May-2024
New Perspectives Event Series Explores Inner and Outer Naturescapes Since 2005, Lexie Hallahan, Visionary and Director of NW Women’s Surf Camps, has been empowering women and girls with the transformative skills of surfing and offering her students the intimate knowledge of the Ocean, tides, swells and winds, which she calls the “recipe for a perfect […]
Feb-2022
Are surfing lessons necessary? Along the North Coast of Oregon prior to 2005, there really weren’t any exceptional surfing lessons being taught. I and all of my coaches except for one had to learn to surf on their own. (10 women coaches and 2 men coaches over the last 18 years of our program). We […]
Nov-2020
A Dream Come True…at last! As the Director of NW Women’s Surf Camps for the last 16 years, one of my dreams has been to have OPB’s Oregon Field Guide cover our unique women’s focused surfing program. I reached out to them numerous times over the years to no avail, but I kept persevering, hoping […]
Jan-2020
The Surf Check. How to Survey the Beach One of the most important observations you can make when you start surfing is to understand how to read the ever changing conditions of the ocean. These include the ingredients you hear or see in the daily surf report forecast; winds, tides and swell. They also include […]
Jun-2018
When I first started surfing waves in the mid 80’s, it was on a bodyboard with swimfins. In the late 70’s and early 80’s, I was living at Rocky Point, on Oahu’s infamous North Shore, working and putting myself through college and I had never surfed waves before, having grown up in Oregon and being […]
Apr-2018
My husband calls what I do (as the Director of NW Women’s Surf Camps) in creating the space and opportunity for women to learn, connect and excel in surfing my “big medicine”. He sees in me after every event the deep satisfaction, joy and passion I have for what I create and do. I feel […]
Jan-2018
Over the last decade in talking with 100’s of women about their lives, I’ve found their common desire is “to achieve balance in their life”. Balance is an innate desire; every one of your trillion cell’s intelligence, our mind, body and spirit are all working together on creating homeostasis, complete balance, every moment of each […]