The International Breathwork Foundation (IBF)
Every year the IBF holds a 'Global Inspiration Conference' (GIC) - a week of amazing sharing, renewal, inspiration, reconnection. This is a moveable feast of co-operation as the venue changes each year to a different host country.
The first GIC was in 1994 in Sweden.
The 2003 GIC is happening in Southern Queensland, Australia from June 27th to July 4th 2003. For further details:
email: neminath@breathconnection.com.au
www.breathconnection.com.au/GIC2003.htm
The current IBF website is
www.ibfnetwork.org
The IBF website is being thoroughly revised and updated. It will be the most comprehensive and best Breathwork website on the Net. It should be available early 2003.
- is a network open to all people interested in Breathwork is a network for Breathwork practitioners, Breathwork organisations and friends of Breathwork
- provides an opportunity for people world-wide to learn about Breathwork and its practice as a therapeutic and transformational tool for attaining health in body, mind and spirit
- encourages quality in Breathwork training and practice
- supports ethics, integrity and professionalism for breathworkers world-wide
- offers recommendations for Breathwork sessions and trainings and ongoing development for Breathwork practitioners
- serves as a research and documentation centre for collecting, collating and disseminating information about Breathwork internationally
- promotes international co-operation and exchange programs for research and education
- embraces diversity and a respectful interactive dialogue to promote growth
- is a non-profit organisation relying principally on funding by annual subscriptions
Standards and/or qualifications for breathworkers are decided at a national level and are available at request through each national breathwork organisation. IBF does not devise standards or qualifications for breathworkers or supervise that the standards/qualification set by each country are met by individual breathworkers.
(Text taken from IBF site with permission)