Workshops
Workshops GIC 2024
Since IBF and the GIC are horizontal, voluntarily ruled and co-creative communities all participants can offer and join workshops given by workshop leaders. The workshops will be mostly breathwork related, but one can also offer and take part in for example shamanic healing workshops or go tango dancing.
Workshops will be given from Sunday 28th of July until Friday August 2nd.
Workshop leaders are encouraged to register their workshops before the GIC starts, so we can publish the workshops and its presenters closer to the dates of GIC 2024.
There is always space to offer a spontaneous workshop, there is a great possibility that you will meet a likeminded breathworker from the other side of the world and want to offer something together.
The workshops will all be presented during the morning gatherings which is always a very lively event.
Overview all workshops:
From First Breath to the Last:
Navigating the Journey of Life and Death
Veronique Batter and Danielle De Wilde
SUNDAY 28 JULY
(And maybe other days as well)
It’s a good day to live
It’s a good day to die
1. Embracing Life’s Breath
“And when I rise, let me rise
Like a bird
Joyfully”
Acknowledging the miracle of our first breath—the spark that ignites our earthly journey , we connect with the essence of being alive.
Participants will explore their personal narratives, tracing the threads of their existence back to that initial inhalation.
2. Talking About Death
“And when I fall
Let me fall
Like a leaf
Gracefully
Without regrets”
Breaking the taboo around death is essential : we will share about mortality, both with ourselves and our loved ones.
How to be with….how to talk about… what do I need…?
lets create an intimate space to explore together our feelings, our beliefs and how we can bring life and light to death, to the transition from body to soul.
We’ll explore the role of soul midwives, their practices, and the art of compassionate presence
exploring the liminal spaces.
Daniëlle and Véronique are friends since last century. They served IBF for many years snd collaborate in specific projects in Belgium
They are seasoned breathworkers and use the principles of Soul midwifery in their work with individuals and groups.
Danielle De Wilde, unites holistic coaching, authentic movement, and shamanic medicine. Her passion lies in witnessing each person’s transformation into their authentic self.
She wrote a book : Inspirons! A manual to go through transitions. She runs BAO Elan Vital Institute in Brussels.
www.elanvital.be
Véronique Batter, once rooted in the scientific world, discovered her calling as a soul midwife. Her mission? To accompany souls as they transition beyond the physical realm. She is writing a book “To Discover the Soul Crossing Passage”
3 hour Experiential Workshop
The Final Letting Go – Exploring the Surrender Process
Lauren Chelec Cafritz
SUNDAY 28 JULY
Come experience 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.
It 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.
Lauren Chelec Cafritz 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.
3-hour Experiential Workshop
Kundalini Dreamtime Dance
Gert Daniels
SUNDAY 28 JULY
In this dreamtime dance you will connect with your deepest dreams, and the next steps to bring them more into existence. We will connect deeply to the kundalini energy of mother earth (which is far more deep then the kundalini you sometimes experience in partnerconnections). So we dive into this big divine source of energy, joy and love. A workshop to recharge and rejoice! The first part will be a dreamtime soundhealing on yogamats (on the floor), the second part tibetan sword yoga and the last part the initiation into the whirling dance of joy & love, to spread your wings, to give colours to your dreams!
Gert Daniels has more than 14 years of experience in holding space for deep healing in his groups in Belgium and abroad. He is a trained and renowed trancedance facilitator. Has a degree in Tog Chöd as a sword yoga teacher (tibetan wisdom sword), a degree in ayurvedic & therapeutic hatha yoga, is an expert in the art of healing through music & dance and has a master degree in holding space ;-)… The past 4 years he also is giving sacred Sufi whirling dance workshops, the dance of love. In the words of Rumi the famous poet: “We are born to fly, so why struggle and crawl through life?”
Breath and Beyond – the Trancebreath™ experience.
Very active Breathwork Session
Heinz Gerd and Lera Lange
SUNDAY 28 JULY
Heinz Gerd and Lera Lange – Breathwork Trainers for over 30/20 years. Longtime GIC’ers…
Trancebreath experience – Powerful music lead, very active Breathwork Session. Elements of tribal dance intensive breathing and powerful music combined to elevate you beyond everyday consciousness. Shake out your cobwebs and let go! Intense and healing!
Find Your Voice 2.0
Breathe, Smile, and fully express your personal power
Robin Lawley
SUNDAY 28 JULY/ MONDAY 29 JULY / THURSDAY 1 AUGUST
One of the first impressions we give out to the world is through our voice and yet quite often it is something we take for granted. A good voice can help you communicate more effectively, convey your message with confidence, and build stronger relationships with others. It can also enhance your career prospects, improve your presentation skills, and make you a more persuasive speaker or performer. Additionally, it can boost your self-esteem, lower stress levels, and promote better breathing and overall health.
The workshop will include a multi-faceted approach including movement, vocal exercises, meditation, chanting and a full guided breathing session.
Robin Lawley is a professional breathworker, teacher, singer, musician and songwriter. He has been working with conscious breathing techniques for more than 30 years. After training with Leonard Orr he helped introduce breathwork to Poland and Italy in the 1980s.He is a qualified Shiatsu practitioner, a certified Advanced Energy healer and Technologies for Creating instructor. He is a professional member of the International Breathwork Foundation and leader of the Breathing Arts group. He studied singing with Pamela Dodds for four years in London and is a multi-instrumentalist playing piano and guitar.
Ritual Ropes, open hearth chakra playing with ropes
Gabriella Ishara Giunta
MONDAY 29 JULY / TUESDAY 30 JULY
I am a breathworker for more 20 years, and a shibari teacher for 10 years: my spiritual name is Ishara Gabri. I created a breathing tecnique mixing the shibari tecnique, that use ropes, and the connecting breathing to be Present, to Breathe deeply, and stay in a very deep relaxation and in a powefull healing space. In the RITUAL ROPES workshop we will create rituals and healing for heart chakra, self empowerment using the power of breathwork, tying our bodies with real ropes and joyfull dance.
3 hour Experiential Workshop
Recharge & Replenish so that you Elevate Your Practice
Alicia Velázquez Berumen
MONDAY 29 JULY / THURSDAY 1 AUGUST
I support Practitioners to replenish their energy and well-being, nurturing their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. By helping you refill your cup, I enable you to share your unique gifts and medicine with the world, fostering a ripple effect of positive transformation.
Brennan Healing Science Practitioner, Advance Studies 1, Certified Transformational Breath Facilitator, TT, Family Constellations Facilitator, Channeled Meditations, B.A. Human Communication & M.A. Psychopedagogy
3 hour Experiential Workshop.
The Embodied Breath
Joshua Wrest
TUESDAY 30 JULY
This three-hour experiential workshop, named The Embodied Breath, guides participants through a series of individual and partnered embodiment practices drawing inspiration from diverse movement modalities such as natural movement, bioenergetics, yoga, and Zenthai Shiatsu. The session seamlessly transitions into a 90-minute conscious connected breathwork experience, facilitated with dynamic music to deepen the journey. Attendees are encouraged to integrate breathwork with embodied movement throughout.
Joshua Wrest, based in Australia, is a breathwork facilitator, holistic psychotherapist, and counselor. His approach to breathwork is influenced by nature-connection practices, plant medicines, holistic psychotherapies, and diverse spiritual and meditation traditions.
3 hour Experiential Workshop
Embrace your Soul! Dance, move, sing, and breathe on some good old-school Soul music!
Lilian Korzilius
WEDNESDAY 31 JULY
Every year Mariët Bakker and I organise a funky soulbreathsession at the GIC! So put on your glitter and glamourous smile, dress to the soul-occasion or just come as you are ;-)…your soul is sparkling already… and get in touch with your deepest self. Soulmusic is healing and it has just that rythm that you need to go in to the flow of your breath. So join us! Let the good times roll!
The Six Feminine Doors, a journey in awareness for women.
Gabriela Ishara Giunta
WEDNESDAY 31 JULY
I am Gabriella Ishara Giunta, i practice breathwork from 20 years and works with the goddess and feminine Archetipe from long time. In the workshop, dedicated at womans, biological and not: we will explore that are the six door that any woman pass in her entire life: the gate are energetically connected in special moment of life with a goddess archetipe, with a breathing pattern, and many others connection, we will discover what specials emotions there are in each door and how is possible to pass again the gates in a balanced way and reciving the fullness of power that they have.
1 hour Introduction Workshop
Energetic Intelligence – energies auras chakras
Vicky Aartsen
FRIDAY 2 AUGUST
Beyond this physical world, there exists a whole realm of subtle energies, auras, and chakras. These energy fields influence you without you even being aware of them. Do you feel drained, or have a ‘full head’ after a workday or after meeting certain people? And you need hours or a day to recover? That is what these energies can do.
My name is Vicky Aartsen and I love to integrate extremes; for instance, breathing and the accompanying modern science and psychology with ancient spirituality involving subtle energies, auras and chakras. Making it very practical and applicable in daily life and work without losing the depth.
In this workshop you will learn the principles that govern these phenomena. With this knowledge you get a better understanding about how energies influence your thoughts, emotions, body and behavior as well as how they determine interactions and group processes.
To get to know these energies you will practice with them and with each other. Doing so, you will consciously experience the power and freedom working with these energies give you.
This combination of knowledge and experience will give you an embodied understanding of subtle energies. Walking through life and facilitating your work – for instance as a breath worker – will have a greater depth.
Body Release & Connect
Judith Gaffert
THREE DAYS DURING THE CONFERENCE
A warming and transformational workshop with bodywork, breathwork, and the healing frequencies of sound to deeply dive into your body, release what is stored, and connect to your power and pureness
My name is Judith Gaffert and with my company The Body Knows Everything I take people into their bodies, it’s wisdom and guide them into a pure, natural state and release of trauma. Into a state of freedom and connection. Because I believe that this will make the world definitely more beautiful ❤️.
We give 1-1 sessions, group workshops and masterclasses. We always work with the beautiful combination of bodywork, movement, (trauma release) breathwork and the (healing) frequencies of sound. This means that different layers of peoples bodies will be touched and brought into movement. With the workshop and my sessions people are able to lose stored trauma and stress and feel their power and vision at the same time. The workshop contains a strong heart and pelvic connection, two powerful parts of our body in relation to strength. The environment (and our energy) is warm, soft and powerful at the same time, so we see people dive deep. They feel safe, calm and notice a powerful holding space. Really important in my believe when you work with such a vulnerable process. I love the fullness and pureness of life and that’s sensible in the workshop. It’s my mission to bring our pureness back, to let go of all the pain, trauma and other shit in our bodies and feel our pureness, power and love again. Connected to who we are, connected to each other and to what we are capable of as human beings.
My background: As a former dancer and dance and sports teacher I know how to work with the body and body language. I aso worked as a coach and teacher in higher education for more than 15 years. I’m specialized in breathwork coaching (different types of breathwork: the more soft relaxing one and the deep, connected (sjamanic) one. And I’m specialized in the pelvic part of our body. And maybe the most important part: life experience. After two intense divorces I know how to handle the dark and that in my belief is the most valuable part :).
Global Inspiration Dating Service
Silke Modersohn and Geert de Vleminck
DATUM
The workshop is open to everyone interested in finding his or her perfect partner, becoming conscious about the unconscious blocks preventing this relationship so far, and of course letting them go. Includes a full breathwork session.
Geert and Silke are both Rebirthing Breathwork facilitators, Geert has his school in Belgium, Silke in Tenerife, Spain.
3 hour Experiential Workshop
Conscious Connected Breathwork workshop
Wilna Eenkhoorn
DATUM
Conscious Connected Breathwork workshop, explanation, meditation, intention, 1 hour breathing session, Name: Magical SOS workshop, Safety first, Open to receive, Surrender to the breath and what it has to show you!
Wilna Eenkhoorn and team of the Adem en Bewustzijn Academie.
22 years of experience in Conscious Connected Breathwork.
3 hour Experiential Workshop
Find Your Voice: a workshop for anyone who sings or has ever wanted to sing and thinks they can’t.
Rebecca Morton
DATUM
I am Rebecca Morton from Melbourne Australia. I have been singing and making theatre all my life, and been a breathwork practitioner, teacher and singing leader for more than a decade.
Pelvic Power
Gerdi Schulte and Maria Faust
DATUM
We take you on a journey by a full breathwork session through the whole body deep into the pelvic bottom. There you can meet your own safety, inner confidence and containment, which influences your parasympathetic nervous system in a positive way.
Pelvic power evokes para power.
Together Gerdi and Maria are leading the professional breathwork institute “Academy for Integrative Breathing Therapy breathing+” near Cologne. There they embark on a joint exploration journey together with the participants of their three-year training course, which opens a view into the inner world and reveals the deeply hidden traits of human beings.
Gerdi Schulte is an integrative breathwork and systemic family therapist, non-medical practitioner (psychotherapy).
Maria Faust is an integrative breathwork therapist, coach and non-medical practitioner (psychotherapy).
Practice Body and Mind with Breathing (Ba Duan Jing)
Jian Geyang
DATUM
President & Founder of IAK (Interessensgemeinschaft Asiatische Kultur e.V.). Over 40 years of experience as a practitioner. Specializing in physical and mental well-being advisory and practice. Also, the writer of the book “A Dialogue with Ancestors”, published in Switzerland and included in the philosophy catalogue of the Swiss National Library. This important bilingual work delves into the essence and wisdom of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. My workshop is “Ba Duan Jing (Eight Pieces of Brocade)” cultivated over years of practice and teaching, aim to promote physical vitality and emotional balance.
Beauty of your life
Anne Gansner
DATUM
In this workshop we will we acknowledging the beauty of your own life, going through some challenges that you experienced and what resources helped you to manage these challenges. We become aware of our biographical path and the resources that give us power. We will be working with a life line, with a rope we visualize our whole life, embody the resources that you have in your life. In the second part we go into a breathwork to deepen these experience.
I am Anne Gansner living in Switzerland, psychologist and working as a social worker. Breathwork is my passion and for me an incredible tool for personal development. I am mentoring in different trainings (Alchemy of Breath, Breathing Space) and my vision is to bring breathwork to the world so every individual can become more whole.
Connect with your Woomb using Breath & Ice
Claudine van Monsjou
DATUM
I am Claudine van Monsjou. I am a breathworker, mesoloog (holistic & western combined physisian) and Wim Hof Instructor. I work a lot with clients with chronic disease and trauma.
For women only
This workshop is designed for Women to discover the hidden power in their woomb. It is a guided mixed breathwork session of about 120 minutes. It is for a smaller group of maximum 16 persons.
Archetypes in Breathwork
Wilfried Ehrmann
DATUM
Psychotherapist and Breathwork Trainer exploring central archetypes following C.G.Jung and including their energies in a Breathwork session.
Basic Circle Self Session – Connected Breath – G-Mac a zero point gravity device. Playlist Propelled – G-MAC supported
Joost Maijvis
DATUM
Born in the Netherlands, 55 years of age. Since the millennium on in touch with breathwork. As a traveller fortunate to have been around the world creating breath communities in Türkiye, Switzerland and South Africa. Now focused on supporting a self practice community in the Nijmegen area where I live. With IBW and Breath Calisthenics i hope to support DIY exploration of one’s Self. The Workshops is a basic Circle CB Self Session with a neighbour watch for assistance in the though spot. Time frame is about 2hrs. The session will be supported by the G-MAC a zero point gravity device.
