Yoga Onboard
Yoga Onboard is a practical guide intended to introduce various ways of tapping into your creativity.
Video Download
includes iPOD version
so you can follow along
as you exercise on deck
A Video by
Kim Hess
Sailor and Yoga instructor, Kim Hess, shows you how to adapt traditional yoga postures, or asana, to your vessel. She shows you how to listen to your body and create exciting new postures that work for you.
Some of the benefits of a regular yoga practice include increased strength and flexibility, restored energy, and harmony between the body and mind--benefits that all sailors, especially on longer voyages, will appreciate.
Kim also runs yoga-sail adventures in the Exumas, Bahamas, Belize, and Roatan aboard Dutch Love. Meditation and daily yoga are part of a week-long adventure that includes sailing, snorkeling, kayaking, nutritious meals, and inspiring discussions about life and nature.
Sailing out of Coconut Grove, Florida on Biscayne Bay, Kim joins Captain Nick aboard Namaste for sunset yoga charters. Kim uses the techniques in her video to guide passengers through an hour long vinyasa flow class followed by health snacks and beverages. This is a truly unique way to explore this beautiful bay.
Guide Book
Yoga Onboard is a beautifully illustrated practical guide that offers creative alternatives to adapting traditional yoga postures to your vessel. Using various parts of the boat as props, Kim demonstrates how easy it is to create a yoga practice that works for your vessel.
About Kim....
Being raised in a small mountain community Kim was given the opportunity to experience the closeness that comes with a small town atmosphere. This feeling continues into her life today with the people she meets immediately becoming a part of her extended family.
Being physically active all of her life, she grew up skiing, both on the water and snow. Kim began her sailing experiences in 1989 and her teaching career as a fitness and aerobics instructor in 1992. She has been actively involved in the field of transformational growth for 15 years and as a student of life, Kim embraces the concept of “wisdom through experience”.
As her life evolved with transformational work and fitness, she found the practice of yoga to be the perfect combination of bringing the mind, body and spirit together. She continues her work of transformation using the body as a guide: physically, emotionally and energetically.
 She began formally practicing, studying and teaching yoga during the winter of 1999 while living in Sayulita, Nayarit, Mexico. Returning to her hometown in Idaho in 2000 she continued teaching while her self study grew. In 2003 she completed a yoga teacher training in Miami Beach with Synergy Center for Yoga & the Healing Arts receiving her certification under a Yoga Alliance Registered School. Her studies include Iyengar, Ashtanga, Bikram and Sivananda as well as Pranayama, Sanskrit, partner & pre-natal yoga and yoga philosophy. While she has studied with some note worthy teachers, she continues to believe that her greatest teachers are her students.
Kim blends together the various styles of yoga she has studied along with her personal experiences to bring to life her own eclectic style of yoga; ones own body, the rhythm of the breath and adaptation are the foundation for a well rounded class accessible to all levels of yoga practice. She has been teaching full time since October 2004.
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