ABOUT HANNO WINDISCH

Hanno is an ocean explorer and wellness pioneer dedicated to helping people unlock their full potential through breathwork and nature connection. As founder of award-winning Freedive Northern Ireland and co-founder of Seascape Wellness Studio, he has built his career around one mission: inspiring others to become the best version of themselves.

Through breathwork and ocean immersion, Hanno has witnessed profound shifts in mental health and wellbeing. His work helps people reconnect with themselves—quieting mental noise, releasing stress and anxiety, and developing genuinely positive outlooks. When you're floating in a sea cave or watching seals glide past in crystal-clear water, something fundamental shifts. The ocean becomes a mirror, breathwork becomes a key, and transformation becomes inevitable.

The Waterman

As an Advanced Freedive Instructor, Beach Lifeguard, SOMA Breath instructor, and big wave surfer, Hanno brings unique expertise beyond Northern Ireland's wild Atlantic waters—from navigating along stunning cliffs to experiencing powerful moments in nature and guiding transformative breathwork sessions.

Featured on BBC One's North Coast Riders and Channel 4's Man vs Wave alongside legendary big wave surfer Al Mennie, Hanno has showcased how breathwork is a transformative tool that makes the difference between panic and flow in all life situations.

Beyond credentials and media appearances lies his true calling: helping people realise they're capable of far more than they believed. Participants arrive carrying stress, anxiety, and disconnection. They leave with embodied practices that shift their nervous system, quiet their mind, and reconnect them to calm and capability they'd forgotten existed.

Science Meets Adventure

Hanno bridges ancient breathing wisdom with cutting-edge performance science, serving diverse audiences: athletic performance courses for endurance athletes, cycle-synced breathwork for women, overcoming mental health issues, and corporate team-building.

As a keynote speaker at the Tourism & Wellness Summit at Ulster University and a WiSe (Wildlife Safe) accredited operator, he is recognised as a thought leader in sustainable adventure tourism and ocean wellness.

Beyond Northern Ireland

Hanno leads immersive domestic and international wellness retreats that combine snorkelling, hiking, cultural exploration, and transformative breathwork. Away from daily distractions, participants discover more confident, capable versions of themselves—reconnecting with nature and their own inner strength, developing positive outlooks, and returning home inspired to live as their best selves.
Through breathwork and nature immersion, he guides people back to themselves—to calm, clarity, capability, and genuine optimism about what's possible.

His work has helped thousands reconnect with themselves and create lasting positive change. They leave with a fundamentally different relationship to stress, challenge, and their own potential.

As one student said: "I didn't know I was capable of this. Hanno showed me a version of myself I'd never met before."

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