Using Leonie’s clinical experience of seven years in psychology, this training gives you the confidence and framework to provide grounded, gentle and trauma-sensitive guidance. The breath can re-trigger past experiences and we will teach you how to bring your clients back into a space of awareness and security in where they are. In this way, the client can be guided from the mindset of ‘fixing themselves’ to a state of being present with what arises. This naturally begins to transform their repressed emotions and brings them back to a state of connection. In the course we will use two reference books to provide additional knowledge; The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk and Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A Levine.

Through bodywork and pressure points you will learn to guide someone even deeper in their process. By touch, you can bring presence, activate emotional release, and grounding touch. The bodywork you will learn in the training gives you an extra ability to support someone in their process. There are a variety of different types of touch to implement during a client’s process. There is a grounding touch to bring a client back to presence, there is touch to open breath capacity, and other types of touch to support the nervous system and allow emotions to move. You will learn when and how to use a variety of healing touches for support.

We will be diving deeper into the Pranayama system called the Vayus. You will explore this system in more depth and learn to teach this to others. This helps clients to re-calibrating their nervous, hormone, and endocrine systems and open up the channels through which your life force energy flows. This is a profound practice for yourself and to offer to clients to prepare for the Rebirthing session.

Music is a joyful and powerful tool for your breathwork, an opportunity to choreograph the flow of your session. We will discuss how to select songs, create attuned playlists, and use music to transition between stages in the breathwork. Every song will evoke a different emotion to take a group on a journey. The music can guide the process of release. You will also learn how to play live music intuitively such as the shamanic drum and the rattle if you desire. 

We are verbal creatures, storytellers, and voice is a wonderful tool, with great power and potential in this work. The pace and tone of your words, the wording you choose, the pauses in speech, are all ways to guide the attention of the room and create intimacy and inspiration. Your voice and its message are your superpowers as a facilitator, bringing your group back to presence and surrender.

A sacred space starts with the facilitator being in alignment with presence and balance. You will be equipped with tools in keeping your own energetic field clean and not becoming lost in the client’s energies, through keeping a sense of equanimity. You will learn to work with the power of ceremony, and with clear intention and energy work.