Wall of love for Soma+IQ™ Practitioner Training

I attended the Somatiq Breathwork training in Austin TX back in 09/2023. I attended hoping to gain some insights as a performer about the breath. I left with a completely new outlook on the life I've been living up to this point. Besides witnessing others have huge breakthroughs in their lives during the training, I experienced the profound realization of my own that a) I talk too much, b) I don't mean everything I speak, c) I shut people down when they're angry, d) I shut myself down when I'm angry, and e) that I've never truly experienced COMMUNITY before this training with these people in Austin, TX. I cannot tell you how grateful I am for the lessons learned, the tools gathered, not just to be a better professional but to navigate this world with space for us all to respond to what's happening to us. This training was necessary for me, even if I never become a full breathwork practitioner, I was lead to this work, I felt called here, and I left with a larger sense of power and compassion for myself and other people. Never in my life have I written in my gratitude journal that I was grateful for other people in general. Sure I've been grateful for individuals or groups who benefit me but I am truly grateful after this experience that other people are out here living along side me. Thank you to all the Somatiq Team. I felt so cared for while I went through so much adjusting. I felt trusted with the knowledge and faith in me. Thank you for one of the most important pieces of education I've had to date.

Somatic Breathwork Training has been a transformative journey that has left a profound impact on my life and those around me. The largest realization I've had from joining this training is the incredible power of our breath in healing and self-discovery. It's amazing how something as natural as breathing can unlock such deep, positive changes within us. As a Somatic Breathwork Practitioner, I've witnessed the ripple effect of this transformation in my own life and in the lives of those around me. Friends and family have benefited from my newfound ability to guide them through breathwork sessions, helping them reduce stress, gain clarity, and tap into their inner resilience. It's an incredible gift to be able to share this practice and see its positive impact on others. My favorite part of the Practitioner Training and SomatIQ Creators was the sense of community and support. The training provided a space for connection and growth with like-minded individuals. The collaborative learning and shared experiences were both enriching and inspiring. It truly felt like a supportive family, and that made the journey even more rewarding. I wholeheartedly recommend Somatic Breathwork Training to anyone seeking personal growth, self-discovery, and the tools to help others on their healing journeys. Whether you're a wellness professional or simply someone looking to enhance your own well-being, this training offers profound insights and skills that can transform lives. The knowledge gained here is a gift that keeps on giving, and I couldn't be more grateful for this life-changing experience. Joining the Somatic Breathwork community is a decision you won't regret, and it has the potential to positively impact your life and the lives of those you touch.

This practitioner training was absolutely wonderful: intentional, practical, grounded, inspiring, thorough, and realistic. To be equipped with tools that help you iron out the wrinkles in yourself and then to learn that skillset to help others, that is truly an incredible gift to give yourself and receive. What I appreciated most about this practitioner training though was its authenticity and humility. Jaggers, Fish, and the instructors are very clear about the need to really understand the mechanics/framework of the SomaticIQ/Somatic Breathwork practice and the importance of multiple real world applications/practice to refine your comfort to help others. They do an incredible job introducing the notion that our job is to be weary of doing too much in our overeagerness to help others have a release. The expectation setting and corralling was the best part. It showed me the wealth of experience these guys had in helping others and seeing a diversity of experiences so that we could be present, observant, in-tune, and cognizant of what signals someone is giving us to allow us to help them and where we should tread lightly. Anyone could benefit from this, and I wish the SomaticIQ modality of breathwork was something taught more broadly at a younger age. Thank you all for creating a space to feel safe, vulnerable, a curious novice, and structuring the training so we get multiple reps and feedback in implementing the SomaticIQ Breathwork framework. This was awesome!

The SomatIQ Breathwork training gave me the realization that this breathwork practice is different than many other types of breathwork, as I have experienced firsthand. While other breathwork practices also activate a client’s sympathetic nervous system, most other practices do not have a follow-on “repatterning” phase in which the client’s parasympathetic nervous system is activated to help close-out the breathwork session gently so that the client is not left in a potentially “blasted off” state at the end of the session. I got so much out of the in-person training because of the hands-on, experiential training coupled by verbal support from Steven, Fish and the other veteran practitioners who were supporting the training. My two favorite things from the in-person training was 1) helping to facilitate the almost 100-person, public breathwork session in downtown Austin on the last day of training, and 2) being able to hear Steven and Fish’s daily insights and wisdom during the training. Witnessing the public session gave me a glimpse of how this breathwork movement is transforming lives. I left the 4-day training more inspired and hopeful that because of the work born out of the wisdom from individuals like Steven and shepherded to others via Fish’s prompting, clients have another potential modality to help them tap into their own innate wisdom for self-transformation. Thank you, Steven, Fish and the whole SomatIQ Breathwork team. You are radically changing lives. See you at the future Level 2 training. 🙏 ❤️

I went into this 4 day in person training looking to liberate myself from limiting beliefs that were holding me back to take the next step in my practice now that we moved here to the US from Peru. The amount of wisdom, knowledge, love, support, allowance to express and safety I experienced, can easily be one of the best of my life. The SomatIQ team was the best team you could ask for. I could see them in my mind and heart, like the perfect piece of music. All nsync, all holding the best of Spaces every time. I left there feeling Empowered, dull of joy, humble and ready to experience this Amazing practice myself and share with whom ever needs it. It’s just tapping and working with the best gift life gave us, our Breath.

This training was way beyond anything I expected. I went in with an idea of what I wanted to do, and I’ve walked away with a clear sense of purpose and a community that I know has my back. Jagger and Fish have created a movement that is teaching us how to connect with each other and relearn what it really means to be human. It was a true gift to learn from these amazing humans and an honor to be able to join the SomatIQ breathwork family.

As we are wrapping up SomatIQ Creators, I want to say thank you to Jeremy and the SBW team for all your wisdom and support the last few months. This course is fantastic because it pulls everything together from the practitioner training, and it taught me how to gain clarity on my brand and be more consistent in reaching new audiences. I have more engagement on what I post and have made some amazing connections within my local community by listening to the advice of our mentors and learning to put myself out there without judgment. There is so much value in this course to take your expansion with Somatic Breathwork to the next level! Highly recommend!

What I experienced at Somatic Breathwork in Texas, during my hands-on training...has not only changed me, but the world around me. Before I flew to you guys I thought I was just learning a technique...but it was soo much more. Nothing is the same, no stone is left unturned. I was able to learn so much about myself first. To come into such an incredibly deep connection to myself in order to be able to hold others in the depths. Gaining an understanding of what trauma is, what our bodies are doing great for us. To honor that and it makes me so grateful to be able to live and pass it on. As if I had found the treasure... the answer to all questions. I feel so empowered and at peace and at the same time so fired up under my butt to bring this into the world. Steven, Fish, Nadeem and the team...thank you from the bottom of my heart for that...your heart, your intention, your purpose, love. I'm about to cry …you have overwhelmed me time and time again. I can't wait for part 2. You changed me, my life. My clients are so touched...to be back in their bodies, to release the pressure, to clear, to be able to feel deeply and finally fully again. I am a very different mom and woman. All of this has taken hold...not only as knowledge, it has taken hold in my soul, my body, in every cell, my soul and my life. Every single moment. It took me a long time to integrate everything, it was a lot but now I am. Let's go. Thanks for everything and I hope to see you very soon. So much love from Berlin Conny Großmann

* Describe the largest impact on your life or business since taking the training. * Major HOLY shifts been happening in my life since taking the training in August 2022, San Diego. The timing could have not been so perfectly aligned as I was transitioning out of the military. Clients have actually just been coming my way and asking about this modality, being curious about it! I have been in so much awe and gratitude. * It’s been indescribable of how I have been effected and impacted by receiving the somatic breathwork with another practitioner, then to give it away has increased my capacity and container on a multitude and multifaceted way. * How have others around you benefited from you becoming a Somatic Breathwork Practitioner? * Energetically, those around me have been able to reap the fruit or results of me becoming a Somatic Breathwork Practitioner. Friends and family commented on how they are not only able to connect with me in depth and width, but themselves as well cause they are seeing me embody the concept in real life. * What has shifted in working 1:1 or in group settings with clients? * This is hard to answer or respond to. I have shifted and gain deeper abilities to be response-able towards 1:1 and group clients. Before, I felt too overwhelmed by the idea of doing a group session, but after the first session and witnessing for myself the power of the modality… I’m all in. I really enjoy watching each person have their powerful experience and expression. * What was your favorite part about/during the Practitioner Training and/or SomatIQ Creators? * I enjoyed seeing and feeling the collective movement grow together in pursuit of SomatIQ. I loved the freedom in watching each practitioner integrate this into their own practices and business. My favorite part about this training was knowing that I did not have to travel far to know that people like this can exist and do exist in REAL LIFE. * Explain how someone else could benefit from take this training. * Nothing else would make more sense until you take this training. I have not seen anything out on the “market” per se that really connects the mind, body, and spirit through the innate ways of being human. This is what you’ve been waiting and looking for. All my seasons of preparation, growth, and healing finally had the ability to align in a harmonious way when I took this training.

The SBW Practitioner Training was such an eye opening experience for me. I was only attending for my own personal growth, however, I received so much more. I was able to redefine what love and power mean to me. But most importantly I found my freedom in my vulnerability, in my presence. In a way it can be said that I received my humanity back. My passion and my fire to help create a better world, something I had lost long ago, are back. Needless to say, I am moving forward with bringing this into my community.

This training profoundly impacted my ability to be of service while walking beside my clients on their personal healing journey. I am continuously humbled by post session shares and insights of how my clients are finding closure, gaining clarity, feeling lighter and at peace. I see powerful physical and emotional change in every session and most importantly, I'm witnessing improved quality of life as a result of helping people let go of what no longer serves, to re-member and to know that everything they need is already within them. This training, this organization and all of the people supporting it share the same fire, the same mission. The world needs this and people are ready, they are asking for ways to more deeply connect with themselves, find their way "home" and thrive. I'm so grateful I said yes to this certification and followed my heart.

I worked in a variety of childcare settings for about 10 years and felt deeply about providing authentic, responsive and respective care to babies and toddlers while supporting parents to connect with their children in this way as well. I was met with such resistance over and over again and finally made the connection that most parents I was working with were not treating themselves this way so they were not able to give it to their children. This made a huge shift for me in wanting to work with adults, to give the adults what I wish every parent could give to their child, to support their healing and connection to self so they can connect with their children more. So many times throughout my training I was thinking to myself these are things that I have been doing with the children I worked with and my own children for years: creating space and time for expression of feelings. Being an empathetic witness to what they were feeling and it was so affirming to now learn how to do this with adults. I went to the training in Austin TX in April and it was one of the most profound experiences of my life. It was imprinted on my soul and I am loving how my life is unfolding since.

Somatic breathwork saved my life. I had been doing the talk therapy, medication, self medication route for over 10 years. January of 2022 I had a complete meltdown and I knew a friend who was a practitioner. I thought I might as well try it as I have tried everything else and I wanted to support a friend. After my first session it was like nothing I had every experienced. My husband and I talked for 4 hours that night and reconnected on a whole new level. After my third session I truly felt the power was back in my hands. After a year my same friend had wanted to expand her practice and had asked me if I was interested and if I was I should take the same training. I nervously signed up and I’m so glad I did. The safety and power felt by that many people holding space for me and seeing me for who I was with no judgment was changing in and of itself. The instructors and team were amazing. They flow like a family and really care about every individual who walks through that door. I now know I can do this and I am able to help others feel so good being in their body. I’m now comfortable facilitating and holding space for others. This has changed the way I interact with my children. This will teach them how to truly live in their bodies and honestly there is no greater feeling. I am so grateful for this opportunity and to be a part of the somatIQ family.

Somatic Breathwork is not just a world class training it's an inspiring movement impacting thousands. Real transformation happens from on the inside out and Somatic Breathwork has been one of the keys not only in my own personal journey of healing but as a new doorway to access profound changes for my clients. If you are in the business of healing and want to learn a cutting edge breathwork practice and be surrounded by a community with integrity and love, I highly recommend Somatic Breathwork.

I finished the in-person Austin training a few weeks ago and delivered my first practice sessions this weekend. I learned that I can't do this wrong because all anyone ever needs is someone to hold the space and be there walking the journey next to them. They are doing the Work, we're just being the witness when they need it. The feedback from my participants has already been fantastic. I've been able to recruit people that normally wouldn't be into "hippy dippy things like this" (their words) and now they're sold for life. I was apprehensive as to whether I had what it takes to finish the practicum but at the in-person training, working on actual clients, gave me the confidence and the deep knowing that this is what I'm meant to do. It was, and continues to be during each session, something magical and undeniable. Forever thankful!

* Describe the largest impact on your life or business since taking the training. Since taking the training I have confidently guided my clients through deep inner work and trauma healing, effectively releasing them from what was holding them back from living the best expression of themselves. * How have others around you benefited from you becoming a Somatic Breathwork Practitioner? My clients have stated with guidance through breathwork, they have been able to release themselves of crippling anxiety, some thing they had never been able to do before on their own. * What has shifted in working 1:1 or in group settings with clients? With the breathwork training I have had the confidence to market myself as an expert in the field of somatic breathwork which has brought in Marie 1:1 clients and group session opportunities.

Incorporating breathwork into my coaching business has been profound for so many! Alchemizing the two modalities has deepened my clients integratin. Because I have incorporated breathwork, I have regulated my nervous system, become more authentically myself therefore others around me, are free to be themselves. Working 1:1 is personal for my clients. We are able to process deeper & more personal. In a group setting, the benefit has been the ability for clients to coregulate with others & feel freer to express when others are as well! The training was incredible! I loved how the science made so much sense! Then to experience it as a larger group, so profound for me. Being with other like minded individuals really helped for me to feel supported! I would highly encourage anyone who works with people, parents, or anyone at all who desires to uncover who they really are, regulate their nervous system to join this certification! These are life skill’s & everyone truly can benefit!! Thank you to the entire Somatic breath work community for offering this!

Somatic Release Breathwork has been a game changer when it comes to creating a life from my fullest expression, and leading others to theirs. The practices of releasing emotions in the breathwork space directly relates to the ability to express emotions, desires, and needs authentically in real life. Everything the body has the capability to feel is intelligent, and Somatic Breathwork has taught me to view the innate intelligence as a guidepost to my highest alignment in both my internal world, external circumstances, and relational awareness.

The Somatic Breathwork training was one of the best decisions I have made! Since doing the training, I have consistently led monthly group Somatic Breathwork offerings for my local community. This has deepened my passion for facilitating transformational experiences and guiding others as they elevate their state of being. It has been incredible to receive feedback from participants and to hear how positively impactful the experience was for them. Every time I complete a session, I feel humbled and grateful to witness the power of this work. One of my favorite parts of guiding this breathwork experience is how it takes people out of the mind and into the body. They are the healer, and we are the guide. It is profound to witness the body's innate wisdom and how it knows what to do. Somatic Breathwork creates the space and the opportunity for this work to take place. On a personal level, I have reached new levels of transformation and connection within myself and my nervous system. My business is growing in new ways through this offering as well. One of my favorite parts of the training was meeting many wonderful people! I am still connected with many of the people from my training. It is one big Somatic Breathwork, fam. And it keeps growing! I love how the SBW team is deeply committed to adding value to the practitioners. Over the last year since my training (April 2022), the offerings and value-added from the SBW team have been excellent and keep getting better! I highly recommend this training for anyone looking to guide others in a profoundly transformative way. A big thank you to the SBW team!

Adding Somatic Breathwork to my toolbelt has changed my life, business, and every other space I hold. Since the training, I have been able to clear SO much somaticaly that was otherwise not available for clearing or integration with any other modality. My business has exploded and I now use SB in every single group container and retreat I hold. It continues to be transformational every single time. The formula and the training SB provides is impeccable even if you just take the training for yourself and never practice on others. It will teach you how to truly heal, be of service, and hold sacred space. I cannot recommend this tool and the training more.

Somatic Breathwork training has been one of the best investments I have taken. The knowledge and practices I have taken away are life changing and the healing I got during the training when we did breath work made it even more worth it! I do it all over again for the healing that happened. This training has made me a better space holder in my other line of business and a lot of it has carried over. I feel more confident and loving bringing the power of the breath with my clients outside of Breathwork. I’m currently working at a retreat center in Costa Rica and I get to lead the Breathwork sessions here which is exciting to me and wouldn’t have been possible without this training. It’s opening up new doors! If you’re someone thinking of doing this training I say listen to your heart! You don’t know what’s going to open up for you!

I am a full time licensed mental health therapist and I specialize in mindfulness and somatic-based approaches. Somatic Breathwork has been a fantastic addition to my toolbelt. It has significantly helped my clients in releasing pent up emotions/trauma. This is especially useful for those clients who have a difficult time talking about their experience because this is more of a bottom up approach, it doesn't require talking to be effective. Oftentimes, those are the clients that are turned away from typical therapy because they seem fine on the outside and since they have a hard time talking about their experience they are told they don't need therapy. Somatic Breathwork has been great for almost all of my clients but especially for clients like this. I am now a Somatic Breathwork adjunct therapist for a few other therapists at the practice I work for. I have done two group events so far, the second one I facilitated on my own and it was very powerful for the participants (there were 5 of them.) I am co-facilitating a healing event next month with another somatic-based therapist and she is going to guide our participants in an hour of somatic yoga and I am going to lead Somatic Breathwork. I really enjoy doing 1:1 SBW sessions with my clients way more than I used to. I'll admit I go a bit off script from the training and create a lot of my cues based on the intention they set for the session. It feels more personalized and I have gotten great feedback about it, it also helps so that it's not the same session every time. I remember how nervous I was when I first started as a SBW practitioner, it will be a year at the end of May since I was originally trained and I have improved so much and have become so much more confident in trusting myself and my ability to read people and attune to them. I think the practicum part of the training was the most beneficial for me as it allowed me to practice how I would use this technique with clients in the real world.

Breath work has impacted my life in so many ways in just the short time I started training until now. I’ve noticed when I’m aligned and connected to my body and breath, the person next to me starts to feel calm and comfortable especially when I feel they’re overwhelmed before being in a space with me. Being in the training allowed me to find strength in vulnerability and courage to speak to others about my pain and joy without feeling guilty. It allowed me to actually FEEL what I needed to FEEL in a way that felt RIGHT. I’ve only held a few sessions so far but the look in each ones eyes speak volumes. To show someone how powerful their breath can be and hearing the feedback about how they never realized they needed that in their life confirms each time this is what I’m meant to bring into peoples lives.

Since taking the Somatic Breathwork course and becoming a certified practitioner everything about my life has changed. I collaborated with two other practitioners and created a company called EXHALE BOISE. Together we host group events 5-10 times per month and impact so many lives each week. The work is unbelievably satisfying and being able to offer this beautiful modality has changed each of our lives in a profound way. We mainly focus on group events so we can impact more lives at once and with three practitioners working together we can easily host events over 30 people. My favorite part of the training was literally everything. Just being in the presence of Jaggers and Fisher and learning the fundamentals of breath and how to facilitate Somatic Breathwork is such a gift. Anyone who wants to make a huge impact on your community and love what you do, knowing you are changing lives each session would love this course! Thank you so much for developing such a beautiful modality. Can’t wait for level 2!

The largest impact this program has made on my life, is the power it has given me to show up in the world as my true self, it’s given me the confidence to stand in a room full of others, speaking, and guided others back to their self. My favorite part about the training was the community you gain and the amount of love you leave with, the feeling of oneness. I truly believe anyone in the world could benefit from this training, this modality will change the world.