Level 1: The Fundamentals

Nūma Breathwork Facilitator Training

5 Days, 75 hours (40 hours in-person)

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.

Level 2 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.

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.

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.

Within this level, you will...

• receive mentorship that is specific to your personal educational and experiential edge of learning
• receive breathwork, therapeutic, and spiritual teachings and guidance that are sourced in the spontaneous and intelligent flow of group conversations and emerging curiosities
• receive direct experience, education, and wise guidance from your peers as you learn alongside each other and as a group; the enormous wealth of knowledge, technique, approach, and diverse perspective within the group becomes a boon for you as we learn deeply from one another
• solidify your familiarity and competency with the Nūma Breathwork curriculum
• practice integrating skillsets and knowledge you have cultivated through other trainings and life experiences into your breathwork facilitation
• receive support and guidance on weaving your existing knowledge and skillsets with those that you have cultivated during your training with Nūma Breathwork to bring your own personal, unique offerings alive
• highlight areas of learning and experience that are on your next edge in growth as a relational human and as an effective, efficient, transformational facilitator
• continue cultivating your capacity to be a curious student even when it is easy to slip into thinking you already know a right way
• support your peers in their own growth as a relational human, a student, and a transformational facilitator
• expand upon your sense of community and capacity for friendship

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.