Jun 09, 2023
Double Holotropic Breathwork
9.-11.6. Espoo, Finland
Welcome to dive deep within! Holotropic Breathwork is a powerful method for self-exploration, which utilizes the healing power of breath, music, bodywork and safe space. This retreat is a great opportunity to explore the method in-depth, since there will be altogether 4 breathwork sessions, in which each participant will be breathing in two and sitting in two. On Friday we will land softly to the place, meet the group and prepare for the inner journeys. The first breathing session is on Friday evening, two breathing sessions on Saturday and last session on Sunday morning. During the retreat we will provide good tools to integrate the experiences and we will focus on integration especially on Sunday. This is the first time we offer double breathwork in just three days, so people with more busy lives can participate. Because the inner work can be deep or intense, we do recommend to take free time for yourself on Thursday and especially on Monday, to give enough time and space to the inner process to unfold.
Retreat is held in the historical school of Röylä in Espoo (Snettansintie 39, 02940 Espoo), with quite easy access with public transport (it takes little over one hour to get to the venue from Helsinki center). Food is included in the price. Vegan dinner is served on Friday, lunch and dinner on Saturday and lunch on sunday. There will also be snacks and tea/coffee during the whole weekend.
There are different options for accommodation. In the venue there are no separate sleeping rooms, but it is possible to sleep in the breathing room, or in your tent outside. We will offer breakfast with the cost of 5€. You can also sleep anywhere else, just make sure you can participate within the retreat schedule. There are some accommodation services nearby, for example Backy kartano https://www.backby.fi/en/, Serena cottages https://serena.fi/en/accommodation/cottages/, Hotel Korpilampi https://www.korpilampi.fi/en/.No previous experience of Holotropic Breathwork is required. We will use english and/or finnish, depending on the language of the participants. Translation is provided if needed.
Preliminary schedule
We will send Introduction lecture for Holotropic Breathwork in video, for the first time breathers it is mandatory to watch it before the retreat
Friday
13:30-14:00 Registration
14:00 Opening the retreat and preparation for the inner journeys
16:30 Breathing session #1
20:00 Dinner
21:00-22:00 Evening circle
Saturday
8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Breathing session #2
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Breathing session #3
18:30 Dinner
19:30 Evening circle
21:00 Free time
Sunday
8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Breathing session #4
13:00 Lunch
14:00-17:30 Integration time and closing the retreat
How to reserve your place in the retreat:
1. Fill the Registration form and Medical form from the link below
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JqqRi6UbvtrrJw5_aIOLfEQZxAXwEXw13W88lD7VZi4
The purpose of the Medical form is to survey your relevant background information and possible contraindications for the retreat. This helps us to ensure that you can participate safely in the retreat. If you answer yes to some questions, it doesn't automatically mean you cannot participate; we will evaluate the situation together with you. If any question is unclear to you, ask us for clarification.
2. Pay the Deposit fee (50€) or the whole payment of the retreat
(Payment details below)
Your place will be confirmed after you have filled the registration and medical forms and paid the deposit fee or the whole payment of the retreat. After we have got your payment, we will send you a confirmation email. If you pay just the deposit fee, you need to pay the rest of the payment latest in registration, where you can pay with cash or mobilepay. If you choose to buy breakfast from us, you can pay for it with cash/mobilepay/bank transfer during registration (5€/breakfast) (you can decide this latest during the registration). If the retreat gets full, there will be a waiting list.
We will send an Introductory lecture to Holotropic Breathwork in video, which is mandatory to watch for the first time breathers. After you have watched the video, we will do a interview with all the new participants through zoom 1-2 weeks before the event. The interview is also a good opportunity to ask questions or express any thoughts regarding the retreat. If you have been participating in our events, but would like to have a call with us, or if in your life there are some new themes we should be aware of, be in contact.
Payment information:
Price of the retreat (including the deposit fee 50€):
Full price: 320€ / Earlybird 270€ until 28.5.
Student / unemployed / senior citizen price:
270€ / Earlybird 230€ until 28.5.
(10€ discount from all ticket groups for HB Finland ry members)
(Prices includes 10% VAT)
Bank information
Account owner: Holotropic Breathwork Finland ry
Address of the company: Parkinkatu 7 as 1, 20500 Turku, Finland
IBAN: FI20 7997 7990 1619 57
BIC: HOLVFIHH
Amount(€): Retreat price / deposit fee (50€)
Message: Retreat 6/23 + Your full name
If you have any problems with the payments or you would like to participate but your financial situation doesn’t allow it, just contact us so we can try to find a good solution.
Deposit- / cancellation fee 50€
If you need for some reason to cancel your participation in the retreat, we will refund your payment fully if the cancellation is done before 28.5. If the cancellation is done after that, we will keep the reservation fee.
Because in the breathing-sessions there can be sometimes strong emotional and physical experiences, for safety reasons it is not generally recommended for pregnant women, people with heart-problems and very high blood pressure, with strong psychiatric illnesses, with ongoing spiritual emergency, with recent fractures or surgical operations, with acute infections or epileptics. If you are not sure if this retreat is safe for you, just contact us so we can discuss your situation.
Facilitators of the retreat
Valde Orrenmaa
Valde lives in Kaarina, in a commune with his friends and cats. He started the Holotropic Breathwork training in 2016 and got certified in 2019. He has a masters degree in comparative religion and has been academically and practically interested in non-ordinary states of consciousness, meditation, psychedelics, buddhism and other mystically oriented branches of religions. He is also a writer, Aguahara-practitioner and has started Cognitive brief-therapist and mindfulness teacher trainings. One of his passions is to integrate yogic-lifestyle and compassionate way of being into modern society. He loves nature, meditation, dancing, karate & kobudo, music and genuine connection with other beings.
Jussi Alihanka
Jussi is from Turku and he is a medical doctor and is specializing in psychiatry. His interest about the healing potential of the non-ordinary states of consciousness comes from his own experiences with different practices. He has started the TRE facilitator and MBSR teacher training and Integrative psychotherapy training. Jussi is together with Valde the founder of the Holotropic Finland and is going to work passionately to make this practice more known and more available in Finland. Jussi grounds himself with swimming, climbing, friends, music and nature.
Iida Hokkanen
Iida discovered Holotropic breathwork in 2019 and since then the method has been a significant part of her own healing journey. The safe, loving and empowering breathwork community has felt so much like home that she was inspired to start the holotropic breathwork facilitator training in 2022.
Enabling holistic well being and body-mind-soul coherence for individuals, groups and communities is Iida’s calling. She is a nature connection guide, gives energy healing treatments and will also become certified as a breathwork coach later on in 2023. Her own ways for connecting with her authentic self include exploring voice and movement, doing breathwork and experiencing the nature.
In her daily life Iida is a Human Resource professional, mother of a wonderful 8-year girl and servant to a fluffy and furry dog.