Every Breath Is a Doorway

I didn't discover the power of breathwork on a yoga mat. I discovered it in cold water. The first time I tried Wim Hof breathing before stepping into icy water, something shifted. Instead of panicking, my body steadied. My breath deepened. After a minute in the freezing water, my mind went silent and warmth rose from within. I was at peace — even in an extreme situation. It wasn't just about enduring the cold. It was about realizing I could shape my inner state, even when the world outside was harsh.

As a child and teenager, I lived inside football. I was an academy player chasing the dream. But when games slipped out of control, I slipped with them: rage, red cards, regret. No one ever told us how to breathe through it. No one told us the breath could be a way back. I wish someone had taught me sooner.

When I turned 20, injuries ended my football career. With it came an identity crisis. Who was I without the game? That's when I began searching — first for myself, through meditation and breathwork. But each step revealed something bigger.

I also began to see how we live in a culture obsessed with chasing more — more money, more status, more achievement. None of it gave me the peace I found in a single conscious breath. Technology, distraction, and striving had pulled me — like so many of us — away from the present.

In 2023, I was in my dream job, working as a full-time consultant at Peopleway, an AI company. The only problem was my heart was calling me elsewhere. One evening, I wrote on a piece of paper: "Go to Nepal and India with no return ticket. Let go of where it ends. Allow the flow to guide you."

Three months later, I had quit my job, given up my apartment, sold all my furniture, said goodbye to friends and family — and boarded a flight with a one-way ticket to Kathmandu, Nepal.

Since then, the journey has carried me through trekking in the Himalayas, weeks of silence in monasteries in Nepal and Thailand, ashrams in India studying yoga and pranayama. I've lived in an off-grid holistic Bedouin camp in the Egyptian desert, freediving into the depths of the Philippines.

Along the way, my confidence in teaching these practices grew. I began teaching them wherever I was: at a retreat center in Thailand, in a freediving and yoga hub in the Philippines, in gyms, in hostels, in a retreat space in Egypt. Now, after crossing the Atlantic, I find myself teaching in Uruguay.

For me, breathwork and meditation aren't theories. They aren't abstract philosophies. They're lived. They're how I found clarity in chaos, how I steadied myself when nothing else could, how I came back when I thought I was lost.

And that's why I share them.

The work I offer is simple: breathwork and meditation that anyone can do. Practices that calm the nervous system, unlock focus, and reconnect you with the part of yourself that never gets lost.

My story is still being written. I'm still traveling. Still learning. Still breathing my way through the unknown. But one thing has become clear:

Every breath is a doorway. Every breath is a chance to return to yourself.