{"id":3291,"date":"2013-06-24T16:50:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T00:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/?p=3291"},"modified":"2017-08-01T11:33:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T17:33:28","slug":"mindfulness-kayaking-in-malibu-with-the-life-coaching-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/life-coaching\/mindfulness-kayaking-in-malibu-with-the-life-coaching-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindfulness Kayaking in Malibu with the Life Coaching Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Mindfulness-Kayaking-in-Malibu-1.jpg\" alt=\"Mindfulness Kayaking in Malibu\" width=\"350\" height=\"214\" title=\"\">On Friday, June 21, OPI\u2019s Life Coaching Department offered its first \u201cLife Coaching Outing.\u201d We took nine participants to beautiful Zuma Beach in Malibu, CA for a Mindfulness Kayaking Experience.<\/p>\n<p>During the morning, participants were guided by life coaches to approach the event as an exercise in observing their thoughts and feelings when facing a challenge such as kayaking in the ocean.\u00a0 Participants were encouraged to look at how they work in a team setting and be aware of feelings such as fear, distraction or hesitation.<\/p>\n<p>While out on the water, a contest was held to see who could come up with the most creative metaphor for life and the ocean. The front-runners were, <em>\u201cRiding the waves of life\u201d<\/em> and <em>\u201cWhen a wave knocks you down, you keep getting back up.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The event was a big hit and we are excited to come up with our next activity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, June 21, OPI\u2019s Life Coaching Department offered its first \u201cLife Coaching Outing.\u201d We took nine participants to beautiful Zuma Beach in Malibu, CA for a Mindfulness Kayaking Experience. During the morning, participants were guided by life coaches to approach the event as an exercise in observing their thoughts and feelings when facing a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":7189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[44,60,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}