Swimming with Sharks and Loosening the Grip of Our Fears

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.

Underdog to Top Dog, the Quest to Expand Our Capacity for Challenges using Breathwork

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.

Breathe the Forest – Gravity Eden: Deep Slow Breathing for an Optimal You

Cranking my way up After Burner towards Power Up track, my mental moaning rises to just behind my forehead, trying to get in the way of my frontal lobe duties that are keeping watch of the trail, interpreting the bumps, variations, shadows and light. The frontal lobe is as much under load as my quadriceps are as I seek to retain a regular rhythm of strong low-cadence pedalling in a tough gear up the steep inclines.

Finding the Source That’s Never Enough

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.

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Seachanging – Shiny Black Shoes to Freediving Fins

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...

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Freediving: Talking with Marlon Quinn

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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Comfort Buried Deep Under the Fear of Breathlessness

Comfort Buried Deep Under the Fear of Breathlessness

The Fear of Breathlessness.
Rising tension in the chest, the mind tightening, the clam up of the body, the building resistance to all that is physically present in front of our eyes and the mental swirls that seem to magnify the stress of the moment.

To face our fears. Looking inward to Self. Finding peace and comfort freediving on a single breath.

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Swim Wild with Leatherjackets: Winter Immersion in Port Phillip Bay

Swim Wild with Leatherjackets: Winter Immersion in Port Phillip Bay

Winter Sunset Wild Swim Amongst Leatherjackets on the Mornington Peninsula

In the moments it takes to view a short video clip, magic can happen in Nature beyond our comprehension.

Imagine a time drenched in the late afternoon light of the low-setting sun, immersed in the cool calm seas, bare skin alive with vigour, body suspended effortlessly moving within this free abyss.

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The Joy of Nothingness: A Murky Coast Swim

The Joy of Nothingness: A Murky Coast Swim

Not every day is clear, calm and safe to swim in the water where the waters of Bass Strait meet the coastline of the Mornington Peninsula. Sometimes it’s about the joy of the nothingness. The no way. The no doing. Non-being.

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Coming up for air

Coming up for air

After immersing in the depths, this is a reminder that we all need to come up for air and breathe up before diving in deep again.

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Coming up for air

Each goal starts with a pedal stroke

Every mountain climb starts and ends with the same thing, a revolution of the cranks, a pedal stroke. What’s the significance in that? It is but such a small effort, but it’s not just a lever propelled by a shapely leg to get you over the top, often it’s a lever...

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Coming up for air

Cycling’s Big Question: What for?

Just riding along, (or JRA) and that big question lobs up once again “What am I doing this for?”. Most profoundly it appears during the middle of a long hard race or as a car door almost takes you out. Some way up a mountain when the view is already teasing you with...

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