Kristine Niranjana

Kristine Niranjana Kirakosyan is an international breathwork teacher, yoga and meditation teacher and Reiki Master. She is the founder of Atma Breath School (AtmaBreath), which offers breathwork trainings, healing retreats and spiritual journeys in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Central America. She holds a Ph.D., and her articles have been published in several academic journals.

Her path began in 2015, when she left her corporate and academic pursuits to explore the world's spiritual traditions through breathwork, meditation, yoga, shamanic rituals and energy work. She stayed with the monks at the Wat Paa Sang Tham temple in Thailand to deepen her meditation practice in Vipassana and Anapanasati. Her spiritual name, Niranjana ("unblemished"), was given to her by the teacher Ganga Ma, and she has received blessings (darshan) from Amma, the Hugging Saint. She also received the Transmission of Cosmic Vision Energy from Grandmaster Mantak Chia. On the shamanic path she completed a master plant dieta in the Peruvian Amazon with a respected curandero and has worked alongside curanderos and shamans from Peru and beyond.

Her breathwork training came in person from Dan Brulé, a breathwork teacher and student of Babaji and Leonard Orr, and from Prem Luca, a direct student of Stanislav Grof and an Osho sannyasin. Kristine says breathwork was a discovery in her own search for healing from personal and generational trauma, including experiences of genocide, earthquakes and wars. Conscious breathing became, in her words, a pathway to freedom from physical, mental and emotional pain. AtmaBreath is a registered school of the International Breathwork Foundation (IBF), and the name draws on the Sanskrit "atma", meaning both breath and soul.

Kristine's offerings include breathwork sessions, trauma-informed and somatic practices, Reiki and chakra healing in person or at a distance, Ritual Yoga, meditation classes and spiritual consultations. Her retreats combine styles such as Holotropic-style breathwork, Rebirthing, Mirroring, Water and Partner Breathwork with yoga, meditation, art and movement practices, cacao ceremonies and singing circles. Some also include family constellation work, a fire ceremony or Osho active meditation. Retreats have taken place in Ikaria, Greece, in Armenia, in Spain, and in Transylvania, Romania, at a mountain pension in Bran, Brasov. Her spiritual travels combine breathwork, yoga, hiking and sacred rituals, with journeys that include Nepal, Jordan and Peru.

She teaches professional trainings as well. These include the Breathwork Teacher Training Course and Breathwork Intensive in Goa, the Breathwork and Yoga TTC, the Breathwork and Trauma Awareness Facilitator Training, Himalayan Singing Bowl Practitioner Training, and Reiki Level 1 and Level 2. She also teaches in other teacher training courses and co-hosts shamanic healing retreats. She works with a circle of facilitators, healers and teachers, and her team of certified yoga teachers has guided students since 2015.

Her programs welcome both new seekers and experienced practitioners. People come to release stored tension and old patterns, to regulate the nervous system and to learn techniques for healing themselves and supporting others. Kristine describes herself as an empath and a highly sensitive healer. She offers a safe space and designs sessions that combine the mental, physical and spiritual. Retreats include integration practices so that what participants experience can be carried into daily life, and participants find a community of like-minded people.