Breathwork certification near Virginia Beach: 3 days in person in Washington, D.C., north by train from Norfolk or up I-64 through the tunnel. Runs May 21-23.
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
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
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
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
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
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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.
The closest in-person training to the 757 is in Washington, D.C., May 21-23. You have two good ways to get there.
Take the train. The Northeast Regional leaves Norfolk and pulls into Union Station about four and a half hours later. Or drive it, about 200 miles up I-64 and I-95.
Either way, come up the day before. Days run 9am to 6pm, Friday to Sunday, and the first train out of Norfolk can't get you there by 9. Plan on three nights in D.C.
We haven't picked the venue yet. Flexible refund policy. Transfer or refund within 30 days of dates and location being settled.
Fall suit you better? New York runs October 15-17.
Start with the train. Norfolk's Amtrak station sits on the Elizabeth River at the east edge of downtown, right next to Harbor Park, with a Tide light rail stop close by.
Coming from the Oceanfront side? An Amtrak Thruway bus links Virginia Beach to the Norfolk station, timed to meet the trains.
Driving means I-64 through the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, then I-95 north. Check the tunnel and Thursday traffic on I-95 before you pick a time to leave.
Flying works too. ORF, about 7 miles northeast of downtown Norfolk, has nonstops to Reagan National, Dulles and BWI. It also flies nonstop to all three New York airports and to Atlanta. Most Phoenix trips from ORF connect.
Washington in May sits in the mid 70s by day and near 60 after dark. Rain falls on roughly a dozen days, and the air turns humid late in the month.
So pack like you're home. May at ORF runs in the upper 70s by day and near 60 at night, with about as many wet days. A light layer and a rain jacket cover it. You'll also be back before beach season gets going at the Oceanfront.
Pick the area you're leaving from.
Hampton Roads splits at the harbor into the Southside and the Peninsula. The Southside has the simplest start: board at Norfolk's station by Harbor Park. From Ghent or downtown Norfolk you can ride the Tide toward it, and from Virginia Beach the Thruway bus makes the connection. Chesapeake and Portsmouth start from the same station. Across the line in northeast North Carolina? ORF serves your corner too.
You can skip the tunnel entirely. Newport News and Williamsburg have their own Northeast Regional trains toward Union Station, so board on your side of the water. If you'd rather fly, cross to ORF: the Newport News/Williamsburg airport has no nonstop to D.C.
Looking for a Breathwork certification Virginia residents can reach without flying? For most of the state, that's D.C., and the route depends on where you start. Richmond readers have their own page. Northern Virginia is close enough to treat D.C. as local, so the Washington, D.C. page covers it. Charlottesville, Lynchburg and Roanoke have a daily Northeast Regional of their own into Union Station. Comparing D.C. with New York and Atlanta? The East Coast page lays out all three. For classes closer to home, browse Breathwork around Virginia.
“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.
Maybe you already lead Breathwork around Virginia Beach. Maybe your practice is an early walk on the trails at First Landing State Park, or the quiet out at Back Bay past Sandbridge. This training shows you how to lead a whole room of people to that same place.
Hampton Roads is home to the world's largest naval station, and plenty of people here hold steady for others all day: Navy families, nurses, teachers. The training starts with your own nervous system, then teaches you to hold space for someone else's.
You learn our surrender-based method from the inside first. Then you learn to open a session, pace the breath and the music, sit with someone through a big release, and bring them back with integration. You also learn safety, consent around touch, and trauma-informed pacing. The full module list lives in the curriculum.
The business side comes with it: pricing your sessions, filling a first class, and mentorship from Ryan and Shelby after the weekend. Want to feel a session first? Find Breathwork classes near Virginia Beach.
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."
Washington, D.C., May 21-23. It is the nearest in-person training to Hampton Roads, a train ride or a drive of about 200 miles north. We haven't signed a venue yet. Flexible refund policy. Transfer or refund within 30 days of dates and location being settled. See the Washington, D.C. page for the rest.
Take Amtrak. The Northeast Regional runs from Norfolk into Union Station in about four and a half hours, and a Thruway bus connects Virginia Beach to the Norfolk station. On the Peninsula, board at Newport News or Williamsburg instead. The first northbound train can't make a 9am start, so ride up the day before.
The May 21-23 Washington, D.C. 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 call and we'll help you map the trip north from Hampton Roads.