School programme
The Breath School programme is a two-year, in-depth journey of personal development, divided into four semesters that guide participants step by step through their relationships—with themselves, with others, and in their professional lives as breath coaches. Each semester is based on working with breath, awareness, and experience, creating a cohesive whole in which personal transformation goes hand in hand with the development of coaching competencies.
RELATIONSHIP WITH ONESELF
The first semester focuses on your relationship with yourself. Is your relationship with yourself friendly, supportive, accepting, and full of gratitude? Do you sometimes have a subtle feeling that something isn’t quite right? We encounter this relationship with ourselves in various ways. Many mental concepts will shift automatically once we release the accumulated stress through various breathing techniques.
Additionally—for many years now, the Prana Visions school has been focusing more and more on what we call unconditional nature. When you connect with your unconditioned nature, a transformation begins. Suddenly you see, you feel, that LIFE is something GREAT, amazing, sacred… and you yourself are a part of it. This awareness changes our approach to everything, including our approach to ourselves.
From the perspective of the unconditional, we simply and naturally let go of self-judgment and replace it with a wise, supportive approach to ourselves. And suddenly it stops being difficult, even though life, in all its complexity and abundance of external challenges, remains the same
RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHERS
Our relationships with others are largely relationships with those closest to us. We are born into relationships. We grow up within them.
Friends, work, our family, other cultures, extended family, and the fact that we are more than ever citizens of the world—all of this is also part of our relationships with others. Blended families and same-sex relationships are also part of the reality we all live in, and we certainly encounter these new situations more and more often.
This semester is an invitation to open up, deepen, and broaden our perspectives on ourselves and others.
The ability to communicate well plays a very important role here. We will practice it and examine how we influence and are influenced in relationships. We will explore dependencies and interdependencies.
We will also explore the changes in our relationships that arise from connecting with our unconditional nature. By connecting with it, we become more present, gain access to an energetic calm, and are able to see through the illusions created by our minds. Thanks to this different approach to everything—including relationships—there is more simplicity, joy, and creativity.
PROFESSIONAL RELATIONS
This semester, we’ll continue working on relationships—this time focusing on professional relationships as breathwork trainers. We’ll also focus on our thesis projects.
Reading Kyle Taylor’s book “The Ethics of Caring” will be a helpful guide and resource.
New challenges often arise in our relationships with clients. It might be uncertainty. It might be expectations we place on ourselves to have an answer for everything. It might be entirely different issues. These classes offer a wonderful opportunity to share, support one another, and broaden our perspectives.
We continue to see, feel, and experience how important it is to connect with our unconditional nature. When connected to it, we suddenly become, for example, free from the need to be perfect and free from the need to receive a specific kind of feedback. This different kind of inner freedom makes us naturally more present in everything we do, more relaxed, and at the same time more alert. This makes it easier for us to support ourselves and others in a wise way.
We also continue to work on learning and experiencing various forms of breath in all its richness and possibilities.
NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATION
This semester, we are focusing on Nonviolent Communication. This concept, developed by Marshall B. Rosenberg, can be a wonderful tool for individuals, families, and everyone—all the way up to situations on an international scale.
We are taking the next step to go deeper than mere reactivity, responding with wisdom and presence.
We will bring together everything we have learned and experienced over the course of previous semesters, recognizing that every perspective, every aspect, is part of a single whole in which we all live.
We will discuss support systems for working with ourselves and with others. We will deepen our breathing practices as well as our inner and outer guidance.