Co-Director of the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance
Jim Morningstar, PhD
Learn how breathwork can be used as a daily tool to relieve stress, heal, emotional resilience, and unlock the wisdom within your heart — while improving your breathing, sleep, digestion, and mobility — to create a life that truly inspires you.
Experience intentional breathing exercises to align with love and receive intuitive guidance.
Imagine living each day with an open, radiant heart...
... a heart so attuned to the essence of universal love that it guides your every step, infuses your relationships with compassion and unwavering acceptance, and aligns your life with your soul’s deepest purpose.
And what if love isn’t just an emotion you feel for someone else, but the very force that shapes your existence?
According to Jim Morningstar, pioneer in transformational psychology and breathwork, love is the essence that holds the universe together.
It’s accessible, not through the physical organ that beats in your body, but through the “sacred heart,” a magnetic vortex through which you can receive and absorb the blessings and wisdom of Source — and of life itself.
Through the power of intentional breathwork and the wisdom of the sacred heart, you can access, awaken, and cultivate the seven layers of the heart’s intelligence — unity, love, life, respect, honesty, justice, and kindness (as modeled after the writing of Glenda Green in her book Love Without End) — each one a practical tool for revolutionizing how you live, work, and love.
Plus, there are potent breathing practices that will help you align with each.
In Jim’s new 7-week live video course, he’ll take you on a journey into the essence of love, as well as a hands-on, practical path to unlock the heart’s intelligence — using Therapeutic Breathwork™ techniques drawn from a variety of sources that Jim acknowledges with great respect.
Jim’s far-ranging background uniquely qualifies him to guide you through the physical, psychological, and transcendent aspects of breathwork and its profound power to influence emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
In other words, you won’t be just breathing — you’ll be communing with your higher self.
Through the seven layers of the heart’s intelligence, you can embody a way of being that brings inner harmony, emotional resilience, and a profound connection to Source — the infinite wellspring of love and guidance that’s always been within you.
Jim’s goal in this course is to help you peel back the layers of illusion that keep you from living as your most radiant self — love.
During this transformative breathwork journey, you’ll learn to:
- Build a breathwork toolkit to continually deepen your understanding of priorities, develop a more aligned sense of purpose, and own the courage to pursue your calling
- Connect intuitively with Source through breathing practices, trusting your inner wisdom to guide you
- Reclaim your breath’s natural rhythm, easing tension and enhancing digestion, mobility, and restful sleep
- Cultivate a timeless sanctuary within, stepping out of survival mode into a space of peace and presence
- Harness “holy vision” daily, cutting through fear-based illusions to live with unshakable inner certitude
- Deepen self-awareness, understanding your triggers and patterns with compassion and practical solutions
- Experience universal synchronicity, noticing how life aligns when you lead with heart intelligence
- Strengthen your parasympathetic calm and master maintenance breathing for a grounded, balanced nervous system
- Inspire others effortlessly, embodying kindness and love as a magnetic force in your community
- Prioritize with soul-led clarity, letting go of distractions to focus on what truly matters to you
- Dance with abundance, drawing the universe’s beneficence through a heart tuned to compassion and generosity
- Andmuch more...
Using his unique breathwork exercises, Jim will first guide you to locate your spiritual heart, where you’ll ground yourself in safety, feeling the love you are. This is the intelligence of unity.
You’ll then tap into the intelligence of love and gain tools to weave your deepest aspirations into daily life.
Moving into the intelligence of life, you’ll release past wounds and boost vitality. The intelligence of respect will solidify your sacred covenant with Source and help you clear your energy, shed judgments, and embrace your unique worth.
The intelligence of honesty can bring with it the joy of authenticity, while the intelligence of justice will guide you to identify and correct imbalances so you give and receive with fairness, restoring harmony.
The intelligence of kindness is good will in action. It’s a highly transformative power that boosts abundance.
This is your invitation to stop searching and start living the love you were born to embody — all while radiating the beneficence of universal love.
If you’re ready to walk this sustainably transformative path, you’ll be guided by one of the most compassionate teachers in the field, inspired by timeless wisdom, and grounded in practical application. You’ll unlock a life of clarity, passion, and compassion — which is your soul’s true knowing.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
In this 7-week transformational course, Jim will guide you through the skills and powerful breathwork practices you’ll need to ignite your heart’s hidden wisdom, cultivating love as a transformative force for healing, emotional mastery, and spiritual awakening — and step into a life you’ll love.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Jim and experience his teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Jim’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Weekly Sessions on Thursdays at 5:00pm Pacific
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Jim. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to awaken the deep wisdom of your heart with potent breathwork practices, allowing love to guide your healing journey, emotional empowerment, and spiritual evolution — so you can design a life you cherish.
Module 1: Finding Your Spiritual Heart & the Intelligence of Unity to Connect Directly With Source for Guidance (April 17)
Understand the profound distinction between love as a fleeting, sentimental emotion and love as the powerful essence of all of existence — from material to spiritual.
Explore the first of seven dimensions of the heart’s intelligence — unity — which allows you to integrate knowledge, establish clear priorities, and develop wisdom.
Without clear priorities, focus and values become elusive, leading to conflict between your human desires and your purpose as a direct reflection of Source.
Through guided reflection and breathwork, begin to harmonize the competing forces in your psyche, setting the foundation for deep spiritual alignment and clarity.
Learn how to locate the “sacred heart” in your own body and feel the love that you are.
In this module, you’ll:
- Locate your spiritual heart within your unique body form, unlocking a direct connection to Source
- Practice a potent circular breathing exercise to create safety and grounding in your body
- Understand how your physical heart communicates vital information to your brain
- Identify the dominant forces shaping your psyche
- Learn steps to reprioritize your life goals
Module 2: The Intelligence of Love - Unlocking Purpose, Meaning, Fulfillment & Pleasure (April 24)
Love is the power of the universe within you. It’s beyond just a feeling or an orientation. It’s a dimension of intelligence and purposeful living.
A person who lives with a commitment to purpose has higher intelligence than one who doesn’t.
Explore how love — when honored and protected — heightens your instinct to nourish, enhance, and apply your purpose, while guiding you toward deeper alignment with your soul’s path.
Gain insight into love as a catalyst for learning, growth, and transformation.
Through meditative and breathing exercises, activate the pleasure and purpose love brings to your life, reinforcing its role as a driving force behind passion, meaning, and fulfillment.
In this module, you’ll:
- Differentiate love from being a quality to attain to being your very essence
- Practice coherent breathing to bring your heart and brain fields into resonance
- Learn tools for emotional regulation and self-alignment
- Recognize how love brings purpose and clarity to your goals
- Enhance your ability to attract and manifest your heart’s desires
- Experience a meditative process to embody love as the power of your beingness
Module 3: The Intelligence of Life - Allowing the Dynamic Unfolding of Life From Moment to Moment (May 1)
Life is love in action, constantly renewing itself in the present moment. We all hope to have meaningful experiences, happiness, fulfillment, and continuity.
Jim will help you shift from dwelling on past mistakes to embracing the unfolding possibilities ahead.
Through powerful exercises, learn to cultivate a mindset of innocent perception, activating the innate intelligence of how life works and how the love that you are can foster better engagement with it.
By understanding that life is neither a history nor a memory, allow yourself to see life’s gifts with fresh eyes — birthing the new before your eyes with every breath.
As you deepen your awareness of life’s intelligence, learn to move beyond limiting knowledge and beliefs, and past stagnant patterns based on formulas and moral structure.
Jim will guide you through a breathing technique to help you awaken a dynamic connection to the flow of life, increasing your energy and deepening your sense of purpose.
In this module, you’ll:
- Cultivate innocent perception to see life with renewed clarity and possibility
- Increase your vitality with the breath of life technique
- Understand the difference between passively existing and actively living
- Identify and release past wounds through forgiveness of yourself and others
- Reconnect with the unfolding nature of your life’s purpose
Module 4: The Intelligence of Respect - Honoring Your Divine Covenant to Experience the Joy of a Mutually Supportive World (May 8)
Respect is the foundation of trust — both with yourself and with the Divine.
Explore how acknowledging your sacred covenant with Source opens pathways to confidence, peace, and alignment.
Though we are all one in spirit, each person is irreplaceable. What you don’t bring to the earth, no one else will. We’re all unique in love, purpose, and life.
By honoring and respecting everyone’s individual qualities — including your own — you endow yourself and others with abilities, freedoms, and responsibilities.
When you see people through the eyes of love, you’ll be guided toward the most efficient use of your life.
In this module, you’ll:
- Identify and honor your sacred covenant with Source
- Practice the complete breath exercise to clear and rejuvenate your energy field
- See yourself and others through eyes of love and acceptance
- Uncover hidden judgments that create separation
- Practice self-forgiveness for fears that create distance between you, others, and Source
- Experience the joy of living in a mutually supportive world
Module 5: The Intelligence of Honesty - Opening to New Opportunities (May 15)
The practice of honesty reveals the power of innocent perception. Honesty brings solutions to every problem of life and to science, law, and social management.
Innocent perception requires nothing more than being alert, with eyes wide open, like a child watching a caterpillar. With innocent perception, we come into the presence of Source.
Using honesty as the foundation of clarity and transformation, explore how self-deception blocks growth and why fearless honesty is essential for higher intelligence.
Through powerful exercises, identify fears that compromise your ability to see yourself and your life with clarity. Contemplations of honesty will joyfully open chambers of your heart and opportunities in life which have been hidden from you.
Jim will guide you in circular breathing to include others in your circle of safety and mutuality.
In this module, you’ll:
- Explore how honesty increases your potential for success in all your endeavors
- Expand circular breathing to enhance safety and inclusion
- Deepen your capacity for innocent perception
- Recognize and release fears that may lead to self-deception
- Experience the joy of being fully seen and accepted
- Learn daily practices that can reinforce honesty and authenticity in all your relationships
Module 6: The Intelligence of Justice - Restoring Balance & Harmony in Every Area of Your Life (May 22)
Justice is the intelligence of exchange and balance, occurring among the most elemental particles to the most complex human situations. When balance is maintained, health prevails —for a person and a planet.
Exchange that’s created only for your own profit will weaken the intelligence of your heart. Justice is the principle of fairness. You’re not here to over- or under-give. As you give with the true fullness of your heart, so does the universe return to you in kind.
By practicing balance and fair exchange, you cultivate harmony in relationships and with life. Refrain from undervaluing your own worth, so you can open doors to the wealth you’re here to share with others.
Through contemplative exercises and breath retention techniques, strengthen your ability to restore balance in your personal and collective interactions, resetting your “response-ability” vs. your reactivity.
In this module, you’ll:
- Restore justice and balance in key areas of your life and learn to monitor your sense of fairness in daily life
- Identify where you have been unjust to yourself or others
- Learn breath retention techniques — and when it’s appropriate to practice them
- Strengthen your ability to recognize and correct imbalances in relationships
- Differentiate punitive justice from restorative justice
Module 7: The Intelligence of Kindness - Mastering Good Will in Action (May 29)
Kindness is the consummating dimension of the heart’s intelligence. Kindness is the right use of will. Kindness is good will — expressed as caring, helping, refraining from hurtful actions, sharing, and consideration for others. Kindness is strength in action.
Explore how kindness is not just a virtue but also a transformative power. It’s the heart of living and what makes life bearable, meaningful, and delicious.
To develop the intelligence of kindness, discover the joy of truly giving and forgiving — no strings attached. Learn how to be kind to yourself. The confidence that comes from showing kindness is a masterful influence over any situation.
Through acts of kindness, your own abundance increases. By cultivating true generosity and learning to extend kindness to yourself, unlock new levels of influence, fulfillment, and joy.
Jim will guide you through exercises to help you own the strength of your own kindness and release your fears of it. Create a personal kindness agenda for the year ahead, reinforcing this intelligence as an integral part of your daily life.
In this module, you’ll:
- Recognize kindness as a form of intelligence and mastery
- Learn breath awareness techniques to use as a lifelong companion for cultivating kindness
- Complete a kindness inventory to reflect on past and future actions
- Reinforce your strengths of kindness and generosity
- Create a kindness agenda for the year ahead
- Identify and release fears or judgments around kindness
The The 7 Levels of the Heart’s Intelligence Bonus Offering
In addition to Jim’s transformative 7-week online course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
The Complete Breath: A Professional Guide to Health and Wellbeing
225-Page PDF Book From Jim Morningstar, PhD
Explore the breadth of the breathwork field in this encyclopedia of contemporary breathwork theory and practice. In addition to Jim’s writing, read contributions from other luminaries, including Stan Grof, MD, Dennis Louis, and Michael Brown. Learn how breath is the foundation for all of life’s processes, and discover techniques for breathing and living well regardless of life circumstances. By practicing the complete breath daily — with treasures that are literally right under your nose — cultivate inner balance and outer poise, and feel more gratified in everything you do.
Returning to Source
A 9-Interview Video Series From Jim Morningstar, PhD
Jim talks with nine master breathworkers, providing insights on how breathwork helps release wounding in relationships with your mother, father, and siblings. Unearth the hidden remnants from both current and ancestral trauma. This masterful wisdom helps you savor your present relationships along your daily journey of returning to Source.
Breathing & Body Themes - Releasing Unconscious Lifelong Holding Patterns
Video Interview With Jim Morningstar, PhD, From The Shift Network’s Breathwork Summit, Hosted by Kathleen Booker
In this hour-long video, Jim delineates each developmental stage in the first six years of life. With each stage, we pass pivotal points in our physical and characterological growth and make inner decisions regarding our safety, abundance, autonomy, freedom of expression, gender identity, and intimacy. With Jim’s guidance, identify the body themes that best characterize your default holding patterns in your body, breath, and mind. He also provides breathing and body-releasing practices to let go of those patterns. Knowing these six body themes will help you, both personally and professionally.
Breathing in Light and Love - Your Call to Breath and Body Mastery
229-Page PDF Book From Jim Morningstar, PhD
Learn the basic spiritual underpinnings of therapeutic breathwork, opening to embrace breath as your best friend and your rainbow bridge to Source. Jim provides tools for identifying the major themes from the first six years of your life, which contain the holding patterns you use under stress. He offers exercises to release those patterns to unlock the hidden gifts within. Jim also guides you to develop your holy vision, so you can see past the roles you and others take on, and into the deeper truth of who we all are.
What Graduates of Jim’s Courses Are Saying...
Profound and comprehensive... based on extensive experience as a therapist and trainer, including new scientific research and informative models from biology and sociology, thus underlining the central role of conscious breathing in daily life and healing work.
Integrative Breathwork trainer and author of Manual of Breath Therapy
Dr. Jim Morningstar is one of the real pioneers in breathwork. In his new book, he offers a good illustration of how Therapeutic Breathwork represents a new form of interactive healing that benefits both client and therapist. With its comprehensive theory and overview of breathwork, it is an essential contribution for breathwork as a whole.
Psychologist and author of Exhale: An Overview of Breathwork and How to Grow a Healthy Mind
Jim Morningstar walks the talk and breathes the breath. He is a leading figure in breathwork today.
Author of Soul Therapy and Family Constellations
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.
Buddhist teacher and author of The Roots of Buddhist Psychology
A pioneer in breathwork and energetics, Jim Morningstar inspires the respect and admiration of practitioners in the field. His work with integrative techniques and his insights have encouraged my personal and professional growth.
Clinical psychologist, media personality, and author of Breathe
Join the Global Community
The 7 Levels of the Heart’s Intelligence offers some of the most transformational online teachings available, within a thriving global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Jim Morningstar, PhD will share in this powerful program.
You’ll join an international community on the leading edge of manifesting a world grounded in the principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Jim Morningstar, PhD
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from psychologist and author Jim Morningstar, PhD, director of Transformations Incorporated and co-director of the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to tap into your heart’s innate wisdom using transformative breathwork, and harness the power of love to foster healing, emotional clarity, and spiritual awakening — empowering you to live the life you desire. Course sessions are on Thursdays at 5:00pm Pacific.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Seven 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class. You’ll be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the Zoom call to interact, share, and do additional practices to help you further integrate the weekly lessons. Practice sessions are not recorded for playback; if you’re unable to attend the live sessions, the Facebook online community group allows you to connect with each other and find alternative times to interact.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, The 7 Levels of the Heart’s Intelligence
We feel honored that Jim Morningstar, PhD has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with a psychologist, author, director of Transformations Incorporated and co-director of the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about using love as a transformative energy for deep healing, emotional mastery, and spiritual awakening — so you can embrace a life that feels fully aligned with your deepest desires, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
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Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed! If you don’t absolutely LOVE The 7 Levels of the Heart’s Intelligence — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form on or before May 1, 2025 and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.
More Praise for Jim Morningstar, PhD
Jim Morningstar presents actual case studies that add a wonderful human touch, as well as an explanation based on neuroscience for the changes that he has seen in clients during his experience as a breathwork practitioner. This book is one of the few of its kind that demonstrates the safe and effective usage of faster-than-normal breathing in professional practice. It should be read by anyone interested in evolving modern counseling techniques to keep pace with the growing need to help people face the challenges of life today. Both professionals and nonprofessionals alike will be struck by Jim Morningstar’s clarity, involvement, and attention to detail, which is such an integral part of healing.
Director of the Patanjali Research Foundation in Haridwar, India
Jim has created a wonderful guide to help empower practitioners from all walks to add breathwork to their toolbox. This type of breathing breaks through old, no-longer-useful patterns while helping the practitioner and client create a healthy new vibrant way of life. Jim instills the confidence and knowledge to begin this great life adventure of breathwork personally and professionally.
Breathwork facilitator, lecturer, and teacher
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.
Clinical breathwork researcher and trainer and lecturer in clinical mental health counseling
About Jim Morningstar, PhD
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The Director of Transformations Incorporated, Jim Morningstar, PhD, 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, Enlightenment Intensive Master, a Tai Chi practitioner since 1970, and an avid nature enthusiast. 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 BreathworkTM and bio-spiritual energetics and has authored five books in the field of transformational psychology and breathwork.
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