I spent my teenage years in the gym, chasing strength. I spent fifteen years on the yoga mat, chasing flexibility. I stayed consistent. I did everything right. And my body never quite worked.

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What I wanted was simple: a body built for adventure. But I believed I had to choose — strength or flexibility, as if they were two things competing for the same body. So I picked one, then the other. I was never satisfied with either.

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Then, on a long, brutal hike through the Alps, my body failed me in a way that made everything clear. It was not flexibility I lacked. It was control — in the positions I could not stabilise. My body had been protecting me from ranges I had never earned the strength to use. Fifteen years of stretching had given me positions I could enter, but never command.

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So I began training those ranges directly — building strength exactly where my body had been closing for protection. Everything changed. I became stronger and more flexible at once, through the same work.

 

The body I had spent twenty years chasing through two practices arrived through one — and with it, the life I had always wanted.

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That realisation led me to find the mountain — Berg Burn. That journey led me to found Bergburn.