My BreakThrough Journey

Aug 03, 2020

By Caroline Linton

"This is most unceremonious," said Esther, "we don't even have a cake."  

In that instant, I knew what was about to happen. I immediately began to shake all over. I had been waiting for this day for over a decade, and it still took me by surprise.

"Happy Graduation Day!"

I looked into the wonderful faces of Esther and Terryann and cried for joy. In that moment, there was no distance between us. The deep inner push to be a BreakThrough Instructor came to me out of the blue while in my first class, over 15 years ago. It never left. I was certain it was a task I could never complete. It was way out of my reach, wasn't it?

Fifteen years later, all those convictions were shaking out of me. I am an Instructor of BreakThrough 1! I just accomplished what I was convinced of, for the longest time, that I could never do.

BreakThrough grabbed me because it gave me something that nothing else gave me. It gave me a sense of clarity in my life I had never known before. I didn't even know that I was searching for clarity. I didn't even know that doing all the courses that I did and being a practitioner, offering services to people, was my way of trying to find clarity in my own life.

So, when I sat in BreakThrough class for the first time, I experienced this clarity. The concepts that were given to me and the way they were presented stirred this clarity within me.

At the time, I knew that this was exactly what I was looking for. "Now I know!" And, of course, that happened to me in every class that I took. "Now I know!" What I knew kept changing. But underneath it all, I would leave class and this feeling would come after a BreakThrough 7 Steps process--a sense of peace in my system, in my body, in my mind, that I'd never experienced before and that nothing else could give me. Nothing else that I had encountered gave me what BreakThrough did. After a lovely massage or a deep craniosacral session, I would have this wonderful, gorgeous feeling, but it seemed to last for short periods of time. It didn't have a lasting effect in the way BreakThrough has for me--the deep shifts in my perspective. I keep saying to people, you can't "un-know" something. Once you know something, you cannot un-know it. The shifts in perspective have stayed with me. My mind might have pulled me back into old scenarios, but that change in perspective stayed.

BreakThrough is the only system that I have encountered that gives me a lasting shift in how I view and live my life. I don't think there is any other system out there that does what BreakThrough does for me.

So that is how BreakThrough became so powerful and important to me and why I am so passionate about it. Everybody in South Africa knows "She's the BreakThrough lady!"

I live in Johannesburg South Africa; I have a wonderful husband and two gorgeous little boys. I have been doing BodyTalk for as long as I have loved BreakThrough. I have not seen much of the world, so I am looking forward to travelling when the world opens and teaching BreakThrough 1 worldwide. It is a daydream that makes me smile and one I know I can realize, because I know everyone needs the opportunity to do this work.

Caroline Linton


It has been over fifteen years since Caroline sat in her first BreakThrough 1 class in South Africa. Already, on the first few days of her introduction to BreakThrough, she found herself putting her hand up and asking, "What are the requirements to become a Breakthrough 1 Instructor?" Since that day, in one way or another, Caroline has been involved with BreakThrough. She has coordinated classes in South Africa for both Terryann (Nikides) and for me. She has lead regular BreakThrough groups to practice and to hone her skills. She has attended any BreakThrough classes she possibly could, and generally immersed herself in the work by receiving regular private sessions too.

With all this experience under belt, her quest to train as an Instructor culminated in a year of intensive BreakThrough 1 Instructor Training. With two small children and a busy BodyTalk practice it was no mean feat to fulfill BreakThrough's intense training requirements. Needless to say, Terryann and I are more than a little proud of our protégé.

Without further ado, Terryann and I have the great joy of announcing that Caroline Linton has realized her dream. Caroline graduated last month as a BreakThrough 1 Instructor and is already all set to teach her first live class ever in S. Africa in September. We highly recommend you attend if you are in that area of the world.

Here is wishing you many, many more classes after that, Caroline, and a great adventure in teaching and your further journey of self-inquiry.

Much love,
Terryann and Esther

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