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Religion scholar and conservationist Bron Taylor studies earth-spirituality and environmentalism and has referred to surfing as an “aquatic nature religion.” In an article for the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Taylor commented on the growing trend of “soul surfers” who take a much more spiritual approach to surfing than the average sports enthusiast. This subset of the global surfing community should be understood as a new religious movement — a globalizing hyb

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One day, while surfing at a beach break in Carpenteria, California, my son's best friend, said to my son, "Look at at your dad with his hands folded underneath his arms, he looks like a sensei in his Ocean Dojo." I was in my space, my focus, my place of peace. And when I heard what Ed said, I felt this is how many others feel when sitting in their sacred place. The ocean, our Ocean Dojo. That place where we sense the connection between ourselves and the infinite power of an o

One day, while surfing at a beach break in Carpenteria, California, my son's best friend, said to my son, "Look at at your dad with his hands folded underneath his arms, he looks like a sensei in his Ocean Dojo." I was in my space, my focus, my place of peace. And when I heard what Ed said, I felt this is how many others feel when sitting in their sacred place. The ocean, our Ocean Dojo. That place where we sense the connection between ourselves and the infinite power of an o