Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome

    • Introduction to the course - survey

  • 2

    Module 1 (July 24 - August, 15)

    • Week 1. Breathwork therapy contraindications

    • Week 1. Trusting Breathwork: a Balance of Science & Somatic Truth

    • Week 1. How to discover your breathing pattern

    • Week 1. Introduction to Rebirthing Breathwork

    • Week 1: Introduction to Rebirthing Breathwork (document)

    • Week 1. What is an Energy Cycle?

    • Week 1. Exercise: 20-connected breaths explanation

    • Week 1. Exercise: 20-connected breaths (document)

    • Week 1. Exercise: External influences

    • Week 1. Suggested Reading & Helpful Videos

    • Week 1. Examples of Affirmations for a better life

    • Week 1. The science of the Breath

    • Week 1. Power of Breath

    • Week 1. The power of breath (document)

    • Week 1. Breathwork And Science: The Healing + Transformational Power Of The Breath

    • Week 1. Nose breathing vs. Mouth breathing

    • Week 1. Nose breathing vs. Mouth breathing

    • Week 1. How Does Rebirthing Breathwork Work? by Peter Mark Adams

    • Week 1. Recognising non-ordinary states of consciousness during a session

    • Week 1. Story: Listening to infants

    • Week 1. Article: Breathwork and Emotional Empowerment

    • Week 1. Technique: How to release your own diaphragm

    • Week 1. How to use the Rebirthing questionnaire

    • Week 1. Rebirthing introductory questionnaire template

    • Week 2. Exercise: Morning connected breathwork

    • Week 2. Psychotherapy and Breathwork

    • Week 2. Birth types

    • Week 2. Birth types (presentation)

    • Week 2. Conscious rebirthing exercise

    • Week 2. Conscious Rebirthing (presentation)

    • Week 2. Manifesting Your Dreams

    • Week 2. How to breathe well and the benefits

    • Week 2. How to breath well and the benefits (presentation)

    • Week 2. Fears

    • Week 2. Techniques to improve your chest and diaphragmatic breathing

    • Week 2. The Perfect Day Throughout Your Life

    • Week 2. Documentary: How We Breathe Is How We Think

    • Week 2. How much water should I drink after Breathwork?

    • Week 2. Does breathwork involve hyperventilation?

    • Week 2. The difference between Rebirthing and hyperventilation

    • Week 2. The Vagus Nerve & Breathwork

    • Week 2. Breathwork and the nervous system

    • Week 2. What happens to your brain when you do connected breathwork?

    • Week 2. Q & A Module 1 session

    • Week 3. Introduction to holotropic breathwork

    • Week 3. Introduction to holotropic breathwork (presentation)

    • Week 3. Big traumas of human beings

    • Week 3. Big traumas of human beings (presentation)

    • Week 3. The personal lie

    • Week 3. Repression of Feminine

    • Week 3. Birth trauma

    • Week 3. Parental disapproval

    • Week 3. Birth script

    • Week 3. Birth script (document)

    • Week 3. Corrections to your breath

    • Week 3. Respiratory system

    • Week 3. Respiratory system (presentation)

    • Week 3. Breathwork and Alpha, Theta and Delta Waves

    • Week 3. Circular breathing techniques

    • Week 3. Circular breathing techniques (presentation)

    • Week 3. Thoughts, feelings, awareness. States of awareness. Personal Growth. Denial of self.

    • Week 3. Thoughts, feelings, awareness. States of awareness. Personal Growth. Denial of self (presentation)

    • Week 3. Scientific paper - Breathwork: An Additional Treatment Option for Depression and Anxiety?

    • Week 4. Death urge

    • Week 4. School trauma

    • Week 4. Religious trauma

    • Week 4. Your Purpose in Life

    • Week 4. Why do You need to Breathe Consciously?

    • Week 4. Rebirthing Children

    • Week 4. What science says about breathwork and children

    • Week 4. Affirmations

    • Week 4. Affirmations (presentation)

    • Week 4. Exercise: List your 5 affirmations

    • Week 4. Exercise: The spontaneous movement exercise

    • Week 4. Breathing exercises to learn how to extend your energy cycle

    • Week 4. Perinatal psychology

    • Week 4. Perinatal psychology (presentation)

    • Week 4. Optional article: Long-Term Abstinence Following Holotropic Breathwork as Adjunctive Treatment of Substance Use Disorders and Related Psychiatric Comorbidity

    • Week 4. Optional article: Examining the Effects of Holotropic Breathwork in the Recovery from Alcoholism and Drug Dependence

    • Week 4. Optional article: Effectiveness of Holotropic Breathwork on Anxiety Among Patients with Alcohol Dependence Syndrome

    • Week 4. Retraumatization during breathwork

    • Week 4. The nervous system with a neurocaption of threat

    • Week 4. Exercise: Your values

    • Week 4. Exercises: Your achievements

    • Week 4. Effects of breathwork

    • Week 4. Effects of breathwork (presentation)

    • Week 4. Possible effects of a breathwork session

    • Week 4. Introduction to pranayama

    • Week 4. Introduction to pranayama (presentation)

    • Week 4. Pranayama During Pregnancy and Menstruation

    • Week 4. Breathwork and Psychedelics

    • Week 4. EXAM • Module 1 • quiz

    • Week 4. EXAM • Module 1 • written assignment

  • 3

    Module 2 (August, 16 - September, 12)

    • Week 5. Music composition

    • Week 5. Exercise: Create your own playlist

    • Week 5. How to use Spotify in Zoom

    • Week 5. Create your own breathwork script

    • Week 5. Guiding a breathwork session

    • Week 6. Exercises for forgiveness and self-love

    • Week 6. Exercises for forgiveness and self-love (presentation)

    • Week 6. Article: Forgiveness: Who Does It and How Do They Do It?

    • Week 6. How to breathe in a breathwork session

    • Week 6. The inner child & the inner teenager

    • Week 6. The inner child & the inner teenager (presentation)

    • Week 6. Hold Onto Your Inner Child : Jacqueline Emerson at TEDxOrangeCoast

    • Week 6. Essential Secrets of Psychotherapy (The Inner Child): 6 Signs You Have a Wounded Inner Child

    • Week 6. Shamanic breathwork

    • Week 6. Shamanic Breathwork (presentation)

    • Week 7. Spiritual practices for physical immortality

    • Week 7. Spiritual practices for creating physical immortality (presentation)

    • Week 7. Exercise: Ultimate truth process

    • Week 7. Exercise: Ultimate Truth Process (presentation)

    • Week 7. Candle visualization meditation + Q&A

    • Week 7. Success Consciousness

    • Week 7. Reflection: Does free will exist?

    • Week 7. The Work by Byron Katie

    • Week 7. Surprise exam! :)

    • Week 7. Examination of the concept of false memories

    • Week 7. Polyvagal theory and Breathwork

    • Week 7. What is Bioenergetics? – The Work of Alexander Lowen

    • Week 8. Sex Magic (Sex Transmutation)

    • Week 8. The first gaze in newborns

    • Week 8. Neuroplasticity

    • Week 8. Inner Child and Breathwork

    • Week 8. Spiritual purification

    • Week 8. Spiritual purification (presentation)

    • Week 8. Holding space

    • Week 8. Holding space (documentation)

    • Week 8. ‘Holding Space’ – the foundation stone of Empowerment

    • Week 9. Personal Lie Process - exercise for your clients

    • Week 9. Osho Chakra Breathing + Pranayama exercise

    • Week 9. Reiki & Breathwork

    • Week 9. Reiki & Breathwork (presentation)

    • Week 9. Scientific paper: A Large-Scale Effectiveness Trial of Reiki for Physical and Psychological Health

    • Week 9. Scientific paper: Reiki Is Better Than Placebo and Has Broad Potential as a Complementary Health Therapy

    • Week 9. EFT & Breathwork

    • Week 9. EFT & Breathwork (presentation)

    • Week 9. Before and after the session

    • Week 9. The Influence of Concentration/Meditation on Autonomic Nervous System Activity and the Innate Immune Response: A Case Study

    • Week 9. Breath awareness exercise

    • Week 9. Wim Hof breathwork (theory & practice)

    • Week 9. The Wim Hof method (documentation)

    • Week 9. Paradoxical breathing tips

    • Week 9. How consciousness/energy is connected with quantum physics

    • Week 9. The Principles of breathwork

    • Week 9. The principles of breathwork (presentation)

    • Week 9. EXAM • Module 2 • quiz

    • Week 9. EXAM • Module 2 • written assignment

  • 4

    Module 3 (September, 13 - October, 9)

    • Week 10. Reflection: Mutant Message

    • Week 10. The Grof Basic Perinatal Matrices (BPMs)

    • Week 10. Ho’oponopono

    • Week 10. Maps of Consciousness

    • Week 10. Exercise: Family History and Patterns around Money

    • Week 10. Fear control

    • Week 10. The 5 love languages

    • Week 10. How to speak your partner´s Love Language

    • Week 11. Chakras and how they affect Mental Health

    • Week 11. Osho chakras sound meditation

    • Week 11. Why should you practice Osho Active Meditations?

    • Week 11. Sexuality

    • Week 11. Sexuality (presentation)

    • Week 11. Exercise: Forgiveness

    • Week 11. Exercise: Reflection questions

    • Week 11. Exercise: Morning Ritual

    • Week 11. Epigenetics

    • Week 11. Spiritual breathing

    • Week 11. Spiritual Breathing (presentation)

    • Week 11. Hypnosis In Breathwork

    • Week 11. Healing symptoms and diseases with breathwork

    • Week 11. Healing symptoms and diseases with breathwork (presentation)

    • Week 12. Recommendations for your future sessions

    • Week 12. Managing events

    • Week 12. Exercise: Reflection questions

    • Week 12. Managing events (presentation)

    • Week 12. Reflection: The karma of teaching and healing

    • Week 12. How to organize your workshop I

    • Week 12. How to organize your workshop II

    • Week 12. How to organize your workshop (presentation)

    • Week 12. Guest session with Vadim Turcanu | Customer value

    • Week 12. Responsibility / Limitation of liability template

    • Week 12. Media Release template

    • Week 12. Retreat feedback template

    • Week 12. Pricing Worksheet template

    • Week 12. Release of Liability and Assumption of all risks - Template

    • Week 12. Insurance & Liability

    • Week 12. Personal & historic memory

    • Week 12. Personal & historic memory (presentation)

    • Week 12. Facilitator Post-Trip Reflection Questions

    • Week 12. Organizing your retreat

    • Week 12. Associations and memberships

    • Week 12. Q&A Module 3 session

    • Week 12. EXAM • Module 3 • quiz

    • Week 12. EXAM · Module 3 · open questions

    • Week 12. Your Breathwork session

    • Week 12. Boundaries & Ethics

    • Week 12. The Power of Testimonials

    • Week 12. How did we do it?