I'm Elina

Attending The Personal Lie Workshop was one of the best gifts I could have ever given myself this year. I felt there were still unresolved issues I had to deal with before I could freely move on with my life and miraculously enough, by identifying my personal lie and working under Elina’s instruction, I felt a huge weight had been lifted, I had a better understanding of myself and that I could truly and permanently make any necessary changes.
Elina is inspiring, energetic, positive, encouraging, open and very knowledgeable in her field – I highly recommend The Personal Lie Workshop and have every belief that it will be as beneficial to others as it was to me.

I have had two Rebirthing sessions with Elina and both were a very good experience for me. While it may seem odd that merely breathing in a specific manner would have spiritual, emotional, and physical benefits, I certainly gained a great deal from the experience. I intend to have more sessions with Elina, when I can arrange it.
The sessions worked primarily on a spiritual and emotional level for me, making me more calm and secure than I was before. However, there were also specific physical benefits. For example, I noticed that I have had less stiffness in my neck and fewer headaches since the Rebirthing sessions. In addition, I noticed that almost immediately after my first session, my body detoxified itself. I appreciated the physical benefits of the detoxification. I also very much appreciated the discussions with Elina following the sessions to help me understand the experiences that I had during the session. Now, when I feel I need it, I do some breathing exercises and it seems to have an almost immediate positive impact upon me, calming me and releasing toxins from my body.
I recommend Rebirthing, as it seems to have given me results that are fairly general (relaxation and calm) and specific (detoxification) and all of the results are positive.

I have worked with Elina Papa on several occasions in joint ventures and I have personally participated in her Laughter Yoga workshops. I have always found her very professional, efficient and authentic. Elina is generous of spirit, courageous and loving. Her workshops are liberating, healing and lots of fun and I would thoroughly recommend them.

When I came for first time to the rebirthing session, I knew only that it is a technique dealing with traumas and breath. I was anxious to go deeper inside myself and to lose control. But to my surprise, I was able to be in control during the whole session, and it was not scary at all. When I left home, I had a feeling that something very important had happened to me, even though I remembered nothing special during my first session. The next morning, I felt great, I was walking along the street and the world “smiled” to me, and I smiled back. I really felt like I was re-birthed. In several days, very early memories came out, in fact they were SO early that I am still not sure whether it can be true. I understood one important “root” of my problems. So that is how my journey began. Later on I realised, not only consciously, but in the level of feelings, that breath is an energy, is an expression of life itself, not merely the act of filling our blood with oxygen. It is the act of regulating, moving the energy within the body. My sessions help me to be more conscious about my energy blocks and hidden feelings, connected to the blocks. For example, I had an asthma before as an allergic reaction. Now I know that this problem is an indicator of another, more deep problem – the fear of taking in the life. When I am anxious now, I take several deep connected inhales and I know that I am safe, I feel it. Many things have changed since my first session. I became more relaxed, more open to new experiences, more accepting towards myself, but the most important I started to feel that I am much larger than my physical body, that I am connected to the Source and to others, to the World. My last experiences during the sessions was the expression of such feeling of unity. I was out of my body, I was at Home, surrounded by Light and pure Love. And this is a progress for me, because I was surrounded only by my own insecurities and just wanted to do everything correct at the beginning.

ARTos Foundation had the pleasure to have Elina Papa and the Laughter Yoga workshops at ARTos Foundation on several occasions and especially for kids University; a series of specially designed workshops for children of ages 7-13, focusing on promoting the knowledge and experience that help to create strong personalities and creative and critical thinkers, with free will and confidence. Elina is always one of the collaborators that comes first on our list of instructors for every Kids University designed by our team. She is dedicated and well-equipped with knowledge on her field of practice, which perfectly translates in her actual work. The Laughter Yoga workshops provide the platform for children to come closer with each other, feel welcome in the space that hosts them, be prepared physically and mentally in order to carry on with the rest of the program with confidence, eagerness, focus and positive energy in order to absorb and understand the knowledge that is transferred for innovative and critical ways of thinking and seeing, as a form of educating and passing on the necessary knowledge for a new, better generation of citizens through the use of playful and creative techniques. Elina's love and professionalism for what she does is always translated in the children's responses through the excellent communication and a more personal relationship that she manages to establish with them during the Laughter Yoga workshops. ARTos Foundation really appreciates her work and we look forward to the continuation of this beautiful collaboration in the future.