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Steffen’s journey into breathwork began in 2024, when he travelled to the Sacred Valley in Peru to immerse himself in his first breathwork training. What began as a search for deeper understanding soon became a profound personal journey. Since then, meditation, yoga and conscious breathing have become an integral part of his everyday life. For many months, he has dedicated an hour each day to meditation, alongside a daily practice of yoga asanas and breathwork techniques.

Steffen with Wolf Kinsmen in Peru

Looking back, Steffen never imagined that life would one day lead him here.

Born in 1986 and raised in Hessen, Germany, his early life was shaped by a very different dream. He attended a school of the German Football Association with the ambition of becoming a professional football player. At 19, a knee injury changed the direction of his life.

After finishing school, he moved to the United States, where he lived and worked with children with special needs. Later, he studied mechanical engineering and business, spending periods of his life in Spain and completing postgraduate studies in Vienna, Austria. His professional path eventually led him into the running shoe industry and later into electric mobility, where he worked with the intention of contributing to more sustainable ways of moving people.

For many years, this path made sense.

But life has a way of changing, sometimes long before we consciously recognise it.

One of the quieter beginnings of Steffen’s transformation was his relationship with yoga. He started practising regularly online with an open-hearted teacher in the Chiemgau region of southern Germany. At first, it was simply a practice — a way of moving, breathing and coming into contact with his body.

Over time, something deeper began to happen.

Yoga slowly opened something in him. His body became more receptive, his awareness more subtle, and his relationship with himself began to change. Without knowing where it might lead, he was gradually creating space for something that had not yet found a name.

Then came a moment in Patagonia.

During a bikepacking journey in 2022, Steffen found himself cycling up a steep hill against a strong headwind. At some point, he stopped, got off his bicycle and began to push it uphill.

There was nobody around. No one was watching. And yet, he could clearly feel the voice of his inner critic questioning why he would possibly get off the bike.

Something about that moment stayed with him.

For perhaps the first time, he consciously allowed himself to step out of the expectations of his own ego — to stop fighting against what was happening and simply surrender to the mountain, the wind and his own nature.

It was a small moment on the outside, but an important one on the inside.

After several weeks in Patagonia, Steffen returned to his job in a large engineering corporation. Life continued, but something had shifted. Over the following year, the working environment and the nature of his responsibilities were changing increasingly, while the broader direction and goals of the company no longer felt aligned with where he was in his own life.

It wasn't that the path was wrong.

It simply no longer felt like his.

The growing feeling that his outer life and his inner values were moving in different directions became harder to ignore. Eventually, Steffen chose to leave the security of his corporate career and much of what had previously defined his life.

He didn't have a perfectly clear plan for what would come next.

He simply knew that he needed to create space to find out.

The journey that followed took him first through Europe and then for several months through South and Central America. The journey became much more than a change of scenery. It became an encounter with different ways of seeing and experiencing the relationship between human beings and the natural world.

In the Amazon, Steffen was deeply touched by the connection that local people and Indigenous communities maintain with the rainforest and the living world around them. Nature was not experienced simply as something outside of oneself, but as something deeply interconnected with life, community and being.

Later, travelling through the Andean mountains of Peru and Bolivia, he encountered another expression of this connection. The people and cultures of the Andes carry a deep relationship with the mountains, the land and the forces of nature — a relationship that is woven into everyday life, tradition and spirituality.

These experiences left a lasting impression on Steffen. They offered him perspectives that were very different from the increasingly disconnected relationship with nature he had known from modern Western life, and invited him to question where human beings place themselves within the larger web of life.

It was during this journey through South America that he eventually arrived in the Sacred Valley of Peru and completed his first breathwork education.

The experience moved him deeply.

Breathwork opened a door to a world he wanted to understand more fully — not only as a practice, but as a way of exploring the relationship between body, breath, mind and inner experience.

And in many ways, it felt like a natural continuation of something that had already been unfolding through yoga, meditation and his encounters with nature.

When he returned from Peru, he knew he wanted to go deeper.

In 2025, Steffen completed a second, seven-month breathwork training near Munich. The training was both deeply experiential and rich in knowledge and practice. It gave him space to continue exploring his own inner processes while developing a deeper understanding of the breath and its potential to support transformation.

Today, Steffen sees his journey not as a sudden change of direction, but as a path that has been unfolding for a long time.

The football field, the injury, the United States, his studies, Spain, Vienna, his years in industry, the mountains of Patagonia, yoga, meditation, the people and landscapes of South and Central America, and eventually the Sacred Valley — each chapter has shaped the one that followed.

What began as a life lived largely through doing, achieving and moving forward has gradually become an invitation to also pause, listen and feel.

For Steffen, breathwork is not about becoming someone else. It is an invitation to become more present with what is already there — to listen to the body, to explore the inner world with curiosity, and to create enough space for something new to unfold.

His own journey continues.

And it is from this place of ongoing exploration, practice and experience that Steffen holds space for others on their own journeys.