Workshop leaders
Eva Makkos
Creative Integration & Soma Breath Bliss Journey
Breathwork has the power to open doors within us—but true transformation happens when those experiences are welcomed, understood, and integrated into everyday life. In her two complementary workshops, Eva Makkos invites participants on a journey that bridges breath, creativity, embodiment, and spiritual exploration.
Creative Integration offers practical and inspiring art therapy techniques designed to help participants deepen and integrate their breathwork experiences. Through creative expression, inner insights can move beyond the mind and find a tangible form, allowing healing, self-discovery, and transformation to unfold in a grounded and meaningful way.
In Soma Breath Bliss Journey, participants will experience a dynamic fusion of ancient pranayama practices, rhythmic breathing techniques, and ecstatic music. Together, these elements create a powerful pathway into expanded states of awareness, elevated vibrational energy, and profound inner bliss. By activating the body’s natural intelligence and “inner pharmacy,” participants are invited to reconnect with joy, vitality, and their deepest essence.
With more than 25 years of experience facilitating transformational spaces, Eva Makkos brings a rare combination of scientific understanding, therapeutic expertise, and spiritual depth. She is a certified Transformational Breath Group Leader, SomaBreath Transformational Coach, art therapist, yoga and meditation teacher, visionary artist, and researcher. Her lifelong exploration of spiritual traditions—from South America to East Asia—combined with her doctoral research on transformational processes in yoga and breathing, has shaped a uniquely integrative approach to healing and personal growth.
Eva’s work is rooted in embodied spirituality, holistic healing, and the belief that every individual carries within them an infinite source of wisdom and potential. Her greatest passion is guiding people back to that boundless inner connection.
Alyse Bacine
Breathwork to Dissolve Core Wounds and Create Permanent Results
Many of the challenges we face as adults are not rooted in the present moment—they are echoes of unmet needs and unresolved experiences from childhood. In this powerful workshop, Alyse Bacine guides participants into a transformative process of identifying the hidden origins of their current struggles and accessing the subconscious patterns that keep them in place.
Using her signature Metamorphosis Method®, participants will combine breathwork, somatic awareness, and energetic healing techniques to uncover and release deeply held emotional imprints stored within the body. Rather than simply managing symptoms, this approach addresses the root cause of suffering, creating the conditions for lasting transformation and greater freedom.
Alyse Bacine is internationally recognized as a pioneer in childhood trauma healing and transformational breathwork. With over 25 years of experience and a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology, she has dedicated her career to bridging the worlds of clinical mental health, trauma recovery, and somatic healing. Her groundbreaking methodology integrates advanced breathwork, energy healing, and evidence-based trauma tools into a comprehensive system designed to facilitate deep and permanent change.
Featured in major publications including Oprah Magazine, Well+Good, and Nylon, Alyse has helped hundreds of individuals transform their lives by healing at the level of mind, body, and energy simultaneously. Her work stands at the forefront of a new paradigm in healing—one that recognizes that true transformation occurs when all aspects of the human experience are addressed together.
This workshop offers a unique opportunity to experience that process firsthand and discover what becomes possible when old wounds no longer define the future.
Lauren Chelec Cafritz, Ari Barkan & Kappy Laning
The Final Letting Go – Exploring the Surrender Process
What if the quality of our lives—and ultimately our transitions—depends on our ability to surrender ?
The Final Letting Go: Exploring the Surrender Process is a profound group breathwork experience that invites participants into one of the most transformative human capacities: the ability to release what no longer serves and trust what is emerging. Through guided breathing, compassionate support, and a carefully held group field, participants are encouraged to explore the deeper layers of their inner world and gently soften resistance, fear, and emotional holding.
Originally developed as a training tool for breathworkers and later adapted for individuals recovering from trauma, violence, and abuse, the Surrender Process has become known for its remarkable ability to facilitate deep healing while remaining exceptionally gentle and safe. Participants often discover a greater sense of freedom, connection, intuition, presence, and inner peace as long-held emotional, psychological, and physical tensions begin to dissolve.
The workshop is led by an extraordinary team of facilitators.
Lauren Chelec Cafritz, founder of Vitality Breath and author of Breath LOVE, is an internationally recognized breathwork teacher, speaker, and leader in the global breathwork community. Her work spans corporate organizations, schools, government agencies, nonprofits, retreats, and professional trainings. She also serves on the International Breathwork Foundation Executive Team and as National Representative for the United States.
She is joined by Ari Barkan, founder of Center City Breathe in Philadelphia and co-creator of the Vitality Breath Certification Program. Since 2006, Ari has helped individuals and groups access healing and transformation through breathwork and other healing arts modalities.
Completing the facilitation team is Kappy Laning, a breathworker with more than two decades of experience and co-creator of the Vitality Breath Certification Program. Trained as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Kappy skillfully integrates breathwork with Internal Family Systems principles and supports individuals working within expanded states of consciousness.
Together, they offer a deeply supportive and transformative experience that invites participants to discover the healing power of surrender.
Wilfried Ehrmann
Exploring Dreams in Breathwork
Dreams speak a language that often lies beyond words. They carry messages from the unconscious, reveal hidden aspects of ourselves, and illuminate pathways toward healing and growth. In this unique workshop, Wilfried Ehrmann explores the profound relationship between dreams and breathwork, demonstrating how conscious breathing can become a powerful gateway for understanding, integrating, and embodying dream experiences.
Participants will learn how breathwork can deepen dream awareness, uncover symbolic meanings, and facilitate the integration of unconscious material into everyday life. By combining the wisdom of dreams with the transformative power of breath, this workshop opens a doorway to greater self-understanding, emotional integration, and inner coherence.
Dr. Wilfried Ehrmann is one of Europe’s most respected voices in breathwork and psychotherapy. A psychotherapist, breath therapist, mindfulness teacher, trainer, and author, he has been teaching and developing breathwork for more than four decades. He is the founder of the Integrative Breathwork approach and has trained generations of breathwork practitioners through the ATMAN Breathwork Training in Austria. He has also served as Austria’s National Representative within the International Breathwork Foundation and has played a significant role in the development of the international breathwork community.
Drawing on a lifetime of experience in psychotherapy, breathwork, mindfulness, and consciousness studies, Wilfried offers a unique perspective that bridges psychology, spirituality, and embodied experience. His work emphasizes integration, self-awareness, and the transformative potential of conscious breathing as a path toward wholeness and inner peace.
In this workshop, participants are invited into a rich exploration of the meeting point between breath, dreams, and the deeper dimensions of human consciousness.
Paul Barrett
“Stepping Up — The Hero’s Journey”
Dreams speak a language that often lies beyond words. They carry messages from the unconscious, reveal hidden aspects of ourselves, and illuminate pathways toward healing and growth. In this unique workshop, The mythical hero’s journey, ubiquitous in cultures and traditions around the world, serves as an essential model for today’s world.
Going beyond the mere entertainment value of this heritage is crucial to accessing the powerful resources that constitute the reservoir of our potential, lying dormant in our memory.
“Stepping Up – The Hero’s Journey” aims to reconnect our personal circumstances – with all their unique details – to this immense heritage, which is constantly highlighted by our own traditions.
As President of Transformational Breath® France and drawing on more than 35 years of experience in transformational coaching of business leaders in France and Europe, facilitating international meetings, working on action films, and leading breathing seminars as a senior trainer in Transformational Breath®, Paul has developed a deeply personal understanding of what he calls the Art and Science of “Taking a Step Up .”
The uniqueness of this approach lies in the transformative combination of deep compassion for the human condition and the inspiring energy needed to…
“Step Up !”
