The Breathwork Certification For Women Ready To Lead Powerful Transformation With Safety, Presence And Embodied Authority

Orygen Breathwork™ was created for the woman who can feel that the way we lead, guide and hold space is evolving.

This is not facilitation built on performance, emotional overwhelm or intensity for the sake of transformation.
 

Inside Orygen Breathwork™, you will learn how to hold profound experiences

without abandoning nervous system safety, regulation, integrity or responsibility.

For the woman who knows she is here to lead meaningful work in the world and wants the depth, structure and embodied leadership to truly hold it.

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Limited intake, this space is intentionally kept intimate and is for the woman ready to step into a new standard of breathwork leadership.

Next round begins July 2026

Learn how to build confidence in your facilitation through embodiment and lived leadership rather than trying to become “more qualified enough” to impress future clients.

Regulation is the foundation.

Expansion is the direction.

There was a point where I began noticing something I could no longer ignore.

Many spaces knew how to create emotional intensity. Very few knew how to responsibly hold what opened afterwards.

That distinction changed everything for me, because transformation is not measured by how emotional a moment becomes.

It is measured by what the body is able to safely hold, integrate and sustain long after the session has ended.

That became the foundation of Orygen Breathwork™, a methodology and practice grounded in four core principles:

Stability.
Presence.
Capacity.
Responsibility.

When the nervous system feels safe, the body opens differently and facilitation stops becoming about creating an experience…

…and starts becoming about knowing how to truly hold one.
I ALREADY KNOW THIS IS FOR ME, TAKE ME TO MY NEXT STEP

 

Once the methodology became clear, the next step was taking it into the real world.

Into wellness spaces, communities, corporate environments, retreats and rooms filled with people carrying stress, pressure, disconnection and emotional exhaustion beneath the surface.

The response was undeniable.

People were not only having powerful experiences within the breath. They were integrating them into the way they lived, led, communicated and moved through their everyday lives afterwards.

This work was never built on emotional intensity alone.

It was built on nervous system safety, stability within the body, presence within the facilitator and the capacity to hold transformation responsibly.

That is the foundation you are stepping into inside Orygen Breathwork™.

Below, you’ll see reflections from the women, spaces and communities who have experienced this work first-hand.

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THE ORYGEN ARCHITECTURE™

This is not a collection of breathwork techniques.

It is a structured methodology designed to develop your ability to hold transformation safely, clearly and responsibly in real time, because confidence does not come from learning more.

It comes from knowing how to lead what is unfolding in front of you.

The Orygen Architecture™ gives you the structure, frameworks and understanding to facilitate with greater presence, regulation and certainty in your leadership.

Everything changes when the body feels safe enough to stay present with the experience.

Before transformation can deepen, the nervous system must feel stability within the space, the facilitator and the body itself.

This pillar focuses on regulation, safety and becoming the grounded anchor within the room, because powerful facilitation is not created through intensity.

It is created through steadiness.

Lasting transformation is not created at the surface level.

It happens within the deeper internal architecture where identity, beliefs, emotional patterns and protective responses are held.

This pillar teaches you how to guide beyond temporary emotional shifts and support deeper integration that can be sustained long after the journey has ended.

Transformation only becomes real when the body is able to embody it.

The depth you can safely hold for others is directly connected to the capacity you have cultivated within yourself.

As your own stability, presence and self-awareness deepens, your facilitation changes with it.

This pillar focuses on developing the internal stability required to hold stronger emotional experiences, deeper group dynamics and greater levels of energetic responsibility.

Leadership is not something you perform, it is something people feel in your presence.

 

What became increasingly clear was that the real transformation was not only happening inside the experiences.

It was happening afterwards.

In the way people responded to stress.
In the way they moved through conflict.
In the way they related to themselves, their emotions and the patterns they had spent years repeating.

The same people who once felt trapped in cycles of reactivity, self-abandonment and emotional overwhelm began responding to life differently.

There was more steadiness, awareness and space between the trigger and the response.

Where there had once been survival patterns, there was now greater self-trust, regulation and choice, because when the nervous system learns safety, people do not simply experience temporary emotional release.

They begin relating to themselves differently long after the journey has ended.

It was not the intensity of the experience that created the shift.

It was the way the work was being held, integrated and carried forward afterwards.

That became the difference.

Not just emotional release, but real change people could sustain in their everyday lives and the more consistently this approach was applied, the more this work began moving into communities, wellness spaces, leadership environments and organisations seeking a more grounded approach to transformation.

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There comes a point where visibility is no longer the real question.

Most women stepping into this work can already feel the demand for deeper, safer and more embodied spaces, but underneath that knowing, there is often another question quietly sitting there.

“Will I actually know how to hold this?”
“What happens when something real opens?”
“What if I still doubt myself in the room?”
“What if nobody comes?”

For a long time, I thought the answer was becoming more visible, which often looked like more strategy, more marketing and more ways to be seen.

What changed everything was realising that people do not choose spaces because they are louder.

They choose spaces based on the energy and frequency that you emanate out into the world, an energy that is assertive in safety. People can feel the difference between someone performing leadership and someone truly anchored within it.

THE SHIFT

Everything changed the moment I stopped trying to create powerful experiences and started learning how to truly hold them.

To create stability within myself while guiding others.
To stay present when emotion moved through the room.
To trust what was unfolding instead of trying to control it.

That is when the work started landing differently.

People did not need convincing.

They felt the difference, experienced the safety, returned and they brought others with them, because building meaningful work is not only about finding the right people.

It is about becoming someone who can safely hold them when they arrive and that is the part most facilitator trainings never truly teach.
 

So let me ask you something.

If you learned how to work with the body and breath beyond surface-level transformation…

If you understood how to create safety before intensity…

If you had the frameworks to guide sessions with greater clarity, regulation and trust in yourself…

Do you believe you could finally stop second-guessing your ability to lead this work?

Do you believe you could hold deeper transformation without feeling overwhelmed by what arises in the room?

Do you believe it would become easier for the right people to find you when your leadership became something they could truly feel?

That is what Orygen Breathwork™ was created to develop, not just better facilitators.

Safer, steadier and more responsible leaders.

Understanding the philosophy is one thing.

Learning how to embody and apply it in real time is where leadership is built.

That is exactly what this training was designed for.

THE ORYGEN BREATHWORK™ FACILITATOR TRAINING

is an 8-Week Immersive Certification For Women Ready To Lead Breathwork With Greater Safety, Presence And  Confidence

Inside this experience, you will be guided through the Orygen Breathwork™ methodology through immersive education, live facilitation experiences and practical integration designed to develop your confidence, regulation and leadership as a facilitator.

This training includes:

40+ on-demand training lessons
Weekly live online breathwork journeys and facilitator Q&A calls
Frameworks for regulation, integration and facilitation
Practical guidance for confidently leading diverse programs (including corporate, wellness, education and retreat settings)
A deeper understanding of nervous system-led transformation

Plus the option to attend one of our immersive 3-day in-person training experiences with real-time live facilitation, practice integration and hands-on leadership development.

Our next one will be held on the Sunshine Coast, location to be announced, if you can't attend in-person this will be live streamed and accessible from anywhere in the world.

This is not about memorising techniques.

It is about developing the confidence, trust, presence, structure and embodied leadership required to safely hold transformational work in the real world.

Before you guide anyone else, you learn to stabilise your own system.

This module establishes the ground you are standing on as an Orygen facilitator.

You will move through the lineage of Conscious Connected Breathwork, from its ancient roots across Vedic, Taoist and Indigenous traditions through to the modern clinical research that now validates what practitioners have known for centuries.

You will develop a precise understanding of th Polyvagal Theory and autonomic intelligence, learning to read the nervous system as the primary instrument of the session.

You will study the CO₂ cascade and the science of non-ordinary states, so you know exactly what is happening in the body when the breath shifts and you will be introduced to the Three Pillars of the Orygen Method and what makes this approach categorically different from every other breathwork training institutes.

This is where you shift from performing presence to becoming it.

You will learn the full Orygen architecture and how to guide a complete journey from arrival through to integration with clarity, structure and precision.

The 7-Phase Session Arc is mapped in full and you will learn how to move through each phase without rushing, forcing or losing presence.

You will study the critical difference between activation and overwhelm and how to read the body in real time so you know which state you are working with.

You will learn the distinction between catharsis and completion, which is one of the most important distinctions in this entire training, because one deepens transformation and the other interrupts it.

You will also begin developing the language of facilitation, learning how to use your voice, your cues and your presence as instruments of the container.

This is not about getting through the experience. It is about innerstanding how transformation unfolds in the body and how to lead that process from a place of genuine authority.

You will be equipped with the practical tools required to lead with confidence and clarity.

This includes the full intake process, contraindications, consent and safety protocols, so that every person who enters your container has been properly assessed and prepared.

You will study the breath patterns used within the Orygen Architecture, including circular breathing, 2:1 breathing and recovery breathing and learn when and how to apply each one.

You will develop your capacity to hold space through presence, restraint and non-interference, which is a skill that takes most facilitators years to build and one that this module accelerates significantly.

You will also learn how to recognise and work with the discharge of trauma trapped in the body, what it means and how to develop your intutive senses to guide.

You will begin to refine your voice, your leadership and your ability to guide without over-directing or second-guessing. The tools are here to support you. The intention is to use them without becoming dependent on them.

This is where your capacity deepens.

You will learn the principles, boundaries and ethics of trauma-informed facilitation, including how to safely work with emotional release, activation and intensity without needing to fix, advise or interfere.

You will study the recognition and response protocol for suspended breathing, so you can move through that moment with calm authority rather than panic.

You will learn the post-session integration guide and how to support the individual through the 48-hour window after a journey, because what happens after the session is as important as what happens inside it.

You will also be guided through your own inner work as a facilitator, including your personal practice and the role of ongoing supervision in maintaining your standard.

This module is the difference between guiding a session and creating a transformational container. It is built on one principle, the facilitator who has done their own work is the safest person in the room.

You will step into facilitation within a supported, structured environment.

This module is built around the Practicum, a live peer session structure where you guide a fellow student through a complete Orygen journey and receive real-time feedback and reflection.

You will learn the frameworks for giving and receiving feedback that actually builds skill rather than simply affirming effort.

You will develop your observation and tracking capacity, learning what to watch, what to note and what to act on in the body of the person in front of you.

You will begin building your Signature Facilitator Style, the unique expression of your presence, your voice and your method that makes your container distinctly yours.

This is where confidence becomes embodied rather than practiced.

You do not leave this module having completed a checklist. You leave it having led.

You will be guided through how to take this work beyond the training and into real-life application.

This includes how to approach corporate spaces, schools, wellness studios and community settings and how to position yourself within each context with clarity and authority.

You will work through the ethics of packaging, signature programs, pricing, the boundaries of your scope of practice and how to hold both with integrity.

You will learn how to build your practice from the ground up, including your marketing, your intake process and your outreach strategy and you will complete your workbook review and move through the certification process, graduating as a certified Orygen Breathwork™ Facilitator.

Whether you are integrating this work into an existing offering, building something entirely new or bringing it into your family and community, this module is where your facilitation becomes lived rather than learned.

Live Training Schedule & Important Dates

IN-PERSON IMMERSIVE TRAINING

Brisbane, Australia + Live Streamed Worldwide

The live 3-day Orygen Breathwork™ immersive training will be held across:

24th July, 25th July and 26th July

9:00AM – 4:00PM (AEST) | 11:00AM – 7:00PM (NZST) |  4:00PM – 12:00AM (PST)

This experience will take place in-person in Brisbane, Australia and will also be professionally live streamed for interstate and international students joining remotely from New Zealand, the United States and worldwide.

Location details will be released to enrolled students closer to commencement.

*All live sessions will be recorded and uploaded into the student portal for ongoing access and integration.

WEEKLY LIVE ONLINE FACILITATOR TRAINING SCHEDULE

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA (AEST)ALLOW 75MINS FOR EACH CALL

Friday, 31st July | 10:00AM

Friday, 7th August | 10:00AM

Friday, 14th August | 10:00AM

Friday, 21st August | 10:00AM

Friday, 28th August | 10:00AM

Friday, 4th September | 10:00AM

Friday, 11th September | 10:00AM

WEEKLY LIVE ONLINE FACILITATOR TRAINING SCHEDULE

NEW ZEALAND (NZST) ALLOW 75MINS FOR EACH CALL

Friday, 31st July | 12:00PM

Friday, 7th August | 12:00PM

Friday, 14th August | 12:00PM

Friday, 21st August | 12:00PM

Friday, 28th August | 12:00PM

Friday, 4th September | 12:00PM

Friday, 11th September | 12:00PM

WEEKLY LIVE ONLINE FACILITATOR TRAINING SCHEDULE

UNITED STATES (PST) ALLOW 75MINS FOR EACH CALL

Thursday, 30th July | 5:00PM

Thursday, 6th August | 5:00PM

Thursday, 13th August | 5:00PM

Thursday, 20th August | 5:00PM

Thursday, 27th August | 5:00PM

Thursday, 3rd September | 5:00PM

Thursday, 10th September | 5:00PM

Additional Monthly Live Orygen Breathwork™ Community Journeys 

Tuesday Evenings

7:30PM – 8:30PM (AEST), 9:30PM – 10:30PM (NZST), 2:30AM – 3:30AM (PST)

*All live sessions will be recorded and uploaded into the student portal for ongoing access and integration. These are open to the public so bring along friends, family, clients, community and colleagues.

Graduation and Professional Certification Standards

This training was designed to support you not only in learning the work, but in confidently stepping into professional facilitation with the structure, safety and credibility to begin leading others responsibly.

Inside Orygen Breathwork™, you are developing the stability, leadership and practical facilitation skills required to confidently guide transformational breathwork experiences in both private and group/retreat settings.

Upon successful completion of the certification, you will receive your Orygen Breathwork™ Certificate of Completion, recognising your training within the Orygen methodology and supporting your pathway into insured professional practice.

INCLUDED INSIDE YOUR ORYGEN BREATHWORK™ CERTIFICATION

A complete ecosystem for facilitation, leadership, nervous system capacity and embodied energetic business expansion.

This experience was intentionally designed to support not only the way you facilitate transformational work…

…but the way you lead, regulate, build, hold and expand your life and professional practice/business alongside it.

Inside the certification, you will receive lifetime access to the following:

 

THE ORYGEN BREATHWORK™ FACILITATOR CERTIFICATION

Value $12,000 AUD

An immersive facilitator training guiding you through the complete Orygen Breathwork™ methodology across live facilitation experiences, nervous system education, science-backed frameworks, leadership development and practical breathwork application.

Designed to develop the steadiness, confidence and embodied leadership required to safely hold transformational spaces in the real world.

+ Bonus #1

ORYGEN SOUND THERAPY PRACTITIONER TRAINING

Value $1,298 AUD

A complementary sound facilitation training designed to deepen your understanding of energetic integration, frequency and nervous system support within transformational spaces.

You will learn how to intentionally work with sound as a grounding and emotional support tool within both private and group facilitation environments.

Designed to develop the steadiness, confidence and embodied leadership required to safely hold transformational spaces in the real world.

+ Bonus #2

HUMAN DESIGN, BUSINESS & ENERGETIC LEADERSHIP

Value $1,978 AUD

A deeper exploration into the energetics of leadership, visibility and business alignment through the lens of your unique energetic blueprint.

This training was created to help you understand how to build, lead and grow your work in a way that feels sustainable and aligned to your natural way of operating, because the most powerful businesses are not built through performance or outdated marketing strategies.

They are built through energetic congruence.

+ Fast Action Bonus (Limited Time)

FACILITATOR PRACTICE LIBRARY & AUDIO TRANSMISSION SUITE

Value $997 AUD

A curated library of guided facilitator practices, breathwork integrations, nervous system support audios and energetic transmissions designed to support your embodiment throughout the training and beyond.

Created to help you deepen your own practice, strengthen your facilitation presence and continue expanding your capacity as both a facilitator and leader.

Available for a limited time within the current intake.

TOTAL VALUE = $16,273

$16,273

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 Flexible payment options available*

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Pathway One

ORYGEN BREATHWORK™ FACILITATOR TRAINING

$4,888 AUD

Flexible payment plans available.

A professional breathwork facilitator certification designed for women ready to lead transformational work with confidence, self-trust, embodiment and nervous system-led leadership.

This immersive experience includes:

✦ Learn the full Orygen Breathwork™ methodology
✦ Develop facilitation confidence and leadership capacity
✦ Learn state of the art, science-backed breathwork frameworks
✦ Understand nervous system-based transformation
✦ Practise real-time facilitation and integration
✦ Receive professional certification
✦ Become eligible for insurance-supported practice pathways through IME Insurance*

This is for the woman ready to confidently step into facilitation, private practice, retreat spaces or transformational leadership environments with greater steadiness, trust and professional structure.

APPLY NOW FOR PRIORITY ACCESS

Pathway Two

THE ORYGEN™ SCHOLARSHIP

One Full Scholarship Available Per Intake $4,888 AUD

Should you be the woman who receives this, you must be willing to fully devote yourself to the depth, responsibility and integration of this training.

Each certification intake, offers one woman with the opportunity to receive a full scholarship into the Orygen Breathwork™ Facilitator Certification.

This scholarship was created from the belief that powerful leadership is not always reflected by current financial circumstances.

Sometimes the woman most deeply called into the work is simply waiting for the room that sees her fully.

This pathway exists for the woman who deeply resonates with the vision, integrity and future of Orygen™ facilitation and feels genuinely committed to embodying the work at a deeper level.

The first round of applications close Sunday, 31st May.

APPLY FOR THE SCHOLARSHIP

Let me put this into perspective.

If this training allowed you to confidently lead breathwork experiences without constantly second-guessing yourself in the room,would that change the way you show up?

If it gave you the structure to safely hold real emotional transformation, without relying on overwhelm, intensity or trying to work it out as you go, would that matter?

If it helped you develop the steadiness, leadership and embodied presence that naturally builds trust with the people you are here to guide, would that be valuable to you?

At a certain point, growth is no longer about consuming more information.

It becomes about placing yourself inside the right environment, guidance and methodology that allows you to become the woman capable of holding this work fully.

There is a world out there filled with people who are trying to lead transformational spaces before they have ever truly been taught how to hold them.

Orygen Breathwork™ exists to teach you how to embody it.

So now, you have a decision to make.

You can continue trying to piece this together on your own, navigating uncertainty, self-doubt and inconsistent leadership as you go...

Or,

You can step into a structured certification designed to develop your regulation, confidence, facilitation skills and leadership capacity over the next eight weeks alongside women walking this path with you.

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International Author | 1000+ Breakthroughs and Rising | 100+ Workshops and Seminars

New to the world of Orygen?

Hi, I’m Elise Small, founder of Orygen Breathwork™ and the School of Orygen™.

Today, I train women to become grounded, aligned and professionally equipped facilitators capable of holding real transformation with depth, integrity and nervous system safety.

This work did not begin in breathwork.

For over 14 years, I worked in various leadership and mentor roles in the education sector, supporting children, families and teams through environments centred around emotional wellbeing, development and safety.

Over time, I began recognising the same thing repeatedly.

As a collective we know how to survive in chaotic, emotionally draining and very real experiences, however very few know how to truly hold themselves and move through them.

In 2020 my life brought me into my own season of rebuilding through personal challenges, including separation, solo motherhood and the mental health complications that arise from unmet complex trauma. It was during that time that the breath became more than a practice for me.

It became a pathway into stability, clarity, expansion, self-leadership and trust.

As I stepped deeper into the breathwork industry itself, I realised something else.

The industry did not need more intensity.

It needed more structure, more responsibility and more steadiness in the way transformation was being facilitated and integrated.

That became the foundation of Orygen Breathwork™, methodology grounded in nervous system safety, embodied leadership and real-world application.

I do not train facilitators and change-makers to simply create experiences.

I train women to become the kind of presence people can genuinely feel safe to open within.

If something in you recognises this work, the responsibility, the depth and the way this approach to facilitation is different, then you already know why you found your way here.

The next step is simply deciding whether you are ready to fully step into it and only you can own that.

Enter The Next Evolution Of Your Leadership