Breathwork Facilitator Training

Breathwork facilitator training where you guide real sessions, with live feedback, before you graduate.

Next training
Online: next cohort March 9, 2027
In person: Scottsdale, Feb 5-7

Breathwork Training
Dates and Tuition

Three days in person or twelve weeks online. The same surrender-based method and mentorship from Ryan and Shelby either way.

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Every Training Includes

  • Complete course materials and manual
  • Ongoing mentorship from Ryan and Shelby
  • Private graduate community
  • Monthly graduate call on the first Wednesday of every month

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What You Walk Away With

You leave ready to guide two sessions on your own: our signature Liquid Breathwork session and a Rebirthing session, from the opening and the breath to consent-based touch and the close. You also learn trauma-informed safety.

Ryan and Shelby actively guide multiple sessions every month. We share the exact strategies we use to build community and keep clients coming back, so you can book your first paid clients.

Both formats end with the same certification, taught by Ryan and Shelby in a small cohort. In person is three days in the room, and from 2027 it includes the online cohort at no extra cost. Online on its own is 12 weeks of live group calls plus 60+ video lessons, for less. The graduate community and mentorship stay with you after.

If you can travel, come in person. Breathing in a room with your cohort is the one part a screen can't give you.

What Breathwork facilitator training costs

Ryan went through seven Breathwork programs, four of them certifications and some led by teachers with more than fifty years of practice, before building this Breathwork certification.

Program typeTuitionFormat
Liquid Breathwork$1,497 to $2,497Monthly payment plans on every format.Live cohorts, online or in person.
Large brand-name programsUp to $8,000As quoted to students who shopped them.Tiered, mostly online.
Budget online courses$200 to $600Self-paced video. No live practice.

The gap is mostly live hours and cohort size. See the full Breathwork certification cost range and sourced Breathwork facilitator salary figures.

Online or in person in Phoenix

In person in Scottsdale

A Friday to Sunday training where you facilitate real breathers and get feedback from Ryan and Shelby while you guide.

Next: Feb 5-7 · $1,997

In-person details

Online from home

Twelve weeks of live group calls where you practice facilitating, plus video lessons you watch on your own time.

Next cohort March 9, 2027 · $1,497

Online details
NCBTMB Approved Provider seal

Massage therapists: Liquid Breathwork is an NCBTMB Approved Provider (#1003401). Our separate massage therapist course earns 24 CE hours. See the CE course

Not sure which format fits? The online Breathwork certification page covers how the cohort works week by week and how to choose an online program.

What your tuition covers: three pillars

1. Breath and self mastery

The history, the major techniques, and what each does to your nervous system. Then parts work and the Letting Go method, done on yourself first.

2. The art of facilitation

You learn from people still guiding sessions in person, with hundreds of group sessions and hundreds of one-on-ones between us. The breather sets the pace and nothing is forced: gentle surrender, never forced catharsis or screaming. Liquid Breathwork is a surrender-based inward journey: still powerful, but not as intense as some styles like Holotropic Breathwork, so you can actually go deeper through surrender.

3. Breathwork marketing

Our facilitators run around five classes a month, with ten to twenty-five people or more in each, so tuition can come back within a few classes. We teach how they fill them. Graduates also get the Certified Facilitator badge for their own website.

The lessons where you learn to guide a room, then fill it.

  • Structuring a Session: The Energetic Arc
  • Opening a Session: Checklist & Intro
  • The Breathwork Script
  • Trauma-Informed Facilitation
  • Organic, Referrals & Grassroots

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Graduates of Breathwork facilitator training with Liquid Breathwork in Phoenix, Arizona

The In-Person Immersive

Three days in the room, Friday through Sunday. Ryan McBurney and Shelby Von Oepen, RN BSN, co-lead every training. You receive sessions yourself, then guide your classmates while Ryan and Shelby give you feedback in the moment.

Cohorts are small, so everyone gets real reps guiding full Breathwork sessions. You graduate with the Liquid Breathwork Facilitator Certification.

2027 tuition is $1,997 early bird while early-bird seats last, then $2,497, with monthly payment plans, and the full 12-week online cohort is included at no extra cost. We email the exact address before the training.

The 12-Week Live Online Cohort

The same curriculum, run from home. Our 2027 in-person immersives include it at no extra cost, or take it on its own for less. Each week pairs one live group call with Ryan and Shelby and a video module you watch on your own schedule.

The calls are where the work happens: teaching, live breakout practice, feedback on your facilitation, and business coaching. In small breakout rooms you guide a classmate and are guided in return.

The next cohort starts March 9, 2027. Tuition is $1,497 early bird through January 1, 2027, then $1,797, with monthly payment plans.

What Graduates Say

Krystal, Liquid Breathwork facilitator

Krystal - Realtor, nurse, LBW facilitator

“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.

Students speaking about the Liquid Breathwork certification training

Inside the Liquid Breathwork room - Session highlights

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.

Shelby holding space at a Liquid Breathwork sound session

Shelby - Registered nurse, LBW facilitator

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.

Nigel, therapist and Liquid Breathwork facilitator

Nigel - Therapist and LBW facilitator

“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.

Kat McGill guiding a Breathwork session at a music festival

Kat McGill - Chef and LBW facilitator, owner of Breath and Blossom

Leads Breathwork at music festivals.

Gem & Jam and Peak State in Austin, 20+ people on the grass.

Joseph Norris, Liquid Breathwork facilitator in Flagstaff

Joseph Norris - LBW facilitator and dad, owner of TranceSENDent Breathwork, Flagstaff, Arizona

“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.

Brittany Prince guiding a Breathwork class

Brittany Prince - LBW facilitator, owner of Awakened Prana

“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.

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Ryan McBurney guiding a live Liquid Breathwork class in Phoenix

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Breathwork Facilitator Training FAQ

How much is affordable Breathwork facilitator training?

Ours is $1,497 to $2,497, depending on the cohort. To weigh it against other programs, see our guide to the best Breathwork certifications.

Is there a monthly membership after I certify?

No. Tuition covers the training, and you never pay a subscription to keep teaching what you learned.