Breathwork  ·  Somatic Therapy  ·  Parts Work  ·  Nervous System

Your nervous system
is either your greatest
obstacle, or your
greatest ally.

I work with people who understand their patterns and still repeat them. Real change doesn't happen in the mind. It happens in the body.

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Erik Ferrarese
IBFICF Certified
100+Clients
4Continents
100+Clients
IBF & ICFCertified
4Continents of Training
6Countries
10+Years Under Pressure
Erik Ferrarese leading a group breathwork session
"The room changes when everyone breathes together." Corporate Breathwork Session  ·  Zurich

“The power to change was never missing. It was stored somewhere your mind couldn't reach.”

Sound familiar?

You have done everything right.
Something still does not move.

You take a week off. Day one and two you relax. By day three you are already planning your return.
You have tried therapy. You understand your patterns perfectly. You repeat them anyway.
You track your HRV, optimize your sleep, follow the protocols. The metrics are green. You still blow up at the wrong moment.
You know what you should do. You keep not doing it.
You appear completely in control. Inside, you are running on empty.

This is not a discipline problem. This is not a motivation problem. This is a nervous system running a programme you did not consciously install. And no amount of insight changes a programme that lives below thought.

Erik Ferrarese, in session
About Erik

I left the corporate world
to do the work I actually
believe in.

I spent years in banking and consulting across Paris, Vienna, Beijing, and Zurich. I performed well. I optimised everything. And underneath all of it, something wasn't moving.

Then in a short period, I lost my father, a relationship I thought would last, and an identity I had spent years building. For the first time, pushing didn't work. I went into the work, breathwork, somatic practice, nervous system training, ceremonial medicine. What I found changed everything.

I don't guide people where I haven't already been.

IBF & ICF Certified Practitioner
Somatic Nervous System Training
IFS, Internal Family Systems
Trauma-Informed Practice
Rebirthing  ·  Shamanic Breathwork  ·  Pranayama  ·  Tantra
Certified Bufo (5-MeO-DMT) Facilitator
The process

Three steps. No mystery.

Most people do not book because they do not know what to expect. Here is exactly what happens.

01
Free 15-min call

We talk.

I ask two questions. You do most of the talking. I tell you honestly whether this work makes sense for you right now. If it does not, I will be the first to say so. No pitch. No pressure.

02
First session

We map.

We locate where the pattern lives in your body. Not in theory. In practice. You leave the first session already knowing something you did not know before you walked in.

03
The work

It shifts.

Most people feel something move in session one that has not moved in years. The work continues until the change is permanent. Not managed. Not coped with. Changed.

“AI transitions don't fail on the technology. They fail on the humans running it.”

For founders in the age of AI

You're scaling with AI.
Your nervous system didn't get the memo.

Your AI transition isn't only a technology problem — it's a human one. You adopt tool after tool, output is up, and so is your baseline stress. You don't need more AI fluency. You need the nervous-system capacity to lead through the change — to decide from calm, not cortisol, while everything accelerates. I help founders, operators and knowledge workers down-regulate on demand, so they can build with AI and stay clear, calm and human.

Regulate

Down-regulate on demand

Simple, body-based tools you can use between back-to-back calls or before a high-stakes moment.

Lead

Decide from calm, not cortisol

Leading an AI transition means constant change. Better calls come from a settled system, not fight-or-flight.

Sustain

Hold the pace without burning out

Speed without regulation is just faster burnout. Build a system that protects your energy.

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The Regulated Founder

5 nervous-system resets you can do between calls — no app, no 20-minute meditation. Plus a weekly note on building with AI without burning out.

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Work with me

Six ways in.
All of them lead somewhere real.

Start wherever makes sense for where you are right now. Every path goes through a real conversation, no automated checkout, no algorithm. Just us.

Private  ·  1:1  ·  CHF 500

3-Session Private Block

Three 90-minute private sessions combining breathwork, somatic therapy, and parts work (IFS). One arc, three weeks. The shift you have been trying to create with everything else.

Book via Calendly Deep Work  ·  90 Days  ·  Price Upon Request

Reset. Restart. Integrate.

A 90-day immersive programme for people ready to go all the way in. Breathwork, somatic therapy, parts work, and nervous system regulation woven into a structured arc of transformation. Not sessions. A complete reset.

Book via Calendly
Free  ·  Toolkit

The Regulated Founder

5 nervous-system resets you can do between calls — no app, no 20-minute meditation. Delivered to your inbox, plus a weekly note on building with AI without burning out.

Get the free toolkit
Coming Soon Online  ·  Self-Paced  ·  CHF 97

The Nervous System Reset Programme

6 online sessions, breathwork, somatic release, and nervous system regulation. A progressive arc. The last session is the one people remember.

Available soon
Group, Corporate & Speaking
Group  ·  Live

Events & Group Sessions

Live breathwork and somatic group sessions, in person and online. A shared space to go deep together.

Reserve your spot Speaking  ·  Keynote

Keynote Speaker

Talks on human performance under pressure, nervous system leadership, and the intersection of AI strategy and human transformation. Available for conferences, corporate events, and leadership summits.

Book a talk Teams  ·  Corporate

For Your Team

Multiple workshop formats and a 6-month programme designed to change how your team performs under sustained pressure. Not a wellness day. A measurable performance intervention.

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Before you move on

You might be thinking...

"I have already tried therapy and it did not fix it."
Therapy works at the level of insight. This works at the level where the pattern actually lives: the body. They are not competing approaches. They are different floors of the same building. Most people who come here have done years of excellent therapy. That work made this work possible. But insight alone does not change a nervous system.
"I am not sure I believe in breathwork."
You do not have to. Your nervous system does not require your belief. It just requires your breath. The first session will show you more than anything I can say here.
"Is this actually for me?"
If you have spent years understanding yourself deeply and still find yourself repeating the same patterns under pressure, yes. This is precisely for you. The people who get the most out of this work are not beginners. They are people who have done a lot of work already and hit a ceiling they cannot think their way through.
"What if nothing happens?"
Book the free 15-minute call first. If after that conversation you do not feel that something real is possible here, do not go further. But in my experience, that call is usually where the shift begins.

I work with a limited number of clients at a time. If something here is landing, the right moment to reach out is now.

The next step is simple

The part of you that knows something needs to change
brought you here.

Do not leave without booking the call. It is 15 minutes. It costs nothing. And it might be the most useful conversation you have this year.

Book your free 15-min call

No pitch. No obligation. Just an honest conversation.

What people say

In their own words.

I'm a professional dancer. In these years I had already done psychotherapy, yoga, meditation, but there was something coiled in my belly that I'd been carrying for years, without even knowing it was there, and that brought me to pause my career. Over six sessions with Erik we touched levels of depth I had never reached before. In one of those sessions I felt it unwind. I felt physically lighter. I didn't know I had that much power inside me.
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Chiara C.
Professional dancer and student
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I'm a clinical psychologist. Despite years of therapy, meditation, and my own somatic practices, I was holding so much tension that I was heading straight into burnout. In my session with Erik, his mix of softness and strength allowed me to drop into a deeply altered state and finally release the heavy burden I'd been carrying. Since then, I feel lighter. I am finally trusting my own pace instead of trying to keep up with the world.
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Danielle M.
Clinical psychologist
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I am a professional athlete. Performance has always been my world, but there was a layer I could not access alone, no matter how hard I trained. Erik lifts the curtain on the science simply and clearly, so it makes sense in the body, not just the head. We worked on a trauma from when I was 9 years old, something I had been carrying for decades without fully realising how much it still affected me. In our sessions, something shifted that years of training had never touched.
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Charlie F.
Professional athlete
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