Hey there

Pleased to meet you!

I'm Irene or here also Irenesa Mountains. And I am a certified hiking and breathing guide, as well as a yoga teacher.

Ever since I can remember, I've spent time in the mountains. Growing up in the Italian Alps of South Tyrol provided the perfect environment. Summits were basically engraved into my being from day 1. Conscious breathing, although wasn't. That is something I had to find along the way. And to explore its depths, I had to leave home.

After high school I took off and basically didn't really return for a decade. I made other corners of the world my home. I went roadtripping in Australia. Studied Communication Science and English Languages and Literature in Munich and Cape Town. Explored mountains, lakes and oceans in New Zealand while living in a car. Fell in love with the body, when learning Thai Massage in Thailand. Got the whole load of spirituality in India and practiced Vipassana meditation. I climbed countless summits in Switzerland, while changing my profession from writing to teaching in Montessori schools and preschools. Florence taught me arts and drawing and painting. And South Africa gave me pure love in all aspects of life and made me return to meditation and my breath with even more devotion by showing me my way into breathwork.

In 2021 I made South Tyrol my base camp as it is the ideal location for hiking. And every now and then I leave for a little while to explore another part of the world - always taking the breath along.

The path of living in more awareness has helped me through the darkest nights of the soul. And my biggest therapists along the way are nature with its majestic mountains and my own breath as meditation that connects me to myself over and over again.