Postgraduate · Alumni of The School of Breathwork
Self-Mastery
Alumni Retreats
Retreats for Alumni of The School of Breathwork. Ongoing personal and professional development, and a community to grow alongside.
When you graduate as a Breathwork Mastery Practitioner, you walk through a door of sorts, completing the training. Yet life itself is an unfolding process, and we forever reveal more to ourselves as we live.
Self-Mastery Retreats are a space to come together, to grow personally and professionally, to explore power centres and immerse in cultural experiences, and to be inspired to live from Breathwork Mastery principles.
What is Self-Mastery?
When you train to be an RBM Practitioner, the first step is learning to use your breath to create a clear and positive relationship with your life. You learn to use intentions and your breath in this process, and most importantly you learn to use your breath to have life go the direction you want it to go in.
This process frees you of all previously made limiting decisions and beliefs. The breath quite literally clears your subconscious body-mind patterns of anything that doesn’t serve you. We get out of survival and truly begin to thrive. Over time, you naturally learn to trust yourself, and trust the very process of life. This is the promise of the International Certificate in Rebirthing Breathwork Mastery, with one addition: you will also trust the process of others, in your role as a Breathwork Practitioner.
Self-mastery comes alive when graduates gather. At our first Annual Self-Mastery Retreat, in Peru, 22 graduates spent 10 days in the Andes. Here is what it looks like, lived.
The four marks of self-mastery
Self-Aware and Creative
The training starts with Stage One, Personal Breathwork Sessions, which includes completing over 120 hours of personal Breathwork sessions, in small groups, online or spread out over retreats, usually over a full year for integration. It is profound, the level of transformation that takes place. We go so deep. Stage One is a highly supported process, with trainers who have 15+ years of experience in RBM facilitating the sessions. You get to lean on their mature nervous systems, and their trust in where your body and breath need to go to unwind.
Over time, you internalise that maturity, and you trust your body and breath so completely that you know yourself as a creative participant in your life. Challenges become opportunities to grow, everything becomes safe to feel, and instead of feeling like life is happening to you, you are thriving, creative, and life goes the way you intend it to go.
Self-Generating
At a Self-Mastery retreat, with graduated RBM Breathwork Practitioners, the first thing that changes is the structure. Each participant is acknowledged as being masterful in their own right. The typical retreat relationships, facilitator, assistant and participant, drop away. Each person shows up fully embodying the maturity of their nervous system, and at the same time is safe within themselves to create and receive the support they need as they go deep in their own process.
Self-mastery is knowing that our experience is self-generated, and that we are creative beings within the unfolding process of life.
Self-Responsible
The magic of those 10 days in Peru was the synergy of 22 people setting huge intentions for their lives, taking full personal responsibility for creating their experience, willing and excited to clear old traumas and limiting beliefs, with profound trust in their breath to do the work for them. The result is inspirational.
Energetically Available
The deepest magic is in the level of energetic availability within the group. Energetic availability is a professional concept developed in Stage Three. The first sign of it is when someone asks you for a session: it means your nervous system is maturing, and that you have something for the person asking.
So often in life, we live in survival, and we don’t have the energy or capacity for other people’s stuff. As we use our breath, we gain the capacity not only to integrate our own experience, but to become a beacon to others who are ready to create change. Participants go so deep in their own process, with major breakthroughs, yet without withdrawing or hitting overwhelm. They go there within themselves, while being there for the group.
Groups that gather within these principles are extraordinary. To witness RBM graduates living with this much integrity, mastery, awareness, responsibility, harmony, power and eldership, most of them only a year or so out of training, is to see what becomes possible. These are among the most harmonious, hopeful groups we have ever held.
The doorway in
Breath and Intention, as the tools
This is what it is to have a creative and positive relationship with life, with Breath and Intention as the tools. It is the promise of the International Certificate in Rebirthing Breathwork Mastery (the ICIBM), and the doorway into the community, the retreats and the ongoing life of our Alumni.
If something here has ignited something in you, even a someday, we’d love to hear from you.
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