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Breathwork Training in Koh Phangan, Thailand
Our Breathwork curriculum is a tressure to us
Challenging and intensive but highly rewarding, our breathwork training is a life change retreat for the ones ready to look inside and take responsibility for their lives. Looking for happiness and healing within rather than in external situations.
Our Breathwork Facilitor Training is non-dogmatic and Heart based
Allowing us to embrace and cover the different techniques from different breathwork styles and traditions in a unique comprehensive program whilst placing heart and connection first. The teaching methods used include both scientific and traditional Breathwork knowledge.
Highlights
We feature in our campus three beach front halls, an air conditioning hall and an indoor therapeutic pool for breathwork.
We proudly offer one of the most beautiful and wide campus in Thailand. Including residential accommodation, restaurant, massage shop, sauna and ice-bath. We feature five multi-purpose halls, three of them by the beach, an air conditioning hall and a state of the art indoors therapeutic pool for breathwork.
We are a Community and Family
Join an authentic breathwork & yoga community where you can be yourself and celebrate life. Samma Karuna is a close-knit community of friends and family who practice a conscious lifestyle and care for one another.
We are a long established school of Breathwork for Awakening & Healing
Samma Karuna is an internationally recognized school of self-realization where Breathwork is used on daily basis to facilitate Awakening & Healing to our students. Providing our team of senior teachers with extensive experience facilitating breathwork on a variarity of senarios and healing modalities.
Free Breathwork Internships to graduates
Our breathwork Teacher Training offers an optional free internship (extra 4 weeks) to teach Breathwork at our headquarters in Koh Phangan, Thailand. This benefit is valid for 2 years from your graduation date and is meant for graduate students that would like to deepen their teaching skills and confidence.
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What is this retreat about?
What is this retreat about?
Our Tetra Breathwork retreat focuses on various styles and techniques of breathwork as tools for spiritual awakening and healing.
Additionally, our retreat is designed to address the issues faced by contemporary individuals, covering topics such as family dynamics, self-worth, coping mechanisms, shame, and relationships.
The teachings you will receive emphasize the development of qualities such as love, simplicity, and compassion, guiding participants to let go of the illusion of control and embrace a state of spiritual surrender.
For who is this retreat?
The Samma Karuna Advanced Tetra Breathwork Practitioner Training & Breathwork Facilitator Training is a spiritual retreat for those interested in using breathwork practices as tools for inner healing, enhancing the health of the body, mind, and spirit, and becoming professional breathwork facilitators.
This comprehensive course is designed to equip you with the knowledge, skills, and practical experience to deepen your own breathwork practice (Modules 1 & 2) and to excel in advanced breathwork and transformational techniques on a variarity of styles, along with the teaching methods necessary to facilitate breathwork (Module 3).
Upon successful completion of all three modules, students will earn certification as Tetra Breathwork Facilitators.
The application requirements for our Breathwork Practitioner Course & Breathwork Teacher Training Course
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:
Ishi
Ishi is the founder and lead teacher of Samma Karuna, creator of Samma Karuna So Ham breathwork® and Tetra Breathwork® along with many active meditations and techniques combining breath, movement and expression. Ishi currently leads the 3 main schools of Samma Karuna.
Kristine
Certified Breathwork and Reiki Master, Kristine blends ancient practices with modern knowledge. In 2015, she left her corporate and academic duties to travel the world, immersing herself in meditation, yoga, shamanism, and energy work.
Kristine deepened her meditation journey in a Buddhist temple, where she often stays to practice Vipassana and Anapanasati. She has also completed courses on Trauma Awareness and integrates this knowledge into her work. Kristine’s holistic approach combines Breathwork, Reiki, meditation, and shamanic wisdom, creating a space for profound healing and spiritual growth. She is a living testament to the transformative power of the practices she shares.
Brady
Brady is a dedicated Tantra and Breathwork facilitator, passionately committed to guiding individuals on their spiritual journey of Awakening and Healing. Transitioning from a career as an electrician, Brady began a path to illuminate the inner self through breath and love. Believing that “to see ourselves fully enables us to love ourselves fully,” Brady’s mission is to foster greater awareness, love, and light, bringing profound healing to both the individual and the world.
Charilaos
Charilaos began his deep spiritual journey and bodywork in 2006, studying yoga, tantra, and practicing vipassana. The universe knocked on his door in 2012, that’s when he found a mentor and went to Thailand to study the art of traditional healing modality’s. He had the opportunity to learn and experience different styles from some of the great masters such as Pichest, Mantak Chia , Sinchai, and Mr. Nat (school for the blind). He is also authorised instructor to Chi Nei Tsang (Chinese medicine) and Thai massage! Dedicate to his purpose to admire and help the human body, to be aware and healed, thought his classes and private sessions!
Joris
After years of working in the corporate world, he slowly started to shift on a transformative journey of self-discovery, culminating in a profound shift towards holistic well-being and personal growth.
Drawing from his extensive experience and natural gift for connection, Joris guides individuals on a journey of inner exploration, helping them unlock their true potential and cultivate a deeper sense of presence and fulfillment.
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 (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
- 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?
- 07.00 to 08.00: Meditation Practice - OSHO Dynamic Meditation®
- 08.00 to 9.00: Tea Break (Refreshments provided)
- 9.00 to 9.20: Compassionate Sharing / Self-Inquiry
- 9.20 to 10.20: Breathwork Theory (Energies Sub & Transfiguration, Trauma management, Emotional awareness, etc.)
- 10.30 to 12.30: Breathwork practice
- 13.00 to 15.00: Lunch break (Vegan buffet provided)
- 15.00 to 15.20: Compassionate Sharing / Self-Inquiry
- 15.20 to 16.20: Breathwork Theory classes (Music composition, The archetypes model, class structure.. etc.)
- 16.30 to 18.30: Breathwork practice and activities of the day (Biodevelopment, So ham, Awakening practice, etc.)
Sundays are your day off. The schedule structure will remain the same throughout, but the topics will change according to the program.
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, Samma Karuna So Ham breathwork® and Tetra 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 10 years.
Accommodation for your Breathwork Training
Accommodation for your Breathwork Training
We offer a variety of accommodation ranging from dorm accommodation to comfortable bungalows with amenities and a sea view. Accommodation is offered inside our campus or in our partner resort next door. The accommodation included in your course fee is TYPE C. However, you may choose to upgrade your accommodation (TYPE B to A) by contacting us after your booking.
Type C
Standard bungalow with A/C shared with another student (included in your course fee).
Type B
Standard private bungalow with A/C (€850 extra for 26 nights or €33 extra a day ).
Type A
Comfortable and spacious bungalow with more amenities and a sea view (€1320 extra for 26 night or €51 extra a day).
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.
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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
Upcoming Courses:
- 5th of November 2024 in Greece
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- COURSE AVAILABILITY: STILL PLACES LEFT
- 10th of August 2025 In Thailand
(status confirmed)
- COURSE AVAILABILITY: STILL PLACES LEFT
- 4th of November 2025 In Greece
(status confirmed)
- COURSE AVAILABILITY: STILL PLACES LEFT
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 Thailand
€1945
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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 the pier
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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 Thailand
€3320
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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 release
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Life-membership to our Awakening & Healing program with daily classes of yoga, tantra and breathwork for graduates.
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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
Modules I, II & III
