Farah Bernard
Founder of Alchemia
“My own journey was far from linear.
I lived with addiction, chronic depression, and labels that never told the full story.
Years of therapy helped me understand my story, but I was still stuck in the same loops.
It felt like my body hadn’t caught up with what my mind had already unpacked.
Then came breathwork.
In one holotropic session, I accessed a space beyond thought where emotion, memory, and energy lived in my cells.
It cracked something open.
That moment set me on a path of deeper study and practice.
I trained extensively in trauma-informed breathwork, somatics, hypnosis, energy work, and integrative trauma therapy.
And along the way, I learned something essential:
Healing doesn’t just happen through understanding your past, it happens by learning how to fully be with yourself in the present.
By trusting the body’s wisdom.
By showing up again and again with devotion, not perfection.
Alchemia was born not just from my own healing,
but from the stories of so many breathers I’ve had the honor to guide.
People who feel deeply.
Who want to transform.
Who crave a space where they don’t have to explain their sensitivity, their rage, their grief, their magic.
I’m not here to fix you.
I’m here to walk with you as you reconnect with what’s already alive inside you —
the power, the safety, the wisdom in your body.
I’m here to walk beside you as you come home to yourself.
Again and again.”