north east regional extra | December 23 - 29, 2020
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December 23 - 29, 2020
Taking time to breathe By ANITA McPHERSON
A MYRRHEE resident who founded an innovative health and wellbeing organisation, is determined to help young people learn to self-regulate their emotions and build their resilience. Beata Heymann is the founder of Breath Circle an organisation which works directly with schools to empower students and teachers through the practise of mindful breathing. Students are taught to connect to and experience the power and depth of their breath, and to understand how breathing affects emotions, energy levels and focus. But the path to this method of enlightenment was discovered by Beata some time ago. A trained social worker, Beata spent 10 years working in a drop-in centre in a busy multicultural community in Melbourne catering to local families who’d migrated from places including South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Vietnam. She developed close relationships with the families and children aged six to 16 who’d experienced trauma or difficulties in their lives, either directly through their own experiences of hardship like civil war, or indirectly through their parents. She started practising and teaching yoga in different communities, including at a youth centre in Fitzroy and in women’s shelters and refuges, where trauma-informed programs were being offered.
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◆ FINDING PEACE: It was through exploration and experimentation to heal herself, that led to Beata Heymann founding the Breath Circle program.
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