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Re-Wilding: Journeying into Nature’s Unpredictable Oceanic Ways and Holding Your Breath
The best thing about Nature is, you just never know. It is the one thing in life that will continue to keep you guessing, keep you on your toes, and remind you that it’s the unpredictable factor that makes it so wonderful.
Throw expectations out the window, beef up the spectrum on your randomiser, forget about stable plans and their false sense of security, and stride forth with the absolute confidence that anything but your plans can happen.
Wilderness of Scene. And Mind. The Cathartic Displeasure of Effort
Why is it that effort amplifies the taste?
The sweetness of concurring that burly long climb up into the mythical mountain tops, all the while our legs tramping and persisting with the heavy load. Or immersing into the pleasure of swimming underneath the blue mystical sea, playing with the deep-DNA urge of the body compelling us to rise to the surface and breathe.
They’re not tortures of the spirit, they’re choices to embark unto a passage into the mind and body that perhaps we wouldn’t otherwise desire…
Swan’s Feather – Underwater Dance by Jacinta Christos
On a cool and cloudy summer’s day, we ventured to Portsea beach located in the Mediterranean-esque Mornington Peninsula, about 1.5hrs drive from Melbourne.
Swan’s Feather – Underwater Dance by Jacinta Christos
Calm sea conditions greeted us, with the cool 18-19c waters proving brisk to a minimum of underwater adventure clothing and mostly bare skin in contact with the salty Port Phillip Bay waters. View the video and read more…
Mermaids Marianna and Lola Peninsula Rockpool Photoshoot
Hair swaying like fronds of kelp and mermaid tails that fin like the fish that curiously watch them. This is the beauty of a mermaid photoshoot in the sun drenched coastal rockpools of the Mornington Peninsula on the south-eastern coast of Australia.
On this sunny Spring day Marianna Mermaid and Mermaid Lola immersed into the beauty that only the coast facing the Southern Ocean provides. A powerful backdrop with raw millions-years old cliffs and rock platforms that have formed with the relentless urging of the waves that surge all the way from Antarctica. It’s here that mermaids and sirens of the sea return to the ocean and reclaim their mystical powers.
Finding the Source That’s Never Enough
Limitations: Finding the Source That’s Never Enough
Are we ever enough, or do the thoughts of never being enough intrude upon the enjoyment of the opportunity to live our own way, fluid and free?
In my work as a cycling guide and breathwork coach, it’s often the undercurrent in people’s and athlete’s minds that is the source of the discontent. And nothing at all to do with ability, skills, riding or the performance being undertaken which is abundantly present.
How Do You Get Warm Quickly After A Cold Water Immersion?
How Do You Get Warm Quickly After A Cold Water Immersion?
As a professional freediving instructor and breathwork coach, I find there’s plenty to be excited and interested about when it comes to cold water immersion in the sea, plunge pools, bathing in icy river streams and the rejuvenating feelings that are so effervescent after a cold water wild swim. But something that doesn’t get much talked about is, well, what do you do once you’re out of the cold water? How do you recover after a cold water immersion? And how do you warm up quickly after a cold plunge? Here’s the answer to how I get warm.
Winter Whale Watching near Melbourne
Peninsula Whale Sightings - Harnessing the Fluke of the Fluke Whether you're a first timer, or a seasoned chaser, that moment you see the whale's fluke rise up high and the white water spray that spews into the air as it crashes down, you'll tell yourself, that ain't...
Whale Tales: Hells Orcas – Evan Flips
Whale Tales – a fictional story from the Hells Orcas, a small pod of Killer Whales dwelling in the waters of the Southern Ocean near Victoria and Tasmania. This is one tale of Evan Orca.
Seachanging – Shiny Black Shoes to Freediving Fins
Long gone are the days my buffed shiny black leather shoes clopped and strutted up the Paris end of Collins Street, cashmere Italian label designer suit contouring over my broad held shoulders giving strength and fortitude in my step, a loft in my chest and an...
Freediving: Talking with Marlon Quinn
The voice of Southern FM's drive time radio, Craig Francis, invited Marlon Quinn to talk all things Melbourne freediving on his "Friday on My Mind" show recently. Listen in to this podcast interview and enjoy the beautiful video imagery in the background of local...
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Since 2014, Marlon Quinn – Fluid Movement Outdoors, has been a trusted leader for those seeking a better life with breathwork.
The Breathlog blog is for discerning individuals who value authenticity over trend, and purpose over speed. My philosophy represents the modern pursuit of Friluftsliv—a life lived intentionally at the intersection of mountain, sea, and craft. By combining physical mastery with functional European heritage design, I curate material and experiences that prove sophistication is not about luxury, but about deep connection, quiet competence, and living in rhythm with the natural world, breath by breath in fluid movement outdoors.
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