Jim Morningstar, PhD
Discover how breathwork can dissolve unconscious childhood patterns that prevent you from feeling safe, accepted, and loved.
We’d all love to go through life with fulfilling and loving relationships, feeling safe and free as we flow through our days.
For many of us, however, our sense of safety was compromised in early childhood, and we’ve had to learn to cope with trauma that can be easily triggered in adulthood — preventing us from feeling loved, nurtured, and accepted.
As pioneering breathwork psychotherapist Jim Morningstar explains, your identity was either nurtured and supported or diminished and discouraged within the first six years of life, creating:
- feelings of belonging in the world or feelings of alienation and even isolation because you aren’t able to be your true self
- feelings of abundance and plenty or an inner sense of not-enoughness
- feelings of self-empowerment or being controlled and/or manipulated by others
- freedom of expression or compulsion to express only what gets approval
- a natural sense of gender identity or coercion to fit gender stereotypes
- an ability to sustain long-term intimacy or a defended heart fearful of surrendering to love
What if gentle breathwork could open the door to healing?
In this soul-nourishing event, Jim will take you through an experiential bioenergetics practice to call in your younger self, and be guided toward a real sense of safety. Bioenergetics is a form of psychotherapy that combines rapid breathing techniques and gentle somatic movements to help you resolve emotional problems and realize your true potential.
The practice Jim will share is designed to give your inner child an opportunity to be heard and nurtured. And, as you create a respectful and nourishing relationship with your child self, who represents your emotional body, you’ll be able to extend those feelings of acceptance, safety, and love to your present self, your family, your co-workers, and the world beyond.
As Jim will share, each stage of early human development is associated with a body theme — an enduring constellation of structural and characterological positions a person takes toward their life. The six main body themes we develop in the first six years are safety, abundance, control, freedom of expression, sexual identity, and intimacy.
All humans contend with the same basic themes, and adopt attitudes and postures that reflect these themes. Each theme operates on a continuum from fear-based and restrictive to integrated and highly functional.
If you’re feeling held back, unable to be your true self, or not even sure what your triggers are, it’s likely that one or more of these themes was underdeveloped in childhood, and is preventing you from living your heart’s true desires.
These unconscious patterns are not flaws in your being, nor are they set-in-stone limitations due to genetics or family heritage. Your unconscious patterns can be illuminated and changed by you... with your own loving guidance and courage.
Breathwork and bioenergetics are effective modalities for uncovering which of these themes may be triggering for you and holding you back from the life you long to live.
When you practice breathwork and biogenetics, you uncover the events or circumstances that overwhelmed you as a young child — so you can process that trauma and go back into your body feeling safe and alive, rather than triggered and afraid.
In this healing online event, you’ll:
- Be guided through an experiential breathwork practice to call in your younger self and uncover what your inner child needs to feel safe
- Learn about the 6 major body themes so you can identify them in yourself and others
- Explore ways to process your childhood fears without letting them deplete you physically or emotionally
- Pinpoint the places within you that feel safe, so you can revisit them when you’re triggered by lifelong fears
- Create a respectful and nurturing relationship with your child self, i.e., your emotional body, so you can extend those feelings of acceptance to others
In joining us for this free experiential event, you’ll also be among the first to learn of Jim’s new 7-week live video course where you’ll discover how to unlock the wisdom of your body through breathwork, movement, and energy reading.
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What People Are Saying About Jim Morningstar...
— Dr. Belisa Vranich, Founder of The Breathing Class: “Jim Morningstar Is Pivotal in the Breathwork Community”
— Judith Kravitz, Creator of Transformational Breath®: “Jim Is an Incredible Pioneer in Breathwork”
“Jim Morningstar is a wise and visionary healer who knows the ways of the body and the heart.”
Jim Morningstar is a wise and visionary healer who knows the ways of the body and the heart. His work opens from trauma to wellbeing, from past to radiant present.
— Jack Kornfield, Buddhist teacher and author of The Roots of Buddhist Psychology
“Jim Morningstar draws on an expansive knowledge of multicultural breath practices throughout history and many years of his own deep personal work...”
Jim Morningstar draws on an expansive knowledge of multicultural breath practices throughout history and many years of his own deep personal work and professional practice. The result is a valuable contribution at the growing edge of modern therapy, and a revolutionary blueprint combining mind/body healing and the latest findings in brain research.
— Tav Sparks, director of Grof Transpersonal Training and author of The Power Within: Becoming, Being, and the Holotropic Paradigm
“Jim’s extensive personal and professional experience of breathwork places him in an ideal position to introduce breathwork to those new to these practices.”
In the coming years, we are going to see a greater focus on the use of breathing to bring about healing in counseling and clinical mental health practice. Jim’s extensive personal and professional experience of breathwork places him in an ideal position to introduce breathwork to those new to these practices. And for the more experienced practitioner, his book provides plenty of stimuli for further personal integration and professional growth.
— Lloyd Lalande, PhD, clinical breathwork researcher, and trainer and lecturer in clinical mental health counseling
About Jim Morningstar
The Director of Transformations Incorporated, Jim Morningstar is co-director of the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance, setting standards for training and ethics in professional breathwork. He has held licensure as a clinical psychologist since 1973 and was certified by the American Board of Professional Psychologists in 1978. He was a clinical supervisor at the Medical College of Wisconsin and directed a community mental health center.
Jim’s diverse background includes being a Native American pipe holder, an Enlightenment Intensive Master, a Tai Chi practitioner since 1970, and an avid tree hugger. He founded the School of Integrative Psychology in 1980 and the Transformations Breathworker Training Program in 1990. He has pioneered the integration of psychotherapy with such mind-body techniques as Therapeutic Breathwork® and bio-spiritual energetics, and has authored five books in the field of transformational psychology and breathwork.
