Blueback Freediving and Yoga

No other customized freedive and breathwork training exists like it.

Blueback is an academy of higher learning dedicated to teaching you how to harmonize the sea inside. With this deep calm you will not only freedive safer but you will be able to live your life purpose, free of inner obstacles, with clear vision and in harmony with nature.

We provide freedive and breathwork training and life-long learning in partnership with the ocean and local community.

It is our passion to offer you fun, safe and enlivening freediving and breathwork education and nature-based experiences that are the product of years of independently funded evidence-based apnea research and development. We show you both contemporary freedive and ancient breath techniques to harness the most energy-efficient self you can imagine.

We provide a calm, safe and supportive learning environment wherever we adventure together.

Our caring coaches and instructors are passionate about supporting your personal journey and caring for sea country.

Ocean smart.

Ocean safe.

Calm the sea inside.

WE OFFER:

FREEDIVE COURSES

Basic Freediver (PADI)

Freediver Level 1 (PADI)

Advanced Freediver Level 2 (PADI)

Master Freediver Level 3 (PADI)

Freedive Instructors Assistant

We also offer trauma-informed freedive and breathwork programs for private groups or one-on-one training.

FREEDIVE TRAINING

Our engaging team of ocean and breath experts run weekly training sessions, courses and seasonal retreats in the waters of Derbal Yerrigan (Swan River or Perth Waters) and Walyalup-Fremantle throughout the year.

We can cater courses to suit your group's needs.

Blueback Freedivers Squad is Perth's first and only pool training program run by freediving safety, performance and wellbeing experts. We train on Tuesday and Thursday nights both north and south of the Derbal Yerrigan (Swan River). Bookings are essential. Freedivers must be safety-trained with a minimum skills base before registering for the squad.

We use caring and personalized methods that utilize contemporary evidence-based apnea science. New training sessions are opening up as demand for our unique and humanistic approach increases.

We offer one-on-one freediving and breathwork training and coaching for individuals, families, corporate or youth groups.

FREEDIVE TRIPS

Blueback Freediving & Yoga  offers three kinds of ocean adventure trips to fulfill your freedive dreams - private boat  charter day trips, wilderness camps and retreats, and overseas training and adventure trips.

Our specially curated ocean adventures have been designed by freedivers for freedivers.

1. Private Boat Charter Day Trips

We offer two special freediver day trips throughout the year. Blueback Freedive Private Boat Charter Day Trips take you to Wadjemup-Rottnest Island or to explore the Lena shipwreck off the Bunbury coast.

Each freedive day trip is $235 for early birds (bookings paid a minimum 4 weeks in advance), or $250 for the full day including adventure freediving, lunch and a freedive line-training / depth session. $270 for non-certified freedivers or snorkelers. Gear may be hired for your day trip - just let us know your gear sizes.

The day runs from either 7am to 1/2pm or 8am to 2/3pm, weather dependent.

The freedive depth session included in these adventures are the chance to do training with a freediving professional on a freediving training buoy in any discipline you like at one of the dive sites. It also gives you the chance to do training with a trained safety buddy on a float, as we'll set one or two safety buoys up at the dive sites we visit for people who want this option to practice skills and techniques and are certified to do so safely.

Freedive line training can offer you the opportunity to slow things down meaningfully, for equalization and technique refinement, when you train freediving in this way.

Familiarity with depth is a game changer.

Giving yourself the time and opportunity to have some fun, safely exploring how you feel going deeper, either using the line, or just going one-up one-down with a buddy over reefs will start to add an exciting new dimension to your freediving.

Relaxation with depth is an inevitability once you give time to build your experiences!

All our open water diving is in buddies and with Best Practice Safety Guidelines in place. This diving is strictly for certified freedivers only. Never dive alone, learn the inherent risks of freediving and participate in a freediving course with a trained professional to become a safe and conscious freediver.

2. Freedive Wilderness Camps & Retreats - Western Australia

Our West Australian freedive camps, retreats and charters are uniquely designed for the intrepid explorer and underwater nature-lover who quests for deeper learning and seeks to enrich life through meaningful connections rather than material possessions.

We believe home is where the heart is.

We travel to diverse West Australian locations for freediving, visiting and guiding our freedive community around our favourite freedive sites around Wadjemup-Rottnest Island, Jurien Bay, Banjelungup-Bremer Bay, Gnaraloo-Ningaloo Marine Park, Capes Ngari Marine Park, Coogee, Walyalup-Fremantle, Fitzgerald River National Park. Lake Navarino and soon...Exmouth!

Please subscribe to our mailing list to get a once-a-season email updating you on our annual camps and retreats, regular pool squad training sessions, local community days and offshore adventure charters. These sell out fast!

See our WA and national trip programs:

JURIEN BAY CAMP HERE

CUTTLEFEST CAMP HERE​

3. Overseas Training and Adventure Trips

Our overseas freedive adventure trips aim to blend authentic cultural experiences with the best freedive adventure travel to the most beautiful, diverse and unique freedive places in the world.

Experience once-in-a-lifetime freediving adventure!

Our trips range from a blend of freedive depth training and adventure, to training and adventure-freedive travel trips.

Our group trips are usually a fantastic way to get to know local Perth or West Australian freedivers. As a uniquely community-orientated freedive school based on the west coast of Australia, we enjoy bringing people together who can develop meaningful friendships. We value being uniquely placed to foster community connections, helping our Blueback Freedivers to expand their freedive network to enrich their lives not only with the health-enhancing freedive lifestyle and the safety aspects of buddy diving but also the mental health benefits of belonging to a connected community.

See our Bali trip programs:

KOMODO HERE

LEARN TO FREEDIVE NUSA PENIDA HERE

FREEDIVE TRAINING ADVENTURE NUSA PENIDA HERE!

Next trip upcoming 22-28 September 2024.

Also see our Facebook and Instagram for the latest updates on our local and international freedive and yoga events

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