In-Person

SKY Happiness Breathwork Retreat Day 2

2.25 CE Hours
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SKY Happiness Breathwork Retreat Day 2

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Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Describe 2 ways breath work can be used to enhance mental well-being and resilience.

  • Identify 2 or more evidence-based ways that breathwork tools can foster emotional regulation and promote calm alertness

  • Identify and describe 3 breathwork or meditation techniques that can be used to create a sense of belonging and foster mindful leadership.

Description

The SKY Happiness Breathwork Retreat is a total well-being and resilience training program over 3 consecutive days for leaders, educators, clinicians, and community organizers. SKY’s experiential curriculum includes the acclaimed SKY ®Breath Meditation practice, breathwork practices, embodied somatic experiences, emotional intelligence training, interactive group processes and mindful leadership. Research shows that SKY Breath Meditation significantly increases well-being, mental health, deep sleep and positive emotion, while significantly reducing depression, anxiety and stress markers.


During session 2, we will experience the power of embodied somatic experiences to shift the state of mind and boost overall wellbeing. This session will focus on emotional intelligence frameworks and the application of foundational stress-management and resilience skills. Participants will explore how the evidence based techniques promote calm alertness and foster emotion regulation.

Target Audience

  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Social Worker
  • Substance Use Disorder Professionals

Presenters

Annelies Richmond

Annelies Richmond is an international master trainer of SKY Breath Meditation, breathwork and leadership development programs through the International Association for Human Values and the Art of Living Foundation. She has taught tens of thousands of people in the last 22 years, and has trained over 1,400 certified meditation and leadership teachers in 5 countries. She started using these practices daily during her 15-year career as a professional ballet dancer with the Metropolitan Opera in NYC and found that they enhanced not only physical stamina and capacity, but also mental clarity and emotional resilience. She is founding director of SKY Campus Happiness Program, a national university leadership and well-being program, through which she trains and empowers student leaders, staff and faculty to become breathwork & well-being facilitators for their campus. She travels across the U.S. teaching and lecturing at institutions such as Yale University, Purdue University, UPENN, MIT, Northeastern University, Columbia University, the United Nations, and Google. Her courses, talks and sessions are known for their authenticity, lightness, and humor, combined with a depth of wisdom that brings one to the present moment.

Katie Tomer

Katie Tomer is a nationally Certified Health Education Specialist and a 1,000hr certified SKY Breath Meditation instructor that has taught youth, incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, CEOs, college students, staff and faculty. After Katie experienced the benefits of the SKY Happiness Retreat as a college student, she formed a partnership with SKY Campus Happiness and her university’s recovery oriented campus center. Now in her seventh semester as an adjunct faculty member, Katie teaches the SKY Campus Happiness course for college credit as part of the University of Southern Maine’s Health Sciences Department.