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CANCELLATION POLICY: All freediving courses require a deposit of $150. Your deposit is fully refundable up to 1 week to your start date and 50% up to 48 hours to class start time. There is no refund of deposit for a cancellation or rescheduling of your course within 48 hours.
From the Golden Forest to the Blue Forest
Join Oriana Poindexter and Grace Peterson for an afternoon of celebrating the kelp forest of Catalina in the water and on land! You’ll begin your day in the water exploring the golden forest and end the day as a personal guest at the opening reception for Oriana’s solo art exhibition, The Blue Forest at the Catalina Museum for Art and History.
AIDA1 Intro to Freediving
This course includes a classroom session to learn freediving safety and technique, followed by an open water session. This course is tailored to your specific interests, curiosities and level of comfort in the water and is limited to 3 participants. Register here
Monterey Soulful Freediving Retreat
Dive deeper into yourself in a space cultivated for inner work and transformation through land and ocean workshops led by Grace of Saltwater Integrative Bodywork. This Soulful Freediving Retreat in Monterey, CA will be held on October 24-28th! We will spend 5 days and 4 nights at the peaceful oceanside town of Pacific Grove, just steps from Lovers Cove.
Intro to Freediving (AIDA2)
This is our introduction to freediving, level 1 certification course! Learn the physiology and physics of freediving, equalization and relaxation techniques, and of course, safety all within a supportive and attentive environment. Be amazed at what you can achieve in just a couple of days. You won’t regret this experience!
Catalina Island Retreat
Join us on this soulful freediving retreat and take a look inward as well. Activities include freediving in the kelp forest, somatic workshops, private photography session and guided hiking into the island’s wild interior.
Freedive for Maui: Depth-A-Thon
Participate in our Depth-A-Thon for the Maui fire relief efforts!
For the entire month of September, you can register as an athlete (for certified freedivers or those who are working toward their sign offs) or donate as a sponsor for an athlete for the Freedive for Maui: Depth-A-Thon to be held on September 30th. Pledges are per meter of depth achieved. 100% of the proceeds will benefit the Maui Strong Fund, via the Hawaii Community Foundation.
Soulful Freediving - Snork in the Park
You don't have to dive deep to find depth. Join our Soulful Freediving Community for a morning of snorkeling and connect with yourself, the ocean and each other. This event is FREE and ALL LEVELS are welcome!
Bring your gear - mask, snorkel, wetsuit and fins. Meet at the marine room beach access point at 8am on Saturday, July 29 for introductions before enjoying our day in the water.
Soulful Freediving Retreat
Come along with us to Kona, Hawaii for 5 days and 6 nights of freediving in the spirit of embodiment, connection and reciprocity.
AIDA 2 - Beginner Freediving
Get your feet wet! Sign up early to enroll in this introduction to freediving course. Learn the physiology and physics of freediving, equalization and relaxation techniques, and of course, safety! Be amazed at what you can achieve in just a couple of days. You won’t regret this experience!
AIDA2 - Beginner Freediving
Get your feet wet! Sign up early to enroll in this introduction to freediving course. Learn the physiology and physics of freediving, equalization and relaxation techniques, and of course, safety! Be amazed at what you can achieve in just a couple of days. You won’t regret this experience!
AIDA 1 - Discover Freediving
An intro to the intro class! Not sure about taking a certification course but still want to see what freediving is all about? This is the course for you!
AIDA 4 - Master Freediver/Assistant Instructor
Need the tools to take you deeper? This course will prepare you to continue your depth practice with techniques such as FRC diving, mouth-fill equalization and packing. You will also learn and demonstrate open ocean equipment management skills including knots, setting the line and safe handling of equipment. This course is designed to learn how to assist the freediving instructor, including a demonstration of guiding an appropriate stretching session. Successful candidates will be certified as a level 3 master freediver and as an assistant instructor
AIDA 3 - Advanced Freediving
Take your freediving to the next level! In this course we will focus on perfecting proper freediving technique and frenzel equalization. You will become a confident and competent safety buddy at depth, learn to build your own training tables for STA and DYN, and learn to continue your decent into depth with freefall!
AIDA 2 - Beginner Freediving
Get your feet wet! Sign up early to enroll in this introduction to freediving course. Learn the physiology and physics of freediving, equalization and relaxation techniques, and of course, safety! Be amazed at what you can achieve in just a couple of days. You won’t regret this experience!
AIDA2 - Beginner Freediving
Get your feet wet! Sign up early to enroll in this introduction to freediving course. Learn the physiology and physics of freediving, equalization and relaxation techniques, and of course, safety! Be amazed at what you can achieve in just a couple of days. You won’t regret this experience!
AIDA 2 - Beginner Freediving
Get your feet wet! Sign up early to enroll in this introduction to freediving course. Learn the physiology and physics of freediving, equalization and relaxation techniques, and of course, safety! Be amazed at what you can achieve in just a couple of days. You won’t regret this experience!
AIDA2 - Beginner Freediving
Get your feet wet! Sign up early to enroll in this introduction to freediving course. Learn the physiology and physics of freediving, equalization and relaxation techniques, and of course, safety! Be amazed at what you can achieve in just a couple of days. You won’t regret this experience!
AIDA2 - Beginner Freediving
Get your feet wet! Sign up early to enroll in this introduction to freediving course. Learn the physiology and physics of freediving, equalization and relaxation techniques, and of course, safety! Be amazed at what you can achieve in just a couple of days. You won’t regret this experience!
Advanced Freediving
Take your freediving to the next level! In this course we will focus on perfecting proper freediving technique and frenzel equalization. You will become a confident and competent safety buddy at depth, learn to build your own training tables for STA and DYN, and learn to continue your decent into depth with freefall!
Alchemy: the process of transformation
Alchemy is not just referring to chemistry, but our own transformational process.
AIDA2 - Beginner Freediving
Get your feet wet! Sign up early to enroll in this introduction to freediving course. Learn the physiology and physics of freediving, equalization and relaxation techniques, and of course, safety! Be amazed at what you can achieve in just a couple of days. You won’t regret this experience!
Inner Critic Workshop
In this workshop, we will explore the quality of our internal dialogue and practice exercises to identify and establish a relationship with our own inner critic.