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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Felt-Sense Meditation
Audio Journey With Giten Tonkov to Slow Down and Cultivate Greater Awareness

Experience the transformative power of Felt-Sense Meditation, a deeply nurturing practice that fosters connection with your body and surroundings. This 32-minute audio meditation invites you to slow down, embrace gratitude, and cultivate self-awareness through mindful breathing and gentle movement. With simple yet profound techniques, you’ll reconnect with yourself and create a sense of spaciousness and calm.

Register by November 2 to claim this bonus before it expires.

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.

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.