IBF Newsletter September 2024 Part Two

Published: Sat, 09/07/24

Updated: Sat, 09/07/24

IBF Newsletter September 2024

Part Two

Dear ,

In this second newsletter, we continue to celebrate the love and inspiration of the 30th. Global Inspiration Conference held in the Netherlands last month with further contributions from participants.

Wishing you days full of joyous breaths!

Robin Lawley

IBF Newsletter editor.

Some more moments of GIC 2024 - photos by Annemarieke Borias of Eyesmile Fotografie https://eyesmile.org/. If you follow the following link, all photographs can be downloaded for personal use (also on social media), providing that ‘photography by eyesmile.org’ is mentioned and that a donation is made to the Breathwork Development Fund.

The value of Gentleness and Kindness in Breathwork

Brigitte Martin Powell

Former IBF President, former UN group leader and CBTR Programme co-creator

Following my introductory workshop on the same topic at the GIC 2024

"I am a tough cookie”

I grew up in Switzerland when women were not allowed to vote and when, at school, boys were doing math and gymnastics while girls learned to sow and knit… for 1 morning a week over 10 years. Moreover, around me women were often mocked, and considered stupid, weak and vain. I therefore decided I was going to be a boy. As “boys don’t cry”, I didn’t cry either. Since “boys are tough”, I put myself up for the tough jobs. When I turned 15, women finally became full citizen, but by then, I too was despising them.

For the rather rural community I was born into, going to university was as likely as walking on the moon, even for boys. Yet I had to prove to myself and others, that I was intelligent, and as intelligent as a man. It took a few detours and additional years, but I finally got there. I chose to study Economics, not because I liked it or was good at it, but because in my eyes it was a men’s career. I was so happy when I got top marks in Computer Science, I had my proof!

By then, however, and not surprisingly, I had developed a life-threatening eating disorder. I had become bulimic and lost 1/3 of my weight. I didn’t menstruate for more than a year and when I went to our family doctor, he told me not to worry, with me being at university, my blood was probably all in my brain! That was the 70’s and no one talked about eating disorders at the time. It took me another 5 years to admit that I needed help and to start therapy, and 3 more years of psychotherapy, body work, meditation and breathwork to stop being bulimic.

"My Reflexions on GIC 2024"

Blanca Maria Lagunez IBF Ambassador

The GIC around the World since 30 years: always copied but never matched.

Because we are the children of its sunny nature. We are the ones we have been waiting for...that Mother Earth has been waiting for.

We are the great TeamWork, the fun loving keepers of the wisdom, the compassionate souls ever changing, innovating. The creative, explosive, gentle souls, seekers of justice, freedom and Peace.

We are the ease of flow, the ever present Presence, the groundedness that allows us to touch the sky. We are silence, we are sound, we are breath healing one inhale at a time, with exhales of letting go of what is not necessary anymore.

We are smiling faces, tearful places. We are a privileged tribe.
We are gratitude, we are memories across time and space and belief systems, religions and traditions. Transmission.

We honor the elders, we honor the children, we open our arms to welcome the new generation of breathers. We are hope, and certainty, and comfort,

We abstain, and say no, and we vote yes in a democracy model. We trust while staying vigilant.

We are the mystery, the life giving blood, the strength and vulnerability of its dolphins carrying men, of its beautiful wise women.

We exercise intention, direction, attention and the power of manifestation.

Thank you for these times of Amazing Grace.

We are who we are, we are LOVE In The SPIRIT of BREATH,
Blanca Maria Mueller Lagunez. August 4, 2024

From Kateryna Kotenko

Another report from the GIC. In the keynote lecture, Hannah Kendaru, an Indonesian-British facilitator and breathworker, spoke about the principles of decolonial healing and establishing new connections between people.

It sounded relevant and emotional, especially in terms of how terribly Ukraine is suffering from the consequences of long-lasting colonisation.

However, in reality, in one way or another, all of humanity suffers from various types of colonisation.

After all, colonisation is not just the conquest and humiliation of one people by another. We have all been colonised by capitalism and a certain global culture, and have been taught certain types of perception of each other and limiting behavioural patterns since childhood.

We have all been cut off from direct contact with the land, natural cycles, generational traditions, our original dances, stories and songs for a long time.

To varying degrees, people in different countries share the same suffering.

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