Saturday, 10 September 2022 9:30am - Sunday, 11 September 2022 5:00pm
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The Nine Principles of Harmony - Breema Weekend Workshops

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Salena and Felipe 2021
In-person


Whether you are currently considering becoming a Certified Breema Practitioner, are totally new to Breema, or are an experienced student, this weekend is a perfect opportunity to nourish your body, mind, and feelings through Breema bodywork, Self-Breema exercises, and Breema's universally applicable practical philosophy.

To support others, we must first learn how to support ourselves. Breema offers a foundation by which one can learn to relate to any experience (“good” or “bad”) from the strength of body-mind connection. This directly addresses burnout by offering tools to return to oneself, renew energy, and discover the well of support and vitality available within the body.

In this retreat weekend, we will look at Breema, and the ways in which it facilitates an experiential relationship to the Nine Principles of Harmony.  Both Breema bodywork and the Nine Principles support us to find harmony in our relationship to ourselves and in our professional and personal lives.

You can participate in the entire weekend, or just attend one or more of the four workshops. Pre-registration is required. Call or email the Breema Center for more information. 

We follow current California State and Santa Cruz County COVID guidelines.

CE is available for massage therapists and bodyworkers, nurses, LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. $10 fee for processing

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Hummingbird Valley Retreat Center in Santa Cruz, CA

Weekend Schedule

Saturday:   9:30 am-12:30 pm    2:00-5:00 pm
Sunday:      9:30 am-12:30 pm    2:00-5:00 pm

Cost

10% discount if paid by August 31.  Use coupon code EARLYBIRD.

    • $210 for the weekend ($189 if paid by August 31)
    • $60 per 3-hour workshop ($54 if paid by August 31)

    Meals are not included. See PDF for suggestions. Camping is available onsite.

     


    The 12-Month Breema Practitioner Course consists of one weekend a month for a year, with some flexibility for those who cannot attend each workshop or are outside the Bay Area.

    If you will be taking many of the monthly weekends, you can also pay quarterly or annually. Full payment (at any level) by the last day of the previous month includes a 10% discount.

    Details on the 12-Month Breema Practitioner Course

    Instructors

    Jon Schreiber

    Director of the Breema Center and Breema Clinic

    Jon Schreiber, D. C., director of the Breema Center and Breema Clinic in Oakland, California, has been teaching Breema in the U.S. and internationally since 1980. He has presented Breema at medical, psychology, bodywork, exercise, holistic health, and personal growth conferences. His numerous articles and books focus on the universal and practical philosophy of Breema. In his clinical practice, Dr. Schreiber uses Breema, Self-Breema, and the Nine Principles of Harmony to help patients discover...

    Alexandra Johnson, MD

    Breema Center staff
    Breema Clinic practitioner

    I am a Family Physician, and have been a Breema Practitioner and Instructor for over 20 years. I have found Breema's non-judgmental atmosphere to be invaluable in working with any health condition. I am consistently amazed at the effect of Breema bodywork, Self-Breema exercises, and Nine Principles of Harmony in increasing vitality, addressing acute concerns, and offering new templates for relating to body, mind, and feelings. I began working as a Practitioner at the Breema Clinic in 2002, and...

    Denise Berezonsky

    Breema Center staff
    Breema Clinic practitioner

    Denise Berezonsky is co-author of Self-Breema: Exercises for Harmonious Life, Associate Director and Practitioner at the Breema Clinic and a Staff Instructor at the Breema Center. Denise has been working with Breema’s transformational approach to life since 1989 and in continuous practice at the Breema Clinic since 1991. She teaches online, throughout Northern California and in the Pacific Northwest.

    "I love giving and receiving Breema bodywork. Breema, Self-Breema, and the Nine Principles...

    Arlie Mischeaux

    Breema Center staff
    Breema Clinic practitioner

    Arlie began receiving Breema bodywork sessions in 1994 and soon after became a Certified Breema Practitioner and Instructor. Since then, she has dedicated her efforts to teaching and reaching more people with the essential, transformative method that Breema offers, via classes, workshops, and private sessions. Over the years, she has studied and traveled with a keen interest in expanding her experience and understanding of many traditional healing methods with native peoples, shamans, medicine...

    Kevin Johnson

    Kevin has been studying Breema for over 20 years.  He was drawn to Breema by its simplicity.  Since he began to practice Breema, he has found himself on a path of self-understanding.  This practice is not only for the classroom, but something he uses in his everyday life.  All he has to do is remember.  The more Breema he has in his body, the easier it is to remember.

     

    Birthe Kaarsholm

    Breema Center staff
    Breema Clinic practitioner
     

    Birthe Kaarsholm RSMT, CMT is a staff instructor at the Breema Center in Oakland, California where she has taught and practiced Breema since year 2000. She is a Registered Somatic movement therapist and a certified Body-Mind Centering® practitioner and Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst®. With a life-long interest in working with the body, including physical theater, Body-Mind Centering and movement therapy, Breema’s approach to seeing the body as a vehicle to raise our level of...

    Angela Porter

    Breema Center staff

    I have been a somatic therapist and professional counselor providing individual, couples, family, and group therapy since 1991. I was introduced to BREEMA in 1996 as the result of a profound injury/accident, and began studying in 1997. Now almost 30 years later, this wholistic, inclusive, common sense, principled practice and philosophy has become the foundation of my psychotherapeutic work. BREEMA is simple, practical, universal yet rudimentarily human, and offers us nothing less than...

    Elaine Pendergrast

    Breema Center staff
    Breema Clinic practitioner

    Elaine started studying Breema in 1991, and soon became a Certified Practitioner and Instructor. On staff at the Breema Center, she teaches classes there regularly, and has presented Breema at many outreach events to new people at workshops, conferences, health fairs, retreat centers, and other venues around the country. She has also been a Practitioner at the Breema Clinic for many years and enjoys working with new and established clients.

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    Susan Mankowski

    Breema Center staff
    Breema Clinic practitioner

    Susan Mankowski, LMT, BFA in dance, has been an Certified Breema Practitioner and Instructor in Santa Cruz, the Breema Center, and throughout the United States since 1998. She is a Staff member and Instructor at the Breema Center since 2012. Currently she is located offsite in Wisconsin and also instructs at Breema Center Intensives, for the practitioner program, and other onsite events.

     

    As early as I can remember, I wanted to connect to life through touch, and movement. This interest grew...

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