RahQuel Star
Breathwork facilitator on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, guiding people into the gamma flow state and helping them turn what they have lived through into clarity, energy, and their next real step.
I am a luminary and Global Gamma Consciousness Catalyst, the creator of Gamma Breathwork™, a method that yields rapid evolution through access to the flow state. I guide seekers to unveil their true purpose and generate life-changing paradigm shifts.
My journey
HOW IT ALL STARTED
I began as a professional ballerina, dancing until 1999. Near the age of thirty, an injury asked me to stop and heal, and that pause opened a door.
I went looking for what could actually restore me. Reiki. Energy work. Holistic nutrition. Applied kinesiology. Craniosacral therapy. Along the way, I met a mentor, Rob Gran, who taught me chi gong, tai chi, and Reiki. One day, I said aloud what I had been feeling: that I wanted to become a guide for others, the way he had been a guide for me.
I followed that. I finished graduate school in counselling psychology in 2001 and opened my own practice the same year, weaving together the healing arts I had gathered. In 2002, I began training in breathwork. In 2006, I co-founded a school and helped build a two-hundred-hour practitioner training, along with workshops and retreats.
In 2011, I found the Gamma breath. It changed the shape of everything that came after.
For roughly six years, I served as director of somatic therapies in addiction recovery centers, sitting with people at their lowest and watching the breath give them something back. Since 2020, I have lived on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, where the ocean, the jungle, and the quiet are part of my work.
THE CREDENTIALS
25 years working with breathwork
M.A. in counseling psychology, maintaining my own practice since 2001
Reiki Master Teacher for 30 years
Holistic psychotherapist for 26 years
Six years directing somatic therapies in addiction recovery centers
Certification accredited through the American Association of Drugless Practitioners, recognized worldwide
Certifications in trauma healing, family constellations, addictions clearing, multidimensional healing, and whole nutrition
20 years hosting retreats internationally
Creator of the Cacao Gamma Ecstatic Dance
Practitioner of Sukyo Mahikari and Aumakhua Ki; facilitator of Rebirthing, Holotropic, and Vivation breathwork
Co-creator of the BioDynamic Breathwork Practitioner Training
Named by Dan Brulé, at Breathfest, as the most distinct method among sixteen global facilitators
Coauthor of The Way of the Initiate (2026)
Author of the forthcoming book Gammafy Your Life (2027)
Professional ballerina until 1999
Global DJ who has played Burning Man, Bliss Burn Costa Rica, and Envision Festival, as well as clubs and gatherings around the world
The origin of the GAMMA breath
The breath sequences came to me from Cory Herter, who created them to heal from a brain injury. He gave me the green light to build a full protocol around them, creating a way to guide people through complete sessions.
I was already deep in breathwork when I received them, so I could feel what I was holding. The sequences first helped me, then they helped my clients, and over the last fifteen years they have become the body of all my work. His breaths. My method for teaching them, guiding them, and training others to hold them.
My daughter was one year old when I first discovered the GAMMA breath. I was in a depleted state then, stressed and anxious when faced with hardships in my relationship. I began giving myself sessions, breathing on the different parts of my life, preparing for the hearings, and holding safe and conscious space for myself and my child while I found my way back from fear to a confident, coherent place.
I am fifty-four now, and I feel better than at any other point in my life. This is the ground I work from. Not a theory I read, but a road I have walked.