Introduction to the course - survey
Suggested Reading & Helpful Videos
Breathwork therapy contraindications
Effects of breathwork
Our Approach
Why we need Breathwork
How to do belly breathing and why we do it
Healing symptoms and diseases with breathwork
Your Current State of Being
Possible effects of a breathwork session
Breathwork through history and today
How to discover your breathing pattern
Respiratory system
Session 1 (September, 27)
Program guidelines mentioned in the first live session
Week 1 Quiz
Morning connected breathwork
Try nose and mouth breathing and describe the differences you felt
Nose vs. Mouth breathing
The science of the Breath
Trusting Breathwork: a Balance of Science & Somatic Truth
Breathwork And Science: The Healing + Transformational Power Of The Breath
Breathwork and Alpha, Theta and Delta Waves
The Vagus Nerve & Breathwork
What happens to your brain when you do connected breathwork?
Polyvagal theory and Breathwork
The Grof Basic Perinatal Matrices (BPMs)
What is an Energy Cycle?
Breathing exercises to learn how to extend your energy cycle
Affirmations
Examples of Affirmations for a better life
List your 5 affirmations
Session 2 (October, 4)
Week 2 Quiz
Power of Breath
How Does Rebirthing Breathwork Work? by Peter Mark Adams
Recognising non-ordinary states of consciousness during a session
Article: Breathwork and Emotional Empowerment
The inner child & the inner teenager
Hold Onto Your Inner Child : Jacqueline Emerson at TEDxOrangeCoast
Why do we do belly breathing in Breathwork?
Connecting with Your Inner Child Before Breathwork
Techniques to improve your chest and diaphragmatic breathing
Technique: How to release your own diaphragm
Why do You need to Breathe Consciously?
Paradoxical breathing tips
Birth types
Conscious rebirthing exercise
Session 3 (October, 11)
Week 3 Quiz
The Perfect Day Throughout Your Life
Documentary: How We Breathe Is How We Think
How much water should I drink after Breathwork?
Does breathwork involve hyperventilation?
Corrections to your breath
How to use the music in Breathwork
Big traumas of human beings
The personal lie
Repression of Feminine
Birth trauma
Parental disapproval
Death urge
School trauma
Religious trauma
Your Purpose in Life
Thoughts, feelings, awareness. States of awareness. Personal Growth. Denial of self.
Session 4 (October, 18)
Week 4 Quiz
Perinatal psychology
Essential Secrets of Psychotherapy (The Inner Child): 6 Signs You Have a Wounded Inner Child
Breath awareness exercise
Fears
Fear control
Intermittent Hypoxia + Hold Breath style
Physiology of breath holding and awareness about the potential dangers to hold the breath after hyperventilating
Yawning
Practice Yawning for Five Days
Session 5 (October, 25)
Week 5 Quiz
Spiritual breathing
Exercise: Morning Ritual
Exercise: Family History and Patterns around Money
What is Breathwork for Ancestral Healing
The power of intention
What themes Breathwork for Ancestral Healing is style suitable for
Chakras
Chakras and how they affect mental health
Journey through the chakras
Introduction to Pranayama: History, purpose, benefits and link with conscious connected breathwork
Bandhas and Mudras
Energizing techniques
Calming techniques
Customise your own Breathwork session
Session 6 (November, 1)
Week 6 Quiz
Exam Practitioner Level 1 | Open questions
Psychotherapy and Breathwork
Manifesting Your Dreams
Breathwork and the nervous system
Story: Listening to infants
Breathwork with Children and Teenagers
What science says about breathwork and children
How to compose music for Breathwork
Exercise: Create your own playlist
How to use Spotify in Zoom
Guiding a breathwork session
Create your own breathwork script
Session 7 (November, 8)
Week 7 quiz
The Principles of breathwork
How to facilitate one-on-one sessions
Healing Birth Trauma Questionnaire
Inner Child and Breathwork
The spontaneous movement exercise
Holding space
‘Holding Space’ – the foundation stone of Empowerment
Exercise: Your values
Altered states of consciouness
Session 8 (November, 15)
Quiz week 8
The process in Breathwork for Ancestral Healing
How to prepare yourself
How to open and close the sacred space
Opening the Sacred Space
Opening and closing sacred space
Shamanic tools you can use during a ceremony and how to use touch
Online and in person group sessions
One-on-one sessions - what to expect
How to prepare the space and yourself
Creating a playlist for the Breathwork for Ancestral Healing
Shamanic tools you can use in a session
Smudging
Retraumatization during breathwork
Exercises: Your achievements
The Work by Byron Katie
Examination of the concept of false memories
What is Bioenergetics? – The Work of Alexander Lowen
Sex Magic (Sex Transmutation)
The first gaze in newborns
Neuroplasticity
Success Consciousness
How to help your client create affirmations
Exercises for forgiveness and self-love
Article: Forgiveness: Who Does It and How Do They Do It?
Exercise: Forgiveness
Session 9 (November, 22)
Quiz week 9
How to facilitate group sessions
Bodywork
Post-session
Reiki & Breathwork
Scientific paper: A Large-Scale Effectiveness Trial of Reiki for Physical and Psychological Health
Scientific paper: Reiki Is Better Than Placebo and Has Broad Potential as a Complementary Health Therapy
EFT & Breathwork
The Influence of Concentration/Meditation on Autonomic Nervous System Activity and the Innate Immune Response: A Case Study
How consciousness/energy is connected with quantum physics
Maps of Consciousness
Session 10 (November, 29)
Quiz week 10
Managing events
Spiritual purification
Exercise: Reflection questions
Epigenetics
Recommendations for your future sessions
Sexuality
Breathwork and Psychedelics
Exercise: Reflection questions
Scientific paper - Breathwork: An Additional Treatment Option for Depression and Anxiety?
Optional article: Long-Term Abstinence Following Holotropic Breathwork as Adjunctive Treatment of Substance Use Disorders and Related Psychiatric Comorbidity
Optional article: Examining the Effects of Holotropic Breathwork in the Recovery from Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
Optional article: Effectiveness of Holotropic Breathwork on Anxiety Among Patients with Alcohol Dependence Syndrome
Hypnosis In Breathwork
Reflection: Mutant Message
Session 11 (December, 06)
Quiz week 11
How to facilitate couple sessions
Breathwork and couple relationships
The 5 love languages
How to speak your partner´s Love Language
Personal & historic memory
Reflection: The karma of teaching and healing
Insurance & Liability
How to organize your workshop I
How to organize your workshop II
Responsibility / Limitation of liability template
Media Release template
Retreat feedback template
Pricing Worksheet template
Release of Liability and Assumption of all risks - Template
Facilitator Post-Trip Reflection Questions
Organizing your retreat
Associations and memberships
Session 12 (December, 13)
Your Breathwork session
Quiz week 12
Exam Level 2. Open questions
Boundaries & Ethics
The Power of Testimonials
How did we do it?