Double Holotropic Breathwork -gathering
Building Bridges with Holotropic Breathwork
29.1.-1.2. Knipnäs, Tammisaari
Retreat Price:
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Normal: 400€ // Early bird 350€ (until 31.12.2025)
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Students, unemployed, pensioners: 300€ // Early bird 250€ (until 31.12.2025)
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Support ticket: 450€
Accommodation & Full board at Knipnäs (paid separately):
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Shared room: 275€
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Private room: +90€ extra
Knipnäs, Linnunlaulu 1, 10650 Tammisaari
Begin your year with depth, connection, and transformation.
In the heart of the Finnish winter — a time of deep stillness and introspection — we invite you to step into expanded states of consciousness through two full holotropic breathwork sessions.
It's a warm invitation to open up for new connections:
• Between the old and the new
• Between what’s known and what wants to emerge
• Between your inner world and a shared field of healing
Amidst the snow and silence, in the land of dayless days, we gather in a circle to breathe, feel, and reflect. The darkness of the North holds a unique kind of light — one that is found within.
With skilled facilitation, a compassionate container, and a powerful community, this weekend offers an opportunity of two holotropic sessions and two sitting experiences per participant, allowing deep connection to the inner healing wisdom.
Whether this is your first time with Holotropic Breathwork or you have participated before, this event offers an opportunity to pause and explore yourself—to listen, to see, and to experience more deeply what is moving within you in a safe and non-judgemental space.
This full-board retreat takes place in the charming seaside town of Tammisaari, at the Knipnäs Wellbeing Center (Linnunlaulu 1, 10650 Tammisaari – https://knipnas.fi). The price includes delicious vegetarian meals, sauna, and accommodation in a shared room (a private room is available for an additional €90). Knipnäs is easily accessible: 90 km from Helsinki and 120 km from Turku. You can arrive by car — with plenty of free parking on site — or by public transport. The train station is less than 2 km away, with trains from Helsinki and Turku taking under 1.5 hours. We can arrange pickup from the station if needed.
If you are traveling from abroad, just be in contact if you need help with finding accommodation and transportation.
No previous experience in breathwork is required for the retreat. We will speak Finnish and/or English during the retreat, depending on the language skills of the participants. We can provide translation if needed.
Holotropic Breathwork is a powerful method of self-exploration, which helps us to connect more deeply with our inner healing wisdom. During the retreat you can surrender to your inner process with your own pace and style in a safe, supportive and non-judgemental space. The method consists of different therapeutic elements, such as specific kinds of music to support the inner process, intensified breathing, bodywork and emotional work, another person's compassionate presence, group process and different kinds of preparing and integration supporting practices.
Schedule
Thursday
16:00-17:00 Registration
17:00-21:00 Opening the retreat, dinner, practices to prepare for the inner journeys
21:00 Free time
Friday
8:00 Breakfast
9:00-21:00 2 x Breathing sessions, food, tools for integration
21:00 Free time / sauna
Saturday
8:00 Breakfast
9:00-21:00 2 x Breathing sessions, food, tools for integration
21:00 Free time / sauna
Sunday
8:00 Breakfast
9:00-14:00 Deepening the integration
14:00 Lunch
How to reserve your place in the Retreat:
1. Fill the Registration form and Medical form from the link below
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VDoBUWeYBzZU3kd-_Y-AJsDlUC4LS5b295REUa6ssGA
The purpose of the Medical form is to make sure it is safe for you to participate in the retreat and that we can support your process in the best possible way. Please answer honestly. If any question is unclear to you, ask us for clarification.
2. Pay the retreat fee via the link below (installment payment is also possible):
https://holvi.com/shop/holotropic/
Your spot at the retreat is secured once you have completed the registration and health forms and paid the retreat fee. We will send you a confirmation email once we have received your forms and payment. We will send you later a link to pay the accommodation and food for Knipnäs (must be paid until one week before the event)
If this is your first time attending an event organized by Holotropic Breathwork Finland ry, we will schedule a brief video call with you before the retreat. This interview is also a great opportunity to ask any questions or share your thoughts about the event. You're welcome to reach out to us at any point if you have questions or concerns. If you’ve participated in our events before but would still like to talk with us beforehand, or if there have been any recent changes in your life that we should be aware of, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Payment Information:
Retreat Price:
-
Normal: 400€ // Early bird 350€ (until 31.12.2025)
-
Students, unemployed, pensioners: 300€ // Early bird 250€ (until 31.12.2025)
-
Support ticket: 450€
Accommodation & Full board at Knipnäs (paid separately):
-
Shared room: 275€
-
Private room: +90€ extra
If you have any difficulties with payment, would like to pay in installments, or wish to attend but your financial situation makes it difficult, please contact us — we’ll work together to find a suitable solution. If you need to cancel your participation, we will refund the full amount if the cancellation is made before 31.12. For cancellations made after this date, we will retain an €80 booking fee, except in cases of illness.
Because the breathing-sessions can be emotionally or physically intense, it is not recommended for safety reasons for pregnant women, people with heart-problems and very high blood pressure, with strong psychiatric illnesses, with ongoing spiritual emergencies, with recent fractures or surgical operations, with acute infections or epileptics. If you are not sure if this method is safe for you, consult your physician/therapist or contact us so we can discuss your situation.
Facilitators of the retreat
Valde Orrenmaa
Certified Holotropic Breathwork facilitator (GTT)
Transpersonal consult, cognitive brief-therapist, science of religion (M.A.)
Chairman of HB Finland ry
valdeorrenmaa.fi
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.
Jussi Alihanka
Certified Holotropic Breathwork facilitator (GTT)
Psychiatrist, Specialist in addiction medicine, integrative psychotherapist,
Vice President of HB Finland ry
https://minduu.fi/fi/profiili/jussi_alihanka
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, Certified breath coach, nature connection guide, Somatic Experiencing - Embodied trauma therapy trainee, 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.
Maria Nalli
Facilitator for Grof®️Breathwork and Grof®️ Psychedelic Therapy (GLT).
Practical nurse.
Lead facilitator of the Sun Vuosi group process since 2022.
Tantric Life Coach, NLP practitioner, de-armouring and regression therapist.
Currently studying Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®️).
Maria graduated in spring 2025 as a Facilitator for Grof®️ Breathwork and Grof Psychedelic Therapy. Prior to this, she spent several years deepening her understanding of tantra and embodied self-awareness through various courses. Since 2022, Maria has been leading the annual Sun Vuosi group process, supporting participants in profound self-discovery and building connection with themselves and others.
Maria has worked for nearly 20 years in crisis, family, and mental health care. For her, creating a safe and accepting space is central to facilitation, a place where everyone has permission to be, feel, and grow. Her approach is present, intuitive, and deeply human.
In daily life, Maria is a mother of two teenagers, partner to Hermanni. She feels most at peace at her cottage in nature, where creativity flows freely.
Antti Hupli
Certified facilitator for Grof®️Breathwork and Grof®️ Psychedelic Therapy (GLT),
Medical doctor specializing in addiction medicine, qualified in MBCT (mindfulness based cognitive therapy) and Cognitive Hypnotherapy. In addition, Antti has
completed the theoretical part of the MAPS organizations MDMA-assisted therapy
training and works as an assistant trainer at MAPS and has also worked as a clinical therapist in a Finnish-Canadian study on psilocybin-assisted therapy for alcohol use disorder.
Antti´s roots are from Karelia but he has been living on/off in Helsinki with his family the last 7 years. Antti got introduced to altered states of consciousness more profoundly in a year of 2014 and since then he has been working with himself with this method in various different modalities like meditation, yoga, plant medicines and holotropic breathing. Antti graduated in spring 2025 as a Facilitator for Grof®️ Breathwork and Grof Psychedelic Therapy. Prior to this, he worked as a clinical therapist in a study on psilocybin-assisted therapy for alcohol use disorder and has been giving lectures/presentations/interviews especially about psychedelics in many different platforms and media. Currently Antti works as a consultant doctor at the demanding level children´s home and as a chief doctor at Helsingin Neuroterapia Oy, where he also has a private practice.
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