The people behind Osmia

I come to this from technology and AI, by way of economics and psychology. Osmia is built the other way round from most of what I have watched get made: to be useful, and then to get out of the way.

The turn came on an ordinary evening. I came home from work drained, sat down with a piece of paper, and let myself properly ask: if I were completely free, where would I go? The answer surprised me — Nepal and India, three months at least. Three months later I was on a plane with a one-way ticket to Kathmandu. I had sold the furniture, ended the lease and quit the job, and I had done no research at all.

What I planned as three months became three years. Ashrams and monasteries, seven-day silent retreats, the birthplace of the Buddha, breathwork taught across several countries and continents, an advanced freediving certification, Bedouin camps in the mountains of Egypt, ice bath and sauna in Sri Lanka, and a long walk into the Himalayas.

What I came back with was not a technique. It was the plain finding that it is not the extraordinary places that change a person — it is the ordinary daily choice about direction. And that is a thing you can practise. Osmia is that practice, written down and handed over.

I teach breathwork, freediving and the cold, and I write most of what you read on this site.

My whole story, in my own words →

I left Argentina at eighteen and spent the next nine years moving through more than sixty countries. I’ve taught yoga and held spaces in many of them — Costa Rica, Thailand, the Philippines, Uruguay, and on cruise ships crossing Europe and the Caribbean.

Teaching across that many countries is what made me the teacher I am. Every room is different, and so is every person in it — different ages, different bodies, different struggles, different things to let go. I’m not the type of teacher who prepares a detailed class. I arrive, feel the room, and do my best to meet what each person in front of me needs.

This is what I’ll do for Osmia. My work is in person: the gatherings, the circles, the retreats.

I’ll see you at every one of them.