Robin's Story

His passion is facilitating collective breath ceremonies and teaching teachers. He facilitates a space grounded in science, held from the heart with insight, ceremonial guidance, and humility. Today Robin carries 29 years of experience guiding breathwork and offers a reminder of gentle sweetness with ourselves to take the ‘work’ out of breathwork.

Senior Teacher Trainer of Conscious Connected Breathing, Founder of Breathwave, Founder of Baja Wellness, Doctor of Divinity, and certified yoga instructor. Robin has received initiations from lineages including Transformational Breath, Rebirthing, Shiva Rea, Lakota, Anishinaabe, Navajo, Mexica, Huichol, Canadian First Nations, and several bodywork certifications.

Robin’s healing journey of bridging the east and west in the heart began in British Columbia, Canada, in 1975. In gestation, he was diagnosed with a heart murmur and experienced a medical environment of fear and authority until, thankfully, the advancements of medical practices in open heart surgery saved his life at the age of 4.

At the age of five, with his energy and stamina restored, Robin found the game of hockey and realized his place on the ice was in the net. As a fearless young goaltender, the love for the game of hockey gave him the outlet to come into his power in a crazy world of survival. With much family support and years of early mornings at the rink and on the pond in the winter, Robin eventually found himself travelling in his teens playing junior hockey at a regional level.

In 1995, Robin lost interest in competition in a tough guy’s sport and decided to travel as far away as he could to learn how to surf. He chose New Zealand and Australia, where he was blessed with a profound encounter with dolphins in the wild and found true freedom in the ocean.

In 1997, during a surf trip to Mexico, Robin found himself with a cracked rib after a good humbling by the power of “Mother Ocean,” which brought him to the home of Dr. Sunday Myers, a chiropractor/healer who put Robin back together again. Robin was fascinated by the work he received from Dr. Myers and lived and apprenticed with him for the next 3 years. He began studying Ashtanga Yoga and dove deep into the apprenticeship of an advanced form of deep tissue bodywork called ‘Postural Integration,’ which combines deep tissue manipulation with breathwork, movement, and reflective body mapping.

Through this self-healing journey with a master teacher, he began his fascination with the anatomy and intelligence of the human body and its relationship with the breath. Robin was discovering that the body holds our emotional history and noticing how the stresses of life can get locked deep into our muscles as chronic tension carrying an emotional charge, influencing not only how we walk, talk, move, and breathe, but also how we think and feel. These embodied patterns, known as “body armour,” can “program” the body to react in certain ways, which can create a downward spiral of symptoms and disease.

After 3 years of working as a holistic massage practitioner in the Los Cabos local community, Robin again became hungry to learn more. In 2001, he studied a practice called Alphabiotics, for which he received a Doctor of Divinity in 2004. Alphabiotics is an applied philosophy of quantum physics confirming that the space within us and around us is far from empty but rather filled with a living essence, that life is a connected network of intelligence, and that our inner world affects the world around us.

He continued to enjoy life in Mexico, to be with the ocean, cradled by Mother Nature’s arms; the water, the tremendous power, and the softness; the timeless rhythm of the waves; and the amazing people of Mexico. Unknowingly, this was guiding Robin towards his next step on the path of life.

Robin was invited to study with the dolphins and the founder and creator of Aqua Cranial Sacral Therapy, Rebecca Goff. Additionally, Robin studied with Harold Dull at Harbin Hot Springs in California, where he learned the art of Watsu. Both Watsu and Cranial Sacral Therapy were a huge shift for him as he began softening his outlook towards life and listening more deeply and patiently.

Robin noted that in water (especially when your ears go under the water), you gain a greater awareness of the breath and breathing patterns. As he began listening to the breath, to the source, and to the story held within his nervous system, he realized that everyone has a unique story… in the form of different stored patterns in the mind and body. This brought Robin back to focus on yoga.

Robin dove deeper into yoga and became a close friend and assistant of Shiva Rea. “I have to hand it to Shiva for stoking the fire in my practice! What she has done for a world of modern practitioners of yoga has given us the permission to break out of our rigid shell and light the fire of our creative potential with the fluidity and grace.”

In 2003, the “First Lady” of the raw foods movement, Wendy Ruddel, brought a technique known as “Transformational Breathing” to Los Cabos, and from his first connected breathing session, Robin knew this was his life’s path coming full circle. These breathing sessions, once a week, were beginning to open him up like an onion from the inside out, peeling away the deep layers of his trauma and experiences as a child with his heart problems. Now he was being continuously immersed in experiences of a shimmering unity with life.

In 2004, Judith Kravitz (the founder of Transformational Breathing) began offering full-week seminars and teacher trainings in Los Cabos. From 2004 to 2009, Robin was blessed and honoured to be guided by Judith. In 2007, Judith named Robin a senior trainer of the Transformational Breath Foundation, and the breath has been his main focus since.

Since branching out to follow the heart's calling to be in a circle and share a ceremonial format based on the elements of life, the Breathwave Facilitators Training program continues to evolve gloriously with each new participant of the Breathwave Tribe.

Robin has spent the last 29 years travelling throughout the winter months and has been blessed with teachings from many traditions and indigenous medicine families. He is now a vibrational medicine specialist.

Sr. Teacher Trainer of Breathwave, founder of BreathWave and Baja Wellness, Doctor of Divinity, and Master of Ministerial Science. Robin has received initiations from lineages including Tibetan Dzogchen, Shiva Rea, Transformational Breath, Lakota, Anishinaabe, Navajo, Mexica, Huichol, First Nations, and several bodywork certifications.

He also shares a gentle Temazcal (Mexica sweat lodge ceremony) through the blessing of his teachers and hereditary BC elders as a collective ceremony of prayer and connection with life.

Currently, Robin offers private coaching, breath ceremonies, retreats, and teacher trainings around the globe as a visionary guide and optimist of the great power within every one of us. Robin has recently returned to British Columbia as an answer to Spirit’s call to establish roots with his family and improve the quality of Conscious Breath Training globally. With a new collective community project on Vancouver Island, Robin and his family are working to co-create a healing sanctuary where they can host. This is a dream that has been alive in his heart for over 15 years, and that is now coming to fruition!

Robin’s passion is teaching teachers and holding ceremonies. He also offers group breath workshops, private breathing sessions, and online one-on-one and group breath ceremonies. He simply enjoys sharing what he loves to contribute to the collective awakening at this special time in human evolution.

“This breathing has literally saved my life! For a large part of my life, I was not sure I wanted to be here; in fact, I nearly died four times before I was an adult. After I received open-heart surgery to save my life at 4 years old, I was fearless and lived life into my teens with total reckless abandon. This unconscious urge to return to spirit is common today in many of us because of the high levels of demand on our complex system. For me, learning to breathe openly and freely has integrated this unconscious pattern, and I have learned that the breath can integrate anything that limits how we live our lives, and therefore the breath gives us the freedom to authentically participate with a deep sense of purpose, joy, and gratitude.”