The simplest and perhaps most potent way to help people to feel more comfortable with themselves and with life is via their breathing. The breath not only provides the fundamental fire of life. It is also the link between the conscious and unconscious mind. At the same time it is also the most simple and direct way to access and regulate the nervous system. Most of its benefits can also be enjoyed by those unable to move due to illness or injury.
There is so much more to breathing than simply supplying oxygen to your cells.
At the same time it also discharges waste gasses, including carbon dioxide. Yet even as cells receive and release gasses they simultaneously expand and contract. Your body relaxes on a cellular level with every exhalation. With every inhalation it primes itself for action.
While internal, cellular respiration takes place below the threshold of awareness, external, pulmonary respiration is a part of everyone's everyday experience. Engaging with external respiration offers many possible benefits, not only regulating cellular respiration. By developing and training specific respiratory muscles you can teach people to do any and all of the following:
While internal, cellular respiration takes place below the threshold of awareness, external, pulmonary respiration is a part of everyone's everyday experience. Engaging with external respiration offers many possible benefits, not only regulating cellular respiration. By developing and training specific respiratory muscles you can teach people to do any and all of the following:
- release chronic muscular tension
- release acute muscular tension
- develop stamina
- calm their minds
- enhance cellular activity
- detoxify their blood
- adjust their carbon dioxide sensitivity
- release the flight/fight/freeze response
- activate the relaxation response
- release subconscious anxiety
- open the spiritual doorway
Dates & Times:
APRIL 2025.
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Saturday 5th
10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00 Central European Times You will learn:
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Sunday 6th
10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00 Central European Times You will learn:
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Sunday 13th
10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00
You will learn:
10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00
You will learn:
- the principles of experiential instruction
- the principles of somatic instruction
- the practice of somatic instruction
- the art of progressive instruction
- the keys to an experiential, somatic vocabulary
- to use tone, cadence, rhythm and projection to embody the minds
- the layering of verbal instruction
What will this training give you:
The power of breath work depends not only on understanding how to practice and teach the techniques, but also understanding how they work. This understanding needs to go beyond the body, and nervous system, into its relationship with mind and Consciousness. This course will provide you with that understanding. It will be based on a clear, pragmatic understanding of how human beings learn. We will use both active and passive breath work practices from the Power of Rhythm Training.
You will learn:
- the relationship between body, mind and awareness in theory
- the relationship between body, mind and awareness in practice
- the experiential role of the nervous system
- how the body learns
- how the mind learns
- the dynamics of embodiment
Becoming a great teacher:
However, there is more to teaching than knowing what, how, when and why to practice and teach. A good teacher needs to be able to communicate with simplicity, clarity and relevance. This Course will show you how to use words to make your knowledge and experience of breathing and breath work a powerful resource for teaching, training and healing.
You will:
- learn the role of metaphor and imagery in embodiment
- learn to distinguish between abstract, experiential and somatic vocabularies
- learn how to use words to embody the mind
- develop a potent experiential vocabulary
- learn the power of repetition in giving somatic instruction
- learn the power of volume, tone, pace and rhythm in giving somatic instruction
Who this training is for
It is suitable for anyone teaching or wanting to teach Breathwork. Including also therapists (of any kind), movement, dance, somatic and meditation practitioners and teachers.
Live & recorded
All the sessions on every module will be recorded and available to stream (after each session ends) for 60 days.
Notes
You will have notes that accompany each module and they will be provided at the end of the course. For genuine understanding follows direct experience.
Payment options
You are welcome to pay in instalments for this Heart of Yoga Personal Training. If you would like that option contact us directly.
Further questions
Taught by Godfrey Devereux
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Godfrey is one of the initiators of the Yoga Renaissance that began in the 1990s. The yoga program he created at the Life Centre in London, and his ground breaking book ‘Dynamic Yoga’ steered yoga from the cultural margins towards the irresistible phenomenon it is today. Author of many more books, not only on yoga, his influence within and beyond the world of yoga is incalculable.
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His potent and accessible methodologies of somatic transformation, including 'The Dynamic Yoga Training Method', ’Slow Tantra’, ’Somatic Meditation’, and 'Somatic Resilience Training', have enriched the lives of thousands of practitioners and hundreds of teachers. As a master teacher his effectiveness depends directly on his ability to share his embodied experience of body, mind and Consciousness.