Transform your Surfing - Body and Mind. This 6 day experience includes individual Surf Coaching and daily spot guiding as well as Mobility/Yoga sessions and functional breathwork training. We take your surfing to the next level and you also learn exercise routines & breathing techniques that set you up for longevity with stoke!

Improve your bottom-turn, cutback or cross-steps with expert 1:1 Surf Coaching & video analysis.

Gain mobility and strength, feel fitter than ever with daily personalized training & pre-trip coaching.

Learn how to navigate stress in the surf, and on land with functional breathwork. 

Dates: flexible, September - May. Location: Aljezur, Portugal. 

Availability: 1 spot per week (2 if you bring a friend or your partner).

Skill level: Advanced beginner to high Intermediate.

• Boost your skills with expert in-water coaching & video analysis.

• Instant results: 100% focus on your progress. No group, no delays. Just you!

• Surf the best spots & conditions for your level. Every day, with local spot guiding.

• Maximized progress during the week with workouts tailored for you to prepare for the trip.

• Get fitter, stronger, move better with daily surf-specific mobility training.

• Stay calm and relaxed in the water with functional breathing techniques. 

• Surf each day feeling supple & strong with a new quality in your recovery game.

• Learn how to catch more, good(!) waves using less energy and better positioning.

• Shortboard & Longboard: We have specific coaching for both.

• Surfskate Training: Dial in movement patterns on land (for the skatesavvy). 

• Ocean Literacy: Gain confidence in the surf and an eco-centric ocean-knowledge.

• High quality bodywork: Your back is out, your shoulder hurts? We got you covered!

• Full Flexibility: You choose travel dates and accommodation.

• The Stoke! New surfing skills allow for a radical new experience.
  

• Pre-Trip Coaching: To make sure you can transform your surfing during the retreat in Portugal we start working with you already weeks before you pack your bags. After a thorough assessment you´ll get a short, tailored training sequence so you can show up in Portugal with a body that moves well and is ready to integrate new input.

• Maximized Surfing Progress: Without a group but only one client (You!) and surf coaching & daily spot guiding of the highest quality you get all the attention & individual support to make the progress you desire. 

• Feel stronger and more flexibel than ever. The Surfers Health functional stretches & exercises go beyond any yoga class you have ever done. Daily personalized training with precise instructions will release tension from your body and ramp up your strength so you won´t experience sore muscles & stiffness like other landlocked surfers on a surf trip. 

• Stay calm & relaxed in the surf with proper breathing. A pre-requisite for good surfing (and learning) is being relaxed. We teach you the proper breathing techniques to down-regulate in the water, and on land. Instead of being high-jacked by over-excitement (paddling for a wave) or anxiety (size of surf) you learn how to stay chilled in order to perform good technique and surf smoothly. 

• Surfing, body and mind transformation. At the end of the week you will enjoy surfing on a whole new level and also have the tools dialed in to maintain a healthy surfing body and mind – allowing you to surf and improve for many years to come. Not to mention the skills you learn to navigate stress can genuinely change your daily life for the better!

• You love surfing and want to get better. But you have a busy life, a tight schedule.

• You have been surfing for years and hit a plateau with your skills.

• You want to be able to generate speed, surf more top-to-bottom, improve your cutback.

• You longboard and like to refine trimming & turns, cross steps & noseriding.

• You are 35+ and want to improve your surf mobility & fitness.

• You enjoy independence, choosing your own style of accommodation & travel. 

• You appreciate high quality training, coaching and personal customer service. 

Prerequisites:

• Ability to catch green waves and perform basic turns.

• Comfortable with paddling out in up to 3-4ft surf.

• Bring your own board.

• This is for low- to high intermediates, not for surf beginners.
  

What is included?

• Pre-trip consultation with tailored preparation exercise video.

• 6 days surf guiding around Aljezur, Arrifana, Lagos, Sagres

• 3 intensive in-water surf coaching sessions with detailed video analysis.

• 6 Personal Training sessions with surf-specific stretches & exercises and breath-work training.

• 1 Year subscription with full access to the Surfers Health video library.

• NOT included: Travel & Accomodation.

Logistics:

• Location: Aljezur, Portugal. 

• Flights: To Faro (1hr drive) or Lisbon (3hr drive).

• Transport: You need a rental car / we recommend luzcar operating from Faro & Lagos.

• Choose your own accomodation: Find recommendations here. 

Dates: Flexible. Come for a week or longer between mid September and end of May.

Availability: 1 spot. (2 if you want bring a friend or your partner).

Investment: €2.750,- for the 6-day experience (€2.200 p/p if two people).

How can I book?

• Send us an E-Mail and let us know where your surfing is at, what your goals are and when you are free to come to Portugal - anything between mid september and end of may.

• We check availability and have a quick call with you to get to know each other, make sure this retreat is suitable for you.

• You pay in full to confirm your spot or 50% with remainder 30 days before the week.

Cancellation policy: If you cancel up to 30 days before the week starts we´ll refund your payment minus 250 eur for costs incurred. Later cancellations require you to cover the full costs. Life happens and as a small business we can not offer refunds with last minute cancellations. In case we need to cancel the retreat you get the full refund but we are NOT covering your flight & accomodation arrangements. We recommend everyone to get a travel insurance which covers your costs no matter for what reason the trip might fall through.

Daniel Schudt is your Personal Trainer. He is a massage therapist, mobility trainer and yoga instructor with close to 2 decades of experience working with surfers. Daniel is developing your preparation training and during the coaching week he will guide all surf warm-ups as well as the daily recovery & mobility sessions with functional breathwork training.   

With a background of having organized and hosted more than 150 retreats in Portugal and worldwide Daniel also guarantees smooth logistics. From the first consultation call, through the booking process to finding accommodation & transport, the pre-trip mobility coaching and the surf guiding and all organizational stuff during the week.

He´s a passionate surfer himself who started late in life (age 29). Being in his fifties now he´s still burning to get better and wants to surf for decades to come. Find out more about Daniel´s story.

Ale Rista is your private Surf Coach. A Level 3 ASI surf instructor & Level II surf coach IPDJ with 20+ years of teaching experience who runs his own surf school in Lagos, Portugal. He has been living and surf coaching in the area for more than a decade and always finds the perfect spot according to your skill level and what you like to work on.

Ale´s abilities to analyze your surfing in detail are second to none. He is all about becoming more independent and confident in the water. Technically and mentally. How to read the ocean, find optimal positioning and catch more waves with less energy and proper etiquette, also in crowded line-ups. His instructions and advice are practical, precise and super easy-to-follow. Ale is not only a highly qualified and very experienced surf coach but also a great guy to hang out with.