What is Yogic Diving

Yoga Diving is a Synthesis of Yoga and Diving.

The Diving

Using yoga techniques of asana, stretching, pranayama, and meditation we will enter the aquatic world of diving.

Breathing underwater, experiencing the weightless state of buoyancy and discovering other body-mind awareness and sensations can enhance ones’ meditation practice and inner quietude.

Approaching the study of scuba diving from a holistic, yogic framework, diving becomes part of ones’ personal journey inward an intimate connection with nature.

You will be learning diving as a meditation rather than a sport, using yoga breathing and meditation techniques to focus and still your mind, therefore enhancing your experience whilst under the water, then in turn bringing this experience back to your yoga practice.

This approach brings us to very close encounters with nature and also helps us to feel stillness and relaxation. Combining the two approaches allows you to experience another state of consciousness through the weightlessness one achieves in diving.

Non divers will learn diving in an open, respectful and natural way and receive PADI certification.

Certified divers will markedly better their buoyancy skills and ability to observe sea life, as well as increase lung capacity and air consumption. For all, yoga diving removes stress and encourages a freedom from thought.

Diving helps you to experience breath and movement under water as a form of meditation. Taught together diving and yoga can open you up to different worlds, both inner and outer.

For people with yoga experience you can develop your practice, particularly your breathing and meditation techniques. focus and still your mind

The course is run by two highly experienced teachers in their respective fields.

Barbara Gordon

“Having taught yoga to divers now for 6years, I quickly realized the connection between the two. Divers in general, take to yoga immediately due to their familiarity with breathing slowly and deeply and knowing how to relax.”

Barbara Gordon is a yoga teacher of over 30 years. Trained directly under the auspices of Swami Vishnudevananda who was a disciple of Swami Sivananda. Founder of the Sivananda Centre (London) in 1972 and the Sunra Centre in 1990 she has been running her own Yoga Teacher’s Training Course for 11 years. She is also a councillor and masseuse.

Although trained in the Sivananda style, Barbara’s classes are very dynamic as well as extremely informative having had such a solid foundation and training with a Master of Hatha yoga.

Monica Farrell

"Diving has always been a meditation for me. When in a relaxed frame of mind diving can bring you to another place inside yourself. Even though I have spent more than 3000 hours underwater I still find in each dive something new-- meaning diving helps me to be in the present. My yoga practice and diving hence always naturally intertwined and with yoga diving I make these connections explicit so the one can enhance the experience of the other."

Monica's Diving Qualifications :

Padi Open Water Scuba Instructor / Padi Nitrox Instructor / Padi Medic First Aid Instructor

4 years experience for all of the above

3000 dives in Egypt and Southeast Asia / Trimix diver / Technical Diving International (TDI) Nitrox Instructor / TDI Advanced Nitrox Instructor / TDI Decompression Procedures Instructor / Hyperbaric Chamber Tender (Sharm El Sheikh Hyperbaric Medical Facility)

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Last updated 22/05/04