Breathwork Facilitator & Inner Strength
Come Back Home to Yourself
Looking for a deeply transformative Breathwork Retreat in Greece or Thailand?
What is this retreat about?
Samma Karuna is not just another place to study Breathwork—we are an established international school of Awakening & Healing where Breathwork as a path to personal transformation has been taught, practiced, and lived every day for over 12 years.
With a permanent teaching community devoted to Awakening & Healing as a path and purpose, our Breathwork Facilitator Training has grown from years of continuous practice, teaching, and real experience with thousands of students—not simply from a curriculum created for a retreat.
Our training is rooted in a path of love to healing and self-realization. Bringing together Breathwork, embodiment, meditation, self-inquiry, and emotional awareness within an approach that is clear, structured, approachable, and non-dogmatic.
You don’t simply learn Breathwork practices—you learn how to understand, embody, and facilitate them within a complete and coherent system.
Our retreats go beyond peak experiences, cultivating inner strength, insight, and embodiment so your transformation becomes long-lasting and integrated into everyday life, not just a temporary release.
Community is at the heart of Samma Karuna. You grow alongside others on the same path, creating deep connections, mutual support, and a network of fellow facilitators that can continue long after the training.
- Reconnect deeply with your true self through powerful inner work and breath practices.
- Unlock new levels of clarity and focus so you can align with what truly matters in your life.
- Gently embrace and transform your past, creating space for healing and authentic growth.
- Learn practical tools for emotional balance that you can carry into everyday situations.
- Free yourself from old habits and limiting patterns with simple yet profound insight practices.
- Cultivate a more nurturing relationship with yourself and those around you.
- Feel more present and alive through embodiment and grounding practices that anchor you in the moment.
- Experience the power of an open heart, learning to be guided by love instead of fear.
- Explore safe and supportive methods to awaken Kundalini energy, expand the heart, and connect with the flow of divine energy.
- Develop professional-level skills to facilitate authentic Breathwork in 1:1 sessions, workshops, and group settings.
Watch the course introduction
Watch the course intro
Why choose Samma Karuna?
Samma Karuna is not just another place to study Tantra—we are an established international school of self-realization where Tantra has been taught, practiced, and lived every day for over 12 years.
With a permanent teaching community devoted to Tantra as a path and purpose, our Teacher Training has grown from years of continuous practice, teaching, and real experience with thousands of students—not simply from a curriculum created for a retreat.
Our training is guided by The Tantragram (Archegram), our educational model that makes the depth and complexity of Tantra clear, structured, approachable, and non-dogmatic.
You don’t simply learn Tantric practices—you learn how to understand, embody, and teach them within a complete and coherent system. Your personal transformation and development as a teacher happen together, giving you both the lived experience and methodology to guide others.
Our retreats go beyond peak experiences, cultivating inner strength, insight, and embodiment so your transformation becomes integrated into everyday life and something you can authentically transmit to others.
Community is at the heart of Samma Karuna. You grow alongside others on the same path, creating deep connections, mutual support, and a network of fellow facilitators that can continue long after the training.
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 power of breath. He combines therapeutic insight with embodied practice to support growth, resilience, and self-discovery. His integrative approach, shaped by years of professional and personal practice, draws inspiration from both ancient traditions and 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.
The lead teacher: Ishi
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
About Module I
The 12-Day Multi-Style Practitioner Training is a deep immersion into breathwork as a path of awakening and healing. Through daily sessions, you become more grounded in your body, release emotional blockages, and create space to feel fully.
The training helps you let go of limiting beliefs, clear old patterns, and activate your natural life-force energy (kundalini) in a safe, embodied way. You will also learn powerful tools for self-regulation and inner exploration that you can continue using long after the training ends.
Content in Module I
- Course Introduction
- OSHO Dynamic Insight and Practice
- Meditation Class Q&A
- Nutrition Intro
- Diaphragmatic opening
- The 3 tools for inner-exploration
- Intro to Tetra Breathwork
- Tetra Breathwork practice
- Samma Karuna So Ham 2.0 breathwork
- Samma Karuna AUM meditation
- Breathwork and Self-Development I
- Empowering techniques
More content in
Module I
- Biodevelopment practice (somatic work)
- Breathwork in the water
- Chi Nei Tsang (Wind gates)
- Insight I – Archegram Quiz + flow exercise
- Insight II – Addiction to sensations
- Insight III – Happiness & Desire
- Insight IV – The victim identification
- Truth & Self-Inquiry practice
- Vagus nerve (parasympathetic)
- Deconditioning practice
- Compassionate sharing and Q&A
About Module II
The 14-Day Module 2 Facilitator Training is the next step into mastery—learning how to guide others safely and powerfully through transformational breathwork.
You will train advanced facilitation skills and multiple breathwork styles, including Rebirthing-like and Holotropic-like breathwork, with Tetra Breathwork® as the main method practiced and taught. This module takes you deeper into expanded states, emotional healing, and the awakening of the heart
Content
in Module II
- Mindfulness practice
- Groups and class review
- Groups and class compilation
- Tetra Lab – How to observe
- Tetra Lab – The class intro
- Physiology of breath
- Practicing a Tetra class introduction
- Practice observing
- How to facilitate other styles
- Assessing a Tetra class Intro
- The Breathwork business
- Art of teaching and Q&A
- Trauma awarness
More content
in Module II
- Breathwork practice – Holo-Tetra
- Breathwork and Trance states
- Meridian & Lungs point
- Walking & Prayer of the heart meditation
- Samma Karuna Awakening Meditation
- Insight classes (awakening & healing)
- The RICH method (coping with change)
- Samma Karuna Atisha meditation practice
- Breathwork & business
- Completion + Ceremony
Exclusive Breathwork on Warm Water
Go deeper with Aqua Tetra breathwork®
Experience transformative water breathwork sessions (included in the 26 days course), reminiscent of the original Rebirthing style, in Shakti Hall, our state-of-the-art warm water indoor breathwork pool. Discover how the enhanced environment of water-based breathwork promotes remarkably deeper states of transformation, heart opening, and healing.
Step into confidence with our Mentorship
For graduates who want to feel truly confident teaching Breathwork, we offer an optional 28-Day Mentorship Program after completing the Tantra TTC.
This mentorship is designed to bridge the gap between training and real teaching experience. Instead of practicing only with fellow graduates, you will start teaching real groups in small-class formats while receiving direct support from a mentor.
* Teach real groups (not only peers)
* Mentor attends your sessions
* 1-to-1 feedback to refine your skills
* Build confidence through real experience
Included in the Mentorship:
Graduates also receive complimentary access to our Awakening & Healing program, with daily classes from 7am to 8pm, so you keep practicing and deepening your personal process while developing as a teacher.
The application requirements
The prerequisites to enroll in our Breathwork Practitioner Course & Breathwork Teacher Training Course:
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Previous experience on a circular or connecting breathwork such as Holotropic breathwork, Tetra breathwork or Rebirthing breathwork.
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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).
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Being able to meditate in stillness for 1hr or more.
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A fluent and satisfactory reading, speaking and comprehensible level of English.
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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.
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In order to be considered for either of these 2 modules you need to pay an online deposit and fill in the application form that will be forwarded to you by email.
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If your course application is not accepted a full refund of the deposit will be issued.
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.
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.
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).
Upcoming Trainings & Retreats
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
€̶ ̶2̶670
Our special Early Bird Discount valid till Otober 15th is € 2010-
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
26 Days of Breathwork Teacher Training in Greece
€̶ ̶4̶190̶
Our special Early Bird Discount valid till October 15th is € 3515-
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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Transfer service from and to the airport
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Optional 30 days mentorship to practice teaching breathwork at our main school in Thailand for graduates
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Certificate as breathwork facilitator for graduates
All Modules
Still having questions?
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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.
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.
