Trauma Release System
Giten Tonkov
Thursday, August 18, 2022
Can’t make it live? After each class, video and audio recordings are available to download and watch anytime.
Learn powerful breath and movement techniques to track the sensations in each area of your body — to let go of core tensions and traumas, release repressed negative energy, clear your emotional pathways — and find your strength and ability to live happily, openly, and freely.
Many of us have recently become accustomed to uncertainty, adapting to our new normal with fortitude and courage...
Yet, because we are human, lingering trauma will still reverberate for years to come.
Trauma is a physical reaction that becomes part of our bodies, a response to situations both large and small. It takes up residence in our tissues over time, expressing itself in our everyday lives.
According to Giten Tonkov, noted trauma release expert, trauma can manifest almost anywhere in the body, and impact almost anyone. A traumatic event can be as simple as being startled by an aggressively barking dog, or as complex as suddenly losing a loved one.
It can also be the cumulative effect of long-term, but perhaps less obvious stressors, like interpersonal difficulties, unrealized dreams and aspirations, or generalized anxiety.
Trauma happens when our systems become overwhelmed. If we can’t adequately process and clear the traumatic experiences, our lives can slowly become unmanageable....
Join Giten for a 7-week journey through his powerful healing process, the BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System® (BBTRS®).
This system supports your body’s natural process for releasing chronic tension, self-restricting patterns, and emotional trauma — clearing the way for feelings of joy, self-love, and deep relaxation.
You’ll explore the seven belts of tension in your body — the ocular, oral, cervical, thoracic, diaphragmatic, abdominal, and pelvic belts.
Throughout the course, Giten will address each belt of tension individually — and as you’ll discover, each section of your body is linked to specific emotions.
Giten will show you how to use all six healing tools of BioDynamic Breathwork — breath as the main focus, along with movement, touch, sound, conscious emotional expression, and meditation.
You’ll also learn techniques to explore your own felt sense — the practice of experiencing a physical sensation without attaching meaning to it — and discover how to use your felt sense in your daily life.
As you delve into BioDynamic Breathwork and begin bringing long-hidden (and often overlooked) emotions to the surface, your experience of yourself in relation to your physical body becomes more alive...
Once you fully experience your aliveness — your “juice for life,” as Giten calls it — your relationships with yourself and others can transform…
With Giten as your guide, you’ll target specific issues for personal growth using his flexible system.
You’ll connect unconscious patterns to past events, gaining more clarity to act with awareness, fostering intimacy and connection with others.
You’ll learn to breathe more effectively, sense your body, and explore feelings unconditionally. Giten will also show you how to return to your own internal resources for support and comfort whenever you need to.
Instead of going into deep, connected breathing practices as you would with other approaches, you’ll move through BioDynamic Breathwork in intervals using the principle oftitration — releasing tension in small doses so you don’t become overstimulated.
Join Giten and learn powerful breath and movement techniques to track the sensations in each area of your body, let go of trauma — and find the strength and ability to live your life happily, openly, and freely.
A Meditation to Track Your Felt Sense
A Meditation to Work With Your Internal Resource
A Meditation to Slow Down Your Mind With Circular Breathing
In this life-enhancing course with Giten, you’ll discover:
- How trauma impacts the nervous system
- The 6 elements of BioDynamic Breathwork — breath, movement, sound, touch, emotions, and meditation
- The 7 belts of tension — ocular, oral, cervical, thoracic, diaphragmatic, abdominal, and pelvic — and how they’re different from the chakras
- The 3 different speeds of breathing — and how the speed and pattern of your breath activate your sympathetic or parasympathetic nervous system response
- Ways to work more deeply with your felt sense — and understand that if something arises, it’s just a body sensation... and if it’s too much, you can shift yourself to a place of safety
- How, as you address each belt of tension, the belt above or below it also opens and releases
- A deeper awareness of where you’re holding tension — and where your healing focus needs to be
- How your eyes gather visual information, assess safety or threats in your environment, and then send nerve impulses to your occipital area for processing
- How, when you’re breathing effectively and your diaphragm moves freely, it activates your abdominal organs, enhancing digestion, lung and heart movements, overall energy, and long-term wellbeing
- Ways to create and expand what Giten calls a window of tolerance to become more resilient, even in the face of your triggers
- Why a deeper understanding of how trauma works within your body can be incredibly empowering
- Ways to find a place of safety within your own body that you can always return to
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
In this 7-week transformational intensive, Giten will guide you through the fundamental skills you’ll need to successfully release chronic tension, self-restricting patterns, and emotional pain with Biodynamic Breathwork.
The Power of Livestreaming Video
You’ll connect with Giten and experience his teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Giten’s transmissions. Or you can listen to just the audio by phone.
(Can’t make it live? No worries! After each class, the video and audio recordings will be available for you to download or stream in a high-quality format at your convenience.)
Weekly Sessions Thursdays at 5:00pm Pacific
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive training sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Giten. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the Biodynamic Breathwork practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to release chronic tension, self-restricting patterns, and emotional pain.
Module 1: Introduction to BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release (August 18)
As your 7-week journey with Giten begins, you’ll become fully grounded in the foundations of BioDynamic Breathwork.
Giten will walk you through the ways trauma turns into tension and how it’s stored in the body as it accumulates over the years.
You’ll explore the profound physical impacts of trauma — and the sensations the body produces when that trauma is released.
Giten will explain how, rather than going into deep, connected breathing practices as in other approaches, you’ll move through BioDynamic Breathwork in intervals using the principle oftitration — releasing tension in small doses so you don’t become overstimulated.
With Giten as your guide, you’ll learn how to become more aware of your body’s sensations — and develop an even more intimate interaction with sensory messages throughout your body — as you take the first steps toward releasing your trauma.
As Giten shares these foundations with you, you’ll discover:
- The 6 elements of BioDynamic Breathwork — breath, movement, sound, touch, emotions, and meditation
- The 7 belts of tension — ocular, oral, cervical, thoracic, diaphragmatic, abdominal, and pelvic — and how they’re different from the chakras
- The 3 different speeds of breathing — and how the speed and pattern of breath activates your sympathetic or parasympathetic nervous system response
- The true meaning of resources — supports, feelings, sensations, areas of the body, memories, people, physical objects, and thoughts — that calm you while enhancing feelings of safety
- How to use your body’s natural rhythm of moving between the contraction of tension and the expansion of relaxation in a process called pendulation
- A 45-minute sitting breathwork exercise to help you become familiar with the practice and bring awareness to parts of your body that need attention
Module 2: Where’s the Next Danger Coming From? — Relieving Tension in the Ocular Belt (August 25)
You’ll explore the ocular belt, which includes your eyes, forehead, and the top of your head.
As you’ll discover, the ocular belt is also home to the emotions of suspicion, amusement, contempt, detachment, guarding, fighting, anger, and grief.
As Giten will explain, the tension in the ocular belt is constantly asking the question, “Where is the next danger coming from?” Your eyes gather visual information, assess safety or threats in your environment, and then send nerve impulses to the occipital area for processing.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- How continual fear and stress create headaches, tightness (in the forehead, cheeks, temples, and more), tension around the ears, tightness in the muscles around the eyeballs and pupils — and even hair loss
- Why extreme cases of fight-or-flight activation — that arise from war environments or unsafe home environments, for example — can cause tunnel vision, when people block out what they’re seeing
- How your ocular belt is affected by frustration — for example, why you might sometimes have difficulty concentrating when you’re stressed and frustrated, despite the high level of energy pouring into your overactive mind
- The powerful changes that come from releasing tension from the ocular belt, including better hearing, sharper vision, and more
- A 45-minute guided practice of breathwork, self-bodywork, and movement focused on releasing tension around your ocular belt — and expanding your peripheral vision
Module 3: How Your Mouth & Voice Work Together — The Oral & Cervical Belts (September 8)
Giten will introduce you to two pivotal belts that often collaborate with each other...
You’ll explore the oral belt, which includes the mouth, chin, nose, jaw, and ears. Emotions like contempt, disgust, longing, desire, fear, pain, anger, connection, self-awareness, and presence reside in this belt.
The cervical belt, meanwhile, is home to the deep neck muscles and tongue. Emotions like self-pity, helplessness, longing, hurt, fear, pain, rage, freedom, creativity, and self-expression are found in the cervical belt.
As Giten will explain, your oral and cervical belts work intimately together. While your oral belt is home to your mouth, your cervical belt houses your tongue, and ultimately, your voice.
You’ll discover how both belts are involved when you hold back the words you really want to say — for instance, you might wake up with a sore throat the morning after repressing your true opinion at work.
Or you might experience chronic tension in your throat and neck, stiffness in
your trachea and vocal cords, and/or a restriction of breath.
Neck tension can also cause you to sink your neck down into your shoulders, physically pulling yourself into your “shell” like a turtle. This type of constriction involves much more than keeping your physical mouth shut — it impacts your creativity and true expression of your inner self.
In this module, you’ll:
- Discover the meditation space within you that’s been covered up by trauma — and explore how to reveal it
- Experience firsthand how, when you work with one part of your body, the rest responds — Giten will guide you to address your jaw and neck tension, so your pelvis responds
- Discover the different ways oral and cervical belt tensions show up in your life — for instance, Type A people often have a strong lower jaw that projects forward, and they might struggle to balance confidence with a fear of being reprimanded
- Explore why even though you might feel strong anger, you sometimes can’t open your mouth to speak about it
- Create what Giten calls a window of tolerance — and discover how to make it larger so you’ll become more resilient, even in the face of your triggers
- Work more deeply with the felt sense — and understand that if something comes, it’s just a body sensation... and if it’s too much, you can shift yourself to a place of safety
- Engage in a 45-minute guided practice of breathwork, self-bodywork, movement, and vocal sounding to ease tension in your jaw and the front and back of your neck and throat
Module 4: Exploring Your Deepest Heart Feelings — Releasing Tensions in the Thoracic Belt (September 15)
You’ll explore your thoracic belt, which includes your heart, shoulders, and surrounding muscles, chest, arms, hands, lungs, and the muscles between your ribs.
As Giten will share, this belt houses deep heart feelings of grief, mourning, longing, love, fear, anger, rage, and joy.
The thoracic belt is most impacted by the childhood impulse to reach out for pleasure. Chronic tension can take hold when your developmental needs aren’t met, and you’re instead exposed to deprivation or punishment.
For adults, traumatic heartbreak also can cause knots in the thoracic belt. If you don’t take steps to release this tension, years may pass before you recover.
In this module, you’ll explore:
- How tension around your shoulder joints can interrupt the flow of your heart — and the emotional significance of your heart meridian, which travels from your armpit, down the inside of your arm, to your pinkie
- How the thoracic belt of tension often shows up as shoulder stiffness and a collapsed chest, which then affects the lungs
- The ways your thoracic belt is involved every time your nervous system instantly reacts in the face of a threat
- How thoracic tension or relaxation show up in different cultures — and how these cultural norms are passed from generation to generation
- How full-body hugging supports oxytocin production and cardiovascular health — if it’s welcome
- The ways the energetic field of your heart extends outside of your body the moment you receive comforting, healing touch
- A 45-minute guided practice of breathwork, movement, and self-bodywork to soften the protective armor around your chest area, shoulders, and arms — and reestablish the energetic flow to better relate to yourself and the world around you
Module 5: Your Body’s Relaxation & Breath Centers — The Diaphragmatic & Abdominal Belts (September 22)
The diaphragmatic belt — located in your diaphragm, stomach, rib cage, and all supporting structures — involves pain and pleasure. When trauma is held here, it can block the sensing sexual feelings, rage, hate, terror, strength, and empowerment.
The diaphragm is intimately involved in your ability to breathe deeply, and any stuck emotions affect the volume of your breath.
In the same way, your breathing affects how you activate and use your diaphragm. The inability to express yourself emotionally affects your ability to flex the rib cage and expand the lungs.
In other words, when you stop breathing, then you stop feeling.
You’ll also explore the abdominal belt, home to both the abdominal and lower back muscles. This belt is linked to emotions including pain, fear, pleasure, trust, and all feelings related to nourishment.
The abdominal belt is also known as the body’s relaxation center.
In this module, you’ll explore:
- How the volume of breath you inhale directly impacts the expansion of your lungs, your ability to feel emotionally, and your digestion
- How, when you’re breathing effectively and your diaphragm moves freely, it activates your abdominal organs, enhancing digestion, lung and heart movements, overall energy, and long-term wellbeing
- The scientific roots of the popular phrase “gut reaction”
- How constriction in the abdominal region closes off your internal spaces and your breath
- Why extreme stress causes you to tighten your belly, which then constricts your diaphragm — and the many ways this kind of constriction is connected to emotional trauma, sexual abuse, anger... and can even result in Irritable Bowel Syndrome and related issues
- How to work with your abdominal region to create more space for your diaphragm — and expand down into your abdominal cavity to release tension
- A 45-minute guided practice of breathwork, self-bodywork, and movement to expand the volume of your breath and release ribcage restriction
Module 6: The Pelvic Belt — Home to Your Primary Core Muscles (September 29)
Giten will walk you through the pelvic belt, where almost all core pelvic muscles are located, including the genitals, urinary tract, buttocks, and leg muscles.
The pelvic belt is linked to sexual feelings and arousal, a sense of power, and the emotions of anger, rage, anxiety, terror, panic, and pleasure.
The pelvis houses the primary core muscles, including the psoas major (the large muscles that run from the lumbar spine through the groin on either side into the hips). This area envelops and supports the bladder and sex organs.
Giten will explain how the pelvic belt is crucial in fight-or-flight, and how it’s a primary location for tension. Trauma responses in this belt can cause the core to become weak and overextended...
In this module, you’ll learn:
- How trauma from fight-or-flight-related tension, sexual abuse, rape, and misuse of sexuality all take hold in the pelvic belt
- Why, when people are contracted or conflicted about sexuality, the resulting tension has been linked to sexually-related disease
- The ways the intimate connection between sexuality and quality of life, pelvic discomfort, contraction, and disease can also block the channeling of sexuality to the heart
- How the moment you relax into sexual energy and heal traumas throughout the body, you can also gain newfound access to your creativity
- The ways your legs keep you connected to the Earth — but when you’re grappling with sexual and/or creative repression, you can still feel disconnected
- How your connection to the Earth (your “roots”) can be cut when you forget to go barefoot and maintain direct contact with the planet
- A 45-minute practice featuring breathwork and movement focused on your pelvic region — including the craniosacral connection (jaw, occiput, and pelvis) — and utilizing all the previously addressed belts of tension
Module 7: Closing Assessment & Celebration (October 6)
In this concluding module, you’ll move through each section of your body and assess the many ways you now feel different.
As your journey draws to a close, you’ll feel lighter after having released the traumas stored in your body. Simply understanding how trauma works within your body — and discovering how to release it — can be incredibly empowering.
In this final module, you’ll:
- Experience a BioDynamic Breathwork session that incorporates all belts of tension
- Track your newly expanded body awareness using the concepts of felt sense and resource
- Notice how different your body feels compared to the first day of this journey — and appreciate how you’ve let go of your physical tension and armor along the way
- Participate in a time of personal sharing with Giten and your classmates
- Participate in Q&A session — Giten will answer questions about your personal process of using BioDynamic Breathwork to release trauma
The BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System Bonus Collection
In addition to Giten’s transformative 7-week virtual course, you’ll receive these special bonuses to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Breathwork Summit Package
Curated Selection of 4 Video Teachings From Giten Tonkov and More
Follow along with this selection of teachings from The Shift Network’s Breathwork Summit. Through guided breath practices, you can access inner awareness quickly, transcend limitations in consciousness, and expand your capacity to navigate life’s daily stressors. This selection includes breathwork for trauma release, ancestral healing, weaving a healing-informed society, and ending othering.
Plus... you’ll receive these bonuses too!
Tense, Release, Unwind
Video Teaching From Giten Tonkov
Giten’s experiential video session leads you through the Tense, Release, Unwind practice. You’ll be invited into greater awareness of your physical self, moving through contraction and into softness and ease. Throughout this powerful teaching, Giten guides you through visualization, breathwork, surrender, and most importantly, self-acceptance.
Plus... you’ll receive these bonuses too!
Felt Sense Chapter
PDF Excerpt From Giten Tonkov’s Book
Enjoy this chapter from Giten’s book, Feel to Heal: Releasing Trauma Through Body Awareness and Breathwork Practice, where he expands on successful body-based trauma-release therapies. Explore how to break the trauma cycle, improve relationships — and enjoy a healthier, more fulfilling life. Giten’s holistic approach integrates deep, connected breathing with movement, conscious touch, emotional expression, sound, and meditation to allow the body to intuitively heal itself.
The Breath of Love: The Significance of Breathwork During a Respiratory Pandemic
Video Dialogue With Giten Tonkov and Anthony Abbagnano
Absorb powerful and timely wisdom as you listen to Giten’s conversation with Anthony Abbagnano, founder of Alchemy of Breath and the Alchemy School of Healing Arts. Anthony shares his unique perspective on the pandemic and how breathwork offers the opportunity to step out of the analytical mind and into what he calls quantum moments, where huge pivotal shifts can occur in less than an hour.
Extended Q&A Session
Live Video Session With Giten Tonkov
Join Giten in a live Q&A session and explore what’s arising for you (and others) as you work through transformative guided practices. This session will take place at the midpoint of the course, to give you a chance to immerse yourself in Giten’s guidance and receive the support you need to finish this journey in a connected and embodied way.
What Graduates of Giten’s Courses Are Saying...
— Bonnie Davis: “Giten’s Great Heart Gave Me a
Better Appreciation for the Tenderness of My Own Heart”
“[Giten’s] breathwork techniques are powerful tools for transformation, healing and wellbeing.”
I have started using short breathwork practices in my daily life and noticed positive improvement in overall attitude and resilience. Truly loved the course with Giten Tonkov, and his breathwork techniques are powerful tools for transformation, healing and wellbeing. The Shift Network team and their organization and professionalism deserves 10/10. I am very satisfied! It was a great investment!
— Aga, Connecticut
“This course will safely open you up in unexpected ways, help clear out blind spots that you have no idea you’re carrying...”
This course will safely open you up in unexpected ways, help clear out blind spots that you have no idea you’re carrying, and that could only be reached through an embodied practice.
— Adam, Westminster, Maryland
“I can’t thank Giten Tonkov’s breathwork course enough for giving my life back.”
When I started the journey with Giten I was a stone-and-a-half heavier and in a lot of physical and emotional pain from PTSD. After doing both trauma release and inner safety, I feel more like I was before the trauma. I can’t thank Giten Tonkov’s breathwork course enough for giving me my life back. I’ve still got a way to go but Giten has given me more tools to add on.
— Gina Petinou, Cyprus
“Highly skilful and professional, a master in his field.”
Tremendous benefit. I felt totally safe under Giten’s tutelage. Highly skilful and professional, a master in his field. Every aspect of his teaching resonated with me and is a gift to continue working with.
— Fiona, Lancashire, United Kingdom
“After several years of debilitating illness, this course reawakened energy in my body that had gone stagnant.”
After several years of debilitating illness, this course reawakened energy in my body that had gone stagnant. I am grateful to have been reintroduced to these energies. I’ve done many modalities of body movement and breath, and remembering that was just what I needed at this time.
— Hannah, Taos, New Mexico
“... gave me beautiful images, movements, and capacity to soothe and reflect.”
This course is an opportunity for self-exploration around trauma and the body. It gave me beautiful images, movements, and capacity to soothe and reflect.
— Gina, Melbourne, Australia
“I enjoyed Giten’s peaceful presence.”
Having experienced major trauma from a previous accident, and having done several healing modalities, I loved and found great benefit from the breathing, movement, and sound. It is something I can do anywhere for self-healing. It informed me. I enjoyed Giten’s peaceful presence.
— Heidi, Ojai, California
“As a result of taking this course I have opened in new ways, gained insights, and have new tools to use to continue benefiting in these ways.”
Giten Tonkov is a gifted, passionate teacher who continues to experiment to help clients with the tools he has developed over the years. As a result of taking this course I have opened in new ways, gained insights, and have new tools to use to continue benefiting in these ways.
— Deanna Shapiro, Ferrisburgh, Vermont
“Giten was enlivening and engaging, and I made a new connection to my breath and feelings.”
Thank you for the opportunity to learn this informative way of breathing! Giten was enlivening and engaging, and I made a new connection to my breath and feelings.
— Kari Schein
“This was a powerful course to get in tune with my body’s wisdom and start activating and releasing emotions, memories...”
This was a powerful course to get in tune with my body’s wisdom and start activating and releasing emotions, memories, etc. It was also energizing, and elevated my brain waves to a beautiful space. I continue with the breathwork and practice still. It is supportive. I was also able to observe others receive huge breakthroughs and benefits.
— Juli, Elgin, Illinois
Join the Global Community
BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System offers some of the most advanced online teachings available, within a thriving global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Giten Tonkov will share in this powerful training.
You’ll join an international community on the leading edge of manifesting a world grounded in the principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Giten Tonkov
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from the founder of the BioDynamic Breathwork and Trauma Release System from the comfort of your own home. Each class includes a livestreaming video option and guides you to release chronic tension, self-restricting patterns, and emotional pain. Course sessions are on Thursdays at 5:00pm Pacific.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the digital video will be available for you to download or stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to download in high-quality MP3 format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
In addition to the high-quality videos and MP3 audios, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Seven 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class. You’ll be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the conference call to interact, share, and do additional practices to help you further integrate the weekly lessons. Practice sessions are available for live attendance only and are not recorded for playback. If you’re unable to attend the calls live, the Facebook online community group allows you to connect with each other and find alternative times to interact.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
The BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System Bonus Collection
- Breathwork Summit Package
Curated Selection of 4 Video Teachings From Giten Tonkov and More
- Tense, Release, Unwind
Video Teaching From Giten Tonkov
- Felt Sense Chapter
PDF Excerpt From Giten Tonkov’s Book - The Breath of Love: The Significance of Breathwork During a Respiratory Pandemic
Video Dialogue With Giten Tonkov and Anthony Abbagnano - Extended Q&A Session
Live Video Session With Giten Tonkov
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System Online Training
We feel honored that Giten Tonkov has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online training. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with the founder of the BioDynamic Breathwork and Trauma Release System, whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about learning powerful breath and movement techniques to let go of trauma, release negative energy, and clear your emotional pathways, then you owe it to yourself to take this one-of-a-kind training.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
Your Satisfaction Is 100% Guaranteed!
Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed! If you don’t absolutely LOVE BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System® — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form on or before September 8, 2022 and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.
More Praise for Giten Tonkov...
“I feel much better.”
Trauma affects your body and your outlook on life. Biodynamic breathing exercises allow the release of trauma from the body without having to recall the original experiences. Many of our traumas are not part of our day-to-day consciousness, but hold us back. The release of these tensions has allowed the fog to lift. I feel much better.
— Adrienne, Emerald Isle, North Carolina
“Giten is very devoted and attentive.”
I have enjoyed the breathing and movements that I use regularly now, adding to the awareness that I already had. Giten is very devoted and attentive.
— Elise, Vancouver
“Giten, having done so much personal work, provided a deep, safe space, which has enabled me to clear some of the deepest traumas...”
Giten, having done so much personal work, provided a deep, safe space, which has enabled me to clear some of the deepest traumas that I’d been trying to clear from my nervous system for years. The result has been periods of incredible clarity and peace.
— George Clark Leland, Bangkok, Thailand
“Giten is a wonderful teacher who can create a fully safe, empathic experience...”
I really loved the course and it has given me a deeper feeling and contact with my body and tensions that were hidden inside. Giten is a wonderful teacher who can create a fully safe, empathic experience even through online teaching. Having the video recordings allowed me to follow the course without connecting on Zoom in the middle of the night. Thank you!
— Daniela, Italy
“The resources and guidance given by the gracious Giten Tonkov were transformative.”
The resources and guidance given by the gracious Giten Tonkov were transformative. Each session was powerful and challenging. This experience was filled with joy, peace, and safety. Tools I have learned from the course have led me to the benefits of trauma release by incorporating a breathwork practice into every week with ease. I am forever grateful.
— Vienna, San Diego, California
About Giten Tonkov
Developer of the BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System, Giten Tonkov shares a mastery of body-oriented therapies that evolved over 20 years of learning, exploring, and working 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.
The author of Feel to Heal: Releasing Trauma Through Body Awareness and Breathwork Practice, Giten regularly leads practitioner trainings and experiential workshops with his unique blend of creativity, depth, and playfulness, while growing the BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release Institute and its global community of friends and colleagues.
Giten has been a licensed massage therapist since 1994 (Swedish Institute of Massage Therapy, New York), and a certified breathwork & 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).
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What’s a virtual course?
A: It’s a great way to engage live and pre-recorded teachings and each other from the comfort of your home! All you need is a computer, mobile device, or telephone. If there’s more than one person in your household taking the course, you’ll each need your own connection. We use Zoom video conferencing to make it just like an in-person event, where you can ask questions and deepen your exploration of the course themes.
There’s no additional charge for connecting to Zoom with your computer or mobile device. Please note that dialing Zoom from your telephone is a toll call; your telephone service provider will charge you according to your existing long-distance calling plan. International access numbers are available.
“I’ve never seen a course so well put together ever...”
I had never participated before in an online course. The packaging, presentation, inclusion, and Facebook postings created a wonderful, safe cocoon within which to participate. I’ve never seen a course so well put together ever — not in all the years of taking college classes — and I had my doubts about doing an online course. The wealth of organization and ease of learning materials and support made this fun as well.
— Claudia F., Medford, Massachusetts
Q: Can I get benefit from the course if I miss the live classes?
A: Absolutely! You can download the recordings and transcripts of all course sessions from our online media archive, so you never need to worry about missing live calls. You can also engage the full community and leaders on our private online community group.
Q: Can you tell me about the private online community group?
A: We’ll have a private online community group for all course participants on Facebook that will support you in making connections with others, sharing insights, engaging in discussions, and completing homework assignments that can supplement your transformational journey. You’ll have the ability to share your experiences, projects, and growth throughout the course.
Q: Are there scholarships available for this training?
A: Yes, we always make a certain percentage of spaces available for partial scholarships, for those who otherwise would not be able to enroll at the regular rate. If you’d like to apply for a scholarship, please review our guidelines, which include a link to our online application form.
Q: What’s your refund policy?
A: Your satisfaction with The Shift Network and this course is our highest priority! We offer a satisfaction guarantee so that you can sample the course risk-free. The deadline to receive a full refund is September 8, 2022. To request a refund, please click on this refund request form and submit your request. Qualifying refunds will be processed within five business days and an email confirming the refund will be sent. However, we’d love to have a chance to address and resolve your concerns first. If there’s something we can assist you with, please email us at support@theshiftnetwork.com and we’ll be happy to help! (No refund requests accepted after the above date or with scholarship awards.)
Q: How can I reach Customer Support?
A: Please visit our Customer Support Center, where you should be able to find the answer to your question or the solution to your problem. And if you can’t, you can submit an online request form and we’ll get right back to you.
