Emma Farrell
Emma is one of the world’s most experienced and skilled freediving instructors. She has built her career around teaching people how to breathe correctly and discover just what their bodies are capable of.
Emma started her freediving journey in 2000 and began teaching in 2003. As well as competing internationally, she wrote a stunning book One Breath, a Reflection on Freediving and taught and lectured worldwide. In 2010 she gave a speech at the Royal Society of Medicine in London. It led to her being recruited to work with elite athletes to improve their breathing, confidence and performance in advance of the London Olympics.
Emma put together a unique programme of exercises using her knowledge from freediving and yoga, along with Buteyko and started to work with an Olympic cyclist dealing with asthma, recovery and confidence issues. Within six weeks the athlete gained a ten percent improvement in lung function, and her performance increased.
Emma then went on to work with swimmers and paralympic swimmers and has been helping them ever since. Emma trains the world’s top elite athletes to perform better – they learn how to breathe and excel.
What does that mean to us? It means that we can too! Emma teaches her programme to the public via twice-weekly online classes, which are also recorded for those who can’t make the live sessions, and she also teaches one-to-one too. Find out how you can join Emma’s classes HERE.
The secret to Emma’s programme is learning how to use the full capacity of the lungs. How to breathe less but more efficiently, and how to regulate levels of carbon dioxide within the blood. By learning to breathe freely and effectively it increases confidence and improves a multitude of health conditions, from asthma and anxiety to insomnia and back pain.
Emma has worked with many differently-abled people, from people dealing with life long chronic conditions, as well as those recovering from accidents and lung injury. There is no age or ability barrier to learning how to make the most of our bodies and our breath.
And if you want to learn to freedive with the best then come and learn with Emma and her team. Learning to freedive can transform lives. Not only does it teach an amazing life skill – which is pretty awesome in itself and makes you safer in the water. It also changes how you breathe on land making you better able to manage stress, anxiety and other pressures you may find yourself facing.
Learning freediving changes peoples lives because it changes how they breathe outside the water! If you want more inspiration, watch “My Octopus Teacher” on Netflix. Develop a passion for the ocean and underwater world. Start to love life again and the lives around you.
And then learn freediving with Emma. Or even better, become a freediving instructor with Emma and spread your passion for the world beneath the water. There are only positive side-effects. So, what are you waiting for?
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Other experts that help athletes excel are:
Mike Maric who is also freediver but also a doctor in Italy.
Barbara Tanze, Leo Daniel Ryan, Christina Roberts and specialised on Buteyko Patrick McKeown.
Publications
You know what is much nicer than a TV screen? A book. The smell of the pages, turning pages, looking at pictures for as long as you like. Going back and forth between passages.
Dive into your own reading experience! When is the last time you enjoyed a book? To develop a passion for the world under water, Emma Farrell’s book One Breath – A reflection on freediving is ideal!
