With diving agencies
Your SSI, PADI, CMAS or RAID training governs how you dive. Mindful Diving™ adds how you are there.
The first Mindful Diving™ Specialty
Mindful Breath™
첫 다이빙은 한 번의 호흡에서 시작됩니다.
다이버는 이미 육지의 거의 누구보다도 느리게 호흡합니다. Mindful Breath™은 장비가 우연히 만들어 낸 이 호흡을 하나의 연습으로 바꿉니다. 다이빙의 전 과정을 관통하는 호흡의 층위가 되고, 다이버가 집으로 돌아간 뒤에도 이어집니다.
단계가 아닌 스페셜티입니다. Mindful Breath™는 MD-1부터 MD-5까지의 Descent 경로와 나란히 놓입니다. 어떤 단계도 대체하거나 건너뛰지 않습니다.
스페셜티 — 모든 단계에서 선택 가능
How it fits
One pathway. Five levels. Specialties deepen it — they never change it.
Your pathway is the Descent: MD-1 to MD-5. That does not change. A specialty is not a level.
Mindful Breath™ deepens one dimension of the practice — the breath — at whichever point you stand. It is never required to advance, and it never replaces a course.
If you dive, you already know this model: it works exactly like a specialty course in your diving agency. A specialty adds a capability. Your certification level stays exactly what it is.
The Descent — the pathway
- MD-1 Mindful Diver™
- MD-2 Advanced Mindful Diver™
- MD-3 Mindful Dive Leader™
- MD-4 Mindful Dive Instructor™
- MD-5 Instructor Trainer™
Five levels, in order. Unchanged by any specialty.
스페셜티 — 모든 단계에서 선택 가능
Mindful Breath™ — a specialty
Attaches at any point on the pathway — or before it.
- Before MD-1 — you are not certified yet, and the breath is your first door.
- Alongside any level — MD-1, MD-2, MD-3, MD-4 or MD-5, without pausing the Descent.
- As a professional — a Divemaster or higher, or a certified breath teacher, taking the Guide path.
Complementary, both ways
With breathwork schools
Breathwork schools teach the breath. Mindful Breath™ teaches the breath in, with, and through the water. If you trained with the Wim Hof Method, Oxygen Advantage, SOMA, Respira!, a pranayama lineage or another recognized school, your training is honored here — the Guide path was built with you in mind.
What the evidence says
Twelve randomised trials, 785 adults
A meta-analysis in Scientific Reports found breathwork associated with significantly lower subjective stress than control conditions, with a small-to-medium effect (Fincham et al., 2023).
DOI 10.1038/s41598-022-27247-yFive minutes a day, for 28 days
A Stanford trial in Cell Reports Medicine found that five minutes a day of exhale-focused cyclic sighing improved daily mood and lowered resting respiratory rate more than mindfulness meditation (Balban et al., 2023).
DOI 10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100895근거는 가능성을 보여줍니다. 기적을 말하지는 않습니다. 더 엄밀한 시험이 필요하며, 저자들도 이를 직접 밝힙니다. 추정하지 않고 측정합니다.
The breath across the arc
Before · Below · Between · Beyond — 같은 네 단계를 호흡의 관점에서 읽습니다.
Before
The breath before the water
Nasal breathing, a lengthened exhale of roughly one to two, tolerance for rising carbon dioxide, coherence at about six breaths a minute, pre-dive grounding and a clear intention.
Below
Breathing on scuba
Slow, continuous breathing. Breath and buoyancy moving together. Air consumption read as a mindfulness gauge, never as a score.
Between
The surface interval
Recovery breathing between dives, reflection while the experience is fresh, and coherence restored before the next descent.
Beyond
Five minutes a day
The daily protocol on land, where most of life happens: the breath as stress regulation, and the one piece of the ocean every diver carries home.
천천히 세 번 호흡하는 동안 하나를 바라보세요.
Two credentials
Mindful Breath Diver™
€88 — €66 for holders of any MD level.
≈6 hours online across the four phases, the 21 Breaths practice cycle — one short practice a day for 21 days — FP20 before and after, and a QR-verifiable credential. Open to divers of any agency and to complete beginners. An optional water session at a Mindful Diving Center™.
등록The 21 Breaths — the printable log
한 페이지, 스물하루. 인쇄해서 로그북에 넣어 두세요. 매일 밤 한 줄을 적으세요.
Open the printable log
Mindful Breath Guide™
€222
Everything in the Diver curriculum, plus Facilitation & Safety and a supervised practicum: one dry-land pre-dive session and one surface-interval facilitation. Licensed to lead official Mindful Breath™ sessions at centers, retreats and events, and listed in the registry.
Prerequisites: MD-1, and either an active dive professional rating (Divemaster or higher, any agency) or certification as a breath teacher of a recognized school. Self-attested at enrolment, as with PRO.
Become a Mindful Breath Guide™다리
호흡 지도자는 이미 호흡을 압니다. 아직 익히지 않은 것은 수중 환경입니다. 그 기준과 안전 범위, 브리핑이 이루어지는 방식입니다. Bridge는 그 간격을 두 단계로 잇습니다.
공인 호흡 지도자를 위한 전체 경로: MD-1 (€111) + Mindful Breath Guide™ (€222) = €333.
그 외 모든 분은 MD-1과 Mindful Breath Diver™ 두 과정을 함께 €177에 수강할 수 있습니다.
자격이 자동으로 확인되지 않으면 hello@mindfuldiving.org로 연락해 주세요. 제안된 가격으로 등록할 수 있도록 도와드리겠습니다.
The Founding 33
The first 33 Mindful Breath Guides™ in the world will form the founding cohort — a founding badge for life, and a name on this page.
It echoes the Founding 100 — the first centers to carry the seal.
The free door
7분이면 됩니다. 회원에게는 무료입니다. 전문 과정의 핵심을 담은 가장 작은 실천입니다. 오늘 저녁 육상에서 해 보면, 나머지 과정이 무엇으로 이루어지는지 이미 알게 됩니다.
물에 들어가기 전, 한 번의 호흡 — Open the practice안전은 마음챙김의 첫 번째 실천입니다
- On scuba, the practice is slow, continuous breathing — never breath-holding, skip-breathing or hypoventilation.
- Intense practices — strong ventilation cycles, long breath-holds, cold protocols — are land practices. Never immediately before a dive and never in the water: hyperventilation before immersion is a known factor in shallow-water blackout.
- Every practice fits entirely within the diver's existing agency standards and dive plan.
- Mindful Breath™ is never presented as therapy or medical treatment.
- Reviewed by the Safety & Dive Medicine Board.
Questions
- Is this a new level?
- No. The levels are MD-1 to MD-5, and they do not change. Mindful Breath™ is a specialty: it deepens the breath dimension at whichever level you stand, or before you certify at all. It is never required to advance.
- Do I need to be a diver?
- No. Mindful Breath Diver™ is open to divers of any agency and to complete beginners. MD-1 Mindful Diver™ is recommended, not required, and the water session is optional.
- Is this a breathwork instructor certification?
- No. It is the ocean specialty layer: breath practice inside diving, within agency standards. General breathwork instructor training belongs to the breathwork schools, and we are complementary to them.
- Can I teach after the Diver level?
- No. Leading official Mindful Breath™ sessions requires Mindful Breath Guide™.
- I'm a certified breath teacher — what's my path?
- Your existing certification, plus MD-1 (€111) and Mindful Breath Guide™ (€222): the complete path, €333.
- Is it safe?
- On scuba the practice is slow, continuous breathing only — never breath-holding, skip-breathing or hypoventilation. Intense practices stay on land, never immediately before a dive and never in the water. Everything sits inside your agency standards and dive plan, and the curriculum is reviewed by the Safety & Dive Medicine Board.
- How is it measured?
- With the FP20 Fundamental Peace scale, taken before and after the practice cycle, and by Guides for the sessions they lead. Measured, not assumed.
- How long does it take?
- The Diver curriculum is about six hours online, plus the 21 Breaths cycle: one short practice a day for 21 days. The Guide adds about four more hours and two assessed sessions.
- When are the first water sessions?
- This November, in Cabo de Palos in the Mediterranean, and at sea in the Red Sea.
From the Journal
에세이 읽기 — 첫 다이빙은 한 번의 호흡
연구원의 첫 전문 분야가 호흡인 이유. 그리고 과학적 근거가 실제로 말하는 것.
Read the essay첫 다이빙은 한 번의 호흡에서 시작됩니다.
교육과정이 지금 온라인으로 시작됩니다. 첫 수중 세션은 이번 11월, 지중해의 카보 데 팔로스와 홍해 해상에서 열립니다. Cabo de Palos · the Red Sea