World Breathing Day Sharing & Reflections

Published: Thu, 04/27/23

Dear

Once again World Breathing Day has been celebrated all over the world. In this newsletter we share photos and reflections of some of the many events that took place in the four corners of the world.

We are also pleased to inform you that if you were not able to participate or could only attend some of the sessions in the two IBF Zoom Events in Europe and the Americas on 11 April, video recordings of all the presenters are now up on the World Breathing Day YouTube channel.

For the WBD team it was the culmination of months of preparation and hard work. We would like to thank all the presenters who contributed to the Zoom events, our members who shared their celebration of the day on social media and the multitude of other breathworkers all over the world who contributed with their energy and gatherings to truly spread the message "Breathe Peace"!

Blessings,

World Breathing Day Team

IBF - International Breathwork Foundation

Rabie Hayek: "I had been visited by these beautiful peace doves for a whole week, day after day leading up to World Breathing Day. We caught eye contact on multiple occasions and I felt their peaceful presence. What I didn’t know was that they would bring us a gift of peace branches and leave them on a hanging plant my mother gave me, so I’d know they weren’t just branches on the ground. One could think they were building a nest, but they haven’t been back since that day.

The most auspicious part is that I had logged in at 2 AM to join the World Breathing Day Team in Europe for the opening of the EURO Zoom Event and then I went to bed to rest for the America Zoom the next day. About an hour into sleep, I was woken up by a loud sound outside. I went outside to check the commotion and as I turned to go inside, I was startled by the gift of these peace branches they left us. As if I was to see it, between the two Zoom Events on World Breathing Day. Instantly I was moved to tears as if receiving a sign of impact from the Universe.

Years ago when having a vision to unite 1 Billion people to breathe together, we envisioned that auspicious moments would happen as people continued to unite. On WBD 2023, it moved us to find out that a rainbow ring had formed over the Chichén Itzá pyramid in Mexico.

We celebrate the signs and look forward to creating more next year!"

IBF Zoom Events on World Breathing Day

This year the IBF organized two online Zoom events with inspiring speakers in Europe and the Americas, each giving their own particular take on "Breathe Peace". If you were not able to participate or missed some of the workshops, the video recordings of each of the presenters' sessions are now up on YouTube! Please support us by viewing and sharing them! Click on the button here below!

WBD Zoom Events on YouTube

World Breathing Day Celebrations Around the World

Top: Danielle de Wilde shared images of their World Breathing Day event in Bruges, Belgium which was in the Magdalena Church: not only did they breathe together but they also raised 600 euros for the Breathing in the Classroom project!

Bottom left: Kenneth Tam in China offered both in person and online celebration of WBD..

Bottom right: Viola Edward and Michael de Glanville in Cyprus with Duran Arslan who is receiving a scholarship to train as a breathworker in celebration of WBD!

Top: Rabie Hayek at the Peace Council Lucidity Festival; "I have attended the Lucidity Festival for nine of the past ten years and have been honored to be on the Peace Council there each year with tribe elders of different lineages from around the world.. This year and each year in the opening ceremony, I have led the community to breathe together. As the years have progressed and humans continue to evolve, the tribe elders shared more than ever of the Sacred power of the breath to lead us to peace and to guide us home. Leaving Santa Barbara with all the zesty festival energy combined with breathing together with 1,000-2,000 people in the opening ceremony, I was excited to head home and host the World Breathing Day Zoom festivities with the WBD Team!. "

Bottom: Rebirthing Lebanon WBD in Beirut. Sam Reda: "Many expressed interest, 85 registered on Eventbrite.and 30 participants attended. A good reason for the difference between the registered number and attendance was the weather forecast for an unexpected change to a rainy day, in this otherwise spring season. Luckily, perfect weather showed up the duration of the event. I spoke on behalf of the IBF and gave a background of Breathwork, the IBF, WBD, and the many other activities the IBF represents. I had suggested for Nagib Massad, a locally active Breathworker, to give the session and he did that beautifully. He will hopefully be our next NR for Lebanon in my place."

Top Left: Dr. Roger Jahnke at the IBF Zoom event

Top Right: Bruges, Belgium event

Bottom Left: Matoula Piscopani and friends celebrating on the beach in Greece

Bottom Right: Alicia Velázquez Berumen at the IBF Zoom event

Manal AlMusallam in Kuwait organized a workshop in Arabic - What is breathing and its benefits?.Easy breathing exercises.

Other WBD news and events

JoAnn Lowell in Canada:

My daughter's large architecture office set up Zoom in their boardroom to participate with us for WBD. Half their office followed the self-regulation breathing exercises I led! They said:

"We loved it. Anna, an architect at the office, mentioned that her friends at the ambulance service do the box breath as they are approaching an emergency scene and that red seal navy people do the same."

WOW...

conscious breathing & WBD REALLY is spreading!! 😁

Nadia Guido-Haugh in Ireland:

We raised €460 yesterday on WBD and we want to donate this to GIC Africa 🙏

Claire & Michael Blake in Ireland:

Organized a live event in Wexford - "Breathe More, Stress Less"

Viola Edward in Cyprus

"I was thinking and feeling how to celebrate WBD 2023. So I decided to give a full scholarship to a very nice man Duran Arslan from Istanbul. He does hydrotherapy for disabled children and helps them with heart & soul using techniques to connect with movement and water and the joy of life. He sponsors many of them.

I saw him working last year in istanbul at the WATSU Conference. So, we are treating him to a full scholarship, paying his flights, lodging and Breathwork Training. I think when he adds Conscious Connected Breathing to his work, he will multiply the miracles he already creates with these kids".

Ela Manga in Africa

Breathwork Africa hosted a Zoom gathering from 8pm - 9pm CAT. About 200 people registered for this event.

Laura Ashurst in the UK

Hosted two thirty-minute meditation sits in support of World Breathing Day at a venue in her home town of Stokesley in the UK. "There will be space for 12 people in each sitting and so I am anticipating that there will be 24 people coming to this event".

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