Tap into your body’s innate ability to release trapped trauma, stress, and tension... and reset your nervous system using the six elements of BioDynamic Breathwork — breath, movement, touch, sound, emotional expression, and meditation — and the “felt sense.”
Your body knows how to release the little and big traumas that get trapped within you over time — if you know how to communicate with it.
Past traumas and conditioning tend to block that communication as you become lost in your emotions and belief systems and disconnect from the wisdom of your body — which can result in mental and physical pain, discomfort, tension, illness, and even dis-ease.
Learning how to neutralize these emotional and mental patterns can help you tune back in to the language of the body, which often takes the form of bodily, or felt sensations…
… and disarm all that’s keeping you stuck in loops of physical, mental, and emotional dis-ease.
Giten Tonkov, founder of the BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System (BBTRS), says your felt sense is key to locating and releasing buried trauma that only reinforces emotional reactivity and overall duress throughout your entire body.
During this 7-week live online training with Giten, you have the chance to learn how to use potent BioDynamic Breathwork techniques in combination with felt-sense training to tap back into the body’s wisdom and ability to self-regulate and release held trauma by tracking and neutralizing the emotions around your felt sensations.
As you track your felt sensations through potent somatic practices, including guided meditations and practices through the seven belts of tension — ocular, oral, cervical, thoracic, diaphragmatic, abdominal, and pelvic...
... you can discover the real language of the body and its capacity for self-healing and greater self-awareness as you release the tension and trauma that’s been stored — often over decades.
Giten will also offer live demonstrations of techniques that integrate the elements of BBTRS — breath, movement, touch, sound, emotional expression, and meditation...
... with felt-sense theory that can be applied to personal and professional healing therapies for greater health, calm, clarity, and agency.
Whether you’re new to felt-sense techniques or have worked with Giten before, this course provides a solid framework to organically release held trauma without directly reinforcing the trauma and its pain.
During this empowering somatic training on felt sense, you’ll:
- Explore the BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System (BBTRS) and its potential for trauma release and deep healing
- Learn how to combine BBTRS techniques with felt-sense theory for enhanced trauma healing for yourself and clients
- Watch Giten guide clients into felt sensations to understand how sensations can be experienced beyond interpretation... use specific words on the list to describe felt sensations... unwind the spine to disperse energetic emotional charge that’s building in the body... and more
- Be guided in somatic exercises to connect with and deepen your awareness of the felt sense, learn how to break the connection between emotions and sensations, create integrated energetic flow, and more
- Learn how felt-sense practices can be integrated into other somatic practices
- Explore the 7 belts of tension — ocular, oral, cervical, thoracic, diaphragmatic, abdominal, pelvic — and how to release the energetic charge of each
- Learn how to apply verbalization techniques in somatic therapy sessions to support trauma release
- Verbalize and share sensations with partners to integrate breath and felt sense in trauma release
- Apply what you’re learning with a partner to deepen your understanding and practical knowledge of the practices you’re learning
Giten will guide you through BBTRS and felt-sense practices that help you break the connection between emotions and sensations...
... and restore a felt experience of vitality, joy, and wellbeing.
If you’d like to gain greater mastery in regulating your emotions — and a greater understanding of how BioDynamic Breathwork and felt-sense techniques can help you reinvigorate your health and life by releasing the emotions that become buried tension and traumas in the body, join us!
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
In this 7-week transformational course, Giten will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to neutralize emotional reactivity... support trauma release... reestablish physical, mental, and emotional energetic flow... and claim greater joy, peace, mobility, and vitality through somatic awareness and movement practices.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
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. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Course sessions Thursdays at 9:00am Pacific
(plus one Tuesday class on December 17)
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive 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 practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to integrate BioDynamic Breathwork and felt-sense practices into personal and professional healing therapies.
Module 1: Identify & Connect With Subtle Body Sensations to Neutralize Emotional Reactivity & Empower Self-Healing (November 7)
This session begins with an overview of the six elements of BioDynamic Breathwork — breath, movement, touch, sound, emotional expression, and meditation — and their connection to felt-sense practices.
Through breathwork and sensory tracking exercises, you’ll learn to identify and connect with subtle bodily sensations.
You’ll discover how somatic awareness practices can help you and your clients integrate felt sense into existing practices to deepen your healing. Giten will also guide you in somatic practices to deepen your awareness, setting the foundation for subsequent modules focused on trauma healing.
This week, you’ll:
- Explore felt-sense theory and practice
- Gain a deep understanding of the concept of felt sense and its significance in trauma release
- Discover how to integrate felt sense into your existing practices
- Be guided in a 30-40 minute exercise to connect with and deepen your awareness of the felt sense — including how to use the breath to elevate sensitivity in the body and be guided into different body parts to identify sensations
Module 2: Enhance Trauma Release by Integrating BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System Elements With Felt Sense (November 14)
Explore the BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System (BBTRS) in-depth, focusing on its six foundational elements…
… and experience each element through guided practices to gain insights into their role in trauma healing and their connection to the felt sense.
This session will highlight how these elements complement the felt sense approach, offering a holistic framework for somatic practitioners.
By integrating BBTRS techniques with felt sense, you’ll enhance your ability to facilitate deep trauma release, creating a more comprehensive healing experience for yourself (or your clients).
This week, you’ll:
- Explore the BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System (BBTRS)
- Discover how the 6 elements of BBTRS relate to and complement the felt-sense approach
- Learn how to combine BBTRS techniques with felt-sense theory for enhanced trauma healing for yourself and clients
- Be guided in exercises to integrate felt sense with BBTRS elements — and gain a deeper understanding of the connection between the elements and how felt sense is instrumental in working with all of them
Module 3: Interoception & Exteroception Techniques to Expand Your Felt-Sense Vocabulary Beyond Logical & Emotional Interpretation (November 21)
This module dives deeper into felt-sense theory to enhance your sensitivity to bodily sensations through breathwork.
You’ll explore interoception and exteroception — the internal and external perception of sensations — through practical exercises that involve touch and sensory awareness.
You’ll expand your vocabulary for describing felt-sense experiences — both within emotional reactivity and for becoming more embodied…
Partner exercises will also provide opportunities to practice identifying and tracking sensations as they shift and how to integrate these techniques into somatic therapy.
The module culminates with group sharing and discussion to enrich the learning experience and application of felt sense in trauma work.
This week, you’ll:
- Explore various techniques to access and work with the felt sense
- Watch Giten guide a client into felt sensations to understand how sensations can be experienced beyond interpretation
- Learn how felt-sense practices can be integrated into somatic therapy sessions
- Have the opportunity to partake in group sharing and discussion on the application of felt sense in trauma release work
- Be guided in exercises with interoception and exteroception to sense each area and gain a better understanding of yourself as a sensorial being — and learn to break the connection between emotions and sensations
Module 4: Verbalize Felt Sensations With Non-Judgmental Language to Work Through Trauma With Greater Precision (December 12)
Discover why the verbalization of felt sensations is a crucial skill in trauma processing.
Through guided exercises, you’ll learn to describe sensations with specific language that encourages staying present with the experience — without judgment.
Group discussions and feedback sessions will support the cultivation of verbalization techniques as you refine and clarify how you communicate your internal experience.
This practice is essential for somatic therapy as it helps both practitioners and clients articulate and work through trauma with greater precision — which supports deeper emotional and physical healing.
This week, you’ll:
- Reflect on and discuss the challenges and benefits of verbal expression in trauma processing
- Watch Giten guide a client to use specific words on the list to describe felt sensations — what is it, where is it — and how staying with it changes things
- Have the opportunity for group feedback and refinement of descriptive language for effective communication
- Learn how to apply verbalization techniques in somatic therapy sessions to support trauma release
- Partake in group breakouts — one giver, one receiver, and one observer
- Practice exercises in verbalizing felt sensations with precision and clarity
Module 5: Unwind Your Spine to Facilitate Trauma Release Through Myofascial Tissue (December 17)
Discover spinal unwinding, a practice that connects core movement to the felt sense and allows for trauma release through myofascial unwinding. Giten will guide you through a session that incorporates breath, movement, and sound to emphasize the importance of letting the felt sense guide the process.
Individual and partner exercises will deepen the exploration of how movement can release stored tension.
The session concludes with a reflective sharing that allows you to share your experiences with unwinding and the role of the felt sense in facilitating this release.
This week, you’ll discover:
- Guided spinal unwinding that incorporates breath, movement, and sound to access the felt sense
- Why it’s important to allow the felt sense to guide the process of release
- Individual and partner unwinding exercises with an emphasis on felt sense exploration
- How Giten guides a client in spinal unwinding to disperse the energetic emotional charge that’s building in the body
- Integration and sharing of experiences related to using the felt sense in unwinding practices
- An exercise on pendulation and titration — to regulate the level of emotional and physical charge and support the nervous system without feeling overwhelm
Module 6: Segmental Body Awareness Through the 7 Belts of Tension to Track Sensations & Release Tension Patterns (December 19)
Discover segmental body awareness, a technique that examines the seven belts of tension — ocular, oral, cervical, thoracic, diaphragmatic, abdominal, and pelvic — within the body.
Through guided meditation and breathwork, you’ll explore each segment, tracking sensations and the narratives associated with them.
The focus will be on using the felt sense to deepen your awareness of these body segments — and identify and release tension patterns.
Partner exercises will reinforce this practice, allowing for a more integrated approach to somatic therapy that addresses both physical and emotional layers of trauma.
This week, you’ll:
- Discover segmental body awareness within the context of the felt sense approach
- Explore the 7 belts of tension — ocular, oral, cervical, thoracic, diaphragmatic, abdominal, pelvic — and how to release the energetic charge for each
- Deepen your awareness and connection with segmental body sensations
- Be guided in exercises to track sensations and narratives within each segment to understand where you are holding a charge — and create an integrated energetic flow
Module 7: Uncover the Relationship Between Breath & Felt Sense in Trauma Release for an Integrated Approach to Somatic Healing & Therapy (January 9)
During the final session, you’ll explore the relationship between breath and felt sense — and how breath is covertly associated with different sensations in the body.
You’ll engage in partner exercises where you place hands on specific areas of the body and verbalize the sensations that arise.
This practice encourages a deep exploration of breath awareness and its connection to the felt sense, supporting trauma release.
Lastly, Giten will share how felt-sense theory and practice can be integrated into somatic therapy — with an emphasis on the role of breath in healing.
This week, you’ll:
- Engage in partner exercises that associate the breath with felt sensations throughout the body
- Watch Giten guide a client to place a hand on the body and speak out whatever comes to mind — giving the physical body a language and creating more openness and expression
- Explore the entire body through breath awareness and felt sense
- Verbalize and share sensations with partners to integrate breath and felt sense in trauma release
- Reflect on the journey of integrating felt-sense theory and practice into somatic therapy sessions
- Be guided through the exercise that gives voice to the body and releases held trauma
The Felt-Sense Training With BioDynamic Breathwork Bonus Offering
In addition to Giten’s transformative 7-week online course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Cultivating Safety During a Breathwork Session
Video Teaching of a Breathwork Session for Deeper Presence and Comfort With Giten Tonkov
Giten will explore how Biodynamic Breathwork uses the concept of felt sense and resource to feel present in the body during breathwork sessions. In this 39-minute video teaching, Giten explores resourcing and pendulation in breathwork to avoid overcharge and re-traumatization. Ultimately, you’ll experience the six elements integrative approach of the Biodynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release modality.
Releasing Trauma Through Body Awareness & Breathwork Practice
Audio Conversation With Giten Tonkov and Jessica Dibb
This 45-minute audio recording from the Breathwork Summit explores how Biodynamic Breathwork uses the six elements multimodal approach to release effects of past traumatic events. You’ll also explore how you can use the concept of felt sense, pendulation, and spinal unwinding in breathwork to support embodiment and trauma release.
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”
I have done other breathwork before, but nothing has had the structure and way of titration for trauma that this does. Giten’s expert understanding of trauma and how to access it is invaluable. I had many painful memories get processed through these classes that have never been accessible through other methods.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
This course is amazing. And even though you don’t need to identify the specific trauma to release and heal it, I received many insights on the origins of the trauma as I was releasing it, as well as afterwards. I am so grateful to Giten for his knowledge, experience, and support during each session. I regret I was unable to attend (live), but I still felt everything and received healing throughout the course. I am lighter, and I have accessed a new level of freedom and self-acceptance.
Medford, New York
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!
Connecticut
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.
Cyprus
Excellent! I have been searching for this kind of help for a long time. At last, in Giten, I have found someone who explains my experience of holding and releasing trauma. I feel understood, and therefore I feel completely safe and relieved. Giten’s work is a gift, and I am profoundly grateful.
Lancashire, United Kingdom
Join the Global Community
Felt-Sense Training With Biodynamic Breathwork offers some of the most transformational 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 program.
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 founder of the BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System® Giten Tonkov — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to reestablish emotional energetic flow and reclaim greater joy, peace, mobility, and vitality. Course sessions are on Thursdays (except the class on December 17, which is a Tuesday) at 9:00am Pacific.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to 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 stream. 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
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 Zoom call to interact, share, and do additional practices to help 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.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, Felt-Sense Training With Biodynamic Breathwork
We feel honored that Giten Tonkov has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with a founder of the BioDynamic Breathwork & 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 how to regulate your emotions and reclaim wellbeing with BioDynamic Breathwork and felt-sense practices, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
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 Felt-Sense Training With BioDynamic Breathwork — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form on or before November 21, 2024 and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.
More Praise for Giten Tonkov
This course will safely open you up in unexpected ways, and help clear out blind spots that you have no idea you’re carrying and that could only be reached through an embodied practice.
Westminster, Maryland
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.
Ojai, California
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.
Elgin, Illinois
About Giten Tonkov
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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), is a certified breathwork and body-oriented therapist since 2001 (Diamond Breath School, Miasto Meditation Institute, Italy), and is a former OSHO Multiversity therapist (OSHO Meditation Resort, Pune, India).
