Judgment and self-criticism separate us from ourselves and cut us off from life.
This is where the mind and feelings function in separation from each other and from the body. When the mind is separate from the body, we react to everything we see from this place of separation and polarize everything according to like and dislike. We unconsciously cling to fearful, inflated self-images that move us further into isolation, instead of into essential and honest connection with ourselves and an open-hearted relationship with life.
By helping us develop a direct and natural connection between body, mind, and feelings, Breema creates a foundation of safety and security, which becomes a constant support in life. Breema bodywork and self-care exercises, practiced with Breema’s Nine Principles of Harmony, lead us to discover that aspect of ourselves that is always whole, healthy, undamaged, and in harmony with everything that exists.
This weekend workshop is a perfect opportunity to nourish your body, mind, and feelings with Breema bodywork, Self-Breema exercises, and Breema's practical philosophy.
You can participate in the entire weekend, or attend just one or more of the four workshops. Pre-registration is required. Call or email the Breema Center for more information.
CE is available for massage therapists and bodyworkers, nurses, LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. $10 fee for processing .
Weekend Schedule
Friday: 7:00–8:30pm No charge.
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.
- $200 for the weekend ($180 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 and limited accomodations are available onsite, please contact us for more details.
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.
Instructors
Jon Schreiber
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
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...
Angela Porter
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...
Denise Berezonsky
Denise Berezonsky, CMT 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.
"Breema, Self-Breema, and the Nine Principles have had a transformative effect on me...
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.
Steve Brodsky
Steve has been a health and wellness practitioner for the past 20 years. Practicing and teaching Breema, yoga, massage, and nutritional wellness, he offers practical and inspirational guidance to maintain physical well-being, to enhance mental clarity, and to explore meaning and connection in one's life. Steve maintains a regular teaching schedule that includes online Self-Breema classes, one day workshops, weekend courses, and retreats in the Pacific Northwest and California.
Blogs by Steve
...Birthe Kaarsholm
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...
Roxanne Caswell
Roxanne Caswell, CMT, is a Staff Instructor at the Breema Center in Oakland, CA, since 1991. She maintains an active international teaching schedule.
Join me for personal Self-Breema classes live online, one-on-one, via Zoom. For your first free session, click "Send message" and let me know when you would like to schedule one.
Blogs by Roxanne Caswell
A New Posture for Life is Needed for New Thinking, New Feeling ~ January 3, 2019
Alexis Mulhauser
Alexis Mulhauser has 20 years of experience studying and teaching movement, including Breema, Yoga, martial arts, and dance. She is a Breema Instructor and Self-Breema Instructor at the Breema Center in Oakland, CA, and Certified Massage Therapist. Alexis also teaches dance in Berkeley and gives private bodywork sessions at the Breema Clinic and Worthy Self-Care Studio in Berkeley. By applying Breema and the 9 Principles of Harmony in her professional path as a movement educator, Alexis has...