Breathwork & Trauma Awareness Facilitator Training

This breathwork facilitator training in Piirumi, Pärnumaa, Estonia, combines multi-style breathwork with trauma awareness and practical facilitation skills. It is taught in two parts: an eight-day personal intensive and a fourteen-day facilitator course, which can be taken separately or as one full training. It suits people seeking structured personal work, aspiring breathwork facilitators, and therapists or coaches who want to bring breathwork into their practice. It is led by Kristine Niranjana Kirakosyan, an international breathwork teacher, with clinical trauma therapist Keghani Mardikian. The school, AtmaBreath, is a member of the International Breathwork Foundation.

What to Expect

Module 1 is the eight-day breathwork intensive. The focus is on your own experience: how conscious breathing affects the nervous system, how to work safely with emotional release, and how to build awareness of your internal state. It totals 70 hours in person and works either as personal development or as a foundation for facilitating.

Module 2 is the fourteen-day facilitator training, with 130 hours in person and an optional 30 hours online after graduation. Building on Module 1, you learn to structure a session, hold a stable space, guide individuals and groups, and respond to emotional release and trauma responses. Each participant designs and leads a breathwork class, from music selection to facilitation, with feedback from the teachers. The full training is 190 hours in person.

The curriculum draws on holotropic breathwork, rebirthing breathwork, breathwork water therapy, partner and mirroring breathwork, and chakra healing breathwork. It also covers the physiology of breath, touch, and music in breathwork. The trauma awareness strand looks at how trauma affects the brain, dissociation, attachment styles, adverse childhood experiences, signs of a regulated nervous system, and self-compassion. Facilitator ethics and group dynamics are taught alongside. Holistic practices include shamanic journey meditation, mantra healing, sound healing, and cacao and Rapeh ceremonies.

A typical day runs like this:

- 07:00 morning practice of meditation and yoga
- 08:15 breakfast
- 09:00 theory class
- 11:00 breathwork experiential practice
- 13:00 lunch and self-study
- 15:30 theory class
- 17:30 experiential practice
- 19:00 dinner
- 20:00 sharing circle, which may be a cacao ceremony, singing circle, or tea meditation

About Kristine Niranjana Kirakosyan

Kristine is an international breathwork teacher, yoga and meditation teacher, and Reiki Master, and the founder of Atma Breath School. She holds a Ph.D. and has published articles in academic journals. In 2015 she left her corporate and academic work to explore spiritual traditions through breathwork, meditation, yoga, shamanic ritual, and energy work. She stayed with monks at the Wat Paa Sang Tham temple in Thailand, deepening her Vipassana and Anapanasati practice. Her spiritual name, Niranjana, meaning "unblemished", was given to her by the teacher Ganga Ma. She has also studied psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy in a clinical setting, and she has spent recent years training breathwork facilitators around the world.

About Keghani Mardikian

Keghani is a clinical counsellor with an MSW and a registered social worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers. She graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, and has worked in trauma therapy at the Canadian mental health agency Camino Wellbeing since 2012. She works with individuals, families, couples, and groups through a trauma and attachment lens, drawing on EMDR, cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness, and psychodynamic therapy.

The Setting

The training takes place on a restored farm within a nature reserve in Piirumi, in the coastal Häädemeeste area of Pärnumaa. The grounds include saunas and a natural swimming pond, used for warming and cooling the body between sessions. Accommodation is in a shared room with bed linen, towels, and housekeeping. Three daily meals are served, with vegetarian and vegan options, and tea and hot drinks are available throughout the day.

Before You Go

Module 1 is open to beginners. Module 2 is for graduates of Module 1 or of any accredited breathwork teacher training. The training is taught in English. The price includes accommodation, meals, the full program for your chosen module or modules, a training manual and materials, sauna sessions, pond access, Wi-Fi in common areas, and a welcome package on arrival.