7-Day Residential Training · ASHA Retreat Centre, Tuscany · 19–25 July 2026
Most of us don’t know what regulation feels like
until we experience it.
A structured, step-by-step training for building a robust nervous system. For yourself first, and if you choose, to share with others. Seven days in Tuscany with Anthony and Amy. You’re not coming to learn about regulation. You’re coming to feel it.
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I was once sitting with a high-level client who was mid-panic attack, withdrawing from medication. No technique. No protocol. Just breathing together, with simple counting. That was enough. It started with one breath.
Anthony Abbagnano, Founder
Alchemy of Breath
Survival Was Never The Plan
Most of us have been running dysregulated for so long, it just feels like who we are.
It isn’t.
So many of us have spent years, lifetimes even, stuck in survival. Fight, flight, freeze, as a way of being. Not as an emergency response. As a long-time way of being. You know the feeling.
Regulation doesn’t mean life stops being complicated. It doesn’t mean nothing will ever get under your skin again. It means when things do, and they will, you have a way back. A more available breath. The one that helps you not say the thing you’ll spend days wishing you hadn’t.
Breathe first. Everything else second. Regulation kicks in from there.
Science-informed. Grounded in respiratory physiology and nervous system understanding.
Experiential. You learn by practicing with fellow participants, not sitting in lectures.
Spacious. Designed for real integration, not information overload.
In their own words
“These last 7 days were the most amazing experience of my life. They brought me to my purpose, to the clarity I’d been looking for. If you get the chance to go to ASHA, it will awaken your soul.”
“Dysregulation is so familiar, but it has a way of cutting me off from the people around me whom I love. It’s like the negative pole of a magnet that pushes away the people I want to draw close.”
Jeremy · USA
“My reactionary attitude causes my nervous system to dysregulate, which accounts for my quickly climbing blood pressure. And that’s just the physical symptom. Imagine the emotional and spiritual ramifications.”
A student · Istanbul
“Keeping things simple, being in nature, breathwork is my go-to for the spikes.”
Tony · United Kingdom
“Whenever a difficult emotion arises I take a few deep breaths, look at it, respect it, and try to direct it inwards to its original source. Whatever happens in the world around me, a new deep calmness remains inside.”
An AoB graduate · Sweden
The Methodology
Your nervous system is trainable.
This is the architecture.
For 14 years, we’ve been teaching people to consciously breathe. To regulate. Now we’re giving it the structure it deserves. Six stages, received in your own body across the week. Tap any one to see what it builds.
Stage One
Remember
You come back to your own breath. Before any technique, before any protocol, you sit with what has always been there.
This is what Anthony calls marrying your breath. A return to what the body already knew. Quieter than you remembered. More available than you knew.
Stage Two
Reframe
You stop thinking of breath as relaxation or deep breathing. You start understanding it as a three-dimensional, nervous-system intervention.
The body work lands here, and so does the history. What you’ve been carrying becomes visible, and there’s room to set some of it down.
Stage Three
Resource
The felt sense becomes something you can draw on. Window of tolerance, pendulation, titration, co-regulation. They stop being terminology and start being how you read what’s happening inside you.
You stop being lost when things get charged. You always have somewhere to come back to.
Stage Four
Regulate
The 90-second protocol arrives. You can settle yourself on demand. In a meeting, in traffic, in the middle of the thing you used to lose yourself inside of.
A tool you didn’t have seven days ago. One that will be yours for every week after.
Stage Five
Realign
The three-dimensional breath and the 12-minute protocol arrive together. Two practices that meet the nervous system where it actually lives.
You stop using breath only for yourself. You start using it for others. Your calm nervous system becomes someone else’s anchor. A signal of safety.
Stage Six · The summit
Rise
The practicum. You deliver your own session, in your own voice, with your own hands.
You graduate as the person who can do this when it matters. For yourself first. And if you choose, for the people you serve.
After You Leave
A 10-hour online post-ASHA study completes your training. This is what makes you ready for full certification. The residential week gets you in the practice; this brings the foundations home with you.
What You Leave With
Confidence you can feel.
Practices you can use.
You’re not coming to learn about regulation. You’re coming to feel it, day after day, in your own body, until it stays. By the end of the week these tools live in you, not in your notebook.
A 12-minute daily breathing practice you will do hands-on all week
A complete morning regulation practice. For your own nervous system first, then for the people you work with.
A 90-second reset you practice until it becomes second nature
For acute stress, yours or someone else's. Simple enough to remember when it matters most.
A hands-on introduction to the session framework
Practiced with partners: landing, assessing, guiding, and closing a 10 to 15 minute breath session.
The ability to recognize common dysfunctional breathing patterns
Chest breathing, over-breathing, breath holding, paradoxical breathing. Learned through observation and partner practice.
Level 1 of the full facilitator pathway
If you choose to continue, the Alchemy Regulation Method is your direct entry point into the facilitator training.
The Setting
ASHA Retreat Centre. Tuscany, Italy.
A hidden sanctuary nestled in the wild, rugged beauty of the Tuscan hills. Acres of untouched land. Complete privacy. Total immersion.
About ASHA
Welcome Home.
ASHA Retreat Centre sits on acres of untouched Tuscan land near Castell'Azzara. Founded in 2020 by Anthony Abbagnano and Amy Rachelle, it was built as a sanctuary for healing, creativity, and community. A place where all of you is welcome.
Stone buildings, olive groves, open-air practice spaces, and the kind of quiet that lets your nervous system hear itself again. Three meals a day prepared on site. Digital detox encouraged. Nature does a lot of the work.
Explore ASHA →Program Details
The Alchemy Regulation Method counts as Level 1 of the full facilitator pathway. Continue from here if you choose.
Your Team
Led by practitioners.
Grounded in experience.
Lead Instructor
Anthony Abbagnano
Founder of Alchemy of Breath and ASHA. Author of Outer Chaos, Inner Calm. Architect of the Alchemy Regulation Method.
Co-Founder & Co-Instructor
Amy Rachelle
Co-founder of Alchemy of Breath. Master facilitator with 15+ years in breathwork, somatic practice, and practitioner training.
Facilitator
Pablo Castro
Breathwork practitioner and senior Alchemy of Breath trainer for 8 years. His work centers on somatic healing, presence, and deep listening.
Facilitator
Nick Garrow-Fisher
Believes balance is everything. Supporting the practicum, partner practice, and hands-on skill development throughout the week.
Who This Is For
For anyone who’s been
running dysregulated too long.
And for the practitioners who want to give that same way back to the people they serve. The training begins with you. Your own regulation, your own body. Everything else builds from there. No prior breathwork training required.
This training does not cover
Conscious connected breathwork delivery, trauma catharsis, somatic release, or altered-state practices. You will experience a conscious connected breathwork session during the week. If you want to learn to deliver it, you continue from here into the full facilitator training.
Investment
One price. Everything included.
Your investment covers the full 60-hour training (online and on-land), 7 nights accommodation at ASHA, and three meals a day. The only thing not included is your flight to Tuscany.
60 Hours
Online + on-land
7 Nights
Accommodation at ASHA
3 Meals
Daily, all included
Founding
Cohort · small & intimate
Founding cohort rate: from €1,446 to €2,327
Regular price €1,701 to €2,738. The only difference between options is where you sleep.
| Accommodation | Regular | Founding Cohort · 15% off | Pay today · 15% deposit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private Cottage | €2,738 | €2,327 | €349 |
| Private Single Room, Ensuite | €2,416 | €2,054 | €308 |
| Shared Room (2), Ensuite per person | €2,063 | €1,754 | €263 |
| Glamping, Solo | €2,003 | €1,703 | €255 |
| Shared Room (2), Shared Bathroom per person | €2,003 | €1,703 | €255 |
| Shared Room (3), Private Bathroom per person | €1,969 | €1,674 | €251 |
| Glamping, Shared (2) per person | €1,909 | €1,623 | €243 |
| Camper Van | €1,763 | €1,499 | €225 |
| Bring Your Own Tent | €1,701 | €1,446 | €217 |
Payment
Pay your deposit to secure your spot. The balance is due before arrival. The 15% founding cohort discount is applied automatically at booking.
Questions
Frequently asked.
19 to 25 July 2026 · ASHA Retreat Centre, Tuscany
Come feel the difference.
Seven days in Tuscany. Six stages of regulation. Practices that live in your body, not your notebook. Come and let’s train it together, for the peace you really want.
15% deposit secures your place · All-inclusive pricing · Founding cohort