seven directions®
professional breathwork Training
online & in person hybrid training
Next intakes JULY 2024 (international) & January 2025 (Canada)
THE merging OF SCIENCE & CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH BREATH
SEVEN DIRECTIONS® BREATHWORK offers a range of double accredited trainings in a connected, integrative style of breathwork.
Our next 8 month hybrid group training cohort starts July 2024 (6:00-8:00pm UK time) graduating in April 2025 in Glastonbury, UK. Applications & enrolments are now open!
New Canada evening intake starts Jan 15th 2025! for more info please email: soulfulstillness@gmail.com
“It is my intention to contribute to the goodness available in this world by creating legacy trainings that support the evolution of human consciousness and community connection.
I believe that when we can safely meet and release our own trauma, conditioning and perceived limitations, we can step more fully into authentic, integral and aligned self expression as a powerful healing force.
This is my vision for myself, for you and for humanity.”
— Steph Magenta, Founder SEVEN DIRECTIONS® BREATHWORK
what you can expect when training with seven directions® breathwork
Developing proficiency and confidence in safely holding space for people experiencing integrative connected breathwork.
Learning and understanding the importance and science of functional breathing - taught by Patrick McKeown
Understanding basic polyvgal theory & nervous system regulation in breathwork.
Confidently supporting clients who present with multi-faceted trauma. Deepening your awareness of complex trauma with psychotherapist Prema McKeever.
Understanding and recognising important contra-indications & abreactions in breathwork.
Understanding how emotional and mental wellness is linked to the breath and the body.
Developing leadership and self mastery.
Understanding ethics (Sue Newsome) and consent in practice (Robyn Dalzen).
Shadow work as a route to self awareness.
The Reichian Belts of Tension & Working safely with a multi faceted client group.
Learn how to offer appropriate interventions such as touch, verbal cues and follow on referrals.
Supervision and ongoing CPD in your practice.
The right use of touch in breathwork practice.
Ritual & Ceremony, lineage and legacy in our work with Sisonke Papu.
Understanding the value and importance of presence in practice.
Supporting breathers with integration by knowing what level of interaction and engagement is appropriate before, during and after a breathwork session.
Learning how to maintain healthy client/practitioner boundaries.
Developing your own personalised way of working whilst adhering to our professional code of ethical conduct and practice.
Core Shamanic principles as your framework for personal authority &integrity.
Developing your brand and business - with Earl Talbot
Principles and use of transparent communication & authentic relating.
The training schedule
Classes take place fortnightly on Tuesdays at 6:00-8:30pm BST (UK time) for the July 2024 cohort, and 5:30-7:30pm EST for the January Canada Cohort.
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The July International program is taught by Steph Magenta & team, and the January Canada Program is taught by Rebecca Llewellyn & team.
All programs offer real time (not distance) learning. For the duration of the training, teaching calls are typically 2 hours long. Additionally, there is ongoing support via your assigned mentors, smaller mentor sub groups, peer to peer support study buddies, monthly integration circles and via our interactive learning platform. Once part of our alumni, there are opportunities to progress into apprentice mentor roles, join regular group supervision calls, take further trainings, and liaise/collaborate with other graduates around the world.
Additional one to one support sessions can be booked with any of our mentoring team for the cohort you select (not included in your tuition fees).
In between our core curriculum meetings, you will be expected to:
Complete all essential reading (3 core books) and work The Presence Process.
Maintain regular breathwork practices & journal your experiences.
Watch a range of pre-class recordings for some key lessons if required.
Keep written records of one to one & group case study sessions.
Commit to putting time aside for regular personal and/or professional development, maintaining high levels of self awareness & accountability throughout.
Understand and develop your unique perspective on working with the breath.
Actively contribute to your Mentor Groups and Study Partners.
Take personal responsibility for your experience.
Liaise with your assigned Mentors to book your Supervised Training Sessions
Attend any additional compulsory calls (always outlined in our course calendar)
Submit all work within 2 months of completion after graduation.
Who is our training for?
Those already working in healing modalities who are considering using breathwork in addition to those modalities, e.g., yoga, counselling, coaching, shamanic healing, bodywork, or any other person centered practice such as first responders, humanitarian aid workers, and those working with veterans and within addiction work.
Those who work in client based services, mental health provision, or other services supporting wellbeing.
Anyone who feels the desire to offer somatic, body based therapeutic work through breath.
Anyone who has completed other in-depth training/s but does not yet feel ready to hold people’s emotional and psychological trauma.
Those who recognise the value of science and the unknown aspects of the mystery of human consciousness and wish to combine both aspects in their work.
Those for whom ethical practice, integrity and grounded safe facilitation is of high value.
Those who have engaged in a reasonable level of personal growth and inner work, and who are committed to developing a high level of self awareness.
*This is not a shamanic training. For more information on training in core shamanism, we highly recommend NORTHERN DRUM.*
COURSE FEES
TRAINING COST: Your investment in our 8 month comprehensive training is currently set at £3,300 which includes all class teaching and resources, alongside access to our student and graduate breathwork community.
ADDITIONAL COSTS:
Four compulsory one to one Mentor Sessions (4 x £90 - total £360) which you organise, book, and pay directly to your assigned mentor.
your personal costs for your in-person graduation practicum (travel, accommodation & food).
In-person graduation practicum teaching fee of £300, payable on arrival.
SCHOLARSHIPS & BURSARIES:
Accessibility is one of our core values. We offer a range of bursaries and scholarships alongside full price places. We trust that you will select in integrity according to your means. This range in pricing reflects our awareness of global and social economic disparities, historical injustices arising through colonisation history, and circumstantial personal circumstances.
We believe in transparency - there are no hidden costs!
All scholarship places will still need to pay for mentor sessions and graduation fees alongside training costs.
We have a limited number of reduced fee scholarship places offering a £600 reduction in training fees.
We offer a charity or CIC training rate of £2,200. Applicants for these places would need to demonstrate the charitable status of your qualifying organisation and application/payment would come directly through your charity or CIC.
We also offer a limited number of qualifying BIPOC or significantly marginalised community places where finances are otherwise an issue to accessing this program. These places offer a 50% reduction in fees.
We occasionally offer a gifted & talented scholarship which offers complete or semi complete fee coverage scholarship place for folk for whom accessing trainings like this would be impossible without coverage of fees. Exchange of skills is expected as part of this placement. Please inquire via email.
Please email Charlotte Tassaker, PA to Steph Magenta at: stephmagentabreathwork@gmail.com to apply for any of our subsidised places.
A deposit of £500 secures your place, reduced to £250 for BIPOC places.
Payment plans are welcome via our booking platform and we absorb all fees at our end so there are no hidden costs.
Payments made in full in advance receive a further 10% discount off the course price (excluding graduation module).
Payment plans are offered in goodwill and we invite integrity and responsibility in being offered and accepting a plan. Except in extenuating circumstances, all monies remain due if you decide to leave the course at any point up to (but not including) the first module.
Refund & cancellation policy:
All deposits are non-refundable. Once the training start date has passed, all payments for your training also become non-refundable. Prior to that, you may receive a refund on payments made in advance of our start date assuming notice is given up to two months prior to our proposed start date. A transfer to the next cohort may be possible in extenuating circumstances. We charge an administration fee of £100 for cancellations and refunds made within this time frame. Any additional small percentage service fees which have been charged through our processor will not be refunded once payments are complete.
What you will need
Previous experience of breathwork on a personal level. A minimum of 10 Breathwork sessions with a range of facilitators.
Commitment to your inner mastery, especially when the going gets tough!
Willingness to commit to conscious communication, and self/group accountability.
Agreement to abide by our guiding principles/ethics.
Time to ensure you can make all live training, mentor and support calls - we have an 80% minimum online seminar & graduation attendance requirement.
Mental and emotional resilience - personal growth and study can challenge us.
The financial stability to commit to any payment agreements made for this training.
A sense of humour!
An agreement to honour every member of our team and cohort as a reflection of the self.
The time and commitment to meet any additional study requirements including ongoing commitment to the Presence Process.
“Our personal conclusions have a tendency to lock us into a particular perspective, a certain way of seeing and understanding. This perspective can mean that we become less open to expanding, learning and growing.”
CHRIS LUTTICHAU, NORTHERN DRUM SHAMANIC SCHOOL.”
your PERSONALISED ROUTE TO GRADUATION with our
one on one study program
The key difference in our one-on-one training is that you can tailor your learning to suit your time zone and lifestyle. Typically, you will meet fortnightly alongside our group program schedule but with flexible dates and times. Your assigned lead trainer will be an experienced approved Seven Directions® mentor and breathwork facilitator.
One-on-one training is hosted by our lead approved mentors and offers greater flexibility for your convenience. This option must also be completed within an 8 month maximum time frame.
All 1-2-1 requirements are the same as those for group study.
Schedule DetAils
During your 1-2-1 training, you are able to access our Facebook student group, watch some of the recorded content from our group classes, and receive the same supporting information as our group students. You do not have access to our group training calls or platform, however you do have the benefit of ongoing personalised mentoring.
One to one training typically takes a similar amount of time to complete allowing for the occasional break in scheduling. This does not include your in-person graduation practicum which you will attend with the group cohort running parallel to your 1-2-1 tuition. During the program, you will be expected to attend regular online or in person breathwork sessions to maintain your personal practice. You should also develop a daily breath awareness as integral to your own breath mastery.
Price options
The total cost of THE one to one program is currently set at £3,300 UK sterling (excluding graduation fees). There are no additional mentor fees in the 1-2-1 program except for your FINAL graduation module.
A £500 deposit secures your place. Your deposit is non-refundable.
Payment plans can be arranged by request. Fees must be complete prior to certification. We invite you to request a curriculum and upon receipt, schedule a free consultation call with your proposed one to one training guide to discuss this further.
“ONLY WHAT YOU ARE, WHAT YOU HAVE REALISED AND EMBODIED, CAN YOU SUPPORT IN OTHERS".
— Thomas Huebl