Alchemical BREATH(Work)
Advanced Experiential Practitioner Training beyond conventional breathwork | May 2026 | Portugal
You’ve trained in the deepest modalities (therapy, somatics, breathwork, yoga, constellations, you name it).
You run your own trainings and retreats.
The space you hold is just jaw-dropping.
You either have trained in maybe even several conventional breathwork modalities and they left you wondering and hungry for something more real. Or you've been avoiding breathwork all together thinking to yourself "I don't even like breathwork" and the whole breathwork scene just creeps you out.
And yet... there's something... a whisper... that invites you deeper into the potency of Breath. Breath not as a tool of control and exploitation. But Breath as a thread, a pathway that can lead you places nothing else can reach.
Then you found yourself exactly in the right place. Welcome!
Alchemical BREATH(work) is an entirely different paradigm of being in relationship with your breath and facilitating breath(work) for your clients.
The gap in most breathwork trainings
Most (all?) breathwork certifications teach protocols and frameworks designed to create specific outcomes. They focus on controlling and directing the breath toward predetermined results.
These methods (aka "hammering practices") often lack the nuance, depth and realness. They create big energetic and physiological "wash cycles" without addressing the underlying tensions present in modern bodies or the fragmentation inherent in many conventional approaches.
With Alchemical Breath(Work) we are revolutionizing the whole breathwork industry! And beyond.
Instead of adding more techniques to your toolbox, this training fundamentally shifts your relationship with Breath itself. You'll discover how to partner with breath as a primary intelligent force rather than something to manipulate or control.
Beyond protocol
Your breath is always breathing you.
The "(work)" part is what we add as humans. When we stop working the breath, we reconnect to its natural ability to dissolve rigid somatic structures while simultaneously catalyzing new integration. Just like that. One breath cycle. Shapeshifting into resonance. Without any "work".
This training explores breath as:
A portal into the primordial organizing patterns of everything:
Beyond relaxation or release techniques into alchemical depths where cellular change happens naturally. You'll learn to (facilitate) access to the “primordial ooze”, where return to the states of wholeness happens without any effort because it's the natural order of things.
A powerful alchemizing force:
Cultivating self and practitioner skills to relate to the breath as it interpenetrates through mental barriers to reach cellular awareness, expanding our understanding of what a Body is. Understanding breath as both the most intimate relationship and the most tangible pathway for lasting change.
A home base for the full Self:
Relating to breath in ways that create and hold right conditions for effortless unfolding of Self. Creating a felt somatic experience of being grounded in Home and Self. Weaving the body back together as a full authentic being and back into the fabric of all reality.
A biodynamic force:
Understanding how to sense, follow, and harmonize with the body's inherent tidal rhythms (from micro to macro).
Who is this training for:
This advanced training is specifically designed for experienced practitioners who already have extensive knowledge of the human body, nervous system, and breath(work) principles. Specifically, you're likely:
An experienced breathwork facilitator who wants to move beyond standard protocols toward a more nuanced, intelligence-based approach that creates lasting rather than temporary shifts in your clients.
A somatic practitioner/teacher or trauma specialist who recognizes breath's therapeutic potential and seeks training that honors the complexity and sensitivity required for deep nervous system work.
A yoga teacher with advanced training who wants to integrate breathwork that goes beyond pranayama techniques toward facilitating genuine somatic transformation.
A psychotherapist or coach who uses body-based approaches and wants to add breathwork that complements rather than overwhelms your existing therapeutic framework.
An energy worker, bodyworker, biodynamic practitioner who understands subtle body dynamics and wants a breathwork training that acknowledges and works skillfully with energetic dynamics.
You recognize that current breathwork approaches often fall short of their potential (and sometimes are even harmful) and your desire for training that matches your level of professional development and experience.
Wizardry-level skills you'll master
Underlying pattern recognition:
You'll develop the ability to sense and work with the deeper organizing patterns that shape human experience – those primordial templates that govern how any movement (including the movement of transformation) naturally unfolds. Through breath, you'll learn to recognize when these foundational underlying energies are present and how to create conditions for their integration rather than forcing predetermined outcomes. This involves understanding how personal healing connects to universal patterns of wholeness.
Field-based facilitation:
You'll master working with the invisible organizing fields that form every therapeutic relationship. Rather than focusing solely on individual nervous systems, you learn to sense and work with the shared field dynamics. This includes understanding how your own coherence creates morphic resonance that supports lasting change in others, personally and collectively.
Biodynamic breath principles:
You'll discover how to work with breath as it naturally interfaces with the body's inherent tidal rhythms and organizing intelligence. This involves learning to align your respiratory breath and what biodynamic practitioners call the "Breath of Life" – the deeper organizing force that creates and maintains all biological systems. You develop precision in following rather than directing these natural patterns.
Consciousness State Navigation:
You'll cultivate the ability to facilitate access to non-ordinary states of consciousness while maintaining therapeutic safety and integration. This includes understanding how breath naturally creates threshold states where profound reorganization becomes inevitable, and how to work skillfully at the edge between conscious and unconscious processes.
Somatic geometry:
You'll learn to recognize and work with the natural mathematical principles that govern all healthy biological (eco)systems – the spirals, rhythms, and proportional relationships that indicate when someone's system is organizing according to its deepest intelligence. Becoming attuned to these natural patterns rather than imposing artificial structures.
Precision resonance work:
You'll cultivate the sensitivity to attune your nervous system so precisely that it becomes a resource for reorganization in others without depleting yourself in any way. This involves understanding how therapeutic presence operates through field dynamics and morphic resonance, allowing transformation to occur through vibrational alignment rather than technique-based intervention.
These skills represent a fundamental shift from doing breathWORK to partnering with breath's inherent intelligence – becoming so attuned to the organizing principles that govern all life that your facilitation becomes an expression of these forces. Effortless. Effective. Efficient.
The Training Structure
Four Foundational Online Modules
March 2, 16, 30 & April 13, 2026 | 4-6 PM CET
The online preparation addresses core principles that inform all effective and efficient breathwork practice. You'll
- explore the therapeutic order that underlies lasting transformation,
- understand how to create accessible dynamic range that serves rather than overwhelms nervous systems,
- learn foundational approaches to building somatic stability through breath, and
- discover how to apply biodynamic principles that honor the body's inherent wisdom.
Five-Day Immersive In-Person Experience
May 8-14, 2026 | Portugal
The immersive experience takes you through the whole alchemical process of dissolution, purification, awakening, and integration. You'll learn to harness breath as a precise alchemical agent while exploring non-ordinary states of consciousness and threshold states. Most importantly, you'll deepen your relationship with breath until it becomes a stable foundation for all your Life and professional work.
Your Teaching Team
Sanni Parkkinen is an experienced breathing educator, breathworker, somatic coach, and E-RYT 500h yoga teacher. Her work focuses on nervous system health and respecting the wisdom of the body through curious exploration. She combines deeply intuitive understanding with rational comprehension of human systems, specializing in the convergence of current research and traditional wisdom.
Katja Markelova is a seasoned practitioner, educator and creator of the Imaginal Body - a school of advanced humaning that teaches human condition through resonance and field dynamics. Trained extensively in somatic trauma resolution, quantum fields, and folklore as somatic maps, Katja facilitates "Felt Imaginal Architectural Construction" - a process that dissolves survival-based patterns while building capacity for effortless authentic being.
Beyond conventional limitations
This training does not provide packaged solutions or add-on techniques. Instead, it opens previously unknown pathways for meeting your breath that honor both your professional expertise and your intuitive knowing about what's possible and beyond.
We'll address the underlying tensions present in modern breathwork that often remain unacknowledged in other trainings. Together, we'll explore approaches better suited to the complexity of modern nervous systems and the depth of transformation your clients are seeking.
The goal is not to replace your existing practice but to provide a foundation solid enough that breath itself becomes your primary ally in facilitating lasting change. You'll learn to create what we call "a universe within a universe" - therapeutic containers potent enough to hold breath's untamed intelligence while maintaining the stability.
A cherry on top
Or maybe, it's the most important thing 😏
This training is application-only. Because we are weaving a relational field of the unseen potency. Because true change happens through osmosis.
Imagine steeping in a group with embodied people who are not invasive? A group that is biodynamically tidal, where everybody tends to their own coherence. And can hold themselves and hold the field with grace and skill and without effort? And there’s no projection put onto you.
Can you imagine???
The Investment
Early Bird Investment:
Until November 30, 2025
€3,499 (including VAT)
Regular Investment:
€3,997 (including VAT)
For EU-based practitioners with VAT numbers: €2,891 / €3,303 (reverse charge mechanism applies)
Limited to 17 participants to ensure the depth and individualized attention this advanced work requires.
Payment plans available. Full payment required by March 2, 2026.
A non-refundable deposit of €400 is required to secure your spot.
For questions about the training, please contact:
Sanni :
Katja : [email protected]
In-person experience at Monte da Orada, May 8-14
The immersive in-person experience takes place at Monte da Orada Retreat Center in Alentejo, Portugal: https://www.orada.eu.
Travel costs to and from Monte da Orada are not included in the training investment.
How do I get to Monte Orada?
Do you recommend rental cars?
Check-in is at 3:00 PM on Friday, May 8, and check-out is at 12:00 PM on Thursday, May 14.
Accommodation is shared, with 2–4 people per unit in bungalows, the Lotus Tent, and dorms in the main house.
Practices will be held in the Temple (indoors), the Green Deck Shala (outdoors), or the Sacred Fire Amphitheater (outdoors).
Monte da Orada Retreat Center has a sauna, biopool, ice bath and gorgeous surroundings for hosting an unforgettable immersive experience!
