Inspired Breath

Practitioner Training in Breathwork –

a Body Oriented approach.

September 2016

Five 8 day residential modules over two years

South coast of NSW.

Deva Daricha Principal Trainer

Philip Morey Assistant Trainer

Suzanne Zankin Assistant Trainer

A Professional Practitioner Training designed to

meet the requirements of the Australian

Breathwork Association and aligned with the

training standards of the Global Breathwork

Training Alliance.

Enquiries: (02) 6288 9808 or (02) 4473 7096.

$2400 per module with payment plan options

Register your interest at

www.inspiredbreath.com.au

Life is the time between two breaths – the first and the last. In between, embodied consciousness presents us with the

experience of being alive….

In between times, each in-breath recapitulates the issues surrounding our incarnation and each exhale if conscious,

prepares us for release from the body and return to the Source. Most of us rarely breathe consciously and hidden in our

unconsciousness of how breath moves through us, lies our karma.

By changing our focus and bringing awareness to how we breathe and how we feel at any particular moment, patterns of

contraction, fear, incompleteness – the full isolation of our personality from Spirit can gradually be released.

From earliest times breath has been used as a path to self-knowledge, healing, meditative awareness and transcendence.

Many different forms of yoga, martial arts and shamanic pathways have been concerned with the vital and profound

influence of the breath on human experience.

This 35 day training is designed over 2 years to train participants in the contemporary healing arts of rebirthing, breath

therapy and cellular memory release.

Properly understood and practised, these arts prepare the physical, emotional and mental bodies for transcendent

experience. While these practices prepare us for this possibility, the experience of transcendence as such is always a gift of

grace.

Structure The program will be taught in five seven-day modules with approximately 4 months between each module. The work is

taught holistically, moving between practise, personal experience and theoretical formulations. Some areas of study will

unfold sequentially at deeper levels through each module. Emphasis is on personal growth and professional development.

In addition to classroom hours, students will be required to undertake supervised practise. An ongoing mentoring program

will be provided throughout the training. There will also be opportunities for senior students to assist at Breathwork

Retreats for additional experience in working with groups and observing individual processing.

At the successful completion of three modules, students will be accredited as Student Practitioners, where they can work

with members of the public under supervision.

Practicum This is the “hands on” portion of the training. Both during and between modules participants will learn to guide others

through their breath journeys. Attention will be given to issues concerning practitioner/client interactions.

Over the course of the residential training, the student will participate in at least 20 sessions as “sitter” and 20 sessions as

“breather”.

Frequently asked questions Do I need to have experience in Breathwork before I enrol in the training?

Generally yes, although exceptions are possible, for example someone who has had experience in modalities such as primal

therapy, bioenergetics, bodywork and TRE (Trauma Release Exercises) could receive favourable consideration.

Why don’t you require any entry qualifications?

What is most important is the quality of the personhood that the applicant brings to the program rather than specific formal

qualifications. We actually do screen people for suitability before they enter the program, but the criteria focus on their

personal qualities. They have much more to do with a person’s calling to the work, their readiness to go into a profound

healing process as part of the program, and an assessment of their capacity to be with others in profound healing spaces.

Why is the work taught in modules?

Currently the program is taught in five seven-day modules in a residential setting. This allows a deep descent into the

process undisturbed by the normal demands of everyday life. Using specific accelerated learning techniques, the work can

be learnt and experienced at intellectual, experiential and organic levels.

Having taught this work over 3 decades we have found this to be an exceptionally effective way for the work to be learnt

and understood.

What is the total number of hours involved in the training?

If we include: 1. Face to face learning

2. Reading and Research Reports

3. The external elements of the practicum: sessions conducted under supervision outside of the training modules, the course totals in excess of 500 hours.

Can I develop a practice?

Many participants enter with the intent to use the skills they gain through the program as professionals. In addition to being

competent in the work, developing a practice is essentially developing a small business. We introduce many key concepts in

this area as part of the training and participants are encouraged to further learn the full range of skills for the development

of a successful small business.

Is there a demand for this work?

Yes, many graduates have established successful practices; some of them combined with other healing modalities.

If I don’t plan to develop a practice, can I still do the program?

Some people choose to undertake the Breathwork training for the enormous personal benefits they experience as they go

through the training program. Additionally the program teaches the skills that are necessary to become a competent

practitioner.

How do I enter the program?

Initially through contact with one of the Assistant Trainers, completing an application form and going through an interview

process.

When can I enter the program?

Through arrangement with the Trainers it is possible to enter the training in Modules 1, 2, 3, or 4.

For more information or to register your interest, please call

Suzanne Zankin (02) 6288 9808 or

Philip Morey on (02) 4473 7096.

See inspiredbreath.com.au to register and more information.

We will be happy to answer your questions!

Module One – The Nature & Origins

of Breathwork

Breath and Consciousness

We will examine how we perceive our world

and our place in it through the prism of the

breath. By being conscious of how we breathe

and deliberately altering the pace and depth of

our breath, we change our awareness. We will

also examine the concepts of the unconscious

and the superconscious.

1. The Yoga Traditions – bringing stillness & expansion through the breath.

2. The relationship between Carl Jung and Eastern Spirituality.

3. Leonard Orr & Re-birthing (developed mid 70’s)

4. Stanislav Grof & Holotropic Breathwork (developed mid 80’s)

5. Frank Lake – Breath, feeling and regression (developed 60’s and 70’s)

Breath and the Unconscious

We examine the evolution of the theory of

birth trauma from its emergence in the 1930’s

to now. We look at the work of the pioneers of

this theory - Anna Freud, Sigmund Freud,

Wilhelm Reich, Arthur Janov, Alexander Lowan

and Otto Rank.

The role of breath in accessing unconscious

material:

Neo-Reichian approaches

Body–oriented psychotherapies and

their contributions to Breathwork

sessions

The distinctions between Re-birthing

and Breathwork.

Why choose Breathwork?

Any interruption in the psycho-biological

process will manifest in the breath.

Breathwork can help heal this interruption.

We can allow for cathartic and non-cathartic

approaches.

When we use different forms of using our

breath to the normal resting breath, eventually

the psycho-biological disturbances will present

themselves.

These psycho-biological disturbances show up

in the musculature, the breath and the

psychological architecture of the person.

The Mechanics of the Breath

An examination of the way which breath

moves in the human body.

Practise of a Breathwork Session

1. How to set up the room.

2. Appropriate and inappropriate music.

3. The cycle of a Breathwork session.

4. Integration of the client.

5. Mandalas.

6. Analysing & Recording a session.

7. The Therapeutic Relationship.

8. Contraindications for Breathwork.

Breath Styles to be taught over all

five modules

An examination of the different styles of

Breathwork and when to use them. They will

be introduced sequentially over all 5 modules.

1. Conscious Connected Breath

2. Neo-Reichian Breath or

Pelvic Curl Breath

3. Eye to Eye Breath

4. Back to Back Breath

5. Tantric Kriya Breath

6. The Last Breath

7. The Brain Blaster Breath

8. Breathwork in Water

9. Marathon Breath

Learning Outcomes - Module One

The Nature & Origins of Breathwork

Knowledge and understanding of the theoretical framework being

presented

An understanding of the phenomena that can emerge in a Breathwork

session

Knowing how to conduct yourself whilst sitting for a fellow student

Knowing how to record a Breathwork session

An increase in understanding of Breathwork as a healing modality.

Module Two - Non-ordinary

States of Consciousness

Waking & Non-Waking States

An examination of some of the various states

of non-ordinary consciousness;

The realm of dreams

Creativity – art & music

Communion with the natural world

Extreme feats of physical endurance

Drug induced states and drug use in

modern society

Daydreaming

Hypnogogic states

Peak performance states

Crowd behaviour

Religious conversions

Spiritual Emergency, psychosis and

other mental health phenomena.

Trance states.

Pre & Peri-Natal Life The Patterns of Incarnation

Foetal/interuterine experience

Birth memory

Conception memory

Pre-conception memory

Women’s Encounters before and

during conception with Spirit Beings

The missing twin syndrome

Attempted abortions

Unwelcome pregnancies

The effect of the mother’s experience

on the developing foetus

A death in the family

Ecstasy

An exploration of the traditional methods of

eliciting ecstatic states – specific use of breath,

singing, chanting, music, drumming, sex,

shamanic ritual, initiatory experiences and

intoxicants.

Repressed energy in the body can

inhibit ecstatic states

In Breathwork, the process of

surrender presents the material to be

released

Maps of Consciousness

An examination of maps of aspects of human

consciousness, focusing especially on the

Stanislav Grof Model: Pre & Peri -Natal (foetal

life and birth) Biographical (your life story so

far) Transpersonal (beyond the self).

Other maps considered:

Australian Indigenous traditions

Physical materialism

Judeo-Christian

Buddhist

Understanding Shock and Trauma

An exploration of shock and trauma and how it

impacts the body and the breath, outlining the

work of Peter Levine, William Emerson and Dr

David Berceli, including Trauma Release

Exercises.

Spirits from Other Realms

An exploration of the relationship between

non-ordinary states of consciousness and the

spirit realm.

Disembodied spirits

Ghosts

Other phenomena

Relationship between driven human

behaviours and disembodied spirits.

Recognising non-ordinary states of

consciousness during a session

How to be present & support the client in

altered states.

Learning Outcomes – Module Two

Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness

A sound understanding of the differing maps of consciousness which are presented in the module

An increased ability to understand a wide variety of differing states of consciousness

An increased ability to enter and navigate into altered states of consciousness, both as a participant and as a sitter in Breathwork sessions

An increased ability to recognise different phenomena which can arise in a Breathwork session and how to interact appropriately with the client.

An increased familiarity with the concepts of trauma and shock and the distinctions between the two.

Module Three –Cellular and

Organic Memory Release

The Organic Mind and the

Archaeology of the Self

The organic mind is the primary candidate to

understand the unconscious material which

arises during a Breathwork session. The

organic mind can hold the ancestral, genetic,

biographical and racial material. This module

will explore the notion of a collective

intelligence of the muscles, blood, bones,

nervous system and other energetic systems

associated with the body.

Personal and historic memory

1. Ancestral Memory

How our ancestors live on in us.

2. Genetic Memory

Examining the debate around the

concept of genetic memory and its

function.

3. Cellular Memory

The concept of cellular memory and

how it might operate.

4. Race Memory

Are there phenomena unique to a race

of people in terms of memories being

held in the collective organic mind?

The Morphogenetic Field – Rupert

Sheldrake.

4. Transplant Memory

An exploration of memory recall from

transplant patients.

Epigenetics & Developmental Biology -

The Work of Bruce Lipton

As an organism grows and develops, carefully

orchestrated chemical reactions activate and

deactivate parts of the genome at strategic

times and in specific locations. Epigenetics is

the study of these chemical reactions and the

factors that influence them. How does the

science of epigenetics impact our

understandings of Breathwork possibilities?

Transpersonal realms and dimensionality

An examination of how transpersonal

realms can interact with cellular

memory.

Limitations of the psychological models

of healing.

Examination of the concept of false

memories

False memory syndrome and how to

identify it.

Examining the research of how

memories become distorted over time.

Bio-energetics – The Work of Alexander

Lowen

‘We are not ordinary pieces of clay but a

substance that has been infused with spirit or

charged with energy. When we become more

excited, our energy level rises. When we

become depressed it falls.’ Alexander Lowen

We examine and participate in various sound, movement and energy techniques to assist the Breathwork process.

Spiritual Bypassing – The Work of Robert

A. Masters

An examination of the various pitfalls of the

spiritual journey; self-judgement,

confrontation, phobic compassion, excessive

niceness, the demonizing of anger and

emotional dissociation.

Processes explored in this module:

past-life induction process

family soul work

altars to the ancestors.

Learning Outcomes – Module Three

Cellular & Organic Memory Release

An increased appreciation of the complexity of the material in our

consciousness

An increased capacity to distinguish between the different possibilities that

arise within the realms of memory

An increase in understanding of memory as a living and changing

phenomena

An increased capacity to be present, especially in the presence of

confronting or unusual releases

An increase in sophistication in the language of discussion and the ability to

participate in it.

Module Four – Love, Sex & Death

Patterns of Relationships

1. Sins of omission – what we didn’t get

as a child

- Distant Parents

- Emotional Unavailability

2. Deprivation & Trauma

- Impact on the ability to receive love

- Impact on body formation and

armouring over time

3. Copying /modelling from parents

4. Forgiveness

- Different models of asking for and

being forgiven

- Letters to estranged relations.

5. Allowing ourselves to be held

6. The Five Languages of Love

(Gary Chapman)

Inner Child – The Work of John

Bradshaw

A look at what the ‘inner child’ looks like in

Breathwork and how to elicit and journey

with the inner child with your client,

usually outside of a Breathwork session.

Sexuality

Shame & Parental disapproval

Imprint of the First Sexual / Loving

Encounter

Kundalini Models

a) how to build and play with

Kundalini energy

b) how it is symbolised across

cultures.

Activating sexual energy with the

pelvic curl breath and

bio-energetics.

The Shadow

What is the gold to be discovered once we

make friends with our shadow? How to

use the energy contained in our dark side

for positive outcomes.

Narcissism

‘Narcissists cannot accept their true selves,

constructing instead fixed masks that hide

emotional numbness.’ Alexander Lowen

An understanding of the psychodynamics

of narcissism.

Death - Coming to terms with

our own mortality

Recognising the process of loss and grief.

We will examine the work of Elizabeth

Kubler-Ross ‘On Death and Dying’ and E.J.

Gold’s ‘The American Book of the Dead’.

Near Death Experiences

An exploration of what happens when

people approach the final breath, but then

come back into ordinary consciousness.

We will examine the work of Dr Raymond

Moody, and subsequent authors.

We will look at the theoretical formations

around the afterlife including the

debatable concept of physical immortality.

Practical processes in this module

Pelvic curl / Neo-Reichian breath

Tantric Kriya Breath

Tantric Celebration

Meditation on the Shadow.

Learning Outcomes – Module Four

Love, Sex & Death

An increased awareness of the issues and complexities associated with love, sex and

death

An increased empathic understanding of clients’ issues / ‘presenting problems’

A deeper self-understanding and appreciation of the student’s perceptions, judgements and projections.

An increased awareness of how the body and the breath work together.

A better understanding of the Neo-Reichian approaches for releasing repressed

energies in the body.

Module Five –Evolution &

The Next Step

The Neurobiological Map

The Eight Neurobiological Circuits in the

Body and the Role of Imprinting – The

work of Timothy Leary & Robert Anton

Wilson.

Each successive circuit represents a more

complex phase of evolution. In line with

recapitulation theory, the model applies

equally to the evolution of an individual

organism and the evolution of the whole

tree of life. Each neurological circuit

provides a new cognitive function (whether

or not the organism is aware of the

circumstances that led to its activation).

The oral bio-survival circuit

The emotional–territorial circuit

The symbolic or neuro-semantic–

dexterity circuit

The domestic or socio-sexual circuit

The neuro-somatic circuit

The neuro-electric or

metaprogramming circuit

The neuro-genetic or

morphogenetic circuit

The psycho-atomic or quantum non-

local circuit (overmind)

The First Gaze Process

The importance of healing any lack

of bonding between mother and

child

Students will be taken through the

First Gaze process

Elements of this work can also be

used during Breathwork sessions to

help clients be present if they are

‘drifting’ or ‘stuck’.

The Triune Brain Theory – The

Work of Paul McClean

The Reptilian Complex

The Limbic System

The Neocortex

Insights from the discipline of neuro –

cardiology and the connections between

the heart and the brain.

Archetypal Psychology – The Work

of James Hillman

Hillman has attempted to rewrite the

discipline of Psychology to include the

concept of soul.

We will examine Hillman’s contribution in

“The Soul’s Code”.

Commencing a Breathwork

Practice

The Therapeutic Relationship

Ethics, Boundaries & Moral Dilemmas

Transference / Counter-Transference

Projection / Mirroring

Creating a Therapeutic Setting

Professional Registration with an

Association

Insurance

Marketing & Networking

Learning Outcomes – Module Five

Evolution & The Next Step

An increased understanding of archetypal psychology.

A deeper understanding of pre & peri-natal psychology.

An ability to understand the primary importance of infant bonding and its impact in regressed states.

An in-depth understanding of the transpersonal realms.

A skilled capacity to guide another through a Breathwork session.

An ability to launch a successful Breathwork Practice.