Learn to lead the practice.
Learn to facilitate the person.
Deepen the art of holding the room.

There is no gold star for choosing the most intensive option. The right pathway is the one that fits how you learn and how you want to hold this work.

The Two-Day Movement Facilitator Training is for yoga, Pilates, and group fitness teachers who want to lead a safe, powerful public breathwork class. It is focused on group classes, workshops, and retreats, and does not include certification or practicum.

The 3-Day Ritual Breathwork Facilitator Intensive is for coaches, healers, and practitioners who want to facilitate deeper, trauma-aware experiences and work toward Ritual Breathwork Facilitator certification. The Advanced Facilitation Training Retreat is for graduates ready to refine their attunement, presence, and skill in more complex rooms.

Yes. The Somatic Breathwork Training Intensive is a two-day, in-person training for yoga, Pilates, and group fitness instructors. You'll learn to lead a complete 60-minute group breathwork class safely and confidently.

It focuses on public classes, workshops, and retreats, not private sessions or ceremony. If you want to go deeper into trauma-aware facilitation and certification, the 3-Day Facilitator Intensive is the next step.

This is an immersive training—not a weekend of sitting through slides. You’ll learn through teaching, demonstration, receiving the work in your own body, supervised facilitation practice, observation, feedback, and integration.

The training covers:

• Nervous-system foundations and somatic awareness
• The Ritual Breathwork method and breath sequence
• Activating and restorative breath practices
• Trauma-aware facilitation and co-regulation
• Screening, contraindications, consent, and hands-on support
• Verbal cueing, music, pacing, and session design
• Ethical facilitation, integration, and responsible referral

You will experience the work from both sides of the room because we don’t believe you can responsibly take someone somewhere you have never been willing to meet yourself.

Ritual Breathwork School is designed for therapists, coaches, yoga teachers, bodyworkers, healers, retreat leaders, wellness professionals, and people who feel called to hold meaningful, body-based spaces for others.

You may be brand new to facilitation, or you may have been holding space for years and know there is another level of safety, depth, and integrity you’re ready to bring into the room.

This training is not for anyone looking for a quick certificate without the responsibility that comes after it.

We don’t teach facilitators to push people past their edge, chase the biggest release in the room, diagnose what is happening, or take over someone else’s process.

Students must be willing to practice consent, respect a participant’s choice to pause or stop, receive feedback, complete the required practicum, work within their professional scope, and recognize when someone needs support beyond what breathwork can provide.

This program is also not intended to function as treatment during an acute physical or mental health crisis.

There are no formal professional prerequisites, but all students must be at least 18 years old.

We strongly recommend experiencing Ritual Breathwork as a participant before beginning facilitator training. There is a world of difference between understanding a breath pattern intellectually and knowing how it feels in your own body.

After registering, you’ll receive lifetime access to the online training library, including preparatory materials, readings, and exercises to review before the live training begins.

Not every part of it.

Restorative breathing can often be adapted to meet different bodies and nervous systems, but the more activating breath patterns and optional breath holds taught within the method are not appropriate for everyone.

Please consult a qualified healthcare provider before participating in the activating portions if you are pregnant or may be pregnant, or if you have:

• Cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disease
• A history of heart attack or stroke
• Uncontrolled high or low blood pressure
• An aneurysm
• Epilepsy or another seizure disorder
• Glaucoma, retinal detachment, or recent eye surgery
• A significant respiratory condition, including uncontrolled asthma or COPD
• Severe osteoporosis
• A recent surgery or significant injury
• Recurrent fainting or loss of consciousness
• Any condition for which changes in breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, or nervous-system activation may present a risk

Please contact us before enrolling if you have a history of panic attacks, severe dissociation, psychosis, mania, recent psychiatric hospitalization, or significant psychiatric instability. Ritual Breathwork is not appropriate during an acute psychiatric crisis, active psychosis or mania, or when there is an immediate risk of harm to yourself or someone else.

Written medical clearance is not required, but consulting the healthcare professional who knows your history is strongly recommended. Never discontinue medication to participate in breathwork.

Having a contraindication does not automatically prevent you from completing the training. Depending on your circumstances, modifications may include restorative breathing, omitting breath holds, or observing certain practices. Please contact us before enrolling so we can determine whether the training can be completed safely and meaningfully.

It means the person breathing remains in the driver’s seat.

We teach facilitators to work with choice, consent, pacing, titration, pendulation, co-regulation, and integration. Intensity is never treated as proof that the work is effective.

Students learn to recognize when a nervous system is approaching its edge and how to respond without pushing, rescuing, diagnosing, or shutting down the process. Sometimes the most powerful thing a facilitator can do is slow down, stay present, and let the body lead.

No. Hands-on support is always optional.

Consent must be specific, informed, and ongoing. Agreeing to one form of touch does not mean agreeing to all touch, and you may change your mind at any time.

Students learn how to ask for consent clearly and how to facilitate effectively without touch. No one needs to override their own boundaries in order to learn how to honor someone else’s.

Certification is not issued automatically at the end of the live training.

To become a certified Ritual Breathwork Facilitator, students must:

• Complete the required training curriculum
• Participate in supervised facilitation practice
• Demonstrate an understanding of safety, consent, contraindications, facilitation, and integration
• Design a complete Ritual Breathwork session, including verbal cueing, music, pacing, and integration
• Complete six practicum sessions within three months of finishing the training
• Submit all required practicum forms and documentation
• Receive final approval following certification review

If more development is needed, a student may be asked to complete additional practice or mentoring before certification is issued. Our goal isn’t simply to hand out certificates. It’s to make sure the people carrying this work are prepared to hold it responsibly.

Certification recognizes that you have completed the Ritual Breathwork curriculum and demonstrated the required facilitation competencies.

It is a private professional credential, not a state-issued healthcare or mental health license. It does not authorize you to diagnose or treat medical or psychiatric conditions, provide psychotherapy without the appropriate license, or work outside your existing professional scope.

Before facilitating independently, graduates are responsible for understanding the laws where they live, obtaining appropriate professional liability insurance, and using responsible intake, consent, emergency, documentation, and referral procedures.

The Two-Day Movement Facilitator Training takes place over Saturday and Sunday. The 3-Day Facilitator Intensive takes place over three full days from Friday through Sunday. The Advanced Facilitation Training Retreat will be a four-day, in-person immersion beginning Spring 2027.

Studio training days require in-person participation. Because experiential practice cannot always be recreated through a recording, missed studio time will be handled individually and may need to be completed during a future training.

A detailed schedule will be provided before the program begins.

You’ll receive lifetime access to the online training library, course materials, and available session recordings. You can return to the curriculum as your practice grows and revisit the foundations whenever you need them.

After the training, facilitators also receive ongoing access to:

• Monthly virtual breathwork sessions created specifically for facilitators
• Facilitator support calls for questions and continued development
• A supportive community of Ritual Breathwork facilitators
• Information about future workshops and advanced training opportunities

You may be the one holding the room now, but that doesn’t mean you should have to hold everything alone.

Please bring comfortable clothing, a refillable water bottle, a journal, layers, lunch and snacks, and any personal grounding item that helps you feel supported.

Yoga mats, bolsters, blankets, eye masks, and training materials are provided.

Lodging, transportation, and meals are not included in tuition. Upon request, we can provide a list of nearby hotels, vacation rentals, restaurants, and grocery options.

Yes. We want students to be able to participate as fully and safely as possible.

If you have mobility, sensory, disability-related, dietary, technological, or other access needs, please contact us before enrolling or as early as possible before the training. We will work with you to explore reasonable accommodations while ensuring the essential experiential and certification requirements can be completed.

Cancellations received at least 14 calendar days before the program start date are eligible for a refund of tuition paid, minus a $150 administrative fee.

Cancellations received fewer than 14 days before the program begins are non-refundable. No refunds are issued after the training has started, including for withdrawals or missed sessions.

Requests to transfer to a future training must be received at least 30 days before the original program start date. Approved transfers are subject to availability and a $75 transfer fee.

Extenuating circumstances may be reviewed individually, but exceptions are rare and are not guaranteed.