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Demystifying Breathwork: Connecting with Our Most Natural Tool for Wellbeing

CE Hours 3

About this live event

Breathwork has become a popular topic of training in the last several years, and yet its roots have been around for at least 2500 years making this possibly one of the first and longest-lasting strategies for well-being. In this presentation, we will explore why this work has withstood the test of time and is essential for modern-day problems and ailments. Although breath is one of the most accessible resources for healing, technologies have been developed to help capture and catalyze its most essential healing properties. In this presentation, you will learn the history and science of breath and its many applications for mind and body wellbeing. You will leave this presentation with easy and accessible strategies that can be utilized at any time to restore balance and equanimity.

Learning Objectives

  • Discuss the history and science behind breathwork.
  • List the benefits of breathwork for emotional and physiological regulation.
  • Explain how to change your physiological state quickly, using techniques from the traditions of breathwork.
  • List and describe 5 essential breathwork techniques, including their benefits and cautions.
  • Apply breathwork techniques in a variety of clinical settings and for a range of mental health and recovery-related concerns

Learning Levels

  • Intermediate

Target Audience

This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.

Agenda

11:00am - 12:30pm ET
•    History of Breathwork
•    Science of Breathwork
12:30pm - 12:45pm ET
•    Break
12:45pm - 2:15pm ET
•    Breathwork Techniques
•    Benefits of Breathwork
•    Q&A

Live event Instructor(s)

  • Livia Adia Budrys, AM, LCSW, C-IAYT, SEP

    Livia is a psychotherapist, social worker, yoga therapist, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, and spiritual activist. She is the founder of the Yoga-Informed Model and is an advocate of the mind + body paradigm shift. She implemented one of the first yoga therapy programs for mental health treatment in a nationally renowned residential treatment center. There she developed a clinical residency program to train the next generation of psychotherapists to weave yoga into their treatment of complex mental health and trauma. She is passionate about best practices and the integration of neurobiology, somatics, yoga and psychotherapy for the healing of addiction, eating and mood disorders and the often underlying acute and chronic traumatization. Livia’s psychotherapeutic experience includes training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Change Therapy (ACT), DBT- Prolonged Exposure (DBT-PE), Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy (ERP), anti-oppressive psychodynamic psychotherapy.

    Livia’s engagement with yoga and meditation began with a two-year residency at the Himalayan International Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy where in 1999 she was initiated into the tradition of the Himalayan Masters. She has completed over a decade of advanced and therapeutic yoga certifications along with becoming a Reiki Master in 1998. She has been deeply influenced by the mindfulness training that she has received from Vietnamese Zen Monk, Thich Nhat Hanh.

    Today she works to educate healthcare organizations, conducts research and presents nationally on the benefits of yoga for mental health and trauma awareness to reduce systemic burnout. She partners to implement therapeutic programs, training and protocols that utilizes the Yoga-Informed model and community-based, accessible Somatic Experiencing. She has enjoyed several clinical leadership roles in inpatient settings, most recently as Director of Trauma-Informed Care at a national treatment center - always with her hope to serve clients while supporting the system’s greater capacity for sustainable wellbeing.

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