My Story
I was anxious and disappearing from my own life. Breathwork gave me a place to start.
How I got here
One morning, about ten years ago, I sat down and wrote myself a letter. I was anxious, on medication, around 120kg, and quietly disappearing from my own life. The question underneath the letter was a quiet, frightened one: is this it?
I didn't know it then, but that question was the beginning. Not because I had an answer, I didn't, but because some part of me had decided I was no longer willing to live without one.
"I wasn't looking for breathwork. I was looking for a way back to myself. The breath just happened to be the door."
What came after wasn't a transformation. It was small things, repeated. Walking. Lifting. A trade as a carpenter, working with my hands, outside, tired in a good way. Sleep that started to hold. A nervous system that began to recover its sense of rhythm.
Eventually I packed up and moved country. Built a life from scratch, a home, a relationship, work I believed in, a body I was proud of. None of it was dramatic. All of it was hard. All of it added up.
"The breath was the door. What was on the other side was a life I couldn't see from where I was sitting."
The moment on the beach
The first time I really breathed, not the shallow, held breath of a stressed body, but a full, continuous, conscious breath, I was on a beach. I didn't know what I was doing. I was just following something I'd read, somewhere I'd heard, a curiosity I couldn't quite name.
My body began to settle. My breathing felt fuller and my thoughts slowed. Nothing outside me had changed, but I could see my situation without the same level of panic.
"That experience did not solve my life. It showed me that changing my breathing could change the state from which I met it."
That experience stayed with me and eventually led me to train professionally. Now I guide each session carefully, watch how the person responds and help them make sense of what they notice.
How I work
Attention
We begin by noticing what is happening in your breathing, body and daily life, without trying to explain everything at once.
Practice
The session gives you direct experience. Short practices between sessions help you use that experience when anxiety or fatigue returns.
Follow-through
We choose manageable changes, review what happened and adjust. Progress comes from repetition rather than a single dramatic session.
"The aim is not to become someone else. It is to think more clearly, use your energy well and act on what matters to you."
Why I do this
The training gives me the framework. I certified as an Advanced Breathwork Practitioner under Dr Ela Manga, founder of Breathwork Africa. I learned the physiology, safety and technique required to guide a session responsibly.
But the decade before it is what actually lets me sit across from someone and recognise where they are. I've been the anxious person. The disconnected person. The person quietly disappearing from their own life. I've written the letter. I've stood on the beach. I've felt the door open.
"My job is not to fix you. It is to guide the practice safely and help you use what you learn in daily life."
The first step
One call. Twenty minutes.
We work out where you are, what you're carrying, and whether this is the right fit. If it isn't, I'll tell you.
Free · twenty minutes · online
The breath was always there. You just have to come back to it.