The Training

Conscious Connected Breathwork
Conscious Connected Breathwork (CCB) is taught in this training as an expanded-state practice that operates across multiple domains of work.

It supports:
• personal development and self-exploration
• therapeutic and clinical intervention
• somatic and developmental repair
• imaginal, symbolic, and transpersonal processes

CCB reliably opens expanded states of consciousness through the body. This makes it both deeply personal and clinically significant, requiring practitioner presence, assessment, pacing, and ethical clarity that go beyond technique alone.

For practitioners already working relationally, therapeutically, or somatically, CCB allows depth work to move beyond dialogue and invites client’s somatic autonomy in their process, engaging experience as it emerges somatically, symbolically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually and relationally.

In Inscension, CCB is taught as a multi-layered practice requiring discernment, knowing when and how it serves personal development, therapeutic process, or deeper initiatory work, and how to hold each responsibly.

‍What You Will Learn
‍This certification prepares practitioners to work with breathwork safely, ethically, and at depth, and to integrate it into existing professional practice.

‍Breathwork Practice
• Conscious Connected Breathwork for individuals and groups
• Group breathwork facilitation
• Arc, cadence, and pacing of breathwork sessions
• Working with expanded and non-ordinary states
• Breath as medicine: indications and limits

Working With Individuals & Groups
• Holding 1:1 breathwork sessions
• Facilitating group spaces and managing collective intensity
• Reading and responding to group dynamics
• Integrating breathwork into psychotherapy, coaching, or body-based work

‍Ethics, Safety & Scope
• Assessment and screening
• Contraindications and referral
• Touch, consent, and boundaries
• Working within scope of practice
• Integration as a long-arc responsibility

‍Body-Based & Somatic Skills
• Body mapping
• Developmental trauma held in the body
• Reading somatic responses during breathwork
• Acupressure as a supportive adjunct
• Working with touch ethically and consensually

‍Theory, Science & Lineage
• Respiratory physiology and nervous system responses
• CO₂ / O₂ balance and breath-induced state change
• Music, sound, and brain states
• History and lineage of breathwork
• Contextual understanding of pranayama and traditional breath practices

‍Integration Into Existing Practice
• Adding CCB to an existing therapeutic or somatic practice
• Case studies and reflective practice
• Supervised peer and external client work

‍Training Structure‍
‍Start:

One in-person weekend in London (September)
Exploration of touch, body mapping, and the arc and cadence of breathwork sessions.

‍Online Phase:

Online modules, live sessions, and supervised practice running until March.

‍Completion:

One full-week in-person experiential retreat (March).

The CORE Certificate is the central formation of Inscension.

It is designed for practitioners who are already practising and see this as the next deepening of their work, where body, psyche, relational and collective fields, and spiritual experience are held within one coherent depth training.

This is not a technique-based course.
It is not validated by an external organisation.
It is an experiential, inside-out formation.

Those who complete this training are recognised as Inscension-certified Group and Field Process Therapists.

What This Training Actually Is
‍Inscension is not a learning-based training.
It is an inside-out formation.

This work is experiential, process-led, and self-exploratory. Participants are not primarily taught about depth. They are guided into it, held within it, and required to meet themselves there.

The primary medium of the training is direct experience.

Experience of the body
Experience of psyche and pattern
Experience of relational and group fields
Experience of spiritual and transpersonal material

Learning arises from experience, not the other way around.

‍Inside-Out Formation
Participants are asked to enter a sustained process of self-exploration and lived inquiry. Their own material, psychological, somatic, relational, and transpersonal, becomes the ground through which capacity is developed.

This is how practitioners learn to stay present rather than defend.
To recognise pattern rather than theorise it.
To work non-reactively within transference and intensity.
To hold others because they have learned to hold themselves.

The training works from the inside out.

Personal process is not separate from professional formation.
It is the formation.

What Develops Over the Duration of the Training
Throughout the duration of the training, participants develop the capacity to:
• stay present inside transference, projection, and relational intensity as they arise within a wider relational and energetic field
• recognise how individual material moves beyond the personal psyche and enters, shapes, and is shaped by the group and collective field
• work somatically with what emerges across body, psyche, and field, not only through cognitive process
• hold ambiguity, charge, vulnerability, and expanded states without dissociation, fragmentation, avoidance, collapse, control, or spiritualising
• engage with spiritual and transpersonal material as it arises without bypass, inflation, or loss of clinical grounding
• recognise when experiences are personal, relational, collective, or spiritual in nature and respond appropriately
• integrate psychological, relational, collective, and spiritual material in a way that is grounded, ethical, and responsible

This is depth work that operates beneath technique, where body, psyche, field, and meaning meet.

The Arc of the Work
Descent and Inscension
‍The CORE Certificate follows a descent and inscension arc.

The phases below signal the territory of the work without outlining the curriculum. These are the spaces participants move through personally and learn to hold professionally.

‍Phase I
‍Core Explorations
Establishing the foundational terrain of breath, body, nervous system, and field.
Orienting to early and pre-verbal material and the emergence of relational and group process.

‍Phase II
‍The Shame Layer
Power, Suppression and the Inner Perpetrator

Working within deep structures of shame, power, unconscious attack, envy and defence that shape identity and relational safety.

‍Phase III
‍Erotic Intelligence and Relational Integrity
Engaging Eros as life force, relational intelligence and clinical complexity.
Exploring intimacy, projection, attraction and boundary.

‍Phase IV
‍Life Cycle, Death Work and the Transpersonal - Ascent and Integration
Holding the full arc of experience, birth, life, death and meaning, without spiritualising or leaving the body.

Certification III is a specialist practitioner pathway within Inscension.

This pathway applies the capacities developed through the CORE Certificate to work involving expanded states, ceremonial containers, and higher clinical and ethical risk. The work is grounded in psychotherapeutic, somatic, relational, and field-based practice, with an emphasis on safety, containment, and long-arc integration.

Clinical Orientation
‍The training is organised around risk assessment, containment, ethical discernment, and integration when working with expanded and ceremonial states.

Practitioners are trained to work with amplified psychological, relational, collective, and spiritual material with restraint, clarity, and responsibility.

Non-maleficence is treated as a core clinical principle.

‍Relationship to Medicines, Lineage, and Expanded States
This training engages with earth-based medicines and expanded-state practices that have long histories of ceremonial, therapeutic, and spiritual use.
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Participants explore how these medicines interact with the body, nervous system, psyche, relational field, and spiritual experience, and how they have been held responsibly within lineage-based and contemporary therapeutic contexts.
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The focus is on relationship, preparation, containment, timing, and integration. Practitioners are trained to understand how potency moves differently through different bodies and systems, and how these forces can support or destabilise depending on context and holding.
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Lineage, origin, and context are treated with respect and discernment.

Therapeutic and Ceremonial Holding
Participants develop capacity to hold expanded and ceremonial containers with psychological and relational integrity.

This includes working with preparation, pacing, group and individual facilitation, projection, transference, and power dynamics.

A core clinical skill developed is recognising when non-intervention, reduction, or pause is the most responsible course of action.

Integration as Clinical Responsibility
Integration is treated as a primary clinical responsibility.

The training focuses on long-arc integration: how expanded-state material is metabolised over time across psychological functioning, somatic regulation, relational patterns, and meaning-making.

Practitioners are trained to assess integration capacity prior to engagement, support integration during and after expanded-state work, and recognise signs of delayed destabilisation, fragmentation, or regression.