I’ve been on a long journey of healing, but BBTRS® has taken it to a whole new level. The combination of breath, movement, and sound has allowed me to access and release trauma that I thought would always be a part of me. I feel a new sense of freedom and vitality.
Professional Trauma-Informed
Breathwork Training
BBTRS® Training Retreat
(Counts toward the BBTRS® Certification Pathway)
Learn a paced, consent-led, body-based method grounded in trauma physiology. Build real skills in safety, regulation and facilitation, and take a meaningful step on the BBTRS® Practitioner pathway.
Osheanic International
Ceará, Brazil
Full Training
Retreat
September 5-14
Introduction
Weekend
September 5-6
A 10-day immersive Training Retreat designed to deepen embodiment, support nervous system regulation, and transmit the foundations of trauma-informed breathwork using the Biodynamic Breathwork Trauma Release System® methodology.
This retreat includes a two day Introduction at the beginning of the journey, offering a gentle and embodied entry into the BBTRS® method before moving into the full training experience.
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INTRODUCTION TO BBTRS®
Biodynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System® (BBTRS®) is a somatic methodology designed to safely release chronic tension, expand emotional capacity, and support trauma resolution through the intelligence of the body.
BBTRS® integrates breath, movement, sound, touch, conscious emotional expression, and meditation to help the nervous system regulate, unwind stored patterns, and return to a state of flow, presence, and vitality.
The BBTRS® Training Retreat weaves together theory, embodied experience, and hands-on facilitation practice.
It is both a core module within the BBTRS® Certification Pathway, and a deep personal transformation journey, even for those not pursuing certification.
Accredited & Trusted Worldwide
Recognized by leading bodies in breathwork and trauma-informed education.
Because true transformation comes from embodied experience, not theory alone.
Because the world needs facilitators who can create safety, pace activation, and work ethically with the nervous system.
Because personal healing and professional skill develop best together, not separately.
Whether you are here for personal growth or professional development, BBTRS® offers tools you will carry for life.
In this training, you will learn how to:
- Understand trauma through a somatic, nervous-system based perspective
- Facilitate breathwork safely without overwhelming or retraumatizing clients
- Build confidence in pacing, titration, pendulation and co-regulation
- Access deeper emotional release and integration in your own body
- Strengthen presence, attunement and healthy practitioner boundaries
- Expand your window of tolerance and embodied resilience
- Guide a complete BBTRS® session with clarity and skill
- Connect with a global community of practitioners and seekers
WHY PARTICIPATE
in this training?
Who it's for
This Training is for people who want a grounded, ethical and powerful approach to trauma-informed breathwork. It is designed for anyone called to work compassionately with breath, body and trauma, whether you are already a practitioner or just beginning your path.
No previous experience is required. What matters is willingness to feel, learn and grow.
This retreat is especially aligned for:
- Psychologists, therapists, and counselors integrating somatic tools
- Coaches, guides, and facilitators seeking a nervous-system-informed method
- Somatic, movement, and body-based practitioners
- Breathworkers expanding into trauma-informed practice
- Yoga and meditation teachers deepening emotional holding capacity
- Bodyworkers exploring nervous-system-based approaches
- BBTRS® students already on the Certification Pathway, completing a required in-person module
- Individuals on a personal healing journey, whether or not they plan to pursue certification
This retreat may not be the right fit if you are seeking peak-state experiences, rapid catharsis or performance-style breathwork. BBTRS® prioritizes pacing, consent, presence and integration over intensity.
If you are on the certification pathway, this Training Retreat counts toward your required In-Person Retreats.
What you'll learn
This training gives you a solid foundation in trauma-informed facilitation, blending theory with embodied practice so you can guide others with clarity, confidence and integrity.
You will learn not only what to do, but why and when to do it, leaving with a complete method rather than isolated techniques.
You will learn to:
- Understand the core principles of trauma physiology and nervous-system based healing
- Work skillfully with fight, flight, freeze and collapse states
- Guide emotional release in a safe, grounded and paced way
- Cultivate presence, attunement and healthy practitioner boundaries
- Recognize and work with patterns held in the body, including the Seven Belts of Tension and developmental themes
- Follow and facilitate the complete BBTRS® session structure
- Support clients without force, pressure or overwhelm
- Use ethical and trauma-informed communication
- Explain the method simply and confidently to clients
- Practice hands-on facilitation with demos, exchanges, feedback and supervised sessions
- Apply the Six Elements framework effectively in sessions
By the end of the Training, you’ll have a stronger foundation in trauma-informed facilitation, including pacing, consent, regulation, and supervised practice you can integrate into your work and personal process.
What you will experience
Throughout these 10 days, you will move through a deep, structured and supportive process designed to open the body, support emotional flow and expand your capacity to feel and integrate. You will experience:
- Daily breathwork journeys
- Emotional release practices
- Partner and group sessions
- Movement and embodiment exercises
- Nervous system regulation tools
- Touch and bodywork techniques
- Conscious emotional expression
- Meditation and integration
The training is designed to help your body unwind, open and reorganize from inside out.
For those longing to breathe more freely, to soften old patterns and to meet themselves with honesty and depth, this training offers a truly embodied path of transformation. It brings together personal healing, trauma-informed facilitation and a supportive community committed to presence, integrity and real integration.
About the facilitators
Developer of the BioDynamic Breath & Trauma Release System®, Giten Tonkov shares a mastery of body-oriented therapies that has evolved from over 20 years of learning, exploration and work with countless clients and groups around the world.
His passion for life, humility and love for people has inspired his own personal journey and the creation of his “6-Element” approach to healing. Giten continually leads practitioner trainings and experiential workshops with his unique blend of creativity, depth and playfulness, while growing the BioDynamic Breath & Trauma Release Institute and its global community of friends and colleagues.
Giten is a Licensed Massage Therapist since 1994 (Swedish Institute of Massage Therapy, New York), and certified Breath & Body Oriented Therapist since 2001 (Diamond Breath School, Miasto Meditation Institute, Italy), as well as a former Osho Multiversity Therapist (OSHO Meditation Resort, Pune, India).
He was born in Ukraine and lived in New York for 24 years, before finding his current home in the Santa Cruz Mountains, California.
Manuela Rieder is a dedicated educator and practitioner in holistic health whose work bridges embodied healing with lived experience. After a successful career in the corporate world, she encountered BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System®, an experience that profoundly reshaped her relationship with life, health and purpose.
She is the Founder and Director of the Embodied Well-Being Institute, a research and education center devoted to supporting the health of body, mind and soul through complementary therapeutic approaches.
Manuela is a Certified BBTRS® Practitioner and Course Facilitator, mentoring emerging practitioners and co-facilitating workshops both online and in person.
Born and raised in Austria, Manuela is passionate about living a vibrant, authentic life and empowering others to reconnect with their innate wholeness, vitality and embodied presence.
The 6 elements of BBTRS®
Developed by Giten Tonkov, Biodynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System® is a body-oriented modality rooted in trauma physiology, somatic psychology and conscious breathwork. The six elements form one integrated system, intentionally woven together to create a safe, regulated and effective session flow. Not all elements are used simultaneously, but each plays a specific role at different stages to support trauma release and integration within the nervous system’s window of tolerance.
Breath is the primary gateway to awareness and regulation. It gently activates sensation, mobilizes stored energy and supports emotional release without force. Through conscious, connected breathing, the body feels safe enough to soften, expand and reveal what has been held beneath the surface.
Breath
Movement supports the natural discharge of held tension and restores rhythm and vitality in the body. Subtle waves, micro-movements and organic impulses unlock both deep and superficial muscular patterns, allowing energy to flow freely through the spine, fascia and joints.
Movement
Attuned, consensual touch provides grounding, containment and a sense of safety. Through supportive contact, attention is guided toward areas of stability, allowing the nervous system to release tension gently through pendulation rather than overwhelm.
Touch
Sound gives voice to what has been held in silence. Vocal expression, toning, music and vibration help loosen frozen tissues and support release on a cellular level. Sound reconnects breath, body and expression, supporting both discharge and integration.
Sound
Emotions are energy in motion. When expressed with awareness and presence, they move through the body without collapse or overactivation. This element supports authentic release while maintaining regulation, allowing emotions to integrate rather than re-enact trauma patterns.
Emotions
Meditation completes the process. It supports integration, nervous system settling and embodied awareness after deep work. Through meditation, insight arises naturally and the body reorganizes from a place of presence, clarity and inner grounding.
Meditation
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The Venue & Accommodation
Nestled on the northeast coast of Brazil, Osheanic International is more than a retreat center. It is a buddhafield, a living field of presence where everything softens, opens and expands. The moment you arrive, the pace of daily life falls away and the body begins to breathe differently.
Surrounded by ocean breeze, tropical gardens and quiet pathways, Osheanic offers a setting where inner work becomes natural, inviting you to drop into your body and meet yourself with honesty. The accommodations are spacious, cozy and comfortable, supporting rest and integration after each day of training.
Healthy, nourishing meals prepared with care help you stay grounded and connected to your body.
Located just 40 minutes from Fortaleza Airport (FOR), it is the perfect environment to reconnect with yourself, explore somatic work in safety and allow transformation to unfold with ease.
BBTRS® Training Retreat
One Journey, with a Gentle Entry Point
The BBTRS® Training Retreat is a 10-day immersive professional training in trauma-informed breathwork, designed to support deep personal healing while building real facilitation skills grounded in safety, pacing and nervous system regulation.
The retreat begins with two introductory days, intentionally designed as a gentle, embodied entry into the work. These days are part of the Training Retreat and set the foundation for everything that follows.
This is one coherent journey, not separate programs.
The Full BBTRS® Training Retreat
September 5-14
The full 10-day Training Retreat offers a complete immersion into the BBTRS® methodology. Throughout the retreat, you will deepen your understanding of trauma physiology and nervous system dynamics, while developing hands-on facilitation skills through supervised practice.
You will learn how to pace activation, work with consent and support integration, experiencing BBTRS® both as a personal healing process and as a professional training.
This Training Retreat counts toward the official BBTRS® Certification Pathway and is designed for those who wish to integrate trauma-informed breathwork into their personal or professional life.
The Gentle Entry: Introduction Days
September 5-6
The first two days offer a gentle and supported entry into the BBTRS® method. You will experience the Six Elements in a paced, non-cathartic way, building safety, presence and felt sense in the body, while learning how activation is regulated rather than pushed. This introduction is ideal if you are new to BBTRS®, curious to feel the work in your own body, or drawn to a gradual, consent-led approach.
If you are not yet certain about continuing, you may join the first two days only and decide from there whether to continue into the full Training Retreat.
Enrollment opens on March 19th.
This training is a unique opportunity and spaces are limited.
Joining the waitlist gives you early access to all essential information before registration opens to the public. If you want to secure your place with the Early Bird discount, along with a special waitlist-only offer, leave your email below. This additional discount will be available for only 10 days and reserved for the first 10 people who register once enrollment opens on March 19th.
By signing up, you’ll also receive updates, webinar invitations and exclusive content to help you prepare for the journey. Enter your details below to join the waitlist and be the first to receive priority access when registration opens.
No. The training is open to complete beginners as well as experienced practitioners. Everything is taught step by step, and all sessions are guided safely. What matters most is openness and willingness to engage in the process.
Absolutely. Many participants come without any previous somatic or therapeutic background. The training is designed to meet you where you are and support you physically, emotionally and energetically throughout the entire process.
The BBTRS® Training Retreat in Brazil is a professional in-person training that counts toward the official BBTRS® Certification Pathway, but it does not constitute a full certification on its own.
To become a Certified BBTRS® Practitioner, participants must complete:
. the BBTRS® Online Practitioner Certification, and
. three BBTRS® In-Person Training Retreats (this retreat can count as one of them),
as part of the Advanced Practitioner Certification Pathway.
This retreat represents a significant step in the training journey, offering a solid foundation in trauma-informed facilitation, supervised practice, and embodied integration, supporting both professional development and personal healing.
No. This Training Retreat is a major step and can count toward the pathway, but certification requires the online certification plus three Training Retreats.
Yes, you will learn facilitation skills and practice in a supervised environment, with a strong focus on safety, consent and nervous-system pacing. Certification to practice as a BBTRS® Practitioner requires completing the full pathway.
It is deep and transformative, but always paced safely. You will be supported by experienced facilitators, clear structure and a strong emphasis on nervous system regulation and grounding. The goal is not to overwhelm, but to open gently and consciously.
Spaces are limited to maintain safety, intimacy and high-quality facilitation. We recommend joining the waitlist to secure early access once registration opens. There is no application, but some basic information will be required during registration.
Yes. Payment facilities will be available during the registration process, including installment options to make participation more accessible.
Accommodation and meals at Osheanic International will be paid separately upon arrival.
Yes. You may join only the introduction weekend (September 5–6). If you prefer to wait before committing to the full training, you can decide at the end of the weekend whether you want to continue into the BBTRS® Training module.
The training will be taught in English. Portuguese interpretation may be offered depending on the needs of the group.
We recommend arriving on September 4th, one day before the program begins, so you can settle in and start the journey rested and grounded. This option is available for an additional fee. If you're interested, please let us know in advance so we can make the necessary arrangements.
If you wish to arrive earlier, please contact Osheanic directly. Early arrival may be possible depending on room availability and additional accommodation fees.
For the safety of the process and the integrity of the group field, all participants are required to stay on-site at Osheanic International for the full duration of the program.
– Cancellations made more than 30 days in advance are eligible for a refund, with a deduction of 200 euros per participant for administrative costs and payment fees. Transfers of payment to another date are not permitted.
– Cancellations made less than 30 days in advance or withdrawals after the start of the retreat are not eligible for a refund.
– If the retreat is canceled by the organization, the full amount paid will be refunded.
– If there is a sudden illness or recent bereavement, we can suspend your registration. A refund may be considered with a medical certificate, deducting the administrative fee of 200 euros per participant.
The training is open to adults aged 18 and above. There is no upper age limit, provided you are in stable physical and emotional health and able to participate in breathwork and movement practices.
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Produced in Collaboration by
One Love Institute and CONNECTION by Safi Bittencourt
This BBTRS® Training is co-produced by One Love Institute and CONNECTION by Safi Bittencourt, uniting international experience with local presence to deliver a grounded, ethical and high-quality training experience.
