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PhD Petri Berndtson has been described as a thinker who has an immense philosophical imagination. He is a respiratory philosopher, researcher, entrepreneur and wellness coach. Petri is enthusiastic about breathing, embodiment, spirituality, philosophy, experience, meditation, creativity, poetry, religion, politics, stand-up comedy, well-being and the wonder-full, immense and multidimensional possibilities of humanity.

He is a doctor of philosophy and his PhD thesis in the field of philosophy (University of Jyväskylä 2018) examined phenomenology of breathing. Together with Professor Lenart Škof, Petri coedited the world's first anthology on philosophy of breathing, Atmospheres of Breathing (SUNY Press 2018). Petri's first book Phenomenological Ontology of Breathing: The Respiratory Primacy of Being (Routledge) was published in 2023.

Petri is an inspiring lecturer and workshop leader. He works as a philosophy researcher at the Science and Research Center Koper (Slovenia) and taught philosophy for many years at the Lahti University of Applied Sciences (Finland) and Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts (Norway).

You can book appointment at Petri's philosophical practice (Socratic dialogue, philosophical therapy, thinking skills and philosophical analysis of the world view), as well as meditation guidance and breathwork coach.