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 MoreYoga Nidra - the yogic sleep state that will take you deep
I have created a Yoga Nidra designed especially for freedivers. It guides you through a dive and the inner world of consciousness that we ideally want to cultivate during our dives. This is the key to maximising our energy and remaining fully in the moment. Only then can we pull off the perfect, easy, blissful dive.
Read MoreMeditation, medication, mediation???
Meditation doesn't mess with the chemical balance in our bodies by introducing drugs. It doesn't require third parties to get involved, often for a high fee. Meditation is the simple, easy practice of sitting and learning how to begin to master our own mind, for our own benefit. That's it.
Read MoreFreedivers: transform frustrations into freedom!
When we understand how our mind works, we can begin to understand where our fears come from, why we find it so hard to overcome some challenges, and how to get our mind working for us, instead of against us.
Read MoreWhat is Yoga for Freediving?
If you know me, you know I love yoga and I love freediving. The moment I took my first breath and pulled myself down the rope exactly ten years ago, I realised I had found the place where my two great passions – yoga and meditation, and the ocean - met. From that point I just continued in my quest to explore the parallels between these two worlds – yoga above and below the surface of the waves – and in that exploration ended up with four World Records and an amazing training dive to 104m!
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