"It's a life changer!"
HODA KOTB | USA TODAY
In case we haven't met yet.
You may have breathed with me, seen me on a stage, heard me on a podcast, or trained with me. If not, here's who's in front of you.
WHO I AM
A guide with a lifetime of breath
A student of the breath since I was eight. Half English, half Italian, nephew of the philosopher Nicola Abbagnano - though breath taught me more than philosophy could. For half my life I restored castles and monasteries in Italy. Now I read the same structures in people: what they were built for, and the walls they added to feel safe that became the cage they live in.
WHAT I DO
Breathwork, teaching, writing
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Founder of Alchemy of Breath Academy, with 2,000 trained facilitators worldwide
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Pioneer of online breathwork, impacting millions of lives
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Founder of the Alchemy Regulation Method (ARM)
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Co-founder of ASHA Retreat & Community Centre, Tuscany
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Author of Outer Chaos, Inner Calm, creator of the Inner Journey
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Private sessions, retreats, keynotes and teacher trainings
WHY SIT WITH ME
Presence, not performance
I look at the foundation of your life, and where it is out of alignment with your soul's purpose. In presence, I sit alongside you wherever you are on your journey. Through inquiry we find the golden key that lies the bottom of the muddy pond. It's rarely where you thought it was. You'll leave with a clear message to take away with you, and a proper foundation that yoiu can build upon.
Ways to meet
Three doors to the same thing: presence, shared honestly, without the noise.
ONE TO ONE
A private session
Ninety minutes, shaped entirely around where you are right now. It's presence: I sit with you, and you slow down to the speed of a different awareness. Just us, the breath, and what's been waiting to be understood.
90 minutes · by arrangement
AT ASHA, TUSCANY
Walk the land
Come to ASHA, our retreat community centre beneath a medieval village in southern Tuscany. We'll walk the eight rites of passage, breathe with the land, and find the slow, unhurried closeness that a screen can never hold.
Italy · gatherings & retreats
ON YOUR STAGE
Keynotes & events
A talk that leaves a room quieter than it found it. I speak on breath, resilience, and the hero's journey - for gatherings and organisations ready to feel something true, not just hear it. Never the same talk twice.
Tailored to your event
We can make ourselves available for the miraculous.
WHAT OTHERS SAY
In their words.
"The teacher who changed Hoda's life."
JOY 101,
HODA KOTB'S WELLNESS PLATFORM
"Like vegetables for your soul, but way more fun. How can one human be this wise and cheeky?"
JAMIE CATTO,
ARTIST & AUTHOR
"His presence even brings to mind Gandalf. Practical, playful, compassionate wisdom."
MARK WALSH,
EMBODIMENT UNLIMITED
THE MAN BEHIND THE BREATH
A rebel philosopher, not a guru.
Founder of Alchemy of Breath and co-founder of ASHA in Tuscany, Italy. Among the first to bring breathwork online, and still most at home walking the land with a few people learning to breathe.
Decades of practice, freely shared, with the shadow named as readily as the light.
● 40+ years of personal breathing practice
● A global community across more than forty countries
● Author of Outer Chaos, Inner Calm
● Board member, Global Professional Breathwork Alliance
THE WIDER WORK
Where else to find me.
My personal practice is one thread. These are the communities it grew from, and still belongs to.