Who Are David & Cordi
We started Becoming Om Collective because we believe that the kind of healing that actually changes a life doesn't happen on a retreat or in a therapy office. It happens at home, in the day-to-day, in the habits and relationships and patterns you return to every single day.
We're David and Cordi, a married couple living in Mexico with our daughter Sita. This work is our life, not just our business. We do our best to live the practices we teach, and we're honest when we fall short of that.
We are not veterans or first responders. We are not therapists. We are not healers or shamans.
What we are is a team of two people who have spent years apprenticing under teachers from different lineages, running retreats in Peru and Mexico, and building a program that has now guided hundreds of people through their healing journeys.
Alongside us is a team of peer mentors who are veterans, first responders, and trauma survivors themselves. People who have been through this work and chose to come back because they wanted to walk alongside the people still in it.
What The Hell Does “Becoming OM” Even Mean?
In yogic philosophy, Om is the primordial sound/frequency that contains everything - timeless, without limitations. Becoming Om is the journey to return to a sense of oneness, of limitless, of infinite peace and potential.
Our Team
David Zwoboda
David holds a Doctorate in Physical Therapy and spent time working in traditional healthcare before becoming thoroughly disillusioned with a system built around managing symptoms rather than actually healing people. That frustration sent him deep into neuroscience, psychology, contemplative practice, and eventually plant medicine. He started his own holistic practice, ran retreats, and kept following the thread until it led him to this work.
He met Cordi at a retreat in Costa Rica in 2021. What began as a shared spiritual connection became a life, a family, and a business built around the belief that real healing is possible for everyone willing to do the work.
Doctor of Physical Therapy | Mindfulness Coach | Retreat Facilitator | Apprentice under Silvia "Chononmea" and Noe "Metsa Ronin" in the Shipibo tradition
Cordi Zwoboda
What was supposed to be a three-month backpacking trip in 2017 turned into five years of learning from teachers across 33 countries. Yoga and somatic training in Ecuador, India, and Mexico. Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Training with Medicinal Mindfulness in Colorado. Apprenticeship under Shipibo healers in the jungles of Peru.
Cordi records every guided practice in the program herself: the meditations, breathwork, and somatic work that clients come back to long after they've finished. She creates spaces where people feel genuinely safe enough to do the real work, and has spent years learning how to do that from some of the best teachers on the planet.
750hr Registered Yoga Teacher | Certified Guide & Integration Specialist | Breathwork Facilitator | Apprentice under Silvia "Chononmea" and Noe "Metsa Ronin" in the Shipibo tradition
community supportPeer Mentor Team
Alongside David and Cordi, the program is supported by a rotating team of eight peer mentors from the veteran, first responder, and intelligence communities, both men and women, all of whom have been through this work themselves.
Their names and backgrounds are not shared publicly. Some are still active duty. Some hold security clearances. All of them made a deliberate choice to show up for the people coming behind them, and they do that inside the program, in 1:1 support, and in the community.
