Blue Chitta is a yoga and freediving center on Koh Tao, Thailand, open since 2022 and travelling the world as a retreat practice since 2014. We believe in the power of community and a healthy lifestyle, using movement, breath and sound to create transformative experiences. Yoga, freediving and community — one island experience.
Blue Chitta is a yoga and freediving center on Koh Tao, Thailand, open since 2022 and travelling the world as a retreat practice since 2014.
Since
2014 as a travelling retreat practice · our Koh Tao center opened in 2022
Where
Koh Tao, in the Gulf of Thailand
The center
Two seaview yoga shalas, a freediving school, Prana Cafe and two dormitories — plus yoga on our freediving boat and sunrise sessions at High The Moon
Dates, availability, requirements and booking details are confirmed directly by the Blue Chitta team.
One island rhythm. Come for one experience, then follow the practice as deep as it feels right to go.
The meaning
Prana is life force — energy, potential, the breath that moves everything. Chitta is consciousness. Blue is the colour of infinity. Blue Chitta is what happens when you put those three together: breath, awareness, and no edge to how deep you can go.
Our story
Blue Chitta was born in 2014 — not as a place, but as a way of living. It began as a travelling practice. Retreats in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Central America, wherever there was water and space to be barefoot and free. Every retreat wove freediving, yoga, meditation, pranayama and tantric principles into one experience, and every retreat carried the same invitation: use your breath, reprogram your mind, meet yourself at a deeper level. For almost a decade Blue Chitta moved. In 2021 it came home to Koh Tao, and in 2022 the doors of our center opened.
Where we are
Blue Chitta is a yoga and freediving center on Koh Tao, in the Gulf of Thailand. Our main center holds two seaview yoga shalas, a freediving school, Prana Cafe serving healthy vegetarian food, and two dormitories for our retreat and training guests. We also run yoga on our freediving boat, and sunrise sessions at High The Moon with 360° ocean views. One place where you can wake up, practise, freedive, eat well and sit down to dinner with the people you were in the water with.
How we teach
Most schools train performance. We train sensation. Yoga and freediving are not two activities that happen to share a building — they complement each other naturally. Breath awareness, relaxation and mindful movement support performance in the water while deepening your connection with yourself and with the ocean. We work through the five bodies: physical, mental, emotional, energetic and spiritual. Using movement, breath and sound, we help you move from surviving the freedive to feeling it — and from doing the pose to inhabiting it. Depth is not the goal. Depth is what happens on the way.
Connection over consumption
Collaboration over competition. Choosing love over fear.
Depth is a side effect of relaxation
We don't push our way down. Relaxation happens when we let go of physical stress and allow ourselves to sink deeper into the present moment — and depth follows on its own.
Rooting deeper to rise higher
The water element washes and cleanses the soul and the entire being. As we submerge, all the gunk and toxins rise to the surface — mental limiting beliefs, negative emotions, energetic traumas — giving us the chance to release, let go, and make space for our best life to unfold naturally.
Finding balance in opposites
Everything in the universe is spinning and vibrating. This is why everything has two poles: yin and yang, sun and moon, fire and water, feminine and masculine, steadiness and ease, inhale and exhale. To unlock our full potential, we must find balance between the opposing forces in every area of our life.
The community
Blue Chitta was built on a simple idea: no one goes deep alone. We believe in the power of community and a healthy lifestyle. This is a school, but it is also a table you sit at, a boat you share, a Friday dinner where strangers become the people who saw you in a state most never reach. Teachers come here to keep learning. Students come here and become teachers. The island does the rest. Nurturing. Grounded. Inspiring.
The founder
Blue Chitta was founded by Chitta — a teacher who is forever a student, and who built this place precisely so she could keep learning alongside other powerful teachers. She traded the Western world for Thailand at eighteen, began studying yoga and freediving young, and found through the breath a way of living that felt fully alive. A Pisces with a deep connection to the water element, she is a pioneer who follows her visions, turns thoughts into reality, and inspires others to do the same.
Come freedive with us
Whether you're taking your first breath-hold, unrolling a mat for the first time in years, or coming back to go deeper — there's a place for you here. Unlock your full potential. Freedive deeper to rise higher. Breathe · Move · Connect
Your next breath.
Move sideways into the place, or forward into a deeper practice.