Intensive Holotropic Breathwork Workshop - October 2026

15 - 18 October 2026

Start: Thursday, 5:00 PM

End: Sunday, 2:00 PM

Where: Velosimed Center, Kokra 72, 4205 Preddvor, Slovenia

Our center lies in the heart of the Kamnik-Savinja Alps, in the beautiful valley of the Kokra River. It is surrounded by the Kamnik-Savinja Alps and peaceful forests, where wild streams and torrents flow into the crystal-clear Kokra. It is a great place to relax, walk, run, climb, hike or cycle. If you stay for a day or two longer, you can head into the mountains on well-marked trails, either on your own or accompanied by certified guides. Or you can simply enjoy relaxing in nature or in our sauna.

Holotropic Breathwork is a powerful approach to self-exploration and personal empowerment. It draws on our innate inner wisdom and its ability to guide us toward positive transformation and wholeness.

Holotropic Breathwork can make a significant contribution to personal and collective transformation. The method combines breathing, evocative music that encourages inner experience, and work that releases tension. In this way, it opens access to non-ordinary states of consciousness and the exploration of deeper dimensions of the psyche.

Holotropic Breathwork can help heal the effects of past emotional or physical trauma, reduce anxiety and stress, ease symptoms of depression, express and release emotions, and inspire creativity.

Many also report that it helps them feel a deeper sense of meaning and purpose in their lives, and greater authenticity in everyday life.

Our four-day 2+2 intensive workshop includes two full holotropic breathwork experiences as the breather and two as the sitter, along with preparation, integration, and time to simply stay with whatever has opened up.

People come to holotropic breathwork for very different reasons.

Some are at a turning point in their lives. Others keep running into emotional or relational patterns that they understand, yet sense that understanding alone has not brought change. Some come with no particular problem. Perhaps they are simply curious.

Or perhaps we are driven by a feeling that beneath our usual ideas about ourselves there is another layer of experience, one that thinking alone cannot reach.

Holotropic breathwork does not offer ready-made answers to these questions.

What it does is create conditions in which we can temporarily loosen our usual ways of organizing experience and allow something less controlled to emerge, and sometimes something surprisingly intelligent.

Stanislav Grof described this capacity as an inner healing intelligence: the psyche's inherent tendency toward movement, integration, and greater wholeness when the right conditions are in place.

We take this idea seriously.

That is why we do not try to produce catharsis, direct your experience, or decide what should happen.

Sometimes a powerful process unfolds.

Sometimes something very quiet happens.

Both can be equally important.

Why 2+2?

A single holotropic breathwork experience can open up an important process. But inner processes do not necessarily follow a workshop schedule.

That is exactly why we value the 2+2 format.

Over four days, you breathe twice and twice accompany another participant as their sitter.

The first experience may open something that then keeps working quietly. The second breathing session does not simply repeat the first. The process may deepen, take an entirely different direction, or bring up something that could not show itself before.

In between, there is time.

Time to sleep.

Time for a walk.

Time to draw a mandala or talk about the experience.

Time for deep human connection.

And also time in which you do not have to understand the experience right away.

This space between the two experiences is an important part of the process.

Not everything that happens in a non-ordinary state of consciousness needs to be interpreted immediately. Sometimes an experience first needs to be lived, felt, and given time to settle.

Accompanying another is part of the experience

The 2+2 format also means that each participant spends two sessions beside another person as their sitter.

At first glance, this may seem like the less important half of the workshop.

It turns out to be quite the opposite: sitting for several hours beside another person without trying to fix, direct, or explain their process is usually a profound experience in itself.

Holding a safe space

We have been organizing workshops like this regularly since 2010, but despite our many years of experience, we never underestimate these processes. On the contrary, we are aware that non-ordinary states of consciousness can open very different layers of experience.

Joy, silence, sadness, fear, intense bodily experiences, memories, images, existential questions, or experiences that are hard to put into words may arise.

That is precisely why the quality of the environment matters so much.

At the Velosimed Center, we do not see holotropic breathwork as a technique for producing special experiences.

We see it as a deep process of healing and opening of the psyche, one that needs preparation, careful holding of space, and integration.

Our facilitators have experience in psychotherapy, holotropic breathwork, and work with non-ordinary states of consciousness.

We are available throughout the whole process, during the entire workshop and afterward as well.

If something difficult opens up, you do not have to remain alone with it.

At the same time, support does not mean that we take the process over from you.

Whenever possible, we follow rather than lead.

• You can find the Registration Form and the Health Form at this link: https://velosimed.com/sl/workshops/holotropic-breathwork-intensive-sokc0ti7

  Click the Sign up button on the right side of the screen and fill out both forms.

We will send you the payment details afterwards, following a short phone or Zoom call with you.

Early bird price: €340 (applies if you pay at least 21 days before the workshop starts)

Full price after the early bird period ends: €390

The price includes: all workshop activities: snacks, assorted drinks and meals throughout the entire workshop.

Payment for the workshop and accommodation can be made after a mandatory short phone call, which ensures the safety of all participants and allows us to finalize the confirmation of your registration.

Double room with breakfast: €40 / person / night

Dormitory with breakfast: €20 / person / night

Tent + breakfast: €7 / night

(Tourist tax is included in the price)

If you are not sure

Holotropic breathwork is a powerful experiential method, and it is not necessarily suitable for everyone or for every period of life.

If you are not sure whether taking part would be right for you at this time, contact us. Before you decide, you can ask us anything you would like to know.

We will help you judge whether this kind of work is right for you, rather than persuading you to take part.

Contact: mojca.studen@velosimed.com or call 040 907 664

If the experience speaks to you

You do not need to know in advance what you are looking for. Sometimes curiosity is enough.

We will take care of the space, the time and the support.

Whatever happens in that space belongs to your own process.

The cancellation fee is €70, regardless of when you cancel the workshop.

If you cancel within 15 days of the workshop start date, the workshop fee will not be refunded. However, after deducting the €70 cancellation fee, the remaining amount can be used toward any other workshop within the next 4 years.

If you cancel more than 15 days in advance, the full amount (minus the €70 cancellation fee) will be refunded.

If we cancel a workshop, we will refund your registration fee in full.