In this episode, Prue Jeffries shares her pro surfing career with us and how water & nature support life, our health, and our well-being.

Prue Jeffries of Body of Wonder and Surf the Flow is a Craniosacral Teacher and Therapist, Continuum Teacher, Certified Massage Therapist, Registered Somatic Movement Educator, and founder of Vital Dynamics®.

Prue has always been a water person and explorer. She is a pioneer of women's surfing with 15 years on the ASP World Championship Tour, now known as WSL, co-founded a women's clothing line, was a writer and editorial consultant, and is now an avid nature photographer. She is also Creative Director for Watermark Arts, a somatic informed artistic endeavor.

Water, waveforms, and movement have been her life. Surfing is a spiritual, natural, and artistic endeavor that informs her deeply. She weaves experiential learning from nature and her body with the study of well-being, spiritual and somatic approaches for wholeness.

Right now, her focus is on the embodied knowing of ourselves as water and as nature—how that translates into the water being not only a metaphor but a conveyer for interconnection—shifting people's capacity to be more humane towards life and nature and protect and regenerate our planet.

Social Media Profiles:

Body of Wonder
- Website: https://www.bodyofwonder.com/
- FB: https://www.facebook.com/bodyofwonder/
Vital Dynamics
- Website: https://vitaldynamics.bio/
Surf the Flow
- Website: http://www.surftheflow.com/
- IG: https://www.instagram.com/surfingtheflow/
- FB: https://web.facebook.com/surfingtheflow/
Personal:
- FB: https://www.facebook.com/prue.jeffries
Member of Continuum Teachers Association
Registered Somatic Movement Educator at ISMETA
Creative Director of Watermark Arts

You can get a copy of Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art here.

Topics Discussed:

Why did you start surfing?
When and how did you decide to compete?
What was it like being on tour for 15 years?
- What was your high point? Low point?
- How's the transition like retiring from being a professional athlete?
- What is Somatic Movement?
  - The embodied knowing of ourselves as water and as nature
- What is Craniosacral?
- How important is breath?
- What's next for you in your journey?
- First surfboard?
- Favorite surf trip?

Location: San Diego, CA

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This podcast is produced by Derek Dodds, founder of Wave Tribe and lover of the sea.

For more info, email support@wavetribe.com

https://www.wavetribe.com/
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