Integral Breath Therapy Training
About the training
The Integral Breath Therapy facilitator training is a focused program designed for professionals looking for personal as well as professional transformation. This training is designed to teach the therapeutic skills necessary to integrate this therapy into your existing modality.
Our Mission:
“We believe each person carries the potential for greatness; the expression is unique to each person. Our mission is to hold this vision for you until you can connect to it within yourself.” Founder – Carol A. Lampman
Our Vision:
To create a network of qualified professionals and teachers to bring forth the transformation and healing modalities of The integration Process and Integral Breath Therapy.
Level One Foundation Course
Learn to facilitate one-on-one sessions as an IBT facilitator with completion
Parts A and B, 100 hour onsite, and practicum requirements.
In this foundation course, you learn about the altered state of consciousness created through the use of the breath. You will experience IBT through personal experience, releasing issues that interfere with your effectiveness as a health care provider.
Part A: 6 day Intensive
Includes Tools for personal growth and expansion.
Using IBT to heal the breath and its relationship to life, death, and disease.
Identify, understand, and use distortions in breathing as a diagnostic tool.
Track, explore, and release energetic
holding.
Tools to Identify unconscious beliefs and the release of self-sabotaging behaviors.
Corrective experiences, meditations, and processes to integrate and heal.
Working with the inner child. Effective use of intentions and affirmations.
Emotional Anatomy: Understanding the emotional process. How to use the breath to create emotional regulation/balance.
Part B: Certification Immersion
Expanding on Part A, this 6 day Part B Intensive prepares the student to effectively facilitate IBT one to one sessions with clients.
The 6 day Part B Intensive includes:
Advanced IBT tools and techniques. How and when to integrate tools into sessions.
The dynamics of the victim triangle. The Clearing Process. Taking responsibility.
Reichian theory, body armoring and appropriate
use of release techniques in
a one to one session.
How to recognise and treat Trauma and Shock in a session. Protocol for healing dissociation. Empowerment exercises and techniques.
Identify Pre and perinatal Birth issues. Dialoguing and facilitation techniques.
Using the Bio Computer model. Tools to heal energetic splits. Unification.
Full online support and supervision provided during case study, post onsite program.
ADVANCED TRAINING
Preresquisite: Level One Training – Advanced Certification after completion of requirements.
Work with Breath Therapy in Water
The unconscious death urge
Advanced principles and techniques of Breath Therapy
The use of music (Holotropic style) in Breath Therapy
MASTER’S PROGRAM
Preresquisite: Advanced Training – A system of three modules taught over one year with one module elective.
Reichian Character Structures Releasing Body Armor
Incorporate Energy Healing with Breath Therapy
PsychoSpiritual/Soul Therapy Integration Process Therapy
What is Integral Breath Therapy?
It is a powerful somatic tool which supports the essential brain changes necessary for integration and sustained healing, transforming unprocessed emotions at a cellular level.
As humans, we are hard-wired to not fully complete our nervous system’s automatic response to stress or danger, which leaves energetic residues in our bodies and minds, leading to blockages which can show up as chronic pain and tensions, restricted breathing, unhealthy behavioural patterns and ultimately disease.
The aim of IBT is to allow the body to naturally complete this fight-or-flight cycle, releasing the trauma, memory or emotion which was too painful to feel at the time, in a safe space where we are guided and supported by a trained facilitator.
How can I apply it to my own Practice?
IBT is totally natural. It uses the breath to achieve an altered state, and is a safe adjunct to clinical treatment. For anyone in recovery, or for clients that are adverse to ‘substances’ for whatever reason this offers a great and safe alternative.
It is the body-mind approach to:
▪ Anger Management
▪ Somatic Complaints
▪ Birth and Death issues
▪ Spiritual Experiences
▪ Respiratory Problems
▪ Repressed memories
▪ Individual & Group work
▪ Grieving
▪Anxiety
▪ Depression
▪ PTSD
▪ Addictions
▪ Self Esteem
▪Relationship Issues
Why should I take this training?
There are many reasons why this Body Mind Oriented training would benefit a Therapist or other qualifying professional, but the most important one is the level of practice that the student is given as part of this training program. The best way to study a new method is from the inside out through a personal, first-hand experience of the process.
An understanding of the breath and its unique ability to clear, heal and integrate is primary to training proficient Therapists / Facilitators.
If you are interested in personal as well as professional development, you are invited to join us.
~ Carol A. Lampman
You will learn the following:
▪ About the breath and its relationship to life, death, and disease
▪ The history of Breath Therapy and its contemporary applications
▪ About Breath Therapy as physical, psychological, and emotional process
▪ To identify and use “breathing patterns” as a diagnostic tool
▪ About the Mind
▪ Body Connection to health/healing
▪ To facilitate physical and emotional release
▪ The basics of pre- and perinatal psychology to heal birth Issues
▪ The importance of Emotional Anatomy and emotional development
▪ The Trauma vs. Shock model for healing dissociation
▪ To identify and release chronic holding patterns and body armor
▪ To incorporate imagery and Inner Child work
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Distortions in breathing as a diagnostic tool
Distortions in breathing as a diagnostic tool
Imagine watching a client breathe for just a few minutes and being able to discern if they had been physically or sexually abused at a young age, or knowing that they suffer from anxiety or depression. Through the observation of the breath and understanding the holding of the body and its effects on the breathing process, it is a powerful diagnostic tool for the therapist / facilitator. This information provides the facilitator with crucial information that can be used as part of the therapeutic process.
Brief Therapy - Going underneath the story
Most people in today’s world are looking for a quick solution to their problems.
Generally speaking, people are not unhappy for the reason they think. IBT includes the tools and techniques to allow the Therapist / Facilitator to access the emotions, go beyond the words and underneath the story to reach deeper levels of consciousness. The story itself is not so important but how the client feels is crucial to accessing the underlying issue which is the cause of the distress.
Beyond Diagnosis
This natural and organic method has been proven to be completely safe when used as taught. There is no need for concern on the part of the Therapist / Facilitator as the client will not go to difficult or buried trauma until they are ready. The client is the person in charge of the process which creates a safe space for growth and healing. Along with the support of the therapist / Facilitator, the client moves quickly through their issues.
Integration and Wholeness
The IBT process works to heal and integrate the four levels of our being: The Body –The Emotions – The Mind – and Spirit. We cannot separate these individual parts from the whole and the work needs to happen on each level in order for healing to be complete. The use of the Breath connects and integrates these levels to reclaim health and the ability to return to wholeness.
The Power of Beliefs
Our system is connected on all four levels and the work is not finished until the emotions are addressed along with the beliefs that hold them in place. Many clients will ask, “Why is this happening to me again?” By using simple techniques along with the breath, we are able to access and explore the origin of upsetting current events. Once the beliefs that have been creating these repeating experiences are exposed, they can be rapidly changed.
Reprogramming the bio-computer
The key to success here is that reprogramming happens in an altered state. It clears the system at the level of the body and emotions as well as the mind. This results in rapid change because this process creates a shift, healing at the level of cause and effect. It takes the client directly to the root and provides the opportunity to move the old program out and install the new program into the system. By releasing the held energy and healing at the level of the core belief, the structure collapses as there is nothing left to hold it in place.
Reprogramming the bio-computer
Somatic Issues
The body is a living autobiography. It remembers everything; old emotions that are unexpressed are still held in the body. The body refuses to be ignored and will act out through the manifestation of Dis-ease. These emotions can be easily accessed and safely released so that the body can return to its natural state of health and wholeness. It has healed heart disease, asthma, high blood pressure, back pain, chronic illnesses and more.
Emotional Anatomy
If the client is overly emotional or out of touch with their emotions, they will not be balanced or centered in their life. The IBT modality balances the extremes, quickly and safely. It supports the client in creating containment as well as the process of opening to important emotional states. Without access to healthy emotions and emotional expression, the client will not be able to make healthy decisions or create and maintain intimate relationships.
Stress Management
Many people in today’s hectic world live at a level of high anxiety. Fritz Perls says, “Anxiety is excitement without the breath”. It is already proven that specific breathing techniques access and clear energy held in the nervous system, which reduces stress levels, creates a sense of well-being and builds self-esteem.
A Self -Development Tool
We believe that the client should be fully engaged in their personal growth process. You can teach specific breathing exercises along with various self-empowerment tools to your clients for use outside of the sessions. The 300 page manual is filled with resources, exercises and processes that can be used as homework in order to support the growth process between sessions.
Benefit to the Therapist / Facilitator
This modality can be integrated into the facilitators practice very quickly after the first level of training. It can be combined or used in conjunction with the other methods, tools and techniques already employed by the therapist. It is a powerful addition for trained therapists and an appropriate addition for those who work with the body for physical healing and educators / coaches who support the public in the process of growth and change.