Stephan is a school dropout who had no other choice than starting to work at 17 to make it through Life. Soon put in charge of teams of

Stephan is a school dropout who had no other choice than starting to work at 17 to make it through Life. Soon put in charge of teams of workers he was supposed to lead in the only best interest of his employer, he quickly understood that he had to choose side. Standing his ground for what felt right, defending his teams, and refusing privileges made him realise that he could make a difference for people who, just like him, were at the mercy of an unfair system. At 20, he realised he wanted his life to be about improving the life of others and started his career a counsellor for delinquent teenagers and later with homeless people. He then specialized in small groups coaching and projects management; path he followed for a few years and that lead him to work in the cinema industry as a producer for several years. 8 years ago, he suffered a severe depression and the addiction problems that went with it. Working on himself the best he could, he came to realise that by-the-book coaching, therapies and healing processes were far from bringing enough improvements in his life. He relied to martial arts and meditation to find the strength of looking inside and realised that most people, just like him, needed a reconnection process that implied a “Sense of Real”. After getting better, he started to craft and test a program around martial arts principles designed to re-harmonise the body-mind relationship and rendering accessible to anybody the experience of Reality one can have when humbly embracing conflict... Successful with his approach, he decided to change his life and came to live here on Ko Pha Ngan with the desire to develop more self-growth programs. He is also a professional free diver who offers another program applying the same methodology and allowing his client to make an encounter with themselves like never before: the breath-hold diving program. Being himself a clean alcoholic, he knows about the struggles of addiction and is fully aligned with Holina’s vision. He has adapted his programs to give tangible ways to retune to themselves for people suffering/recovering from addiction. His work consists in healing the dynamic triangle between the breath, the relaxation, and the ecology of motion.