Become a
Breathwork
Facilitator
300-Hour
Nūma Breathwork Facilitator Training
Approach to Sacred Work
Your training starts online with Level 1.
Then join us in person for Levels 2-5
at various locations in Canada!
Upcoming Dates
and Locations
Level 1 (Online)
$495 CAD ($395 Early Bird)
Choose Your Date
Sept 11 - Sept 13, 2026
Oct 23 - Oct 25, 2026
Jan 15 - Jan 17, 2027
Feb 5 - Feb 7, 2027
Friday - Sunday, 9am-3pm, MST, daily
Please Note:
Level 1 Gateway graduates are welcome to register for the comprehensive Nūma Breathwork Facilitator Certification Program (Levels 2-5).
Together, all five levels create a complete 300+ hour training pathway.
If you have already attended another breathwork training, you may be able to bypass this level. Contact us to discuss options.
Levels 2-5 are four full days in-person (at select locations) and approximately 8 hours online (two live Zoom calls + self-paced studies)
Overview for Level 1 Training
Curious about Facilitator Training?
Start here.
This weekend immersion is designed for curious explorers who are considering weaving the transformative power of conscious, connected breathwork into the gifts they walk with in this world, in support of others in their communities. It will also provide people new to Nūma Breathwork with an opportunity to experience how this work is held and conveyed through our school and its trainers before committing to extensive facilitator training.
Three deeply exploratory breathwork journeys. Dyadic contemplations. Foundational resourcing. Essential considerations on the art and science of transformation. All woven together in a richly experiential container where you’ll discover through direct encounter—not through lecture, but through the kind of knowing that lives in your body.
Whether you’re testing the waters before diving into full facilitator training (Levels 2-5) or seeking personal healing while exploring breathwork as a complementary modality for your practice, this accessible entry point invites you to discover what becomes possible when breath becomes your bridge between the ordinary and the extraordinary.
Predominantly experiential.
Deeply transformational.
Surprisingly accessible.
With sprinklings of the curious and mysterious.
"The Conscious Connected Breathwork Facilitators Training expanded my consciousness of the healing benefits and brilliance of breathwork. Trevor holds a heartfelt space and brings a comprehensive background in the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of the practice. It was an honor to be a student. I left feeling like I’d found the golden ticket."
Michelle R., Calgary
We are Pilgrims: A passage through liminal space, inspired by possibility
As humans, we venture through liminal spaces – transitional periods and places of uncertainty – numerous times throughout life, whether we like it or not. Sometimes it is sparked by yearnings, inspirations, and dreams of new horizons. At other times, by the shaking up of what we thought we knew or had. In those latter moments, our confidence in our abilities and choices grows more tenuous and our ensuing anxiety and fear may have us grasping for something solid. These times of transition often prompt a seeking for guides, quality support, and new connections.
The Nūma Breathwork Facilitator training is more than simply an education in facilitation. Our time together is a rite-of-passage of sorts through one of these liminal spaces. It is a sustained opportunity to consciously separate ourselves from our habituated lives and knowledge and brave the unknown territory of learning with and from each other. It is inspired by what is possible yet not clear on what that even is, how it will manifest, or who we will be after. On this sacred pilgrimage we have opportunity to steep deeply in the liminal, discover what is next, bring our unique points-of-view and authentic voices to the forefront, and prepare for the return to the ordinary world bearing new gifts and lit-up vision.
Level 2
$1395 - $1595 (Tiered Pricing)
Nūma Breathwork Facilitator Training
75 hours (40 hours in-person)
Overview
Learning Objectives
In this training, you will learn…
- essential history, philosophy, and theory for conscious, connected breathwork practices
- primary and optional components of conscious, connected breathwork and Nūma Breathwork
- foundational principles and psychotherapeutic theories and practices that are key to safe and effective breathwork facilitation
- to foster a confidential, loving healing space anchored in loving presence
- to shed light on, foster, and honor the belonging, needs, agency, and autonomy of your clients
- to cultivate a respectful, curiosity-based therapeutic relationship
- to establish flexible rapport and empathic attunement with clients
- about different non-ordinary states of consciousness and thresholds between states and their importance in healing, insight, and transformation
- about the effective and creative use of intentions, invocations, and the setting of sacred space/confidentiality
- about the use of evocative music and other important breathwork session tools
- essential post-breathwork session grounding and integrating practices
- how to make sensitive contact verbally, energetically, and physically
- ways to listen and communicate effectively for therapeutic purposes, including attuned tracking of the in-the-moment experience of your client, yourself as facilitator, and the therapeutic relationship
- clear instructions and session guidance
- therapeutic affirmations
- client self-reporting and basic inquiry practices
- a wide variety of tools and practices to support deep investigations and releases within the body and breath, including: contact statements, acknowledgments, and deepening questions
- affirmations and nourishing prompts
- approaches to compassionately supporting parts of the client that are actively managing and protecting
- essential, client-informed bodywork and basic palpation skills
- use of simple movement exercises, body repositioning, and vocal toning
- optimal pacing and helpful stacking of techniques and approaches
- the stages and aspects of an optimal therapeutic process
- how to recognize and work within the Window of Tolerance
- about common session experiences (eg. tetany) and how to interpret and respond to them flexibly and effectively
- to work with the therapeutic relationship and resources to support clients in re-establishing healthy self-regulation
- to support the client in recognizing existing resources and locating new ones
- to guide clients through self-regulation exercises
- about effective use of intake and consent forms and layers of in-person consent
- effective skills in navigating your own body, mind, and heart while also respectfully and compassionately navigating other individuals and groups
We are Alchemists
Co-creatively dancing with the power of transmutation
Many of us gradually wake over the years to realize our days carried, crawled, and walked on this earth have come with echoes. Our hearts, minds, and bodies evidently became haunted somewhere along the way by the remnants of significant life experiences in the form of triggering memories, core beliefs, anticipations, and expectations. An all-too-fragile crystalline matrix of perceptual lenses had formed to help us manage and make sense of life. And, at some point, it began to fail.
Enter the old stories of alchemists seeking to magically turn lead to gold and heroines and heroes being called to arduous journeys to battle dragons or accomplish feats to rescue, reclaim or discover something or someone precious. These elder sparks of inspiration, sometimes provocatively spiced with humbling desperation, kindle new possibilities and the creative agency of imagination shakes up our old world and sends us out into the wild of our very own transformational journey.
When we are ready enough, we are called to locate and initiate our archetypal alchemist to transmute these haunting echoes and herald the dawn of an ancient new life.
Locations & Dates
- Edmonton, AB: November 27-30, 2026 | Lead up Zoom calls, Thursdays November 12 and 19, 6:30-9pm MST
- Victoria, BC: March 5-8, 2027 | Lead up Zoom calls Tuesdays, February 16 and 23, 6-8:30pm PST
Level 3
$1395 - $1595 (Tiered Pricing)
Nūma Breathwork Facilitator Training
75 hours (40 hours in-person)
Overview
Level 3 is where we turn things up while continuing to slow things down. The more we develop our capacity to safely support clients within their Windows of Tolerance, the more we can learn how to evoke particular experiences for clients that are wanting to investigate something very specific within their experience of life. By doing so, our investigations with clients can sensitively and safely be more precise and even accelerated. We will be exploring additional complimentary and supportive somatic approaches to bolster our capacity and allow us to safely work with a broader array of client presentations. This will include looking at the ways our bodies and breathing patterns store and propagate our historical stresses and traumas as well as the introduction of bodywork, movement, repositioning, sound, alternative breathing practices, and dyadic inquiries that may serve to resolve those patterns and/or catalyze insight and healing. We will also look at additional methods for effective integration of the transformation that occurs within breathwork sessions.
As we deepen our experience and learnings beyond our foundational level, our breathwork facilitation will increasingly utilize liberating shifts into non-ordinary states of consciousness embedded within a somatic, relational therapeutic approach to safely renegotiate our clients’ painful past learning experiences and bravely imagine and embody new possibilities.
You will continue to both receive and provide one-on-one Nūma Breathwork sessions with fellow students as you develop your rapidly evolving skill sets.
Learning Objectives
In this training, you will learn…
- additional ways to listen, communicate, and experiment effectively for therapeutic purposes
- how to incorporate an increasing variety of trauma-informed somatic psychotherapeutic theories, principles, and practices into your facilitation
- how to be directive without compromising sensitive listening or the spirit of experimentation within sessions
- more ways to safely and strategically experiment within sessions to improve therapeutic outcome
- to recognize the nuances of transformation and numerous ways to support the integration of the new possibilities, insights, and somatic changes
- how to apply titration and foster pendulation to improve the outcomes of navigating trauma responses
- about cathartic healing practices and how they can be facilitated safely and effectively through a trauma-informed lens
- two Transpersonal, biopsycho-socialspiritual models of perceived Reality and how to consider, recognize, and work effectively with the unique multidimensional experience of each client
- about the role of memory and frequency within our learning and healing process
- body reading – how to read essential psycho-emotional patterns embedded within bodily tensions and habitual breathing patterns
- how to body read during breathwork sessions and other movement, positional, and sound practices
- how to create effective affirmations, nourishing prompts and functional take overs of management and protective parts based on body reading
- to understand and develop the capacity to work with more types of common session experiences
- a wide variety of tools and practices to support deep investigations and releases within the body and breath, including:
- facilitated movement practices and strategic positional changes
- alternative breathing practices and approaches
- vocal toning and voice work
- utilizing percussive sound instruments – drums, shakers, and more
- how to link the application of these new tools with body-based affirmations, prompts, and protective take overs
- the use of neurogenic tremor induction – trembling and shaking practices – for freeing the body of tensional patterns, liberating stagnant energy, and supporting the completion of incomplete self-protection responses to help renegotiate trauma
- about completing previously incomplete cycles of charge/activation from compromised attachment, chronic stresses, and incurred trauma
- more about the effective use of contact statements, acknowledgments, deepening questions, contemplative inquiries, nourishing prompts, and sensitive take overs of protective parts
- about dyadic (two person) contemplations and the ways that it can be effectively utilized for session preparation, thematic processing, and integration
- about more common session experiences and how to address them
- contraindications for breathwork and other practices being incorporated within sessions
We are Guides
Sharing knowledge from lived experience
The farther we have traveled on our own life journey with curiosity and studentship, and the more we have shared in the journey with friends, family, teachers and other guides, the more we have likely gleaned from life and developed the capacity to be an effective, conscious, compassionate guide for others. And becoming a guide to others isn’t the end to our own studentship… if anything, it’s the opening into a whole new level of earnest learning. Our capacity to curiously learn is at the heart of true, effective, relational guiding.
We have an opportunity to guide others from an informed place of not-knowing; a position of trusting uncertainty and our evolving capacity to learn from an ever-changing field of information and energy; a curiosity about the perspectives and experiences of other people who we will inherently never fully understand; and, a surrender to the unknown timing of each person’s life and healing journey. In deep reverence, we venture into and through the liminal, together.
Locations & Dates
Vancouver, BC: October 15-18, 2026 | Lead up Zoom Calls, Tuesdays, September 29 and October 6, 6-8:30pm PDT
Edmonton, AB: March 12-15, 2027 | Lead up Zoom calls Thursdays Feb 25 and March 4, 6:30-9pm MDT
Victoria, BC: June 11-14, 2027 | Lead up Zoom calls, Tuesday, May 25 and June 1, 6-8:30pm PDT
"I feel f#@%ing incredible. I’m communicating more freely and seeing incredible changes in all of my relationships, especially with myself."
Jocelyn S., Calgary
Level 4
$1395 - $1595 (Tiered Pricing)
Nūma Breathwork Facilitator Training
75 hours (40 hours in-person)
Overview
In this stage of our 300-hr Nūma Breathwork Facilitator training program we expand into the realm of ceremony, group facilitation, and the deeper non-ordinary states of consciousness that are often central in this style of work. Our Level 4 training provides us with a safe learning space to experiment creatively with an integrated array of breathwork facilitation principles, tools, and techniques amidst a group setting. We will investigate setting breathwork journeys within the context of ceremony and utilizing a wide array of auxiliary practices and explorations to enhance and creatively theme our journeys. Our unique, authentic, empowered voices become key as we step up to lead vulnerable conversations, potent inquiries, dynamic journeys, and sacred ceremonial elements.
You will continue to both receive and provide Nūma Breathwork sessions with fellow students as you explore supporting and learning from each other in group settings.
Learning Objectives
In this training, you will develop
the capacity to…
- hold a safe, confidential healing space for transformational group experiences
- recognize key elements of ceremony, ritual, and rites of passage and implement them effectively within your own life
- employ the breathwork practice within the context of ceremony and imbue the journeys with sacred technologies such as meditation, prayer/invocations, and conscious ritual
- differentiate between different categories of themes and practices and experientially understand when and why you may employ them for best effect
- incorporate themes and complementary practices to create specialized group sessions and tailor your offerings for specific populations
- introduce and teach the layered elements of a group journey’s opening circle, take lead in the group’s powerful breathwork experience, and wrap the textured and nuanced experience up effectively with sharing, grounding, and integrating practices
- use your voice, music, and instruments for therapeutic mind and soma-altering experiences
- utilize high vibrational sound instruments such as singing bowls, chimes, and tuning forks within breathwork sessions
- hold space for deeper shifts in consciousness and the psychedelic possibilities of breathwork and support their integration
- read a greater variety of psycho-emotional patterns embedded within bodily tensions and habitual breathing patterns
- employ your growing body reading skills more rapidly and effectively within a group breathwork journey setting
- facilitate rich and engaging group experiences of any kind as you dive deeper into cultivating the optimal qualities of a competent facilitator
- enhance your capacity to listen, self-express, and work as a team
- honor, respect, and learn from different and even diverging perspectives and opinions between peers and members of any group
- express honestly and vulnerably, yet with healthy boundaries and containment within group settings
- trust your place and worth within groups
- collaborate with other humans to co-create engaging, effective healing and journeying experiences that enrich the lives of others in your communities
- better market yourself as a breathwork facilitator and tend to the business aspects of this transformative service
We are Ceremonialists
Honouring relationship and contacting the sacred
Ritual and ceremony are central to a connected, meaningful human existence. As we bring conscious attention to our lives, digest our experiences, and integrate the learnings and insights, we gradually make the humbling journey from a life shadowed by the reactive meaning-making associated with painful past learning experiences into a life illuminated by our responsible, co-creative meaning-discovery. Our scars set upon the altar of our lives and our relics imbued with our heart’s unfaltering recognition of deeper connections and purpose become our reminders in moments when we find ourselves resisting or falling out of stride with Life. Consciously applied, we turn to ceremony and its intentions, protocols and tools to help us realign with the larger ceremony that is this one and only sacred Life. We have come back home to remember, honor and align with what truly matters.
Locations & Dates
Vancouver, BC: February 18-21, 2027 | Lead up Zoom calls Thursday, February 4 and 11, 6-8:30pm PST
Edmonton, AB: June 17-20, 2027 | Lead up Zoom calls, Thursdays, June 3 and 10, 6:30-9pm MDT
Victoria, BC: Oct 1-4, 2027 | Lead up Zoom calls, Tuesdays, September 14 and 21, 6-8:30pm PDT
"This work moves me at a soul level, and I am so grateful to have you as teachers, facilitators, and navigators. I feel so lucky to have found Nūma. The training is top-notch, I wouldn’t change a thing. The facilitators are an amazing team, and I appreciate how you hold space for us all. Thank you for this last session—it just keeps getting better & better."
Wendy A., Courtney
Level 5
$1395 - $1595 (Tiered Pricing)
Nūma Breathwork Facilitator Training
75 hours (40 hours in-person)
Overview
Your Portal Back to the Beginning
In this final level of your Nūma training, we journey to the primal origins of how you learned to be human. Long before you had words or concepts, your body was already writing the story of how you’d move through the world—in those first moments of conception, gestation, and birth, patterns were etched into your nervous system that still shape how you perceive safety, connection, and belonging today.
Level 5 is where science meets the deeply personal, where the transpersonal meets the cellular, where your own healing journey culminates in your capacity to guide others through theirs.
We explore the living, embodied signatures that birth experiences leave in us—not as metaphor, but as actual somatic reality. The attachment breakdowns and high-stress moments from our earliest days. The mother wounds and father wounds that formed before we had language to name them. The ways our nervous systems learned to organize around threat, connection, or disconnection. We investigate how ancestral and familial patterns move through lineages and express themselves in your body, and how healing your own birth story ripples forward to generations yet to come (and possibly backward to your ancestors.)
A central focus of Level 5 is developing your capacity to hold sacred space for perinatal healing work—creating containers safe-enough for clients to access, process, and renegotiate their earliest embodied memories. Through mentorship-styled guidance specific to your unique edge of learning, you’ll embody the vast continuum of experiences and capacities accessed during the first four levels, weaving your existing knowledge and skillsets with Nūma teachings to bring your authentic, personally unique offerings alive in service to your community.
Learning Objectives
Within this level, you will…
- explore the perinatal domain – how conception, gestation, and birth experiences create the foundational patterns that shape how we move through life, relationships, and our sense of safety and belonging
- learn to recognize and work with the living signatures birth experiences leave in the body and nervous system
- understand attachment ruptures from earliest moments and how they manifest in adult relational patterns
- investigate mother wounds and father wounds / primary caregiver wounds — the learnings and protective adaptations formed in early years with primary caregivers
- explore ancestral and familial patterns — understanding how these move through lineages and express themselves in the body, and how personal healing ripples through generations
- explore transpersonal dimensions of embodied experience and their connection to individual and collective healing
- develop capacity to hold space for perinatal healing work — creating safe enough containers for clients to access, process, and renegotiate their earliest embodied memories
- understand the developmental movement patterns that may have been disrupted in earliest moments and how to support their repair and integration
- receive personalized mentorship specific to your unique educational and experiential edge of learning
- solidify your familiarity and competency with the complete Nūma Breathwork curriculum across all five levels
- practice integrating skillsets and knowledge you’ve cultivated through other trainings and life experiences into your breathwork facilitation
- receive support and guidance on weaving your existing knowledge with Nūma teachings to bring your own unique offerings alive
- highlight areas of learning and experience that are on your next edge of growth as a relational human and transformational facilitator
- continue cultivating your capacity to remain a curious student even when it’s easy to slip into thinking you already know
- support your peers in their own growth as relational humans, students, and transformational facilitators
- expand upon your sense of community and capacity for friendship within the Nūma community
- embody the full spectrum of Nūma teachings while discovering your personally authentic voice and offerings in service to your community
We are Firekeepers
A safe return to what truly matters
Firekeeping is a common ceremonial role across many of the world’s cultures. The sacred fire is a central element in many ceremonies and is often the transmuter of offerings, including our intentions and prayers. There is a sacred fire inside each of us. When you experience someone vibrantly alive and deeply on purpose, you know it; they’re on fire and the light radiates through their eyes. Conversely, someone depressed or feeling hopeless may be experienced with dimmed eyes and an absence of fire and drive. As Firekeepers, we tend to these internal, sacred fires – in ourselves and in others. When the light is dimmed in another, we serve as humble, fellow human beings with keen senses that can spot the faintest glows in the embers of our hearts, minds, and souls. We gather intentionally with hope, care, love, and respect around the embers and work together to rekindle our sacred fires. Together, we remember what truly matters.
What truly matters is at the heart of our work – with ourselves and with our clients. It is expressed through an integral therapeutic relationship and curiosity-inspired therapeutic process that is safe-enough to support our fellow human beings in bravely navigating back to what truly matters for them. Our journey together within the Nūma Breathwork Facilitator training has steeped us in this bright possibility. This last stage is in support of you realizing this possibility and, if you choose to do so, bringing this transformational gift back to your community in a good way.
Locations & Dates
Edmonton, AB: Nov 5-8, 2027 | Lead up Zoom calls, Thursdays, October 21 and 28, 6:30-9pm MDT
Victoria, BC: Feb 4-7, 2028 | Lead up Zoom calls, Tuesdays, January 18 and 25, 6-8:30pm
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
Aristotle
Facilitator Certification Requirements
In order to be recognized as a certified Nūma Breathwork Facilitator, students must complete Nūma Breathwork Facilitator Training Levels 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5.
You will be required to attend a minimum of 90% of each training level and complete all assigned web group studies, homework, and practicum hours. Assigned studies, homework, and practicum hours will require approximately 35 hours per level (except for Level 1).
Please Note: Certification is not guaranteed. Each trainee must demonstrate that they are both competent with the theories, principles, and practices of Nūma Breathwork and capable of holding safe, confidential healing space for others. If any of these elements are in question, the trainee may be asked to complete additional practices or training to develop the specific skillsets prior to receiving certification as a Nūma Breathwork Facilitator.
Cancellation Policy
We understand that life can change unexpectedly, and we are committed to supporting you with flexibility and care throughout your journey. If you need to cancel your registration, cancellations made 15 to 30 days prior to the event start date will receive a 50% refund. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer refunds for cancellations made less than 14 days before the event, as arrangements have already been made to reserve your space.