Men's coach and breathwork facilitator · Ubud, Bali

You already knowwhat's wrong.Knowing hasn't changed it.

Six years of men's work in Bali. Breathwork, somatic tracing and structured physical confrontation, for men who are done trying to think their way out of it.

  • The Contact Room, Bali
  • Contact 1:1
  • Rites of Passage
  • Online coaching
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The body holds wisdom the mind doesn't.

That isn't a metaphor. Your chest tightens before you know why. Your voice rises before you decide to raise it. The body gets there first, every time, and no amount of reading about it changes what happens in your chest at 8pm on a Tuesday. So we start there instead.

Who this is for

Two men usually find me.

Different doors, same room. Nothing here is written down to either one of you.

01

You've hit the wall

Something broke, or is breaking. The relationship, the business, the version of yourself you could hold together. You've got no language for what's happening in your body and you're not sure you want any.

You don't need to arrive with vocabulary. You need somewhere to put it.

02

You're already in it

Coaching. Therapy. Retreats. Workshops. Attachment styles. Inner child work. Somatic work. Parts work. All of it. You understand your patterns better than most people in the room.

And you still snap at her. Insight isn't the missing piece. Contact is.

The method

Breathe. Feel. Stay.

Three moves, in that order.

Online it becomes Breathe. Feel. Move. Same mechanism, no gloves. The order never changes, because skipping the first step is why the work didn't hold last time.

  1. 01

    Breathe

    Regulate first. Nothing useful happens in a nervous system that is still bracing. Somatic breathwork drops you underneath the story you've told about yourself, into the state where the body will actually speak.

  2. 02

    Feel

    Somatic tracing, parts work, inner child work. We find exactly where it lives. Fire in the belly, tightness across the chest, the throat closing. Then we stay there long enough for it to say what it came to say.

  3. 03

    Stay

    Then pressure, and you stay in it. In person that means gloves on and someone in front of you, so you can watch what you do under it in real time and come back when you go. Online the body still moves. Either way you stop leaving the moment it gets hot.

Work with me

Two ways in.

One runs online from anywhere. One happens in a room in Bali with your hands wrapped. Both run the same process.

Online · 1:1

Reclamation

Breathe. Feel. Move.

Private coaching over video, from anywhere. The full mechanism adapted for the screen: breathwork, somatic tracing, parts and inner child work, week by week, with the pattern named as it happens rather than after.

  • Weekly 1:1 sessions. Live, on video. Breathwork led in the session, not sent as homework.
  • Somatic tracing. Finding where the pattern sits in your body and staying with it.
  • Parts and inner child work. The part that people pleases, the part that explodes, the boy underneath both.
  • Support between sessions. For the Tuesday nights, which is where the actual work happens.
Enquire about Reclamation
In person · Bali and Portugal

The Contact Method

Breathe. Feel. Stay.

The in person work. Breathwork and somatic work with structured physical confrontation added, held in a room with other men. This is the piece almost nobody else in this space is doing.

  • The Contact Room. Group workshop in Bali. Gloves on, boxing as the modality, the nervous system as the subject.
  • Contact 1:1. Four sessions over four weeks. Same modality, private, with somatic tracking and parts work.
  • Men's circles. Being seen, heard and held accountable by a group of men. Brotherhood is the medicine.
  • Rites of Passage. Six day journey. Bali in May, Portugal in September. Co-facilitated.
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The Contact Room3:2 · 1800 x 1200 · Gloves and pads mid round, motion blur, low light. Faces partly out of frame.
Men's circle3:2 · 1800 x 1200 · Group of men seated in a circle, candid, one man speaking, warm low light.

Rites of Passage · Bali and Portugal

Most men are never initiated.

Men used to be brought through by pain, by challenge, by something with real risk in it. The fear was part of it. We don't have that anymore, and nobody teaches us how to be men, so we work it out alone and mostly we work it out badly. Six days, a small group, and a process built to give you the thing that got taken out.

Ask about the next journey
Portrait4:5 · 1600 x 2000 · Mikkail on location in Bali, natural light, no studio look. Chest up, not smiling for the camera.

My story

Ten years on boats, calling it freedom.

I had a boat in Mexico. Sailed around, worked superyachts, two months on and two months off. Hundreds of skydives, BASE jumping, long solo passages offshore. I loved every bit of the adventure and I was very good at leaving.

What I couldn't do was stay. The moment I put roots down anywhere I felt my freedom being taken. It took me years to see that the boat wasn't only freedom. It was escape. From responsibility, from the world, from committing to anything all the way.

All of it was scary. All of it was easier than walking into a room full of men knowing I'd have to face myself.

I spent years in victim mentality. Blaming partners, the boss, my parents. Then came the part that was hard to swallow: the common denominator in every single one of those situations was me. That realisation cost me something and it gave me my power back.

I still get activated. I still feel all of it, and sometimes I still snap, usually when I'm tired or running on empty. What changed is that I can name it out loud while it's happening instead of three days later. That's the whole thing I teach.

Training and lineage

Who I trained under.

6Years in men's work
6Years facilitating breathwork
3Facilitator qualifications
2Countries hosting retreats
Breathwork Detox Facilitator
Trained under Kurtis Lee Thomas
Somatic Breathwork Facilitator
Trained under Steven Jaggers, founder of SOMA+IQ
ERMP Facilitator and Practitioner
Trauma informed nervous system regulation, created by Pierre Etienne
Mentored by Jan-Willem van der Heiden
My own coaching technique is built on his
Men's circles, transformational spaces, Rites of Passage
Six years facilitating, Bali and Portugal

Yours when you finish the quiz

Reclamation

The ebook is my own account of the pattern: reactive, then ashamed, then people pleasing, then resentful, traced back to a boy who scanned every room to work out what people wanted. If any of that sounds familiar, start here.

Take the Pressure Test

Two minutes. You get your pattern, and the ebook lands in your inbox straight after.

  • The Reclamation ebook. The full pattern, written plainly, with what actually shifted it.
  • Breathwork, done live with me. On a call, not a download. I record it on the day so it is yours to keep.
  • An honest read on where you are. Tell me what is going on and I will tell you if this is your room.

Questions

Before you ask.

Do I need to know how to fight?

No, and it helps if you don't. Most men who walk in have never thrown a punch. The boxing isn't the point, the pressure is. Gloves on gives your nervous system something real to respond to, so you can watch what you do under it in real time. Nobody gets hurt and nobody has anything to prove.

What if I freeze?

Then we have found the thing. Freezing is information, not failure. Most of the useful work in that room happens in the moment a man notices he has gone somewhere else and comes back.

What's the difference between Reclamation and The Contact Method?

Reclamation is the online 1:1 work. Breathwork, somatic tracing, parts and inner child work over video, from anywhere. The Contact Method is in person, in Bali and Portugal, with physical confrontation added. Same mechanism, different room.

Do I need experience with this kind of work?

No. Some men arrive at a breaking point with no language for any of it. Others are three years into their own practice and want to go further. Both are welcome and neither gets talked down to.

Is this therapy?

No. This is coaching and facilitation, trauma informed, working bottom up through the body. It sits alongside therapy well and it doesn't replace clinical care. If you're in crisis, get clinical support first and we can work together after.

Where does the work happen?

Ubud, Bali for the Contact Room, men's circles and Contact 1:1. Rites of Passage runs in Bali in May and Portugal in September. Reclamation runs online, wherever you are.

How much does it cost?

Pricing is set per container and I'll give you the real number on the call, not before. Worth naming though: most men who tell me they can't afford this will spend three or four hundred dollars in a night without blinking. I was one of them.

Nothing changes from reading about it.

Send me a message and tell me what's going on. I read them myself and I'll tell you honestly whether this is the right room for you.