A FREEDIVING & YOGA RETREAT WITH TRUE DEPTH
The Living Freediving Retreat is the ultimate immersion into freediving as a lifestyle and vehicle for personal transformation.
The content of this 8-day freediving and yoga retreat is the culmination of everything I have learned, practiced and taught over the past seventeen years.
Join me for an intensive course of training in freediving, both in and out of the water, and complementary practices such as traditional yoga, deep relaxation and meditation.
You will not only DO these complementary practices, but you will LEARN them properly, in such a way that you can take them home with you and incorporate them into your own freediving lifestyle.
The Living Freediving Retreat is an invitation to both immerse yourself fully in the incredibly beautiful underwater environment of Dahab and the Red Sea, and also immerse yourself deeply in your own inner environment and discover what magic lies between breaths…
2026 DATES & LOCATIONS
DAHAB:
MAY 30th – JUNE 7th
SEPTEMBER 26th – October 4th
WHAT’S INCLUDED?
Eight nights accommodation at the beautiful Dahab Paradise Hotel.
Daily breakfast, six lunches at the Blue Hole, plus dinners on four nights.
Unlimited photos and videos from the retreat.
Six coached freediving depth sessions in the world famous Blue Hole.
A complete course in developing a personal yoga practice. Includes workshops in kriya, asana, pranayama, and meditation, and daily practice.
All transport, including airport transfers to and from Dahab, and transport to and from the dive sites.
A desert dinner.
In the deep silence of the Wadi, under the stars.
Various workshops and presentations on freediving lifestyle practices, dry training, strength and conditioning, relaxation and recovery.
A fundiving session in one of Dahab’s most beautiful, coral-rich locations.
“I had the best time at Donny’s Living Freediving Retreat. From yoga, meditation, nutrition, pranayama and, of course freediving.
I learned so much. The hotel is beautiful, the yoga shala faces the mountains and the ocean and everyone working there is super friendly and nice. Thank you for the amazing experience.”
CHIARA
“A truly transformative experience.
I had an amazing time at Donny’s Living Freediving Retreat on the Red Sea!
The programme offered exactly what I was hoping for — and so much more.
From day one, the group connected instantly, and I’m sure we’ll stay in touch for a long time.
Donny is a true font of knowledge and experience in both yoga and freediving,
and he’s managed to blend the two beautifully into a balanced, inspiring programme.
PAUL
“I don’t know if there’s even a way on a Google review that I can describe how wonderful, recentering, and meaningful my retreat with True Depth Freediving was. Donny’s knowledge, teachings, and real world experience with meditation, yoga, breath work, and freediving can be so helpful to any person from any walk of life. But the blessing of being able to combine all of these modalities into one practice truly is a gift. If you’re even thinking about it or have an inkling that you want to reach out, just do.
Great teacher, great mentor, and even better human “
ELIZABETH
ABOUT THE FREEDIVING…
The freediving sessions are open to anyone with a basic freediving certification. There is no focus whatsoever on pushing to get deeper. The only thing that matters is that the feeling-quality of your dives improve.
Through our yoga, meditation and increasing centredness in the bodily sensations, we learn to better appreciate the joyful sensations and emotions that can arise in depth training, and ultimately this will take us deeper, when the time is right.
The retreat includes six coached freediving depth sessions, all taking place in the world famous natural wonder that is the Blue Hole; a 100m deep submarine sink hole stunningly located a few kilometres north of Dahab town. This is the Mecca of the world’s freediving community!
ABOUT THE YOGA …
Traditional yoga is a system of study and practices with the ultimate aims of freeing the practitioner from all forms of suffering and revealing one’s true nature.
In order to achieve this goal we have many tools at our disposal to make our body clean, strong and flexible, to master our breathing, to regulate our nervous system and still the mind, and to connect with our spiritual heart.
This retreat includes a complete course in developing a personal yoga practice, including kriya (purification exercises), asana (physical culture), pranayama (yogic breath work), meditation and various other practices. We also have talks on yogic history and theory.
Donny has been meditating for 23 years and practicing and studying yoga for seventeen. His areas of expertise are Classical Yoga, traditional Hatha Yoga and Non-dual Shaiva Tantra.
BEAUTIFUL ACCOMMODATION
We are incredibly lucky to be able to host our retreat guests at the beautiful Dahab Paradise Hotel. The hotel is just outside Dahab town, backed by stunning ochre mountains and facing the mesmerising Red Sea. The hotel has a beautiful yoga shala and workshop spaces where we will be spending most of our time out of the water. Not to mention the excellent restaurant!
FREEDIVING TRAINING WORKSHOPS
The retreat includes several workshops that will take your freediving training to the next level, with many dry training methods that will keep you in great diving condition while away from the water. We will learn intermittent hypoxic training, dry dynamic apnea methods, advanced stretching and equalisation, deep stretching and recovery, a breathing mobility routine and deep relaxation techniques.
FOOD & TRANSPORT
Your retreat fees include airport transfers to and from Dahab with a private taxi and all the required transport during the retreat. And of course, we will be sustained though this journey by the excellent cuisine at the hotel restaurant, the famous Aqua Marina restaurant at The Blue Hole and our other local hosts.
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST…
The Living Freediving Retreat is an intensive week of theory and practice. It is not just a lazy freediving holiday, but a unique opportunity to wake up every day and apply yourself with courage and discipline to developing your own lifestyle practices that can radically transform your health and wellbeing.
If you are looking for a relaxed ‘yoga holiday’ with some light stretching and some freedive sessions mixed in you might be disappointed!
We will work together as a team to support each other through the challenges of the week, and be there for each other to celebrate our successes!
PRICING OPTIONS
SINGLE ROOM
€1650
DOUBLE ROOM
(sharing max. two people)
€1490
A basic freediving Level One Certification is required to join the retreat.
A €500 non-refundable deposit is required to secure your place on the retreat.
10% EARLY BIRD discount applies when booking 4 months in advance.
10% discount applies to Freedive Café Patreon supporters of more than 3 months.