I’m scared to be a breathwork facilitator
“I heard that breathwork triggers flight or fight”
“Breathwork brings up trauma”
“I don’t want to trigger my clients”
We’ve heard so many versions of this through our time training 1000s of practitioners in the healing arts and it comes to down to why you need training to facilitator breathwork.
Let’s clarify: breathwork and everyday breathing are totally different things.
Everyday breathing techniques are small adjustments you can make in the way that you are breathing in order to impact things like mood, energy, inner healing, grounding, and sleep.
While BREATHWORK, is used for HEALING. This innately triggers the sympathetic nervous system and its survival modes (which you'll learn about in the modules around science and physiology of flow breathwork); to be able to regulate your nervous system, means learning to work with this flight or flight mode with your clients. The entire practice of breathwork is about creating safety within the nervous system when it is triggered.
If you’re looking for breathing techniques for clients, a simple book is enough (Breathe by Shanila Sattar outlines 33 techniques); there is no need to learn about trauma, physiology, survival modes, emotional regulation, or otherwise.
But if you’re training as a facilitator, that’s what we’re doing here.
We’re teaching you the mechanisms behind how BREATHWORK (not breathing techniques) is the number one tool for somatic and trauma healing.
We know it’s scary to say you’re going to hold space for that for others, but that’s literally what a facilitator’s training is for. We wish we could give you a day long training and say okay you’re on your way. But that’s not what makes us good at what we do.
We’re training practitioners who might feel resistance and scared. Who know it’s more than just breathe in, breathe out. Who understand how to curate and hold space for true deep healing and transformations to take place.
If you want to chill and do breathing practices, here’s a great place to start: https://theplayground.mn.co/spaces/6542377/content
Or pick up this book to learn about different techniques: https://www.flowbreathworktraining.com/orderbreathe
But if you’re being called to be a skilled practitioner of breathwork, we’ll see you inside:
