Experience the release of mental, emotional, and physical trauma, along with the easing of tensions throughout your body and mind, fostering a holistic sense of balance.
Biodynamic Breathwork and Trauma Release is a spiritual and physical growth process focused on creating space and relaxation in the body. This revolutionary healing modality invites us to feel - really feel - our physical bodies, hearts, minds, spirits, and energy centers. This intimate personal relationship allows us to stand more powerfully in the world, release stress and tension, consciously step away from negative patterns, and embrace our fullest potential. BBTRS is the beginning of a life-changing journey that we call Feel To Heal.
Upon understanding our internal state - assessing functionality, openness, tightness, and discomfort - the modality introduces effective tools to harness the body’s innate healing capacities. Initiating with specialized breathwork that activates natural nervous system processes, this approach promotes organic tension release, cleansing tissues, clearing the mind, and resetting energy levels. Supported by meditation, bodywork, sound therapy, and emotional expression, these elements facilitate comprehensive healing, culminating in a transformative experience.
Trauma activates our 'fight or flight' response, leaving lasting tension that affects our health and relationships. Biodynamic Breathwork and Trauma Release utilizes this physiological stress response, similar to spiritual experiences, inducing an altered state where therapeutic tools gently release residual trauma. This approach supports deep transformation, integrating past experiences and enhancing resilience for future challenges.
BBTRS delivers transformative effects that extend beyond each session, likened to a rejuvenating "spring cleaning." It not only facilitates immediate relief but also imparts skills for lasting personal change. Participants gain insights into desired emotional states, learn effective environmental management, and renew interpersonal connections. Reviews from our students consistently highlight BBTRS's profound life-changing impact.
BBTRS attracts a diverse range of participants, including trauma-informed breathwork practitioners and those seeking a career in holistic arts. We welcome professionals from various fields such as somatic therapy, medical, mental health, and spiritual practices. Whether you're exploring personal growth or professional development, our workshops, trainings, and webinars cater to both paths. Join us to experience this transformative modality regardless of your background or expertise level.
We started this training to address the widespread trauma in our world. Our mission is simple: heal ourselves and then help others heal. It's about personal transformation leading to broader societal change. BBTRS practitioners have transformed their own lives and now guide others through spiritual, academic, and emotional growth, turning past traumas into opportunities for healing and development.
BBTRS Training is for anyone invested in personal healing, growth, and transformation. It offers professional skills in breath and body-oriented trauma release to individuals from various backgrounds, including bodyworkers, massage therapists, yoga teachers, psychologists, naturopaths, acupuncturists, and others. Participants gain the tools to facilitate healing and transformation for themselves and others through this holistic approach.
Explore our in-depth Biodynamic Breathwork Practitioner Training, covering structure and essential topics for in-person sessions.
The BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System® (BBTRS®) is designed to harness the body’s natural ability to release chronic tension and emotional trauma through a 6-Element approach. This method facilitates the emergence of joy, deep relaxation, and intimate connection with oneself and others.
BBTRS® is structured as an integrated series of seven sessions, each strategically aimed at releasing trauma from specific "belts of tension" that correspond to the chakra system. This progression is meticulously crafted to energize, open, and balance your entire being. However, the system's flexibility also allows for targeting specific personal growth issues. Whether addressing areas of the body manifesting ill health or tension, or exploring how particular experiences are stored physically, BBTRS® offers tailored support. Through private sessions, you have the freedom to direct your journey, working closely with a practitioner to delve into your personal growth.
Practitioners of BBTRS® ensure a safe environment for you to breathe, sense your body, and explore your emotions productively. They help you identify and connect with your internal resources, providing a source of support and comfort you can rely on whenever needed.
Experiential BBTRS sessions
BBTRS session facilitation techniques
Cultivating safe space and establishing client/practitioner relationship
Fundamentals of counselling and coaching
Anatomy and physiology of breath
Anatomy and physiology of trauma
Relevant basic human anatomy
Releasing body armoring by segments (7 belts of tension: eyes and forehead, throat, shoulders & arms, chest, diaphragm, abdomen, pelvis)
Customized bodywork and release techniques for each belt of tension
Utilizing body/personality types according to Wilhelm Reich
Developing internal & use of external resourcing
Fundamentals of Somatic Experiencing (body oriented trauma release) including completion of interrupted Fight/Flight or Freezing response
Bodywork and conscious touch techniques
Acupressure points to support energetic release
Myofascial Unwinding (a connective tissue release modality)
Core Tension Release Exercises(CTRE) & Trauma Release Exercises (TRE)
Structuring series of BBTRS sessions to fit specific client needs
Cultivating the inner space required to support BBTRS sessions
Bioenergetics & grounding exercises
Therapeutic use of sound, music, dance and conscious movement
Structures and meditations for expanded self-awareness, well-being and intuition
Guided meditation techniques to support integration of BBTRS sessions
Guided meditation facilitation training
Creative use of music for BBTRS sessions Client/Practitioner code of ethics
Session contraindications
Breath
BBTRS® employs deep, continuous breathing techniques to invigorate the nervous system, facilitating the physical process of trauma release. Throughout the series of sessions, this method allows for the gradual dissipation of tension, promoting holistic balance of mind and body.
Movement
BBTRS® encourages the body's natural ability to release stored energy through various movements. This includes somatic exercises and creative dance activities, ranging from playful warm-ups to spontaneous whole-body tremors and undulating spinal motions. Movement is a cornerstone of BBTRS®'s transformative power.
Touch
Conscious touch, bodywork, and soft-tissue manipulation play a crucial role in aiding the physical release of trauma. By applying touch to tense muscles, practitioners help restore energy flow to areas that have been physically and energetically blocked. In BBTRS®, the skillful use of conscious touch is a fundamental aspect of training.
Sound
Trauma induces a multitude of cellular reactions within tense tissues. Sound can effectively help to alleviate these tensions. BBTRS® sessions often incorporate vocalization, recorded music, and live instrumental sounds to create impactful effects throughout the body or in targeted areas.
Emotions
Emotions are stored along with physical tension and surface during somatic work. BBTRS® is designed to avoid re-traumatization by preventing overstimulation. The system respects the emotional release process and connects it to the body, allowing individuals to process and integrate trauma without becoming overwhelmed.
Meditation
Meditation is both the starting and ending point of BBTRS® sessions. It fosters the development of an inner observer, crucial for sensing and integrating experiences during a session. Meditation also enhances the practitioner's resonance with the client. Various meditation practices are utilized, including physical movement, walking, and silent sitting in sacred locations.
Tailored for individuals aiming to offer online BBTRS® sessions to clients, providing them with the essential skills and knowledge needed to lead virtual sessions.
This online certification allows students to study from the comfort of their home with classes offered at times that accommodate regional time zones.
This advanced level of certification enables you to conduct BBTRS® sessions both online and in person, offering greater flexibility in serving your clients.
Begin your certification journey with either an immersive In-Person Training or the convenience of Live Online Training, offered at various times to accommodate your local time zone.
