Cape Town Yoga, Surf & Muizenberg Beach

While Muizenberg is not exactly famous for yoga (it is rather famous for surfing) it is, for me, the most awesome location for doing yoga. A small village only some 30 minutes from Cape Town center, there it is not a hint of the bright lights, big city yoga scene here. Blame the often miserable South Easter winds in summer, or the cold winters, it is the powerful elemental presence of nature of this area that attracts me. And ever increasing numbers of other that are looking for an authentic experience of the Cape.

A close knit community of alternatives, doing their own thing, is the thing to here. I suspect there are as many surfboards, or more, as people in the village. Boards are number one coffee shops and restaurant decoration, stacked in its numerous surf shops and surf schools, and just about every home or flat has a surfboard or three.

Apart from local surf mad nutters and the rest of town that enjoys the fabulous winter surf, with glorious sunny translucency or big swell rainy, offshore conditions, the want-to-surf tourists of summer, every Tom, Dick and Debbie these days want the freedom lifestyle image of surf and yoga. So the national t.v. broadcaster visited us on a lovely sunny winter’s day to report on the Surf Yoga Camp class I teach at African Soul Surfer lodge. Jamie, its owner and surfer dude deluxe, is very keen on yoga, and we contrived a great yoga and surf instruction combination:

Everyone welcome to drop-in for a yoga class

While surf yoga sure is a fun (and at least mildly challenging) endeavour for unskilled beginners, all non-surfer Cape Town yogis or visitors to our city are welcome to book a drop-in yoga class at the Sea-View Yoga Studio. If your kids, boyfriend, or girlfriend is a weekend wave warrior, and you’re not, you are super welcome to a Saturday or Sunday morning yoga class, listed by influential CapeTownMagazine as a Top Ten Yoga Studio in Cape Town. And to all surfer dudes and dudettes: as you can see in the surf yoga video, yoga is a no brainer counterpart to increase surf fun and ability.

Please note that I teach do-able, effective yoga,  the ability and need or requirements of the students to dictate the pace, level and other content.

This buzzing-on-weekends Muizenberg Surfers Corner is located halfway to Cape Point, surrounded by nature, perfect to explore the Southern Cape Peninsula from, and an open secret to Cape Town weekend travellers that loves to fact that one can get out of the city in one short drive to awesomeness.

Yours in Yoga,
Johann,
Cape Town,
Muizenberg.

All stills on this page from the Mela t.v. production.