Ladakh, India
Up to 16 in group
11 Days Package (10 nights)
About this Retreat
Kevin is an author, speaker, researcher, and former anti-human trafficking advocate who’s spent the last 17 years leading transformational experiences around the world.
Before focusing on respiratory training and nervous system education, Kevin worked in human trafficking prevention. He helped design training programs for private sector employees and government agencies, including airports and seaports, served on advisory boards, and developed safety protocols for frontline staff. Despite this work, he found himself struggling with depression, anxiety, and addiction. His recovery didn’t come from mindset tools or traditional talk therapy. It began when he learned how to use evidence-based breathing and physiological regulation techniques to interrupt stress patterns and stabilize his nervous system.
Since then he’s guided more than 6,000 people through breathwork and ice bath experiences and trained over 100 instructors globally. He's published books on breathwork, spoken at addiction conferences, collaborated with national addiction and first responder associations, and conducted research into the effects of breathing on the brain and heart.
Kevin has studied with NYT best-selling author James Nestor, as well as Tibetan spiritual leaders, including the 8th Chokyong Palga Rinpoche.
Details of this retreat
The India Breath Expedition is an immersive journey centered on connection and self-exploration, set in the Himalayan region of Ladakh. Rather than focusing on a single modality or a tightly scheduled program, the retreat creates space to slow down and explore how we relate to ourselves, to others, and to our environment when daily distractions fall away. The landscape itself plays an active role in the experience, inviting presence, perspective, and reflection throughout the journey.
The core of the retreat weaves together breathwork and connection-based practices. Breathwork is used as a practical tool for nervous system regulation, helping participants work with stress, emotional activation, and internal states as they arise. We don't just "do" breathwork. We teach you breath-based frameworks to increase your self-awareness and emotional intelligence
Alongside this, polarity-based exercises led by the co-host support awareness of balance, boundaries, and presence in a grounded and accessible way. Together, these practices invite participants to explore internal experience and connection without forcing outcomes or performance.
The expedition is deeply informed by its cultural and environmental setting. Participants spend time along the banks of the Indus River, visit ancient meditation caves, and travel through remote mountain villages, experiencing daily life in Ladakh firsthand. As the journey unfolds, the group is immersed in Tibetan Buddhist culture, culminating in participation in a traditional Buddhist festival that offers a powerful sense of shared meaning and connection rooted in place and tradition.
Following the festival, the expedition concludes with a two-day trek through the Himalayan landscape. This portion of the journey is approached as a period of integration rather than physical challenge, offering space to reflect, walk in silence or conversation, and allow insights from the retreat to settle naturally. The simplicity of moving through the terrain together supports a grounded close to the experience.