Freediving here isn't just about holding your breath. It's about learning to surrender to your own depth.
Blue Chitta is a freediving and yoga school on Koh Tao, Thailand, built around retreats. Offering freediving courses from beginner to instructor level, with the option to stay on-site and join an island community of free spirits and deep freedivers.
Everyone starts with one breath. Discover the feeling in a single day, or become a certified freediver on the 3-day Level 1 Retreat — 20 metres by day three, with yoga, breathwork, ice baths, food and a bed by the sea holding it all in place. Short on budget? Course only gives you the same certification, without the stay.
Certified? This is where freediving becomes a way of living. The 7-day retreat is the full immersion — a week of guided water sessions from our own freediving and yoga boat, line, pool and reef, wrapped in meditation, yoga and brunch at Prana. Take it as 3 days if the island holds you briefly, go for the freefall with the Level 2 Retreat, or keep it light with day training, Reef Adventures and boat day trips.
Thirty days, twenty-three water sessions, five disciplines, one day off a week. This is where freediving stops being a holiday and becomes the way you live — the full immersion in the freediver's lifestyle, going deeper into the water and into yourself. And, for some, it becomes the thing you teach.
When you hold your breath and submerge, your body activates the mammalian dive reflex — a response that lets you freedive deeper and stay longer. To reach it, your nervous system has to be relaxed. That is why the retreat wraps your training in meditation, breathwork, yoga, ice baths, food and a bed twenty steps from the water: the whole day supports the freedive. Depth is a side effect of relaxation.
Most schools train performance. We train sensation. Our holistic approach works through the five bodies — physical, mental, emotional, energetic and spiritual — using movement, breath and sound to take you from surviving the freedive to feeling it. Depth is not the goal. Depth is what happens on the way — in the water, and in yourself.
Small groups and personal attention, a calm and supportive learning environment, some of the best freediving sites on Koh Tao, and our own boat for flexible training and direct access to the water. Plus the sea-view yoga shala, Prana Café and the Wellness Dormitory on-site, so you practise, eat and sleep with the people you were in the water with.
Retreat versions add sea-view accommodation, meals, yoga and ice baths; taking a retreat without the stay is 10% off.
Move sideways into the place, or forward into a deeper practice.
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Start where you are. New to freediving: try the one-day Discovery (3,500 thb), or become certified on the 3-day Level 1 Freediving Retreat (13,000 thb — course only 8,500 thb if your budget is tight). Already certified: the 7-day Freediving Retreat (20,000 thb, or 3 days for 13,000 thb), or the Level 2 Retreat for freefall to 30 metres (17,000 thb). Ready to immerse fully: the 4-week Master Freediver course, then the Instructor pathway. And for a fun day out, Reef Adventures on our boat are open to everyone.
The certification is the same. The retreat adds the accommodation, meals, yoga, breathwork and ice baths that help your body relax — which is what makes depth come easily. Course only covers the theory, water and meditation sessions, for when your time on the island is short.
No. The Level 1 Retreat, Discovery and Intro require no prior experience. From beginners to instructors, everyone is welcome.
Depth is a direct side effect of relaxation. Yoga and breathwork teach the body to release and the mind to stop overthinking, and targeted lung stretching keeps the breathing organs supple under pressure.
Just sun protection and a reusable water bottle. Everything else, including all freediving equipment, is provided.
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Find your freediving retreatLive dates, prices and remaining places from our booking system: 6 of 27 things you can book in freediving courses over the next 60 days.
9:00am-12:30pm / 9:00am-3:00pm · Sebas, Goni & Sebas, Goni
2,000 thb
Book Mon 21 Sep9:00am-2:00pm / 9:00am-12:30pm · Goni, Sebas
3,500 thb
Book Tue 22 Sep9:00am-2:00pm · Sebas
1,800 thb
Book Tue 22 Sep12:00pm-3:30pm / 12:30pm-3:30pm · Sebas, Goni
4,500 thb
Book Wed 23 Sep12:00pm-3:30pm / 12:30pm-3:30pm · Sebas, Goni
13,000 thb
Book Wed 23 Sep9:00am-1:00pm · Goni
17,000 thb
Book Wed 23 Sep
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