INTERNATIONAL BREATHWORK FOUNDATION
ZOOM EVENT PRESENTERS – WORLD BREATHING DAY 2025
EUROPEAN TIME ZONES SCHEDULE [CET Times]
AMERICAS TIME ZONES SCHEDULE [EST Times]
SPANISH ZOOM EVENT 12 APRIL SCHEDULE [CET Times]
ROBIN LAWLEY 12.00 p.m.
Opening – Reconnect & Breathe Together
We live in a world which frequently seems disconnected. Our contemporary way of life often leaves us disconnected from other people, nature and the environment and above all from our true nature as creative beings embodying love and light. And yet the simple act of consciously breathing together is a sure way of not only reconnecting but also finding inspiration, a sense of purpose and community.
Breathworker, Singer Songwriter, Musician, Author with over 40 years’ experience in the field, Robin has been a member of IBF since 1995, past co-president and presently leads the IBF Breathing Arts group.
FIONA GALLOWAY 12.30 p.m.
Breathe Into Balance: A Journey to Emotional Resilience
In this 30-minute breath meditation practice, we will explore the transformative power of the breath to regulate emotions and navigate the rich landscape of your inner world. Through conscious, connected breathing, you will learn to soften into all emotions that arise, befriending and welcoming these as integral parts of yourself. With each inhale and exhale, you will anchor into the present moment, discovering gentle ways to self-soothe and support yourself during heightened emotional states. Together, we will listen, share, and breathe, cultivating a sense of calm and resilience. By the end of this practice, you’ll feel more grounded, connected, and empowered to navigate life’s challenges, one breath at a time.
Fiona Galloway, Australian Breathwork Facilitator is a deeply passionate and highly experienced Breathwork Facilitator from Australia, with over 15 years of experience. Fiona’s fascination with breath began with her yoga practice and the ancient art of pranayama. Her curiosity led her to pursue yoga teacher training, where she discovered the profound connection between breath and emotional regulation. This deep exploration inspired her passion for guiding others toward greater well-being through the power of the breath
With a holistic approach, Fiona blends movement, sound, and conscious connected breathing to cultivate a nurturing and empowering environment. Through her breathwork experiences, workshops, breath meditation and one on one sessions she helps participants reconnect with their authentic essence, fostering self-love, self-compassion, and unity. Fiona teaches the breath as a powerful anchoring tool for emotional regulation, nervous system support, exploring one’s own inner landscape to create a deeper connection with oneself and others.
VERONIQUE BATTER 1.00 p.m.
Chakra Breathing to connect with your inner light
I will guide you in a soft, conscious breathing practice to deepen your connection with your spiritual being within your body. As we breathe through the chakras, we will enhance our vibration, ground more fully in our incarnation, and strengthen our connection to the earth. This practice will also help balance and expand our energetic field, reinforcing our vitality and presence.
Véronique Batter is a Belgian mathematician turned breathworker, combining science and spirituality in her work. She has been involved with IBF since 1998, serving as president from 2012 to 2016. Trained in breathwork with Bob Mandel and Sondra Ray, she guides people through life transitions using conscious breathing, energetic healing, and spiritual awakening. She lives between Spain and Belgium, offering sessions internationally.
HEINZ GERD LANGE 1.30 p.m.
Deepening The Connection
Guided meditation with a Ho’oponopono forgiveness process
Integrative breath therapist for over 30 years. Director and trainer for “InBreath” – Institute for Breath Therapy and Transformational Development. International seminars and breathwork trainings in 6 European countries. Transformational facilitator, specialized in thought restructuring, bioenergetic integrity and conscious life change. National IBF Coordinator Germany, Chairman Breath Association Germany
WILFRIED EHRMANN 2.00 p.m
Breathing into Silence
Exploring the way from inner noise to inner peace.
Wilfried Ehrmann, psychotherapist, breathwork trainer, IBF member since 1995, book and blog author 8 books (3 books on breathwork).
GITEN TONKOV 2.30p.m.
Connect to your Felt Sense with Biodynamic Breathwork
Celebrate World Breathing Day with Biodynamic Breathwork creator Giten Tonkov as he shares the transformative 6-Element Approach to trauma healing through Biodynamic Breathwork. This powerful method integrates breath, movement, touch, sound, conscious emotional expression, and meditation to release deep-seated tension, dissolve trauma patterns, and restore balance to the body and mind. Discover how these elements work together to unlock emotional resilience, enhance self-awareness, and promote profound healing on every level.
Giten Tonkov
Director, BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release Institute.
EMILY RAY HENDERSON 3.00 p.m.
Mandala Connection Breathwork
This is an opportunity to breathe the conscious connected breath with other people in our session. The Mandala Breath Circle invites us to be fully seen, embracing both our light and shadows. This transformative practice fosters presence, self-awareness, and connection to our shifting emotions as we connect with another.
Emily Ray Henderson specializes in breathwork, guiding individuals through transformative journeys of healing and self-discovery. As a dedicated facilitator, she incorporates breathwork into individual coaching and group retreats, fostering deep emotional and spiritual breakthroughs. Emily is a lead guide in Breathwork Facilitator Trainings with Alchemy of Breath, sharing her expertise to empower others to harness the transformative power of breath.
TOBIAS LÜBKE 3.30 p.m.
Toltec Recapitulation: Breathing for Healing and Connection”
The Toltec Recapitulation is a powerful practice that combines breathwork with the conscious intention to release emotional wounds, energetic entanglements, and the inner dialogue that ties us to the past. By breathing through all kinds of situations from the past (whether from the same average working day, or from back then in the childhood) especially unresolved emotions and experiences, we clean our energy, create inner silence, find peace, and reconnect with ourselves and the spirit. In this session, we will explore the transformative potential of this ancient technique, enhanced by a group dynamic, and conclude with a guided meditation to harmonize with all living beings on Earth.
Tobias is a certified breathwork therapist, mindfulness coach, and holistic practitioner with 23 years of experience exploring the connection between ancient wisdom and modern healing practices. As a trainer and speaker, he integrates Toltec principles with trauma-sensitive breathwork, creating practical tools for personal transformation and resilience. Tobias works globally, offering individual sessions, corporate workshops, and group events in German, Spanish, and English.
LAYLA EDWARD 4.00 p.m.
Live as you Breathe
By becoming conscious of our breath, we naturally cultivate awareness of our daily lives. This awareness empowers us to recognize and move beyond habits formed in our youth, childhood, or even at birth, allowing us to embrace intentional and conscious living.
Through her work Layla supports improving and expanding the human potential, creating conditions for her students and clients to widen their awareness through Conscious and Connected Breathing plus the daily practice of the 4 GRIT B’s, reaching internal peace, self-satisfaction and business success
International trainer of Breathwork and Mentoring Co-founder & CFO , GRIT Academy
VINCENT OLOO 4.30 p.m.
‘UBUNTU’ – The Importance of being my brother’s keeper, especially as a breathwork practitioner.
Vincent Oloo is a certified breathwork practitioner with over 20 years of experience in conscious breathing techniques. His calm and healing presence, combined with his deeply transformative practice, has helped countless individuals achieve profound personal growth. Vincent specializes in Transformational Breath® as a senior trainer, and his sessions are known for their intensity and ability to foster deep, lasting change. Driven by a belief in the power of breath to transform lives, Vincent is committed to guiding others on their journey to wellness, one conscious breath at a time. He offers sessions both online and in-person, reaching a global audience.
JAMES BEARD 5.00 p.m.
Breathwork the Umbrella word for Conscious Breathing
James will be introducing a wide variety of Conscious Breathing practices, from Pranayama to Breathwork. He will share information, Theory and application. He loves to share the healing revealing power of Breathwork and the truth of what we are. Take a moment, a Breath, come hear and experience what he is offering.
James is compelled and inspirationally driven to bring Breathwork into our collective, cultural, consciousness. Why? Because of the vast and phenomenal benefits Breathwork has to offer humanity and the world. It cuts through the BS and cherished illusions with passion, purpose and unconditional love. This is Breathwork at its core.
JEAN SANGALE 5.30 p.m.
Breathe into Expansion – Reconnect to your Lungs
The lungs as the gateway to life, expansion and transformation. We will focus on the lungs’ role in breath, energy, and emotional resilience. Inspired by Chinese medicine, neuroscience, and somatic breath practices, this session will help you:
✔ Expand your capacity – Strengthen and open the lungs for deeper, more nourishing breaths.
✔ Clear Emotional Blocks – Release grief, stagnation, and self-imposed limits through breath.
✔ Balance the Nervous System – Discover whether your lungs are overactive (tight, anxious, shallow breathing) or underactive (fatigue, sluggishness, lack of vitality) and find balance.
✔ Connect to the Element of Metal – Harness the sharpness, clarity, and precision of metal to create structure and freedom in your body and mind.
✔ Join a Global Breath Blessing – End with a coherent, collective breath sent into the atmosphere to uplift and unify.
ROBIN LAWLEY with RABIE HAYEK 6.00 p.m.
Closing and group breathing together and passing the torch over to the Americas
NORTH AMERICA SCHEDULE
RABIE HAYEK 12.00p.m.
Opening – Reconnect & Breathe Together
JIM MORNINGSTAR 12.30 p.m.
Connecting Through the Breath of the Sacred Heart
Jim Morningstar, PhD, is the Director of Transformations Incorporated and has held licensure as a clinical psychologist since 1973. He is a clinical supervisor, seminar leader and has pioneered in the development of Therapeutic Breathwork™. He founded the School of Integrative Psychology in 1980 and the Transformations Breathworker Training Program in 1990. He has authored five books in the field of Integrative Psychology. He is co-director of the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance. Jim teaches The Seven Levels of the Heart’s Intelligence for the Shift Network on April 17- May 29, 2025.We connect to our Source and each other through our Sacred Heart which we will locate in our body and use our breath to access in this time together. This will secure lines of loving support which we can access for mutual benefit throughout the year. You are invited to join us in this network of world compassion.
KATERYNA KOTENKO 1.00 p.m.
Breathing Together and Reclaiming of the Lost
We share the experience of the project “Trauma-informed Support” as a part of the IBF Professionalism Workgroup activity. This project brings together professional breathworkers from different countries to discuss the challenges associated with the use of breathwork for highly traumatized people. The war in Ukraine posed new painful questions for all of us, to which there were not ready answers. Together, we created a space for exchanging experiences, summarizing existing knowledge and searching for new solutions and approaches. This helps breathwork practitioners reclaim and develop professional confidence in wartime conditions. You will also be able to experience a specific method of how conscious connected breath can help us in the process of reclaiming the lost, and how this process can be deeply life-asserting.
Kateryna Kotenko, MSc, Ukrainian psychologist, trauma therapist and breathworker. I work to support people affected by war, combining psychotherapeutic methods and breathing practices. From 2023 as a member of the IBF Professionalism Workgroup I work on development of the “Trauma-informed Support” project.
CIARA LONGMAN 1.30 p.m.
Reconnection With Source
Ciara will be talking about how we reconnect with source through conscious connected breathing. She’ll take us through a process to find out why we chose to incarnate. She’ll also take us on a journey to source.
I trained and travelled with the founder of Rebirthing Breathwork Leonard Orr and published the Rebirthing Breathwork Journey Workbook. I am the founder of BreathTalks and teach Rebirthing Breathwork which is the original form of conscious connected breathing. Rebirthing Breathwork helps us: release our breathing mechanism; release energy blocks; work through physical and emotional resistance; how our birth affects our life; and how we can purify ourselves working with the elements: earth, air, water and fire. When we let go of resistance and reconnect with source amazing changes happen in our lives!
JOANN LOWELL & LUC MAERTENS 2.00 p.m.
Conscious Breathing in the Classroom
The ‘Conscious Breathing in the Classroom” program spread to 54 countries around the world in it’s first year! The program manual and training becomes a rich ‘jumping off’ point for breathwork practitioners, parents, teachers and mentors to help spread conscious breathing in a variety of settings.
Our work group received a mandate from the IBF membership in India at the GIC 2013 to delve into how to bring conscious breathing to children. Our mandate was clarified and deepened in 2015 when the UN-ECOSOC bid for IBF asked for concrete ways for us to make this happen. Over these years, with help from numerous others, we have researched and experimented with many programs which effectively bring mindfulness into children’s lives and into the school classroom. We discovered the most effective delivery is daily through the school teachers to their students.
KIRA ZHIGALINA 2.30 p.m.
Reconnecting by Breathing Light
Kira Zhigalina is an award-winning artist turned entrepreneur, and a certified breathwork instructor. She is the founder of Sym, a biofeedback device that visualises breathing in light real time, encouraging deep diaphragmatic breathing practice which naturally relieves stress and anxiety.
Kira’s artistic intention lies in creating expanding and emotionally connecting experiences for the audiences which are also aesthetically pleasing, through participation and interactivity. Inspired by a personal experience with breathwork as a teen, this intention manifested in her project Symbiosis, an interactive art installation that visualises breathing in light, using custom developed sensors and software. Since 2015 it has travelled to many light and music festivals and exhibitions and European Burning man events. Seeing the positive calming effect of the experience on the audience and it’s potential to have a wider impact, a compact version of the experience was developed as a unique wellbeing product offering – Sym (www.deepsym.com)
DAVID BEAUDRY 3.00 p.m.
Reconnection to our Body as a Vehicle of Enlightenment
David Beaudry is a trainer and coach for integrating movement mastery and spiritual evolution. With a degree in psychology, a master’s in Medical Qigong, and 17 years as an NSCA – Certified Personal Trainer he teaches coaches, therapists and healers how to harness the power of their body and soul for healing trauma and awakening their unique gifts (and help create soul-level transformation in those they serve).
He is the Founder of the Noble Movement Academy, offering 200hr. certifications in the Art and Science of Chinese Energetic Medicine. One of his biggest passions is empowering leaders and youth with the skills to lead a life of meaning, passion and purpose. He has led in-person transformative experiences for thousands of people and reached more than 250,000 students around the world.
BRENDA MACINTYRE 3.30 p.m.
Breath of Life
Breath of Life: Becoming Open. How to lead with an open mind and heart. I will sing my Indigenous Welcome Song “Breath of Life” with the teachings of the song. The song is about the dysregulated breathing that can happen when we carry grief or trauma, and how to reconnect with ourselves and remind our bodies to breathe, so that we can connect with others.
Brenda MacIntyre, known by her Indigenous name Medicine Song Woman, is a COVID-conscious, neurodivergent spiritual mentor, speaker and JUNO-winning singer. She has Cree ancestry with Red River roots through her father and settler ancestry through both parents. She began her identity reconnection journey after her adoptive parents died in her teens. After losing her son to gun violence, Brenda recently moved to McKee Treaty 2 lands in so-called London Ontario Canada. Through her trauma-informed mindfulness and leadership practices, goosebump-giving voice and music, Brenda helps students, staff and women to manage grief and trauma and find their voice.
AYO HANDY-KENDI 4.00 p.m.
Reconnect & Breathe Together at the National Mall in Washington DC
Ayo Handy-Kendi is a Certified Breathologist and Laughter Yoga Leader & Teacher, reknown internationally as the Breath Sekou. She has an O.G presence with 50+ years of Breathology & Breathwork experience in the fastest growing trend in the wellness industry. She is the Author of “Applied Breathology”, 2nd Edition Coming in May, 2025, , “Power of the Breath “, a children’s book, “why the Breath Has so Much Power”; co-producer of several breath training DVD’s and 5 CD’s of breath relaxation music, as well as certified over 350 Breathologists.
She has been featured in the N.Y. Times in 2024; breathed with Steve Harvey and over a million in the media, on state, and in private practice, with her OLB signature processes, “Relearn how to Breathe tm. and Transcendence Breathwork tm”
She is Host/Producer; premiere podcast relaunch: “PositivEnergyWorks for Sage-ing Baby Boomers”
ALICIA VELASQUEZ BERUMAN 4.30 p.m.
Breathing Together – Energy Healing
I help Practitioners to replenish their energy, nurturing their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
“I support you to refill your cup, so that you can be more present with your clients to share your unique gifts and medicine.”
Brennan Healing Science Practitioner, Advanced Studies Certified Transformational Breath Facilitator, TT
Family Constellations Facilitator Channeled Meditations
B.A. Human Communication M.A. Psychopedagogy
KATHLEEN BOOKER 5 p.m.
The Power of Breath in your Community
Kathleen Booker is an effervescent native New Yorker. Her energy is infectious. Kathleen is passionate about Conscious Connected Breathwork therapy and knows first-hand the energy, healing, peace, and joy it creates in one’s life. As a certified and insured Breathwork Coach, she has worked with many masters in the field of Conscious Connected Breathwork therapy. For over 10+ years, Kathleen has used her Breath coaching and intuitive skills to support individuals in clearly identifying areas in need of growth, healing and focused goal creation. Kathleen’s instinctive sense of what will motivate and empower her clients is the impetus for their transformation.
NANDHIJI 5.30 p.m.
Pillar of Light Breath with Mantra
Nandhiji is a mystic, yogi, visionary, humanitarian, artist, ecstatic chant musician, author, and teacher. He represents the path of the Liberated, sharing the rare wisdom and teachings of the seldom-revealed source of yogic wisdom of the Siddha Sages, the liberated mystics of South India. After years of seeking “wholeness” through connection with the inner world, Nandhiji woke up to understand his highest purpose: to uplift humanity in consciousness.
RABIE HAYEK 6.00 p.m.
Closing World Breathing Day – Taking It Out to the World
de 16.30 a 16.55h EVA MOLINA
Presentacion del evento, de IBF y de GIC Australia 2025 – emitido desde Valencia, España
COO, RR.HH and Coach in Spanish Boosting SL- Terapeuta Gestalt, Sexóloga, Pedagoga, Breathworker y Maestría en Tantra
De 17h a 17.25h ANA BERENGUER
“Reconectar para reparar” emitido desde Bali.
Psicologa, facilitadora de Breathwork Mastery (Alakh Analda), Temblor terapéutico e Innerdance. Miembro de IBF desde 2010. Vivo entre España (primavera-verano) y Bali (invierno). Organizo viajes conscientes a Bali. Ofrezco sesiones individuales y grupales, tanto físicamente como on line.
De 17.30h a 17.55h GUILLEM DIAZ FALO
“Hipno-respiracion consciente ” emitido desde Madrid, España
Más de 2.000 personas transformadas son un aval que sitúan la hipno-respiración consciente como herramienta rápida y efectiva de cambio de las personas que pasan por los procesos de trans-form-acción del Instituto de Respiración Consciente (IRC). En esta session, Guillem Diaz, instructor-facilitador de HRCC en el IRC, compartirá su experiencia con 500 de esas 2.000 personas transformadas.
Guillem Diaz Falo es instructor-facilitador de hipno-respiración consciente en el Instituto de Respiración Consciente (IRC), donde ha sido Director Académico, y lector certificado de Diseño Humano, disciplinas con las que acompaña a personas en su proceso de transformación personal y profesional. Como docente universitario, imparte clases de Iniciativa Empresarial y Gestión de la Empresa Periodística en la UVic. Con una trayectoria que combina neuroeducación, coaching por valores y más de 20 años de experiencia en el mundo empresarial, Guillem ayuda a las personas a desbloquear resistencias y a descubrir su verdadero potencial a través de sus habilidades y valores innatos.
De 18h a 18.25 LOTTIE HEFFER
Conciencia relacional: conectar dentro – conectar fuera.
Estoy aquí porque me interesa la conexión: mantenernos en compasión, un lugar donde se nos recuerda que debemos alejarnos del individualismo y acercarnos a nuestra interrelación. Como afirma el psicoterapeuta relacional Terrance Real: No estamos fuera ni por encima de la naturaleza, sino que vivimos en ella como partes. El único cambio real sobre el que tenemos control es el cambio de nosotros mismos». Cuando empezamos a practicar la presencia y la escucha profunda, para explorar y aportar cambio y armonía a nuestro paisaje interior, esto se refleja de forma natural en nuestras relaciones y en el entorno que nos rodea.
Lottie Heffer facilita a clientes y forma a profesionales en Terapia Integral de la Respiración (Master IBT). Además, está formada en IFS, TAE Trauma and embodiment y Arteterapia. Lottie dirige talleres y grupos educativos sobre la respiración para profesionales de la salud y el público en general. Se centra en la Salutogénesis, la conexión y la vuelta a la sensación de vitalidad.
De 18.30h VICENTE DOMINGUEZ
“Respiración y Amor” emitido desde Bilbao, España
La creación de nuevos conceptos del Amor con la ayuda de la Respiración. Renovar lo conocido para crear un Amor más verdadero junto a una Respiración más verdadera.
Trabajo con la Respiración Rebirthing – Renacimiento
Escritor – Coach. Masaje Shiatsu
Alimentación Natural
De 19h a 19.25 CARLOS VELAZCO
“La Respiración verdadera” emitido desde Madrid, España
Si la biomecánica respiratoria funciona libre, natural y normalizada, será la madre de las medicinas.
Psicólogo y naturópata.
Autor del libro Las enseñanzas del caballero de la armadura oxidada (15ª edición).
Creador y formador de la Psicoterapia Respiratoria.
Más de tres décadas investigando la biodinámica respiratoria y ofreciendo workshops para grupos en siete países, además de psicoterapia individual.
De 19.30h a 19.55 JUDIT ROSELL HIDALGO
“Acompañamiento Sensible e Intuitivo” emitido desde Madrid
Soy Judit, educadora social especializada en derechos humanos y respiración consciente. Aprendí sobre Breathwork en México, Colombia y España. Mi trabajo combina varios enfoques y disciplinas y la sensibilidad e intuición de la energía femenina. social especializada en derechos humanos y respiración consciente.
De 20h a 20.25h VERONIQUE BATTER
” Respiración Consciente y Chakras ” emitido desde Belgica
Te guiaré en una respiración consciente por los chakras para elevar tu vibración, anclarte mejor en tu cuerpo y reforzar tu conexión con la tierra y tu energía vital.
Facilitadora de respiración consciente, combina ciencia y espiritualidad para acompañar el alma en las transiciones de vida. Miembro de IBF desde 1998 y presidenta entre 2012 y 2016. Ofrece sesiones y formacion como Barquera y coach espiritual en España, Bélgica y en linea.
De 20.30 a 20.55h EVA MOLINA
“Ahora y Aqui respira” emitido desde Valencia, España
20.55 a 21h CIERRE Eva Molina
Licenciada por la Universidad de Valencia en Pedagogía. Terapeuta Gestalt. Sexóloga. Investigadora en Educación y Recursos Humanos,
Entrenadora en Respiración Consciente y Conectada: Rebirthing, Vivation y Tantra.
Voluntaria en el área de Emprendimiento en Fundación Mujeres
Voluntaria en el área de apoyo lingüístico de español en Cruz Roja de Pobla Vallbona
Voluntaria en el área de apoyo lingüístico de valenciano en el Ayuntamiento de la Eliana
COO, RRHH y Coach en Organic Boosting S.L.
