Tetra Breathwork Retreat
in Europe, Greece
12 & 26 Days Multistyle Breathwork Facilitator Training in Ikaria island
Tranform your life with
the power of breath
Tetra Breathwork Retreat
Looking for Breathwork Training Courses in Thailand or Greece?
What is this retreat about?
What is this retreat about?
Our Tetra Breathwork retreat harnesses the power of breath as the primary tool for deep exploration, spiritual awakening, and healing.
Beyond breathwork, the retreat explores key challenges, such as family dynamics, self-worth, coping mechanisms, shame, and relationships—issues many face today.
Participants will develop qualities such as love, simplicity, and compassion, leading to deep transformation, empowerment, and lasting happiness.
The retreat also equips you with the knowledge and skills to become a Professional Breathwork Facilitator, guiding others through these transformative practices.
- A deeper connection with your true self* through powerful inner‑work practices.
- New levels of focus and clarity* to move toward what truly matters to you.
- Gentle ways to embrace and transform the past*, opening space for growth.
- Practical tools for emotional balance* you can bring into everyday life.
- Insight practices to free yourself* from old habits and limiting patterns.
- A more nurturing connection with yourself and others.
- Embodiment and grounding practices* to help you feel more present and alive.
- Exploring what it means to open the heart* and be guided by love rather than fear.
- Safe, supportive methods* to support Kundalini energy, heart awakening, and experiencing and cultivating devine energy.
- Practical skills to share authentic Breathwork* in 1:1 sessions, workshops, & group settings.
The application requirements
The application requirements
The prerequisites to enroll in our Breathwork Practitioner Course & Breathwork Teacher Training Course:
- Previous experience on a circular or connecting breathwork such as Holotropic breathwork, Tetra breathwork or Rebirthing breathwork.
- A true commitment to learn and motivation to become a Breathwork facilitator (even if you don't have plans to teach in the near future).
- Being able to meditate in stillness for 1hr or more.
- A fluent and satisfactory reading, speaking and comprehensible level of English.
- A high level of self-discipline and a full-day commitment for everyday of the course is required as it is physically and mentally demanding.
- In order to be considered for either of these 3 modules you need to pay an online deposit and fill in the application form that will be forwarded to you by email.
- If your course application is not accepted a full refund of the deposit will be issued.
Meet your breathwork teachers
Meet your breathwork teachers
Kristine
Kristine, Ph.D., is a certified Breathwork facilitator, Reiki Master, and senior teacher at Samma Karuna. Since leaving her corporate and academic career in 2015, she has explored meditation, yoga, shamanism, and energy healing worldwide. Her training with teachers like Mantak Chia and Dan Brulé, along with deep immersion in Buddhist practices, informs her heart-centered approach to healing and transformation.
Till
Till is a licensed Psychotherapist and Breathwork trainer passionate about uniting modern psychology with the transformative potential of breath. He combines therapeutic insight with embodied practice to create a holistic path for healing, resilience, and self-discovery. His flexible and integrative approach, rooted in years of both professional and personal practice, continues to evolve—drawing inspiration from ancient traditions as well as contemporary therapeutic methods.
Charilaos
Charilaos began his journey in 2006 through yoga, Tantra, and Vipassana. Guided by a mentor, he traveled to Thailand in 2012 to study healing with masters like Pichest, Mantak Chia, and Sinchai. An authorized instructor in Chi Nei Tsang and Thai massage, he offers classes and sessions that support deep body awareness and healing.
Brady
Brady is a devoted Tantra and Breathwork facilitator, passionately guiding individuals on their spiritual journey toward Awakening and Healing. Transitioning from a career as an electrician, he embarked on a path to illuminate the inner self through breath and love. Brady operates under the belief that seeing ourselves completely allows for full self-love. His mission is to cultivate greater awareness, love, and light, bringing profound healing to individuals and the broader world.
Ishi: the lead teacher
Our lead teacher will be Ishi, an internationally recognized spiritual teacher and experienced breathwork facilitator.
Ishi is a seeker, a spiritual guide, tantra and yoga teacher and an energy and breath-worker . He is founder and lead teacher of Samma Karuna. Leading workshops and long trainings for the last 14 years, spreading a message of Loving Presence.
After an awakening experience product of a spinal injury at the age of 29 he has dedicated his life to the path of self discovery, awakening and healing.
Ishi created Tetra breathwork® as a combination of his background in conscious connecting breath and his experience in Tantra for Awakening of the Heart and healing.
He is creator of the BioDevelopment® dance therapy system, the school of contemporary Tantra, the healing technique called R.I.C.H and Samma Karuna So Ham breathwork® along with many active meditations and techniques combining breath, movement and expression.
Ishi currently leads the 3 main schools of Samma Karuna (Tantra, Yoga and Breath) and has been teaching on a daily basis since 2013, dedicating his life to his students and Samma Karuna school for the last 11 years.
The journey in detail:
Your Breathwork Course structure:
This course consists of 3 levels or modules, which are part of the Multi-style breathwork practitioner training and Breathwork Facilitator training. Level 1 and level 2 can be completed separately from level 3, however Level 3 (advanced practices & facilitator training) can only be done if you have successfully completed the Intensive & Practitioner training (levels 1 & 2), either this time or in a previous training.
Module 1: Breathwork Intensive
These 5 days multi-style breathwork intensive can be taken as a life-changing healing retreat, or as a Breathwork Training to gain credits toward certification.
This workshop will provide a safe space for you to uncover and let go of past events and feelings that limit us. As you move into an expanded state of consciousness, your natural intuition can bring great insight, clarity, feelings of oneness and bliss.
Module 2: Practitioner Training
These 6 days Breathwork Practitioner Training can be taken as a transformative retreat to immerse deep into the practice, or as part of the Breathwork Training to gain credits towards a certification.
With this workshop you will dive deeper into your understanding of a breathwork session and the tools and techniques available towards the self-mastering of Tetra breathwork as well as other styles of connecting breath trainings such as Rebirthing breathwork training, Shamanic breathwork training and holoytopic-like breathwork training.
Module 3: Breathwork Facilator Training
In this Breathwork facilitator module you will learn new advanced techniques, deepen into your own practice and get the knowledge and teaching techniques to lead your own breathwork sessions and guide a profound healing process of others. You will obtain all the necessary tools to build a session from the beginning to the end.
This Teacher Training can only be done if you have successfully completed Module 1 and Module 2.
*Limited spaces, sign up on time to secure your spot.
** All successful graduates from this training are invited to take a complementary 30 day teaching internship to facilitate breathwork regular classes within the first year of certification.
Main subjects covered during the teacher training:
- Circular breath and its traditions
- Safety and bounderies
- Breathwork as tool for personal growth
- Breathwork as tool for self-realization
- Tetra breathwork
- Aqua Tetra breathwork
- Rebirthing breathwork
- Holotropic-like breathwork
- Shamanic breathwork
- Biodevelopment practice (inner-child work)
- Introduction to emotional awareness
- Active meditation theory (understanding of trance states)
- Samma Karuna AUM meditation
- OSHO dynamic meditation
- Self inquiry practice (based on the work of Byron Katie)
- Concentration practice
- So ham breathwork (diaphragmatic breath)
- Class structure
- Music composition
- Sublimation & Alchemy of energy
- Art of teaching
- Compassionate Sharing
- Breathwork (teaching practice)
- Trauma management
- Mindfulness practice
- The Breathwork business
- Groups and class review
- Groups and class compilation
What will your day consist of?
What will your day consist of?
- 06.00 to 07.00: Meditation Practice - OSHO dynamic
- 07.00 to 8.30: Tea Break (Refreshments provided)
- 8.30 to 9.10: Compassionate Sharing / Self-Inquiry
- 9.10 to 10.10: Breathwork Theory (Energies Sub & Transfiguration, Trauma management, Emotional awareness, etc.)
- 10.30 to 12.30: Breathwork practice
- 13.00 to 15.30: Lunch break (Vegan buffet provided) and rest.
- 15.30 to 16.10: Compassionate Sharing / Self-Inquiry
- 16.10 to 17.10: Breathwork Theory classes (Music composition, The archetypes model, class structure.. etc.)
- 17.30 to 19.30: Breathwork practice and activities of the day (Biodevelopment, So ham, Awakening practice, etc.)
- 19.30 to 20.30: Dinner
The schedule structure will remain the same throughout the course, but the topics will change according to the program.
Sundays are mostly a day off.
Accommodation for your Breathwork Training
Accommodation for your Breathwork Training
We offer a variety of accommodations ranging from dorm accommodation to comfortable bungalows with amenities and a sea view. Accommodation is provided inside our campus or in our partner resort next door. The accommodation included in your course fee is TYPE C (shared standard bungalow with another student). However, you may upgrade your accommodation (to TYPE B to A) during the booking process.
Type A
Suite with more amenities and sea view (€1320 extra).
Type B
Superior double room with garden view (€850 extra).
Type C
Standard room shared with another student (included in your course fee).
Certification review & disclaimer
Certification review & disclaimer
Succesful graduates are certified by Samma Karuna as multi-style breathwork facilitator. Our training will entitle you to understand and deliver different styles of breathwork practices and adapt them to your student´s needs.
As a certified breathwork facilitator you may call your breathwork classes in any way you wish. However this certification wont entitled to use registered trademaks from other schools such as holotropic breathwork, Alchemy of breath, Neurodynamic, Wim Hof, Soma breath or Rebirthing breathwork.
All breathwork facilitators of Samma Karuna are entitled to offer the classes using the trademarks of our school (Tetra Breath®, Awakening Breath® and Samma Karuna So Ham®).
This certification wont entitle you to offer breathwork classes online as the school considers this practice unsafe.
Graduates that acomplishing 400hr training (by taking our extra month training internship in Thailand) and that have being facilitating breathwork for at least 2 years are entitled to a certification upgrade as Senior Breathwork Facilitator.
Join us at magical Ikaria!
Ikaria blue zone free day trip to the springs
Our transformative retreat will take place on the breathtaking island of Ikaria, renowned as one of the world's Blue Zones, where people live longer, healthier lives.
When booking our 4-week course, you’ll unlock a complimentary day trip to the rejuvenating Ikaria Springs, where the island’s ancient healing waters provide a unique, restorative experience. Immerse yourself in Ikaria’s natural beauty and vibrant energy as part of this unforgettable journey.
Course Booking
Course Booking
Book your place on the next Multi-style Breathwork Intensive & Facilitator Training Course by paying the online deposit.
12 Days Breathwork Intensive Retreat in Greece
Special Last Minute Discount
2374
€2224
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Modules I and II of the course
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Truly exceptional training program from Samma Karuna School of Awakening & Healing
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Welcome bag and instructorial hand-out
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12 nights of residential accommodation (shared room with another student)
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Transfer service from and to the airport
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The program of self-understanding 85% of this course is experiential
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2 healthy and nutritious vegan meals a day (light breakfast and 1 vegan buffet meals a day)
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Certificate of participation and credits towards becoming a breathwork facilitator
Modules I & II
26 Days of Breathwork Teacher Training in Greece
Special Last Minute Discount Valid till October 16th
4190
€3940
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ALL IN THE 12 DAYS PROGRAM PLUS:
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Welcome bag and training manual
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Learn all theory behing how to structure a class
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26 days of residential accomodation (Shared room with another student)
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Set of music & guided meditations (to support you facilitating breathwork classes after the course)
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Resident specialist on trauma management
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Transfer service from and to the airport
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Optional internship to practice facilitating breathwork at our main school in Thailand (Valid for 2 years)
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Certificate as breathwork facilitator for graduates
All Modules
Student testimonials
5/5
No words can truly describe this beautiful Samma Karuna Breathwork training - because how can you explain magic? All I can say is that if you feel even the slightest calling for this, then please follow your heart and go there. I have just finished a month long journey with the school and have come away with so much more than a certification in breathwork.
CelticSis
Written May 10, 2024
5/5
The teachers were all incredible and bought a unique teaching that really helped with my healing and self connection. The property on the water is beautiful. Sunsets were a bonus! I can’t wait to come back and next time as a volunteer/teacher. The breathe work was unlike anything I’ve ever done.
Allison K
Written February 21, 2024
5/5
I came here for a volunteer experience and I ended up finding a community of people just like me.
There is something magical about Samma Karuna. The people, the workshops, the classes, the food and the location.
I have attended many classes from breathwork, to yoga, to inner dance which have all been an integral part of my healing journey.
Cait W
Written January 16, 2024
5/5
I am not experienced with breath work and the class itself was great and very beginner friendly. I would absolutely recommend the class for anybody who is interested in learning more about breath work. Aravind is a great facilitator and clearly has a lot of knowledge on this topic!
kshort09
Written January 3, 2023
5/5
I recently attended the three day breathwork intensive with Zivile. I could not recommend this enough for people who want to dive deep into themselves to unlock our healing potential. Zivile knows exactly what you need, when you need it. I will hopefully be back for the next in the near future. Thanks so much Zivile, your an inspiration 
Michael G
Written December 24, 2022
5/5
I did the Breathwork Facilitator Training with Samma Karuna in Greece and I loved the entire experience. It felt like family. They really know how to take care of students. And the location couldn't have been better.
Carmen N
Written May 10, 2023
5/5
I stayed in Samma for two weeks with the Awakening and Healing program and I had a wonderful time there. I liked the different classes, such as Tetra Breath, Biodevelopement classes, meditation etc. Also the yoga classes are amazing. Even after the two weeks I stayed longer and did one intensive breathwork over 3 days and the BioDev TTC. Thank you for everything Samma, I’m hoping to come back and enjoy more of this amazing place ❤️
Annika D
Written May 21, 2023
5/5
A lot of places visit at Koh Pha-ngan, everywhere need
more connected and feeling the warm love for healing. Here with a lot of authenticity.
A School with deep love and acceptance never I found in Koh Pha-ngan.
Thank you Ishi for your amazing team.
When you looking for a place where you can TO BE with compassion - You are right here.
You will be learn follow your heart & intuition.
Sabina
Written April 9, 2022
5/5
Beautiful Yoga centre and lovely place the best location in Koh Phangan also new swimming pool is very beautiful.
Kyaw K
Written May 6, 2023
Student
testimonials
No words can truly describe this beautiful Samma Karuna Breathwork training - because how can you explain magic? All I can say is that if you feel even the slightest calling for this, then please follow your heart and go there. I have just finished a month long journey with the school and have come away with so much more than a certification in breathwork.
The teachers were all incredible and bought a unique teaching that really helped with my healing and self connection. The property on the water is beautiful. Sunsets were a bonus! I can’t wait to come back and next time as a volunteer/teacher. The breathe work was unlike anything I’ve ever done.
I came here for a volunteer experience and I ended up finding a community of people just like me.
There is something magical about Samma Karuna. The people, the workshops, the classes, the food and the location.
I have attended many classes from breathwork, to yoga, to inner dance which have all been an integral part of my healing journey.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about Samma Karuna, our programs, and your journey of self-discovery.
Who is the Multistyle Breathwork Facilitator Training in Greece designed for?
This training is ideal for aspiring coaches, therapists, yoga teachers, and experienced breathwork practitioners, as well as anyone sincerely seeking deep personal healing and professional skills. While it’s especially convenient for European citizens due to its location in Europe, it is open to international students of all nationalities.
What makes this breathwork training Europe a unique experience for personal healing and teaching?
Samma Karuna’s signature Tetra Breathwork® blends conscious connected breathing with heart-based teachings, offered in beachfront halls and a therapeutic pool designed for breathwork practices. The program integrates multiple styles, is non-dogmatic, trauma-informed, and enriched by a global community setting.
What accommodation and food options are included during the breathwork retreat Europe?
Shared A/C bungalows with private bathrooms, 2–3 healthy vegan meals daily (depending on program length), and transfers from the Koh Phangan pier are included. Upgrades to private bungalows are available.
Can I use this breathwork teacher training certification to work internationally?
Yes. The certificate qualifies graduates to lead breathwork sessions, retreats, and workshops worldwide. The training includes modules on teaching methodology, safety, and community building to support a professional career.
Why do many people from Greece choose to attend the breathwork training on Ikaria Island?
Locals appreciate training close to home that integrates both modern breathwork techniques and traditional Mediterranean healing wisdom. Ikaria’s reputation as a “Blue Zone” island known for longevity and well-being adds a unique cultural and health-oriented appeal.
What makes this Breathwork Facilitator Training appealing to participants from England?
Participants from England value the professional certification paired with an immersive retreat experience in nature. The program’s trauma-informed approach and focus on emotional safety align well with growing UK interest in holistic wellness and mental health support.
What draws people from Spain to this breathwork facilitator training?
Spanish participants are attracted to the program’s focus on emotional healing and expressive practices, which complement Spain’s rich traditions in movement, dance, and holistic therapies. The Mediterranean setting and group dynamics are also major draws.
Why is this breathwork retreat popular among participants from Germany?
Germans often prioritize thoroughness, safety, and certification legitimacy. This training offers detailed facilitator education, a trauma-sensitive framework, and internationally recognized certification, meeting the high standards expected by German wellness seekers.
How does this program address concerns shared by participants from England, Germany, and France?
Common concerns such as safety, certification credibility, and evidence-based methodology are directly addressed through trauma-informed teaching, detailed curricula, and ongoing community support. The retreat combines these with a nurturing environment, meeting the expectations of these European countries.
How does the retreat support a multicultural European audience seeking breathwork training?
By providing a curriculum adaptable to different cultural backgrounds, offering English-language instruction, and fostering an inclusive community, the retreat caters to a diverse European audience united by shared goals of healing, growth, and professional development.
