22/07/2022
Sometimes it’s important to stop and look around what has happened…
“You can achieve much more than you think if you prepare yourself and focus on it”
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If I go back…
I had grown up at the beach in Crete, learning to dive at age 3. Just natural as a kid getting coins out of the pool and collecting shells for my friends from the seafloor.
With 10 I left the beautiful island… and I don’t remember what exactly happened.
But I got a phobia about sharks…so bad that if I would see them in a newspaper my heartbeat would rise strongly and I even wouldn’t be able to look at it
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Reaching Portugal for a Master in Photography at I wanted to make a thesis about the ocean and plastic. My dear Dr. Prof. Gamito said: “Janna find something different, what is undiscovered still !”
So I started my journey….. reading, watching searching , surfing, scuba course…everything about the ocean I could find. Always being suffering a lot with my fear … Than I found and I will never forget when Mafalda told me: “fear can be controlled!”
So I started to learn and wrote my thesis about “A liminal experience under the surface of the ocean”
concepts: still point, mind game, focus, liminality.
After the thesis I still felt something missing…so I completed the way up to the freediving instructor… a year of training .. saying no to going out, drinking etc.. and just feeding into my being optimum … and … it worked out :)
Now I just want to help people to immerse into themselves and into the ocean to experience the immense benefit you can get from it…
And so a new journey has began as freediving instructor /photographer/ filmmaker :)
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