Workshops / Retreats

🌊 Step Beyond the Surface with Ocean BX

Whether you're just starting your freediving journey or aiming to refine deep techniques, Ocean BX offers immersive experiences for all levels, designed to challenge your body, sharpen your focus, and deepen your connection to the water.

From beginner workshops that build comfort, breath control, and technique to advanced retreats that explore deep Frenzel, mouthfill equalization, technical buoyancy, and mental resilience. Each experience blends performance training with mindfulness, mobility, and ocean awareness.

Workshop
Breathe | Move | Dive

​📅 Duration:

• Full-day (6 à 8 hours)

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👥 Who it's for:

• Certified freedivers (any level) or Discovery level with OBX​

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🔱 Workshop Themes:

🧠 Mindset & Breathwork

• Breath-Hold Foundations & CO₂ Tolerance
  Learn to stay calm under pressure and extend your breath-hold safely.

• Overcoming Dive Anxiety
  Techniques for calming the nervous system and building mental resilience.

• Visualization & Pre-Dive Rituals
  Mental tools to improve performance, relaxation, and focus.

• Meditation for Freedivers
  Cultivating stillness for deeper, more efficient dives.

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🏊 Technique & Water Skills

• Streamlining & Hydrodynamics
  Minimize drag, refine posture, and boost efficiency underwater.

• Finning Styles & Efficiency
  Improve propulsion and reduce oxygen use with better technique.

• Equalization Mastery: Frenzel to Mouthfill
  Step-by-step drills based on your current depth and ability.

• Body Position & Buoyancy Tuning
  Technical workshop on weighting, descent angle, and trim.

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🆘 Safety & Partner Work

• Freediving Safety & Rescue Refresher
  Practice proper spotting, recovery breathing, and LMC/BO response.

• Buddy Systems & Communication
  Learn the importance of support roles and underwater signaling.

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🎯 Performance & Progression

• Creating Your Training Plan
  Build a weekly or seasonal progression plan.

• Apnea Tables & Dry Training Strategies
  Safe ways to train outside of the water to boost performance.

• Deep Dive Preparation
  Mental + physical tuning for big dive days.

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⚙️ Specialized Workshops​

🌀 1. Advanced Mouthfill Mechanics

• Dive deep into the most technical equalization technique for dives past 30m. Focus on pressure control, air management, and timed progressions.

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🧬 2. Freediving Physiology & Dive Response

• Explore how the body adapts to depth, breath-hold, and pressure. Learn about the mammalian dive reflex, blood shift, lung squeeze prevention, and how to train smarter.

• Includes breath-hold labs and theory sessions.

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🌍 3. Eco Freediver: Ocean Awareness & Sustainability

• Dive with purpose. Learn about marine ecosystems, underwater cleanups, and freediving as a tool for conservation.

• Combine freediving with reef monitoring or ghost net removal.

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📷 4. Underwater Modeling & Photography for Freedivers

• Train for graceful, camera ready movement. Learn how to pose, control buoyancy, and work with natural light ideal for content creators, filmmakers, and photographers.​​

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​🛟 5. Rescue Scenarios & Emergency Drills

• Go beyond basic safety and practice real-life rescue situations: deep blackouts, stuck lines, gear failure, and partner retrieval from depth.

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🧘 6. Movement & Mobility for Depth

• Freediver-specific flexibility, ribcage expansion, diaphragm release, and spinal mobility to improve comfort and streamlining at depth.​

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🐟 7. Apnea Science Lab (with data tracking)

• Use pulse oximeters, HR monitors, and dive logs to understand your unique apnea patterns, hypoxia thresholds, and CO₂ resistance.

• Track your stats over multiple sessions

• Equalization Troubleshooting Lab​

• Hands-on feedback for those struggling with EQ or plateaus.​