We started
this.
Before active and social group travel was a thing, there was a SoulCycle instructor with a surfboard, a van full of strangers, and a hunch. SurfYogaBeer did not join a category. We built one.
Adventures,
not retreats.
We run active and social group trips for all ages and fitness levels: global adventures, local escapes, and private takeovers. Every trip is anchored in movement. Yoga flows, big workouts, surf lessons, long hikes, and the occasional salsa session that runs late into the night.
Around all of it: real community, healthy routines, and a sense of belonging you cannot book anywhere else. Because it is not the destination that matters. It is how you experience the world and who is beside you.
Southern California,
before it had a name.
Years before the name existed, founder Mantas Zvinas was hosting adrenaline-filled excursions with friends and family around Southern California. Surf runs, mountain missions, whatever the weekend allowed.
To Mantas and everyone around him it was never an itinerary. It was a way of life, a way to connect on a personal level, deepen old friendships and spark new ones.
One sweaty
class at a time.
Mantas moved to NYC to pursue fitness full time as a SoulCycle instructor and spotted the same adventurous spirit in everyone he met. The city just needed someone to pull the people together and hit the road.
He already knew the shortcut: the fastest friendships in New York are made in a group fitness class. Endorphins pumping, sweaty high fives flying. Pair that with a beautiful new destination and you have the perfect breeding ground for a tight-knit crew. After linking up with key NYC fitness leaders and an organic food partnership with Soho's Salud to fuel the trips, SurfYogaBeer officially launched in 2014.
Nothing here
is white labeled.
We scout every destination ourselves, keep real local relationships, and build our leaders from the ground up. Every SYB leader graduates our own Academy in Nicaragua, a 200-hour training plus a leadership immersion, then earns their spot on real trips before ever hosting yours. Nobody else does this. Our leaders are the difference maker.
Five continents,
one idea that would not quit.
Twelve years in, and the calendar is the deepest it has ever been. 500+ trips, 5,000+ travellers, 50+ weddings between people who met on one, and a perfect 5.0 across 300+ Google reviews.
Go back
in time.
Every place we have taken a crew since 2014. Some of these trips do not run anymore. Press play on any of them anyway.
A Hamptons weekend in August, Costa Rica by November. A van full of strangers comes home a crew and the hunch checks out immediately.
Coast to coast and across two borders, from Baja to Hawaii, and the word starts to spread.
The first time in Playa Maderas, and we never stopped going back. Europe gets its first SYB takeover the same summer.
The calendar doubles. Cuba, Honduras and Belize all land in the same year, and SYB stops being a surf trip.
First Morocco, first Iceland, and the crews keep getting bigger. The year the trips stopped needing a beach.
Portugal joins the map the same year. And the first Academy plants the seed for the leader pipeline that now runs every single trip.
Group travel stopped. We ran a single quiet New Year's Eve trip in Sayulita, told almost nobody, and kept the family together until the world reopened.
A smaller calendar, bigger hugs, and a first taste of Greece.
Kenya joins the map, Ibiza gets taken over for a second time, we run our first month-long remote work reset, and the crew throws its first Black Tie Gala.
Egypt and Turkey land, the Alps get their first SYB week, and Bali joins. The calendar goes properly global and starts selling out faster every season.
The biggest year yet. Two new destinations debut, repeat guests start racing the calendar, and in October we turn ten.
Five continents, truly year-round, with more returning family than ever.
Iceland North and the South of France join, and twelve years in the pirate ship still sails every August.
You cannot go back.
You can go next.
Twelve years of this, and the next chapter is the one with your name on it.
Years mark when a destination first joined the SurfYogaBeer calendar. Videos are from the trips themselves, filmed by our own photographers and guests.