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MEET MALENA, FOUNDER OF WAVES WITHIN

Hi, I'm Malena

I help people reconnect to themselves, their essence and their inner power.

Breathwork & somatic coaching in Cologne and Cape Town, for people who built a life that looks free on the outside, and want to actually feel it on the inside.

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My Story

I know what it costs to look free on the outside and feel scattered on the inside.

For years, my life looked like a dream from the outside. Working remotely, traveling and surfing around the world, adventure after adventure, full freedom. And every few months, the same emptiness came back. I got very good at distracting myself on the outside. Always the next experience, the next project, the next place. I didn't realize as much as I loved chasing these peak experiences, I lost touch with myself. I was running and distracting myself from feeling what I had pushed down my whole life as I never learned how to navigate it. I got in a cycle of Freedom, Abdonment and Belonging while loosing touch with myself. Challenged with anxiety, poor sleep, lack of focus as soon as everything around me got quiet.

Then came my first real breathwork session. I walked in fresh off an anxiety attack, the kind that used to leave me stuck in my head for days. An hour later, something had shifted. My nervous system moved from chaos to calm, and for the first time in years I felt fully connected to myself again. That session gave this business its name. Waves Within, because the waves don't stop. Life keeps moving, feelings keep coming. The work isn't to make them disappear. It's to learn how to move with them, instead of drowning in or running from them. But navigating and processing our inner states in a healthy way is something most of us never learned growing up. 

Today I know what I want: aliveness, lightness, presence, real connection, and to actually enjoy my life, especially on the hard days. I'm not perfect. But I'm finally home in myself. And that's exactly what I help others find now.

WHY THIS WORK

Most approaches work on the mind.
I work with the body.

Coaching, therapy, personal development — most of it gives you tools, strategies, frameworks. And still, something doesn't shift. Because the mind is very good at keeping you functional. It's not so good at helping you feel alive again.

Through Holosomatic Breathwork and somatic practices, I help you access what the mind can't reach — your nervous system, your stored emotions, the parts of you that got quiet along the way.

Not to fix you. But to bring you back in your own power. Centered. Connected. Alive.

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A little about my background

ABOUT ME

We design products to work better. What if we approached our inner world with the same intention?

Before this work, I spent years as a UX/UI and Product Designer, crafting seamless digital experiences for leading brands. Along the way, I kept seeing the same pattern: stress, overthinking, burnout, and disconnection weren't just hurting people's performance and creativity. They were shaping their entire experience of work, and of life. I was one of them.

Most of us learn how to succeed long before we learn how to feel safe, present, or truly connected to ourselves. That realization is what moved me from designing external experiences to exploring the inner one — the foundation of Waves Within. The same care we bring to a product's clarity and flow, we can bring to our own nervous system.

 

Since then I've trained in Holosomatic Breathwork (400+ hours), yoga & meditation, and practical psychology-based coaching. But the training matters less than the fact that I've lived this. I'm not guiding you from a stage. I'm walking next to you, further down the same path.

WHAT CLIENTS ARE SAYING

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I know what it costs to look free on the outside and queitly feel scattered on the inside.

For years, my life looked like a dream from the outside. Working remotely, traveling and surfing around the world, adventure after adventure, full freedom. And every few months, the same emptiness came back. I got very good at distracting myself on the outside. Always the next experience, the next project, the next place. I didn't realize I had completely lost touch with myself, with what I actually wanted, with what I actually felt.

Breathwork was the first thing that cut through the noise. Not because it fixed me. But because it brought me back to myself and to what actually matters to me. Today I know what I want: aliveness, lightness, presence, genuine connections and to actually enjoy my life, especially on the hard days. I'm not perfect. But I'm finally home in myself and can create from a place of inner alignment. And that's exactly what I create spaces for now, helping others to achieve the same.

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Every journey starts with a conversation. If something in you is ready to stop performing and start feeling, I'd love to meet you.

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