Breathwork Facilitator Training
Body-Based Breathwork Facilitator Training 2025 – Weekend 1
In this 120+ hour training over the course of nine months, you will become part of a community of practitioners who want to make an impact in the world through the transformative practice of breathwork.
Breathwork • Heart-Centered Facilitation Skills • Bodywork • Mindfulness and Inquiry • Movement
For the past decade we have shared the transformative and healing power of breathwork with hundreds of people. Our participants have asked for more and we have responded with this in-depth offering. We bring a new flavor to the field of breathwork with the focus on bodywork, mindfulness, self-inquiry, movement, conscious communication and heart-centered facilitation.
In this 120+ hour training over the course of nine months, you will become part of a community of practitioners who want to make an impact in the world through the transformative practice of breathwork.
Prerequisite: One in-person Breath, Body & Sound retreat within the last 5 years.
Admission: By application only. To request application, email [email protected].
This Training Offers:
- Four three-day weekends of in-person sessions and all-inclusive accommodations and meals, starting at $292.50 per weekend at Sanctuary Retreat Center near Charlottesville, VA.
- Immersion in a community of people invested in growth
- Body-centered hands-on practices that facilitate increased awareness and healing
- A focus on conscious, connected breathwork as well as other breath techniques
- Self-inquiry, reflection, meditation and deep listening
- Practices to regulate the nervous system, mood and generate well being
- Tools for creating a safe environment for others to heal and flourish
- Listening practices that promote insight, awareness and self-compassion
- A framework for working with boundaries and ethics
- Techniques to guide someone safely through an individualized and transformative breathwork process
- A highly effective process for facilitating groups
- More range to your therapeutic practice through breathwork, meditation and bodywork techniques
- Expressive movement practices
- The art of using music to effect transformation
- 120+ hours of training including 80 hours of in-person training, 15 hours live webinars (via Zoom) plus at home learning through meditation, reflective practices and reading at your own pace.
- A mentoring opportunity to assist in our Breath, Body & Sound retreats. Massage therapists receive 18-21 continuing education hours depending on location
- Space is limited to 18 participants.
Our basic work is to become full human beings, and to inspire full human beingness in other people who feel starved about their lives.
– Chogyam Trungpa
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Sanctuary Retreat Center
Virginia