Achieving Success One Wave at a Time
It’s a little easier when someone helps you balance.
Photo courtesy Dionne Ybarra, The Wahine Project
The Wahine Project Knows No Barriers
Dionne Ybarra + surfboards.
Photo courtesy of Dionne Ybarra, The Wahine Project
Early in the morning, a car with a rooftop rainbow of surfboards pulls into the beach parking lot. A group of sweatshirted girls shifts eagerly, and a little sleepily, from one bare foot to the other in the cold Monterey, California, sand.
Dionne Ybarra steps out of her car, and the girls’ faces light up as she greets them each by name.
These are the girls of The Wahine Project, and they are here to surf.
To prepare for their plunge into the sea, the Wahine (wa-hee-nee), or surfer girls, gather in a lopsided circle around Ybarra and, as they transition from one yoga pose to another, they listen intently to her.
Ybarra advises that they might...
