FAQ's and Testimonials
YOGA DIVING- FAQ's
A. Yoga Diving is a synthesis of yoga, meditation and scuba diving. Our goal is to teach you techniques and benefits of Yoga and meditation through Yoga asana (postures), breathing (pranayama) and scuba diving. It does not necessarily include yoga postures underwater but sometimes we include this. The focus of our dives is through observation of nature how to enter the meditative mind.
A. The practice of Yoga is essentially to help you relax and enter an expanded state of consciousness. Diving can do the same thing when taught through a yoga framework.
The Yoga Diving course includes specific breathing exercises that help with stress management underwater, proper breathing for scuba, improving air consumption, and increasing flexibility and fitness for diving. Most of all Yoga and diving when "married" can help you understand what meditation is and how to incorporate meditation into your daily life.
A. Yoga Diving includes daily yoga asana practice which is tailor made for the individuals who are diving. Also, the diving experience is taken step by step in a wholistic, respectful and individualised way. That is, no two people learn the same way so the course is not overly standardised. Rather, it is student-driven in its focus and schedule. You learn diving at your own pace in a safe, no-stress environment.
A. You can obtain whatever certification you'd like during the week according to your previous training and experience. This includes the most basic of scuba certification like PADI Scuba Diver or Open Water or can include PADI Advanced, Nitrox or Technical Diving courses. Goals are set together with your instructor in keeping with what you want.
A. Yoga is a practice of self-discovery. There is no competition or comparing in either the Yoga or diving in this course. The classes are run with modifications for beginners and challenges for more advanced students. The atmosphere is light and fun, not overly serious. Yoga diving is for de-stressing, not adding to it!
A. In scuba diving you experience weightlessness and an automatic sense of being in the "now," the present moment. To stop the chatter of the mind and enter the "now" is the goal of Yoga. Diving can bring you to this kind of meditative state very quickly through body sensations in the water and the harmonious interaction with nature. Our course helps to make these experiences more explicit and then bring them to an integration of meditation to your daily life.
COURSE TESTIMONIALS - A few quotes from our guest book.....
Jeremy Coleman
London
Andy Tarrent
Belgium
Cara
London
Justin Ryan
Bristol
Yoga has been immensely satisfying, I felt at first it wasn't strenuous enough, as I was used to Ashtanga in the past but allowing myself just to breathe sometimes and let the gentle approach work on me has been amazing. The feeling that I'm in the right place at the right time is huge! Thankyou both so much!
Sophie Lees
London
Elaine Parsons
Oxford
Thank you so much for a retreat of complete transformation & renewal...and to be spolit with near enough one on one tuition in yoga & diving. Thank you for persuing me to FOCUS! What perfect timing for me as I sit at possible crossroads & what a brilliant way to start the new year...Namaste, Mary
Thank you so much for the excellent diving tuition & for teaching me despite the asthma. You have opened up a whole new world that I thought was impossible & for I’m deeply grateful....
A hundred thousand thank you’s. My whole outlook & style of diving has changed for the better. I literally cannot thank you all enough, for a yoga newbie I’m an ardent convert. Blue skies, J
It’s been a very special week in so many ways. You & Monica have ensured that each day was in its own way something I will carry with me....Simon
I just wanted to thank you again for the awesome holidays we had. The organization was flawless and everything
went smoothly. It was great knowing you guys. The yoga (although we missed some sessions) was a great way to help us focus on the breathing and the diving experience was fantastic thanks to the excellent approach to teach diving and unprecedented patience of Boris.......Hichem and Amel.
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