Ivan Broad Counselling, EMDR & Breathwork Therapy

24/03/2026

20/03/2026

6 hours sleep a night and feel more energy than ever!!!!

The more conscious breathing I do the healthier I am. The more daily conscious breathing I have done the more my addictions have fallen away without strategies to manage them.

It started with conscious connected breathing, a way of flushing energy through my body. What seemed fixed was able to be more fluid and when I could feel energies in my body as fluid I became more fluid in my body and mind.

I was immobile through two slipped disks, my pelvis was jammed up and I mostly wanted to drink alcohol and eat junk food and sleep to escape the pain.

7 years on from starting my conscious breathing journey I am completely pain free, am rarely ill, wake up full of energy and have a clear and sharp mind. I exercise every morning and have an average of 6 hours sleep because my body wakes me breathing consciously at 4 or 5am.

Is it the practice, is it the dedication, is it that conscious breathing is just something I am good at or is it a practice that can work for anyone.

I believe it can be a life changing practice for everyone but first you work with a practitioner to work through blocks. I needed a practitioner for a few years to push against, to hold me through the perceived breakdowns that were actually breakthroughs. The body does breakdown through the process, let’s go of stuckness and everything that was held in tightly.

It is a personal journey and is courageous work. Without a practitioner to support me I would have thought it was along my life worse, with them I was able to continue to let go of the patterning and conditioning that made me stuck.

I know that talking therapy can only touch the surface regarding change. Working with the body and mind/brain with conscious breathing opens up so much more that is necessary for long lasting change and improved health.

I know because I have lived it over the past 7 years. I had to work with the truth rather than my preferences. I don’t like the feeling of this is not the same as it not being beneficial to me in breaking through conditioning.

My latest breakthrough has been with sugar. I have not craved sugar for the last two months and have had the addiction for 50 years. Something has fundamentally shifted and it’s because of my conscious breathing practice.

If you make conscious breathing a daily practice it will change your life as it’s changed mine.

Conscious breathing allows access to a deeper intelligence, an unwavering knowing and clarity.

15/03/2026

Processing trauma can take time because the energy from it integrates one wave, one layer at a time.

Giving time and working at a manageable pace are good ways to approach trauma work. The more pressure the more it works against what you want to achieve.

Take time pressure off yourself and the body feels less pressure.

12/03/2026

Please share if you know anyone who might be interested in attending 🙏

03/03/2026

Each Breathwork session is a rebirth, an updating of your system, an intimate conversation between your body and your breath.

28/02/2026

I had a lovely time with Azuro today. His energy was high walking into the arena. I imagined my energy dropping through my hands and feet and a couple of minutes later he walked slowly with his neck extending down and stayed by my side.

We enjoyed this for 20 minutes and then he nudged me gently in the back so I stopped and turned to stand with him. As you can see, he rested his hind leg and and our connection remained quiet and mindful.

26/02/2026

March Breathing Circle on Sunday 1st.

If you want to feel some relief from stress and tension then breathing consciously might be for you.

During the session we will breathe conscious and use sound to bring relief to the body and mind.

Often people feel lighter, access an inner peace that is new, let go of tension and stress amd/or feel energised at the end.

Please email me at info@ivanbroadcounselling.co.uk or use the payment button on my website:

www.ivanbroadcounselling.co.uk/monthly-breathing-circles/

I look forward to see you there 😃

25/02/2026

Maybe you are a newly qualified therapist or a counsellor with years of experience but want to learn about deeper connections in therapeutic relationships.

The good thing is that the information is right there in your living breathing body.
The workshop will help you to gather the information in a somatic way.

17/02/2026

CPD day coming in April for Counsellors and Psychotherapists to deepen their skills and practice.

17/02/2026

I know I will be ok is a thought of trust, a knowing within the body. When you know you know. When there is no doubt the body relaxes.

When you reach this place you neither need to try to control things outside of yourself or things within yourself.

EMDR and Breathwork can show where we are in the knowing process. They help us notice the thoughts and feelings and if we can allow them to flow and know we will be ok.

Noticing without judgement, noticing without holding yourself back. Watching the process helps you know how you might be holding, stopping, fearing.

Becoming conscious of your internal process is always useful because it offers choice. Choice to let go or continue to hold or stop the flow. Either are available and your choice and decision are the most important aspects in your journey.

29/01/2026

Hope to see you on Sunday 😃