Heli holding her grandson in clear ocean water beneath a wide blue sky

Water · Breath · Courage · Connection

Calm, Clear
and In Control—
When It Matters.

Through speaking, retreats, workshops and water-based experiences, Heli helps people breathe better, meet discomfort differently and stay connected to themselves and others—when it matters.

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Based in Byron Bay, Australia · Available nationally & internationally

In the water. In your body.
Beyond your comfort zone.

Courses, coaching & experiences

Train in the water.
Take it into life.

Join a scheduled workshop, work with Heli privately or in a group, or invite her to speak, facilitate or collaborate with your team, community, event or retreat—in Australia or internationally.

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Not sure where to begin?

What do you want
more of?

Your best place to start

Surf Apnea™ Workshop

Build comfort with breath-holding, understand your stress response and practise staying resourceful when the water gets intense.

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Two participants practising calm problem-solving during an underwater Surf Apnea exercise

Foundation experience · Approx. 6 hours

Surf Apnea™
Workshop

Sea Fit Therapy founder Heli Murray—an Apnea Survival Instructor and Ambassador—presents Surf Apnea™. Originally developed for surfers and water-based athletes, it is a practical, embodied learning and stress-management experience curated to open inner doors to insight and growth.

Through functional breathing education and progressive land and water drills, learn to understand your stress response, prepare for surf hold-downs and remain more resourceful when pressure rises.

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Next course dates

Saturday 14 November9am–4pm · Byron Bay$225 · Book & pay →Saturday 12 December9am–4pm · Byron Bay$225 · Book & pay →

More ways to work with Heli

For water people.
For life beyond the water.

Continue training, work privately with Heli, or bring a tailored experience to your group, organisation or retreat.

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Ongoing apnea training

Edge & Ease
Apnea Training

Dynamic breath-hold and recovery sessions for focus, efficiency, confidence and flow.

Weekly pool or ocean practice for people who have completed the foundation Surf Apnea™ workshop or equivalent. Private coaching is also available.

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Individual or group

Personal & Group Coaching

Practical coaching for a personal challenge, a water goal or the way you respond when life applies pressure.

Heli has worked with a diverse range of clients, including elite competitive surfers—among them the current under-18 ISA World Champion—professional world-champion adaptive surfers, corporate executives, and couples seeking tools to manage stress and maintain connection.

Private coaching allows the focus to be specific to your needs, drawing on breath, mindset, movement and water-based practice to support confidence, focus, stress regulation, relationships and meaningful change.

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Tailored group experiences

Community & Corporate

Experiential sessions that help people meet pressure, communicate clearly and grow stronger together.

Designed around your people and purpose, sessions may combine breathing, apnea, water challenges or optional cold immersion, with a focus on stress management, leadership, confidence, impulse control and relationships.

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Immersive experiences

Water-Based Retreats

Surf, breath and ocean experiences with enough time and space for learning, connection, play and growth.

Join a unique Sea Fit Therapy Water People’s Retreat, or collaborate with Heli and invite her to facilitate sequential or stand-alone sessions within your own surf group, swim retreat or empowerment experience.

Each experience is shaped around the location, participants and intention.

Heli underwater in a white swim cap and goggles, blowing bubbles — Photo: Virgine Miramon · Third Eye World Experience ↗

Private & small group

Ocean Therapy

A personalised space for reflection, confidence, movement and reconnection with what matters.

Deep listening and therapeutic support combined with functional breathing and an experiential element in the ocean or pool—shaped around your intentions, experience and relationship with water.

Speaking & collaborations

Bring the story
into the room.

Invite Heli to speak, facilitate or collaborate on an experience shaped around water, breath, courage and connection.

From Crossing Beyond the Comfort Trap to embodied workshops and retreat sessions, Heli brings together lived story, professional depth and practical experiences that help people meet discomfort without losing discernment—or themselves.

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Heli Murray carrying her pink paddleboard beneath pandanus trees

Heli Murray
Founder · Facilitator · Lifeguard

Photo: Clementine Bourke · Patagonia Roaring Journals

About Heli

Two master’s degrees.
Two grandkids.
A lifetime in the water.

Heli’s work is shaped as much by lived experience as it is by formal study. A therapist, birth educator, Apnea Survival Instructor and Ambassador, breathwork facilitator and professional beach lifeguard, she has transformed life’s difficult chapters into hard-earned wisdom—pulling herself up, getting out there each day and continuing to move towards meaning, growth and a life fully lived.

For more than a decade, Heli has been a highly competitive and successful ocean athlete while continually learning new skills across surfing, swimming, paddling, freediving and apnea. At 48, she crossed the 53-kilometre Kaʻiwi Channel from Molokaʻi to Oʻahu on a prone paddleboard—an experience featured in Patagonia’s short film Too Old Not To—and returned to cross it again in 2026.

Alongside her life in the ocean, more than two decades of Calmbirth and birth work have seen Heli support people through one of life’s greatest transitions. Older and wiser, she now brings all of it together—helping others meet challenge, find meaning, deepen connection and create lives they genuinely enjoy.

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The Sea Fit approach

Breath is the bridge.
Water the element.
Connection the container.

Mind

From reaction to response

Understand how stress shapes sensation, attention and decision-making. Create enough space to choose your next action.

Body

Calm through experience

Learn in the body—not only in theory—through progressive challenges grounded in safety, awareness and play.

Breath

A tool you carry everywhere

Use functional breathing and recovery skills to influence state, focus, performance and connection.

Connection

Connection is the
container for growth.

There’s something powerful about meeting challenge alongside other people. We borrow courage, share laughter, learn by watching and being witnessed, and discover that staying calm doesn’t have to be a solo pursuit.

Sea Fit experiences are grounded in support rather than competition—each person meeting their own edge, together.