing than jumping straight back on board and enjoying the fresh air while practicing your favorite SUP Yoga poses!
Sup Yoga Tips By Dashama
Dashama, a Starboard ambassador, is one of the leading voices in the SUP Yoga movement and we had a chance to catch up with her. Some of her credentials include: hosting Yoga and SUP Yoga retreats around the world; having her own SUP Yoga board made by Starboard; and being a contributor to several media outlets.
Destinations With Epic Views
Find your sense of balance and become one with nature on your next SUP adventure. Whether you’re looking to ride some waves with a view of coconut tree-lined shores or glide along tranquil waters surrounded by alpine mountains, we’ve got you covered.
Places To Visit In 2021
2020 sure put a damper on our travel plans and has given us a major itch to travel. Hopefully travel restrictions ease up soon and we can get the much needed vacation in. If you're lucky enough to get one in this year we’ve compiled a few places where you’re bound to have a blast at with beautiful scenery surrounding you.
Paddle Boarding Amelia Island, Florida
Amelia Island is to many a unique and somewhat secret gem along the Atlantic coast of northern Florida. The island has a long and rich history being ruled under 8 different flags including France, Spain and yes, a pirate. Being similar in size to Manhattan the island is surprisingly diverse and contains an abundance of wildlife, un-crowded beaches and scenic vistas all making Amelia Island a true SUP destination.
Sup Scene In Bangkok And Surrounds Continue To Expand
Thailand has always been a sought-after destination for paddlers in search of adventure and enhanced well-being. While the Thai capital, Bangkok, may not sport the same level of natural beauty and tranquillity as seen in popular SUP locations such as Koh Samui and Phuket, it does hold a definite appeal to the SUP community.
Places To Visit In 2020
Planning on getting in a few trips in 2020? Well, lucky for you there are countless locations and destinations that are a stand up paddler’s dream.
5 Sup Yoga Tips For Beginners
For anyone who's ever attended a yoga session and limped out of the studio bewildered by how physically intense it was, the idea of trying the same thing on a SUP might seem intimidating. Downright impossible, even. But like starting any new sport, the first steps are always the most difficult.