There are a few things I’d like you to know about me so you can feel if there is resonance and interest in working together.

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Breathwork and other practices for inner work have been hugely transformative in my life. I am learning and evolving every day on this introspective journey and feel so much more acceptance, peace, and joy in my life.

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My journey with the breath started eight years ago at a mindfulness retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh, who introduced me to this powerful tool: the breath - a portal to the present moment.

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At the time, I lived in Berlin in a beautiful apartment, was successful in my job, and earned a lot of money. On the outside, everything looked great. But when my partner and I broke up, many of my internal struggles came crashing down on me.

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I had lost my mum to suicide when I was a teenager and still carried a lot of repressed sadness and grief that I didn’t know how to access. I didn’t even know it was still there.

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Too often, I was caught in the idea of having to prove myself - to my boss, to my partner, to anyone, really, but most importantly to myself. Because I was not connected with a sense of deep self-worth, trust, and love, I overworked, overdid, and tried to fit external expectations.

 

I was constantly chasing the next thing - the next big trip, adventure, or experience. I hadn’t yet learned to simply be - with myself, in the present moment.

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As is often the case, in a moment of great pain and suffering, an opportunity for healing and transformation opened. I found myself at a Mindfulness Retreat for Leaders at a Buddhist monastery (Plum Village, founded by Thich Nhat Hanh).

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This experience opened my eyes. I didn’t just understand - I felt - that I had been looking for answers in the wrong places. In fact, I was looking in the wrong direction: outside, whereas insight is where I needed to look. Everything I needed was already there.

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This was a glimpse. It shifted many beliefs and was profoundly healing. It is what I consider the start of my inner journey - a journey of ups and downs, expansion and contraction, many shifts, learnings, and big changes in my life.

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Fast forward to now: I live in the countryside in southern Portugal, close to nature. I left my corporate career behind four years ago and now work as a breathwork facilitator and coach, offering sessions, workshops, and retreats. I continue to follow that glimpse, that insight from back then, which has led me to ashrams, the jungle, lonely mountains, extraordinary states of consciousness, and into my body and heart.

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Breathwork has been one of the most profound tools for transformation I’ve encountered. After becoming more and more intimate with my breath through meditation, I experienced powerful breathwork sessions.

 

These helped me feel and release stuck emotions and led me into expansive states of consciousness where I found clarity, trust, and a deeper sense of connection with myself and life. 

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I kept following this guidance and completed a 10-month facilitator training. My intention was to deepen my own inner work, but coming out on the other side and seeing the impact breathwork had on me and so many others, I felt a clear calling to share this work.​​