Freediving · 📍 General Luna, Siargao
A dedicated freediving school and hostel in General Luna that has quietly become one of the island's best-reviewed activity operators. Coaches Jen and Dale specialise in talking nervous first-timers through breathwork on land before guiding them down the line in Siargao's warm, clear water, with courses running from intro sessions to AIDA certifications.
Siargao's longest-running international dive operation, teaching the full PADI ladder and AIDA freediving courses in four languages from its General Luna base with a training pool and its own boat. Twice-daily fun dives visit sites from the shallow coral gardens of Secret Garden to the drop-offs of Blue Cathedral on the Pacific side.
One of the island's original surf institutions, run out of the Italian-founded Kermit resort where lessons, wood-fired pizza and 'sleep-eat-surf' culture blend into one compound. Head instructors Eloy and Jong are ISA Level 1 certified with over 20 years in Siargao's waves, and every lesson runs on a strict 1:1 student-to-instructor ratio with transport to breaks like Cloud 9 and Jacking Horse included.
A Yoga Alliance-registered school (est. 2015) whose open-air shala looks out over General Luna's rice paddies — regularly called the most beautiful yoga space on the island. Daily drop-in classes span Vinyasa, Hatha, Yin and breathwork, and the centre also runs 200- and 300-hour teacher trainings.
The island's main kite school, operating from the beachfront of Bravo Beach Resort on Tourism Road with IKO-style progression from kite control through waterstart to wave riding. The shallow lagoon in front makes a forgiving classroom, and the school teaches ages '7 to 77' with rental and storage for travelling kiters.