Marlon QUINN – BREATHWORK COACH
HIGH PERFORMANCE BREATHWORK ARCHITECTURE
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Ice baths may look rad but can lead to stress and injury. Personal growth and resilience benefit from learning to understand how you adapt progressively towards your thresholds, finding comfort in the discomfort, without pushing. Coaching sessions for mindful cold water immersion in more manageable temperatures in beautiful settings along the Victorian and NSW coasts are just one option to build your capacity.
In the digital age, are we losing our sense of wild in Nature, happier to immerse in the curated online consumption version? What if we went back there? Is transformation possible? What do we do when we get there? And there’s wild beasts around? Freediving has become one method of returning to Nature, perhaps even a way of resurrecting our oneness. Freediving has for me been transformative, and shared lessons about connecting with Nature that I didn’t even know I needed. The unpredictable beauty of the ocean, even of life itself. When I happened upon a herd of wild Brumbies in the Snowy Mountains, freediving took me closer than I ever thought possible.
A group of Year 10 Scotch College students embarked on a program of resilience building through breathwork, immersing in the hot and cold waters of the Peninsula Hot Springs. During a three-day immersive experience focusing on outdoor activities, yoga, and breathwork the students learned to manage stress and enhance self-awareness via breathing techniques and thermal contrast therapy. This custom developed program fostered resilience and mental strength, demonstrating the benefits of mindful practices amid academic and sporting pressures.
The retreat from modern life, maybe it’s just the need for simple pleasures? The daily ritual of brewing espresso on the stove, enhanced by a morning beginning in the mountains. The richness of coffee roasted deeply in Italian heritage and craftsmanship. Connecting to nature and life’s essence in the Victorian High Country and Alps, finding stillness and joy through artisanal practices and adventures.
Quiet stillness we may crave, and far away out of reach it often appears. However the deep appreciation for the quiet beauty of nature, particularly during a solitary alpine experience, it doesn’t have to come from an epic journey. The opportunity and importance of disconnecting from digital distractions to embrace the present moment, enhance breathing, and find peace in nature, it’s within reach. But to go out there, and relax into mindfulness and engage with the outdoor world, there’s untold magic to discover.
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.
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!
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…
Seconds ago, you surprised yourself with the level of calm, poise and fascination that you held whilst immersed 10-metres deep on one single breath, staring contentedly out of your mask and straight into the curious eye of a 2.5m long Grey Nurse Shark suspended there like a torpedo, very much within your arms reach.
In Australia, we love the underdog. The struggler, the battler.
The one we least expect to overcome adversity. The least likely to come out on top. The one considered weaker of the opponents. Less powerful, less funded, and unfairly treated, less just. The one entrenched in some kind of adversity, struggling for success.
We love to see them rise to the top. And take out that poppy. The tallest one, with its neck stuck out.
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