Workshops at the International Breathwork Foundation’s Global Inspiration Conference (GIC)
Scroll down for a list of workshops below!
Attendees of the GIC are welcome to propose a workshop, as part of the daily program. This makes the GIC a wonderful co-creation process. Workshops are mostly breathwork-related, but also include of other modalities and practices, such as a dancing, yoga, massage, meditation or music workshops.
Workshops will be given from Tuesday, 2 September until Saturday, 6 September 2025. The workshops will all be presented during the morning gatherings which is always a very lively event.
Workshop leaders are encouraged to register their workshops before the GIC starts, so we can publish the workshops and their presenters closer to the dates of GIC 2025.
There is always space to offer a spontaneous workshop, there is a great possibility that you will meet a like-minded breathworker from the other side of the world and want to offer something together.
Find a Workshop
The Final Letting Go: Exploring the Surrender Process - United States
Lauren Cafritz (she/her) & Ari Barkan (he/him) – United States of America
Afternoon Workshop: The Final Letting Go: Exploring the Surrender Process Lauren & Ari, both from the USA, return to the GIC, bringing their years of experience and passion for breathwork. This year they are offering a workshop titled “The Final Letting Go: Exploring the Surrender Process”. This workshop is a breath session like no other.The Surrender Process is a powerful guided, group-supported healing experience. This method is centered on the concept that the ability to ‘let go’ is what makes the difference between a gentle, peaceful and even beautiful death or life transition, and one filled with pain and suffering. This was first used to train breathworkers in awareness and relaxation, and was then taken to the PTSD community as it was found to be particularly effective in the area of violence and sexual abuse recovery. This workshop provides a space of freedom and safety in which to explore the essence of one’s inner world and to access deeply rooted emotions, allowing the release of unconsciously held psychological, emotional and physical blocks and traumas. Deep tensions and subtle layers of tension are realized and released, resulting in feelings of more freedom, connection, intuition and presence. It is incredibly powerful, yet amazingly gentle.
Total length 2.5 – 3 hours
About Lauren and Ari Lauren is the founder of Vitality Breath. She is an internationally known breathwork teacher, speaker and the author of Breath LOVE. She facilitates breathwork for executive teams, nonprofits, government agencies, corporations, and schools and also hosts breath retreats and workshops throughout the United States. She is a National Representative for the United States and is a member of the Global Professional Breathwork. Alliance. Ari is the founder of Center City Breathe, Philadelphia’s first breath studio, where he facilitates weekly group breathes and private client sessions, and offers other forms of healing arts to the community. He has been practicing breathwork since 2006 and is a co-creator of the Vitality Breath Certification Program. He has co-taught retreats in Costa Rica, Utah, and Virginia.
Rebirthing and the Personal Lie - Belgium
Geert De Vleminck (he/him) – Belguim
Afternoon Workshop: Rebirthing Breathwork and the Personal Lie
“Let a miracle take place. Working out your personal lie and transforming it into your eternal truth, will be life changing. Geert De Vleminck, owner and trainer of the Joy of Life Breathwork Center in Belgium guides you to dig into the strongest negative belief about yourself and will show you how to transform this into the right personal affirmation. After that we will do a full rebirthing breathwork session to start the integration. Nose breathing. Be ready for a life changing experience.”
Total length 2.5 – 3 hours
About Geert
Geert De Vleminck, is the owner and trainer of the Joy of Life Breathwork Center in Belgium. Geert has been practicing breathwork since 1999, and is a very skilled and professional practitioner and trainer. Geert was the former Chair of the International Breathwork Foundation and continues to volunteer his time in the IBF.
Website: https://joyoflifebreathwork.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/geert-de-vleminck-186b015
Sink into the Field of Unknowing with Gentle Breathwork - Spain
Ana Berenguer (she/her) – Spain
Afternoon Workshop: Sink into the Field of Unknowing with Gentle Breathwork
Stress is a pandemic.
It causes inflamation which is behind most of our modern world illnesses. Most of us have a very disregulated nervous systems due to our rushed lifestyle. Hurry keeps us disconnected from our inner world, our inner wisdom and the innate capacity of our bodies to restore and repair. Our minds and our environments are so noisy and so full that there is no space for connection with our wisdom and our “bigger me”.
I invite you to get into deep relaxation with Gentle Breathwork, from where you can sink into the Field of Unknowing. Through profound silence we are able to open ourselves to what we don’t know yet. It’s a doorway to new realizations. When we access those realms, our Being remembers how healing and fulfilling they are and keeps wanting to go back to them.
Total length 2.5 – 3 hours
About Ana
Ana is a breathwork practitioner based in Spain. She travels extensively, learning new and innovative breathwork and insight practices from all around the world. Ana is a long-standing member of the International Breathwork Foundation, and the Australia GIC is very lucky to have her join us!
Chakra Healing and Breath - Italy
Indalecia Rohita Zirrit (she/her) – Italy
Early Morning Workshops
- Chakra Sound Healing
- Awakening your diaphragm with breath, voice and vibrant movement
Indalecia is a Senior Trainer in Transformational Breath®, leading seminars and professional trainings across Europe. She has been involved with the IBF since 2000, serving as IBF National Rappresentative for Italy and organizing two Global Inspirational Conferences. She is now an IBF Ambassador and an accredited member of the Global Breathwork Practitioner Alliance (GBPA).
An Osho Sannyasin and Akashic Records practitioner, she blends breath, movement, meditation, sound healing and energy work into her unique teaching style. Now based in Tuscany, she continues to travel extensively, sharing the transformative power of breath and lovingly guiding others on their healing journeys.
Indalecia’s early morning workshops are always a favorite at the GIC to wake up in a joyous and vibrant way!
Soul Retrieval through Breathwork - Australia
Jennylee Taylor (she/her) – Australia
Afternoon Workshop: Coming back from the Unknown, Soul Retrieval through Breathwork
Jennylee is an Australian Breathwork Practitioner Trainer with over 30 years personal experience with the Breath.
This workshop introduces the concepts of soul retrieval through the lens of the Breath based on the lineage that came through Denise Burgess and Robyn Fernance. Following the presentation, participants will have the opportunity to experience aspects of soul gift and soul theft through a facilitated workshop and breath swap.
Total length 2.5 – 3 hours
About Jennylee
Jennylee is Breathwork Practitioner Trainer with over 30 years personal experience with the Breath, nearly 10 years as a practitioner, and 4 years as a practitioner trainer. She came across the phenomenon of soul retrieval through her own personal process of transformation to becoming whole by moving with the Breath into the unknown to bring back fragmented soul parts . When she first started this work as a practitioner, she had a vision one day. She was out walking her dog on a hill that over looked her home town. She could see and sense the lost, given away and snatched soul energies of people all across town returning to their rightful place. Literally shooting stars of light coming down from the sky and landing back “home” entering bodies all across the town. People calling back and receiving parts of themselves that, without them had left them feeling depleted and unfulfilled. She felt the vibration of the town lift as each person consciously became more whole and complete and more connected to their soul. For Jennylee, the journey back to being whole and complete means to be centred in an internal power base that has all the resources it needs to experience the full gamut of the human experience.
www.jennyleetaylor.com.au
https://www.facebook.com/breatheandbeyou/
@breathe_andbe_you
@woman_on_country
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennylee-taylor-b9507653/
Awe: A Journey into Unknowing - Australia
Caitlin Pearse (She/her) – Australia
Afternoon Breathwork Workshop: Awe: A Journey into Unknowing
Embody the qualities of awe to transcend your understanding of the world and surrender into a state of unknowing. In this state lies infinite possibility.
Conscious Connected Breathwork Session
Total length 2.5 hours
About Caitlin Caitlin is a Rebirthing Breathwork practitioner with a strong interest in supporting clients experiencing chronic pain and life transitions. Her work centres around rites of passage, helping others to explore beyond their material reality, transmute aspects of their human experience and embrace their innate Self.
The Embodied Breath - Australia
Joshua Wrest (He/Him) – Australia
Afternoon Workshop: The Embodied Breath
A fusion of conscious movement and conscious breathing, The Embodied Breath will deepen your connection to Self.
Inspired by a range of movement practices, this workshop will support participants in using conscious movement and conscious breathing to silence the mind, relax the nervous system and open the breath. This process will be followed by a 75-minute transpersonal breathwork session using conscious connected breathing. This workshop will support you to:
- access a deeper understanding of self and your experience of life;
- quiet the thinking mind (mental chatter) and access the wisdom of the subconscious mind and body;
- gain new information and clarity about life;
- release old and outdated stories about yourself and how you are in this world;
- let go of held or ‘hidden’ physical, emotional and mental patterns and stories;
- bring your heart, body and mind into alignment; and
- access a deeper understanding of your spirituality.
Total length 2.5 – 3 hours
About Joshua
Joshua is a Canberra-based holistic psychotherapist and counsellor, working with individuals and couples, as well as a breathwork practitioner facilitating private breathwork sessions, group workshops, and retreats throughout Australia and abroad. His purpose is to support people through their change process by helping them access their inner power and wisdom, release self-limiting beliefs, feel their emotions, and foster personal growth. He guides individuals and groups in recognising and harnessing the transformative power of their breath, heart, and mind as tools for growth and transformation.
Joshua is passionate about helping people access higher states of consciousness to experience more joy, ease, and freedom in their lives. He enjoys exploring life’s meaning and purpose questions through breath, movement, nature-connection and plant-medicine practices. Joshua has presented breathwork and deep ecology workshops at IBF conferences in the Netherlands and Germany, and has been a member of the IBF since 2016.
‘Flowing with Ease’, Chi Kung plus ancient Taoist Meditation - Australia
Samaneri Jayasara (she/her) – Australia
Afternoon Workshop: Flowing with Ease
In this experiential workshop, Samaneri Jayasara will teach two distinct practices designed to relax the
body and mind, making it healthy and supple, open and receptive.
The first part of the workshop will focus on some very simple Chi Kung movements designed to increase
the flow of energy throughout the body, cultivate and balance the chi, and promote relaxation and ease of
the mind.
Following this, we will learn the ancient Taoist meditation technique, known as the ‘Soft Butter
meditation’. This involves a simple visualisation which allows the relaxation of the body and a movement
of energy down from the head and through all parts of the body, shifting our head-centred energy into a
more fully embodied, connected and relaxed experience.
These ancient Eastern healing techniques help to re-balance the energy of the body-mind, bringing it back
into alignment with the natural equilibrium of the elements. Restoring this balance and equilibrium
supports optimum health, energy, and mental clarity.
Total length 1.5 hours
About Samaneri Jayasara
Samaneri Jayasāra has been practising meditation and Buddhism since the mid-1980’s. She has a PhD and
master’s degree in education, focusing on comparative spiritual traditions, Buddhism, and psychotherapy.
She has also taught at secondary, undergraduate, and postgraduate levels in psychology and counselling.
In the early 2000’s Jayasāra spent two years living as an eight-precept nun in the Theravadin Forest
Tradition, and in 2018, took ordination as a Samaneri (10-precept nun) at Santi Forest Monastery, NSW.
She now resides at Viveka Hermitage in Southern NSW, where her main focus of service is providing
spiritual resources on her ‘Wisdom of the Masters’ YouTube channel and podcasts.
The Power of Simplicity: Yoga as a Portal to Presence - Australia
Mark Moon (he/him) – Australia
Afternoon Workshop: The Final Letting Go: Exploring the Surrender Process
In alignment with the GIC theme “Conscious Breath and the Field of Unknowing,” this slow, breath-led yoga practice invites participants to experience simplicity as a profound teacher.
Rather than striving for an outcome, this session encourages letting go of expectations and fully inhabiting the unfolding moment.
Through mindful movement and conscious breath, participants will explore how the simplest practices reveal the richest insights, and how the act of striving can take us further away from the depth and presence that is already available now.
Simplicity teaches us to meet each breath, each posture, and each sensation without judgment, opening a portal to deeper awareness, embodiment, and freedom. By honoring the ordinary, we access the extraordinary, returning to the body, the breath, and the mystery of life unfolding moment by moment.
Total length 2.5 – 3 hours
About Mark
Mark Moon is a Breathwork Facilitator and Yoga Teacher, with nearly 30 years of experience in the health and wellness space, guiding others toward greater vitality and self-awareness. His work weaves movement, breathwork, and integral psychology into transformative experiences that awaken emotional intelligence, nervous system autonomy, and embodied spiritual expansion.
Rooted & Radiant: A Workshop on Embodiment - United States
Kate Becker (she/her) – United States of America
Afternoon Workshop:
The deeper intelligence we’re seeking lives in the body — waiting for us to slow down, breathe, and listen. This workshop is an invitation to come home to yourself through breath, movement, and grounded awareness. We’ll explore embodiment as a radical tool for resourcing, healing, and accessing spirit directly.
✨ Breath as a guide
✨ The “humble mind” as a receiver
✨ Reconnecting to intuition, instinct & heart
✨ Practices to bring your awareness back to your body
You are your own best breathworker. Let’s gather and remember
About Kate: Kate uses Breathwork and deep tools of embodiment to help work through patterns of stress, tension and unresolved emotional experiences to create greater liberty, safety, connection, thriving, and empowerment. She is the owner and operator of The Studio in Holy Cross, a multi modality healing, and Arts space in New Orleans, Louisiana, and has presented workshops and collaborations all over the world. Her greatest honor in this life is to practice and assist others in mending our deep relationship with self and our greater world. She is a level four Therapeutic Breathworker and Breathwork trainer through Transformations USA and the mentorship of Dr. Jim Morningstar.
Reframing Survival Patterns into Super Powers- Australia
Australian Breathwork Association, represented by Mark Moon (presenter)
Professional Development Talk:
The Body Remembers Your Future
We are at an inflection point in the breathwork and healing arts. While trauma-informed frameworks have brought immense value, many of us are now sensing a deeper invitation: to move beyond trauma as the primary lens and into the field of becoming—the infinite space of possibility, the quantum realm.
In the Quantum Field, the Future Already Exists
This session is not about diving into trauma. It is about attuning to the body’s memory of who you are becoming. Every potential version of you—your expansion, your alignment, your radiance—already exists as an energetic frequency. The body, as a sensory instrument, is not only remembering the past. It is also tuning into future timelines through sensation, intuition, and energy.
What if your body wasn’t storing trauma… but remembering your destiny?
This is the core premise we will explore. That your body is not merely a vault of trauma, but a vessel of encoded intelligence and future alignment. Through breath and presence, we access these future frequencies now.
From Pathology to Possibility
What if we stopped trying to fix body-based trauma patterns and started listening to them as codes of potential? What if your character structure—whether oral, rigid, psychopathic, or masochistic—was not a flaw, but a gateway? An archetypal gift in disguise?
In this interactive session, we will explore:
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Reframing character structures as evolutionary archetypes
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How the nervous system attunes to future timelines through breath
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How survival adaptations become sacred portals for awakening
We will blend insight with reflection, drawing on the wisdom of breathwork, bioenergetics, and spiritual psychology to guide this shift from fixing what is broken to remembering what is already whole.
The pivot point is where we place our awareness. On our traumas, or on our potential?
Let us explore how the body becomes a quantum compass—not just for healing the past, but for embodying the future that is already within you.
Total length 1 hour
Australian Breathwork Association (Mark Moon)
The ABA is a professional association that supports the development and maintenance of Professional standards in Breathwork in the form of Conscious Connected Breathing. It welcomes all those who know and love the extraordinary power of Breathwork. Find out more: https://australianbreathworkassociation.org.au/
Breathe and Sing: Tune Up and Tune In! - Australia
Rebecca Morton (she/her) – Australia
Early Morning Workshop: Breathe and Sing – Tune up and Tune in!
Rebecca is an professional singer, actor singing leader, and a qualified practitioner of alignment breathing.“I bring my deep work together in an opportunity to uplift and connect through the vibration of the breath, the voice and singing together”.
In this morning workshop we connect with the breath and the vibration of the voice, moving into singing simple rounds, which increase in complexity depending on the experience of the group. This for anyone who sings, has ever wanted to sing or thinks they ‘can’t’ sing.
Shaking/Tremoring Workshop - Australia
Ana Berenguer (she/her) – Spain
Body trembling is an innate mechanism we are born with that helps regulate our nervous system.
Most of us can recall a moment of intense emotion—whether pleasant or unpleasant—when our body began to tremble spontaneously. This happens because the intensity of the experience exceeds our nervous system’s self-regulation capacity, and trembling arises as a way to help restore balance.
Trembling is often seen as something negative. Many of us have been taught to suppress it, as it’s commonly perceived as a sign of weakness or illness. While certain types of tremors can indeed be symptoms of medical conditions and require professional attention, time-limited trembling that occurs in response to acute stress can be highly beneficial. When we allow it to happen, it helps us process the situation, regulates our system, and prevents the experience from becoming stored as trauma in the body’s memory.
When used therapeutically in a safe and supported setting—without the presence of an immediate stressful event—trembling can help the nervous system process and release unintegrated emotional or physical memories. Often, this happens without needing to recall the original event that created the stored memory. The body simply lets go, and symptoms begin to dissolve.
Total length 1 hour
Sacred Circle Dance - Australia
Sacred Circle Dance with Suzanne Zankin (Australia)
Long ago, dancing in circles was common and central to the well-being of the community, as people came together to honor the cycles of life and the rhythms of the seasons.
Sacred Circle Dancing is a profound spiritual practice that allows individuals to connect with the Earth, the cosmos, and their inner selves. It is a form of meditation in motion, offering moments of introspection, gratitude, and spiritual growth.
There are often no words for our inner processes. Whatever it is, we bring it to the circle, the container, the “cauldron of the dance”. Inside this sacred space, whatever is going on in our lives, can be held and healed through the simple act of communal dance.
During this hour together, we will learn four dances. Circle dance is easy, fun and therapeutic.
Come join me in the dance.
About Suzanne
Suzanne Zankin is a professional Transpersonal Bodywork and Breathwork Practitioner with over 30 years of professional expereince. Suzanne is a long time member of the ABA and IBF, and was co=host of the annual ABA Australian Breathwork Conference 2009 in Canberra.
Mind/Body/Trauma Roadmap - Australia
Mind/Body/Trauma Roadmap: A Navigation through the lens of Breath and Yoga
Mind/Body/Trauma Roadmap: A Navigation through the lens of Breath and Yoga – a comprehensive understanding of trauma and stress, and how to approach through Yoga and breathwork.
Vicky Bekfi is Somatic Yoga Teacher with a background in psychology.
Find out more: www.flowstatebm.com
Meet2Breathe - Australia
Anne Hubbard (she/her) & Prue Lamont (she/her) – Australia
Midday Workshop: 1 hour workshop as Meet2Breathe Australia! Meet2Breathe is a wonderful IBF initiative, where people all over the world have access to free online breathwork sessions.
Total length 1 hour
Anne Hubbard lives in Melbourne with her family. She has facilitated group programs for parents and families since 2011 integrating the most up-to-date emotional intelligence training into the program honed during over 16 years as an EQ coach! Anne specialises in Breathwork and meditation with individuals and groups, holding the space for clients to connect more deeply with themselves. She is a group facilitator member of the ABA since 2018 and IBF since 2020. She has trained with Alicia Velazquez Berumen with Meet2Breathe and facilitates Meet2Breathe Australia and Conscious Breathing in the Classroom for teachers and parents.
https://www.annehubbard.com.au/breathwork-breathe-and-connect/
Prue Lamont lives in Melbourne, Victoria and grew up in the country. She is a certified breathworker who trained extensively and practiced Rebirthing in the 1980’s. She resumed her training and practice in the 2010’s. Her teachers include Sondra Ray, Leonard Orr, Cynthia Chenier, Robert Hinde and Alicia Velázquez Berumen. She is a Meet2Breathe Co-facilitator, a co-organiser for Sondra Ray and Markus Ray in Australia and an IBF, ABA and IICT member. Prue has co-led Word Breathing Day sessions for Australia with Anne Hubbard and Maxine Santich. Prue is also a practising Buddhist and helps run a Buddhist Centre.
Morning Somatics - Ireland
Claire Blake (she/her) – Ireland
Early Morning Workshop: Breath and Morning Somatics
Claire is offering morning Somatics for 3 mornings during the GIC. Come and join Claire in this early morning body centred and grounding awakening process.
More details to come…
Morning Spinal Flow - Australia
Joshua Wrest – Australia
Morning workshop: Through the use of gentle spinal movements, partner activities and play, together we will awaken and become more sensitive to the movement and flow of energy along the spine. This workshop will support your capacity to enhance spinal articulation and movement. This workshop will both relax and energise, create more flow in the body and support person-to-person connections.
This workshop is inspired by the teachings of Simon Thakur (Ancestral Movement).
Total length 45-minutes to 1 hour.
Yin Yoga with Vicky Bekfi - Australia
Yin Yoga
Join Vicky Bekfi for an early morning practice of Yin Yoga – a beautiful way to start the day!
Vicky is a Somatic Yoga Teacher with a background in psychology.
Find out more! www.flowstatebm.com
International Breathwork Foundation
This event is proudly delivered by the IBF: Uniting and inspiring people through conscious breathing. Visit IBF Website.