Yoga Blog
Relax Motherf**kers
The term “Relax “gets banded around a lot especially in freediving circles, “just relax, take a deep breath” or “you just need to be more relaxed” now this is valid and all well and good unless you are like my type A personality New Yorker friend who internally...
What are the Mental Health Benefits of Yoga, Meditation and Mindfulness?
Creating a Perfect Space for Yoga, Meditation and Mindfulness Finding the right space to practice yoga can be difficult for some. But yoga is an easy way to relax and stretch your muscles, and likewise, the places you can practice it in are varied and adaptable. Here...
Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness Meditation And The Great Outdoors: A Winning Combination For Mental Health If you have already booked your freediving or yoga course in Bali, chances are, you are well aware of the immense benefits the Great Outdoors can bring. One well-known study by the...
Freediving champion Davide Carrera is in Amed, Bali
More cool stuff happening... Wise-man of free-diving, ocean yogi and multiple national and world record-holder Davide Carrera is in Amed. Breaking records for over 20 years, this gifted freediver has a wealth of knowledge which he is happy to share. All are welcome,...
Free Yoga classes in Amed Bali
Instead of forking out hundreds of dollars for a high end retreat, come and join us for free in Amed and spend your money with the locals. To show our appreciation for the volunteers who are working with the evacuees and intrepid travllers unfazed by scaremongering,...
Is Amed safe?
Again today the Volcano is silent, and no steam or ash is spewing. The sun is shining and the water is flat, but there are almost no tourists. Just some intrepid travelllers and volunteers helping out with camps. There are many opinions online regarding the safety of...
The effects of scaremongering
The effects of scaremongering is a mass exodus of tourists from the Amed area, (amongst other areas) and an overall drop in tourist numbers coming to Bali. Historically, Amed is a very poor area. In recent times it had begun to catch up economically with other areas...
Be Here Now: Cancer, Samadhi and Freediving
I’m old. I have cancer. I’m a yogi. And I just learned to freedive. I just threw in the old thing because last night I learned that I’m the oldest person to complete two levels of training at Apneista. But age is just a number, so we’ll let that one go. Two years ago,...
Frederic Lemaitre- Deep immersion into the cutting edge of freedive science.
It's been a very a long time since we've posted a blog, but this freediving workshop really deserves a blog. It's something special, a very unique mix of cutting edge apnea research, tailored coaching, freediving focused yoga and meditation, all in beautiful Amed,...
Visualisation and Mindfulness Meditation
Nowadays, visualisation and mindfulness meditation are not uncommon terms. Even kids have heard of meditation and they know to sit and close eyes with index finger and thumb pressed together. They are both important tools and highly effective if practiced with...
“Showing Up”- Yoga Teacher Training
The following blog is about practice and the importance of showing up. I have told this story so many times in yoga teacher training programs, workshops and certainly in a class. Every time someone is late for my class, it reminds me. I started yoga in an attempt to...
Self hypnosis – tools for freediving training
Our friend Helena ran a ´Self Hypnosis´ class recently. After the practice she answered questions about the suitability of the practice for different desired outcomes and environments. An obvious question from one of us was about whether the practice could be utilized...
Yoga teacher training workshop, Dristhi.
“Drishthi”is one of those terms you hear a lot if you go to any yoga classes. Even if you went to a meditation class, you’d often hear this term. It is roughly translated as focus point. In a yoga asana (posture) class, you may hear a phrase “Set your Drishthi” and it...
Yoga workshop in Deep tissue release, ‘roll and release’
Monday night 6pm 'Rolling release' workshop A very fun workshop with deep tissue yoga massage and myofascial release with the lovely Barbara from yogavibe. We'll use asana and props to effect some deep release and give guidance for ongoing self treatment. The focus...
Vipassanna meditation, for freedivers, for everyone…
'When the doors of perception are cleansed man shall see things as they truly are, infinite' William Blake Why learn Vipassanna ? In the past month 2 more of our freediving instructors have challenged themselves with the practice of Vipassana. There are different...