My name is Matthildi-Christina Istavridi and I am a Certified Breathwork Facilitator and the founder of Innerscapes Breathwork, based in Chania, Crete, Greece.

My journey into embodied practices began in 2014 through Qi Gong and Tai Chi, where I discovered the depth of stillness, conscious breathing and embodied awareness. From 2019 to 2021, I completed my training and certification in Qi Gong and Kung Fu Basics. Alongside this path, I trained and worked in massage from 2014, deepening my understanding of the body, conscious touch and the importance of presence and attentive listening.

In 2022, following a period of significant personal change and inner exploration, I encountered Breathwork. It became an important part of my own process of reconnecting with my authenticity, needs, emotions and embodied experience. Breath became an anchor and a way of creating more inner space for what was present.

I continued my professional training and became a Certified Breathwork Facilitator. I now facilitate individual and group sessions, workshops and retreats, drawing primarily from Conscious Connected Breathing.

My facilitation is informed by trauma-aware principles, with an emphasis on creating a safe, respectful and non-judgmental space. I aim to empower people to listen to their intuition, exercise their free will and develop trust in their own capacity to make choices that feel right for them, while respecting their boundaries, pace, breath and individual process.

My ongoing training in Nonviolent Communication since 2024 and Chi Nei Tsang since 2026 continue to support and deepen my embodied approach.

My background in architecture also influences the way I understand space. Architecture taught me to see spaces not only for how they look, but as containers that support us with safety, comfort and ease. This understanding of space as something that can hold and support us naturally led me to explore what it means to hold space for another person.

INNER SCAPES was born from this connection between the spaces that hold us externally and the inner spaces we create within ourselves.

I am a member of the Breathwork Association of Greece and am professionally connected with the International Breathwork Foundation and the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance.