All activities are offered in a spirit of peer-group exchange and inspiration. All the workshops and private sessions are offered free of charge, in order to emphasize the equality of giving and receiving. All participants in this conference are potential presenters and all presenters are participants. See descriptions below.

Keynote speakers are invited by the IBF to share their teachings and best practices with in a spirit of openness and creative development.  There are five evening lectures throughout the week …and all are un-missable!.

Keynote speakers

The Role of Men in the Evolution of Society

In every era of transformation there are new social roles emerging, developing

like calls from the future. Men have their special challenges to undertake in these

times, since the so called patriarchal system has not only suppressed women

and womanhood but also impoverished and alienated men. What is the spiritual

journey that can be expected of men in these times? How can we identify the

heroes of the future and start to define an authentic manhood of our times?

The opportunities for growth are as great as the obstacles. But unless men take on the challenge of exploring what is yet unknown territory, attempts for giving

birth to a new kind of humanity will not be the soft labor envisioned by Breathworkers worldwide.  

Bo Wahlström (Sweden) was one of the organizers of the first GIC in Sweden 1994, during which IBF was born. He co created the first Swedish breathwork training in 1986 and since many years is an appreciated guest trainer and seminar leader in many countries. Bo is also a consultant for companies and organizations and is frequently organizing journeys to India. 
www.intuition-bw.com 

Breath, Life and Other Odd Mysteries

The Role of Breath in the Evolution of Consciousness

From Mexico to Mongolia there is abundant evidence of humans searching for a sense of connection to the Source. This quest for our Spiritual sense of belonging has been evident for millennia. Curiously, there is a tool, a practice, a discipline, which shows up again and again wherever people are seeking deeper insight into the nature of existence. Breath.  It floats like a golden thread, holding together the delicate fabric of existence. Shamans and spies alike have explored the outcomes of breathing with conscious intention. Following the thread back through the ages we learn, not only about the cultural and spiritual origins of our species, but also gain a valuable insight into where this breathing path may be leading us.

Natalia Bennet/Westmacott (UK) has been an IBF member since the Russian GIC in 2004. She served on the Admin Team for four years as the Communication Officer / Newsletter Editor and is currently the UK NC representative. Conscious Breathwork is her passion and she delights in giving her gifts through private session work, introductory workshops and intensive practitioner training modules. Natalia lives with her daughter Iris and a range of animals in the apple growing orchards of Gloucestershire, UK.
www.breathingcircle.com

www.first-breath.co.uk

The importance of Obstetrics for the Individual and the Future Society

We all know, we are going through strong changes, and that we need to adapt. Where could we possibly start to prepare a New Human for a New Society and a New Humanity? The obstetrics gives us the chance to start from the beginning - that is from pre-conception- and go through all the chain of conception, pregnancy ,birth and postpartum in a way, that helps the new divine Being come into this world as a secure and loved individual with self-esteem, love and peace creating a new society, where unity is our first call, together with freedom, justice and peace.   

Eva Gundberg: “I'm an gynaecologist & obstetrice, who studied in Sweden (Karolinska) and in Geneva, where I also made my Doctor in medecine(PhD) and master in gyn&obst.  I made a 2nd one in Caracas to understand tropical pathology and then another specialization in surgery. I've studied Humanistic psychology since -73 and later rebirthing with Leonard Orr, Bob Mandel and Sondra Ray and had a school in Caracas. I'm an international master of EMF Balancing Technique and last year I finished my diploma as a Hypnotherapist in France. I'm the pioneer of vertical birth in Venezuela since nov.-81, and I have a book called El Placer de Nacer ( The Pleasure of Birth) I've attended over 15,000 Births and I have 6 children myself all normal without anestesia. I travel all over to inspire people to understand the importance of birth, and I give workshops and classes in the courses for specializations in Venezuela and for future parents.”

“Authentic Movement and Breathing Circle: Practice of the odinary sacred : moving the Body, Moving the Self in the Collective, Being Moved”

Authentic Movement, as a collective practice, is an exchange of roles between developer and Witness that gives us an echo of what happens outside the two poles of the psyche. With the movement, the attention of the internal control between the known and unknown, between desire and fear, between the Sun and the Moon. A relationship between self and movement, the self and the collective, the self and the divine. Authentic Movement offers us the opportunity to promote a confrontation between what is inside and outside us. In a sacred space where we use active imagination, work with breathing, poetry, art, movement in depth, archetypes and body work, we create our own rituals. www.elanvital.be  www.baogroup.be

Daniëlle De Wilde (Belgium): attended her first Gic in Spain, 14 years ago. 
She participated to all the conferences around the world. She was IBF  National Coordinator Belgium for years and was part of  the Board from 2005 till 2008.

Daniëlle is running a school for Personal Development, Coachind and Mentoring in Brussels and is, with her team active in the corporate world and diverse organisations as facilitator and coach.

Workshops

How META-Medicine and BreathWork can heal serious disease and minor ailments

We begin with a theoretic introduction and then use BreathWork plus Tapping to create a Soul-ution.

META-Medicine is a body-mind-social healing model focusing on root cause symptom analysis and finding soul-utions. It is based on the body-mind-spirit-social connection and integrative medicine and redefines our understanding of the dis-ease, healing and health process completely.

META-Medicine Health Coaches and BreathWorkers find specific emotions, life events, belief systems behind symptoms, help create awareness for self-healing and find soul-utions for all physiological and psychological health issues. BreathWorkers use breathwork to create the Soul-ution.

Lars Mygind (Denmark) got introduced to breathwork in 1997 and it changed his life, have done breathwork with more than 3.000 clients, combined breathwork with TFT/EFT in 2002, PeakStates in 2006 and META-Medicine in 2008. Lars has trained more than 1.000 therapists in breathwork, TFT/EFT and META-Medicine.

Rebirthing transforms “Love, Money and Sex issues”

Breath is the beginning and the end of Life. Breath is the liberator of the soul surfing the waves of daily Emotional Energy Pollution.

Breath is Life. Breath is fun. Breath is joy.

Breath is the transformation within Love, Money and Sex, the three major topics in daily life.

Come and breathe and understand what your breath does to you.

Rose Windels (Belgium)

Riding the Wave of Breath

A journey through life to nourish body, soul and spirit, and to release mental and physical tensions. This workshop, unfolding like a wave, will take you through a period of relaxation, will let you experience various breathing patterns, open your heart through the practice of sounds, practice a short rebirthing-like session, and it will terminate leaving you in a profound state of relaxation.

Luc Enaut (France)

As a rebirther and passionate about life, Luc is convinced that breath, sound, movement and creative thinking are the sacred pillars of our energy and of personal power. He leads personal growth seminars in Europe in these domains. As a consciousness awakener he is at present developing new workshops in Turkey, starting to train rebithers in Belgium and to help people master their intuition in France.

www.rebirth-france.com

www.lescerclesdeconscience.com

Between Male and Female, the tantric breath

Exploring the masculin and feminin within oneself and in relationship, through breath, movement and dance. Exploring the relationship from polarity, offered by life itself.

Exploring the right distance in the present moment. Invite independence, joy and the consciousness which allows to enjoy the relationship and marvel at the vastness available. (By the author of "Male Female, Loving Initiation")

Fire Breathing together

The Breath of Fire is the opportunity to offer the kind fire of life, to an old limitation, within the relationship. To access the vastness, the joy, the autonomy and profound peace, to position oneself within the Trembling of our inner being, in love with life itself which is in essence, the natural state of everyone.

In finding the right and beautiful distance with regard to each other, we celebrate the breath that connects earth to heaven within oneself. An opportunity to root as a couple, collectively the vibration of union, out of the realm of duality. (By the author of "Male Female, Loving Initiation")

Diane Bellego, provides universal education and practical ideas who get rid of preexistent ideas and touches the heart. Her audio book, a bible to the path of enlightenment, reveals the steps of reconciliation that will initiate an instant transformation.

The Merkaba: a network of light and love

The Merkaba is an energy field intentionally created and managed which is nurtured by light and love. From the dimension of sacred geometry to more elemental levels, the Merkaba represents the matrix of life.  This workshop will explore simple but effective ways of changing our personal and collective matrices to vibrate at higher levels and of grounding these energies in pragmatic and practical ways. This involves all aspects of our being and the workshop will include work with the breath, movement and the voice and meditations and visualizations.

Robin Lawley (Italy) has been working professionally with Breathwork and other evolutionary techniques for healing and transformation since 1982. He has trained professionally with Leonard Orr, the founder of the Rebirthing movement, and with other leading Rebirthers including Sondra Ray and Toni and Lee Preisler. He has been a certified rebirther working with the British Rebirth Society and with the Association of Polish Rebirthers. He was one of the first Rebirthers to offer professional trainings in Italy where he has been living since 1986. He has continued through his own personal experiences to expand his knowledge of breath and energy work, gaining certification as a Shiatsu practitioner at the East-West Centre, London, as a qualified instructor of Robert Fritz’s Technologies for Creating and, more recently, as a qualified teacher of Advanced Energy Healing with the School of Energy Mastery of Robert T.Jaffe (Sedona, USA) and as a Watsu practitioner with dott. Miguelangelo Bertrand (Spain). He has also served as co-president of the IBF.

Integrative Breathwork Therapy (IBT) has been developed by Lloyd Lalande as an empirically supported refinement of existing breathwork approaches.  It provides a standardized model that can be used as a foundation for research, clinical practice, and training bringing the transformational power of breathwork into mainstream mental health.

Understand Integrative Breathwork Therapy from the medical model perspective and feel comfortable communicating to GPs and other health professionals.

Jonine Lee Gabay, Coordinator of IBT Trainings will discuss the opportunities she sees in Lloyd’s research for existing Breathwork Practitioners and Trainers. She will give an overview of the IBT Training and how it can give you the confidence needed to clearly communicate to other health professionals what Integrative Breathwork Therapy is, how it helps clients, and the research that backs it up. This introduction will familiarise you with the descriptive language used in psychotherapy research and practice, for example, empirically supported treatments, mechanisms of change, the therapeutic alliance, and client outcomes are explored from the IBT perspective. This will give you the theoretical framework needed to provide a rationale for the use of IBT to GPs and mental health practitioners in the medical model language they understand and respect.

The workshop will include an experience of an IBT session.

Lloyd Lalande is a lecturer and course coordinator of the Bachelor of Counselling and Master of Clinical Counselling programs in the School of Psychology at the Australian Catholic University (Brisbane). Currently completing a PhD at the University of Queensland.  His involvement with Breathwork began when he did his practitioner training in 1982 with the early pioneers of Breathwork.

Jonine Lee Gabay is a Breathwork Practitioner/ Trainer (in fulltime practice for almost 20 years), Counsellor, Life Coach, NLP Pract. Family Constellations Facilitator/ Trainer and a Director of Breathwork Trainings International (RTO delivering Government Accredited Breathwork Trainings).  She is the Co Ordinator for IBT (Integrative Breathwork Therapy) Trainings.

A Breath of Fresh AIR to take us into the “Newmanity”

The breath is the place where consciousness and love get together to shape the present moment. Freeing our breath opens the space for miracles. Facilitating this process with others is a privilege and a great joy.

In their exquisite (experiential) workshop, Brigitte and Doug, co-directors and trainers of the Avalon Institute of Rebirthing (AIR) will give you a taste of what is is to become a breathworker yourself. You will be looking at:

- the possibilities it opens on a personal as well as global level;

- the opportunities it brings to serve the world while having a great time and making a living;

- and how to transform challenges into opportunities for more light and love.

Trust, laughter, acceptance, challenge and responsibility are the cornerstones of the AIR training programme.

Brigitte Martin Powell (UK) has been the President of the IBF since 2008. With many years experience working with the breath, she is also an international speaker and trainer.

Doug Sawyer (UK) has worked as a Rebirthing Practitioner for over 20 years and is also an experienced Shiatsu practitioner. His wide experience includes running groups in the area of personal development as well as in the corporate field both nationally and internationally.

The Avalon Institute of Rebirthing (AIR) is a comprehensive breathwork training certified by the International Breathwork Training Alliance (IBTA) and recognised by the British Rebirth Society.

www.rebirther.co.uk

Using the wisdom of our nervous system

The vegetative nervous system is the basic governor of our wellbeing. It guides our breathing patterns. Well-known is the antagonism of the sympathetic and parasympathetic branch. Yet, the discovery of a third branch, the “smart vagus”, has lead to a new understanding of the operating system of all mammals and especially humans. We know why we need body contact so badly, why overhear or oversee important messages when we are in stress or why we freeze when we experience intense stress and how we get traumatized. Understanding the polyvagal theory adds convincing evidence to the functioning of breathwork for healing traumas, for maintaining physical and emotional health as well as flourishing social interactions.

Dr Wilfried Ehrmann, psychotherapist and breath therapist in Austria,

founder and leader of the ATMAN training project, IBF coordinator for

Austria, 2 books in German: "Handbuch der Atemtherapie" (Manual of

Breathwork) and "Vom Mut zu wachsen" (On the Courage to Grow), German and

English blog (http://wilfried-ehrmann.blogspot.com,

http://wilfried-ehrmann-e.blogspot.com)

info@wilfried-ehrmann.com

www.wilfried-ehrmann.com

Healing the Past on a Soul Level

Breath - especially the Connected Breath - is like an Emperors way into our being. Visualisation helps us to dive deeper into the past and find the roots of a particular problem that has arisen in our life today.

Forgiveness supports us to come to peace with bygone situations as well as with people we felt wounded by. In this workshop I will demonstrate and teach these essential elements that are crucial in the work I call "Healing the Past on a Soul Level".

Since 1979, Tilke Platteel-Deur has been practicing and teaching Breathwork, Voice Dialogue, NLP and the dynamics of relationship in a three year training program. From 2001-2004 she has been president of IBF and is currently a member on the board of the International Breathwork training Alliance.

'The Spirit of Breath has the power to connect us with our real strength. In an atmosphere of acceptance, respect and love, a human being may become more conscious of his true nature, his essence, and with that of the deeper meaning of his life.'

Author of ‘The Art of Integrative Therapy’ as well as several articles on Breathwork, among which ‘Hot Water Breathwork’ and ‘Cold Water Breathwork’, and the ‘Psychology of Selves’ that were published in the internet journal ‘The Healing Breath’ and in ‘Atman’.

www.breathworkeurope.com

www.ademwerk.com

www.tilkeplatteel.nl

Every day of GIC – “Breathing space” -  of supported full, conscious connected breathwork.

The theme for all week is “Success and you” and a different subject each day

3 hours

Please come with your own notes on what success is for you !

Day 1 – love, sex and intimacy – and the global deserve-ability crisis – Success and you

Day 2 – money and income – and the global deserve-ability crisis – Success and you

Day 3 – health, food and fun – and the global deserve-ability crisis – Success and you

Day 4 – support and co-operation – and the global deserve-ability crisis – Success and you

Day 5 – wisdom and intuition – and the global deserve-ability crisis – Success and you

Day 6 – having all you need and more – and the global deserve-ability crisis – Success and you

Alakh Analda is offering a # hour daily group this year on ~ “Success and you” ~
"The Global deserve-ability crisis".

We breathworkers know our limiting patterns and thinking come from unresolved past events and past conditioning. As breathworkers, we can make a daily difference to
mass consciousness thinking force, in relation to love, sex, money, food, enjoyment, support, cooperation, wisdom, intuition etc.

Alakh has been in practice as a breathworker since 1987. She has also travelled to different countries since 1993, to facilitate workshops and trainings. Beside her long
term private practice, her main work since 1993 has been training professional breathworkers in Australia. This work was accredited by the Australian Government
as Nationally recognised training in 1998, and there are now many qualified graduates – its now a Diploma.

Alakh continues to deliver retreats at her Byron Bay base and to travel to deliver breathwork training. She loves the IBF network, the GIC and being the aussie NC for IBF!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ex3tSjjw-Q

www.breathworkmastery.com

The Tango of the Couple – Dance with me or against me!

To be lead doesn’t mean “to surrender“, to be the leader doesn’t mean to “dictate“.

In Tango you learn what it needs to be a couple –  there is no relationship without some risk taking!

Since we met we have loved to dance the Argentinean Tango together. We realized while dancing how much we expressed our relationship as a couple in the dance. We found it to be a symbol for the dynamic between us and found it gave us insight into how we lived together as a couple.

The encounter of the couple is the focus in this workshop. We use the tango as a metaphor and will show you the basic moves of Tango and give you the taste of tango dance with some simple exercises.

Presented by Michael Knorr and Tanja Vieten

Michael Knorr is  systemic family therapist and Tanja Vieten works as a homeopath. They are married since ten years and combine these two therapies in their daily life and it turns out to be an amazing tango as well!

"When conception happens, this is a celebration of existence.”

An egg and a sperm cell unity to create new life. After about 24 hours, this new life faces its first challenge, to divide into identical parts without losing the connection. Fear of division and of splitting up can come from this

experience. In the workshop, we will access the memory of this event and

heal all trauma that might be stored around this event."

Dr Wilfried Ehrmann, psychotherapist and breath therapist in Austria,

founder and leader of the ATMAN training project, IBF coordinator for

Austria, 2 books in German: "Handbuch der Atemtherapie" (Manual of

Breathwork) and "Vom Mut zu wachsen" (On the Courage to Grow), German and

English blog (http://wilfried-ehrmann.blogspot.com,

http://wilfried-ehrmann-e.blogspot.com)

info@wilfried-ehrmann.com

www.wilfried-ehrmann.com

Self-empowerment through Sound and Movement

This workshop will take you into the secret of vibration, of quantum healing, of alignment with the self.

You will experience inner metamorphose in a fun and gentle way while exploring your own powerful sounds, for sounds affect our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual states. Sounds helps us create a change in consciousness. Sound can be used to shake off negative energy. Sound helps us to diminish and eliminate thinking patterns that limit our growth. Join us in sacred healing circles of sound and movement.

Blanca Maria Lagunez, Mexican born, is a certified Voice and Sound Healer since 2003. She has worked in the computer field for over 25 years and is currently also a "spiritual scientist", artist and life coach living in Zurich, embracing the world.

The Arquantis model. Living harmoniously in the new quantum paradigms: therapy, individual development and philosophy.

Quantum physics, hardly known science that was born more than a century ago already, offers stunning discoveries of new perspectives in terms of medicine, therapy and philosophy of life. Every day, without knowing it often, we use creations coming from the quantum physics : digital devices, mobile GSM, PC computers, Internet, Wifi, recognition laser….. Beyond this finding, according to its teachings, we would be more than simple matter, before all human beings made of energy and information. Our thoughts create our physical world and we would thus be responsible for everything that happens to us as designers of our daily reality.

On these bases, it is our relationships to the world, our ability to exceed our emotions and our fears, our propensity to generate money, to live better in family and couple, our potential for healing, that would be so totally altered. Still unexplained phenomena such as cellular memory, thought transmissions, the spontaneous healings, intuitions, the synchronicities, the mediumnity, telekinesis, and homeopathy would be also cracked with clarity.

The Arquantis team of therapists and quantum coaches is pleased to present you a two hour conference on the quantum paradigms which predetermine the quality and the meaningfulness of life.

The Arquantis team will also outsource how these new laws, inspired by the observation of Nature, totally transformed their lives in essential areas such as : talent, couple, family, money, health.

Summary :

Presentation of the 5 founding quantum paradigms

Presentation of the 10 personal development quantum laws

Presentation of the holistic quantum method

Stéphane Drouet, quantum coach and therapist, lecturer

Thibault Verbiest, solicitor at the Bars of Brussels and Paris, EMCC certified coach, lecturer