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Integration | Embodiment | Balance | Flow
❖ Advanced Certificate in Coaching Practice
❖ Certified Transformational Breath® Group Leader
❖ AIDA Freediving Instructor

16/09/2026

I just published my first article on Substack. It’s an important subject for me and I’d love to hear from you if you’d like to join the conversation. You can read it via the link in my profile.

31/08/2026

Summer in Sahel 🌊☀️

Thanks to everyone who made it such a special first experience for me 😎🫶

20/05/2026

Here is what most of us have been taught: something happened to you, it left its mark, and healing means going back in to find it, process it, release it.

This understanding has guided a great deal of valuable work, and has helped many people feel seen and taken seriously in their suffering.

But the most current neurobiology is now offering something more precise.

And the precision matters, because it changes what we are actually working with.

Your body-mind is not a passive recorder. It is a proactive predictor.

Right now, in this moment, it is generating its best guess about what is happening, what it means, and what is about to come next - based on everything it has ever learned.

What you experience as reality is not a direct readout of the world.

It is the body-mind’s most current forecast, checked against incoming signals, updated where conditions allow.

Which means: what persists after difficult experience is not simply something frozen in the past.

It is a prediction that is still running in the present.

The pattern that keeps returning, the emotional loop, the familiar reaction, the way you find yourself reacting before you have consciously decided anything, is not evidence of damage.

It is evidence of a model that learned something and has not yet been given what it needs to revise itself.

This is not a small distinction. It changes what healing is.

Not excavation, but update.

Not releasing what was stored, but creating the conditions in which an old prediction can finally meet a different reality.

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How Healing Happens
The Art & Science of Restoring Flow
Nūn Center, Cairo
5-6 June

Check the link in my bio for more details

Call the Nūn Center on 01223980898 or send an email to [email protected] to secure your spot
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08/05/2026

You understand the pattern.
You’ve reflected on it. Journaled about it. Talked about it. Maybe even had profound insights around it.
And then somehow… you find yourself back inside it again.

The same emotional loops. The same reactions. The same ways of relating to yourself and others.
At a certain point, the question becomes:
Why doesn’t insight reliably create change?

Maybe the issue isn’t a lack of awareness. Maybe we’ve misunderstood how change actually happens.
What if patterns persist not because you are broken or wounded —
but because your nervous system is still predicting the same world?

Over the coming weeks I’ll be sharing a different way of understanding healing, emotion, and transformation — grounded in neuroscience, embodied experience, and the predictive nature of the mind.

And if you’d like to explore this together in person, here comes my initial invitation.
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How Healing Happens The Art & Science of Restoring Flow
Nūn Center, Cairo
5-6 June

Check the link in my bio for more details.

Call the Nūn Center on 01223980898 or send an email to [email protected] to secure your spot.
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30/04/2026

This article, published today by one of the most cited neuroscientists of all time, validates the new paradigm of understanding what it is to be human that I’ll be exploring in my upcoming course: How Healing Happens: The Art & Science of Restoring Flow.

This is something I’ve been working on for several years (and partly explains why I’ve been so quiet on here recently) and I’m excited to finally be in a position to teach this material!

Comment KNOW THE SCORE for more details.

The key shift?

Trauma is not something stored in the body.

It is something the brain keeps predicting.

What persists after trauma is not a frozen memory, but a pattern of expectations: that the world is unsafe, that something is wrong, that danger is coming.

And so the nervous system doesn’t relive the past… it recreates it.

This changes everything about healing.

We don’t need to “release” trauma as if it’s trapped somewhere inside us.

We need to update the predictions that are shaping our experience in the present.

Because when the predictions change, the experience changes.

And that is how healing happens.

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16/12/2025

An introduction to who I am and how I work. Swipe through to learn about breathwork, somatic facilitation, and what becomes possible when we help the body-mind feel safe enough to release what it’s been holding.

01/05/2025

Back To Basics Siwa Retreat, April 2025
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10/04/2025

A love letter from the masculine to the feminine

Holding Space

I would be the quiet dawn that watches
as you dance your way into morning,
my presence asking nothing, offering only promise—
the way sunlight holds the opening flower
without stifling a single petal.

I would be the steady shore that witnesses
your tides’ endless conversation with the moon,
each intimacy of depth and shallow equally sacred,
each wave of emotion welcome
to break or whisper as it needs.

I would be the patient earth that knows
your roots must find their own way down,
through layers of trust and revelation,
your branches reach toward their own light—
my strength not in shaping your growth
but in standing firm while you unfurl.

I would be the ancient cave, vast with compassion,
where each echo rings with fresh discovery—
holding space for shadow and shimmer alike,
my cool chambers ever-curious, ever-deepening,
as you explore the mysteries that are yours to behold.

For your truth needs no permission,
your beauty no validation but its own being.
I am here only to create the conditions
where you might remember what you’ve always been:
complete, eternal, wild and free.

17/03/2025

Authentic Movement in the desert with and .eg

09/02/2025

Light on Water

Inside, the tides of a body
whisper implicit prophecies—
a shimmer of sensation, searching for shape,
a shiver mistaking itself for fear.

Meaning is a fever dream of eddies—
this flashing flicker, that rushing ripple,
the way a concept catches the current
just enough to feel true.

What is a mind but a wave
that forgets it is water?
What is a body but the echo
of all it has ever been?

Between the seen and the unseen,
I am less fixity than flow,
a surge shaping the riverbank
dissolving as it does so.

The illusion wavers—light on the surface.
Nothing left to grasp, nothing to resist,
the stream moves without asking why,
and suffering sinks to stillness below.

Address

Coral Coast Hotel
Dahab

Telephone

+447763845120

Website

http://lifeandbreath.coach/

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