Apneista Freediving Bali is a free diving and yoga training school in Amed, East Bali. We are located directly at the beach with perfect waters for free diving. Courses from beginner to instructor level are offered, as well as training and yoga classes. Apneista is a community of Professional freediving trainers and Yoga teachers. We train mostly in Amed Bali, but also teach and run freediving and yoga courses elsewhere in Indonesia and abroad. We take great pleasure in sharing our passion and believe in adapting yoga and freedive training to suit individual needs. When we moved here in early 2010 Apneista was the first freediving school in Bali.
Since then we have been continuously improving our programmes and facilities and now believe we have the best freediving setup in S.E. Asia. See the testimonials page. We run most of our freedive training in and from our beautiful training space right on the beach at the best spot in Bali for freediving. We have a yoga sala and a funky café to chill out in between training sessions. See Our freedive training space for more details We see both Yoga and Freediving as life enriching and accessible activities for everyone, not just for the athletically gifted or spiritually minded. As much as possible we cater to the needs and interests of the individual while still making sure all safety aspects are dealt with in detail. There should be no mystery in either Freedive training or Yoga, students should know exactly what they are doing at all times.
Though we emphasis the meditative aspects, we believe strongly in the scientific basis of everything we teach, making use of the latest freedive training techniques and using oximeters for training purposes. We offer our own continuously expanding freedive curriculum with supplementary techniques taken from Yoga, meditation and neuro-psychology.
The easiest way to get from almost anywhere in the south is to drive up to Sanur on the bypass. When you get to the other side of Sanur on the bypass after about 2km you have to watch out carefully for a sign on the inside lane that sends you to Padangbai Gianyar, turn right, then immediately right again to drive towards the North. Stay on the coast road all the way up, if you drive inland it’s much slower. Keep going… All the way the North, don’t turn off right for Padangbai. And drive all the way to Amlapura at the entrance to Amlapura centre you turn right up towards to Tirta Gangga (famous water palace). Continue all the way to the small village of Culik (pronounced Chulik). In Culik centre turn right and keep driving on the main road, go past Amed café and continue until you reach us Apneista just 2 doors before Divers Café in Jemeluk village. Our GPS coordinates are -8.337089 (or south 8.337089) and east 115.658650.