When we are in the water and we experience discomfort, the discomfort it not something to run away from. Rather, within the discomfort itself lies a message. Learning how to de-code and understand these messages is the key to successful freediving - and a successful life.
Read MoreEk Ong Kar - we are all One
I chanted this mantra every morning before sunrise for two and a half hours a day for 40 days a few years ago and had some of the most profound insights and experiences that I've ever been blessed with through meditation. I can strongly recommend it as a practice - daily at dawn, for anything from just 7 minutes, up to the full two and a half hours.
Read MoreWhat is Yoga and is it necessary for Freediving?
In order to answer this question, let’s start by looking at what yoga actually is. There has been a massive boom in the yoga ‘market’ over the past few years, the result being that the true essence of its meaning has become rather lost in all the noise.
Read MoreThe Gift of Yoga
We are rapidly approaching the season of insane consumerism, greed and waste. The spirit of Christmas has been lost in a whirlwind of marketing and money-making. And the greatest tragedy is quite possibly the fact that of all the gifts we receive very few if any at all will hold any value for us just a few weeks later. We will be feeling the same emptiness, ordinariness, the shine and promise of the new having vanished as rapidly as it materialised.
Read MoreThe teacher, the spiritual ego and a 1001-day practice...
For me, and I think for all serious teachers, the most important aspect of being a teacher, is actually accepting that we are all, first and foremost, a student. If what I teach today is the same in one year, it means that I have failed to learn anything from those 365 days worth of experiences, and am not growing as a human being.
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