Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome

    • Introduction to the course - survey

  • 2

    Week 1 (May 31 - June 6)

    • Breathwork therapy contraindications

    • How to discover your breathing pattern

    • Introduction to Rebirthing Breathwork

    • Introduction to Rebirthing Breathwork (presentation)

    • Exercise: 20-connected breaths explanation

    • Exercise: 20-connected breaths (document)

    • Exercise: External influences

    • Suggested Reading & Helpful Videos

    • Affirmations for a better life

    • The science of the Breath

    • Power of Breath

    • Power of Breath (presentation)

    • Nose breathing vs. Mouth breathing

    • Nose breathing vs. Mouth breathing (presentation)

    • How Does Rebirthing Breathwork Work? by Peter Mark Adams

    • Recognising non-ordinary states of consciousness during a session

    • Story: Listening to infants

    • Article: Breathwork and Emotional Empowerment

    • Technique: How to release your own diaphragm

    • How to use the Rebirthing questionnaire

    • Rebirthing introductory questionnaire template

    • What is an Energy Cycle?

  • 3

    Week 2 (June 7 - June 13)

    • Exercise: Morning connected breathwork

    • Psychotherapy and Breathwork

    • Birth types

    • Birth types (presentation)

    • Conscious rebirthing exercise

    • Conscious Rebirthing (presentation)

    • Exercise: Create Dream Life Targets

    • How to breathe well and the benefits

    • How to breath well and the benefits (presentation)

    • Exercise: Fears

    • Techniques to improve your chest and diaphragmatic breathing

    • Exercise: The Perfect Day

    • Documentary: How We Breathe Is How We Think

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

    • How much water should I drink after Breathwork?

    • Does rebirthing style breathwork involve hyperventilation?

    • The Vagus Nerve & Breathwork

    • Breathwork and the nervous system

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

    • Q & A Module 1 session

  • 4

    Week 3 (June 14 - June 20)

    • Introduction to holotropic breathwork

    • Introduction to holotropic breathwork (presentation)

    • Big traumas of human beings

    • Big traumas of human beings (presentation)

    • Exercise: The personal lie

    • Birth script

    • Birth script (document)

    • Exercise: Repression of Feminine

    • Exercise: Birth trauma

    • Corrections to your breath

    • Respiratory system

    • Respiratory system (presentation)

    • Breathwork and Alpha, Theta and Delta Waves

    • Circular breathing techniques

    • Circular breathing techniques (presentation)

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

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

    • Exercise: Parental disapproval

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

  • 5

    Week 4 (June 21 - June 27)

    • Exercise: Death urge

    • Exercise: School trauma

    • Why do You need to Breathe Consciously?

    • Rebirthing Children

    • What science says about breathwork and children

    • Exercise: Religious trauma

    • Affirmations

    • Exercise: List your 5 affirmations

    • Exercise: The spontaneous movement exercise

    • Breathing exercises to learn how to extend your energy cycle

    • Perinatal psychology

    • Perinatal psychology (presentation)

    • 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

    • Retraumatization during breathwork

    • Exercise: Senility

    • The nervous system with a neurocaption of threat

    • Exercise: Your values

    • Introduction to pranayama

    • Pranayama During Pregnancy and Menstruation

    • Introduction to pranayama (presentation)

    • Exercises: Your achievements

    • Breathwork and Psychedelics

    • EXAM • Module 1 • quiz

    • EXAM • Module 1 • written assignment

  • 6

    Week 5 (June 28 - July 4)

    • Exercises for forgiveness and self-love

    • Exercises for forgiveness and self-love (presentation)

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

    • The difference between Rebirthing and hyperventilation

    • How to breathe in a breathwork session

    • The inner child & the inner teenager

    • The inner child & the inner teenager (presentation)

    • Hold Onto Your Inner Child : Jacqueline Emerson at TEDxOrangeCoast

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

    • Shamanic breathwork

    • Shamanic Breathwork (presentation)

  • 7

    Week 6 (July 5 - July 11)

    • Spiritual practices for physical immortality

    • Spiritual practices for creating physical immortality (presentation)

    • Exercise: Ultimate truth process

    • Exercise: Ultimate Truth Process (presentation)

    • Candle visualization meditation + Q&A

    • Exercise: Developing Success and Prosperity Consciousness

    • Reflection: Does free will exist?

    • The Work by Byron Katie

    • Surprise exam! :)

    • Examination of the concept of false memories

    • Polyvagal theory and Breathwork

    • What is Bioenergetics? – The Work of Alexander Lowen

    • Trusting Breathwork: a Balance of Science & Somatic Truth

  • 8

    Week 7 (July 12 - July 18)

    • Sex Magic (Sex Transmutation)

    • Insurance & Liability

    • Music composition

    • Exercise: Create your own playlist

    • How to use Spotify in Zoom

    • Guiding a breathwork session

    • The first gaze in newborns

    • Neuroplasticity

    • Inner Child and Breathwork

    • Spiritual purification

    • Spiritual purification (presentation)

    • Holding space

    • Holding space (documentation)

    • ‘Holding Space’ – the foundation stone of Empowerment

  • 9

    Week 8 (July 19 - July, 25)

    • Personal Lie Process - exercise for your clients

    • Trauma, Brain & Body with Nasthasya O.M

    • Osho Chakra Breathing + Pranayama exercise

    • Create your own breathwork script

    • Effects of breathwork

    • Effects of Breathwork (presentation)

    • Possible effects of a breathwork session

    • Reiki & Breathwork

    • Reiki & Breathwork (presentation)

    • 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

    • EFT & Breathwork (presentation)

    • Before and after the session

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

    • Breath awareness exercise

    • Wim Hof breathwork (theory & practice)

    • The Wim Hof method (documentation)

    • Paradoxical breathing tips

    • How consciousness/energy is connected with quantum physics

    • The Principles of breathwork

    • The principles of breathwork (presentation)

    • EXAM • Module 2 • quiz

    • EXAM • Module 2 • written assignment

  • 10

    Week 9 (July 26 - Aug, 1)

    • Survey: How is it going?

    • Reflection: Mutant Message

    • Maps of Consciousness

    • Exercise: Family History and Patterns around Money

    • Why should you practice Osho Active Meditations?

    • Exercise: Fear control

    • The 5 love languages

    • How to speak your partner´s Love Language

    • Exercise: Forgiveness

    • Managing events

    • Managing events (presentation)

  • 11

    Week 10 (Aug, 02 - Aug, 08)

    • Exercise: Reflection questions

    • Exercise: Morning Ritual

    • Epigenetics

    • Spiritual breathing

    • Spiritual Breathing (presentation)

    • Healing symptoms and diseases with breathwork

    • Healing symptoms and diseases with breathwork (presentation)

    • Recommendations for your future sessions

    • Sexuality

    • Sexuality (presentation)

  • 12

    Week 11 (Aug, 09 - Aug, 15)

    • Chakras and how they affect Mental Health

    • Exercise: Reflection questions

    • Hypnosis In Breathwork

    • Reflection: The karma of teaching and healing

    • How to organize your workshop I

    • How to organize your workshop II

    • How to organize your workshop (presentation)

    • Osho chakras sound meditation

    • The Grof Basic Perinatal Matrices (BPMs)

  • 13

    Week 12 (Aug, 16 - Aug, 22)

    • Guest session with Vadim Turcanu | Customer value

    • Responsibility / Limitation of liability template

    • Media Release template

    • Retreat feedback template

    • Pricing Worksheet template

    • Release of Liability and Assumption of all risks - Template

    • Personal & historic memory

    • Personal & historic memory (presentation)

    • Ho’oponopono

    • Facilitator Post-Trip Reflection Questions

    • Organizing your retreat

    • Associations and memberships

    • Q&A Module 3 session

    • EXAM • Module 3 • quiz

    • EXAM · Module 3 · open questions

    • Boundaries & Ethics

    • The Power of Testimonials

    • How did we do it?