In Sydney, Australia, we hooked up with one of the most powerful women in the worldwide breathwork community we have met as yet. Jonine Lee not only has an active full time breathwork practice in Sydney, but is the president of the Australian Breathwork Association that is giving breathwork in Australia an accredited position in the healing arts.

Jonine has been practicing and training others in breathwork for over 20 years, and graciously accepted the job of organizing events for us in Sydney on our Pacific Tour, which she carried off with great aplomb and grace. We are so happy to have made a new friend who is so committed to this wonderful work of liberating people from their negative and toxic thoughts through the power of the breath. We stayed with Jonine over the span of a week, and had many opportunities to spread the good news of breathwork to the people of Sydney. The workshops were well attended, which speaks of the fruit Jonine has nurtured and cultivated over the years in her building of the local and national breathwork community.

I have found your therapy very helpful as you focus on healing the emotional wounds rather than people's behaviours. Many of my patients (I discover more and more) were wounded by their past experience and never had a chance to process the unfinished emotions which form a type of pathological coping mechanism that carries on into the present life.

This mechanism can be in the way of physical recovery unless undone at the root. Many of my patients who see you have huge breakthroughs in their ability to function emotionally and hence progress in their physical healing.

Patients I would send to see you mostly fall into these categories:
Adrenal maladaptation syndrome (Hyperthalamus-pituitory-adrenal axis dysfunction) Eating disorder or inability to adhere to dietary intervention Chronic illnesses that do not respond to maximum nutritional and medical support Anxiety and depression resistant to treatment.

I am very thankful for having found Jonine Lee two years ago at an Innerchild/Core Connection Workshop Weekend. My life has changed dramatically since that weekend, I remember clearly thinking; ‘there is so much to learn from this woman’.

During the past 20 years, I have studied and tried many techniques and a variety of counseling and health modalities, but Core Connection Breathwork is definitely the modality that has assisted most in me gaining a much clearer understanding of myself, my life and my soul’s purpose.

My life was going fine prior to meeting Jonine, however the huge changes and discoveries I experienced for myself with Jonine’s unique style of Breathwork and personal development weekends, got me wanting to study it further, since then my life just keeps getting better and better. I have done the training with her over the past 2 years and now incorporate Core Connection Breathwork in my own practice, as it just works so well. It is such a pleasure to love the work I do, express my passion around it and a real bonus to get paid for it!

I have attended her workshop weekends on Family Constellations as well as Creating Loving Relationships, which has definitely made all the difference to my relationships. My partner and I have also seen Jonine together for relationship counselling and we are much closer and real about our love for each other, this having a really positive effect on our quality of life with the kids, friends and life in general.

Having experienced Breathwork with other practitioners no one even comes close to what Jonine has to offer, this includes the good value with the amount of information and care received for money.

What I find very unique with Jonines style of teaching is her level of deep knowledge and wisdom as well as the way she holds the group energy together allowing and supporting each individual to go as deep as the person wants to go, in a safe and very effective way. She offers a completely different kind of support to anything I have seen, embracing ones own sense of responsibility, always giving me the support to step up to making the most out of life for myself. If you want more out of life I highly recommend any of her courses and sessions, it is so worth it!

I have been working with Jonine for over two years, initially in individual counselling and Breathwork sessions, moving on to doing all three of her workshops, Core Connection to Self, Creating Love and Family Constellations and eventually training to be a practitioner with her too. It was hard work to begin with but I loved Jonine’s no-nonsense approach to self-responsibility and with her loving support solidly behind me I made some amazing progress, making changes in my life that I would never have dreamed possible.

Never having done any group work before, it was quite a challenge to participate in workshops but in every one I have been a part of there has been an environment of safety created by Jonine that made me feel I was not alone, and that it was okay for me to put myself 'out there' and as a result the learning's were just incredible!

In the Innerchild work I learned that it was okay to like and even love myself and how to take care of the wounded little girl hidden deep inside of me, in Creating Love I learned about soulful love and how to make that work in relationships, with my husband and children and mother, and in Family Constellations I learned about the dynamics in my family of origin and saw more clearly how it was affecting my life now …Through them all I have also learnt so much about parenting our teenagers, about expectations and boundaries in family life. The weekends are full on but with plenty of time for sharing and connecting with others... they really set me on my way, giving me much-needed tools for life and also a network of like-minded people for support.

The Breathwork Practitioner Training has been amazing to say the least, deepening my connection to self and also increasing my passion for Breathwork because of the results I have seen it bring, not only for myself but in others too. Jonine is a wonderful mentor and teacher, naturally and soulfully able to pass on her wealth of knowledge and experience, not withholding anything that she perceives to be beneficial for another. Jonine is the most ‘present’ person I have ever known and that reflects in her ability to connect and be totally present … one-on-one, in a workshop setting and as a teacher and friend.

My first experience of the magical Innerchild/Core Connection Workshops that Jonine Lee facilitates was in September 2001. My participation in the workshop on that spring day changed my life forever and bought me amazing insights, beautiful healing and a greater sense of peace and connection to myself than I had experienced for many years.

The transformation became possible for me as I had an overwhelming sense of being safe in Jonine’s presence. For me this was extremely important as I was anxious about sharing my deepest feelings and was afraid of being judged. I needed to feel that the Facilitator was professional, caring and respectful and Jonine had my complete confidence within a very short time of the workshop commencing. With my courage in one-hand and Jonine’s continual encouragement and love I was able to fully experience the magic of my inner child. I thoroughly enjoyed the excursions to the beach for sand play, the creative writing and drawing, the sharing of tears, hugs and many belly laughs with group members.

The workshop was such a powerful experience for me I was inspired to create a new direction in my life. Now, 7 years after my inner child work, I am a fully qualified Counsellor and find great joy in assisting others to reconnect with the beauty and magic of their Inner Self.

In February 2007 I was honoured to attend Jonine’s Core Connection to Self workshop as an Assistant. I found the magic, joy, love and abundance of learning to be ever-present. I continue to be inspired by the awesome ability Jonine has to facilitate this enlightening work and am grateful for the continuing enrichment I experience in my life after these workshops.

The Core Connection training I did with Jonine Lee gave me so much on so many levels. I was stuck in a career that I hated and that did not suit who I was, living somewhere I didn’t love and in a relationship that made me unhappy. It was honestly life changing for me.

Working out what I really wanted in my work with Jonine, I now have 2 businesses that I absolutely love, and that totally suit who I am. I know what I want/need and am able to honour myself enough to ask for it. I am living in a home that I visioned in the training and have a space open for the right relationship to come in. The time with Jonine really taught me that I am ok, and I deserve to go for what I really want now.

I cannot recommend Jonine’s work highly enough. The training comes from a place of great love and nurturing, a depth of knowledge that is amazing, and Jonine has a gift of insight and understanding that creates safety and permission for all involved. It will change your life too!

Breathwork – my life has changed radically and Breathwork has been an integral part of that. From self-doubting, outwardly confident and inwardly such low self-esteem, to IN LOVE WITH LIFE, knowing I’m not perfect, and that’s okay. I love my foibles and my strengths, and my friends accept me as I am. The Breathwork training was the best thing I’ve ever done for myself – participating for my own benefit only, not to become a practitioner and yet along the way I realised I have skills I can share with others.

Family Constellations – words elude me as I try to describe this amazing work. It's confronting and exhausting, and yet powerful, energising and incredibly healing. Magical and yet very simple, this process is best tried rather than talked about - the magic has to be experienced to be believed. I’ve gained a greater sense of acceptance for my family of origin and my place within that system. Family Constellations has empowered me as an individual and as a parent. My kids are confident, well-adjusted individuals despite a split family system and I know that working through my own personal limitations and negative beliefs has been a positive contribution to that.

In the moments between parenting, working and seeing clients, I’m also conducting research for a book about mothering – a book for all of us as we’ve all had a mother. Please contact me if you’d like to know more and maybe participate.

As a small business owner I was having trouble pulling my team together, balancing my workload with family commitments and my stress levels were through the roof. My GP suggested a particular type of counselling and I went along very sceptical about how it could make a difference for me. I was surprised that something so simple and a few key questions could help me regain my focus. It was pretty easy actually.