FREE INTRODUCTORY SESSION

The Breathable Body - Transforming Your World One Breath at a Time. Study Group

With Robert Litman

February 15, 2025 from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Eastern U.S. time

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This is a free introduction to the series entitled The Breathable Body - Transforming Your World One Breath at a Time. Study Group. This series is designed as a book club for reading, discussing, and practicing activities from The Breathable Body to explore somatic movement principles from Continuum, Buteyko, Structural Alignment and biochemical, biomechanical and psychophysiological tracking. Using The Breathable Body book as a study guide, participants will have access to over 35 years of knowledge and wisdom of professional practice with breathing. Participants will learn how to identify breathing rhythms and patterns that may express past adverse childhood events and current stresses, how to invite a growing awareness for the client of these patterns, and how to co-regulate the nervous system via breathing. Greater breathing health can translate into greater organism health and more effective skills in working with clients.

Practitioners will learn how to include Continuum principles of fluidity, adaptability, tissue flexibility, mutability, coherency, connection, and the ability of the body to allow a release of held structural forms in their work with clients. Class practice will offer a greater sense of sensual embodiment, as breathing is meant to provide pleasure, love, tenderness, and kindness. Practitioners will also learn the basic principles of the Art and Science of Breathing and the Buteyko Breathing Education Program. These skills will provide insight into their personal state of health and enable practitioners to advise clients when to seek outside help with breathing health. They will be able to discuss with clients the neurobiology of breathing as it relates to the autonomic nervous system and states of rest and settle, activation, depression, anxiety, and panic. Participants may gain clarity and effectiveness in spotting dysfunctional breathing patterns in themselves and their clients, making any somatic practice richer and more effective.

Learning Goals - Participants will learn: 

• How to "breathe with" pain, anxiety and respiratory diseases for greater ease and reduction of symptoms
• The Anatomy of Physiology of Breathing and the effect of posture on breathing
• The benefits of nose breathing and the adverse effects of mouth breathing on psychology, physiology, facial structures and the anatomy of the torso

Live participation is strongly encouraged. However, those who register in advance will receive the recordings after each session is completed.

Robert Litman

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Hay House Publishing recently published Robert Litman's first book: The Breathable Body - Transforming Your World and Your Life One Breath at a Time, and it was featured for a month on OprahDaily.com.

For more than 35 years, Robert Litman has guided artists, musicians, health professionals, athletes, activists, people with health challenges, retirees, and those interested in allowing breath to be a doorway to consciousness into their personal and spiritual growth by restoring healthy breathing rhythms, structural alignment, and coherent/coordinated movement. He co-developed the Wellsprings Practitioner Program with Emilie Conrad, founder of Continuum Movement®, and co-taught with her for 18 years.  Robert Litman is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator and has been a faculty member and head of the Departments of Anatomy and Physiology and Movement Education at the Desert Institute of the Healing Arts Massage School in Tucson. He is a registered educator and trainer of the Buteyko Breathing Educators Association and is certified in the Duggan/French Approach to Somatic Pattern Recognition. Robert was a preceptor at the University of Arizona School of Integrative Medicine, teaching The Breathable Body to visiting doctors for Dr. Andrew Weil. He has a Graduate Certification as a Breathing Behavior Analyst at The Graduate School of Behavioral Breathing and Health Sciences, in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

He lives on Vashon Island, Washington, and offers private sessions and classes in movement and breathing, locally and worldwide. His YouTube video "The Relationship Between Breathing and Anxiety" has 163,000 views.

For more information, contact Robert Litman • The Breathable Body • thebreathablebody.com