About husma
Husma Retreats was founded by Alex & Martina while running their own yoga retreat center on the beach in Sri Lanka (Green Peace Inn - Yoga | Health | Retreats) for over 6 years. The intention behind creating a new project was to make it more international, to bring their retreats to other countries, and to have a stronger focus on life-changing breathwork and yoga practices. All their knowledge from holding various retreats and completing training courses from around the world comes together in husma retreats.
In Sinhala (the native language in Sri Lanka), husma means "breath", which is the core focus of all husma retreats.
Alexander Keil
Alex has been practising Vipassana Meditation since 2009 alongside many years of Yoga. In this time he has acquired different Yoga Teacher Trainings and completed an additional Breathwork Teacher Training under Anthony Abbagnano from Alchemy of Breath Institute and trained with other breathwork schools.
Alex passion is to discover the power of the breath, emotions, mind, and anything our bodies consume. He spent more than 12 years practicing meditation, which is for him, the foundation for almost everything. From attending many retreats, workshops, and courses around the world, He is combining everything he learned and will be sharing from these traditions, which have been further developed through his own practice.
By running his own web & IT company for 10 years, he knows the challenges of a busy and stressful life.
Martina Drechsel
Martina’s purpose in life is to share, support and give. Her intention is to empower people through breathwork and yoga so they can rise up and see their own purpose and truth. She is a 400hr Hatha yoga, 200hr Synergy yoga, and 100hr Yin yoga teacher. When she is teaching, she creates a safe and sacred space that her students can find stillness in thematic yoga sequences to reconnect with their body, mind, and soul, and feel the balance between strengthening and relaxation with breathing awareness.
She invites her students into their own greatness, offering resources to manage daily life while having some fun along the way ;-). In 2017 she fell in love with breathwork and began to discover Conscious Connected Breathing in her teacher training with Alchemy of Breath. For Martina, breathwork is one of the powerful tools where she experienced a massive shift in herself and saw happen in others. She realised the breathwork practice brings awareness to our life and the decisions we make. Awareness is the first step in CHANGE.