Full festival schedule
Friday 7.8
Includes: 2 workshops or 1 workshop & bodywork session
15.30 / 16.30 / 17.30 / 18.30 · HELSINKI HEALING ARTS STUDIO
45 min Bodywork Clinic: Sessions Hosted by Alumni of the Healing Arts School
The art of unwinding through footwork is a one-of-a-kind experience of expansive emotional and physical release. This technique opens blocks in the body are being addressed, creating a place for deep opening and unlocking. The result is release of dormant energy — the body regains its vitality and strength and the mind becomes light, creative and balanced. Extremely effective in reducing muscle soreness, creating more fluidity and deep grounding.
Graduates of the Healing Arts Program at Helsinki Healing Arts School emerge as skilled somatic therapists and holistic healing practitioners. Through immersive training in body-based modalities, energy work, and trauma-informed practices, alumni are equipped to guide others on their healing journeys. They now offer somatic unwinding and support others in reconnecting with their bodies through integrative healing practices.
16.30—18.30 · SWEET SPOT STUDIO · ENG
Clarity Breathwork with Michelle Hoops
Clarity Breathwork is a gentle, safe and powerful breathing process that supports people to release stress and tension, heal and resolve trauma, gain deeper insights into current life issues and access one’s own internal healing energy, creativity and greater knowing - opening the way for new life and greater consciousness.
Joining us from the renowned Yoga Barn in Bali, Michelle Hoops is an internationally certified Clarity Breathwork Facilitator. Through breathwork and somatic practices, she helps people navigate life and relationship challenges, release stress, and heal trauma. Passionate about inner child work, Michelle guides a transformational breathwork experience for deep healing and connection.
19.00—21.00 · SWEET SPOT STUDIO · ENG + FIN
Night Thinking with Simo Vassinen
A grounding and energizing workshop mixing active meditation, somatic chaos, techno and ambient soundscapes, streams of consciousness, and deep listening to explore a shared question. We look for a mindshift through the body and release the everyday mind of its filters – drawing inspiration from rave culture, age-old techniques of ecstasy, and muscular bonding. We go into a frequency of the Night to help us in our Day. What does the question look like at the end of a two-hour portal? Bring a pen and notebook.
Simo Vassinen is a performer, choreographer, bodyworker and somatic facilitator with a background in futures research, journalism and many dancefloors. He presents his body-forward projects in Helsinki, Berlin and beyond (ImPulsTanz, Solstice, Sophiensaele, Kiasma, Ateneum x UrbanApa, Uferstudios, R4, ODDfest, Aalto University, Demos Helsinki).
Saturday 8.8
Includes: 2 workshops & community meal
11.00—13.00 · HELSINKI HEALING ARTS STUDIO · ENG + FIN
Somatic Experience: Embodied Anger with Riikka Wilson
Meeting anger as truth, boundary and life force. Anger is often misunderstood, suppressed, or bypassed. In this workshop, we explore anger as a natural and intelligent response in the body. Through guided somatic practises, you will learn how to meet and stay with activation. This is a space for curiosity, awareness, and expanding your capacity to be with what is alive in you.
Riikka is a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and holistic coach with 20+ years in movement and trauma healing. She helps people restore ease, strength, and connection after trauma or stress. Inspired by her own postpartum recovery, she guides clients toward embodiment, nervous system regulation, and reclaiming inner power.
14.00—16.00 · HELSINKI HEALING ARTS STUDIO · ENG + FIN
Transformational Breathwork with Jaakko Iso-Järvenpää
Transformational breathwork is a guided, rhythmic breathing practice that helps you release tension, process emotions, and connect deeply with yourself. By changing the state we operate in can support rewriting our stories, and how we show up for life. This workshop will include both a breathing practice, as well as opening and closing circle.
Jaakko is a breathwork teacher, coach, and a leader based in San Francisco. After decades of living in high-speed, high-performance environments, he discovered how life reveals itself effortlessly when we learn to slow down. Through transformational breathwork, he helps others reconnect with their bodies, release stored tension, and access the deeper intelligence within.
14.00—16.00 · SWEET SPOT STUDIO · ENG + FIN
Circle: Coming Home to Your Parts with Sophie Redman
We sit in community to uncover our shared humanity: our longing to feel connection, safety and dignity. Through somatic movement, pair work and sharing, we begin to notice the different parts within us. With curiosity and compassion, we practice meeting and accepting all parts of ourselves. A space to come home to the wisdom of the body and soften old patterns.
Sophie Redman is a long-time somatic coach and teacher, and the founder of Sweet Spot Studio. Sophie works with both trauma and growth—creating safety and vitality through psychophysical approaches. Her strong presence, expertise, and humanity have birthed a community that includes circles, retreats, and the Sweet Healing Festival.
18.00—20.00 · SWEET SPOT STUDIO · ENG + FIN
Somatic Ecstatic Dance with Ellariina Rautio
The body longs to move—it is built for rhythm, for resonance, for release. Through Somatically guided intentional movement, we open pathways to expression and unlock each person’s unique, primal vibration. Here, we use breath, elements, and somatization as anchors. We guide dances that are not choreographed, but discovered, where sensation leads and gravity catches us. This is not performance. This is not perfection. This is Dance, as it wishes to be. We dance.
Ellariina Rautio is a space holder for somatic movement practices, DJ, and emotional skills trainer. She teaches yoga and Shake the Dust classes at Pranama Helsinki and Kattojooga. With a background in communication and group dynamics, Ellariina creates spaces for authentic encounters. Her work weaves together embodiment, emotional awareness, and immersive soundscapes.
Sunday 9.8
Includes: 2 workshops & community meal
11.00—13.00 · SWEET SPOT STUDIO · ENG
Embodied Expression through Whacking with Axelle Munezero
Move, feel, and express yourself in an unapologetic way. Through whacking; an art form created by marginalized BIPOC queer communities in America, you’ll embody and release deep emotions. This practice invites movement, expression, and conscious relaxation, supporting your well-being. No dance experience is needed.
Axelle Ebony Munezero is an internationally recognized whacking dancer, teacher, and community builder. Born in Burundi, raised in Montreal, and now based in Finland, her work is rooted in connection, expression, and cultural exchange. Through her teaching and artistry, she invites dancers to explore authenticity, presence, and the freedom to fully embody themselves. Her approach blends integrity, creativity, and deep respect for the communities she moves within. Having taught and inspired dancers across the world, Axelle continues to expand whacking as both an art form and a space for belonging.
14.00—16.00 · SWEET SPOT STUDIO · FIN
Rajat, Yhteys ja Konflikti with Sophie Redman & Oona Verona
Kaikissa meidän ihmissuhteissa vaikuttavat inhmilliset kaavat ja varjot. Tässä työpajassa tutkimme miten voimme konfliktissa pysyä yhteydessä sekä itseemme että toisiin. Sisältää keskustelua ja kehollisia harjoituksia.
Sophie Redman on pitkän linjan somaattinen valmentaja ja opettaja, sekä Sweet Spot Studion perustaja. Sophie työskentelee sekä trauman että kasvun kanssa - luoden turvaa ja elinvoimaa psykofyysisin keinoin. Hänen voimakas presenssi, ammattitaito sekä inhimillisyys on synnyttänyt yhteisön johon kuuluu mm, piirejä, retriittejä sekä Sweet Healing festivaali.
Oona Verona on voimallinen, mutta lämmin valmentaja ja opettaja. Hänen työnsä keskiössä on erityisesti naiset, itsensä rehellisen rohkea kohtaaminen, kehollisuus ja kokemuksellisuus. Hän ohjaa erilaisia kasvuryhmiä, sekä työskentelee 1:1.
14.00—16.00 · HELSINKI HEALING ARTS STUDIO · ENG
Finding Peace in Chaos with Kuldip Quinterno
This workshop guides you in applying yogic principles and techniques to cultivate a sense of inner security, stability, and calm — regardless of external circumstances. With over 27 years of teaching experience, Kuldip brings a deep belief that yoga and meditation are more essential now than ever. Throughout the two-hour session, you’ll explore breath patterns, body angles, and focused meditation practices designed to support you in returning to your most centered, grounded self.
Kuldip Quinterno, NMT, LMT, is a master practitioner and the lineage holder of the Somatic Unwinding Method, a transformative body-based healing practice he introduced to Finland in 2003. As the founder of the Helsinki Healing Arts Center, Kuldip has been a pivotal figure in the country’s healing arts community, also pioneering Kundalini Yoga instruction and helping establish its roots in Finland.
17.30—19.30 · HELSINKI HEALING ARTS STUDIO
Mantra Circle with Emilia Vesa & Sara-Sofia Turpeinen
Warmly welcome to chant mantras and connect with the power of your own voice. Through chants from different traditions, we gather in a cozy, communal space to connect with ourselves, each other, and something greater. No previous experience is needed — you’re welcome exactly as you are. Listen, receive, sing, or bring an instrument and play along. Joy, connection, and music!
Emilia is kundalini yogi & teacher, social psychologist and deep-diver forever fascinated by the mysteries of life.
Sara-Sofia guides embodied movement and yoga. She is a curious explorer of the human body, mind and spirit.
Special offering:
Saturday 8.8 & Sunday 9.8
Not included in day-tickets ·
To be booked separately
SATURDAY 11.30 / 12.00 / 12.30 / 13.00
SUNDAY 10.00 / 10.30 / 13.00 / 13.30
SWEET SPOT STUDIO · ENG + FIN
30 min S*x Therapy 1:1 Sessions with Tiina Svensk
In therapy, you can pause and explore themes related to your sexuality, while receiving reflection, support, and psycho education. Sex therapy is a space where all parts of you are met as they are, and where you may find answers within yourself — and perhaps a path back to your own sexual blueprint.
Tiina Svensk is a sex therapist who works especially with themes of desire, lack of desire, embodiment, and shame. Her energy is gentle yet direct: she brings even the most difficult topics to the surface and creates a space where you can be fully seen as you are.