Yoga and Diving Fusion

You can also combine your yoga holiday with diving or a learning-how-to-dive. Marisa is also a PADI Dive Master and finds Yoga and diving a true complement. Breathing techniques through yoga will help you improve your air consumption and buoyancy thus improving your diving skills and through diving one tends to enter a meditative state of mind very naturally which is our goal in yoga.

What is the link between diving and yoga? Entering a meditative state of mind and being in the present moment. The fusion of yoga and diving can help you understand what meditation is and to apply it in your daily life.

Definition of Meditation: Meditation is a practice of concentrated focus upon a sound, object, visualization, the breath, movement, or attention itself in order to increase awareness of the present moment, reduce stress, promote relaxation, and enhance personal and spiritual growth.

How can diving complement or enhance your yoga practise? Through diving, one can experience a moving meditative state, a sense of peace and connectedness with nature as you float silently, weightless in the blue, only hearing the sound of your breathing, being in the present moment as you experience the sensation of being submerged in another environment. The sensation of hovering in midwater is immensely liberating, the nearest most people will get to experiencing near-zero gravity like an astronaut. This natural tendency of entering a meditative sate while diving helps us to understand meditation better which is one of the limbs of yoga practise.

How can yoga enhance your diving skills or learning how to dive? Yoga places emphasis on slow controlled breathing, on proper inhalation and exhalation, as breathing is considered the essential connection between body and mind. Practiced regularly, yoga promotes deep, slow breathing, and teaches you how to calm your mind. The breathing skills we learn in yoga will help us to breathe better underwater and thus improving our air-consumption. One also learns how to refine your buoyancy through breathing properly underwater and being relaxed. Yoga teaches us how to relax consciously. If you are relaxed underwater while diving and breathing slow and rhythmically and with good buoyancy then it becomes easier to enter a meditative state of mind.