Becoming BREATH - The Podcast

What if everything you've been taught about breathwork is keeping you at the surface? 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 a...

In this episode, Sanni and Katja explore resonance — not as a concept, but as the living pulse that breathes through everything. 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. Togethe...

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 breat...

In this episode, Sanni Parkkinen and Katja Markelova speak about the origins and frameworks of Becoming Breath. This conversation is an invitation to step beyond the conditioning of mainstream self-help, trauma-healing trends, and fix-it-fast approaches. In this episode: * The difference between “Door #1” (technique-driven, pathology-focused breathwork) and “Door #2” (relational, field-responsive,...

In this conversation, Katja and Sanni explore the alchemical nature of breath and what "alchemy" is. They speak about what it means to live beyond the “real world” of mental abstraction, and to return to the direct, lived experience of exchange — between breath, body, and the wider field of life (the Tide). From the threshold moments that transmute exhaustion into creativity, to the fractal intell...

In this conversation, Sanni and Katja bring nuance to one of the most misunderstood distinctions in the breathwork world that no one talks about: the difference between breathing therapy and breathing for “healing”. They explore what makes breathwork truly therapeutic - where listening, presence, and relational attunement guide the process - versus approaches that impose technique, catharsis, or c...

“Change your breath, change your life” - you hear this everywhere. But what actually happens when we do it? In this episode, Sanni and Katja explore the seduction and shadow of breath manipulation - from traditional pranayama to the latest breathwork trends - and what gets lost when we focus on changing rather than listening and knowing first. They unpack how breath can become both a portal and a...

In this episode, Sanni and Katja explore the mythology of “right” and “wrong” breathing and how our human obsession with fixing, categorizing, and directing breath to create a certain outcome keeps us from meeting the living intelligence that breath already is. Even when the outcome we are steering towards is more connection to this living intelligence. They touch on the full range of breathwork -...

In this first episode of the Becoming BREATH(work) podcast, Sanni and Katja dive into the living question at the heart of Becoming BREATH(work): What if breathwork isn’t something we do but a web of relationship we enter? They explore how modern approaches to breath often become transactional and technique-driven, and what shifts when we meet Breath as a living force, a field, and a mirror for the...