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WELCOME MESSAGE
Issue # 13 January 2012
Welcome to the IBTA eNews.
Some of the content is only available to members of the IBTA. We’d like to take this opportunity to invite you to become a member of the IBTA.
WELCOME MESSAGE
Welcome to the IBTA eNews.
You are receiving this newsletter because of your connection to Breathwork. Some of the content is only available to members of the IBTA. We’d like to take this opportunity to invite you to become a member of the IBTA.
The International Breathwork Training Alliance is an professional organization for breathwork practitioners, trainers and schools. The IBTA was created through a collaboration of breathwork schools and trainers from 1999 to 2005 when its first international board was formed. Its mission is to establish standards of ethics and professional training for schools, trainers and practitioners of breathwork as well as to promote collegial interaction, training and trainer exchanges, resources for practitioners and future research and development. It does so through:
- Sponsoring a membership/subscriber organization which describes and upholds the ethical practice of breathwork,
- Sets training standards and qualifies schools, trainers and practitioners for professional recognition,
- Hosts a web site that posts ethics and training standards and those who adhere to them as well as lists breathworker resources,
- Sponsors professional conferences.
In this Issue you will find:
Inspiring Articles:
12 Rungs to Freedom:
The Ladder to Climb When Your Life is in Crisis
by Jeremy Youst
Healing the Next Generation
By Carol A. Lampman
Ask the Experts:
This month we offer an article from Tilke Platteel-Duer
In and Out Breath
News and Announcements:
Breathwork in Action
Free World Breathwork Tele-Summit
January 31 – February 3, 2012
Poem
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12 Rungs to Freedom
The Ladder to Climb When Your Life is in Crisis
©2011 Jeremy Youst
Sometimes you just have one of those bad days. You know the kind I mean – the ones that everything seems to go wrong, on top of already being stressed about something. Maybe your job is in jeopardy, you’re not sure if you’re going to survive the next round of layoffs. Or maybe your relationship is in trouble and you’re feeling up against a wall about what to do. Or maybe you don’t have a relationship and the loneliness has become overwhelming; or your health has taken a turn for the worse and just can’t imagine how you’re going to get through another day.
Whatever the reason, however dark it may seem, there are a few simple steps you can try that may just help you get through another day, or another hour or even the next moment. Here they are:
1) Breathe! To breathe is to bring your attention back to the present moment and release any sudden tension you may be feeling in your body. To breathe consciously is to live consciously. Breathing should begin in the lower belly, rise like an open wave throughout the torso, and be exhaled effortlessly with plenty of relaxation. Conscious breathing, when in a crisis, immediately gives you an edge to handle and unravel the pain you’re in. Choosing to breathe quickly helps you to deal with dramatic emotions and those wild, unruly thoughts. No matter how it happens or when it appears, the first step in a crisis is to breathe. Just breathe! Bring all of your attention to the physical mechanism of breathing and really let the exhale go. With every inhale, imagine fresh new rejuvenating energy filling you up inside. With every exhale, feel tension and stress leaving every cell of your body. Just 2 minutes of this kind of breathing can make all the difference in the world.
In fact, practiced every day, connected or circular breathing (without pause between inhale and exhale) helps you to create a positive, energetic activation in the body, which helps to release and integrate long-term aspects of traumatic wounding. Intentional breathing is the key that unlocks the healing of most conscious and subconscious anxiety. Over time, working with the activated breath interrupts accumulated stress patterns and allows for relaxation to make a home within the physical body. In times of crisis, staying attentive to your breath helps to reconnect all of the disparate and desperate parts of yourself, and puts you back on the path toward stability.
2) Accept what is and get present. Suffering is the result of resisting the reality of what is. Most of the time, you are caught in a story or belief of the way you think things should be, what should or shouldn’t have happened, or what a person should or shouldn’t have said or done to you. You spend so much time defending yourself, your thoughts, your feelings and your actions; you are unaware of who you really are and what is actually going on in front of you.
Take a step toward reality and accept what is happening right now! Embrace the authenticity of living your life in the Here and Now through acceptance and responsibility. Accepting what is frees you from the judgments of the past and the expectations of the future. It puts you in the Present Moment. Even though you may be experiencing something very difficult or causing great pain, learning to embrace it at face value is an important step to the problem’s resolution and integration. To breathe with the current obstacle and then accept it right now in present time are the two most powerful steps you can take to negotiate any difficulty or challenging life experience.
3) Witness your thoughts. Watch the flow of thoughts as they race across your mind. Let go of owning them, see how they will actually flow through you yet are not you. Learn to watch the steady stream of thoughts and judgments and breathe into the freedom of knowing that they are not really yours. As Byron Katie often says, “Did you wake up this morning and ask yourself to think?!” Notice how your thoughts and beliefs actually seem to generate many of the emotions in the first place. (Each time I think to myself, for example, “I’m a loser and I’m never going to get this right!” I can feel myself getting more and more depressed.) Notice which thought sets off which emotion. After you investigate these thoughts, you may find that the emotion seems less consuming and more manageable.
One great way to take a look at the presenting thought is to use The Work’s first question, “Is it true?” Are these pervasive thoughts an accurate picture of reality? (“What if I’m not a ‘loser’, what if I’m just having a bad day?”) See if after asking whether or not they’re true they seem less powerful and/or reveal something you hadn’t seen before. Remember your thoughts are not representative of the totality of who you are, they’re usually just habitual attempts by a part of you to understand or adapt to the situation at hand. Thoughts can be very convincing. They’re easy to believe if you don’t question them. Learn to extract the meaning or purpose of the presenting thoughts and enjoy all the rest of the drama as entertainment only.
4) Move your body, exercise. There is a great tendency to slow down, withdraw inside and/or retreat from life when you feel scared, lonely or overwhelmed. At times, this may be appropriate. If danger threatens or you are truly overwhelmed, a wise retreat may be just the action that is needed. Most of the time, however, what you think or feel is dangerous is not; it is usually something stemming from an old, unresolved safety issue. The real danger is inside, it’s a perception, and the response to withdraw is a more likely a fearful habit coming from the feeling “I can’t handle this!”
By keeping the body moving, you go directly against the tendency to slow down and retreat out of fear. Go to the gym and do some exercise. Although the body-mind knows when true danger threatens, the brain-mind does not; yet we often react the same way nonetheless. It’s hard to stay depressed when you’re moving, whether it’s doing yoga, walking vigorously, exercising or even dancing. Move your body. Move your breath. Moving the body along with the breath helps to maintain the proper balance and body-mind perspective in light of the problems you think you should retreat or be hiding from.
5) Ground yourself. Remember to come back to the center of who you are, as a physical body on planet earth. Another physical technique to handle stress is to use the elements the environment has to offer: air, fire, water and earth. When troubles grab you by the arm, you lose your center of gravity and your core stability. This not only unsettles your physical body but also your ability to stabilize emotionally and reconnect with your sense of self. Groundedness is not just a function of your connection to the earth; it is about your connection to yourself. What do you naturally love to do – what nurtures and centers you?
The earth in its entirety is a huge resource and reference point for how we connect with ourselves. To reconnect and align with the earth and her elements always helps you feel better to see the larger perspective. Take a shower, take a walk in the rain, sit next to a pond or lake. Get outside in nature, sit down on the earth, and sit around a campfire if you can. Remember to use all the essential components: the earth, the air, the fire and the water. Be in the presence of them, in whatever way feels natural to you. Walk by a stream, climb a tree, stand on top of a mountain, put your face in the wind; immediately, you will notice a shift. Each time you connect to the Earth and her elements you come a little closer to the feeling of being at home with yourself, within your body, in present time.
6) Direct your attention. How you choose to direct your attention and awareness is the greatest gift you can give yourself and the world. In any given situation you always have a choice how to respond, and to learn to direct your attention is essential in times of crisis. Go for a walk, smell some flowers, look at the clouds in the sky and notice everything in your environment. Read a good book, play with a new recipe, take a leisurely drive, call a friend and give your mind something to do. Again, watch the thoughts you’re having as you learn to switch your attention, and notice how they start to flow more according to what you’re focusing on. Learn to access the freedom that comes from commanding your conscious awareness in this way.
So much of the time, you become stuck in the painful feeling or sensation that you forget there is an inner director that still has a choice. Learning to pull your attention “up by the bootstraps”, even though difficult at first, can ultimately be one of the most powerful keys to negotiating negative emotions as they arise. In time, you will realize that the attention you command is the most influential aspect of your conscious being, for it not only directs the flow of thoughts and feelings but also the flow of your life’s experiences as well. Just like learning to move your body and your breath, learn to move your attention and step forward and through whatever you feel you’re sinking into. And if you can’t find the strength to step forward to face your difficulty, you can at least switch your attention and take a healthy retreat to that which you know can nurture you: the breath, the earth and moving your physical body.
7) Ask for help (inside and out). Support for your difficulty and the opportunity to share and move through it is all around you, even if you don’t think so at first. Asking for help from God or your Higher Power, from your loved ones, your friends, a counselor or even a loving pet can make a tremendous difference. Be willing to ask for help. It is your birthright to ask for help and know that you don’t have to go through this all by yourself. Asking for help connects you to your humanness, your humility, and makes you feel less alone.
As you take a risk and make a request for assistance, you fertilize the soil of your awareness to receive the thoughts and energies that will eventually free you from your suffering. Help may not always take the form you think. But once asked with conviction and clarity, some form of assistance is sure to follow. Although at first it can feel like “going through the motions”, asking for help will eventually affirm a base line level of trust and faith that will help you face and overcoming the challenges at hand.
Follow your guidance. So many times after asking to receive assistance, you get exactly the help you need but you refuse to follow it. How many times have you asked for help, been told something important, and then made an excuse for not going through with what you’ve heard? How many times have you realized that the very thing you needed at that moment you ignored? Learn to trust your guidance, to remember you deserve to be free of the yuckiness you’re in. Realize that right now you have the choice and opportunity to act on the advice of the wise person or answer in front of you.
Usually, for example, the first thought that you receive in response to any request is usually the best and will help you the most. Then, after several friends or family members repeat the same exact advice, you know that now is the time to let go of the doubt and follow through with the direction that has been given. Following your guidance is an essential ingredient to making the return trip back home to yourself. The more you learn how to listen and follow the guidance and advice you’re receiving, the more easily you will be able to access it in the future.
9) Remember your strengths (use what you know). Oftentimes in the depths of despair, you feel there is no way out, that you don’t have the strength to handle the situation and that you might as well let go of trying and just give up. You become childlike and emotionally regressive to a place where you have forgotten all the things you’ve learned in your life. You forget the courage it took to face the previous battles and the wisdom you learned from all those lessons you’ve confronted. You forget that perhaps the very problems you’re facing have been with you for years, if not decades.
When you find yourself down in the dumps, remember that the degree or pain of suffering you feel is usually commensurate with the strength you have inside. In other words, every situation you have to face is only as fierce as the inner strength you already have. Use this knowledge, use it NOW, and remember what you’ve so valiantly fought for and worked through in the past will probably help with the current situation. Stop for a moment and remember what you’ve done previously that worked. Chances are you’ve been here before, and deep inside you know exactly what to do to bring yourself through it again. Trust your ability to find and know how to use your pre-existing inner strengths and skills – and if not, utilize the guidance you received when you asked for help.
10) Face the fear (Or at least be willing to).
Facing the fear is perhaps the greatest challenge on the journey of self-discovery. Facing the fear means taking an honest look at the core beliefs that are somehow contributing directly or indirectly to the situation you’re in. This is where you take a “searching and fearless moral inventory of yourself” that, when done with courage and ruthless honesty, allows you to undo and permanently change yourself. Reach deep within and find the strength and courage to face the fear – be willing to stand before the situation that is tripping you up right now. After the immediate dust has settled, be willing to self-reflect – for isn’t this the opportunity that your current crisis is offering you?
Ask yourself these two questions: 1) What’s the payoff of holding on to this belief or thought about this situation? and 2) How would it feel and who would I be if I just let it go right now? The more you try to run and hide either through denial or drama, the worse your situation will get. By being willing to stand up to and face the core fears living within the recesses of your inner consciousness, you learn to open up new possibilities for awareness, integration and change. Facing your fear is probably the most important step you can take to understanding how you got where you are right now and how to change it for good.
11) Trust the perfection (of who you are).
All in all, living life is about negotiating change. The harder you try to hold onto a thought, an action, a thing or a relationship, the more difficult your experience of life will be. Suffering is not only the resistance to accepting what is, but it is also the result of resisting change. By learning to trust the inevitable perfection of the changing reality before you, you learn to strengthen and deepen your faith. By expanding your trust and faith through seeing the perfection of your current reality, your capacity to weather the changes of life dramatically increases.
Ultimately, everything dies and is reborn. Whether or not you are able to accept this and steer through the rapids of life doesn’t matter. In the end, everything is washed downstream to the sea. At any given moment you are always doing the very best that you can. Remembering to trust the process and surrender to the inevitability of change will bring you back home to knowing reality is ultimately kind, and you are continually being supported within it. Learning to move and dance with the changes of life is the greatest art form living on earth has to offer.
12) Re-enter your life.
Once you have breathed, accepted, witnessed, moved, directed, asked, followed, remembered, faced, and/or trusted, you are ready to re-enter your life. Perhaps all you needed to do was to breathe and accept the situation you were in. Perhaps you needed to switch your attention through some aerobic exercise, then asked for guidance, and followed that back to present time. Perhaps you needed to take a searching and fearless moral inventory and undo the beliefs that caused the reaction; or perhaps you needed to go through all of these steps and finally return to the perfection of who you are.
In any case, any one or all of these steps are meant to bring you back home to being present with yourself and to the lessons of your life. On some deep level you needed to “go through the storm”, feel what you felt, and deal with what you were able to deal with. It all happened for a reason, and whatever you were able to accomplish was all you could do right now. Re-entering your life is the final step to immersing yourself back into reality and allowing for the next experience to emerge. As you continue to witness and learn from all these lessons, the path usually gets easier if not richer and the path of self-mastery becomes clearer.
Finally, keep in mind, no matter how romantic and colorful, all the rituals of healing cannot replace the true authenticity of being present with your Self and living in your life no matter how good you think you are doing. Having the courage to return to the flow of your life despite feeling gun-shy about what just happened is the ultimate test of true character and inner strength. After all is said and done, re-entering your life you become empowered, more wise and able to be more fully present to the experience of yourself. Your body-mind records the achievement of what you’ve learned, and in the end, you get another opportunity to express the beauty of who you are as a human being living upon the earth.
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Jeremy Youst is the founder and director of the Power of Breath Institute located in Spofford, New Hampshire. Since 2001 The Power of Breath Institute has offered private sessions, personal intensives, workshops, and a life-changing nine-month Empowerment Training. POBI is proud to offer an IBTA accredited Practitioner Certification program which focuses on training individuals in therapeutic breathwork as well as professional practice development. Facilitating and teaching breathwork since 1995 Jeremy serves on the IBTA board and is the author of numerous articles on breathwork and personal empowerment. http://www.powerofbreath.com
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ARTICLE
In this illuminating article, Carol Lampman, shares with us the groundbreaking breathwork she has been doing with infants and children. This is an example of the inspirational work to be shared in the upcoming eBook “The Complete Breath: a professional guide to health and well being. – Ed.
Healing the Next Generation
by Carol A. Lampman
The seeds of relationships are sown prenatally, later to be nurtured or damaged by birth, bonding and subsequent care.
~ Barbara Findeisen, past president of APPPAH
The relevance and impact of the birth experience has been recognized in a minor way since the early days of modern psychology. However, during the last 50 years there has been an increasing interest in the fields of Pre and Perinatal Psychology and its effect on human behavior. Research has proven that there are psychological and psycho-physiological effects and implications attributed to the earliest experiences of the individual. These studies include the gestational or “prenatal” period beginning at conception, as well as the “perinatal” stage which encompasses the birthing process and experiences occurring immediately after delivery. Trauma at any time during the pre and perinatal stages of development creates an imprint which profoundly impacts the health, well-being and learning ability of the individual.
In today’s world of contemporary obstetrics, birth has become a medical procedure with 98% of births in the US taking place in hospitals. In spite of the increase in modern technology, we have not improved on the quality of the birthing experience for either mother or child. The major source of birth trauma is often the result of the overuse of obstetrical techniques and interventions. Even in a normal delivery, you might find the use of forceps or vacuum extractions, drugs to induce or stimulate labor, anesthesia or drugs to control the pain of contractions, fetal monitoring appliances, and more. Cesarean sections are increasing at an alarming rate up from 3% to 25% in recent years. Research on thousands of infants has shown that more than 80% suffer from some form of trauma as the result of the birthing process.
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Carol Lampman, Director of Integration Concepts is a Holistic Therapist, Certified Breathwork Instructor, Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist, Certified Release Therapist. Carol’s life experience with childhood trauma and her early medical background working with catastrophically ill children sparked her interest in the mind body connection, the emotional process, and its overall relationship to health and wholeness. Carol focused her training on the interconnection and unification of the body. Carol developed Breath Therapy ™ Integration Process Therapy Trainings for health care professionals. Using workshops for the public, individual and group work, she specializes in personal growth and development, stress management, somatic / health issues and self empowerment.
www.IntegrationConcepts.net US toll free 877.491.3355 Direct 520.544.0619.
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ASK THE EXPERTS
Tilke shares with us more of her expertise as a master breath therapist – ed.
In and Out Breath
by Tilke Platteel-Deur
The In-Breath is Full and Relaxed
When a person’s breath flows freely, the in-breath is full, powerful and enthusiastic, quiet and relaxed. It begins in the diaphragm, is pulled high up into the chest while stomach and belly stay completely relaxed. The out-breath will be released without any restraint, like water falling down a waterfall. The energy of the breath will be moving through the body like soft ripples, in a way you can observe when a cat breathes peacefully and rhythmically.
If we give our complete attention to the in-breath, beginning at the tip of the nose and pulling the energy into the third eye with the intention to open up to the spirit of breath, the chest will follow this intention and open up just by itself; it is not so much about taking in air as well as taking in energy.
Sometimes, a client has difficulties to breathe in freely because he feels ‘heaviness’ in his head. I will then stand behind him, my hands pressing softly against his temples at the inhale, asking him to breathe into the skull while imagining creating more space inside his head.
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Since 1979, Tilke Platteel-Deur has been practicing and teaching Breathwork, Voice Dialogue, NLP and the dynamics of relationship, in Holland, Germany, France and Spain. She has long-standing experience in both individual and group work as breathwork therapist, coach, supervisor and trainer. She studied the Psychology of Selves with Hal and Sidra Stone, NLP, Family Constellations, Polarity Therapy and Massage. She is an Avatar Master. From 2001-2004 she has been president of the International Breathwork Foundation. She co-founded and co-leads the Institute for Integrative Breath Therapy, which offers a four-year training program for breathwork (Since 1986, the ‘Institut für Ganzheitliche Integrative Atemtherapie’® is registered in Europe). She is currently a Board Member of the IBTA. Author of ‘The Art of Integrative Therapy’ – der Rheinländer, as well as several articles on Breathwork, among which ‘Hot Water Breathwork’ and ‘Cold Water Breathwork’, and the ‘Psychology of Selves’ that were published in the internet journal ‘The Healing Breath’ and in ‘Atman’. Tilke Platteel-Deur tilke.platteel@planet.nl
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BREATHWORK IN ACTION
Breathing Circle
An innovative Breathworker in the UK has founded a simple, timely and inspiring concept for people who love to breath together.
In March 2009, Natalia Brown hosted the first Breathing Circle. Her globally active network brings people together for one evening a month (the last Tuesday) to experience a conscious breathing group session. The session typically runs for three hours, is supported by an experienced Breathwork facilitator and includes an initial group focalising followed by a collective breath session and completing with a collective de-briefing.
The Breathing Circle groups operate on a donation basis (suggested payment is £10), and people are welcome to attend whether or not they have the means to pay.
Since it’s inauguration, the network is flourishing. At last count there are 34 operational breathing circles running in a total of 14 countries. Groups can be found in such far-flung locations as Nairobi, Tenerife, Galilee, Toronto, Byron Bay and Auckland.
Visit the website (www.breathingcircle.com) to discover if there is a Breathing Circle in your region. And if there isn’t, follow the simple guidelines on the page “Start a Circle”, and become the initiator in your region for hosting a Breathing Circle with your friends, colleagues and fellow breathers.
France
Breathwork arrived from the USA in France in the early 1980’s, and the fervour with which it was delivered to those adventurous French souls who were willing to try it, caused it to gain a somewhat mixed reputation. Ever since those first stormy years, professional Breathworkers in France have been striving to endear the method to a public well know for a default position of mistrust towards anything innovative springing in from elsewhere.
The French state is still light-years away from officially recognising the myriad of allied health modalities offered inside its territory and actively encourages fear towards any alternative health practice that so much as mentions meditation, yoga, consciousness or spiritual well-being.
Despite operating in such a challenging landscape, Breathwork is steadily gaining a foothold in the hearts’ of the French people. Thanks to the sustained integrity of Breathwork trainers delivering courses in France, the method is gaining a reputation for being not only ‘serious’, but also effective and well deserving of acclaim.
There are at least five organisations currently offering professional level Breathwork trainings in France. For more information about their trainings and seminars, visit the following websites:
www.integral-consciousness.com
www.rebirth-france.com
www.association-oser.fr
www.respirationconsciente.com
www.afr-rebirthing.com
Morocco
Two facilitators from the team of La Voie de la Conscience (LVC) in France recently spent one week in Casablanca. They led a one-day supervision group with Moroccan Breathworkers trained in the LVC method, held individual sessions over three days and also taught a week-end seminar of Voice Dialogue (VD), with a focus on the sub-personality know in VD as the Inner Critic. According to NAFS (the Moroccan Breathwork Association who organised the event), it is the first time Voice Dialogue has been taught in Morocco. The VD method – highly compatible with Breathwork – was received with great interest. The LVC team expect to return to Casablanca on a six-monthly basis offering on-going training to the LVC Breathwork graduates and also to the general public.
The Complete Breath:
A Professional Guide to Health and Wellbeing
The Complete Breath: a professional guide to health and well being (2012), edited by Jim Morningstar, will be coming out in eBook format this month. Many of our IBTA board members have contributed. It is an encyclopedia of contemporary breathwork theory and practice by current luminaries in the field. A portion of the proceeds will be tithed to the IBTA.
With an Introduction by Gay Hendricks, PhD
Contributing articles from:
Stan Grof, MD – originator of Holotropic Breathwork
Dennis Lewis – author of Natural Breathing
Michael Brown – author of The Presence Process
Richard Brown, MD and Patricia Gerbarg, MD – Coherent Breathing
Kylea Taylor – author of The Ethics of Caring
Leonard Orr – originator of rebirthing breathwork
Sondra Ray – author of Liberation Breathing
Jim Morningstar, PhD – author of Breathing in Light and Love
Binnie Dansby – Source Process and Breathwork
Peter Litchfield, PhD - CapnoTraining
Judee Gee – author of Intuition
Tilke Plateel Deur – author of The Art of Integrative Therapy
Jeremy Youst – The Power of Breath Institute
Carol Lampman – breathwork with infants and children
Dorisse Aho – Buteyko Breathing
Ann Harrison – Breathwork: a modern Tantric Practice
James DuCanto, MD – Medical Breathwork and Disaster Relief
Lloyd Lalande – Integrative Breathwork Therapy
Breath is the foundation for all life processes. To breathe well is to live well. In this book you will explore and learn the complete breath. This is a metaphor for the complete life – an existence marked by inner balance, outer poise and gratifying accomplishment.
World Breathwork Tele-Summit
Breathing as Healer: Best practices and new research in medicine, personal development and spiritual awareness – a gathering of practitioners, pioneers, visionaries and passionate advocates for the power of breath.
January 31 – February 3, 2012
Organizers: Gay Hendricks, Jim Morningstar, Jessica Dibb
Breathwork is being given a coming out party! This virtual conference has two primary goals:
1. To expose the general public, as well as respiratory therapists, medical doctors, mental health clinicians, etc to the benefits of Breathwork in order to expand awareness of the potency of Breathwork as a healing modality. We will have the best teachers in the field, from various types of breathwork and breath techniques.
2. To bring attention to the mainstream press about this conference. We want to get the word out about Breathing!
This free conference will be hosted by The Shift Network http://theshiftnetwork.com/tsn/AboutUs, which has successfully sponsored many tele conferences raising global awareness on significant topics. The conference is scheduled for 4 days, January 31- February 3, 2012. We will feature 22 speakers, each of whom will be interviewed or provide a presentation for about 40 minutes. Below is a tentative schedule of presenters and dates. Downloads of these presentations will be offered for purchase by The Shift Network after the event. Plan to catch as many live presentations as you can.
This is a true birthday for Breathwork in 2012. Please spread the word.
Presenter information: k=keynote
Tuesday Jan 31
Introduction – Gay Hendricks, Jim Morningstar, Jessica Dibb
k Dan Siegel, MD Mindsight Institute http://drdansiegel.com
“The Power of Breath Awareness to Cultivate Integration and Wellbeing”
Jessica Dibb – founder of Inspiration Community http://inspirationcommunity.org
Jack Kornfield http://jackkornfield.org “Breathing, Buddhism, Well-being and Meditation”
Jim Morningstar, PhD – director of Transformations – TherapeuticBreathwork http://www.transformationsusa.com (interviewed by Jeremy Youst – founder of Power of Breath Institute) http://www.powerofbreath.com
Richard Brown, MD and Patricia Gerbarg, MD – Psychiatrists/Coherent Breathing Deborah Rozman and Rollin McCraty -Heartmath http://www.HeartMath.com
Wednesday Feb 1
k Stanislav Grof, MD – founder of Grof Transpersonal Training http://www.stanislavgrof.com
Dennis Lewis – director of The Center for Harmonious Awakening http://www.dennislewis.org/ title: “Free Your Breath, Free Your Life”
Shirley Telles http://www.furhhdl.org/bio+Telles (to be pre recorded)
Binnie Dansby – Source Process and Breathwork http://www.sourcebreath.com (England) (interviewed by:Tilke Plateel-Duer – co-founder of Institute for Integrative Breath Therapy http://www.ademwerk.com/en)
Carol Lampman – founder of Integration Concepts http://www.breaththerapy.net
Peter Litchfield, PhD – CapnoBreath Training http://www.bp.edu
Kylea Taylor, MS – “Ethics of Caring” and “The Breathwork Experience” http://kyleataylor.com/
Thursday Feb 2
k Gay Hendricks, PhD – director of The Hendricks Institute Conscious Breathing http://www.hendricks.com
Johns Hopkins Researcher ? (not confirmed yet)
Dorisse Neale – Buteyko breathwork http://www.breathdance.org
Leonard Orr – Rebirthing Breathwork http://www.rebirthingbreathwork.com (prerecorded)
Patrick Dougherty, M.A., L.P.- Qigong http://www.breathingqigong.com
Sondra Ray, RN – author “Liberation Breathwork” http://sondraray.com/
Friday Feb 3 ( till Noon)
k Michael Brown – Presence process breathing http://thepresenceportal.com (to be prerecorded)
James DuCanto, MD – Airway management and energy medicine http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesducantomd (prerecorded)
Ann Harrison, MA, Dip Ed – director of Breathwork Trainings International http://www.annharrison.com.au (Australia) (interviewed by: Judee Gee – founder of Integral Consciousness Training) (prerecorded) http://www.integral-consciousness.com (France)
Closing – Gay Hendricks, Jim Morningstar, Jessica Dibb
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POEM
Breathing With the Way Things Are
Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course.
Then your mind will become still in any surroundings,
like a clear forest pool.
All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool,
and you will clearly see the nature of all things.
You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go,
but you will be still.
This is the happiness of the Buddha.
Ajahn Chah (Thai meditation master)