Founder and Lead Facilitator
Diego.
Breathwork facilitator in Koh Samui. 15 years on the island. Over 5,000 people guided. 155 Google reviews at 5.0 stars.
15
Years in Koh Samui
5,000+
People Facilitated
5.0
Google Rating (155 Reviews)
1st
Breathwork on Koh Samui
The Short Version
I have lived in Koh Samui for 15 years. This island is home.
I came to breathwork through freediving, which I have trained in for over a decade. When you spend enough time underwater on a single breath, you learn that the body knows things the mind keeps arguing with. Freediving taught me to trust that.
That same training now shapes everything I do in UNTAMED, a full day experience combining breathwork, ice bath, and a jungle waterfall hike. The breath control I built underwater is the foundation of what I teach above ground.
Then COVID hit. The island emptied overnight. Tourism stopped. The people who stayed were struggling. Not just financially. In their bodies. In their heads. In the weight of not knowing when any of it would end.
So I started offering breathwork and ice baths for free. Just to help. I was the first person to bring this work to Koh Samui.
What Happened Next
What started as a way to help the local community turned into something much bigger. People kept coming back. They brought friends. Then tourists started returning and they found their way to the sessions too. Word spread the way it does on an island. Not through marketing. Through people telling other people that something had shifted in them.
Over the last five years I have facilitated sessions for more than 5,000 people from all over the world. Some come in stressed, burned out, carrying things they cannot name. Some are curious. Some are deeply sceptical. Those are my favourite clients. The sceptical ones have the biggest transformations because they are not performing anything. They are just breathing. And their body does the rest.
Along the way I have dedicated myself to learning everything I can about what it actually means to hold space for another person. Trauma informed facilitation. Authentic relating. Circling. Internal Family Systems. Not because I collect credentials, but because this work touches people in places where you need to know what you are doing.
All my practice is based on science, observation, and grounded experience. Not theory. Not what I read in a book. What I have seen work, thousands of times, in the room.
How I Work
No scripts
Every session responds to who is in the room. I do not read from a playbook. I read the energy, the breathing patterns, the tension in the room, and I guide from there.
No spiritual performance
I am not going to burn sage or tell you about your chakras. This is nervous system work. You breathe, your body responds. Everything else is just decoration.
Safety first
First Aid and emergency oxygen trained. I know the contraindications. I know when to push and when to back off. This work can be intense, and that is exactly why the person holding space needs to know what they are doing.
Sceptics welcome
You do not need to believe in anything for this to work. The people who walk in most unsure are usually the ones who walk out most changed. Your nervous system does not care what you believe. It just responds.
Background and Training
Living in Koh Samui, Thailand. This island is home.
Training in freediving. Apnea Total Level 2 Instructor. This is where breathwork started for me.
People facilitated through breathwork and cold exposure sessions since 2020.
Google rating across 155 reviews. Read them yourself. They are all real.
COVID emptied the island. Started offering breathwork and ice baths for free to help the local community. First person to bring this work to Koh Samui.
Breathing Cold, International Breathwork Foundation, Breatheology, Oxygen Advantage, 450 hour yoga teacher training. First Aid and emergency oxygen administration.
Trauma informed facilitation, authentic relating, circling, Internal Family Systems. Ongoing.
Running UNTAMED, private workshops, and the 21 day Facilitator Course from Koh Samui, Thailand.
Freediving is where all of this started. I still teach freediving courses on Koh Samui through Freediving Koh Samui. If you want to learn to hold your breath underwater, that is the place.
If you want to experience what happens when you combine breath control with cold exposure and raw nature, join UNTAMED.
What People Say
“The experience I had was so profound it genuinely shifted an internal blockage which to this date has remained permanent.”
Florence Nagy UNTAMED
“Both breathing and ice bath are power tools to take to my daily life. As Diego says, to learn to respond and not to react.”
Zohar Shalev Workshop
“We were a group of 8 in a private workshop with Diego, and it was absolutely incredible.”
Or Benodis Private Workshop
“A transformative experience. Started feeling a little down and sore and left feeling more connected.”
Nick Bryden Workshop
155 reviews on Google. All 5 stars. All real people.
Come breathe with me in Koh Samui
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