About this Event
Nurture yourself and bring healing to your mind, body and spirit, in just ONE day.
Why do I need to learn how to breathe?
The key to your healing exists within your body and breath.
Most of us have experienced some level of trauma in our lives. When these issues are unprocessed, they show up in your life through anger, stress, depression, extreme anxiety, eating disorders and avoidance. This comes from experiencing stressful events such as abuse, neglect, natural disasters, war, or loss of loved ones through illness. The thinking mind can’t work through these issues to let them go, they are held in the body, or more specifically in our tissues.
“Your issues are in your tissues”
This is a scientific fact. Untreated issues can affect physical health and make us really sick. As the origin of your pain lives in your body, your body needs to be part of the healing equation. You cannot rationalise with trauma with just the conscious mind. This is one of the reasons why many talking therapies only go so far.
In this full-day workshop, we'll teach you to heal yourself through your breath, starting with intention setting following gentle breathwork and somatic practices to stimulate vagus nerve and trigger safety and calm feeling in the nervous system and then more advanced breathwork, more specifically Transformational Breath®.
Self-Healing Tool to Access inner Healing Intelligence
Transformational Breath® works across the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels. In our opinion, there is no better self-healing tool To access your inner healing intelligence to heal yourself with the help of your own BREATH. It's been said that one breath session is equivalent to two years of therapy, so imagine the impact of doing this twice a day and how this will help integrate past trauma.
Shamanic Drumming
The afternoon Transformational Breath session will close with a guided Shamanic Drumming session. The drumbeat is one of the oldest and most sacred sounds that we can use to access the subconscious and healing. The drum sounds connect us back to the primal sound of the heart beating- the first sound we hear in the womb. We will provide Reiki hands on healing as well to create the perfect container for integration to occur.
Preparation and Integration of your Psychedelic Journey
if you decide to embark on the psychedelic journey and/or had already been, breathwork and other modalities you will be learning at workshop will help you to get the most out of your journey as breathwork can help with transitioning your body from operating with a "fight-flight-freeze" stressed state into total relaxation, infusing the cells of your body with oxygen to help you to reduce the stress response, experience true surrender, and heal the emotional turbulence stored in your being.
Workshop details
Our workshop will start at 10.30am in the morning. After short background information and gentle breathwork practices including somatic experincing, you will be experiencing breathing analysis ( your breath tells your unconscous) and according to your breath analysis you will be guided to set an intention.
You will be offered a cup of Cacao before starting of the breath session.
You will then be lying down on mats with pillows and blankets during the sessions, using Transformational Breath to breathe, feeling the refreshing difference brought to your body and mind. Our dedicated facilitators will guide you to breathe properly to get your best breathing experience with the help of music, movement, sound and acupressure.
The afternoon Transformational Breath session will close by 4.30 with a guided Shamanic Drumming session and Reiki. Between the morning and afternoon sessions, we will have a lunch break. The vegetarian lunch will be provided
You will gain the following benefits from this workshop
- Increase body awareness without being re-traumatised
- Processing and healing trauma memories without talking
- A strong connection to oneself
- A feeling of insight, integration, clarity and purpose
- A shift in relation to any behaviours stemming from traumatic experiences
- An opportunity to develop resilience
- A regulated and calm nervous system following an intense detox
- Learning somatic tools to prepara and integrate your psychedelic journey
- Learning Somatic experiencing and various gentle breathing tools to practice them regularly
Investment
The retreat is £175 including lunch
About the Instructor
Elif Clarke is a highly experienced Transformational Breath senior trainer with a background in psychology and trauma-informed therapy. With over 25 years of expertise as an HCPC registered psychologist and BABCP registered psychotherapist, Elif specialises in helping individuals overcome complex, developmental trauma and attachment wounding. Through her intuitive and compassionate guidance, she supports clients in releasing emotional blockages by working directly with the breath and body. Elif’s extensive training in various therapeutic modalities, including EMDR and somatic experiencing, enhances her ability to create a safe and nurturing space for deep healing.
As a senior trainer and teacher of Transformational Breath, Elif has traveled worldwide, providing breathwork sessions in diverse settings such as prisons, hospices, and retreats. Her expertise in psychology and breathwork enables her to facilitate transformative experiences for individuals suffering from trauma-related symptoms, addiction, anxiety, and depression. Elif’s background in yoga teaching and energy modalities further enriches her holistic approach, recognising the interconnectedness of the body, mind, and spirit in the healing process.
With her profound ability to read individual breath patterns, Elif guides clients to tap into their inner wisdom and authentic selves. She believes in the power of the body and breath as a language of healing, providing a somatic experience that bypasses analytical thinking. Through her compassionate approach and extensive experience, Elif Clarke is dedicated to helping individuals access their innate healing capacity and find lasting transformation and well-being.
She has completed MDMA therapy training with MAPS andPsychedelic Psychotherapy training with CIIS ( Californian Institute of integral Studies). Elif will hold space to help you to prepare for the journey and integrate your experiences with the help of breathwork, somatic experiencing, internal family system, and PSIP to access your innate healing capacity.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Wheatsheaf Lane, Wheatsheaf Lane, London, United Kingdom
GBP 160.00
