I chanted this mantra every morning before sunrise for two and a half hours a day for 40 days a few years ago and had some of the most profound insights and experiences that I've ever been blessed with through meditation. I can strongly recommend it as a practice - daily at dawn, for anything from just 7 minutes, up to the full two and a half hours.
Read MoreDid you just call me 'Mighty Mouse'???
Meet William Winram - the man who calls himself a 'shark publicist', the first man to dive CNF through the arch (yes, he beat Will T, but didn't video the dive), the man who lovingly told me that it's a miracle I can dive to 46m CNF because my technique was soooo bad (and I set a WR in it a month or so later), and named me Mighty Mouse.
Read MoreWhat is Yoga for Freediving?
If you know me, you know I love yoga and I love freediving. The moment I took my first breath and pulled myself down the rope exactly ten years ago, I realised I had found the place where my two great passions – yoga and meditation, and the ocean - met. From that point I just continued in my quest to explore the parallels between these two worlds – yoga above and below the surface of the waves – and in that exploration ended up with four World Records and an amazing training dive to 104m!
Read MoreThe Gift of Yoga
We are rapidly approaching the season of insane consumerism, greed and waste. The spirit of Christmas has been lost in a whirlwind of marketing and money-making. And the greatest tragedy is quite possibly the fact that of all the gifts we receive very few if any at all will hold any value for us just a few weeks later. We will be feeling the same emptiness, ordinariness, the shine and promise of the new having vanished as rapidly as it materialised.
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