I did not arrive here in a straight line.
I came to this work out of depression. I wanted to find my way back to life, but I did not want to do it through western medicine, and I want to be honest about why.
What I Watched Medication Take, Along With the Pain
I had watched people close to me live their whole lives this way. The medicine they took kept them from sinking into their unhappiness, and for that I am grateful. But it also took something from them. Slowly, quietly, it closed the door not only on their sorrow but on their deepest joy too. They no longer fell into the dark, but they could no longer rise into the light either. They lived in a kind of even, flattened middle, safe, but no longer fully alive.
I knew, watching them, that this was not the way I wanted to heal. I needed something that would not numb the pain, but actually move it. Something that would let me feel everything again, including the joy.
Ten Years of Searching
So I began to search. It was the year 2000, when I first left my home valley to go looking for something I could not yet name. For ten years I travelled and worked my way around the world, until I found my first real practice: a meditation rooted in the simple awareness of the breath. That was the beginning of everything.
From that moment, around 2010, the search became my life. I studied and practiced almost everything I could find: meditation, yoga, Rebirthing, tantra, shamanic and Holotropic breathwork, sound healing, and a long, deep journey into the world of plant medicine and the ceremonies of the Amazon. For years I searched, studying different traditions, breathwork lineages, and sound practices, some of which stuck and many of which didn’t. Retreats, trainings, teachers, books… each one gave me a piece, none of them gave me the whole.
I also spent several years teaching Rebirthing Breathwork. But something in me kept saying this is not it.
The Moment in the Apus
Then, in the Apu mountains of Peru, something cracked open that I didn’t have words for at the time. It wasn’t an idea. It was a felt understanding, in my body, not just my mind, that my purpose was simple. To help people open and return to their hearts. That was the moment Breath of Love was born.
What Breath, Voice, and Sound Do Together
That knowing, what I felt deep in my bone on that path was that breath, voice, and sound together reach places that talking alone never touches. Breath moves what is stuck in the body. Voice lets what is inside find its way out. Sound bypasses the thinking mind entirely and speaks straight to the nervous system, guiding it toward rest.
Why Breath of Love Is Different
Breath of Love grew out of everything I had seen, including what I had watched go wrong. So much breathwork carries a quiet misunderstanding: the idea that the facilitator is the one who heals you. I do not believe that. No one can heal you but yourself. The work of the facilitator is not to fix you, but to hold a space so safe that your own body finally feels free to do what it already knows.
And so much of it is simply too intense: breathing hard for hours, pushed to a place that overwhelms people rather than heals them. I built Breath of Love to be the opposite. Gentle enough that the body feels safe to let go, and resting on one truth: the healer was always you.
Everything I Learned, Gathered Into One Practice
Breath of Love is everything I learned on my path, gathered into one practice: the healing power of breath, voice, and sound. I created it because I needed it first, and because I could not keep it to myself.
That is why you are here too, in a way. Something in you is listening.
What a Breath of Love Session Actually Feels Like
People describe it differently. Some feel physical release, tears, or shaking as the body lets go of what it’s been holding. Others describe deep stillness, a kind of settling they haven’t felt in years. There is no single correct experience. My job, and Chatchada’s, is to meet whatever arises with steadiness, not to steer everyone toward the same outcome.
Where This Is Headed
What began as my own path back to life has grown into something I now get to hold for others. Breath of Love is taught as a full facilitator training, not just the method itself, but how to safely and skillfully hold it for others, alongside sound healing and Voice Liberation. Chatchada, who has walked this path with me for years, brings her own gift for holding a gentle, grounded field, especially for women reconnecting with their bodies and their natural rhythms.
If something in this is speaking to you, the gentlest place to start is the free 15 minute Breath of Love session, the same doorway I would want you to walk through before anything else.
Thank you for being here.
Davide