Ayo Handy-Kendi, renown as ”The Breath Sekou” is a master teacher of “the breath” since 1970 and offers breath training as the founder/CEO, PositivEnergyWorks. She has “breathed” with millions on radio, t.v, in print, on stage, over the Internet and in private practice.with approximately 500+ clients and presentations.
She is the Founder of Optimum Life Breathology™, a system of breath training which includes her signature training modalities, Transcendence Breathwork™ and Relearn How to Breathe ™, along with theory, breathing mechanics and 12 breath applications oriented towards POC's (people of color). She has certified over 250 Breathologist in 7 U.S.A. States and exposed in 9 countries. She has also developed several requested breath presentations, such as "Power of the Breath"; “Breath Circles to Heal the Divides™”, “It’s a PlayShop - Reconnect, Play, Laugh, Breathe”™, and “Birthing Breath”™.
She is a Certified Breathologist, Laughter Yoga Teacher/Leader, Transformational Breath Facilitator, Reiki Master 3, QiCong 2, Sound Healer/Composer, Speaker/Storyteller, Cultural/Spiritual Rituals Facilitator, Diversity Trainer, Organizer/Life Coach.. She is an Author, Speaker, Storyteller whose focus on culture and wholistic health is embodied in her, “Power of the Breath” and “Keepers of the Culture” series of books, plays, dvd's and cd's .Her "Applied Breathology" Book, and DVD, are the required reading for her O.L.B training. She is also author of a children's book, "Why the Breath Has So Much Power".
She performed “tune-up” relaxation music with her late husband, John Davies 3, drummer/Composer featured as “Earth Love Tune Up Crew “ (ELTUC) and they created 5 Relaxation CD's heard now on ITunes, Spotify and Amazon..
She is a member of The International Breathwork Foundation (IBF) , has served on the World Breathing Day Committee (Apr 11) and co-stewards, International Breath Day (Nov. 22).
She has used breath techniques to personally overcome many adversities such as homelessness, domestic violence, the death of her son, addictions, childhood emotional and sexual abuse and lots of stress,.
She is also the founder/CEO of African American Holiday Association (AAHA) which stewards the commemorative holiday, Black Love Day- Feb. 13, since 1993. She further developed a "Ritual of Reconciliation" which offers a restorative justice practice, that includes ritual, breathing, apology and atonement to increase peace and stop violence thru reconciliation..
Using her broad experiences, as a degreed Counselor, Community Organizer, Producer and a Healer, she empowers others with her charged up attitude of “PositivEnergy” and her 5 tenets of “Black Love” to encourage self-care, stress/trauma management and healing racism. Since 1996, she has been spear-heading, a “Breath Movement”, which has been expanding yearly, as she affirms,“PositivEnergyWorks when you Breathe Better, Live Better”.
- Ayo Handy-Kendi has developed TRANSCENDENCE BREATHWORK as her personal self-development program, shared in the system she developed, Optimum Life Breathology (O.L.B.). She uses a conscious-connected breath pattern with sound, drumming, movement, catharting releases of vocal toning that quickly accesses the deep subconscious mind. Includes life coaching/counseling.. TB reduces stress, limiting beliefs, stuck energy, and trauma woundedness.. . Opens reserves of abundant joy, energy, stress relief, grief/trauma release, forgiveness, fear reduction, mental peace, clarity and greater meaning/clarity in life.
- RELEARN HOW TO BREATHE™ with new focus on COVID 19 breathe techniques which teaches the fundamentals of efficient deep breathing from the diaphragm for a life-changing tool. She has developed a method of breath checking to access one-s own breath pattern then a technique of re-training the diaphragm to regain the sub-conscious memory of breathing from this area as a baby to toddler age. Her method of “relearning how to breathe” has been introduced to millions, supporting them to change their breath you change their life with increased oxygen, immune building, emotional stability, and de-stressing and more.
- LAUGHTER YOGA is a joy-filled practice that gives an aerobic exercise of oxygen enriched-immune building wellness and prevention, while also helping us to breathe better to live better. Laughter Yoga is excellent for children and their parents, and for the solo person, desiring to feel some socialization. Provides fun, movement, play, sound, laughter, that enhances the breath for great healing benefits along with team building. Laughter shifts emotional vibrations easily for transformation, while relaxing the mind, body, spirit for stress/emotional release, greater creativity, joy. Relaxed bodies create relaxed minds for more productivity. Help people find common ground for bonding community, socialization and connectedness for team-building, stress management and health.. Laughter Yoga sessions can be in small or large groups, on-line and in individualized sessions. Once facilitated with the laughter yoga leader, can be used as a “self-care” solution for optimum breathing and joyful life.
Optimum Life Breathology (OLB) is the practitioner certification course/ program that Ayo HandyKendi treaches. BREATHOLOGY is the art and science of breath awareness, breath mechanics and the application of breathing techniques that enhance the Spirit, Mind and Body.. In 2010, she trademarked Optimum Life Breathology™ as a 9 hour certification training course, with the training growing to a 16 hour course, in April, 2016. Her training/certification enablers practitioners to learn this modality and become a “Breathologists™” which is a specialist, coach, teacher, facilitator or practitioner of the modality of Breathology. The term(s) “Breathology, “Breathologists and Optimum Life Breathology, were concepts and systems, coined and developed by Ayo Handy-Kendi, the Breath Sekou, in 2004. A "sekou" is a master teacher in the Guinea language. Since 2016, she has certified over 250+ O.LB practitioners.
Her signature training, "Relearne How to Breathe"”™ developed by her in 2002 is included as Level 1 of this certification program. It has been taught to millions over radio, t.v., in print, on stage, in groups and in private practice. She also is the developer of “Transcendence Breathwork”™ which is a transformative breathwork practice that she developed in 2004, which uses conscious connected breathing, drumming, sound healing, cartharting movements, healing touch, aroma therapy, african-centered concepts and therapeutic coaching. TB is taught in the OLB, course, along with 12 other fundamental breath techniques, like Laughter Yoga, Destress Breath, Box Breath, Kria, and more - all breath techniques for daily living, transformation, healing and stress management/relaxation. .
Breath Circles for Racial/Diversity/Gender Healing is a wholistic training program that uses a 7 step group process, similar to the successful, Narcotics Anonymous program, that offers leadership training on how to facilitate and mitigate issues created by polarization around the issues of racial, diversity and gender healing.
These “divisions” show up as institutionalized racism, marginalization, inter and intra-racial prejudices, gender bias, sexism, myscogony, classism, privilege, intolerance, cultural mis-identification, and oppression.
While many programs encourage the dialogue method to help heal racism”, the Circle offers breathwork to shift “unconscious biases and prejudices”; along with breathology/breathing techniques to release race-based trauma and unconscious biases. Within the interactive circles, people use transformative practices, such as silencing, cartharting movement, toning, meditative writing, forgiveness, spiritual, cultural rituals and role playing to heal consciousness and offer behavior modification.
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