Training

Meet your trainer:

Alakh is one of the people, the breathworkers who works full time at breathwork. Although yoga is her background and she has a lot of expertise in the yogic field, breathwork is her major interest and occupation. She has pioneered having breathwork placed in a qualification framework by having her original professional breathwork training  courses accredited as nationally recognised trainings in Australia since 1998, written 8 comprehensive workbooks on breathwork, been instrumental in the refoundation of the National Breathwork Association, delivered accredited training at the leading College, Nature Care for seven years and through High Motivation Training Academy since 1998.

As a breathworker in practice since 1987, Alakh has delivered trainings and workshops in many parts of Australia in the 1990s and travelled to Russia and USA with breathwork. In the 2000 -10 decade, her delivery has been in London, Edinburgh and Israel as well as in Australia and  she is mainly available in Sydney and Byron Bay.

Alakh attends many of the national and international conferences over the last ten years and has interviewed, sessioned or spoken with many other students, breathworkers, allied and related professionals, trainers and clients of breathwork to note and hear first hand the variety of experiences, approaches and benefits of breathwork in its modern form.

In the years from 1986, Alakh has attended seminars and trainings and participated with the initiators and founders of the contemporary styles of breathwork, Leonard Orr, Sondra Ray and Stan Grof. Before 1986, in the years from early 1975, Alakh practised through the levels of yoga including initiation into Kriya Yoga in India in 1976, and returned to Swami Satyananda’s ashram in 1977 to live for nine years immersed in the yogic traditional lifestyle and working in many departemets of the ashram while living with the yoga master Swami Satyananda. His Bihar School of Yoga, ia a leading educational ashram and Swamiji is  yoga master who is internationally and of course nationally well known. Swami Satyananda has established a line of yoga in his lifetime that also has become an accredited training in its own right in Australia with headquarters at Mangrove Mountain in New South Wales. One of the key aspects of Satyananda Yoga is conscious breathing – moving in yoga postures with awareness and the breath and it is integral yoga in the sense there is so much more training than asana, with students learning the detailed practises of prnayama and meditation, yoga nidra, (which Swami Satyananda took out of the yoga scriptures of nyasa as a benefit for modern man and started teaching in the 1960s) and sound, kirtan, nada yoga and all aspects of the other paths of yoga in the yoga lifestyle training including Kriya Yoga and most of the time Karma Yoga – work is worship or selfless service.

in the next decade, ppst 2010, Alakh intends to spend her time supporting qualified practitioners and faciliators in delivering indepth training and create even more mainstream referral and appreciation of the power of breathwork as a first line of treatment in health and mental health care. Her main intererst is in being available for one to one retreat intensives for those who want to take time out to develop themselves and release and resolve patterns that hold them in surivival mode. For the one to one clients, in a retreat setting, Alakh can use her long term skills for breathwork and also add her training knowledge and skill from her long term exposure to authentic masters of yoga and her initiations from them and the results of her own practice in yoga since 1975.

from Alakh

I dont think breathwork has come into its own yet in terms of exposure to the general community. The ease with which people can become relaxed and calm through breathwork is quite remarkable. The relaxation comes from a release or resolution and its not always apparent what has released or resolved. Clients always leave breathwork more positive and with more reference points for relaxation. They find solutions or start acting in ways they did not act before and it is authentic. Of course there are a huge range of approaches to breathwork and i am speaking from my experience. Anyone of any age or any interest or problem can produce results that are going to impact their life, sometimes subtly, yet always profoundly.