Facilitator certification · 8 weeks · IPHM accredited
Live it. Lead it.
Breathwork you can live and lead, and a career that is unmistakably yours.
For the woman ready to become her own greatest resource first, then lead others with a steadiness no script can lend her.
Online pathway open now · February 2027 cohort applications open
This certification
The room has already taken shape.
The woman who enters it already holds real trust from the people she works with. Across eight weeks you build the embodied capacity, the skill and the authority to carry that work further.
01
The Method
Stability, Integration, Capacity. How you prepare, how you hold her inside the experience, and what happens after.
02
The Immersion
Three days at Kondalilla Eco Resort. You practise, you are facilitated, you meet the women you will train beside. Livestreamed in full.
03
The Practicum
You guide a complete journey and are observed. Certified on the standard you show, never on attendance.
Who arrives here
You already know what it is to be trusted.
People come to you for the quality of your work and the way you meet them. Coach, therapist, health professional, educator, yoga teacher, retreat facilitator, founder. Your work has taught you people, and now you want to go further through breath.
Maybe you want breath inside the sessions you already lead. Maybe a group experience or a retreat of your own. Either way you want to understand how breathing shapes an experience, how to guide it responsibly, and what to do when she needs something different from what you planned.
Keep your qualifications. Bring them. This method asks one thing first: that you go first, in your own body.
It is not your profession that connects the women here. It is the responsibility already placed in them.
Because eventually someone will lie down in front of you and trust you with theirs.
The eight weeks
The eight weeks, in order.
Not a syllabus. What the training actually does, and why the sequence matters.
You meet your own breath.
Your patterns, the physiology behind each technique, and how your breathing shifts with effort, emotion and rest.
You live the practice.
How old beliefs and responses shape your choices, relationships and confidence, and how you will support change beyond a single session.
You respond to another person.
Observing breath, listening to what she reports, adjusting your guidance. Voice, timing, pacing, and when to simplify or seek more support.
You demonstrate.
A complete journey, observed, with direct feedback. Certified when the standard is met, knowing what to refine next.
No script holds a room
A facilitator cannot offer real choice from a method she only knows as a script.
Try it here
The timer is part of the training.
It breathes with you and cues every shift as it arrives. Nothing to count, nothing to think through. You follow; the count is carried.
Nothing is recorded or scored, and it ends on its own.
Sit or lie down first. Stop if you feel lightheaded, and never while driving. If you are pregnant or have a cardiovascular or respiratory condition, speak with your practitioner first.
Four in, six out
Ten breaths
The Orygen Method™
Stability first. Then expansion.
You are not training to keep people calm. You are learning to create enough steadiness that something real can move, without the room depending on intensity.
The ground
Stability
Safety in the space, the facilitator and her own body. Clear expectations, real choices, a pace she can meet, and enough awareness of yourself to stay with her rather than manage you.
Carried home
Integration
The return, and what she carries into her week. Follow up, practical support and referral.
What you can hold
Capacity
The depth you can hold for others is the depth you have built in yourself.
Powerful facilitation is not made of intensity. It is made of steadiness.
The Orygen Architecture™
Seven phases, arrival to integration.
You learn the purpose of each phase, and how to adapt your language and pace to the woman actually in front of you.
Arrival
The room, the preparation, before she lies down.
Screening
Intake, consent and contraindications, done properly.
Mechanics
Breath patterns for this body, today.
Reading
Activation or overwhelm, and telling them apart.
Voice
Cueing, pacing, restraint. When to say nothing.
Integration
The return, and the support after.
Scope
Referral, and where yours ends.
The curriculum
Six modules. Forty-seven lessons.
Built in sequence, because the sequence is the method. Open any module to see inside.
Module one · Opens at the immersion
Stabilise your own system before you guide anyone else.
From performing presence to becoming it.
Breathing physiology, nervous system foundations and the principles behind the Orygen Method™. You find your own breathing baseline and connect the teaching to your practice. This module begins in the room on the Sunshine Coast, not on a screen.
Module two
The full architecture of a complete journey.
Not getting through the experience.
The seven-phase structure, with the cues, transitions and timing that hold it. How different participants respond, and how to adjust while the structure stays clear.
Module three
The tools to lead with clarity, and the scope that holds them.
Tools to support you, not to lean on.
Intake, screening, consent, contraindications and referral. Each breathing practice in the method, what it is for, and when an adapted approach or different support is needed.
Module four
Where your capacity deepens.
The facilitator who has done her own work is the safest person in the room.
Boundaries, participant choice, and your responsibility when distress or the unexpected arrives. The response and follow-up procedures of the method, and the place of ongoing supervision.
Module five
Facilitation, inside a supported structure.
You leave having led, not having ticked a box.
Peer sessions with feedback on your observation, communication and facilitation. Your voice and style develop through practice while the method stays consistent.
Module six
Into real life.
Lived, not learned.
How breathwork fits the work you already do and the people you serve. Positioning, packaging, pricing, marketing, intake, outreach and the insurance pathway. You complete the practicum for certification.
Alongside the modules
Weekly live training, recorded
Every live session lands in your portal the same day, with Sound Therapy Practitioner Training, Human Design for business and the Somatic States™ Soundscape Library beside it.
The opening
We begin at Kondalilla.
February 2027. Sunshine Coast hinterland, on Gubbi Gubbi country.
Three days to feel the method, watch facilitation, and begin practising with your cohort. Breath, voice, pacing and sound, with room to reflect and integrate between.
Joining remotely? The immersion is livestreamed with paired practice and live feedback. The seven weeks that follow are online for everyone.
Return to yourself before you are asked to lead anyone else there.
Staying with us
Stay in the rainforest.
Kondalilla Eco Resort sits on the edge of Kondalilla Falls and Mapleton National Park, about ninety minutes north of Brisbane and forty from Sunshine Coast Airport. Treehouses, chalets, villas, cabins and lodge rooms, with a restaurant on site.
Accommodation is booked directly with the resort and sits outside your training investment. Local? Drive in each morning. Doors open at 8:30am.
Dates
Your eight weeks.
Three days in person, then live every Friday for seven weeks.
Immersion days run 9:00am to 3:00pm Brisbane time, closing 4:00pm Sunday. Weekly sessions are Friday mornings, Brisbane time, recorded and in your portal the same day. New Zealand and US times are confirmed on your welcome call.
February 2027 dates announced soon.
Already held
This method has already met real rooms.
Wellness spaces, communities, corporate rooms and retreats. Rooms full of people carrying stress and exhaustion beneath the surface.
It was never the intensity that created the shift. It was how the work was held, integrated and carried home.
From Elise · Watch before you apply
The part I would rather say myself.
"Eight weeks is long enough to learn the architecture. The rest is reps. That is the honest answer."
Elise Small · Founder, Orygen Breathwork™
From the women in the room
In their own words, not mine.
Three graduates on what changed in their lives, and what they now do when nobody else is in the room.
Jenny A
Energetics coach & facilitator
Sarah M
Occupational therapist
Jenni-Lynn N
Spiritual mentor & retreat facilitator
The common thread: they saw their vision, backed themselves and led from their heart. By the time we spoke, the decision was already made.
Where are you leading from?
By the end
What you will be able to do.
Not how you will feel. What you can do when a real person is in front of you.
Plan and explain a session
What it involves, what it asks of her, what she can expect.
Screen and gain informed consent
Intake, contraindications and the conversation before anyone lies down.
Guide the Orygen session arc
All seven phases, without rushing and without losing your ground.
Respond to what she reports
Know when to adjust, simplify, pause or refer.
Close an experience well
The return, the integration, and the limits of what you offer.
Practise without a facilitator
Your own breath, on an ordinary Tuesday, with nobody else in the room.
Work within your scope
And say clearly when another professional is the right answer.
Your observed practicum assesses these together. Certified on the standard you show, never on attendance.
Why I built Orygen this way
A practice you lead with ownership.
I'm Elise Small, founder of Orygen Breathwork™ and creator of the Orygen Method™. Fourteen years in education and leadership taught me careful observation, clear communication and considered decisions. They still shape how I teach facilitation.
For a long time I looked outside myself for the thing that would help me meet my own life. What changed it was a resource I could return to alone, inside an ordinary day.
The breath moves with us through every moment. Nobody can breathe for me. At two in the morning, when everything familiar is out of reach, it is still here, still responding, and it changes when I give it attention.
So I built the preparation that makes it possible: experience the work yourself, learn a clear structure, practise with feedback before you certify, and know where your responsibility begins and ends.
Every conversation with Orygen should leave a woman with more access to herself than before it began.
Worth being honest about
What another year would keep.
Not to hurry you. Only worth seeing plainly, once.
- Another year of income tied to the capacity you have today.
- Another year before you see what your expertise becomes with breath woven through it.
- Another year with the workshop, retreat or program still in your notes.
- Another year of experiencing this work without being fluent enough to lead it.
- Another year of knowing nervous system steadiness in theory, without the practice that shows what you do when a real room changes.
A year passes either way. What do you want to be able to lead when it does?
Two pathways
Two ways in. One certification.
Same curriculum, same observed practicum, same IPHM accreditation.
The February Cohort
Three days together at Kondalilla, then seven weeks of live Friday training with the women you began with.
$4,888
AUD · one payment · approx. US$3,480 · €3,040 · £2,610
Flexible payments, 3 to 12 months, or Afterpay. Secure your place with a $407.33 deposit, the first payment of the twelve-month plan, once your application is accepted.
- Six modules, forty-seven lessons
- Three-day immersion at Kondalilla, in person or livestreamed
- Seven weekly live sessions with your cohort
- Observed practicum and IPHM accredited certification
- Lifetime access to the curriculum and recordings
- Sound Therapy Practitioner Training and Human Design for business
- The facilitator community, Practice Library, Orygen Mentor™ and the Orygen app
Rather talk first? Book a discovery call
The Online Pathway
The complete certification, open the day you enrol, from wherever you are in the world.
$3,888
AUD · one payment · approx. US$2,770 · €2,420 · £2,070
Flexible options from $324 a month. You never train alone: weekly live training, monthly workshops and practice partners from day one, and women who stay beside you long after you certify.
- Six modules, forty-seven lessons, open the day you enrol
- Weekly 90-minute live training, monthly workshops and masterclasses
- The Kondalilla immersion, livestreamed in full
- Observed practicum by uploaded session, and IPHM accredited certification
- Lifetime access to the curriculum and recordings
- Sound Therapy Practitioner Training and Human Design for business
- Orygen Mentor™, the Orygen app, and Elise's frameworks and templates
Instant access on enrolment. Rather talk first? Book a discovery call
Same standard, two rhythms. The cohort moves together and begins in the room; the online pathway opens the day you enrol. Insurance, accommodation and travel sit outside either fee.
Prices in Australian dollars. International amounts approximate, at the 18 September 2026 rate.
Internationally accredited
Recognised beyond this coastline.
Orygen Breathwork™ is an accredited training provider with the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine, established in 2005. Your certification is held to leading standards of ethics, practice and conduct, and travels with you.
It is also what opens professional indemnity insurance. Insurers need a recognised qualification before they cover you, and eligibility remains subject to their assessment.
Have a question first
Ask it in The Room.
"I feel called to this work but still doubt myself. Is this still for me?"
A private space to think out loud before you decide anything. The intake, the immersion, the modules, the investment, or how your current qualification sits beside this one. Answers come straight back, whatever the hour.
Not a form. Not an application. Most women arrive asking about the training and are really asking whether they are capable of it. Bring that question too. Nothing reaches me unless you choose to send it.
Admission
Applying is how we both consider fit.
For women who already work with people and want to develop breathwork responsibly. Experience in another field and no prior breathwork qualification is welcome.
Ten minutes
You apply
Your work, your experience with breath, what you want to develop. Answer honestly, not impressively.
Personally
I read it
Not a team. Not an automated reply. Every application, by me.
Twenty minutes
We speak
The training, your questions, and whether this intake is right for you.
Both ways
A clear answer
If we both say yes, enrolment and payment are confirmed. If it is not a fit, I will tell you why and where I would send you instead.
A place is never offered to fill a number. Saying no when it is not right protects you and the women you will one day hold.
Practical
Asked plainly.
Can I attend remotely?
Yes. The immersion is livestreamed with supported paired practice and live feedback, and the seven weekly sessions are online for everyone.
Do I need to be a breathwork facilitator already?
No. We look at your experience working with people, your relationship with breathwork, and your readiness for the practice and assessment.
How does this sit with my existing qualification?
Alongside it, never over it. Consider how these practices fit your scope, insurance and registration. The certificate does not expand a regulated scope, and it does not qualify you to diagnose or treat medical or mental health conditions.
When am I certified?
Once you complete the requirements and demonstrate the standard in your observed practicum. Attendance alone is not the standard.
How does insurance work?
You are supported through the application pathway. The insurer decides eligibility and cover. Premiums are separate from tuition, and you arrange cover before offering professional services.
Is accommodation included?
No. Book directly with Kondalilla Eco Resort or drive in each day. The hinterland fills quickly, so book early if you are travelling.
How much time each week?
Three to four hours after the immersion: the live session, the curriculum and your own practice. The practice is not optional. It is what changes your facilitation.
What is Orygen Mentor™?
An AI-supported resource for exploring the method, your practice and the business material. It needs your judgement and verification, and it is not clinical care, emergency support or supervision.
Will this make me money?
A certificate earns nothing on its own. It gives you a capability you can apply privately, in groups, programs, retreats or your existing practice. Your pricing, positioning and follow-through decide the result.
Will this make me confident?
No training can promise a feeling. This one replaces imagined confidence with evidence: practise, be observed, receive feedback, and know what you actually do when a room changes.
Can I ask questions first?
Yes. Bring them to your application call, or into The Room first.
The invitation
The method is a resource. You are the source.
Three days at Kondalilla. Seven weeks of live teaching, practice and feedback.
The Orygen Breathwork™ Partner Program
Share the breath.
Ask, receive and add value to another woman's life.
Graduates and friends of Orygen who share this work receive 10% of every enrolment they inspire into the Facilitator Certification.