Yamina Enedahl

Singer Born October 27, 1979 is a Swedish free diver , lecturer, moderator, artist and mental coach. In 2016, she released the album - How deep is the ocean, on Opus3 records. Yamina is a person who loves the process of development; whether setting a world record in freediving; coaching individuals, and organizations, authoring books, penning speeches and songs; or describing and exploring our inner capacity for sustainable achievement. Though she could swim by the age of two, it was only when Yamina began swimming competitively, at age 5, that she learned to swim with her head above the surface – a prelude of things to come. ”I remember how I used to ”invent” classical music in my head as I swam lengths in the pool”, she says. Prematurely ending her swimming career at the age of 14, after becoming dissatisfied with the authoritative nature of traditional coaching, and not wanting the measure of her self-worth to be derived solely from her competitive results. At the age of 16 she became a jazz piano student at Södra Latin, where she also started composing songs and wrote a children´s musical for big orchestra. There she noticed that the performance culture she met as a young swimmer also had found it´s way in to the cultural world. ”To me music is simple. Either you´re touched by it or you´re not. Either you like it or you don´t.” After befriending a colossal manta ray, while on a trip to Indonesia in her twenties Yamina returned to the world of aquatic competition. This is where Yamina discovered free diving. During her studies at the Scandinavian International University, Yamina started to develop her mental techniques; there, she became a Certified Mental Trainer Master. Only by integrating mental training techniques into practical application within her free diving training, was Yamina able to overcome her fears and challenge the traditional mindset of performance and performance culture. Soon, she discovered and developed a philosophy of achievement, that has lead Yamina to become Sweden’s first world record holder in free diving. During this period of her life her music became a private space that she only shared with only one very encouraging close friend. Yamina has continued to further refine her perspectives, and to extend these exciting principals of organizational and leadership development into a variety of fields. ”My professional vision is to make a positive difference in more and more people’s lives, my goal is to live that vision, as I develop my own personal qualities”, says Yamina. ”How deep is the ocean is a production made under the values of respect, trust and cooperation where every musician and recording engineer has contrubuted with his/her unique expertise, ideas and personality. Music is the extended language of my soul and I choose to operate in and create the context of development and growth, for a better society, and a better world!”