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KARMA SURF RETREAT The karmatic beauty of active meditation
Jens explains that being economists, they spent an appropriate amount of time deciding and planning the details of how, where, why and what they were going to do. Since they shared a passion for hosting and love to spend time and relax with friends, they decided that a surf hostel would be a great idea.
If “Surf, Yoga and Malibu Style�, are four words that interest you, then read on. Karma Surf Retreat was founded in 2013 by Timo Janitzki and Jens Kielmann, old school friends who had the opportunity to reconnect in 2009 when Jens moved to Portugal after quitting his corporate job in Berlin to work as an independent online marketeer.
Having experienced first-hand the social diseases of stress, depression and burn-out syndromes they decided to offer yoga and meditation as part of their package. The combination worked very well and was immediately appealing to a generation of people seeking a deeper awareness and control of their internal and external lives, without necessarily feeling patronised by so called Gurus and Life Skill Coaches.
KARMA SURF RETREAT Surfing was a passion that both Jens and Timo shared and soon after the Karma Surf Retreat was opened in Cascais in 2013, a second was opened in the Algarve in 2014. Then between 2016 and 2018 two pop-up retreat were launched in Morocco and Bali with a third location in Lisbon opening in 2018. According to Jens, Timo had already lived and worked in Portugal for ten years but both of them sought an improvement to their job routines. Seeking nothing less than a substantial meaning and happiness they knew that they had to do something they were passionate about, which was and is, surfing.
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