Transformational freediving experiences in partnership with Mother Ocean to calm the sea inside. 🌊
Professional weekly pool and ocean training, industry-leading breath & meditation programs, freedive & yoga retreats. Blueback Freediving & Yoga is a freediving business dedicated to providing professional freediving and yoga training, wellness and educational services in Perth, Western Australia and on retreats around the world.
15/12/2025
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New 5.0-star Review
"I can't stop raving about this course!! I did the 2 day basic but will continue to level 1 soon. A year ago I was too unsure of the ocean to snorkel without getting into a panic but under Tania's guidance I was diving to 4m deep and holding my breath for 2 minutes on the 2nd day. I feel so excited to get into the ocean this summer! The course is about SO much more than depth freediving and I recommend it to any ocean lover, or ocean fearer 🙂"
15/12/2025
Hi Freedivers!
💧🐟🌊Our local freediving friends of Blueback Freediving & Yoga, Alicja and Miecha have created the “AM Journal for Freedivers” to help mindful & contemplative freedivers reflect, focus and record their transformational freediving experiences.
It’s available on Amazon to order, and is a great way to support WA-made, local freedivers in our community that develop innovative ideas and initiatives that support our common goals.
Pick it up in the Blueback Studio this summer ($25), or buy your own online ($20+postage).
Link here:
Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet or computer—no Kindle device required.
15/12/2025
📸 .freediving.yoga Blueback Learn to Freedive Courses | Blueback
This weekend, 13-14 December, we had the privilege of guiding a group of new freedivers, Claire, Don & Zavier, through our Learn to Freedive course — and watching confidence, calm and ocean-connection grow with every session.
Across the course, students learned from our senior Blueback instructor :
🌊 Safe freediving fundamentals — duck dives, finning, equalisation and relaxed descents
🫁 Evidence-based breathing techniques to reduce anxiety and improve breath control
🧠 The physiology of breath-hold diving — what’s happening in the body and why it matters
⚓️ Ocean awareness & marine safety — currents, conditions, risk assessment and buddy systems
🤝 Rescue skills and surface protocols that prioritise safety and care for each other
What makes Blueback different is that we don’t just teach depth or technique.
We are freediving, marine safety and breathing specialists — and everything we do is grounded in science, psychology and respect for the ocean.
Our goal isn’t to push limits.
It’s to build calm, capable, safety-conscious freedivers who understand their bodies, their breath and the environments they enter.
Huge respect to this crew for showing up with curiosity, courage and care for one another. 💙
A massive thanks to sponsors .of.the.sea for our epic Birak-Summer season SALT freediving wetsuits - they are so flexible and comfortable for our students!
📸 Learn to Freedive Course Weekend Intensive 13-14 December 2025 | Blueback Freediving & Yoga
This weekend we had the privilege of guiding a group of new freedivers, Claire, Dom & Zavier, through our Learn to Freedive course — watching confidence, calm and ocean-connection grow with every session.
Across the course, students learned:
🌊 Safe freediving fundamentals — duck dives, finning, equalisation and relaxed descents
🫁 Evidence-based breathing techniques to reduce anxiety and improve breath control
🧠 The physiology of breath-hold diving — what’s happening in the body and why it matters
⚓️ Ocean awareness & marine safety — currents, conditions, risk assessment and buddy systems
🤝 Rescue skills and surface protocols that prioritise safety and care for each other
What makes Blueback different is that we don’t just teach depth or technique.
We are freediving, marine safety and breathing specialists — and everything we do is grounded in science, psychology and respect for the ocean.
Our goal isn’t to push limits.
It’s to build calm, capable, safety-conscious freedivers who understand their bodies, their breath and the environments they enter.
Huge respect to this crew for showing up with curiosity, courage and care for one another. 💙
Thanks to Senior Blueback Coach Tania Douthwaite for her guidance.
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15/12/2025
📸 Learn to Freedive Course 3/5/7 December 2025 | Blueback Freediving & Yoga
These photos capture more than skills — they capture people learning to trust their breath, their bodies and each other in the ocean.
During our December Learn to Freedive courses, students learned:
🫁 How to breathe in ways that support calm, focus and safe breath-holding
🌊 Foundational freediving skills built slowly and intentionally
⚓️ Marine safety, risk awareness and how to read ocean conditions
🤝 Buddy systems, communication and rescue skills that keep freediving a shared practice
🧠 What’s happening in the nervous system — and how to work with it, not against it
At Blueback, we bring together freediving, marine safety and breath training — because real confidence in the ocean comes from understanding, not bravado.
We create learning environments that are:
✔️ Safety-first
✔️ Trauma-aware and psychologically informed
✔️ Grounded in science and lived ocean experience
Watching students arrive nervous and leave calm, connected and capable is why we do this work.
Thank you to everyone who trusted us with your first freediving steps. 💙 Thanks to our Blueback coaches, Tan Tania Douthwaite and Dan Barry Brumble for watching and guiding our new aquanauts!
The ocean welcomes those who move slowly and listen.
🌞🌊👍🏽Join us for our next Birak-Summer freediving course, charter, retreat or free community day!
Thanks to Giacomo, Andrea and Alex for their efforts and congratulations on completing your Blueback Freediving & Yoga PADI Level 1 Freediver training course.
It was a great week of learning, breath control, relaxation and plenty of time in the water with coach Dan Barry Brumble.
Looking forward to seeing you all in the water this summer as safer, more confident water people!!
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14/12/2025
Today at the Blueback Freediving & Yoga, join Bek for a community yoga session.
Every Monday 5-6pm
Breathe well, stretch and connect with your body, while developing your interoceptive abilities - so powerful for reducing tension, conserving oxygen and moving with grace - underwater & on land.
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1 hr, $10 cash.
Mats provided.
11/12/2025
Yoga at the Blueback Freediving & Yoga studio tonight 6-7pm with Kath.
Beginner friendly.
Mats provided.
$10 cash.
10/12/2025
I’m excited about tonight’s Blueback Freediving & Yoga Community night 6pm at the Blueback Studio! Tonight we celebrate 10 years as a place-based proudly West Australian-made community, that share a common set of values, ocean-connection and responsibility for part of this beautiful blue backyard on planet earth.
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Come are you are - everyone is welcome - as always.
Address for our private ocean studio is:
1a / 3 Pritchard Street
O’Connor
Please park at Adreno (free parking) and walk across to our studio. Its upstairs. Go down the driveway beside the big green building (3 Pritchard Street), and youll see our sign at the base of the stairs.
Its sponsored by Tania Douthwaite, our Blueback founder, and supported by all our team who volunteer to help out - so yoga, breathwork, safe community connection, wellbeing activities, shark workshop and freediving education INCLUDING plant-based wholefood dinner is for free. The exchange is your open-minded presence and capacity for shared kindness.
Thank you everyone for all that you bring and share, receive and support. I love you all - as deep as my love for the sea - and I hope that love is felt.
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Blueback Freediving & Yoga is a freediving business dedicated to providing professional freediving and yoga training and educational services in Perth, Western Australia and on retreats around the world.
Blueback Freediving & Yoga offers certified PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) and AIDA courses in Basic Freediver (PART A) or Freediver (PART A & B) options. We also offer non-certified courses for individuals, groups and for corporate events. Blueback specializes in breathwork training (pranayama / conscious breathing) for holistic health and for beneficial preparatory relaxation training for breath-holding activities.
We offer personal coaching and private freediving courses anywhere in the world.
Please call to find out more about our beneficial safety training and highly competitive rates, and how we can help you learn more about your self, the underwater world and the relaxation and self-awareness gained by developing an understanding of yoga, in all its forms.
We LOVE the ocean and LOVE to help individuals experience positive transformations through the process of learning how to freedive safely, anywhere in the world!
