Contents of the Online Breath Mastery Training
The Breathwork exercises, techniques, and meditations that Dan teaches have evolved over the years, with many being added, replaced, or refined. The following is a list of topics, themes, and lessons that he covers in the Training.
The following list is not in any order. And it may be that not all the lessons on the list will be covered in the Training. You will find many of these lessons in the Practitioner Materials in the Breath Mastery Members Area. And there may be additional lessons that are not listed here.
You are welcome to look through the list and let Dan know which lessons you are most interested in or curious about. And if there are topics you wish to explore but they are not on the list, please let him know, and he can add them.
Some of the Topics, Themes, or Modules in the Training:
A Short History of the Breathwork Movement
2 Basic Aspects/Practices in Breathwork
2 Core Techniques
20 Connected Breaths Exercise
The Breathwork Mantra
8 Paths in Breathwork (Plus 2)
The Formula for Transformation
3 Cornerstones/Pillars of Breath Mastery
3 Convergences in Breathwork
5 Principles of Breath Therapy
Breathing Anatomy & Mechanics
Respiratory Physiology & Chemistry
3 Breathing Spaces and the Full Yogic Breath
3 Spaces, 3 Paces, and 3 Intentions
Diaphragmatic Breathing
The Triangle Breath
Box Breathing
Sniff and Pooh
1-2 Breath
2-Part Inhale
Coherent Breathing
Infusing Every Cell
7 Parameters in Breathwork
Combining the Yawn and the Sigh
Alternate Nostril Breathing & Playing with the Channel
Kum Nye Relaxation
The Art of Breath Holding
Fast Slow / High Low
Threshold Training
2-Phase Breathing
Reflex Points and Neutral Zones)
Active inhale-Passive exhale / Active exhale-Passive inhale
Extending the Exhale (dropping down into pause: mentally exhaling after air stops)
Exploring the Pause (comfortable, controlled, maximum)
Diamond Breath / Fountain Breath
Anti-Depression Breath
Breathing into the Six Bands of Tension
Cosmic Breathing
Six-Pointed Star Breathing
Prana Yoga / Kundalini Yoga / Kriya Yoga
Swami Rama Model: Shakti/Vayu/Karma
Sufi Breathing
Shamanic Breathing
The Practice Formula [10+10+(10×2)]
Testing, training, and strengthening the diaphragm
100 Connected Breaths (message from spirit)
Spiritual Breathing Sandwich
Guiding a Spiritual Breathing Session
3 Questions to Ask a Client
4 Dimensions of Awareness
De-reflexive Breathing
Presence, Ego, and Consciousness
The Original Rebirthing Seminar
The “5 Biggies” (plus 3)
On Beliefs (file)
Core Beliefs and Negative Thoughts
Spiritual Psychology: Thought is Creative
Analysis/Goals/Affirmations Principles
5 minutes Uncensored Thinking Process (+ – )
Processing your Personal Law (“Personal Lie”)
Affirmations for Breathworkers (file)
101 Affirmation Modes (file)
Guiding a Conscious Connected Breathing Session
3 Breathing Rhythms
Signs and symptoms during a breathing session
Coaching tips and skills… what to do if or when…
Variations on the Conscious Connected Breathing Technique
The 3 Phases of a Session
The Energy Cycle of a Session: (fire analogy)
Lessons in Trusting the Process
Rituals Before and After a Session
A Rebirthing Questionnaire
Birth Script and Ideal Birth Process
Sensitivity vs Hyper-Reactivity
Non-judgment, non-resistance, non-attachment, and non-reaction
The Art of Channeling Emotions Through the Breath
A Map of the Process
The Liberation Game: 2 against 1 game
The Lion and the Locomotive (The ideal attitude during a session)
VUCA training (PBTA) & Architectural Redirection (SLSM).
The Original Breath Energy Training (BET)
Releasing Tension and Pain and Managing Emotions
Beating Back High Blood Pressure
100 ways to use the breath: how to creatively apply Breathwork
10 favorite ideas about breathing (creating your own seminar outline)
Phil Laut’s Purpose in Life Process
7 Steps of Change (Practitioner Manual: Module 5/Lesson 4)
Phantom Limb Syndrome (vs Phantom Disease Syndrome)
Using the Breath to Say Yes
List of Feelings (wheel/chart)
List of Emotions/Feelings
3 Kinds of Anxiety (Robert Gerzon)
2 Kinds of Suffering
6 Basic Human Needs
Pranayama Yoga/Kriya Yoga/Kundalini Yoga: Shakti, Vayu, Karma)
Ken Keyes Teachings: Addictions vs Preferences, 12 Pathways, 7 Levels of Consciousness
Jim Leonard: Vivation, and The Skill of Happiness.
Chinese Medical Breathing Exercises
Zen and the Art of Breathing
Holotropic Breathwork and the Perinatal Matrices
The Buteyko Method for Asthma
The Wim Hof Method
Systema Breathing Principles
4 Stages of Learning Any Skill
Lessons from the Hero’s Journey
The canary in a coal mine
Babaji Stories and Lessons
Boats and Bridges
Breathing Mechanism as Ball & Socket Joint
Boobs and Baseball
Caterpillars, Butterflies, and Stress
Circus Mirror Analogy
Water Analogy
2-Dimensional World Analogy
Movie Theater and the Mind
Mind as a Middleman
Mind as a Rottweiler
Clues from the Aramaic Language
Lessons from The Course in Miracles
Brulé/Baskakov Process
Sergei Vsekhsvyatski Growth Model
Vernon Woolf and Holodynamics
Nathaniel Branden: The Art of Living Consciously Process
Barnet Bain’s Awakening Creativity Work
Byron Katie: “The Work”
Ken Keyes: 12 Pathways & 7 Levels of Consciousness
Binnie Dansby: Archetypal affirmations/chakras/colors
Jim Morningstar’s Body Themes in Breathwork
Tantra, Breathwork, and Shakti Malan
Miracles and Madness: Genrick and Marat
Mugged in Moscow and Ufa
This Ain’t no Dream: Military Survival Training
Lessons from Tony Robbins Date with Destiny:
Pain states provide 3 choices
How to change your state
What we can change: Emotions, Behavior, Situation
Values can be Toward and/or Away
What has been most important for you to feel/avoid X
Rules: What must happen to experience/feel X?
Powerful questions to direct thinking and creativity
The Business of Breathwork
Personal and Professional Ethics in Breathwork