JOURNEY THE BREATH
BREATHWORK FACILITATOR TRAINING
Become a certified breathwork
facilitator who changes lives.
Professional certification equipping students with science, skill, and somatic tools to guide transformational breathwork safely and powerfully. Starts 8 November 2026
Join 100+ Graduates
Breathwork is one of the most profound healing modalities of our time.
Done well, it reaches places that talk alone cannot.
It asks something real of the person who guides it: clinical rigour and deep empathy held together in the same hands.
This training is built for that combination: the science that keeps people safe, and the presence that lets genuine transformation unfold.
You will learn to hold space with skill, humility, and care, so the people who trust you can meet themselves more fully and come home to their own bodies.
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Ready to lead from a place of grounded expertise?
This is for coaches, therapists, healers, and wellness professionals, and for those who simply feel called to breathwork and want to do it properly.
If you want to guide others through breath with confidence, safety, and depth, you are in the right place.
Recognised training. On completion you're eligible to register as a professional member with both the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance and the International Breathwork Foundation.
What This Training Is Built On
Trauma-Informed Practice
You learn to work safely with whatever arises, holding space for big experiences without overwhelming or retraumatising, and knowing your scope.
Science-Backed Methods
Grounded in polyvagal theory, neuroscience, and somatic psychology, so your facilitation rests on real understanding rather than guesswork.
Business Ready
You leave equipped to build a sustainable, ethical practice, with the tools to actually launch and grow your work in the world.
Ongoing Support
Mentorship, supervision, and a genuine community walk with you through the training and beyond graduation.
THE JOURNEY
What You'll Learn: The 12 Modules
Twelve modules take you from your first baseline breath measures to a fully-formed facilitator identity, each with its own theme, delivered through self-paced material and live masterclasses.
Module 1: Introduction to Breathwork
Foundations, history & the JTB approach.
What breathwork is and isn't, where it sits in a living lineage, the three dimensions of breath, and your first baseline measures. You begin the daily practice and start holding a facilitator identity from day one.
Module 2: Introduction to Shadow Work
The disowned self & psychological integration.
Before holding space for others, you meet your own shadow, the parts you've suppressed or hidden. One of the most personally confronting modules, and the ground all real facilitation grows from.
Module 3: Understanding the Nervous System
Polyvagal theory, co-regulation & the window of tolerance.
Read nervous-system states in yourself and others, learn why your regulated presence matters more than any technique, and keep clients inside their window of tolerance.
Module 4: The Science of Breathwork
Physiology, biochemistry, brainwave states & non-ordinary states.
What actually happens in the body and brain during connected breathing: CO2 tolerance and the Bohr effect, measurable brain states, and the territory of non-ordinary states. The science that gives you real credibility.
Module 5: Facilitation Skills & Your First Session
Attunement, safety, consent, ethics & holding space.
The pivot into client work, where supervised practice begins. Presence as the container, ongoing consent and invitational language, a working ethics framework, and the six-phase session arc. You facilitate your first short session here.
Module 6: Facilitating Online
Tech, session design & the full toolkit.
Build a repeatable online 1:1 practice: setup, full session flow and timings, and the complete down-regulation toolkit. You leave with a client take-home toolkit and the reassurance that presence matters more than perfection.
Module 7: Facilitating In-Person Sessions
Breath analysis, movement, sound, touch & the Five Character Structures.
The richest facilitation module. Read breath patterns like a language, work with proximity, movement, sound and consented touch, and hold the complete map of the Five Character Structures.
Module 8: Trauma-Informed Practice & Mental Health Awareness
Working safely with what arises, and knowing when to refer.
The safety cornerstone. Hold space for trauma without retraumatising, keep clear boundaries, understand your scope, and know the difference between what you can hold and when to refer.
Module 9: Online Group Facilitation
Group dynamics, relational work & energetic hygiene.
Your very own 1:1 to group. Track the collective field while staying attuned to individuals, set strong agreements, an introduction to couples work, and the energy-clearing practices that keep a facilitator sustainable.
Module 10: Designing Sessions & Deepening Skills
Session architecture, population design & polarity.
Move from following structure to designing your own. Read a room and adapt in real time, design around theme, arc and music, and work with polarity and population-specific design. The shift from competent to artful.
Module 11: The Business of Breathwork
Building a sustainable, ethical practice.
Turn your skill into a livelihood without becoming a salesperson. Examine your money beliefs, sell the result rather than the process, price for value while building in accessibility, and grow through referral and community.
Module 12: Integration, Mastery & Continued Growth
Consolidating the journey & stepping forward.
The final module before the Galway intensive. Nothing new is added, instead you land everything you've learned, consolidate your skills, and step forward as a facilitator. Embodiment over information.
Plus: 12 Somatic Skills Sessions with Nicola Herd
Alongside the core curriculum, your training includes twelve live somatic skills sessions with our support trainer, Nicola Herd. Every second week you slow right down and let the work land in the body, a dedicated space to integrate, embody, and build the felt sense that underpins genuinely good facilitation, before moving on to the next module.
Is This For You?
This training is for you if you're...
- Seeking a genuinely trauma-informed foundation for your facilitation.
- Someone who values ethics, consent, and clear scope of practice.
- Open to receiving supervision, coaching, and honest feedback.
- Ready to commit to a six-month rhythm and an in-person intensive.
It's probably not for you if you...
- Want a quick certificate with minimal practice.
- Prefer a high-intensity, performance-style approach to breathwork.
- Are unwilling to receive feedback on your facilitation.
- Can't commit to weekly engagement and case studies.
- Need breathwork to be a substitute for therapy.
- Are currently in acute crisis (this training is not a treatment programme).
“The art of facilitation is simple, but not easy: stay present, soften your agenda, and trust the process.”
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Your Instructor: Pat Divilly
10+ years teaching breathwork. 1,000+ hours facilitated.
Pat Divilly has spent the last decade refining a breathwork methodology used with thousands of students worldwide, and has trained under, studied alongside, and built on the following:
Certified Trauma-Informed Practitioner
Polyvagal-Informed Practice Training
MSc in Exercise & Nutrition Science
Bestselling author (Fit Mind, Shadow Work)
Ongoing Core Energetics training
Advanced Somatic Breathwork Facilitator
10+ years of clinical and facilitation experience
1,000+ hours of breathwork training
Certified TRE (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises) practitioner
Studies in Jungian Psychology, Compassionate Inquiry, NLP & Hypnosis
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Black Belt
YOUR GUIDE
Nicola Herd: Support Trainer
Nicola is an experienced somatic movement therapist with over twenty years of practice supporting people to reconnect with their bodies, process difficult experiences, and rediscover a sense of vitality and self-trust. She leads the training's twelve somatic skills sessions, holding the embodied, body-based thread that runs alongside Pat's teaching.
“A person who doesn’t breathe deeply reduces the life of their body. If they don't move freely, they restricts the life of their body. If they don’t feel fully, they narrows the life of their body. And if their self-expression is constricted, they limits the life of their body”
Alexander Lowen
Dates & Times: Winter 2026 Cohort
Core training
8 November 2026 — 25 April 2027
Graduation Intensive (Galway, Ireland)
Friday 14 — Sunday 16 May 2027
Post-Certification Supervision
6 monthly group calls
Live masterclasses run fortnightly on Sundays, 12:00–2:30pm Irish time (2.5 hours). Twelve live sessions:
Live attendance is warmly encouraged, and every session is recorded, join live or catch the replay wherever you are, with your 1:1 sessions scheduled to suit your own timezone.
Also included: 12 somatic skills sessions with Nicola Herd
Fortnightly live sessions on the weeks between masterclasses, where you slow down and let the work land in the body. (Day and time confirmed on enrolment.)
Graduation Intensive: Galway, Ireland | Friday 14 – Sunday 16 May 2027
Three days in person: facilitation practice, integration and embodiment, transformational workshops, and your certificate presentation. Lunch included.
Post-Certification Supervision: 6 monthly group calls
Six months of continued mentorship and community after graduation, supporting you into real-world practice. Monthly Sundays, 12:00pm Irish time:
Sunday 13 June 2027
Sunday 11 July 2027
Sunday 8 August 2027
Sunday 12 September 2027
Sunday 10 October 2027
Sunday 14 November 2027
What Graduates Say
Investment
COHORT CAP: 40 FACILITATORS-IN-TRAINING.
Early bird pricing ends October 15th.
Early Bird
Cart opens 1 Sep - through 15 Oct
PAY IN FULL
€4,000 (save 5%)
PAYMENT PLAN
6 monthly payments of €700 (€4,200 total)
Standard
from Oct 15
PAY IN FULL
€5,000 (save 5%)
PAYMENT PLAN
6 monthly payments of €875 (€5,250 total)
Early bird pricing ends October 15th. After that, Pay in Full rises from €4,000 to €5,000.
Pay in full and save 5% in either tier. Payment plans available with no interest, paid monthly.
Your Investment Includes
- All 12 curriculum modules (self-paced material plus live masterclasses)
- Monthly live group supervision
- A documented practice-hour framework
- 3-day Graduation Intensive in Galway
- Six months of post-certification supervision and mentorship
- 12 live somatic skills sessions with Nicola Herd
- A private, supportive community
- A business launch toolkit
- Professional certification on graduation
PLEASE NOTE
Places are strictly limited to 40 per cohort, and your place is held for you the moment you enroll. All program fees are non-refundable once purchased.
Frequently Asked Questions
Am I ready to hold space for others?
If you're asking, you already care about doing this well. The training is designed to bridge where you are now to genuinely capable, through embodied practice, mentorship, and real reps in a safe environment. You grow into the role step by step, supported the whole way.
Do I need to become a full-time breathwork facilitator?
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Breathwork Facilitator?
This cohort is capped at 40 spots. The cart opens September 1st, and your first session is 8 November 2026.
Early bird pricing ends October 15th. After that, Pay in Full rises from €4,000 to €5,000.
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40 spots per cohort. Cart opens September 1st. Early bird ends October 15th. First session 8 November 2026.
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