Learn to surf—or sharpen your skills—with Kauai native and surf legend Rochelle Ballard. This private session goes beyond technique, offering a rare window into ocean reading, body alignment, and the deeper rhythms of wave riding. Whether you’re a first-timer or years in, Rochelle’s approach is personal, patient, and rooted in a lifetime spent mastering these waters.
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Surfing with Rochelle Ballard.
You don’t expect to take a surf lesson from one of the most accomplished surfers of her generation. But here you are, standing on the sands of Kaua‘i with Rochelle Ballard—an eleven-time veteran of the World Championship Tour, featured in Blue Crush, Step Into Liquid, and a dozen iconic surf films. She’s not just part of the history of women’s surfing—she helped shape it.
There’s no fanfare. No ego. Rochelle arrives like the ocean itself—calm, grounded, and quietly powerful. You spend the first moments on land, but it’s not the typical surf school drill. She talks about the ocean like it’s alive, a teacher in its own right. She brings in breathwork, body awareness, energy. There’s something almost meditative in her approach, and suddenly this isn’t about “getting up on a wave”—it’s about learning how to read the water, how to feel your place in it.
“You don’t just learn to surf. You learn to listen to the ocean.”
The waves that day are generous—clean and rolling, just challenging enough to learn. Under her guidance, you don’t just pop up and fall. You feel the timing. You feel what the ocean gives you. Rochelle reads it like a second language and shows you how to start hearing it too.
And in between, you talk. About her life, her work with Surf Into Yoga, how surfing and healing have become interconnected. It’s not performative. She doesn’t need to impress anyone. She’s just present, and that presence is rare.
You leave the water tired in the best way—salty, a little sunburned, and deeply, quietly elated. It’s not the kind of surf lesson where you earn a certificate or a video. It’s the kind that stays with you, reshaping your relationship with the ocean long after the session ends.
