Riding the waves last weekend with Steven Lippman and Surfers Healing

Twice a year, Steven Lippman goes out with his fellow Surfers Healing volunteers and spends a day enabling kids with autism to experience the thrill of riding the waves. “The disease of autism has a way of imprisoning children inside their own minds. Surfing seems to unlock those doors in a very special way, granting them precious moments of freedom,” he explains. “Twice a year, we take kids surfing for the whole day. It’s the most humbling and emotional thing I’ve ever experienced.”

The latest Surfers Healing surf day was this past weekend. Here’s a photo that Steven sent me of him and one of the kids hanging ten…

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Steven Lippman lends a hand at a Surfers Healing surf day in Malibu this past weekend.

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To read more about the work of Surfers Healing and to see more photos, visit this page at Steven’s The Blue Project. And to see more of Surfers Healing in action, watch the video below…

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Surfers Healing 2010 from Steven Lippman on Vimeo.

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