About me

My journey with breathwork began in 2017, though its roots trace back to my long-standing meditation practice and scientific curiosity. Like many practitioners, I started from a place of healthy skepticism—I needed to see concrete evidence that these practices actually worked.

My first encounter with conscious connected breathwork came during a transformational retreat. While my personal experience was relatively subtle, I witnessed profound shifts in other participants that piqued my intellectual curiosity. What exactly was happening here, and how could conscious breathing create such dramatic effects?

This curiosity led me to the Wim Hof Method, which particularly appealed to my scientific mindset. Here was someone demonstrating, even under laboratory conditions, that conscious breathing could influence supposedly "automatic" bodily processes. I found the empirical validation through seemingly impossible stunts compelling. The method's combination of breathing techniques, cold exposure, and mental focus offered a structured approach to exploring human potential.

Initially, I approached breathwork from a performance optimisation perspective—seeking better energy, clearer thinking, and enhanced wellbeing. The practices delivered on these fronts, but they also revealed something unexpected: the profound importance of embodiment.

Despite many years of meditation practice, I began to recognise that my approach had been predominantly intellectual and somewhat disconnected from the body. Breathwork opened a door to a more integrated way of being, highlighting aspects of development I hadn't fully appreciated before—particularly around emotional intelligence and somatic awareness.

A pivotal moment came in 2018 when I attended my first Holotropic Breathwork session. I went in curious about its reputation for facilitating non-ordinary states of consciousness, but what truly impacted me was serving as a "sitter" for other participants. Witnessing their experiences expanded my understanding of what was possible through breathwork and sparked a deeper investigation into various related conscious connected breathing practices.

Over time, my relationship with breathwork evolved from seeing it as a performance tool to recognizing it as a gateway to deeper clarity, emotional intelligence, and embodied wisdom. This journey has profoundly influenced how I work with clients today—integrating rigorous understanding with respect for the mystery and power of these practices.

What continues to fascinate me is how breathwork bridges different ways of knowing: It satisfies the scientific mind while opening doors to experiential wisdom. It offers immediate practical benefits while supporting deeper transformation. It's both remarkably simple and endlessly deep.

Interestingly, becoming a breathwork facilitator wasn't something I envisioned for myself. Even as I practiced breathwork and experienced its benefits, I saw it primarily as a personal practice rather than a professional path.

My path to breathwork emerged from a deepening recognition that human unfoldment requires more than self-improvement and problem-solving. While I spent much of my professional life focused on intellectual approaches to personal growth and well-being, I began to sense that something essential was missing.

A significant shift occurred for me in 2022. Through encountering the work of philosopher John Vervaeke and his exploration of the "meaning crisis," I realized that while our culture excels at developing intelligence and problem-solving capabilities, we often overlook three equally vital dimensions of human development: wisdom, meaning, and embodiment.

While our society values knowledge accumulation, the cultivation of wisdom—which emerges from integrating different ways of knowing and being—often gets overlooked. Similarly, while we chase success and achievement, the deeper human need for meaning and purpose can get lost. And while there's growing attention to physical health and fitness—which is wonderful—there's a deeper dimension of embodiment that often gets missed: experiencing our bodies not as objects to optimise, but as a source of intelligence and wisdom.

This understanding crystallized my journey over the previous decade. I saw how many approaches to growth, including my own, had been overly focused on the mental and conceptual, missing how wisdom, meaning, and embodied intelligence work together in human development.

As I began to train as a personal development coach, a friend suggested I consider facilitating breathwork as well. At first, I was surprised by the suggestion—it hadn't occurred to me. But as I reflected on it, I realized how perfectly breathwork aligned with what I felt called to share: practices that integrate different ways of knowing and being to support human unfoldment.

At the heart of it, I get a lot out of breathwork and deeply enjoy creating transformative experiences with others. There's something profound about witnessing people awaken to their natural aliveness, whether in the powerful energy of group sessions or the intimate depth of one-on-one work. These moments of genuine connection and shared discovery continue to move and inspire me.

In our busy, often overwhelming world, we need more spaces where we can safely metabolize our experiences and reconnect with what truly matters. While therapy plays a vital role for many people—and I actively refer to therapists when appropriate—most of us are simply navigating the normal complexity of being human. We carry years of unprocessed feelings and experiences, yet have few contexts outside of therapy to explore and integrate them.

What particularly drives me is sharing an approach that transforms how we relate to growth and change. Many of us are exhausted from years of trying to fix, improve, or optimise ourselves—constantly striving to become "better" while never quite feeling like we're enough. When we shift from improvement to unfoldment, from forcing change to creating conditions where natural transformation can occur, something profound happens. Our innate capacity for growth and transformation begins to emerge organically, like a flower naturally turning toward the sun.

I bring this authentic way of growing and changing to breathwork, somatic coaching, and wellness coaching—one that emerges from our deep wisdom rather than from force. This isn't about abandoning our aspirations but about accessing them differently, allowing change to arise from alignment rather than self-improvement.

Through breath and somatic work, we can:

• Feel the aliveness that comes from truly inhabiting our bodies

• Discover the profound relief of being able to fully feel and express our emotions

• Experience the deep peace of coming home to ourselves

• Touch moments of genuine connection and belonging

• Find our way through life's challenges with more grace and wisdom

• Access both practical insights and profound states of awareness

Through these experiences, many discover something extraordinary: what some traditions call the "soma." Beyond viewing the body as an object to control or optimise, we can discover it as a rich field of intelligence and meaning, carrying wisdom that's uniquely personal yet universal. This dimension of embodied experience is largely missing from our culture, yet it offers profound possibilities for how we understand ourselves and relate to life.

I believe our culture deeply needs practices that cultivate this kind of embodied wisdom, alongside other vital dimensions of human development often overlooked in our achievement-focused world. By supporting people in accessing their embodied wisdom and creating spaces for genuine connection, we nurture different dimensions of human flourishing. This includes wisdom, meaning, expanded consciousness, and ecological awareness—vital aspects of human development that complement our culture's focus on achievement and innovation.

This vision isn't about grandiose transformation but about creating spaces where people can discover innate resources and capacities they might not have known they had. I'm continually moved by witnessing how these seemingly simple practices—breathing, moving, feeling—can support such deep and meaningful change.

Today, I see breathwork and somatic work as invaluable tools for our times—bridging knowledge with lived experience, ancient wisdom with contemporary needs. I take joy in holding space for others to discover their own path to wholeness. The privilege of witnessing these journeys and building meaningful relationships through this work continues to deepen my own understanding and growth.

My approach integrates multiple streams of expertise while maintaining a deeply personal touch. I've invested in comprehensive training across several key domains:

Integrative breathwork

My extensive breathwork training spans multiple traditions and approaches, from performance optimisation to breakthrough breathwork modalities. This allows me to draw from diverse tools and perspectives to match your unique needs.

Somatic & embodiment expertise

Advanced training in somatic coaching and embodiment practices enables me to support whole-person integration rather than just technique-focused work.

Developmental coaching

As a developmental coach, I bring sophisticated understanding of adult development to our work together. This foundation helps create contexts for genuine transformation rather than temporary shifts. While I maintain a separate practice focused exclusively on developmental coaching, this expertise deeply informs my breathwork approach.

Consciousness work

My specialised training in supporting non-ordinary states of consciousness equips me to create safe containers for profound experiences, offer skilled preparation and integration support, navigate challenges that may arise in expanded states, and integrate breakthroughs into sustained transformation and growth.

Meditation

Deep experience teaching mindfulness, compassion practices, and yoga nidra helps me bridge traditional wisdom with contemporary applications.

Relational skills

Specialised training in Circling (relational mindfulness) and dialogue facilitation supports creating the trust and attunement essential for this work.

Trauma-informed foundation

Trained in integrative trauma coaching and currently completing the three-year Somatic Experiencing practitioner training, I bring a sophisticated understanding of nervous system regulation and emotional processing to all my work.

Originally from Rio de Janeiro, my journey has taken me through Amsterdam and finally to Sydney, where I've been based for over a decade. My professional background is in academia.