The CBRT curriculum teaches the full spectrum of research-based insights and time-tested self-regulation skills:

MODULE I: Embracing Suffering with Body Mindfulness

Bringing mindful awareness to our breathing body helps us reconnect with our inner lives, to embrace the experience of being in a sensitive body, vulnerable to pleasure and pain, and to begin releasing the survival habits of stress, trauma, and reactivity.

MODULE II: Stopping Reactive Habits with Mindful Sensitivity

Staying in touch with the raw feel of our inner lives with mindful sensitivity helps us maintain balanced awareness through the ups, downs, and plateaus of pleasant, painful, and neutral experience, to anticipate reactivity, and to replace the urge to avoid or crave with the ease of acceptance and care.

MODULE III: Breaking Free of Stress with Open Awareness

Mindful Awareness trains us to cut through the mesh of reactive habits and stress instincts that normally block the full openness and clarity of our human mind. It empowers us to own and awaken the boundless potential for learning, unlearning, freedom and creativity dormant in us all. 

MODULE IV: Mindful Insight: The Lifelong Path of Self-Healing

In Mindful Insight we engage our open mind to expose the habits of thinking, feeling, and acting that shape our mindset, empowering our inner therapist to cut the roots of reactivity and grow proactive new ways of being in the world. 

Intermezzo

The relation between Mindfulness and Compassion: an integration of the first four weeks with forthcoming modules.

MODULE V: Disarming Social Stress and Bias with Equal Empathy

With the basic insights and practices of mindfulness-based self-healing in place, we are prepared to extend that awareness and care out to our interactions with others. Using the practice of Equal Empathy we begin to unlearn the implicit social survival biases and reactive emotions that make all our interactions stressful while deepening and expanding our sense of connection to others.  

MODULE VI: Healing Reactive Emotions and Beliefs with Self-Compassion

With more of a sense of our common humanity, we explore where our social stress and suffering comes from, and what can be done to prevent it. Using the practice of Self-Compassion, we learn to view our confused childhood selves with a wise, caring mind and begin to see through our myopic cocoon and inner monologue to reparent ourselves one breath at a time by replacing self-enclosure and self-criticism with the mature insight and care our hearts need to heal, grow, and change. 

MODULE VII: Cultivating Prosocial Emotions with Wise Give and Take

As we grow the ability to free our minds of self-limiting biases, emotions and beliefs, we gain access to our full natural potential to expand our circle of positive social engagement. Using the practice of Wise Give and Take, we explore our boundless human potential for care and strengthen our social muscles of love, joy and equanimity, and realize our full human capacity for feeling safe with and deeply connected to others. 

MODULE VIII: Embodying a Resilient Self and Life with Caring Imagery

To accelerate the natural process of positive human development we use the power methods based on embodied techniques to progressively grow and own our natural capacities for love, compassion and altruism. Focusing on visualization practice, we take inspiration in real or imagined role models of wise care who enable us to stretch our traumatic sense of self into a fully empowered, resilient and compassionate self.  

This course consists of:

• Eight live online sessions (eight modules and an extra intermezzo module on the platform). Each class includes guided meditations, didactic explanations, and class discussion.

• Access to course online platform that includes:   

  • Student Manual

  • Course module videos explaining science, practice and course theories, by Joe Loizzo, MD, PhD, CBRT Creator.

  • Course videos demonstrating breathwork practices, by Mar Aige, CBRT Teacher

  • Guided Practices

  • Supplemental Reading 

I believe in accessibility to my courses. Thus, I offer a sliding scale. Please mindfully consider the option that best suits you.

Please check dates and times and sign up if you can attend all or most of the sessions. Missing one session is sometimes unavoidable, but if possible, this should not be the first or last class. Missed classes are non-refundable.

Cancellation Policy

A full refund will be returned if you notify Victoria Fontana of your cancellation prior to the start of and up to the first session. There is no refund for cancellation as of session 2. Participants needing to withdraw after course start (session 2 or beyond) will have the option to attend a future cohort within the same calendar year (from course start date), if available, only upon written request before their original course ends.