RESTORE YOUR PRESENCE
” I can’t put into words how intense and amazing this experience was for me.
Marlon Quinn is an amazing teacher. Offering concise and encouraging feedback…
If you’re curious, just do it. “
– Steve, Client Review
Headquartered in Mornington Peninsula VIC
Wild Outdoors
A premium, analog experience. Expect rugged restoration and radical simplicity. Move out of constant striving and back into presence.
Calm amidst the storm. Interweaving breathwork, executive coaching and somatic mindfulness for leaders to help heal burnout, reconnect with yourself, and find flow in high-pressure moments.
I guide people to unlearn their mental limits and return to presence.
The modern world urges us into a state of constant striving, achievement and relentless growth.
To sustain ourselves, we must become aware of our responses, capacities and the state we’re in before we can learn to regulate effectively through times of intense pressure, and ease.
We do this by surrendering and becoming present. By restoring physiological safety and returning to ourselves, we become prepared to observe without judgement.
I help restore your presence by blending the calm of deep-sea freediving techniques with science-backed breathwork. Through real-time in-person coaching I help you regulate your nervous system, quiet the mind, and live anew from a place of grounded clarity.
MQ Freediving in Kilsby Sinkhole in SA Australia, March 2015. Photo By Melissa McKay
DIGITAL DISPATCHES
The Breathlog Journal
- Narrative dispatches
- Travel expeditions
- Philosophical case studies
A digital sanctuary for the modern mind. Receive insights and inspiration
From $15 / month
PRIVATE COACHING
1:1 Executive & Leader Coaching
- Deep 90-mins sessions
- Nature-based setting
- Radical presence focus
Dedicated nature-based coaching sessions designed to realign your well-being
From $315 / session
SEASONAL IMMERSIONS
Wild Immersions & Courses
- 1-day freediving course
- Euro cycling tours
- Instructor courses
Mastery in the wild. Shift from analytical thought to sensory presence
From $449 / person
THE
FOUR PILLARS
EXTENDED HEALTHSPAN
Cultivating cognitive endurance, sharp focus and vitality under pressure
ALPINE & ALTITUDE
Cardio efficiency and physical capacity at a pace of pleasure whilst exploring
THE DEEP CALM
Radical presence and inner calm born from the still spaces of the ocean
RECLAIM & RESTORE
Overcoming burnout and mastering sleep through stillness & active down-regulation
THE
BREATHLOG
DISPATCHES
THE JOURNALISM & PHILOSOPHY
Narrative dispatches, travel expeditions, and philosophical case studies from the field. For those who seek inspiration and high-level strategic insights.
SELECT YOUR
LEADERSHIP PATH
CORPORATE LEADERSHIP
Private Executive Coaching Bespoke
Personalised 1-on-1 nature-based coaching sessions for leaders seeking nervous system regulation, clarity and sustainable drive.
FIELD LEADERSHIP
Professional Certification Courses
Small group immersive qualification courses designed for instructors, guides, and educators to lead in the wild.
THE FLAGSHIP
BREATH ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM
The Annual Experiential Transformation
$1,500 / year
The Annual Experiential Transformation
A comprehensive, year-long program blending breathwork mastery, elite physical skills, and intimate boutique travel to build internal resilience and restore a profound connection to the natural world.
- Full 12-Month Access to the premium paid subscription and complete archive (Value: $150)
- 1x Private Flow Immersion Coaching Session in nature (Value: up to $450)
- 1x Group Freediving Course Place on a closed-door 1-day beginner freediving course (Value: $449)
- First Right of Refusal to join my ultra-exclusive hosted European cycling tour (capped at 10 guests, approx $8,000 per person)
ANNUAL COHORT ENTRY
The Architecture of Absolute Presence
It is easy to believe that in order to rest, we must be passive. But true restoration is an active process, one that is experiential. Restoration is forged through your calibration under conditions new, unfamiliar, and perhaps even extremely calm and beautifully serene.
This exclusive annual framework is designed for a strictly limited cohort of 16 leaders. It is a seamless, multi-phase immersion integrating personalised breathwork training, and small-group freediving development on the Mornington Peninsula, culminating in a hallmark hosted European cycling expedition.
I do not teach you to survive and dominate your stress. I invite you to connect with the underlying uniqueness of your own make-up that influences your decision-making, your stamina, clarity, and your longevity at the highest levels of life and business.
THE PROGRAM MATRIX
Phase I-II: Spring/Summer Calibration
The program delivers a natural evolution of personal development. Beginning with your personally tailored private breathwork coaching session, we refine your breathing mechanics, respiratory economy and begin the quiet internal work that prepares the body for expansive outdoor movement. Furthering your discovery of your mind and body responses to breathing, the small group freediving course introduces you to the techniques that help you become more present and self-regulate through elements of discomfort, without fighting. Additional 1:1 coaching sessions are available for booking to support your ongoing development.
Phase III: The Peak Odyssey Signature Graduation Expedition
The program culminates in a boutique 8-day graduation expedition. We move from our local known environments to the rich culture of historic European alpine routes and winding coastal roads. Riding at an intentional yet un-rushed pace, this boutique hosted tour combines premium regional hospitality, camaraderie over competition, and the ultimate practical application of your somatic breathwork training.
ADMISSION TO THE COHORT
This program is for the curious, and for the intentional. Admission is based on a private vetting process evaluating your baseline health, longevity goals, and appetite for the luxury of a life of adventure.
Cohort Capacity: 16
Status: Currently Accepting Vetting Inquiries
Timing: Apply all times of year and begin with your coaching session. Freediving courses are held for cohorts of 4+ members
The Boardroom is a test of strategy. The mountain and ocean are the scenes of character. If you can become yourself there, you can be you anywhere.
FEATURED
BREATHLOG
Beyond the Sufferfest: What Tour de France Cycling Can Teach us About Breathing Through the Intensity
As the Tour de France peloton rewrites the record books in the Pyrenees, a look inside the breathwork approaches that turn a brutal alpine ascent from an agonising struggle into a masterclass in executive resilience.
Finding Deep Down Bliss in the Second Deepest Pool in the World – Deepspot Poland
It’s impossible to hang onto moments, to clutch at the feelings, holding them tight within your chest, wanting to take them with you into the next hour, day, and the next day, and the next. Their transience is their ultimate beauty, like the brief shimmer of light emanating from the core of a princess cut diamond when it catches the glimmer from your lover’s wanting eye.
When things take our breath away, aren’t they some of the most profound life instalments?
Inhaling a deep breath and plunging down into the depths of freediving might just give you one of those moments too!
The Tool for Leaders, Executives and Professionals to Prosper During Turbulence and Intensity
As a Leader, Executive and type of modern Warrior, one of the most important things you can do in this unprecedented period of global disturbances and multi-layered pressures on business, families and your own daily presence and productivity, is to maintain composure when the going gets even tougher…
RECLAIM AND RESTORE YOUR LEADERSHIP
Edge
In these teachings, breathwork is different to the popularised wellness. I teach you to quiet the noise. To use the tools to regulate your nervous system, the very ones hidden in your chest. Build radical presence and adaptive resilience through breathwork, executive coaching, and somatic movement in the wild outdoors.
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Testimonials
the best
As an instructor myself I also recommend Marlon Quinn! Teaches far more than just by the book. Of all the instructors I’ve met he’s definitely the best.
Kaeo Landon Lane
PADI Freediving Instructor, Freedive Tasmania
world class
Marlon is one of the best instructors I’ve ever met. His knowledge and training methods are world class. I will be a returning student and highly recommend Marlon.
Adam
engaging energy
Thanks heaps for a great weekend Marlon, could really see your experience across freediving and guiding cycling in Europe feeding into and providing great instructions for the Auscycling Development Instructor accreditation!
Adam Kelsall
Commonwealth Games & Elite Cycling Coach
Hero Dirt Cycle Coaching
be your best
Marlon is a wonderful instructor. Informative and supportive. Marlon takes the time to understand you and encourage you to be your best while in a safe and fun environment.
Shauna
introspective and expansive
A deeply nurturing invitation to explore breath within our bodies, witnessing your breath & gently coming to complete softness, relaxation and surrender within the water, under Marlon’s kind, safe & trusting guidance. The incredible preparation and process of learning..I personally found to be touching those spaces of personal spirituality an unexpected bonus… Marlon continued to gently kept encouraging us and refining our own nuances as we descended beneath the surface. I adored every moment of this exhilarating…experience! Thank you.
Stephanie Pollock
intensely beautiful experience
I’ve surfed for 35 years, worked and played on the oceans my whole life and freediving has always intrigued me.
I can’t put into words how intense and amazing this experience was for me.
Marlon Quinn is an amazing teacher. Offering concise and encouraging feedback… If you’re curious just do it and I wish you a similar experience to me. Absolutely amazing.
Steve
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There's a lot to adore about Lodge Life.
This unique instalment of winter days where timelessness is impaled upon the rituals of the passage of hours spent lolling about as if life were so simple.
Except that it is simple.
All aspects of regular life get put away, coiled up under the tight lid of the biscuit tin and left high up on the shelf away from view.
Lodge life on the mountain has to be one of the most warming and nurturing ways to evolve your life, in slow motion.
Waking from slumber at some such time, preening back the curtains to discover fresh fluffy snow, or blue sky that wants you to elope awash with giddiness.
A slow coffee turned in your hands until the mug runs dry. A wistful gaze upon the fireplace that roared last night, until you meandered off into the softness of the midnight clouds and thin alpine air. The body soothed by the ambient warmth of lodgings that ask little of you, other than a light banter of your ski run re-runs exuberant and with sway.
You set out in the morning, the fields awaiting your new adventure, with only the next luncheon potential to permeate your day. You might slide around the traps all day, or you might just embark upon a curled up afternoon, with that book, hidden in the nook.
Later the energy and zip of lodge life runs thick, the dinners and diners moving in the same shuffles and cascades as the lift queue has entrained them.
The fire crackles and spits, and the glow burns slowly, another day of alpine life, quenching a spirit thirsty for another unscheduled day meandering willingly your inner urgings.
The simplicity of winter days, rhythmically inebriated, no ever will you feel more present and deeply happy snow ploughing so easily through life.
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