Become a Certified Liquid Breathwork Facilitator
Master the art of guiding surrender-based Breathwork. Learn to create healing, transformation, and awakening - for yourself and others.
Why Become a Breathwork Facilitator?
Breathwork is one of the fastest-growing wellness modalities in the world. What was once a niche practice known only to a small community of healers has become a mainstream tool for stress relief, emotional processing, nervous system regulation, and personal transformation. Studios, retreat centers, corporate wellness programs, and private clients are actively seeking qualified breathwork facilitators. The demand is growing faster than the supply of skilled practitioners who can deliver real, transformative experiences.
If you are a yoga teacher, coach, massage therapist, therapist, counselor, or wellness entrepreneur, breathwork facilitator certification gives you a powerful modality to add to your existing practice. Breathwork complements virtually every healing and coaching modality because it works directly with the nervous system. It meets people at a level that talk-based methods often cannot reach. For your clients, it can be the missing piece that unlocks the breakthroughs they have been working toward.
If you are new to the wellness space entirely, breathwork facilitator training can be your entry point into deeply meaningful work. You do not need a background in yoga, therapy, or bodywork to excel at this. What you need is presence, a willingness to do your own inner work, and the genuine desire to hold space for others. We will teach you everything else.
The Liquid Breathwork Facilitator Certification is designed to give you both the depth of skill and the practical business knowledge to build a thriving practice. Most breathwork certification programs teach you the technique but leave you on your own when it comes to actually finding clients, pricing your services, and building a sustainable career. We believe that is a disservice to our graduates. If you are going to invest in this training, you should walk away not just certified but prepared to succeed.
Breathwork facilitator certification is more than a credential. It is a commitment to your own growth and to the growth of every person you will work with. The facilitators who do this well are the ones who have done the work themselves. That is why our training is as much about your personal transformation as it is about learning to guide others. When you have been through the fire yourself, you know how to hold space for someone else going through it. That depth of understanding is what separates a good facilitator from a great one.
What You'll Learn
Our curriculum is built on years of real-world facilitation experience and covers everything you need to guide powerful Breathwork sessions with confidence. Here is what the Liquid Breathwork Facilitator Certification covers:
The Full Spectrum of Breathwork
Understand the science behind how breathing patterns affect your physiology, nervous system, and emotional state. Learn the major breathwork techniques and modalities, from calming parasympathetic practices to activating somatic release work. Understand blood chemistry changes, vagal tone, and the mechanisms through which breathwork creates lasting transformation. You will leave with a deep understanding of why this work is so effective, not just how to do it.
Hypnotic Guidance & Facilitation Skills
The words you use during a Breathwork session matter as much as the breathing pattern itself. Learn the art of hypnotic guidance, including how to use your voice, pacing, language patterns, and silence to deepen someone's experience. Develop the skill of reading a room and an individual, recognizing when to speak and when to let the breath do the work. This is the facilitation skill that separates practitioners who run through a script from facilitators who create genuine transformation.
Creating Immersive Experiences
A powerful Breathwork session is more than just breathing. Learn how to curate music, design soundscapes, set up your physical environment, and create the conditions that allow people to drop in deeply. Understand how lighting, temperature, scent, and spatial arrangement affect the nervous system. We teach you how to craft sessions that feel like complete journeys, from the moment someone walks through the door to the moment they leave feeling transformed.
The Business of Breathwork
Most breathwork certification programs teach you the technique and then send you on your way. We believe that is incomplete. Our business training module covers how to price your sessions and classes, how to find your first clients, how to market yourself authentically, how to build a website and social media presence, how to approach studios and retreat centers, and how to scale from one-on-one sessions to group classes, workshops, corporate events, and retreats. This is the training that turns a certification into a career.
Safety, Contraindications & Trauma-Informed Practices
Working with the breath means working with the nervous system, and that carries real responsibility. Learn the medical contraindications for breathwork, how to screen clients, how to recognize signs of overwhelm versus productive activation, and how to hold space for intense emotional releases safely. Our trauma-informed approach teaches you to create an environment where people feel genuinely safe, which is the prerequisite for real transformation. Learn ethical boundaries, consent practices for physical touch, and how to navigate the complex dynamics that arise in healing work.
Practicum & Live Facilitation
Knowledge without practice is incomplete. Our practicum gives you supervised experience facilitating Breathwork sessions with real participants. You will receive direct, honest feedback from Ryan and Shelby on your facilitation presence, your voice, your timing, your ability to read the room, and your overall skill. This hands-on practice is where the training becomes embodied. By the time you complete the practicum, you will have the confidence and competence to guide sessions on your own.
Who This Certification Is For
The Liquid Breathwork Facilitator Certification is designed for people across a range of backgrounds and experience levels. If any of the following describes you, this training was built with you in mind.
Yoga Teachers
You already understand the body and breath. Adding Breathwork facilitation to your teaching gives your students a deeper layer of experience and sets you apart in a competitive market. Many of our graduates integrate Breathwork into their existing yoga classes or offer standalone workshops.
Coaches & Consultants
You help people create change in their lives, and you know that real breakthroughs often happen beneath the level of the thinking mind. Breathwork gives you a somatic tool that accelerates your clients' progress and creates the kind of experiences that build deep loyalty and word-of-mouth referrals.
Massage Therapists
You work with the body every day. Breathwork certification gives you an additional modality that complements your bodywork beautifully. Offer Breathwork sessions alongside massage, or integrate breath guidance into your existing treatments. Our NCBTMB CEU application is currently pending approval.
Therapists & Counselors
Talk therapy has its limits. Breathwork accesses the nervous system directly, helping clients process trauma, regulate their emotions, and experience shifts that talk-based methods alone may not reach. Many therapists and counselors add Breathwork as a complementary tool in their practice.
Wellness Entrepreneurs
You are building a business in the wellness space and you want a high-impact modality with growing demand. Breathwork facilitation has low overhead, no physical product, and high perceived value. It works as a standalone business or as an addition to retreats, wellness programs, and corporate offerings.
Anyone Called to Guide Others
You do not have a wellness background, but something inside you knows this is your path. You feel drawn to this work. You want to help people. You are ready to commit to your own growth so you can facilitate growth in others. No previous experience is required. We will teach you everything you need to know.
What Makes Liquid Breathwork Certification Different
There are many breathwork certification programs out there. They range from weekend workshops to year-long programs, from $500 to $7,000 or more. We built ours differently because we believe the industry needs something better.
A Surrender-Based Approach
Most breathwork systems are built on control. Breathe this pattern. Hold for this count. Push harder. Force the release. Liquid Breathwork takes the opposite approach. We teach surrender. Not passivity, but active release. The understanding that your body already knows how to heal itself, to regulate itself, to move energy and emotion through your system. Your job as a facilitator is not to impose a method on someone. It is to create the conditions where they can trust their own intelligence. This philosophy changes everything about how you work with clients. You are not performing a protocol. You are facilitating something real.
Business & Marketing Training Included
We have seen too many talented facilitators finish their certification and then struggle to find clients. It is not because they are not skilled. It is because nobody taught them how to market themselves, price their services, or build a practice. Our certification includes a dedicated business training module because we want our graduates to succeed, not just in their facilitation skills, but in building a sustainable livelihood doing this work.
Small Cohort Sizes
We intentionally keep our cohorts small. This is not a lecture hall where you sit in a crowd and take notes. This is intimate, hands-on training where Ryan and Shelby know your name, understand your strengths and growth areas, and give you direct personal feedback. Small cohorts also mean you build deep relationships with the people going through this experience alongside you. Those connections often become professional collaborations and lifelong friendships.
Ongoing Community & Mentorship
Certification is not the end of the relationship. It is the beginning. Our graduates receive ongoing mentorship from Ryan and Shelby, access to a private community of certified facilitators, and opportunities for continued learning and collaboration. When you get stuck with a challenging client situation, when you need advice on growing your business, when you want feedback on a new session format, we are there. Most programs hand you a certificate and wish you luck. We stay with you.
NCBTMB CEU Approval Pending
We have submitted our application to the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) for continuing education unit approval. Once approved, massage therapists and bodyworkers will be able to count our certification toward their continuing education requirements. This accreditation reflects the rigor and quality of our curriculum.
Investment
Most breathwork facilitator certification programs cost $4,000 to $7,000 or more. We believe powerful training should be accessible. Our pricing reflects our commitment to making this work available to people who are genuinely called to it.
Early Bird
Limited Availability
- Full certification training
- Complete course materials & manual
- Ongoing mentorship from Ryan & Shelby
- Marketing & business support
- Private graduate community access
- In-person + online components
Regular
Standard Pricing
- Full certification training
- Complete course materials & manual
- Ongoing mentorship from Ryan & Shelby
- Marketing & business support
- Private graduate community access
- In-person + online components
Payment Plans Available
We offer flexible payment options because we believe financial circumstances should not be a barrier for people who are called to this work. Contact us at inhale@liquidbreathwork.com or call 480-660-9890 to discuss a payment arrangement that works for you.
Meet Your Guides
Ryan McBurney
Ryan is the founder of Liquid Breathwork and the creator of the surrender-based methodology at the heart of this certification. Based in Arizona, he has spent years developing and refining the approach you will learn, guiding hundreds of people through transformative Breathwork experiences across Mesa, Scottsdale, Tempe, Flagstaff, Prescott, and beyond. Ryan's facilitation style is grounded, intuitive, and deeply present. He brings both the technical depth and the lived experience to teach you not just the how of Breathwork, but the why. His passion is developing facilitators who bring genuine skill, presence, and integrity to this work.
Shelby Von Oepen
Shelby is the co-founder of Liquid Breathwork and an integral part of the certification experience. She brings warmth, emotional intelligence, and deep somatic skill to every training. Shelby has an exceptional ability to read the subtle language of the nervous system, recognizing when someone needs support, space, or gentle encouragement. Her presence creates a container of safety that allows students to go deep in their own process while learning to hold that same space for others. Shelby's training in somatic support and ethical touch practices ensures that graduates leave with the sensitivity and skill to work with clients at the body level, not just the breath level.
Voices from Our Community
You guys are the Best. We've had a lot of Breathworkers come to our studio, but you guys are the best. That was amazing. I'd love to talk about having you at my Retreat in Sedona.
I just got back from a $10,000 Ayahuasca retreat and did not get what I was looking for...but I got it here today.
Better than Ayahuasca
I'm certified in somatic Breathwork and it's more aggressive, you walk in and there's clearly an agenda, of like 'We're gonna release some stuff.' That session was amazing.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long is the Liquid Breathwork certification program?
+The Liquid Breathwork Facilitator Certification includes both in-person and online components. The in-person immersion is an intensive multi-day training held in Arizona where you get hands-on practice with facilitation, somatic support, and live sessions. The online component allows you to continue learning at your own pace with video modules, live group calls, and ongoing mentorship. Most participants feel confident guiding their own sessions within a few weeks of completing the core training.
Do I need prior breathwork experience?
+No prior Breathwork experience is required. Our certification program is designed for both complete beginners and experienced wellness professionals. Whether you are a yoga teacher with years of experience, a massage therapist looking to add a new modality, a coach wanting somatic tools, or someone with no wellness background who feels called to this work, we meet you where you are. What matters most is your genuine desire to learn and your willingness to do the inner work alongside the practical training.
Is the Liquid Breathwork certification accredited?
+We have submitted our application to the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) for continuing education unit (CEU) approval, and that application is currently pending. NCBTMB is a nationally recognized accrediting body. Once approved, massage therapists and bodyworkers will be able to count our certification toward their continuing education requirements. Our curriculum meets or exceeds the standards set by major breathwork certification bodies, and our graduates are working successfully as certified facilitators across Arizona and beyond.
How much does the breathwork facilitator certification cost?
+The Liquid Breathwork Facilitator Certification is available at an early bird rate of $1,697 or the regular rate of $1,997. Both tiers include the full certification training, all course materials, ongoing mentorship from Ryan and Shelby, marketing and business support, and access to the private graduate community. For context, most comparable breathwork certification programs range from $4,000 to $7,000. Payment plans are available. Contact us at inhale@liquidbreathwork.com or call 480-660-9890 to discuss flexible payment options.
Can I do the certification online?
+The certification includes both in-person and online components. The in-person training takes place in Arizona and is where you get hands-on experience with facilitation, somatic support, ethical touch practices, and live practice with real participants. The online components include video modules, live group calls, and mentorship sessions that allow you to continue deepening your skills from anywhere. This hybrid format gives you the best of both worlds: the depth and embodiment of in-person immersion combined with the flexibility and accessibility of online learning.
What can I do after getting certified?
+After earning your Liquid Breathwork Facilitator Certification, the possibilities are broad. You can guide private one-on-one Breathwork sessions, lead group Breathwork classes and workshops, facilitate Breathwork at retreats and wellness events, offer corporate wellness Breathwork programs, integrate Breathwork into an existing coaching, therapy, yoga, or massage practice, or build a standalone Breathwork business from the ground up. Our business training module covers pricing, marketing, client acquisition, and scaling your practice so you are not just certified but truly prepared to build a sustainable livelihood.
How is Liquid Breathwork different from other breathwork certifications?
+Liquid Breathwork stands apart in several key ways. Our methodology is surrender-based rather than cathartic or control-based, meaning we teach facilitators to guide people into release and trust rather than forcing intensity. We include comprehensive business and marketing training, which most certification programs skip entirely. We keep cohort sizes small so every student gets personal attention and direct mentorship. And our graduates receive ongoing community support and mentorship after certification, not just a certificate and a goodbye. We are invested in your long-term success as a facilitator, not just getting you through the training.
Is breathwork facilitator certification worth the investment?
+Breathwork is one of the fastest-growing wellness modalities, and demand for qualified facilitators is outpacing supply. From a financial perspective, many facilitators earn back their certification investment within their first few months. A single group Breathwork class can generate $500 to $2,000 or more depending on class size and pricing, and private sessions typically range from $100 to $300 per session. Beyond the financial return, our graduates consistently report that facilitating Breathwork is among the most meaningful and fulfilling work they have ever done. The certification pays for itself many times over, both in income and in the quality of life it creates.
Do you offer payment plans?
+Yes, we offer flexible payment plans. We believe financial circumstances should not be a barrier for people who are genuinely called to this work. Contact us at inhale@liquidbreathwork.com or call 480-660-9890 to discuss a payment arrangement that works for you.
Where is the training held?
+The in-person components of our breathwork facilitator certification are held in the Phoenix metro area of Arizona, primarily in Mesa. Arizona offers a powerful setting for this work, with its natural beauty, warm climate, and thriving wellness community. We have also held Breathwork sessions and events in Scottsdale, Tempe, Flagstaff, Prescott, and Tucson. The online components of the certification can be completed from anywhere in the world, making it accessible to students regardless of location.
Ready to Start Your Journey?
The decision to become a Breathwork facilitator is not just a career move. It is a commitment to your own healing and growth, and to being someone who creates that space for others. If something on this page resonated with you, trust that. This work has a way of finding the people who are meant for it.
We would love to connect with you. Whether you are ready to enroll today or you have questions you want to talk through first, reach out. Book a discovery call, send us an email, or give us a call. No pressure, just a conversation about whether this is the right fit for you.
Or call 480-660-9890 to talk with Ryan or Shelby directly.