"Surfing brings us right up against this Spirit and, when we get it right, when we open our minds, when all the elements come together and we merge with the sea, a door opens and for a few moments we enter God’s home and are one with that great flow of Consciousness. It is then we burst open to something bigger and more expansive, that our deepest desire is satisfied. We stop the search and settle into pure being. We feel peace, rather than anxiety. It is when we tap into this place that the money, time and efforts we spent to go surfing truly pay off."
"It took myself almost 15 years of dedicated practice before I was able to reconnect to the essence of what I had experienced in my time spent surfing in the ocean. This came through the practice of a unique system of tai chi, which I came upon in China and have been studying ever since. The system is based on the study of nature with the main emphasis being on the way energy and gravity move through the water, manifesting into waves and whirlpools, rising and falling, concentrating and expanding; a constant natural recycling process, nature at work.
This is the true essence of tai chi, and one of which we are all part of from birth to death. Every moment of your lives, you are constantly flowing, changing, and transforming.
This understanding underpins the tai chi system. Asking you to transform yourself into a water type quality, dissolving all the tight contracted areas of the body using wave type motions until a sense of the contracted linear-self has disappeared and is replaced by an expansive flowing, changing, non-linear self, which merges with the outside energetic and natural environment."
Read more of this post from two tai chi and yoga practitioners who find common ground in the experience of riding waves.
http://www.transformyogaandtaichi.co.uk/surfing_and_waves.html
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