VIDYA
BREATHWORK FACILITATOR TRAINING
VIDYA
BREATHWORK FACILITATOR TRAINING
The breathwork certification that begins with you.
The breathwork certification that begins with you.
A 14-phase trauma-informed online training for practitioners who refuse to do this work badly.
Application only.
Built across 19 years.
Taught by Verity, founder of VIDYA.
A 14-phase trauma-informed online training for practitioners who refuse to do this work badly.
Application only.
Built across 19 years.
Taught by Verity, founder of VIDYA.
Next cohort opens 9th June. $6,500. Application review takes up to 14 days.
Next cohort opens 9th June. $6,500. Application review takes up to 14 days.
Trained facilitators since 2020.
3890+ client breathes · 120+ certified facilitators · 11 years in practice · 4 continents · 35+ podcast episodes
Trained facilitators since 2020.
3890+ client breathes · 120+ certified facilitators · 11 years in practice · 4 continents · 35+ podcast episodes
You've spent enough time wondering if you're actually qualified.
You've done sessions. You've witnessed shifts. You've felt what's possible when breathwork is held with skill and what happens when it isn't.
You've also watched people get certified in a weekend and call themselves trauma-informed.
You know the difference.
You feel it in your body when a facilitator doesn't have the capacity to hold what they've just opened. You've left sessions thinking I could do this better. You've left sessions thinking I could never do this.
VFT exists for the practitioners who refuse to settle for either.
This is for you if:
You're done with weekend certs that produce facilitators who can't actually hold the work
You want training that demands as much of you as you'll demand of your clients
You're willing to do your own work, first
That last point is non-negotiable. VIDYA begins with you. Always.
You've spent enough time wondering if you're actually qualified.
You've done sessions. You've witnessed shifts. You've felt what's possible when breathwork is held with skill and what happens when it isn't.
You've also watched people get certified in a weekend and call themselves trauma-informed.
You know the difference.
You feel it in your body when a facilitator doesn't have the capacity to hold what they've just opened. You've left sessions thinking I could do this better. You've left sessions thinking I could never do this.
VFT exists for the practitioners who refuse to settle for either.
This is for you if:
You're done with weekend certs that produce facilitators who can't actually hold the work
You want training that demands as much of you as you'll demand of your clients
You're willing to do your own work, first
That last point is non-negotiable. VIDYA begins with you. Always.
Most breathwork training teaches you the patterns.
VIDYA trains the person holding them.
Most breathwork training teaches you the patterns.
VIDYA trains the person holding them.
The Self
The Self
The phases that ask you to do the work on yourself before you hold it for others. Supervised. Peer-witnessed. Built into the structure, not left to chance.
The phases that ask you to do the work on yourself before you hold it for others. Supervised. Peer-witnessed. Built into the structure, not left to chance.
The Science
The Science
Polyvagal theory. HRV. Vagal tone. CO2 tolerance. The actual physiology of what happens when a client takes a deep breath and what your nervous system does in response.
Polyvagal theory. HRV. Vagal tone. CO2 tolerance. The actual physiology of what happens when a client takes a deep breath and what your nervous system does in response.
The Skill
The Skill
The VIDYA facilitation method. How to read a body in real time. How to pace a session through activation and release. How to hold space without making yourself the focus.
The VIDYA facilitation method. How to read a body in real time. How to pace a session through activation and release. How to hold space without making yourself the focus.
The Safety
The Safety
Trauma-informed frameworks. Contraindications. Consent practice. Scope of practice. When to refer out. The clinical scaffolding that protects you, your client, and the work.
Trauma-informed frameworks. Contraindications. Consent practice. Scope of practice. When to refer out. The clinical scaffolding that protects you, your client, and the work.
The science. The skill. The safety. The self. Without all four, you can't actually do this work.
A structured capacity build not a content download.
You'll move through 14 distinct phases. Each one builds on the last. Each one demands your full presence. It’s why we give you time and space to embody.
The curriculum spans:
· Breath science: polyvagal theory, HRV, vagal tone, CO2 tolerance, the physiology of every pattern you'll teach
· Nervous system literacy: reading activation, regulation, capacity, and dysregulation in real time
· Trauma-informed facilitation: consent, capacity, contraindications, pacing, integration
· Somatic awareness: reading the body before symptoms appear
· TCM, NLP, hypnosis, yoga nidra, shadow work: the integrated tools that round out a complete facilitator
· Self-work phases: supervised work on yourself, structured into the training, not left to chance
· Coaching and integration: turning session insight into client change that lasts
· Business development: pricing, client journey, scope of practice, insurance, marketing
· Live facilitation: practising with peers, observed and supported by Verity and the team
This is the work that produces facilitators clients return to. Year after year.
After VFT, you'll know how to do work most facilitators can't.
Skills you'll have:
· Read a client's nervous system in real time and adjust pacing in the moment
· Hold a session through activation and release without losing your own ground
· Apply trauma-informed safety frameworks to every session you facilitate
· Design 1:1 and group offerings online and in-person that produce measurable change
· Build a practice that pays you sustainably , without burning your nervous system to do it
Assets you'll keep:
· VIDYA Practitioner Certification recognised and accredited
· Lifetime access to the VIDYA Community session tools, ongoing support, lifetime access
· Lifetime training access revisit any phase, any time
· Direct mentorship from Verity and the team
· A peer cohort of facilitators trained to the same standard, your professional reference for the next decade
After VFT, you'll know how to do work most facilitators can't.
Skills you'll have:
· Read a client's nervous system in real time and adjust pacing in the moment
· Hold a session through activation and release without losing your own ground
· Apply trauma-informed safety frameworks to every session you facilitate
· Design 1:1 and group offerings online and in-person that produce measurable change
· Build a practice that pays you sustainably , without burning your nervous system to do it
Assets you'll keep:
· VIDYA Practitioner Certification recognised and accredited
· Lifetime access to the VIDYA Community session tools, ongoing support, lifetime access
· Lifetime training access revisit any phase, any time
· Direct mentorship from Verity and the team
· A peer cohort of facilitators trained to the same standard, your professional reference for the next decade
The version of you at the end of this:
You facilitate with depth. You hold the room. You go home and sleep through the night because your nervous system isn't carrying what isn't yours. You charge what your work is worth. You build a practice that pays you sustainably, for the long haul.
After VFT, you'll know how to do work most facilitators can't.
Before you start
Once you're accepted, you'll receive access to the VIDYA Community. You'll meet your peers and have time to get preapred. You'll arrive prepared, not lost.
During the Training
The 14 phases.. You'll move through weekly live teaching, weekly live coaching calls, plus self-paced modules, weekly tasks and integration tools, peer practice and supervised facilitation. The pacing is built so you can integrate as you go, not download content and forget it.
You'll be observed. You'll be coached. You'll be expected to do your own work.
After Certification
This is where most trainings end. VFT begins again. Now you will have clients.
You'll complete your final assessment and practise session. You'll keep ongoing access to the VIDYA Community. You'll be invited to advanced training pathways including Business Builders, the done-for-you tech and systems with the VIDYA Mentor program.
VFT isn't a course you finish. It's a community you join.
After Certification
You're typically:
· A psychologist, therapist, counsellor, or mental health professional looking for a somatic addition
· A coach or facilitator who's hit the ceiling of what talk-based work can do
· A yoga teacher, pilates teacher, bodyworker, or somatic practitioner adding clinical-grade breathwork to your offering
· An allied health professional (nurse, physio, OT, naturopath, chiropractor) who's seen what breath can do and wants to lead it properly
· A serious self-practitioner moving from corporate, hospitality, or business into a calling that pays
· A mum or dad who is ready to transform your family’s life
You're not typically:
· New to nervous system work
· Looking for a quick certification to add to your bio
· Hoping the training will do the work for you
If the first list describes you, you're who we built this for.
You facilitate with depth. You hold the room. You go home and sleep through the night because your nervous system isn't carrying what isn't yours. You charge what your work is worth. You build a practice that pays you sustainably, for the long haul.
Once you're accepted, you'll receive access to the VIDYA Community. You'll meet your peers and have time to get preapred. You'll arrive prepared, not lost.
The 14 phases.. You'll move through weekly live teaching, weekly live coaching calls, plus self-paced modules, weekly tasks and integration tools, peer practice and supervised facilitation. The pacing is built so you can integrate as you go, not download content and forget it.
You'll be observed. You'll be coached. You'll be expected to do your own work.
This is where most trainings end. VFT begins again. Now you will have clients.
You'll complete your final assessment and practise session. You'll keep ongoing access to the VIDYA Community. You'll be invited to advanced training pathways including Business Builders, the done-for-you tech and systems with the VIDYA Mentor program.
VFT isn't a course you finish. It's a community you join.
After Certification
You're typically:
· A psychologist, therapist, counsellor, or mental health professional looking for a somatic addition
· A coach or facilitator who's hit the ceiling of what talk-based work can do
· A yoga teacher, pilates teacher, bodyworker, or somatic practitioner adding clinical-grade breathwork to your offering
· An allied health professional (nurse, physio, OT, naturopath, chiropractor) who's seen what breath can do and wants to lead it properly
· A serious self-practitioner moving from corporate, hospitality, or business into a calling that pays
· A mum or dad who is ready to transform your family’s life
You're not typically:
· New to nervous system work
· Looking for a quick certification to add to your bio
· Hoping the training will do the work for you
If the first list describes you, you're who we built this for.
Safety is not an add-on here.
Safety is not an add-on here.
It is the foundation.
It is the foundation.
VIDYA is trauma-informed, meaning the work prioritises:
- Nervous System regulation
- choice, consent, and pacing
- avoiding re-traumatisation
- discernment over intensity
You learn how to create environments where people feel safe enough to change.
This training may not be for you if:
- you’re looking for a quick or surface-level certificate
- you want intensity without responsibility
- you’re unwilling to engage in self-regulation and reflection
- you don’t want to be accountable for how this work is held
That boundary is intentional.
VIDYA Breathwork™ Facilitator Training has a selective application process.
Because every facilitator who comes out of VFT goes on to hold real people in real pain, and that requires a specific kind of readiness.
Each application is reviewed by Verity personally. She's looking for three things:
Professional foundation
Professional foundation
a background that can support the depth of the work
Personal rediness
Personal rediness
the psychological and physical stability to engage fully
Embodied experience
Embodied experience
you've completed VIDYA session within the last 12 months
If you haven't done a session yet, [book one here] before you apply. You don't train in a method until you've felt it work in your own body.
Application review takes up to 14 days.
Breathwork Foundations + Somatic Mastery
Understand the body , so you can guide it safely.
You learn how breath interacts with physiology, emotion and the Nervous System and how to work with it responsibly.
Breath styles and mechanics
Trauma-aware Nervous System safety
Somatic processing and emotional release
Stress cycles, embodiment, and integration
You don’t just learn how Breathwork works ,
you learn when, why, and how to guide it safely.
Space-Holding & Facilitation Skills
Presence is the skill.
This is where facilitation becomes embodied, not performative.
Voice, pacing, cueing, music, and energy
Working with strong emotions in the room
Holding both 1:1 and group experiences
Integration and aftercare frameworks
You practice facilitating, not just studying it,
so you can lead with confidence in real moments.
Identity & Energetic Leadership
You cannot lead others where you haven’t gone.
This pillar develops the internal capacity required to hold others well.
Nervous System capacity and leadership embodiment
Boundaries, ethics, and emotional maturity
Self-expression and finding your voice
Turning lived experience into grounded guidance
You become a regulating presence, not just a facilitator.
Graduate Certified + Ready to Work
Practical. Embodied. Real-world ready.
You graduate as a VIDYA Breathwork™ Certified Facilitator, equipped to work confidently across settings.
- 1:1 sessions
- Group classes and circles
- Workshops, corporate work, and retreats
- Online and in-person spaces
This certification is designed for real clients and real environments.
Business & Client Foundations
Your work deserves to be sustainable.
You’re supported to bring this work into the world with clarity and integrity.
- Building your first offer
- Pricing and structure
- Marketing with alignment
- Client attraction without hustle
- Branding and visibility confidence
You’re not just trained,
you’re supported to launch and grow responsibly.
Community & Ongoing Support
Depth is not meant to be done alone.
Throughout the training, you’re held inside a steady, supportive container.
- Weekly calls with lifetime replays
- Supportive student community
- Integration space and feedback
- Continued growth pathways
You are held, seen, and supported, the whole way through.
"VIDYA gave me the tools to change not only my clients’ lives but my own.” – Dayner
"VIDYA gave me the tools to change not only my clients’ lives but my own.” – Dayner
TRAINING STRUCTURE & EXPERIENCE
Duration: 14 Phases + Lifetime Access
Format: Online live training with replays
Experience: Somatic, immersive, Nervous System-led
Outcome: Globally recognised Certified facilitator with real-world, client-ready capacity
This training is designed to be integrated not rushed, consumed, or performed.
How the training unfolds
Each week includes a consistent rhythm of learning, embodiment, and integration:
- Live teachings that build understanding and discernment
- Facilitated breathwork for your own regulation and capacity
- Facilitation labs with guided practice and feedback
- Resources, session frameworks, scripts, and templates
- Community support and supervised space-holding
You move through breath, body, mind, and identity,
so facilitation becomes felt, not memorised.
What you graduate with
By the end of the training, you are not only globally certified, you are prepared.
You leave with:
- Certification as a VIDYA Breathwork™ Facilitator
- Confidence to guide paid 1:1 and group sessions
- Tools to support emotional release safely and responsibly
- The ability to lead groups, circles, classes, and workshops
- Session plans, frameworks, and adaptable facilitation tools
- Business foundations to bring this work into the world with integrity
Your work becomes grounded.
Your leadership becomes embodied.
This training is designed to support longevity, trust, and real impact.
What if every session you led felt like a breakthrough moment for your clients and yourself?
IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES - FOR YOU
Build unshakable confidence as a practitioner.
Reignite your passion for holistic healing.
IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES - FOR YOUR CLIENTS
Help them overcome trauma, regulate their emotions, and achieve lasting change.
IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES - FOR YOUR BUSINESS
Attract aligned clients who can’t wait to work with you.
Attract aligned clients who can’t wait to work with you.
“I joined unsure if I could ever lead. Now I’m guiding sessions weekly and holding space with confidence I never imagined.”
- Tash, VIDYA Graduate
“I joined unsure if I could ever lead. Now I’m guiding sessions weekly and holding space with confidence I never imagined.”
- Tash, VIDYA Graduate
What makes VIDYA different
VIDYA is not about intensity for intensity’s sake.
It does not rely on performance, pressure, or emotional overload.
VIDYA is grounded in:
- Nervous System regulation
- choice, consent and pacing
- integration over peak experience
- integrity over shortcuts
This work is designed to be safe enough to change
and strong enough to last.
Download the VIDYA Breathwork Facilitator Certification Guide
Get the full curriculum breakdown, prerequisite requirements and intake dates.
Begin Where You Are
Whether you're seeking personal practice, professional certification, or business support, there's a path through VIDYA.
Begin Where You Are
Whether you're seeking personal practice, professional certification, or business support, there's a path through VIDYA.
But the most important thing isn't where you start.
It's that you start.
Stories From Our Community
"VIDYA completely changed the way I understand facilitation."
"The depth of learning, support and integration exceeded anything I expected."
"This work transformed not only my business, but the way I show up in life."
Your Investment in Transformation
Flexible payment plans make this life changing certification accessible.
"How much would it be worth to you to create breakthroughs that leave clients saying,
‘This has changed my life?"
Choose Your Plan
MORE PAYMENT PLANS AVAILABLE
OPTION ONE
$6500 PIF
$6500K USD ONE TIME PAYMENT
SAVE $700
CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED
OPTION TWO
$1278 p/m
MONTHLY PAYMENTS $1200K USD
FOR 6 X MONTHLY PAYMENTS
CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED
“This wasn't just training it, healed me. It changed how I breathe, live, lead and love.”
- Shauna, VIDYA Graduate
“This wasn't just training it, healed me. It changed how I breathe, live, lead and love.”
- Shauna, VIDYA Graduate
MEET THE Founder of VIDYA, Intuitive Mentor & Real Life Experience Teller:
Hey, I'm Verity.
Verity Coonan was an interior designer.
In 2013, her partner was murdered. The rooms she was so good at making beautiful couldn't hold the grief, the anxiety, or the trauma she was now carrying inside her own nervous system.
For years, she searched for something that could.
In 2015, she found yoga and the breath. The same year, she founded VIDYA, what began as her own daily practice and became the methodology she has spent the last eleven years refining. "This is when this journey to happiness began," she says of those years.
She traded crafting physical spaces for crafting internal ones.
Today, VIDYA is the application-only breathwork certification trusted by serious practitioners across many countries. Trauma-informed. Nervous system-led. Taught by Verity in every cohort.
VIDYA stands on four pillars: embodiment, capacity, safety, integration, the founder's discipline of doing her own work, in public, for as long as she's holding others. It's the standard she trains every VIDYA-certified facilitator to meet.
Verity holds more qualifications than you can count, that was the journey and now she wishes people to just have one, that’s VFT.
To list some of them Yoga 500YTT, PT, Health Coach, Yoga Coach, Somatics, Hypnosis, Coaching, Reiki, Meditation, Yoga Nidra… you get the point.
She hosts The Dark Side with Verity - the podcast for serious practitioners working with the parts of the wellness industry no one wants to talk about.
Outside the work, she practices what she teaches. Breathwork. Yoga. Pilates. Somatic movement. Ritual. Astrology. Time in nature. Time alone. Time with the people she keeps close.
She is opinionated about facilitator standards. She is allergic to performative wellness language. She refuses to call this work transformational, she thinks that word does more damage than good.
Her actual promise is smaller, and harder: that you'll learn to ride the waves of your own life, laugh your way through more of it, and hold others with the capacity you've built in yourself.
That's the work.
MEET THE Founder of VIDYA, Intuitive Mentor & Real Life Experience Teller:
Hey, I'm Verity.
Verity Coonan was an interior designer.
In 2013, her partner was murdered. The rooms she was so good at making beautiful couldn't hold the grief, the anxiety, or the trauma she was now carrying inside her own nervous system.
For years, she searched for something that could.
In 2015, she found yoga and the breath. The same year, she founded VIDYA, what began as her own daily practice and became the methodology she has spent the last eleven years refining. "This is when this journey to happiness began," she says of those years.
She traded crafting physical spaces for crafting internal ones.
Today, VIDYA is the application-only breathwork certification trusted by serious practitioners across many countries. Trauma-informed. Nervous system-led. Taught by Verity in every cohort.
VIDYA stands on four pillars: embodiment, capacity, safety, integration, the founder's discipline of doing her own work, in public, for as long as she's holding others. It's the standard she trains every VIDYA-certified facilitator to meet.
Verity holds more qualifications than you can count, that was the journey and now she wishes people to just have one, that’s VFT.
To list some of them Yoga 500YTT, PT, Health Coach, Yoga Coach, Somatics, Hypnosis, Coaching, Reiki, Meditation, Yoga Nidra… you get the point.
She hosts The Dark Side with Verity - the podcast for serious practitioners working with the parts of the wellness industry no one wants to talk about.
Outside the work, she practices what she teaches. Breathwork. Yoga. Pilates. Somatic movement. Ritual. Astrology. Time in nature. Time alone. Time with the people she keeps close.
She is opinionated about facilitator standards. She is allergic to performative wellness language. She refuses to call this work transformational, she thinks that word does more damage than good.
Her actual promise is smaller, and harder: that you'll learn to ride the waves of your own life, laugh your way through more of it, and hold others with the capacity you've built in yourself.
That's the work.
FAQs
Still Have Questions? Let’s Get You Clarity.
Do I need any prior qualifications?
No. This program teaches you everything you need to know to facilitate Breathwork confidently. We do ask you to book a 1-1 with VIDYA prior. You need to know this is right for you. The question we're asking on every application is: can this person hold the work responsibly with real clients?
How much time do I need to commit to?
Approximately 2-6 hours per week, with flexibility to suit your schedule. Our philosophy is you embody the work. We begin with you first, this cannot be rushed.
Can I make my money back through facilitating?
Most graduates do, often within their first few months. We cover pricing, client acquisition and business architecture inside the Business Development phase, and Business Builders is available as an advanced pathway after certification for facilitators ready to scale.
What if I don't have a clinical background but I've done a lot of personal work?
Apply. Tell us your story. Personal work matters and we read every application. If we don't think VFT is the right fit yet, we'll tell you what we'd want to see before reapplying.
Will this pay for itself?
Most graduates recoup the investment within their first few months of facilitating. The Business Development phase covers pricing, client acquisition, and offer structure, and Business Builders is available after certification for facilitators ready to scale. We don't make income guarantees. We do build the foundation that makes income possible.
How long does the training actually take?
The active training runs over 14 phases. You'll have 12 months of self-paced access to revisit any phase. Certification typically completes within 6 months of starting, depending on how quickly you submit case studies and final assessment.
Can I run group breathwork sessions after certification?
Yes, we believe you must know how to run 1-1 online and in person and group online and in-person. You will be fully equipped. You will be safe.
Can I combine this certification with other modalities I already practice?
Absolutely. Many of our graduates integrate breathwork with modalities like coaching, yoga, therapy, or holistic healing to create unique client offerings.
Can I pay in instalments?
Yes. Payment plans are available across 3, 4, or 6 months.
Ready to apply?
Cohort 1 opens 9th June. Applications close when the cohort fills.
If this page has been sitting in a tab for a few days, that's your nervous system telling you something.
Or if you'd like to read more before applying
Ready to apply?
Cohort 1 opens 9th June. Applications close when the cohort fills.
If this page has been sitting in a tab for a few days, that's your nervous system telling you something.
Or if you'd like to read more before applying
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