Ricardo Assis Rosa

There are moments in life when the ground gives way.

Mine came when my marriage collapsed. Everything I thought I knew about being a man came with it. The identity I had spent decades building, husband, father, protector, fell away, and what remained was something I had never learned how to meet.

That collapse became the most important initiation of my life.

It sent me into territory I had spent years quietly avoiding. My own shadow, my grief, my shame, the parts of myself I had never had the courage to look at honestly. And it sent me, eventually, toward the teachers, traditions, and practices that would gradually rebuild something truer than what had fallen.

Eight years later I stand in a different place. Not because the wound disappeared. But because I learned to be in honest relationship with it. And because I found, through that process, the work I am here to do.

I have spent 21 years walking contemplative and ceremonial paths. Twenty years of Tibetan Vajrayana practice. Apprenticeships in the Q'ero tradition of the Andes and the Shipibo lineage of the Amazon. Sweat lodges, vision quests, and ceremonial practices in North and Central American Indigenous traditions. Training in Compassionate Inquiry in the methodologies of Gabor Maté. A doctorate and twenty years of teaching, most recently in Cambridge.

I do not offer this work from theory. I offer it from the inside of having walked it.

For seven years, I have worked with men in one-to-one and group containers, accompanying them into the tenderness beneath their defences and holding space for what wants to emerge. What I have witnessed in that time has confirmed what the traditions always knew:

transformation is possible, healing is relational, and a man who does his inner work does not just change his own life.

If you feel called to this work, I am here. Message me below for a 30min call.