Not a doctor, just Timo.

I grew up watching my mother come home sick after surgery, year after year, while doctors kept saying they couldn’t really help her. Seeing that as a kid did something to me. Looking back now, I think I coped by taking care of everyone around me so intensely that I slowly forgot to take care of myself.

I became a cook at a young age. Long days, late nights, too little sleep, too much alcohol, always giving, always going. At my heaviest I was 134kg. And even though I genuinely loved making people happy through food, I was running on empty myself.

Then something shifted.

I changed the way I ate, started moving my body again, lost weight, and felt stronger. In 2021 I found the Wim Hof Method — not as some magic fix, but as something that helped me reconnect to myself and to life.

The real turning point came during a summer expedition in Spain with Wim Hof. Standing there in the mountains, breathing with hundreds of people, I suddenly realized how much pain and helplessness I had been carrying from watching my mother struggle for so many years.

Not long after that, I took her to a workshop.

She had lived with chronic pain for more than 20 years and used 300mg of Lyrica daily. During the breathing session, old emotions and memories surfaced that she had carried since childhood. Later that day she stepped into the ice bath with a level of focus and calm I had never seen before. A few months later, she stopped using Lyrica completely.

That experience changed something in me. Not because I suddenly believed I could heal people — actually the opposite.

I realized I had spent most of my life trying to carry things for others that were never mine to carry in the first place.

The Method didn’t teach me how to “fix” people. It taught me how to create space. Space where people can breathe, feel, reconnect, and maybe remember that they are capable of much more than they think.

That’s still how I approach my workshops today: light, human, calm. No pretending. No pressure to be perfect. Just real people learning how to deal with stress by moving through it instead of avoiding it.

As Wim always says:
“What I can, you can learn too.”

In my workshops, people often surprise themselves. Sometimes in very small ways. Sometimes in life-changing ways. Both matter.

And honestly, every workshop teaches me something too.

I’ve learned a lot from Wim and other instructors, but I probably learn the most from the people joining the workshops themselves — through their questions, stories, fears, breakthroughs, and the moments where they suddenly see themselves differently.

I also keep learning and changing myself. That may be one of the most important lessons this whole journey has given me: don’t hold on too tightly to who you think you are supposed to be.

In May 2026, I had the opportunity to assist Wim Hof during a weekend at the Basecamp in Stroe. Not as some achievement to show off, but as a reminder that staying authentic, grounded, and committed eventually opens doors naturally.

I’m not here to act like a guru, healer, or someone who has life completely figured out.

I’m just Timo.

And if my workshops can help people feel a little more calm, connected, capable, or at home in themselves again — then that’s more than enough for me.

Not a doctor, just Timo.

I grew up watching my mother come home sick after surgery, year after year, while doctors kept saying they couldn’t really help her. Seeing that as a kid did something to me. Looking back now, I think I coped by taking care of everyone around me so intensely that I slowly forgot to take care of myself.

I became a cook at a young age. Long days, late nights, too little sleep, too much alcohol, always giving, always going. At my heaviest I was 134kg. And even though I genuinely loved making people happy through food, I was running on empty myself.

Then something shifted.

I changed the way I ate, started moving my body again, lost weight, and felt stronger. In 2021 ...