SKY Happiness Breathwork Retreat Day 3
Information
Date & Time
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Location
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Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort
1500 Epcot Resorts Boulevard
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830
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Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
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Connect with fellow retreat participants, creating a sense of community and building a supportive network for ongoing personal growth.
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Explain the connection between breathwork and holistic health, addressing the physical, mental, and emotional aspects of well-being.
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Identify 3 or more ways to integrate the lessons and experiences from the retreat into their daily lives, ensuring the sustainability of their learning and a self-care practice.
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Demonstrate mastery of the evidence-based SKY Breath Meditation daily practice.
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.
Session 3 will focus on group processes. Participants will learn about and engage in processes that build positive community. Participants will learn to use the techniques taught in each day of the retreat to create a sustainable self care practice. This session will expand on mindful leadership frameworks that can be applied in a variety of settings. Research from top universities on the techniques delivered in the workshop as well as the SKY breath meditation technique will be shared.
Target Audience
- Counselor
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Social Worker
- Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Presenters
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 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