Waterbaby, student of yoga & meditation, yoga teacher trainer, scuba diving and freediving instructor and now also the Dutch freediving national record holder, Darja Tjioe has found that the key to self-discovery lies somewhere in between the mat and the ocean. Darja is a dear friend I met through freediving and who has a lot of wisdom and insight. I'm grateful that she agreed to sit with me to celebrate her new records and discuss her journey and what she has learned about herself. 

What we discuss:

0:56 Setting two new Freediving National Records for The Netherlands

2:40 Why freediving? 

3:49 How is freediving a mirror? 

6:00 Realising your own self talk 

8:05 Does freediving expose the inner critic more than other spaces? 

10:30 What does it look like to work through negative self talk? 

11:30 Darja’s daily morning pages

16:10 What role does yoga play? 

20:00 How do we deal with discomfort? 

26:00 What is Vipassana? 

29:00 Are our lives too comfortable? 

33:30 What practices can we apply to become familiar with discomfort? 

38:20 The importance of being present

40:45 The shift towards mindfulness

43:30 How have these practices shaped and changed Darja’s life? 

46:50 Creating space to interrupt old patterns

51:20 What’s the plan for the next few months?

55:10 Embrace the suck 

Episode resources:

Darja Tjioe | Instagram

Darja Tjioe | Facebook

Yoga Here and There | Instagram

Yoga Here and There | Website

Book Darja mentioned: The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

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