Jane Okondo
Jane has been working in private practice in the healing arts since 1994, drawing from her skills as an integrative breath therapist, craniosacral practitioner and art therapist.
Background and Experience:
Jane has been a student of conscious breath since 1990 and has trained in many different practices including Rebirthing Breathwork, Holographic Breath, The Breathable Body, Continuum Breath and Yoga Breath. Her post-graduate studies in craniosacral therapy were with Franklin Sills at the Karuna Institute in Dartmoor and Mike Boxall. This awoke her interest in how the fluid system provides a deep healing intelligence in the body.
At the same time she was training as an Integrative Arts Psychotherapist with the I.A.T.E in London. Jane integrated the use of art and play into her practice with breath therapy, which was the foundation for the One Year Seminar program established with Gerd Lange in Jan 1997. In June 2001 Jane and Gerd founded the InBreath Institute that provided three year training programs in Integrative Breath Therapy.
Jane's focus of research has been on the connection between breath, somatic trauma, and fluid body dynamics in relation to softening and freeing up defense mechanisms. She has studied with Babette Rothschild in Somatic Trauma, and integrated the principles of Continuum movement into her work, studying with Emilie Conrad the founder of Continuum to become an Authorised Continuum Movement teacher. Jane has an MA in Dance: Somatics and Wellbeing and continues to further her research, currently with continual professional training in Infant Movement Development with Linda Hartley.
In November 2009 she co-founded the Somatic Movement Gathering with Mari WInkleman, an organisation that provides Conference and Gatherings in the UK for Somatic Movement, where ideas and practices can be shared and new dialogues developed.
Jane's interest is in creating programs that allow people to escape from living within the survival circuit and opening to living life from deep relaxation, health, and creativity, both within their being, and throughout their daily life.
