Sea Fit
Therapy
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Speaking · Retreats · Collaborations

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Your Event
or Retreat.

Water · Breath · Courage · Connection

Honest storytelling, thoughtful facilitation and embodied experiences for people navigating challenge, change and the courage to live more fully.

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Too Old Not To
20+ yearsEducation, counselling
& facilitation
2 crossingsMolokaʻi to Oʻahu
across the Kaʻiwi Channel

The central conversation

Discomfort is
not always danger.

Our bodies are designed to protect us. But not every sensation of discomfort means something is unsafe—and courage is not ignoring the moments that genuinely are.

Heli’s work explores how we can learn the difference: meeting uncertainty without immediately retreating, recognising when something truly isn’t right, and staying connected to ourselves and one another through life’s challenges.

This is not simply about doing hard things. It is about understanding ourselves through them.

A story lived—not manufactured

Ageing, courage
and beginning again.

Heli speaks from the meeting place of lived experience and professional practice: raising children, relationship change, menopause, uncertainty and loneliness; more than two decades supporting people through birth and transition; a life in the ocean; and two crossings of the Kaʻiwi Channel between Molokaʻi and Oʻahu.

Patagonia’s film Too Old Not To and the accompanying Ageing Radically story found a wide audience because they did not offer a polished mythology of fearlessness. They offered something more human: vulnerability, self-doubt, persistence, belonging and the possibility of continuing to become.

Watch Too Old Not To ↗
Heli speaking to an audience with a microphone at a Patagonia community event

Four ways to work together

Story can open the door.
Experience carries it through.

Each offering can stand alone or become part of a wider event, retreat or ongoing program. Content is shaped around the people, place and intention.

01

Signature speaking talk

Crossing Beyond
the Comfort Trap

A personal and reflective talk about the life we build, the comfort we value—and the moment comfort can quietly begin asking less of us.

First delivered at Water Women’s Campout, the talk brings together Heli’s crossings of the Kaʻiwi Channel, the story behind Too Old Not To, ageing, uncertainty, courage and the need for connection. It invites audiences to consider where safety ends, where avoidance begins, and what may still be asking to be lived.

  • Keynotes and conference talks
  • Festival, community and women’s events
  • Film screenings with conversation or Q&A
  • Adaptable length and emphasis
02

Experiential workshops

Water, Breath
& Courage

A practical, embodied exploration of how stress feels—and how we can create enough space to choose our response.

Sessions may draw on functional breathing, nervous-system education, reflection, movement, carefully held challenge and optional cold-water immersion. Participants leave with insight they have felt in their bodies, not simply heard in a room.

  • Retreat and festival workshops
  • Leadership and wellbeing programs
  • Women’s, youth and community groups
  • Land-based or water-integrated formats
Heli guiding a group through an underwater experiential exercise
Heli and a participant smiling together after a pool session
Heli collaborating with an adaptive ocean community in Hawaiʻi
03

Water-based experiences

Surf Apnea™ &
Ocean Confidence

Progressive experiences using breath-hold, water and safe challenge to develop calm, confidence, discernment and recovery under pressure.

Originally developed for surfers and water-based athletes, Surf Apnea™ can be delivered as a complete course or adapted into a retreat, surf camp or ocean-confidence program. The emphasis is never bravado or competing for time—it is self-awareness, safety and useful capacity.

  • Surf and swim retreats
  • Athlete and adaptive-sport groups
  • Ocean-confidence programs
  • Pool, lagoon and suitable ocean settings
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04

Tailored partnerships

Retreat, Corporate
& Community Collaboration

Invite Heli into an existing retreat, event or program—or collaborate on something created from the beginning.

A contribution might be one beautifully held session, a sequence woven through several days, or a combination of speaking, workshop facilitation and water experience. Heli works with organisers to understand the people, purpose, location and practical realities before shaping the offering.

  • Retreat collaborations in Australia and internationally
  • Corporate leadership and team experiences
  • Community, wellbeing and empowerment events
  • Surf, swim and ocean-based gatherings
A group of women together after an ocean experience

Connection is the container

People remember
what they feel together.

Heli’s facilitation is warm, grounded and responsive. People are invited to meet their own edge without performance or pressure, with room for humour, reflection, vulnerability and genuine connection.

A natural fit for

Gatherings with
depth and purpose.

RetreatsFestivalsConferencesWomen’s eventsCorporate teamsCommunity programsSurf & swim groupsFilm screenings

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Speaking, Retreats
& Collaborations

Tell Heli a little about your event, location, participants and what you hope the experience might create. Australian and international enquiries are welcome.

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