Breathwork Practitioner Training
Become a Qualified Breathwork Instructor
In this fast-paced and anxiety-ridden world, support your clients in transforming their lives. Help them connect to their real inner selves, one deep, calm breath at a time...
What is Breathwork?
In modern life, more and more people experience significant amounts of stress. When you are in 'flight or flight' mode, your body responds by increasing your heart rate and releasing stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. Your breathing speeds up, your blood pressure increases and you start to feel anxious or tense.
Breathwork is a general term used to describe controlled breathing: exercises that improve physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. By activating your parasympathetic nervous system, you are able to slow down your heart rate, lower your blood pressure and create a real sense of calm.
Breathwork can help the mind as well as the body. It alleviates mental chatter and can, in a safe way, help access buried emotions, trauma and grief. Breathwork techniques work well for a variety of mental health issues, including anxiety and stress.
Accredited Breathwork Facilitator Training
Do you feel the calling to help others on a much deeper level than ever before?
With our breathwork teacher training course you get to experience and heal yourself whilst on the journey to learn how to teach others the art of breathwork.
We guide you how to run 1:1 breathwork sessions, couples breathwork sessions and hold small workshops or breath work circles. This opens up a whole new world of opportunity for you as an existing therapist or as a new venture. On completion, our trained breathwork facilitators go on to run their own retreats, workshops, healing business, hold space for individuals, teach at festivals, incorporate in to their massage, yoga or healing practice.
By healing yourself your helping others on their journey and transforming lives, creating a better world for all! We believe that by bringing breathwork into your practice or as a stand alone therapy, you not only improve your own life, but you start to improve the lives of those around you as well as your community.
We invite you to learn the ancient art form or breathwork and find your true purpose in life.
The History of Breathwork
Breathwork and conscious breathing practices can be found around the world and back in ancient times and cultures. Many cultures like, Buddhism, Shamanism and Taoism have used the breathe to heal and deepen their meditation practices for many many years.
Back in the 1960s and 1970s Breathwork came back to light in the western world due to people like Leonard Orr, DR Stan Grof and more recently Wim Hoff.
STYLES OF BREATHWORK
These days we have many styles of breathwork and there is no right or wrong method. It’s a good idea to liken it too Yoga, we have many styles of Yoga, no right or wrong yoga just which ever resonates with you or what you’re trying to achieve.
PRANAYAMA BREATHWORK
If you have practised Yoga you will be familiar with Pranayama Breathing. Its a controlled breath that is generally in through the nose and out though the mouth. It controls the breathe so you can move past emotional and energetic blocks that hinder the flow of your life force your lifer energy.
HOLOTROPIC BREATHWORK
Holotropic breathwork is a practice often accompanied by intense music and led by an instructor guiding a group of participants. It involves inhaling and exhaling for the same amount of time at different speeds to induce an altered state of consciousness.
Holotropic therapy has its roots in LSD therapy but is the drug-free alternative, where the main intent is to produce mind-altering experiences. People often experience visions, uncontrollable spurts of emotions, and sometimes muscle cramps.
REBIRTHING
Rebirthing breathwork is grounded in the idea that you carry residual stress from your traumatic experience of birth. Through this type of breathwork, it is believed you can allow yourself to release any emotional baggage and trauma that occurred during your birth.
The practice involves using circular breathing and often lying mostly underwater to create a state of relaxation that allows for pent-up stress, which has been stored in the body since birth, to be released. Through conscious breathing, instead of simply breathing air in and out, you can transform it to instead move energy.
WIM HOFF METHOD
Wim Hiff is probably the most popular breathwork treacher high now, due to some of his awesome achievements like climbing Mount Everest in shorts brrrrrrr!
This method is different to above as its done in sets and has breathe holds.
SOMA BREATHWORK
Soma Breath is a complete holistic system of Pranayama techniques, which can be arranged into different sequences depending on the type of workshop you are attending as well as tailored to your specific needs. There is no one size fits all, and we take into account the fact that everyone is different and requires different breathing techniques depending on their needs.
Meet Jen, the Founder of Nalu Breathwork
Jen is a Bodyworker, Massage Trainer and Breathwork Retreat Facilitator with over 25 years of experience. She has learned the art of massage from a variety of masters from around the world: from Traditional Thai Massage in Chang Mai, to a Full Mastership in Hawaii, studying the Ancient Art of Lomi Lomi (Kahuna) massage with Hawaiian Kumu Jeana Nalua on the sacred island of Maui.
Her time in Maui allowed Jen to heal on a deep level. From there, she started helping others on their healing journey and is now passing on her knowledge, wisdom and love of massage to new up-and-coming therapists. Over the years, she has seen many therapists come and go who ended up burnt out or losing their passion.
To keep her fellow practitioners inspired and make new natural therapy treatments like breathwork courses affordable to access, Jen created Nalu Breathwork. It is her mission to provide affordable, high quality, hands-on training, facilitated by a small group of highly experienced teachers.
All courses are taught in a small group setting, so you will have your teacher's full attention. Expand your modalities and keep your passion alive with Nalu Breathwork!
If you have any questions or would like to chat, please email us on info@nalumassage.com
Nalu Breathwork: On completion of your accredited breathwork training course you receive a certificate so you can be insured and start using your new skills for paying clients.
To see if this experience is for you, read our FAQ for retreat guests and have a look at our Code of Conduct. If you are dealing with any physical or mental health issues, please also check our Are you ready page to make sure this is a suitable course for you.
Got questions? Contact the workshop facilitators!
International Institute for Complementary Therapists (IICT) accreditation
Course Schedule
Day 1: Friday
11am - Opening circle at the Bhakti Guesthouse with introduction to breathwork and breathwork meditation
12:30pm - Lunch break
3pm - Continued introduction to breathwork
6pm - Dinner at the temple
9pm - Quiet time
Day 2: Saturday
6:30am - Sunrise Yoga (optional, at the Yoga Hall)
7am - Breakfast served at the Bhakti Guesthouse
8am - The power of the breath, contraindications for Breathwork and 1:1 Breathwork demonstration and practice
12:30pm - Lunch break
1:45pm - The 'Ha Breath', The Breath of Life demo and practise, holding space, the autonomic nervous system
5pm - Finish for the day
6pm - Dinner at the temple
7pm - Meditation with Ha Breath
9pm - Quiet time
Day 3: Sunday
6:30am - Sunrise Yoga (optional, at the Yoga Hall)
7am - Breakfast at the Bhakti Guesthouse
8am - Different Breathwork styles and how to incorporate them into your practice, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system
9am - Checkout (for room bookings)
9:30am - Wave breathing, a typical breathwork session (stand alone or part of massage), using Breathwork with couples or small circles
12:30pm - Lunch break
1:45pm - Healing, relaxing breathwork, heart space breathing, practical
5pm - Close and certificates
Cost & payment
The investment is $895 plus accomodation (includes 3x vegetarian meals each day) - Choose your preferred date below and you'll see the pricing options for each accommodation type in section 3 of the booking page. All accommodation rates include your course fee.
Before you book, please read our terms and conditions including our refund policy. Payment has to be received in full upon booking.
Upcoming dates
Accommodation
Krishna Village is located on a beautiful organic farm in the scenic foothills of Mt. Warning, half way between Byron Bay and the Gold Coast. The closest town is Murwillumbah, and the nearest airport Coolangatta (the Gold Coast airport).
Our Retreat Center is spread out across a beautiful natural farm setting, which means that some of our facilities and accommodation require a bit of walking. We offer a range of accommodation options from camping spots to creatively renovated container rooms, private pine cabins set in the hills overlooking the valley and more.
Delicious Vegetarian Food
At Krishna Village, we offer 3x delicious vegetarian meals per day. From vegan kitchari, porridge, and fresh fruits for breakfast, to vegetable curry with rice or flatbreads, and heartier dishes for lunch & dinner... If you're looking to incorporate more plant-based options into your diet, you'll be sure to enjoy our meals.
If you have any specific dietary needs, you are welcome to use the Krishna Village kitchen to prepare your meals.
The Krishna Farm
The Krishna Farm, "New Govardhana" serves as an ashram to a community of yogis who aspire to live according to their deepest vows and commitments on their path of service, spiritual contentment and happiness (Bhakti Yoga). Their service and dedication make this location a beautiful place of growth, healing and spiritual awakening. The temple is the beating heart of the community at New Govardhana and we encourage all who visit the property to come along and experience the lifestyle and philosophy reflected by the practice of Krishna consciousness.
