Decisions & leadership
Leaders, entrepreneurs and professionals who make decisions, guide people or create in intense environments.
TrainingFor high-performance professionals and athletes
Leaders, entrepreneurs and athletes.
HOW IT WORKS
The body is the starting point.
- 01Conscious breathing
- 02Meditation
- 03Supervised static apnea
WHO IT IS FOR
Different goals. The same foundation: presence in the body.
Leading, competing or beginning freediving require different skills. The common ground is learning to recognize signals and respond with awareness.
Sport & competition
Athletes and practitioners who want to develop presence, body awareness and a more skilful relationship with discomfort.
Introduction to freediving
For those who want to explore the foundations of freediving and arrive better prepared for a dedicated course. Coaching 1O1 is introductory and does not provide freediving certification.
WHAT YOU TRAIN
Presence before response.
The aim is not to demand more from the body. It is to recognize its signals earlier and improve the quality of your response.
Focus under pressure
Sustain attention as stimuli and demands accumulate.
Familiarity with discomfort
Notice intense sensations without immediately reacting to them.
Clarity to respond
Create space between impulse and action, in and out of the water.
Daily integration
Bring a short practice into training, competitions, meetings and important decisions.
YOUR FACILITATOR
Xavier Chavanes
Xavier has been a freediving instructor since 2014 at Apnea Academy, the international freediving school founded in 1995 by the Italian freediver Umberto Pelizzari. Its teaching holds demanding training and safety standards, and emphasises deep-water relaxation, mental control, correct breathing technique and physiology.
Xavier also trained in Hatha Yoga and Pranayama at the Siddharth Yoga Centre ashram in Varanasi, India, and practises the ancient Vipassana meditation technique.
He brings together conscious breathing, meditation and apnea to lead a unique, technically responsible experience — toward deeper self-knowledge.
“When the breath falls silent, the body reveals its patterns. That is where presence stops being an idea and becomes a practice.”
CERTIFICATIONS
01SINCE 2014APNEA INSTRUCTORApnea Academy International · Italy
02200 HOURSYOGA & MEDITATIONSiddharth Yoga Centre · Varanasi, India
INDIVIDUAL FORMAT
Four sessions. A format that adapts to your reality.
Four individual two-hour sessions. Frequency and dates are defined with the student: sessions can take place once a week or be concentrated across four days, depending on objectives, availability and travel to Alto Paraíso.
04sessions
02hper session
08hof guidance
FLEXfrequency and calendar
Establish
Conscious breathing, attention and body reading.
Perceive
Recognize signals, impulses and patterns in discomfort.
Respond
Apply presence to demanding professional or athletic situations.
Integrate
Consolidate a short practice for everyday life.
INVESTMENT
A clear structure. An entirely individual process.
COMPLETE PROGRAMME
Coaching 1O1 programme
Total investment
R$ 2,00004individual sessions
02hper session
08hof guidance
R$ 250per individual hour
BOOKING
Book your programme
Briefly share the context in which you want to apply the practice. Your booking is confirmed after aligning the four sessions.
Important
Coaching 1O1 does not replace physical or technical preparation, or medical or psychological care. Effects vary from person to person. Every apnea practice in the water takes place under direct supervision.