Holotropic Breathwork Finland ry
Holotropic Breathwork Finland ry was founded 2018 in Turku, Finland. It’s purpose is to promote and develop activity, information, knowledge and scientific research related to Holotropic Breathwork in Finland.
To achieve its goals Holotropic Breathwork Finland: arranges workshops and lectures; supports training of the new facilitators; shares information about HB and related topics; can receive grants, donations and wills.
Through cultivating wisdom, beauty, and compassion we can positively impact the world and discover inner peace and meaning for life.
In a rapidly changing world in the middle of crises, new innovations and ancient wisdom, we recognize both the darkness and the hope. We believe in the power of positive transformation, starting within each individual. Holotropic Breathwork, a safe and profound method, has personally shown us the path to healing and growth.
We aim to make this transformative practice accessible to all in Finland, fostering a community of support and connection. Through workshops, meetings, and education, we will spread awareness and facilitate personal and collective evolution. Our long-term vision includes expanding the movement, supporting local facilitators, and conducting research to establish Holotropic Breathwork as a recognized treatment method
Meet the Team
We are all different, but our unwavering trust in the inner healing wisdom and process unites us. We also share the passion to hold and create supported spaces for the full spectrum of human experiences!
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Valde Orrenmaa
Certified Holotropic Breathwork facilitator (GTT)
Transpersonal consult, cognitive brief-therapist, science of religion (M.A.)
Chairman of HB Finland ry
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Valde is a communal mystic living in Kaarina, who is drawn to depth and the practice of compassion. He has worked with individuals and groups in the areas of healing, inner growth, meditation, and therapeutic states of consciousness. As a facilitator he has calm, gentle and strong presence.
He graduated from the Grof Transpersonal Training in 2019 as a facilitator of Holotropic Breathwork and a transpersonal consultant. The holotropic perspective has given him a deep understanding of the inner wisdom present in everyone, as well as the importance of creating an accepting, supportive, and safe space for personal growth.
Valde is a cognitive brief-therapist and has a masters degree in science of religion, and has specialized in unusual states of consciousness and experiences. He has also worked as a trainer and event coordinator at the Finnish psycare organization Kotilo, volunteered in terminal care, and is currently studying to become a mindfulness instructor. Valde finds joy in nature, meditation, music, dance, karate, and in authentic connections with other beings.
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Jussi Alihanka
Certified Holotropic Breathwork facilitator (GTT)
Psychiatrist, Specialist in addiction medicine, integrative psychotherapist.
Vice President of HB Finland ry
Jussi is originally from Rymättylä in the Turku archipelago and now lives in Kemiönsaari. He graduated from Grof Transpersonal Training as a Holotropic Breathwork facilitator in spring 2023 and co-founded Holotropic Breathwork Finland together with Valde in 2018.
Jussi's interest towards altered states of consciousness and working with them has born out from personal integrative experiences. These experiences have also guided Jussi to explore different ways of perceiving and understanding the human experience. Key elements in Jussi's work are safety and the concept of 'Inner Wisdom', which seeks to describe the spontaneous tendency of the human body, mind and soul to heal and grow.
He believes that Holotropic Breathwork and its principles have a lot to offer for psychotherapy, healing, growth and increasing self-awareness and therefore aims to make the method better known and to increase its accessibility in Finland.
Iida Hokkanen
Certified Holotropic Breathwork facilitator (GTT),
Body-oriented brief-therapist, Somatic Experiencing - Embodied trauma therapy trainee, Certified breath coach, nature connection guide, HR professional.
Board Member and Social Media of HB Finland ry
Iida discovered Holotropic breathwork in 2019 and since then the method has been a significant part of her own healing journey. The safe, loving and empowering breathwork community has brought much depth and richness into her life and way of being and Iida is passionately working to build awareness and accessibility for the method in Finland.
Enabling holistic well being and body-mind-spirit coherence for individuals, groups and communities is Iida’s calling. She approaches people with an open heart and brings elements from nature, nervous system education and breath in her encounters with clients. Her ways for connecting with authentic self include exploring voice, movement, conscious breathing and experiencing the nature.
In her daily life Iida is a Human Resource professional, mother and a dog person.
Become a Member
By becoming a member of Holotropic Breathwork Finland ry, you can support the association and its goals and get special benefits. You can join to the association as support- or active member.
Support Membership
This Membership doesn’t bind or oblige you to anything and it ends automatically in the end of the year.
Membership benefits:
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Discount from workshops
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Discount from purchases
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Possibility to apply for financial support for GTT modules and travel costs
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Possibility to loan Holotropic books from our workshop
All members have the right to attend the associations fall and spring meetings but support members doesn’t have right to vote. All who buy the support membership and are willing to support the association, will be accepted as support members.
You can buy the membership in our E-shop. Membership prices: (20€ Student, unemployed, senior citizen), 30€, 50€, 100€, 300€, 500€. Memberships with different prices doesn’t differ from each other by the content but offers a way to support the association with different amounts. All the profits will be used to support associations goals and activity.
Active Membership
Active members have the same membership benefits than support members but in addition they have the right to vote in the associations meetings. There is also closed chatroom for active members.
Support members, who are willing to involve actively in the association pursuing the association's goals and are committed to complying with the rules of the association, can apply for active membership. Active members will be chosen by the associations board-members. It is more likely to get chosen as a active member if you have been in our workshops and are familiar to the members of association.
You can apply for active membership by filling the Active member application. You also need to purchase the support membership from the E-shop. If you are approved to active member, your support membership will be changed to active membership.
Active member application below.