FREEDIVE FORAGE WEEKEND
Learn the art of underwater freedive foraging with expert coaches Hanli & Roushanna Gray / Veld & Sea on an adventure filled weekend. Our days will include freediving breath-work and depth training combined with learning various foraging skills ranging from regenerative harvesting practices to discovering intertidal and underwater ingredients and their culinary applications. This exclusive multi day immersion includes accommodation in a beautiful beach villa, freediving coaching, yoga and breathwork, sustainable foraging fundamentals, wild food gathering dive sessions, cooking classes and fully catered meals throughout the weekend. This diverse skill set will empower you with the confidence, knowledge and tools to responsibly embark on your own wildly delicious adventures!
This weekend is for nature lovers who want to have a delicious experience in the beautiful outdoors with world class guidance at a unique location. Anyone who has an interest in the ocean, wanting to grow breath hold and gain underwater confidence. People interested in healthy living, coastal living, marine ecosystems, self-sufficiency. Chefs and foodies wanting to explore foraged and local food and discover new ingredients. You will need to be comfortable in the ocean and a good swimmer, but no prior freediving experience is needed. It is open to all fitness levels, ages 16 and up. (Medical questionnaires are mandatory). For further information please check our Freediving FAQ’s.
WELCOME DAY 1 ~ Friday afternoon welcome drinks and dinner at the villa with introductions by Hanli & Roushanna.
ADVENTURE DAY 2 ~ Saturday morning will start with a delicious healthy breakfast followed by a breath work session with Hanli, preparing you for the day’s diving. We will make our way to a beautiful secluded spot to practice our deeper freediving, working on equalisation and bottom time. After the freediving training, we will enjoy a lunch on the rocks, catered for by our wild chef. Roushanna will then brief us on how to work with our freediving skills to mindfully gather an array of intertidal and underwater ingredients which will later be used in our evening meal creation. After a fun afternoon of freediving and foraging, we will return to the villa for some down time and rest, and then prepare and share a gorgeous celebratory foraged feast together with recipe demos, a three-course meal and botanical cocktails.
ADVENTURE DAY 3 ~ On Sunday morning we will again prepare for our day with breakfast and breath work, before travelling to a special wild stretch of our southern peninsula for a guided freediving and foraging session. Lunch will be prepared by the group using our gathered ingredients, cooked over fire and enjoyed overlooking the ocean. After our meal we will head back to the villa for farewell and gifts.
You will be hosted at an oceanside villa at Boulders Beach. This rambling historical homestead offers beautiful rooms, wide open shared spaces and ample garden space for our morning breathwork sessions. The wide balconies with expansive ocean views will be our base for preparing our foraged feasts.
Each day we will make our way deeper into the ocean where we will gently forage for edible seaweeds and shellfish. While our beautiful coastline is abundant with food, we will be foraging sustainably and regeneratively, focusing only on the seaweed that is prolific in the area and the non-indigenous mussel species, stressing how to treat our wildlife with respect.
On top of acquiring the skills to deepen your freediving practice and discover the wildly delicious world of coastal foraging, you will also learn about the marine ecosystems of False Bay and the challenges and success stories along our coastline. We will host this course from legal pick zones (Non MPA areas) with valid mollusc permits.
What is included: Luxury accommodation / 2 x yoga breathwork sessions / Freedive training – static, tide pool simulation and open ocean / Foraging coursework – intro, notes, practical application / 2 x cooking classes / Fully catered meals and drinks / Your own personal mollusc permit / Reserve entry fee
A curated gift bag will be handed out to all participants at the end of our weekend together. In it you will receive an adventure freedive forage booklet filled with notes, info and recipes, a foraging bag designed specifically for this experience plus a couple of extra surprises. Included in your bag will be foraged ingredients to play with at home with the recipes provided.
This exclusive weekend is limited to 8 participants - ensuring you get the best training and experience.
Dates: 2-4 April 2021
Hosts: Hanli Prinsloo, and Roushanna Gray.
Price: R13 400 per person.
(incl. accommodation, all equipment, refreshments, foraged feasts & tuition, excl. travel and transport to villa and dive sites)