Feeling the call to become a facilitator with the power of breath?
Applications are now open for our September 2026 intake.
During this 100 hour blended learning intensive you will learn how to hold others in a Breathwork container based off ancient wisdom, indigenous traditions and modern scientific knowledge.
The breath is powerful in all its shapes and modalities. It is a tool that can shift your energetic landscape, create space to integrate what feels dissonant, and somatically reach into emotional layers.
This training covers a wide range of breath practices in depth — from pranayama to breath and coldwater immersion, from performance-enhancing techniques to deep dives into the unconscious through coherent and circular breathing.
It is a curriculum designed to offer both breadth and depth, so that you not only study diverse approaches but embody their effects.
Course Breakdown & Structure
TOTAL HOURS: 100
Greece Intensive: 70
Online Modules/Course book: 15
Bi-Weekly Online Live Practices x Seminars: 15
What's Included
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10 Day Intensive In Person Training - Greece
Commencing the 20-29th November, 2026, this intensive aspect of the course ensures you are given all the hands on practical training to facilitate breathwork sessions with confidence.
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Online Learning Modules
Make your way through weekly online videos and content at your own pace.
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Fortnightly Live Online Calls x Seminars
Online live calls to ensure you feel supported throughout the entire journey, cultivate learning from some of our guest facilitators and to keep you connected to the likeminded souls within the group.
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Spiritual & Energetic Protection for Breathworkers
Learn the tools to ensure your spaces are held with safety and integrity and how to take good care of your own energetics before and after sessions.
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Trauma Informed & Somatic Safety
Deep dive into somatics and learn how to ensure your participants are held safely through the release of trauma.
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Plus More!
Core Curriculum
Module 1: Circular Breathing
Foundations of continuous breath for transformation and regulation. Explore origins, purpose, contraindications, retentions, and methodologies. Includes guided practice, observation, partner PNF work and active practical group teaching sessions.
Module 2: Rhythm of Breath
Add a depth and layer to your facilitation that sets your sessions apart. Discover how rhythm shapes experience. Practice timing breath with counts, sound, and movement. Learn about entrainment, playlist design, and leading with percussion.
Module 3: Pranayama
Root into the variations of yogic breath practices. Study history, purpose, and key techniques, linking tradition with modern science and polyvagal theory. Includes safe and effective practicum.
Module 4: Breathwork Anatomy
Understand the body’s mechanics of breathing. Explore respiratory system, nervous system pathways, gas exchange, posture, and applied anatomy for safe facilitation.
Module 5: Breath Performance
Train the breath as a tool for resilience, endurance, and energy. Explore techniques for athletes, performance enhancement, and recovery, alongside applying the science of oxygen efficiency.
Module 6: Breath, Coldwater and contrast therapy
Harness the synergy of breath work ,cold exposure. and contrast therapy Learn safety protocols, the science of cold adaptation, and the alchemy of combining breath with water immersion.
Module 7: The Art of Facilitation
Develop skills to guide transformational journeys. Explore SOft skills, class structure, space design, sound, and physical/energetic assists.
Module 8: Trauma-Informed Facilitation
Learn principles of trauma awareness to ensure safe and ethical facilitation. Explore consent, choice, boundary setting, and how to recognise and support participants experiencing overwhelm.
Module 9: Marketing & Professional Pathways
Learn how to share your work with confidence. Build your brand, pathways to gain experience, and create opportunities for collaboration, retreats, and community facilitation.
In Person Curriculum
European 10 Day Immersion (November) - Skyhut Greece
The intention of this immersion is to drop practitioners into an deep space where functional application of theory is cultivated.
Through guided journeys in the various modalities of breath and time spent facilitating in small groups with peer and mentor feedback, facilitation will come from a place of experiential embodiment.
Here, the rhythm of daily breathwork, movement, study and meditation leads to dropping in, opening up and remembering your natural state of clarity and presence, Allowing you to become the space holder you were always meant to be.
Why join this training
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Science, Somatics & Spirit — United
Bridge modern science with ancient wisdom. Explore breath, body, and awareness through anatomy, nervous system regulation, pranayama, and rhythm — gaining both depth and credibility as a facilitator.
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Learn by Doing
Immerse yourself through in-person intensives, a European retreat, and live mentorship.
Practice facilitation, receive feedback, and build confidence to lead transformative sessions with presence and precision.
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Safety, Integrity & Trauma Awareness
Learn to hold space with clarity and care. Ground your facilitation in ethics, consent, and trauma-informed principles to create safe, supportive environments for transformation.
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Step into Purpose
Refine your professional path with guidance in storytelling, authentic marketing, and mentorship. Share your work with confidence and create opportunities that align with your values.
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Community, Connection & Transformation
Train within a supportive community of mentors and peers.
Experience your own inner evolution — releasing patterns, resetting your nervous system, and reconnecting with your purpose.
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Flexible & Immersive
With Manchester intensives, a 5-day European retreat, and self-paced online study, the training is comprehensive and fits in around your day to day schedule while still offering deep, embodied learning.
Investment
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Early Bird Sign Up
Shared Bunk Room: £2099
Twin/Double: £2299
Private: £2850*Secure your place now for this powerful training by the 30th April, 2026 or before Early Bird Spaces are taken to receive this discount.
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Full Price
Shared Bunk: £2250
Twin/Double:£2500
Private: £2999*Registrations after the 30th April, 2026 or after Early Bird spaces are taken.
Meet Your Host - Leo Oppenheim
Drop into the world of holistic transformation and inner evolution guided by Leo Oppenheim, an international wellness facilitator, deeply devoted to harmonising the body and mind to unlock your full potential.
With a diverse skill set encompassing Yoga, Creative Movement, Sound Therapy, Breathwork and invigorating Cold Water Immersions, Leo crafts a unique fusion of disciplines designed to facilitate profound mental, physical and emotional shifts.
Leo brings a profound depth of experience to his facilitation, having guided breathwork sessions at numerous mass gatherings, festivals, and wellness events across the globe. With over six years as Head of Yoga and Wellness at the award-winning fitness studio BLOK, he has not only honed his own practice but has also mentored and shaped the development of countless teachers. His grounded presence and breadth of knowledge make him a trusted guide in the art of breathwork.
Leo’s personal journey revolves around continuous holistic growth and the expansion of consciousness, positioning him as a dedicated guide for those seeking to commence a transformative journey.
Guest Facilitator - Annie Hackwell
Annie Hackwell is a somatic therapist, trauma-informed bodyworker, and movement facilitator.
She weaves together Holosomatic
Bodywork, Breathwork, Reiki, Tantric energy activation, and nervous system healing to guide people back into connection with their bodies and inner wisdom.
Her work is rooted in her own journey through chronic disconnection and emotional overwhelm.
Through embodied practice and intuitive energetic work, she experienced deep integration unraveling patterns held in the body and rebuilding a relationship with herself grounded in safety and sell trust.
Now, Annie creates gentle, intuitively led spaces where healing unfolds at the body's pace. Deeply trauma-informed, she honours choice, nervous system resilience, and the slow rhythms required for real transformation.
For her, safety is the foundation that makes change possible.
Guest Facilitator - Rachael Love
Rachael Love, is an Australian Medicine Woman, Sound Therapist, Energy Healer, Psychic, and Wellness Coach and has been facilitating within the wellness space for 7 years.
Rooted in ancient and modern healing modalities, she holds qualifications in Shamanic Healing. Reiki, Sound Healing, Time Line Therapy, Hypnotherapy, NLP, Coaching, is a passionate Drum Birther and has made it her mission to connect more people back to their inner knowing, leading her to facilitate and also train others with the medicine of Sound Healing.
She is also a sacred Mesa carrier and is part of a Peruvian Medicine Wheel based of the Q'ero Indigenous tradition.
Bridging the realms of spirituality and science, Rachael weaves a comprehensive transformational experience, connecting individuals back to the natural rhythms of life and nature.
It is her true belief that the more we come back to connecting with ancient healing modalities and nature, the happier humanity will be.
Through her unique approach, she creates a space for profound transformation and relaxation, allowing individuals to embark on a journey of self discovery, empowerment and a deep reconnection with the rhythms of Mother Earth and the heart space.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need any prior experience for this training?
No, you don't need any prior experience to join the training, just a will to learn and a calling to help others.
Are there any contraindications for participating?
Participantion in this training should not go against the advice of a medical practictioner. If a participant has any contraindications for breathwork they should consult with a doctor or medical practitioner first to receive clearance before participation. This training should not be taken as an alternative to for any health or medical conditions and is for training purposes only. Simhá Wellness are not licensed medical practitioners and will not offer medical advice.
Do you allow payment plans?
Yes! A minimum deposit of £500 is required to secure your place within the training. The remaining payments can then be scheduled in instalments.
What's not included in the price?
• Flights to and from the international retreat are not included in the training price.
