Ivan Demers, co-founder of Alchemize Your Life After 50, smiling with his arms crossed in a black jacket at an outdoor market

Work With Ivan

Not carry what you feel.
Finally put it down.

Is This for You?

You handled everything.
That was the problem.

For decades you were the one who figured it out. This is for the man who’s starting to wonder what that cost him.

Ivan Demers seated on a park bench in a white t-shirt, green trees behind him

Why Ivan

He’s been exactly where you are.

I spent close to forty years as a Power Engineer — plants, pipelines, systems built to hold under pressure. I know what it takes to keep something running when everything around it wants to break down. It turns out that knowledge applies to more than plants.

I destroyed my marriage. I was physically present and emotionally unreachable to my daughters for years. I’d survived a plane crash, done some rodeo, outrun more than I want to count — and still, when the life I’d built finally went quiet, I didn’t know how to be in that silence.

The armour that kept you alive at fifteen is the same armour that keeps you numb at fifty-five.

“If the hardest men on the planet could feel and allow themselves to weep — why were the rest of us still holding that armour?”

— Costa Rica retreat, alongside Navy SEALs and an MMA fighter

One-on-One Work

This isn’t a programme. It’s a conversation that changes things.

1:1 Coaching

Private sessions built around what’s actually happening in your life. Ivan draws on somatic breathwork, trauma-informed coaching, and nearly four decades of hard-won experience. You bring what’s real. You work with what’s there.

Breathwork Sessions

The practice that moved Ivan further in one session than decades of white-knuckling ever did. Guided somatic breathwork — for men ready to feel what they’ve been carrying.

Golden Phoenix Breathwork →