by briant | Aug 30, 2016 | Adventure, Dyana Wells, Novels, Philosophy, Sailing, Yoga
Sailing – a life on the ocean that can be like extreme sports, before the term was invented. Alice enjoys sailing, the thrill, the exhilarating physicality of the tug of war with nature. That’s with nature, not against it, because Alice feels more in tune...
by dyanaw | Jul 5, 2016 | Dyana Wells, Novels, Sailing, Trilogy
The science of yoga claims that all experience is a combination of the qualities of the five elements — earth, water, fire air and space. We know the world and ourselves as the ever-changing fluxing of these elements. Water, the sea, the rolling fluidity of...
by dyanaw | Mar 25, 2016 | Dyana Wells, Sailing
Sailing, pull up the main, third reef, coming about, pull in the head sail. Immediately my legs are braced, hands to the winch handle and I’m swinging it around, steady, engaging my whole body down to my toes, clutching at the floorboards. tummy muscles clenched,...
by dyanaw | Mar 15, 2016 | Dyana Wells, Sailing
I sometimes wonder what it is about sailing that pulls me back, again and again into the discomfort of clambering over life lines, stewing around in a poky galley, tossing through the night in an uncomfortable roll, hours and hours lost in the froth that rushes past....