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EVENTS
Location: NEWCASTLE
Dates:17 & 18 MAY 2025
Theory:
17 MAY, Saturday
Time: 3:00-5:00pm
Venue: Crossfit Prolific, Merewether
Pool session:
18 MAY, Sunday
Time 3:00-5:00pm
Venue: TBA
SURF APNEA
& OCEAN CONFIDENCE
Workshop & Training
A stress and breath control course
IN & OUT OF THE WATER
lessons from SURF APNEA: train at the edge of discomfort, build resilience in and out of the ocean
NEWCASTLE
17 & 18 MAY 2025
What's in it for you?
** 2 hours of Theory and Land Exercises
** 2 hours of Pool Training
** Online Platform: all attendees receive two week complimentary access to our Online Surf Apnea Course (Current value $99.00)
** Access to 4 week Pool Training once workshop is completed
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The Surf Apnea & Ocean Confidence workshop spans 2 sessions over 2 days (Saturday & Sunday afternoons) and is designed to teach various stress control tools to enable anyone to better manage their physical and emotional response when the stakes are high. High levels are stress can be experienced as a rapid heart beat, feeling breathless, reduced peripheral vision and the inability to think clearly. Being able to stay calm and in control is a superpower and anybody can learn how to do this.
The stress control techniques learnt in this course can be applied on land where stress in encountered during everyday life.
This workshop spans 2 days. The first day will cover theory on Saturday and have a 2 hour practical in the pool on Sunday.
Numbers are limited.
What you will learn:
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Functional breathing
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How to enter deep relaxation states: calmness and awareness
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How to manage stress, anxiety, anticipation and panic
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How to maintain healthy lungs and get the best from each breath
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How to use the breath to control mind and body
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How to be smart with the use of resources (energy, O2 & CO2)
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How to improve your breath holding capacity
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How to manage your reactions & behaviour when dealing with challenging scenarios the water
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and most importantly: how to have fun out there!
ICE AT BAR BEACH
Every 3rd Sunday of the Month
Next Dates:
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21 SEPTEMBER 2025
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Time: 7:00-10:00am
Venue: Bar Beach, Newcastle
With over 15 years experience in performance and functional breathing, you are in safe hands with Estelle. She has numerous qualifications in both functional and performance breath modalities. Since 2020 she has lead many workshop in Newcastle and the Hunter Region. Estelle is passionate about teaching people to be able to help themselves.
Estelle has a background in biomedical science and brings this knowledge to her workshops to help everyday people breathe and live better.
Cost $10pp.
Are you curious about cold exposure?

But find some events too intimidating or strange?

Then this is for you!

A no-fuss and no-crowd personal ice bath experience.
I will guide you and hold your hand if needed.
Few things are as acutely stress inducing as an ice bath. Adrenaline levels spikes, accelerating you into a Fight-Flight-Freeze state. Controlled breathing in ice water teaches you how to be calm under stress. Cold exposure has many physiological and psychological benefits including pain relief, better sleep and better resilience to stress


No need to book.
Just come when it suits you.
 Put your name on the time sheet to secure your spot.
Cash or card


NEXT DATE
TBA
08:30-10:00am
Crossfit Prolific
Merewether
Breath & Ice
A mini-workshop
Next date: TBA
Breath connects the nervous system to the body. It influences your response to stress, it modulates your recovery, it can attenuate anxiety, it influence your sleep and determines your exercise performance. Breathing has three interconnected dimensions: mechanics, biochemistry and psychology.
This mini-workshop introduces these concepts to help you help yourself. The mechanics of breathing covers the role of the nose, mouth, diaphragm and rib cage. Everyday breathing can be impacted by posture, exercise habits, how we walk and musculoskeletal pain. The role of oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitric oxide and the acid-base homeostasis is introduced in the biochemistry section. How you breathe influence your mental state and how you feel will impact your breathing. This bidirectional relationship between breathing and our mental state is a driver in many mental health conditions including anxiety, panic and insomnia.
Breathing efficiency determines sports performance. Take your fitness to a new level by learning how to train your breathing mechanics and influence the biochemistry. This workshop will be interactive and you will leave with the knowledge of when and how to change your breathing to suit the conditions.
Few things are as acutely stress inducing as an ice bath. Adrenaline levels spike, accelerating you into a Fight-Flight-Freeze state. Controlled breathing in ice water teaches you how to be calm under stress. Cold exposure has many physiological and psychological benefits including pain relief, better sleep and better resilience to stress.
With over 15 years experience in performance and functional breathing, you are in safe hands with Estelle. She has numerous qualifications in both functional and performance breath modalities. Since 2020 she has lead many workshop in Newcastle and the Hunter Region. Estelle is passionate about teaching people to be able to help themselves.
Estelle has a background in biomedical science and brings this knowledge to her workshops to help everyday people breathe and live better.
Numbers are limited - book online
Price: $55
Date: 24 December
Time: 8:00-9:00am
Venue: Crossfit Prolific, Merewether
Christmas Eve
Breathwork
Cost $10.
Christmas time can feel a little crazy.
Too many things to do, to many people in the shops, too many cars on the road and a lot of personal interactions with loved ones.
This can make you feeling a little frazzled.
Make some time to slow down.
Reset your nervous system.
Join me for this hour of downtime.
This breath session is designed to help your nervous system recover. You will be toning down the fight-flight response. You will create mental space to handle the business of the upcoming days.
Come for the experience!
Date & Venue TBC
Breathe on Sunday
Once a months.
Cost $20.
No booking required.
Learn breath mechanics and explore a range of breath patterns: slow, fast, breath holds and more.
Come for the experience!
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