Discovering the transformative power of surfing is what gave brand founder Lindsey Holland, 36, the impetus to start her own retreats, Marnie Rays. “I was sitting in my favourite place — China Walls in Hawaii — during a surf trip thinking about how it’s changed my life and how it made me feel. I wanted to be able to spread that to other people,” she recalls.
She first went on a solo trip to try the sport three years ago after “having one of those really funny, vulnerable times in life. I felt: I don’t know if I have things that make me really happy anymore.” After a week of surf, yoga and some soul searching she felt revitalised — and wanted to go surfing every chance she got. “I just came back so refreshed and with this massive excitement,” Holland recalls.
