Certification of
Mindful Breathing
by Breathe School
4-Day Trainings in Australia, New Zealand & Online
The Mindful Breathing Teacher Training is about BEING THE CHANGE.
Living and learning the art and science of Mindful Breathing & Mindful Leadership.
It is a 4-day training which serves as a solid foundation for you to introduce and implement the power of breath with your students, children, clients, and colleagues.
If you know in your heart that meditation, mindfulness, and breath need to be taught and a part of every school, organisation and health service then this is for YOU. Welcome.
This is right for you, if you want to guide and connect people to their breath as a:
- Teacher
- Learning Support Worker or Teacher Aide
- Guidance Officer or School Counselor
- Counsellor or Psychologist
- Social Worker or Youth Worker
- Health professional
- Yoga teacher
- Leader
This is not right for you if you’re looking for a Breathe School licensing or franchising opportunity.
Upon Completion You Will:
- Be certified to teach Mindful Breathing within your classroom, clientroom, program and offerings.
- Have a deep embodied understanding of Mindful Breathing and Mindful Leadership.
- Feel confident and well equipped to teach Mindful Breathing to your students/clients/staff.
- Have a new way of operating as a leader, role model, guide, teacher, learner.
- Feel inspired to BE THE CHANGE.
- Know exactly how and when you will integrate Mindful Breathing (personally and professionally).
- Have a clear action plan for the real training (that comes when you get home).
- Have a more intimate relationship with your breath.
- Walk away more connected, peaceful AND alive.
- Have a network of like minded people to gain support and inspiration from.
What Is Included:
- All Training Modules
- Mindful Breathing Teacher Training Manual
- All Classes + Ceremonies
- All Accommodation and all Meals (for in-person training)
- Certificate of Mindful Breathing from Breathe School
- Training delivered by qualified instructors
- Integration follow up beyond training
Pricing:
- Training Tuition = AU$1,110
- Accommodation & meals package between AU$450-$950* depending on location
Your Facilitators
Breanna Mann
Breanna is the Owner of Breathe School and has been guiding people to connect deeply with themselves for the past 5 years. With over 500 hours of training in yoga, meditation, mindfulness and self-enquiry practices, she brings a wealth of wisdom to her teaching.
Breanna is skilled at following the energy of group dynamics. This, along with her kind heart, playful nature and depth of listening, creates a safe and fertile environment for vulnerability, connection, growth, and laughter.
Bodhi Whitaker
Bodhi Whitaker is the Co-Founder of Breathe School, and has been teaching the ‘power of breath’ for over a decade now. From his first ‘free workshops’ in libraries across the Sunshine Coast, to Wanderlust Festivals, U.S Tech Start-ups, Teacher Trainings and over 200 schools. Bodhi has a knack for engaging audiences, with overflowing passion and enthusiasm for life, and people bringing their gifts to the world. Bodhi is a loving and dedicated father, partner, surfer, musician and warrior of light. Below all of this, Bodhi is a man, who somedays knows how infinite he is, and other days forgets.
6 Modules We Will Cover:
Day 1 (self)
Day one is all about you and your self. It’s based upon our carefully crafted A B C structure, which has been refined over 500+ teachings.
Module 1: Awareness
- Anatomy & Physiology of Mindful Breathing
- “One technique practiced is better than a full toolbox unused”
- Mind/body/breath connection
- Emotional anatomy of breath
- Science of breathing, oxygen, sympathetic & parasympathetic nervous system
- Why Mindful Breathing is the best tool you could offer and why the world needs it right now
- Origin and multiple lineages of Mindful Breathing (no religion/spirituality, this is for all people a breath)
Module 2: Embodiment of the Practice
- Mindful Breathing immersion & experiential Breathe Break
- Exploring your breath, your experience, your resistance, your emotional responsiveness/reactiveness
- Becoming confident and competent in the technique yourself
- Learn the most beneficial times teachers find this helps them
- Building your own daily BB practice
Module 3: Mindful Leadership
- How to bring the new you into an old environment
- Building authentic relationships and connection with your students
- Becoming a Mindful Leader
- Owning the classroom without ‘old school’ authority ways
- Practicing responding rather than reacting
- Knowing your vision (short and long term)
Day 2 (students)
Day two is all about your students. Who ever it is that is learning from you, either your classroom primary or secondary school students or your clients or your colleagues.
Module 4: Introducing & Integrating MB
- How to introduce Mindful Breathing in a way that will set you up for success
- Enrolling and empowering your kids so that they own it
- Language, tone and your willingness matter
- Environment changes for creating a ‘calm space’
- Learn how to teach the technique best for your specific people (age, issues etc.)
- Crisis specific guiding
- Where and how to start with integration
- How to integrate seamlessly regardless of your people or place
- Benefit of micro integrations
- The practicality and usefulness (inviting students/clients to use at home too)
Module 5: Fearlessly Facing Fears
- Preparing and planning for the success of your integration (long term)
- Facing and embracing barriers that arise
- How to engage the disengaged students
- Facing resistant colleagues who perhaps just ‘don’t get it’ or aren’t ‘on board’
- Enrolling parents, even the most resistant
- Introduction to compassionate communication
- Refining how you communicate your vision (personal why)
Day 3 (leading)
Day three is all about bringing YOU out, to shine in your teaching.
Module 6: Who Are You?
- Getting creative (inspired) in delivery and integration
- Adding your flavour and making it your own
- Remembering and refining your why for sustained success
- Action Plan to take home (personally and professionally)
What Our Graduates Have Said
2023 Training Dates
2023 | Online
Applications Open
12th - 15th October 2023 | Ora Retreat, Aotearoa
Applications Open
Past Trainings
13th - 17th July 2022 | Odiyana Retreat, Victoria
7th, 14th, 21st, 28th November 2021 | Online
8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th November 2020 | Online
5th-8th March 2020 | Mana Retreat, Aotearoa
“Embody what you teach.
And teach only what you have embodied.”
― Dan Millman, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
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