Breathwork certification near Grand Rapids: 3 days in person in Milwaukee, on the far shore of Lake Michigan. Catch the ferry from Muskegon and be there for June 11-13, 2027.
However you like to learn, there is a path for you. Same surrender-based method, same mentorship, in person or online.
12 Weeks, Live
A 12-week live, small-group online cohort. Train from anywhere with the same surrender-based method and mentorship.
Live weekly group calls, the complete course materials and business curriculum, and the same private graduate community as our in-person students.
See the full online cohort details →12-Week Online
Starts October 6
Tuition · $1,497
6 spots left
October 2026
A three-day in-person intensive in Phoenix. Hands-on facilitation practice with Ryan and Shelby in the room.
Three days of live, hands-on facilitation practice in Phoenix, plus the same private graduate community as our other students. The 12-week online cohort is a separate training you can add.
See the full in-person details →Phoenix, Arizona
October 23-25
$1,997
1 spot left
November 2026
A three-day in-person intensive in Phoenix. Hands-on facilitation practice with Ryan and Shelby in the room.
Three days of live, hands-on facilitation practice in Phoenix, plus the same private graduate community as our other students. The 12-week online cohort is a separate training you can add.
See the full in-person details →Phoenix, Arizona
November 6-8
$1,997
2 spots left
June 2027
A three-day in-person intensive in Milwaukee. Hands-on facilitation practice with Ryan and Shelby in the room.
Three days of live, hands-on facilitation practice in Milwaukee, plus the same private graduate community as our other students. The 12-week online cohort is a separate training you can add. The venue is not signed yet; the address goes out by email before the training.
Flexible refund policy. Transfer or refund within 30 days of dates and location being settled.
See the full in-person details →Milwaukee, Wisconsin
June 11-13
Venue TBD
$2,497 $1,997
5 early-bird spots left
February 2027
A three-day in-person intensive in Scottsdale. Hands-on facilitation practice with Ryan and Shelby in the room.
Three days of live, hands-on facilitation practice in Scottsdale, plus the same private graduate community as our other students. The 12-week online cohort is a separate training you can add.
See the full in-person details →Scottsdale, Arizona
February 5-7
$2,497 $1,997
2 early-bird spots left
March 2027
A three-day in-person intensive in Atlanta. Hands-on facilitation practice with Ryan and Shelby in the room.
Three days of live, hands-on facilitation practice in Atlanta, plus the same private graduate community as our other students. The 12-week online cohort is a separate training you can add. The venue is not signed yet; the address goes out by email before the training.
Flexible refund policy. Transfer or refund within 30 days of dates and location being settled.
See the full in-person details →Atlanta, Georgia
March 19-21
Venue TBD
$2,497 $1,997
5 early-bird spots left
April 2027
A three-day in-person intensive in Salt Lake City. Hands-on facilitation practice with Ryan and Shelby in the room.
Three days of live, hands-on facilitation practice in Salt Lake City, plus the same private graduate community as our other students. The 12-week online cohort is a separate training you can add. The venue is not signed yet; the address goes out by email before the training.
Flexible refund policy. Transfer or refund within 30 days of dates and location being settled.
See the full in-person details →Salt Lake City, Utah
April 30 - May 2
Venue TBD
$2,497 $1,997
5 early-bird spots left
May 2027
A three-day in-person intensive in Washington, D.C. Hands-on facilitation practice with Ryan and Shelby in the room.
Three days of live, hands-on facilitation practice in Washington, D.C., plus the same private graduate community as our other students. The 12-week online cohort is a separate training you can add. The venue is not signed yet; the address goes out by email before the training.
Flexible refund policy. Transfer or refund within 30 days of dates and location being settled.
See the full in-person details →Washington, D.C.
May 21-23
Venue TBD
$2,497 $1,997
5 early-bird spots left
July 2027
A three-day in-person intensive in South Lake Tahoe. Hands-on facilitation practice with Ryan and Shelby in the room.
Three days of live, hands-on facilitation practice in South Lake Tahoe, plus the same private graduate community as our other students. The 12-week online cohort is a separate training you can add. The venue is not signed yet; the address goes out by email before the training.
Flexible refund policy. Transfer or refund within 30 days of dates and location being settled.
See the full in-person details →South Lake Tahoe, California
July 30 - August 1
Venue TBD
$2,497 $1,997
5 early-bird spots left
September 2027
A three-day in-person intensive in Seattle. Hands-on facilitation practice with Ryan and Shelby in the room.
Three days of live, hands-on facilitation practice in Seattle, plus the same private graduate community as our other students. The 12-week online cohort is a separate training you can add. The venue is not signed yet; the address goes out by email before the training.
Flexible refund policy. Transfer or refund within 30 days of dates and location being settled.
See the full in-person details →Seattle, Washington State
September 17-19
Venue TBD
$2,497 $1,997
5 early-bird spots left
October 2027
A three-day in-person intensive in New York. Hands-on facilitation practice with Ryan and Shelby in the room.
Three days of live, hands-on facilitation practice in New York, plus the same private graduate community as our other students. The 12-week online cohort is a separate training you can add. The venue is not signed yet; the address goes out by email before the training.
Flexible refund policy. Transfer or refund within 30 days of dates and location being settled.
See the full in-person details →New York, New York
October 15-17
Venue TBD
$2,497 $1,997
5 early-bird spots left
November 2027
A three-day in-person intensive in Phoenix. Hands-on facilitation practice with Ryan and Shelby in the room.
Three days of live, hands-on facilitation practice, plus the same private graduate community as our other students. The 12-week online cohort is a separate training you can add. Dates and venue are being settled now; the address goes out by email before the training.
Flexible refund policy. Transfer or refund within 30 days of dates and location being settled.
See the full in-person details →Phoenix area (Mesa or Scottsdale), Arizona
Exact Dates and Venue TBD
$2,497 $1,997
5 early-bird spots left
Not sure yet? Share your info and we will reach out or Book a Clarity Call.
Every path leads to the same place: the surrender-based method, a real facilitator credential, and the confidence to hold Breathwork for real people. You learn safe, trauma-informed facilitation and the business side of filling your first rooms.
Whichever format you choose, you train directly with Ryan and Shelby in a small cohort, and you keep the graduate community and mentorship long after your final day.
We built the online cohort for people who can't travel, or who simply want to start online. Whatever your reason, it gets you there. That said, if you can make an in-person intensive work, we always encourage it. Breathing in a room with your cohort is something a screen can't fully recreate.
None of our trainings happen in Michigan. The closest is Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 11-13, 2027. Venue TBD.
Milwaukee looks close on the map. Lake Michigan is in the way, and GRR has no nonstop flight there. So you pick one of three ways over:
The training runs Friday to Sunday, 9am to 6pm Central. We keep snacks out all day. Meals are on you.
Rather fly? GRR goes nonstop to D.C., and Washington, D.C. runs May 21-23. It is listed in the cards above.
Muskegon sits about 40 miles away, at the west end of I-96. The Lake Express, a high-speed ferry, covers the roughly 80 miles to Milwaukee in 2.5 hours. Both terminals have parking.
Lake Express has not posted its 2027 schedule yet. In mid-June 2026 the boats made two round trips a day, with no evening sailing. If 2027 looks like 2026, the morning crossing lands after our 9am start, and the last boat home leaves before we wrap at 6.
So cross on Thursday and sail back Monday. Or take the ferry over and drive home.
The Pere Marquette leaves the Vernon J. Ehlers Station once a day. It stops in Holland and St. Joseph and reaches Chicago Union Station in about 4 hours.
From Union Station, the Hiawatha gets to Milwaukee in 1 hour 29 minutes, with 7 round trips a day (6 on Sunday). We have not lined up the two schedules, so build in a night along the way.
Gerald R. Ford International in Cascade Township is the second-busiest airport in Michigan. It flies nonstop to D.C. and to the Phoenix area, which helps if one of those dates fits better.
Go around the bottom of the lake through Chicago and up into Wisconsin. You gain an hour on the way. Chicago traffic can change the drive a lot, so look it up for the day you plan to leave.
Milwaukee in June runs mid 70s by day and high 50s at night. Days are a touch cooler than a Grand Rapids June, and nights feel about the same. The lake cools the Milwaukee shore, so pack a layer for evenings.
June also sits inside the ferry season, which runs from spring into late October. For this training the boat is a real option.
Wisconsin runs on Central time, one hour behind Grand Rapids. Our 9am start is 10am back in Grand Rapids, so set Friday's alarm by Milwaukee time.
West Michigan has more than one way to the Milwaukee training. Open the one closest to home.
From Muskegon, you are already at the ferry. The Lake Express leaves from your town, so the drive up I-96 drops out of the trip.
Holland and St. Joseph are Pere Marquette stops, so you can catch the Chicago train close to home. From Grand Haven, where the Grand River meets Lake Michigan, the ferry dock is up the shore in Muskegon.
Flying instead? GRR is the airport for all of it. Want a class first? See Breathwork near Muskegon.
Kalamazoo and Battle Creek are both stops on the Wolverine. It ends at Chicago Union Station, the same building the Hiawatha leaves from for Milwaukee. That makes your trip two trains and one change in Chicago.
Plan to reach Milwaukee the evening before, so a 9am Friday start never rides on a train connection.
Closer to Lansing, Ann Arbor or Metro Detroit? Our Detroit page lays out the routes from your side of the state.
“So grateful for both of you, Ryan and Shelby. You’re changing my life right as we speak ... the ladies both booked for next week for paid sessions.”
After getting certified she had paid one-on-ones and a group session booked in Santa Clarita.
“I was really looking for something that was more gentle, more supportive ... and Liquid Breathwork delivered just that.”
She arrived a beginner, after one Breathwork class elsewhere that felt like a lot. She left certain that everything we need is already within us.
Hear from past students as they went through our June 2025 training.
A short look at what a full Liquid Breathwork session actually looks like from the inside.
Sells out a women’s only class every month.
Fourteen years a registered nurse, and Ryan’s star student. She has kept those classes full for over two years.
“I felt like that one session of Breathwork was more impactful than multiple sessions of EMDR that I received in therapy.”
He now guides Liquid Breathwork along with practicing as a clinical psychologist.
Leads Breathwork at music festivals.
Gem & Jam and Peak State in Austin, 20+ people on the grass.
“The training gave me the confidence to speak with knowledge about breathwork ... the experiencer is put more at ease and able to go deeper knowing that what is happening is normal and ok.”
He has run a class or two every month since April under his own brand.
“The group calls are supportive and range from business growth to breaking down student’s teachings for feedback.”
Weekly classes, held so consistently that three of her breathers came and got certified in Liquid Breathwork too.
Ryan and Shelby co-teach the whole weekend. The full curriculum sits on the certification page. Here is the short version.
First, your own breath. Then the art of facilitation: you guide people in the room, with trauma-informed pacing that lets each breather choose how deep to go.
Safety is its own topic. You learn who should not do this practice, what goes in a waiver, and how to ask consent before any touch.
Good Breathwork teacher training also gets you ready to teach around Grand Rapids. So we cover the business side: pricing, and how to fill your first sessions.
Mentorship continues once you are home, where the practice fits on a bench at Meijer Gardens or a walk along the Grand River. 55 students have enrolled so far.
Want to feel a session before you commit? Our Breathwork Grand Rapids directory lists local classes run by other teachers.
Founder & Lead Facilitator
8 years guiding Breathwork, 7 breath programs behind him including 4 full certifications, and a 21-day Breath Mastery Retreat in the Baja desert with Dan Brulé. He has guided hundreds of one-on-one sessions and led groups for thousands of people. Ryan created the surrender-based method this training is built on.
Co-Founder & Lead Facilitator
A registered nurse of fourteen years, and the graduate Ryan still calls his “Star Student”. She has been selling out women’s only classes almost every month for more than two years. Shelby brings an intuitive & nurturing energy into sessions and the training, which is the part of facilitation nobody learns from a video.
"What a growing experience I have had the pleasure of having with Ryan. I'm so happy I took the chance to reach out when coming across him on the social platform. He has been so warm and authentic from the first moment we got introduced. I have learnt so much through his journey and greatful for him sharing it and the technique of this amazing breathwork with me. Do not hesitate, just do and let Ryan guide you."
"Ryan and Shelby are incredible! They create a very safe and supportive environment to practice Liquid Breathwork. I always get exactly what I need. I highly recommend taking a class!"
"I was so intimidated before starting and to now feel that it’s all possible feels so exciting. Super grateful for this experience!! Thank you Ryan! You’re such a gentle soul, wealth of knowledge, and make learning Breathwork fun and simplified!"
"The Liquid Breathwork Masters Course has been amazing! The videos are packed full of helpful content on the breath, as well as the more technical side of hosting Breathwork classes like audio equipment, Zoom tips, and crafting incredible playlists. The group calls are supportive and range from business growth to breaking down student’s teachings for feedback."
"The space you both created during the course felt incredibly warm, welcoming, and safe, which made it easy to stay present and engaged throughout. The simplicity of the Breathwork really stayed with me, and I've already started noticing how restorative it is. Grateful for the experience and for both of you!"
"LBW is always a worthwhile experience. Ryan and Shelby tend to always find a way to cultivate an environment that allows clients the space to identify and realize what they need. For me, it’s a perfect stage-setter in lead up to a stressful week."
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 11-13, 2027. Venue TBD. Flexible refund policy. Transfer or refund within 30 days of dates and location being settled. If you would rather fly, Washington, D.C. in May is a nonstop from GRR. Or skip the trip and train online.
Yes. Head about 40 miles to Muskegon and board the Lake Express, 2.5 hours across to Milwaukee, on foot or with your car. Lake Express has not posted its 2027 schedule yet. In mid-June 2026 the boats made two round trips a day, with no evening sailing, so plan an extra night on each end. Milwaukee runs an hour behind, so our 9am start is 10am Grand Rapids time.
The June 11-13 Milwaukee training is $1,997, not including lodging or meals. Online is $1,497. Deposits and monthly payment plans are available. Questions: [email protected] or 480-660-9890.
Send for the details, or book a Clarity Call and plan the crossing with us.