October intake · Applications close Sunday, 11th October
Orygen Breathwork™ · Facilitator Certification
Master breathwork you can live and lead. Build a career that is unmistakably yours.
A professional certification for the woman ready to become her greatest resource first, then learn to lead other people with the steadiness, skill and self-trust that cannot be borrowed from a script.
8 weeks live · 3-day immersion · Internationally accredited · Professional insurance pathway
Begins Friday 16 October 2026 · Applications close Sunday 11 October
This certification
The room has already taken shape.
The woman who enters it already carries considerable trust from the people she works with. Across eight weeks you develop the embodied capacity, the professional skill and the authority to carry that work further. This is your invitation to recognise whether this is the room your work has been leading you towards.
The Method
→Stability, Integration and Capacity. The three principles that govern how you prepare for an experience, hold somebody inside it, and handle what comes afterwards.
The Immersion
→Three days at Kondalilla Eco Resort opening the training. You practise, you are facilitated, and you meet the women you will train beside. Livestreamed in full.
The Practicum
→You guide a complete journey and are observed. Certification is issued on the standard you demonstrate, never on the sessions you attended.
Who arrives here
You already know the responsibility of being trusted.
People come to you because of the quality of your work and the way you meet them. You built that trust through experience, attention, and the decisions you make when somebody needs your guidance.
You may be a coach, a therapist, a health professional, an educator, a yoga teacher, a retreat facilitator or a founder. Your work has given you an understanding of people, and you want to develop it further through breath.
Perhaps you want to bring breath into the sessions you already lead. Perhaps you are ready to create a group experience or a retreat of your own. What you want is to understand how breathing shapes an experience, how to guide it responsibly, and what to do when a participant needs something different from what you planned.
Your existing qualifications matter. You worked for them. Keep them, bring them. This method asks one thing before you lead it. You have to be willing to go first in your own body.
What connects the women who enter Orygen is not their profession. It is the level of responsibility people are already placing in them.
Because eventually somebody is going to lie down in front of you and trust you with theirs.
The eight weeks
You develop the experience and the skill to lead, in this order.
This is not a syllabus. It is what the training actually does, and why the sequence matters.
01
You establish a relationship with your own breath.
You explore your breathing patterns and study the physiology behind the techniques you practise. You notice how your breathing changes with effort, emotion and rest, and develop a clearer understanding of your own responses.
02
You bring the practice into your daily life.
You explore how familiar beliefs and responses shape your choices, your relationships and your professional confidence. Guided practice and reflection give you room to consider what you want to change, and how you will support that change beyond a single session.
03
You practise responding to another person.
You work with peers while learning to observe breathing, listen to what a participant reports, and adjust your guidance. You practise your voice, your timing and your pacing, including when to offer a cue, when to simplify, and when further support is needed.
04
You demonstrate your facilitation.
You guide a complete journey and receive direct feedback on your work. Your practicum is observed, and certification is issued when you have demonstrated the required standard. You leave knowing what still needs refinement and how to keep developing your own style within the method.
A facilitator cannot offer reliable choice from a method she only knows as a script.
Try it here
The timer is part of the training.
A timer that breathes with you, cueing every shift of the breath as it arrives, so there is no cognitive overload and nothing to think your way through. You follow, and the count is carried.
Breathe with it at any time. Nothing is recorded, nothing is scored, and it ends on its own.
Sit or lie down before you begin. Stop if you feel lightheaded, and do not do this while driving. If you are pregnant or have a cardiovascular or respiratory condition, speak with your practitioner first.
The Orygen Method™
Stability is the foundation. Expansion is the direction.
You are not training to keep people calm. You are learning how to create enough steadiness that something real can move, without the room becoming dependent on intensity to feel transformative.
01
The nervous system has to find safety in the space, the facilitator and itself.
You learn to set clear expectations, offer real choices, and guide practices at a pace the body in front of you can actually meet. You also develop awareness of your own responses, so that you can stay attentive to the person rather than managing yourself.
Powerful facilitation is not created through intensity. It is created through steadiness.
02
Lasting change does not happen at the surface. It happens in the deeper architecture.
You learn to support the transition out of a breathwork experience, and to help a participant consider what she wants to carry into ordinary life. You learn what follow-up, practical support and referral may be appropriate. The intensity of a session is never treated as proof that anything lasting has changed.
What happens afterwards belongs to professional facilitation too.
03
The depth you can safely hold for others is the capacity you have built in yourself.
You develop your ability to work with different responses, with group dynamics, and with the responsibility of leading. Repeated practice and feedback help you recognise both your growing capability and the edges of your scope.
Leadership is not something you perform. It is something people feel in your presence.
Three pillars, built in this order, because the order is the method.
The Orygen Architecture™
A seven-phase structure, from arrival through integration.
You learn the purpose of each phase and practise adapting your language and your pacing to the people actually in front of you.
01 · ArrivalPreparation, the room, and what happens before she lies down.02 · ScreeningIntake, consent and contraindications, completed properly.03 · MechanicsBreath patterns and their application to this body, today.04 · ReadingRecognising activation and overwhelm, and telling them apart.
05 · VoiceCueing, pacing and restraint. Knowing when to say nothing.
06 · IntegrationThe return, and the support that belongs after the session.
07 · ScopeReferral, professional application, and where yours ends.
Six modulesForty-seven lessons, built in sequence, because the sequence is the method.Open any module to read what is inside it
Module one · opens live at the immersion
Before you guide anyone else, you learn to stabilise your own system.
This is where you shift from performing presence to becoming it.
You study breathing physiology, nervous system concepts and the principles behind the Orygen Method™. You explore your own breathing baseline and begin connecting the teaching to your personal practice. This module begins in the room together on the Sunshine Coast rather than on a screen.
Module two
The full architecture, and how to guide a complete journey.
This is not about getting through the experience.
You learn the seven-phase facilitation structure and practise the cues, transitions and timing that support it. You consider different participant responses and how to adjust your guidance while keeping the structure of the session clear.
Module three
The practical tools required to lead with clarity, and the scope that holds them.
The tools are here to support you, not to be leaned on.
Intake, screening, consent, contraindications and referral. You study the breathing practices included in the method, what each is for, and the circumstances that call for an adapted approach or a different form of support entirely.
Module four
This is where your capacity deepens.
The facilitator who has done her own work is the safest person in the room.
You explore boundaries, participant choice, and your responsibilities around distress or an unexpected response. You learn the response and follow-up procedures taught within the training, alongside the place of continued professional support and supervision.
Module five
You step into facilitation inside a supported, structured environment.
You do not leave this module having completed a checklist. You leave it having led.
You guide peer sessions and receive feedback on your observation, your communication and your facilitation. You develop your voice and your style through practice, while learning to apply the method consistently.
Module six
Taking this work beyond the training and into real-life application.
This is where your facilitation becomes lived rather than learned.
You consider how breathwork fits within the work you already do and the people you want to serve. The teaching covers positioning, packaging, pricing, marketing, client intake, outreach and the insurance application pathway. You complete the practicum required for certification.
The opening
We begin together at Kondalilla.
Friday 16 to Sunday 18 October 2026, in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, on Gubbi Gubbi country.
These three days give you time to experience the method, observe facilitation, and begin practising with the women in your cohort. You work with breath, voice, pacing and sound, with room for reflection and integration between experiences.
For women attending remotely, the immersion is offered by livestream with supported paired practice and live feedback. The seven weekly sessions that follow are online for the whole cohort.
You experience what it is to return to yourself before you are ever asked to lead somebody 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. Twenty-three rooms across treehouses, chalets, villas, cabins and lodge rooms, with a restaurant on site.
The hinterland fills in October, so book early if you are travelling.
Accommodation is booked directly with the resort and is not included in your training investment, which keeps you free to choose what suits you. 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 while you are practising.
The opening · three days in person
Friday 16 to Sunday 18 October
Kondalilla Eco Resort · livestreamed in full9:00am to 3:00pm AEST, Brisbane · closing 4:00pm Sunday
12:00pm to 6:00pm NZDT, Auckland · closing 7:00pm Sunday
4:00pm to 10:00pm PDT, US Pacific · Thursday 15, Friday 16 and Saturday 17 October
Doors open at 8:30am for a slow start. Grazing boards and light refreshments provided each day, with the resort restaurant open alongside. Travel briefing sent once your place is confirmed.
Australia
Brisbane, AEST · allow 75 minutes- 16 to 18 October · the immersion
- Friday 23 October · 10:00am
- Friday 30 October · 10:00am
- Friday 6 November · 10:00am
- Friday 13 November · 10:00am
- Friday 20 November · 10:00am
- Friday 27 November · 10:00am
- Friday 4 December · 10:00am
New Zealand
Auckland · same day · allow 75 minutes- 16 to 18 October · the immersion
- Friday 23 October · 1:00pm
- Friday 30 October · 1:00pm
- Friday 6 November · 1:00pm
- Friday 13 November · 1:00pm
- Friday 20 November · 1:00pm
- Friday 27 November · 1:00pm
- Friday 4 December · 1:00pm
United States
Pacific · the day before ours · allow 75 minutes- 15 to 17 October · the immersion
- Thursday 22 October · 5:00pm
- Thursday 29 October · 5:00pm
- Thursday 5 November · 4:00pm
- Thursday 12 November · 4:00pm
- Thursday 19 November · 4:00pm
- Thursday 26 November · 4:00pm
- Thursday 3 December · 4:00pm
If you are joining from the United States, our Friday morning is your Thursday afternoon. Queensland does not observe daylight saving, so Brisbane never moves. New Zealand is on daylight time for the whole cohort. The United States leaves daylight time on 1 November, so the Pacific start moves to 4:00pm from the 5 November call. Every session is recorded and in your portal the same day.
Where this work has already been held
This methodology has already been carried into real rooms.
Wellness spaces, communities, corporate environments, retreats and rooms filled with people carrying stress, pressure and emotional exhaustion beneath the surface. Not a theory being tested on you. A body of work that has already met the public.
It was not the intensity of the experience that created the shift. It was the way the work was held, integrated and carried forward.
A message from the founder · watch before you apply
Everything about this training is on this page. This is the part I would rather say to you 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 life, not just the spaces they now live and breathe in and what they now do when nobody else is in the room.
Every woman here has one common thread. They saw their vision, backed themselves and led from their heart, so when we had our call together the decision had already been made.
That is the difference between trust and self-doubt
Where are you choosing to lead from?
By the end
Your professional confidence develops through practice and feedback.
Not how you will feel. What you will be able to do when a real person is in front of you.
- 01Plan and explain a session clearlyWhat the practice involves, what it asks of a participant, and what she can expect.
- 02Complete screening and establish informed consentIntake, contraindications, and the conversation that happens before anybody lies down.
- 03Guide the Orygen session structureThe full seven-phase arc, without rushing it or losing your own ground.
- 04Respond to what a participant reportsRecognise when to adjust, when to simplify, when to pause, and when to refer.
- 05Bring an experience to a considered closeThe immediate return, integration, and the limits of what you can responsibly offer.
- 06Use your own breath without a facilitatorThe practice that belongs to you, on an ordinary Tuesday, with nobody else in the room.
- 07Work within a defined scope, and say where it endsIncluding when another professional is the right answer and yours is not.
Your observed practicum lets these skills be assessed together. Certification reflects the standard you have actually demonstrated, rather than the sessions you attended.
Why I built Orygen this way
I created Orygen to help women develop a practice they can lead with ownership.
I am Elise Small, founder of Orygen Breathwork™ and creator of the Orygen Method™.
My background includes fourteen years in education and leadership, where responsibility for people required careful observation, clear communication and considered decisions. Those years still shape the way I teach facilitation.
I spent a long time looking outside myself for the thing that would finally help me meet my own life. What changed things was finding a resource I could return to on my own, inside an ordinary day, without needing anybody else in the room.
The breath is the one instrument that moves with us through every moment. Nobody can breathe for me. At two in the morning, when everything familiar feels out of reach, it is still here, still responding, and it can change when I give it time and attention.
So I built the preparation that makes it possible. You experience the work yourself, you learn a clear facilitation structure, and you practise with feedback before you certify. You also learn where your responsibility begins and ends, including when another professional is needed.
Every conversation with Orygen should leave a woman with more access to herself than she had before it began.
Elise Small · Founder of Orygen Breathwork™ · Author of The Woman After™
Worth being honest about
What another year would preserve.
Not to hurry you. Only because it is worth seeing plainly, once, and then leaving alone.
- Another year of income attached to the same professional capacity you have today.
- Another year before you find out what your existing expertise becomes with breath woven through it.
- Another year with the workshop, the retreat or the program still living in your notes.
- Another year of experiencing this work without becoming fluent enough to lead it.
- Another year of knowing what steadying a nervous system means in theory, without the observed practice that shows you what you actually do when a real room changes.
A year will pass either way. The question is what you want to be able to lead by the time it does.
Two pathways
Two ways in. One certification.
However you arrive, you leave an Orygen Breathwork™ certified facilitator. The same curriculum, the same observed practicum, the same IPHM accreditation. Choose the path that fits your life.
Eight weeks · begins 16 October
The October 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 · Afterpay
What's included
- The six-module curriculum, forty-seven lessons
- The three-day immersion at Kondalilla, in person or by livestream
- Seven weekly live sessions with your cohort
- The 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, the Facilitator Practice Library, Orygen Mentor™ and the Orygen app
Applications close Sunday 11 October
Prefer to talk first? Book a discovery call
Online · begin today
The Online Pathway
The complete certification, open the day you enrol, trained from wherever you are in the world.
$3,888
AUD · one payment
Approx. US$2,770 · €2,420 · £2,070
Flexible payment options · from $324 a month
What's included
- The six-module curriculum, forty-seven lessons, open the day you enrol
- Weekly 90-minute live facilitator training, monthly workshops and ongoing masterclasses
- The Kondalilla immersion, livestreamed in full
- The observed practicum by uploading your sessions, 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
Prefer to talk first? Book a discovery call
Both pathways lead to the same certification.
The cohort moves together through eight weeks and begins in the room. The online pathway opens the day you enrol and fits around your life. The standard you are certified against is identical. Insurance premiums, accommodation and travel are separate from either fee.
Prices are in Australian dollars. International amounts are approximate, based on the rate on 18 September 2026, and your bank converts at the day's rate.
Internationally accredited
Recognised well beyond this coastline.
Orygen Breathwork™ is an accredited training provider with the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine, an international accrediting body established in 2005. Your certification is held to leading standards of ethics, industry practice and professional conduct, and that recognition travels with you.
Accreditation is also what makes professional indemnity insurance available to you. Insurers need to see a recognised qualification before they will cover you to work with people. Eligibility and cover remain subject to the insurer assessment.
Have a question first
Ask it in The Room.
A private space to think out loud before you decide anything. Ask about the intake, the immersion, the modules, the investment, or whether the qualification you already hold sits alongside this rather than underneath it. Answers come straight back, at whatever hour you are reading this.
It is not a form and it is not an application. Most women arrive with a question about the training and are really asking whether they are capable of it, so bring that one too. Nothing reaches me unless you choose to send it.
I feel called to this work but still doubt myself. Is this space still for me?
Open now, no waiting
Admission
The application gives us both the opportunity to consider fit.
This training is for women who already work with people and want to develop their breathwork practice responsibly. You may arrive with experience in another field and no previous breathwork facilitator qualification.
You submit your application
It asks about your work, your experience with breathwork, and what you want to develop. Answer it honestly rather than impressively.
Your responses come to me
Not a team and not an automated reply. I read every application personally.
We speak
A conversation to discuss the training, answer your questions, and consider together whether the October intake is right for you.
Both ways
When we both agree to proceed, your enrolment and payment arrangements 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 simply to complete a number. If the training is not the right fit, saying so protects both you and the women you will one day hold.
Practical
The questions worth answering plainly.
The opening immersion is offered by livestream with supported paired practice and live feedback. The seven weekly sessions that follow are online for everybody. We can discuss the remote arrangements on your application call.
No. Previous facilitator certification is not required. The application considers your experience working with people, your relationship with breathwork, and your readiness for the practice and assessment involved.
Alongside it, never over it. You will need to consider how these practices fit within your existing professional scope, your insurance and any registration requirements. Orygen teaches its own facilitation method and its own boundaries. The certificate does not automatically expand a regulated professional scope, and it does not qualify you to diagnose or treat medical or mental health conditions.
After you have completed the training requirements and demonstrated the required standard in your observed practicum. Attendance alone does not establish that standard.
You receive support with the application pathway. The insurer determines eligibility and the activities a policy covers. Premiums are separate from your tuition, and you are responsible for arranging suitable cover before offering professional services.
No. Accommodation is separate from tuition. You can book directly with Kondalilla Eco Resort or travel to the venue each day. The hinterland fills in October, so book early if you are coming from interstate or overseas.
Approximately three to four hours after the immersion, covering the live session, the curriculum and your own practice. The practice is not optional, because it is the part that changes your facilitation.
Orygen Mentor™ is an AI-supported resource for exploring the methodology, your practice development and the business material. Its responses require your judgement and verification. It does not provide clinical care, emergency support or professional supervision.
A certification does not generate revenue on its own. It gives you a professional capability you can choose to apply privately, in groups, in programs, in retreats or inside the practice you already run. Your pricing, positioning, demand and implementation determine the commercial result.
No training can responsibly guarantee a feeling. What this one does is replace imagined confidence with evidence. You practise, you are observed, you receive feedback, and you develop a clear reference point for what you actually do when a room changes.
Yes. Your application call is the place to discuss the curriculum, attendance, investment and professional pathway. You are also welcome to bring a question into The Room first.
The invitation
The method becomes a resource. You remain the source.
We begin with three days at Kondalilla and continue through seven weeks of live teaching, practice and feedback.
Begin your applicationRead the curriculum
Applications close Sunday 11 October 2026 · Training begins Friday 16 October 2026
The Orygen Breathwork™ Partner Program
Share the breath.
Experience what it means to ask, receive and add value to another woman's life.
Our graduates and community share this work with the women in their world, and receive 10% of every enrolment they inspire into the Facilitator Certification.
Orygen Breathwork™
Breath · Embodiment · Self-Leadership
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