Curriculum Vitae. Hayy Abdallah Tawfiq Velasco

Personal details

First and Last name: Abdallah Tawfiq Velasco.

Date of birth: 04/11/1945

Place of residence: Madrid

Telephone: +34 627865058

Email carlosvelascomontes@gmail.comail

Website:

Researcher. Psychologist and Psychotherapist at individual and group level. Creator and teacher of Respiratory Psychotherapy® and Fitrah Breathing.

Tireless traveller and seeker. Practitioner of Aikido, Yoga and Tai-Chi, always interested in improving the health of people and to serve them in the processes of accompaniment and psycho-physical-spiritual exploration, to enhance the organic, natural and full breathing.

Academic background

- Psychologist M-15178. Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).

- Radiotelegrapher Officer of the Merchant Navy First Class.

Complementary training

- Naturopathy

- Bio-Gestalt

- Sensitive-Conscious Massage

- Cranio-Sacral Osteopathy

-Osteopathy

- Relational Psychomotricity

- Enneagram

- Research work on Fitrah Breathing/Respiratory Biodinamic more than 30 years.

Publications

- The Teachings of the Knight in Rusty Armour, 15th edition.Obelisk Editions.

- Coming soon...Book of Respiratory Psychotherapy®. Fitrah Breathing, Diagnosis and treatment of respiratory biomechanics. Back to natural breathing

- Fitrah Breathing/Respiratory Psychotherapy®

-Integrative and Transpersonal Psychotherapy®.

- The Art of Breathing Life®

- Breathing Coherence®.

- Breathing and Postural Psychotherapy®

- Primal Chant®

- Primal Voice®

- Involuntary Body Movement® MIC

Academic and Teaching Background

• Lecturer and trainer in Respiratory Psychotherapy® every year since 2012, with an extensive background in teaching, applied research, and specialized training in breathing, respiratory biomechanics, body-oriented psychotherapy, and integrative approaches.

• More than 30 years in private practice and group psychotherapy.

• Has delivered numerous workshops, seminars, and training programs at specialized centers such as Centro Sebastián, Centro Esencia (Barcelona), Sala Yoga (Málaga), among others.

• In Spanish universities and hospitals (University of Cantabria and University of Castilla-La Mancha); as well as in the Hospital Fajardo (Habana), Hospital Virgen del Rocío (Seville), among others.

• Presented papers at two International Conferences of the Enneagram Association, held in Madrid in 2010 and 2011.

• Has carried out teaching and training activities at universities and hospitals,

  including the University of Cantabria, the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Virgen del Rocío Hospital (Seville), and Fajardo Hospital (Havana).

• Between 2003 and 2005, conducted eight workshops at Casa Asia (Barcelona and Madrid) entitled “Breathing in Sufism as a Transformative Path.”

• Participated in four international GIC meetings within the framework of the IBF (International Breathing Conference).

  Has delivered workshops and trainings in Germany, England, France, Austria,

  Portugal and Argentina.

• Workshops on FITRAH BREATHING at Azahara International, Lanjarón, Granada.

• Workshops in Alquería de Rosales.

• “The Fitrah of Respiratory Biomechanics” workshop at the Mezquita Foundation of Seville, weekend format, November 2023.

• Training in Prophetic Medicine 16 classes, online given through the Madrasa Rabbani, Argentina (2021-22).

• Breathing in Sufism as Transformation of the Heart, 8 classes, Madrasa Rabbani.

• Course: Die Before you Die, 6 classes, Madrasa Rabbani

• Workshops on Death from an Islamic Perspective: Learning to Accept One’s Own Death and How to Support a Dying Person. Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Zaragoza, Barcelona y Aranda de Duero.

• Casa Asia (Barcelona and Madrid) 8 workshops ‘Breathing in Sufism as a means of transformation’. Between 2003 and 2005.

• Trips (15) to the desert of Merzouga, Morocco. Group psychotherapy.

• International meetings at the GIC since the IBF (International Breathing Conference).

• Workshop on FITRAH BREATHING at Aechen, Deutschland. 2025

• Presented the paper “Preventive Mental Health Practices in the Fitrah Breathing” at the VIIIth International Spiritual Psychology Symposium, Kütahya Dumlupınar University’s Faculty of Theology, Turkey.

• Lecturer in ISIP (International Students Islamic Psichology) October,24

• Completed fifteen group psychotherapy journeys to the Merzouga Desert (Morocco), focused on experiential processes, psychocorporal regulation, and group work.

• Currently delivering training in Fitrah Breathing / Respiratory Psychotherapy through ISIP (International Student Islamic Psychology).

• On April 4, the Fitrah Breathing / Respiratory Psychotherapy training begins, equivalent to the program currently being delivered in English.

• Was appointed as a shaykh by Shaykh Abdul Kabir of Casablanca (raḥimahullāh), who granted him the authorization (idhn) to lead dhikr and Sufi meditation sessions.

Useful links

- Interview on television BETEVÈ Carlos Velasco Montes, psychologist, expert in breathing https://beteve.cat/terricoles/carlos-velasco-montes/

- Breathing workshop: a tool to improve our health and consciousness’, with Carlos Velasco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyBf0Rn1ATE