Pat Divilly

Pat Divilly is an Irish breathwork teacher, coach and author from Galway who now lives and works mostly from Bali. He began as a personal trainer, studied nutrition and exercise science to master's level, and built one of Ireland's first large online fitness businesses before leaving that world to speak and run workshops on inner life. A first conscious breathing session at a festival in Costa Rica turned him towards the body, and he went on to study relationship work through the Imago and Gottman approaches, bodywork, breathwork and body-based psychotherapy; he is part way through a three-year Core Energetics training.

His teaching joins gentle connected breathing with shadow work and Reich-inspired ideas about the protective patterns people carry in the body. He founded Journey the Breath, a facilitator training that mixes live online classes with a closing weekend in Galway and has certified more than a hundred facilitators in over twenty countries. He also coaches individuals privately and runs programmes for workplace teams. His books include Shadow Work and Fit Mind, he hosted a long-running podcast, and he shares guided breathing, relaxation and stillness practices freely online.