A podcast for practitioners exploring breath as relationship, not a technique. Conversations at the edge of inhales and exhales.
Becoming BREATH - Advanced Practitioner Training in Portugal (8-14 May, 2026).

by Sanni Parkkinen and Katja Markelova
A podcast for practitioners exploring breath as relationship, not a technique. Conversations at the edge of inhales and exhales. Becoming BREATH - Advanced Practitioner Training in Portugal (8-14 May, 2026).
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December 30, 2025
<p>What if everything you've been taught about breathwork is keeping you at the surface?</p><p>Recorded during the liminal days between Christmas and New Year, Sanni and Katja explore why myth isn't metaphor—it's symbolic instructions on how to human. Why your breath is reciting an ancient mantra with every cycle. And why the scientific materialist worldview might be the most limiting myth of all.</p><p><br></p><p>What We Explore</p><ul><li>Why celebrating "return of the light" at winter solstice misses the point entirely</li><li>Stranger Things: the difference between experiencing myth as archetypal instruction vs. "basic sci-fi"</li><li>How controlling breath equals controlling people</li><li>What "mythic condition" means—co-creating reality moment by moment</li><li>Katja shares reaching complete exhaustion and finding new coordinates of Self</li><li>Your breath singing your essence</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Key Quotes</p><ul><li>"Myth is not opposite to reality. The opposite of myth is literalism, flatness, emptiness."</li><li>"Controlling the breath is the easiest way of controlling a person."</li><li>"When we try to make mental sense of breath, we lose something—this is where it becomes just technique."</li></ul>

December 9, 2025
<p>In this episode, Sanni and Katja explore resonance — not as a concept, but as the living pulse that breathes through everything.</p><p>They dive into how resonance shapes our breath, our relationships, and even our healing. From trauma as an intelligent resonant response, to the magic of coherent breathing, ritual, and sound — this is a conversation about returning to the natural rhythm of life.</p><p>Together they explore:</p><ul><li>Why “resonance” isn’t just a buzzword, but the organizing principle of existence</li><li>The difference between doing the breath and being breathed</li><li>How trauma itself begins as a resonant response — the body’s most intelligent way of staying alive</li><li>The subtle difference between dissonance and resonance, and how one transforms into the other</li><li>Why rituals, sound, rhythm, and group presence are biological needs </li><li>The art of meeting internal dissonance with a bigger external resonance</li><li>How poetry and mythopoetic language can restore aliveness to our human experience</li><li>The hum at the center of the universe — and how your own voice can become a doorway back to it</li></ul><p>Thank you for being a part of the Vibe 🫶</p>

November 25, 2025
<p>In this conversation, Sanni Parkkinen and Katja Markelova explore one of the most slippery and fluid thresholds in the human experience — the space between conceptualizing something and actually experiencing it.Have you ever been breathed by the wind — a visceral moment of dissolving boundaries between body and world? How do we move from talking about life to being moved by life?From doing breath(work) to becoming breath?In this episode:</p><ul><li>The difference between understanding an experience and becoming it.</li><li>Why we cling to concepts — and how conceptualizing is both a survival strategy and a form of disconnection.</li><li>The Imaginal Realm — a living, breathing in-between world where the seen and unseen meet.</li><li>What “switching coordinates” means and how to shift from human contraction into imaginal belonging.</li><li>How somatics, movement, and breath can either liberate or confine us, depending on our coordinates.</li><li>A willingness to be imaginably unstable.</li></ul><p>Enjoy!</p>
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A podcast for practitioners exploring breath as relationship, not a technique. Conversations at the edge of inhales and exhales.
Becoming BREATH - Advanced Practitioner Training in Portugal (8-14 May, 2026).
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