THE BEAUTIFUL DANCE BETWEEN CONNECTION & COMPASSION
“There’s something in that surfing experience - when you drop into that moment... You’re no longer self aware or self conscious. Conditions have been created (body, mind, nature, movement), which allow you to enter a different space. One where you're no longer just self - you're in a space connected to everything…” Dr Tamara Russell.
The making of Undercurrents began with a simple question: Why do we keep coming back to this crazy sport, even when the conditions are rubbish and the water is freezing?
What started as a curiosity about our obsession with the ocean became a journey into the deeper relationship we have with it — and taught us so much about ourselves along the way.
Arlene Maltman is a pioneer of British women’s surfing. A European and British champion, she competed on the ASP tour and represented Team GB.
Natalie Fox is a marine conservationist who sailed across the North Atlantic with eXXpedition in 2019, collecting data on microplastic pollution. She is now the coordinator of Citizens of Surf, implementing ReGeneration Surf — a coalition of partners with a shared mission to regenerate the ocean with this generation of surfers.
Neuroscientist Dr Tamara Russell, along with Blue Health Coach and Blue Mind advocate Lizzi Larbalestier, bring further insight into our relationship with the ocean.
Through their wisdom and expertise, we began to understand the science behind the feelings that keep drawing us back to the sea, again and again.
What we were left with was, ultimately, a love letter to the sea.
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Soundwaves Noosa is based on the lands and waters of the Gubbi Gubbi people, the Traditional Custodians of this Country.
We acknowledge their deep and continuing connection to Country, waterways and the natural world, and pay our respects to Elders past and present.
We recognise that these lands and waters have been cared for, known and understood for thousands of generations — and that there is much we can learn from this enduring relationship with Country.