public and the Breathwork community about Breathwork and also to promote your writing. Our goal is to keep adding to this over time and possibly add your relevant youtube videos.
If you are a member and would like us to add your blogs, articles or videos to the ABA website please contact the secretary with a link to your work for us to add. secretary@breathworkassociation.org.au

The ABA Committee recently met in Hobart to get together face to face and breathe, inspire, and plan around the ABA and it's members.
We were inspired by the beautiful bushland, connection with nature and connection with each other that occurred over the weekend.
The key outcomes and areas of focus for the committee over the next few years are all around consolidating resources for membership and growing the membership base :

1. To raise the credibility of Breathwork and conscious connected breathing to reach more people with this incredible tool.

• Connections with International Breathwork Community (IBF) and work with them for Breathwork as a whole
• Investigate ways to collect data about the effectiveness of Breathwork (IBF are also initiating a project to do this with Dr Philippa (Pippa) Wheble MBChB, BSc (Hons) Pharmacology, DRCOG, MRCGP (UK) who is on the IBF UN Team which co-ordinates activities relating to the IBF and its association to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations).
• Create a library of current research on the ABA website for access by ABA members and the public
• Seek case studies from ABA members

2. Community and Collaboration

• Promote Professional Members
  • Member Spotlight - Online interviews with members to post on ABA youtube and website
  • Seek existing member podcasts and YouTube videos to share in FB and load to ABA you tube channel
  • Encourage Breathing Circles in each state by providing themes and formats for members to use
  • Promote member authored books relevant to Breathwork
  • Share member blogs and articles on FB
• Breathe Australia Conference to bring the Breathwork community together annually in November

3. Education

• Education/Support for members
  • Online Member Mentoring sessions
  • Breathe Australia Conference
• Educating the public
  • developing a resource library on the website
  • maintaining and increasing available information

4. ABA processes

• continue to refine the smooth running of the ABA back end in support of providing a solid association for the members.
• updating and simplify the joining and renewing processes online
• creating a members only login area
• documenting and maintaining background processes

5. ABA Peak Body for Breathwork in Australia

• Continue to endorse trainers trainings against the ABA Training Standards to increase the potential for membership.

The Committee are looking forward to another productive year on behalf of the ABA and it's members.
We are also currently looking for volunteers to assist on one or more of the subcommittees. If you have any skills or passion for Marketing and Communications or for organising conferences we would love to hear from you. You would be part of a team that shared tasks and met periodically online throughout the year. Please email: Jennylee the Secretary

Where were you born?  Finland

What is your favourite thing to do that is just for you?  Yoga practice in nature. Swim in the ocean. Mountaineering. Ok that’s three things…..

Are you an early bird or a night owl?  Night owl by nature but as a mother of young children (who are early birds) more of an early bird these days…

What do you love about Breathwork?  In short, the end result. Feeling the full extent of my emotions, letting myself go there, the release… Maybe there isn’t a short answer to this!!!

What do you love about working with your fellow committee members?  I’m loving to get to know other breathworkers from different lineages. It’s relaxed, nobody takes themselves too seriously.

Are you a mountains or beach person, or something else?    Both mountains and ocean are super important to me, actually (see above)! If I had to choose between the two…Not sure which I would pick. Lucky I can have both in my life.
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What are you passionate about? Emotional freedom and personal transformation. We can change the world by changing our inner world! 

Cindy holds Level 1 and Level 2 Breathwork trainings over a 10 month period each year, along with monthly breathing circles and much more from the Hobart Breathing Space.
"I am guided and deeply nourished by the natural world, particularly among the foothills of Mount Wellington. Nature is my greatest, wisest and most beloved teacher. My guidance, teaching and healing work is constantly informed by this relationship." 
At her home Cindy enjoys the company of a family of kookaburras that entertain her daily with their antics.

Find out more about Cindy through Journey to the Heart and the Hobart Breathing Space