Therapeutic Breathwork™ has been successfully adapted to a wide variety of healing and growth settings. Professionals and non-professionals have used the training to enhance their healing skills. Some of the disciplines incorporating breathwork include psychotherapists, occupational and physical therapists, nurses, physicians, dentists, massage therapists as well as body and energy workers.
All trainings are approved for Continuing Education Credit by the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC) and the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC).
Certification in four levels of Professional Breathworker Training
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We offer:
> Practicum in Therapeutic Breathwork
with Jim Morningstar, Ph.D.
This course is an in-depth training in therapeutic breathwork as a practitioner. You will get supervision on your skills as a breathworker, and develop your confidence and abilities in applying breathwork in the course and with your clients. You will also learn how to integrate breathwork with other healing arts. This practicum is a major requirement for Certification through the Transformations Breathwork Training Program.
Meets: 4:00 p.m.- 6:00 p.m., for six Fridays: November through April
Tuition is $270
> Modules in Special Topics in Breathwork even numbered years
> An Introduction To Therapeutic Breathwork Module 1- Dry Breathwork
with Jim Morningstar, Ph.D.
The purpose of this training is to introduce and enhance breathwork skills.
Goals for the Introduction to Therapeutic Breathwork are to:
Identify ineffective breathing patterns,
Teach healthy breathing skills,
Use breathwork to address issues of depression, anxiety and addictions,
Integrate breathwork into standard professional practice,
Monitor and release personal holding patterns that interfere with clarity.
Dates: June last weekend, Friday 7 pm - Sunday 1 pm
Tuition: $250
with Jim Morningstar, Ph.D.
This training prepares the practitioner to give wet breathwork sessions. Both theory and supervised experience are given in profoundly moving method of healing and growth.
Date: August, even numbered years
Tuition $160
with Jim Morningstar, Ph.D.
Understanding and working with group dynamics, creating group sessions, use of music, movement, art, successful teamwork, and supervision in facilitation will all be addressed in this daylong training.
Date: August, even numbered years
Tuition $160
with Jim Morningstar, Ph.D.
Participants will learn the foundational mechanics of healthy breathing and how to coach positive changes in dysfunctional patterns. The schools and styles of breathwork techniques will be presented and experienced so practitioners may choose the methods that fit themselves and their clients best.
Date: August, even numbered years
Tuition: $160
with Jim Morningstar, Ph.D. and Steve Moe, LMT
Participants will be trained in hands on and hands off energetic release work, reading body types and facilitating exercises for maximizing their strengths and integrating these techniques into the breathwork session. Application from infancy through adulthood will be addressed.
Date: September, even numbered years
Tuition: $160
with Steve Moe, LMT and Jim Morningstar, Ph.D.
In this module participants will learn safe and effective methods of freeing the breath via energetic contact. Variations from non physical touch, use of sensory objects, to deep touch and body movement will be demonstrated and practiced.
Date: September, even numbered years
Tuition: $160
SUMMER RESIDENTIAL TRAINING odd numbered years
with Jim Morningstar, Ph.D.
Location "Cedar Valley" near West Bend, WI is nestled in the serene Kettle
Moraine area with a pond, pool, hot tub available for breathwork
sessions and comfortable accommodations.
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Basic Therapeutic Breathwork Training Level I - II
The purpose of this residential training is to teach breathwork skills to those in the healing professions. This week long training will cover dry, wet and group breathwork skills plus the basics of becoming an apprentice practitioner: the role of a breathworker, the flow of a session, handling resistance, facilitating energy releases with or without touch incorporating healing vision, ethical practice and other professional issues to advance to the next level of competency.
Participants will learn to:
Identify ineffective breathing patterns,
Teach healthy breathing skills,
Use breathwork to identify and address key life issues,
Integrate breathwork into standard a healing practice,
Monitor and release personal holding patterns.
Dates: AUGUST Monday 10 am - Friday Noon
> Advanced Therapeutic Breathwork Training Level II - III
The purpose of this advanced practicum is to give direct and intensive supervision to professional breathworkers in a supportive healing setting.This is an opportunity to reach a new level of mindfulness in one's work as a healer. The limited size of the group allows for more immediate feedback from the trainers.
Participants will learn to:
Apply principles of breathwork and advanced energy reading and healing techniques with a variety of clients
Integrate and expand present clinical skills into supervised breathwork sessions
Practice dry, wet and group breathwork and group leadership
Heal and clear self while giving highest service to clients
Become a more confident and competent breathworker.
This practicum is for those who have already done breathwork sessions with others and who are ready to dramatically enhance their professional skills. There is an application and selection process with limited enrollment. A certificate of completion is awarded as well as an appropriate level of Breathworker Certification.
Dates: AUGUST Monday 10 am - Friday Noon
> Breathworker Trainer Apprenticeship Level IV
Professional breathworkers who are seeking to enhance skills as trainers will work under the direct supervision of the Transformation Breathwork Training Staff.
Trainers will learn to:
Coach breathworkers to maximize their talents
Facilitate in the planning, content and flow of training programs
Increase confidence in constructing successful learning experiences
Orchestrate teamwork in a training
Dates: AUGUST Monday 10 am - Friday Noon
> Application
Please send a one page statement of your goals for the training to which you are applying and your prior healing arts experience. Staff reserves the right to select the training appropriate to your experience level.
Three hundred dollars deposit due at time of application; balance due July 15.
Fifty dollar discount if paid in full by June 1. Prices include room and board.
Send Application to:
Transformations Breathwork Training Program
4200 W. Good Hope Rd.
Milwaukee, WI 53200
Fax 414 351 5760
E-mail registrar@transformationsusa.com
> THERAPEUTIC BREATHWORK SUPERVISION TELECONFERENCE 12 CE hours
with Jim Morningstar, Ph.D.
This group supervision is for breathworkers who want professional and peer feedback on issues relevant to their practice of breathwork. Creating the proper work setting, ethics and boundary issues, dealing with resistance, referral, use of substances, homework, support group and training, payment and completion are just some of the challenges that we will address.Camaraderie and sharing as well as benefitting from others' experience increases our confidence and expertise. We benefit our clients as we care for ourselves personally and professionally.
All participants will have the opportunity to present issues and/or current challenges in their practice and get feedback from Jim in this 105 minute phone consultation. Jim will also speak to address topics of importance to the group. The synergy that emerges is always exciting and enhancing of our practice.
Limited enrollment.
Cost: $330.00 for all seven sessions or $55.00/session, plus your phone costs.
Breathworkers Certified at the Level III Professional Level through the Transformations Breathwork Training Program
Jayne Ader
Mike Arney
Gregory Bordenave
Christine Dantuma
Lenny Delvecchio
Lillie Lee
Elaine McCarthy
Leann Panek
Patricia Stout
Breathworkers Certified at the Level IV Trainer Level through the Transformations Breathwork Training Program
Jack Fontana
Carol Lampman
Steve Moe
