Breathwork For Self Acceptance
Transforming Social Anxiety to Peace
Do you experience social anxiety? Would you like to be more at peace with who you are and your place in the world? Then join me for this six week online course learning how to use Breathwork to reduce anxiety and build your self acceptance, so you can achieve more and participate more fully in life.
What’s Happening?
Do you experience social anxiety or a lack of confidence in group situations?
Does this stop you from participating fully in your life?
Do you find it difficult to put your own needs first so you can really achieve what you want in life?
You are definitely not alone. In fact there are many, many people who experience the debilitating impacts of social anxiety in their lives. This can have a huge impact – on our closest relationships, in our social life and in our profession. It can hold us back from participating. It can prevent us from enjoying the moment and truly connecting. It can mean we don’t speak our mind or share our own opinions. It stops us asking for what we need or want. Most of all it gets in the way of us really sharing our selves in a way that builds connection and allows us to give the best of ourselves to the world. We crave to be more authentic, to more at peace and to be free to express who we are fully and without self judgement.
You Can Transform Your Experience
Through this eight week online pilot course you will learn how to use Breathwork as a tool to transform your experience of social anxiety, so that you feel more at peace, more confident and more able to assert your own needs, priorities and wants.
Specifically you will learn how to:
- Use breathwork as a tool to reduce social anxiety and feel more at peace with yourself
- Transform specific challenges in your life to build more self acceptance
- Gain more confidence participating in group situations and and feel safe to express yourself – or not
- Accept yourself fully, whatever the situation
- Be more true to who you are and what you need
- Become more embodied and increase your sense of safety and belonging
- Become more empowered and able to go for what you want in life
You will learn a process that you can use for the rest of your life to continually feel more at peace with who you are and your place in the world.
What’s Included in This Pilot Course?
Eight weekly two hour live group sessions including a one hour guided Breathwork journey each week
Exercises to develop self acceptance and gain confidence with the process
Three one-to-one calls before, during and after the course
Recordings of all sessions for your continued use after the programme
Email support throughout the programme
Course Structure
“In this programme we use the inherent capacity of the breath for enjoying who we already are, to see past our self-imposed limitations and truly embrace our natural perfection. Breathing in, we affirm our own sense of gratitude for being alive with all the opportunity that entails; Breathing out, we empty to make room for our own magnificence.”
Week 1
Introductions. Mutual connection and sharing. Setting a powerful intention for the course.
Week 2
You are not your thoughts. The origin of negativity. Going straight for self acceptance. Aligning with truth.
Week 3
Digging out the roots – uncovering your personal lie (your primary negative belief). Affirming the positive. Breathe!
Week 4
Let’s play. Experiments in self acceptance. Looking for evidence to support our new outlook. Falling off and getting back on the wagon.
Week 5
Saying Yes. Saying No. Getting to know your own boundaries. Being clear about what you agree to and staying true. Asking for what you want. The answer is sometimes ‘in the middle’.
Week 6
Who are you and what do you want? You deserve a good life. You deserve to succeed and thrive. Having the courage to live and be true to yourself.
Week 7
Daily practice. Strategies in self acceptance. Setting yourself up for success. Practice makes just fine. There are no wrong decisions.
Week 8
Final group breathe. The importance of support. Holding a positive vision. You are perfect.
Since this is a pilot programme it is anticipated that there will be a degree of flexibility in the programme to make sure the course structure is responsive to the groups needs. As such, there may be some variations in timings and structure within the overall course programme.
Who Is This Course For?
This course is for anyone who experiences a degree of social anxiety and would like to achieve more peace in their life. This course is for you if you would like to:
- Inhabit yourself more positively
- Reduce your social anxiety
- Feel more grounded and relaxed
- Be more accepting of who you are
- Feel more confident in yourself
- Participate more and with greater authenticity
- Develop a stronger sense of belonging
Tuition
Tuition for all eight weeks is £197. Since this is still a pilot course, I’m accepting no more than 10 students so you will get a LOT of support as you move through the course. This includes three one-one calls as well as continual email support as you move through the programme.
How Do I Know If This Will Work For Me?
My promise to you:
This course is designed to teach you how to use Breathwork as a tool to build your experience of self acceptance. If you participate fully in the course but do not feel as if you have experienced enough benefit to give you the confidence to use the process for yourself, then I will remain available to you via emails and/or scheduled Zoom calls for a full six weeks past the duration of the course to help ensure you achieve the transformative results you desire.
Schedule a call with John Paul to find out if this course is right for you.
Meet Your Breathwork Coach John Paul
For many years I struggled with a lot of negative self judgement. Although I was relatively successful – I have navigated several careers including running my own tour company and performing as a singer and guitarist throughout Scotland – I was often acutely aware of what I imagined others were thinking of me which could be fairly emotionally crippling. This often made the experience distinctly uncomfortable and I found it difficult to really feel confident in what I was doing. Not only that but my negative beliefs about myself meant that I constantly sabotaged my own success. As I discovered Breathwork, I learned how to uncover the primary beliefs that were running my thought processes and arrive at a more affirming way of being in the world. This was hugely transformational. I still experience areas on my life where I hold back, or feel unsafe or get triggered. The different now is I have a tool to work with that which continually helps me and no matter how I am, I feel much more at peace and accepting of myself. The bottom line is, it’s a journey – and unless we learn to be at peace with where we are on that journey, life will always be a struggle. I hope you’ll join me in this course and make it part of your journey.
