Breathwork Practitioner Training Australia
Inspired BreathÂ
Inspired Breath offers a structured practitioner training that helps you access, navigate, and resolve unconscious emotional material through the breath, nervous system, and organic intelligence of the body.
This method is founded on the principle that the breath reflects the total history of the organism. Emotional experience that cannot be consciously processed is held in patterns of breath restriction, muscular armouring, and nervous system adaptation.
By working directly with the breath, practitioners gain access to unconscious material stored beyond cognitive awareness. Unconscious breathing patterns hold unresolved emotional experience. Â
The Inspired Breath Method unfolds through four progressive stages.
Where: Leura, Blue Mountains, NSW
When: November 7-13, 2026 (7 days)
$3780 twin share (supplement for single room)
What’s included;
EXPERT TUITION AND TEACHING MATERIALS FOR 7 DAYS
ALL MEALS AND ACCOMMODATION FOR 7 DAYS
All rooms come with an en-suite bathroom (with heated floors), a comfortable mattress, and good linen.
There is a choice of twin share or private room at an extra cost.
Stage 1: Breath as Gateway
Birth and impact on the unconsciousÂ
The first stage establishes the breath as the primary gateway into the unconscious.
Students develop the capacity to recognise how emotional and psychological experience is expressed through breathing patterns, muscular tension, and nervous system regulation.
This stage develops foundational practitioner capacities, including:
Conscious connected breathing techniques
Somatic awareness and perception
Recognition of breath restriction and energetic contraction
Foundations of therapeutic presence
The practitioner begins to perceive the breath as a living expression of unconscious experience.
Stage 2: The Adolescent Years and Navigating Sexuality, First Loves and Loss of Innocence
The second stage focuses on resolving emotional imprints formed through early developmental experience, relationships, and identity formation.
Students learn to recognise and work with:
Inner child dynamics and attachment wounds
Emotional deprivation and unmet developmental needs
Grief, loss, and relational trauma
Sexual and relational imprinting
Shadow material and defensive adaptations
Through direct breathwork experience, students encounter their own emotional holding patterns and defensive structures.
This stage develops the practitioner’s capacity to safely support emotional release in others by first undergoing their own process of integration.
Students begin to understand how personality structure forms as an adaptive response to early relational environments.
Stage 3: The Organic Mind and Cellular Memory
Accessing Ancestral Memory Through the Body
The third stage expands practitioner awareness beyond personal biography into the deeper layers of the organic mind.
The organic mind refers to the embodied intelligence of the organism that holds biographical, ancestral, and collective memory. This includes emotional material stored in the nervous system, musculature, and energetic organisation of the body.
Practitioners develop the capacity to work with:
Pre-verbal and pre-natal imprints
Early developmental shock and attachment disruption
Ancestral and intergenerational trauma patterns
Breathwork allows access to these deeper layers by working directly through physiological pathways rather than cognitive recall.
Stage 4: Practitioner Emergence and Mastery
The final stage develops advanced practitioner perception and facilitation capacity through the study of neo-Reichian processes, based on the work of Devaraj Sandberg.
Characterology provides a precise framework for understanding how emotional defenses are embodied through patterns of breath restriction, muscular armouring, and energetic inhibition.
Character structure is understood as an adaptive organisation of the organism, formed in response to developmental and relational experience.
Students learn to recognise how patterns manifest through:
Breath restriction and breathing patterns
Muscular armouring and energetic holding
Postural organisation
Emotional accessibility or inhibition
Nervous system regulation
Relational and defensive behaviours
Advanced Practitioner Capacity
Practitioners develop the ability to:
Recognise character structure through breath and body observation
Support safe emotional and somatic release
Facilitate integration following deep release
Maintain ethical and grounded therapeutic relationships
Students also develop awareness of their own character type, strengthening emotional maturity and therapeutic neutrality
Stage One: Breath as a Gateway
Accessing the Unconscious Through the Body
Module One is all about understanding the development of your early imprinitng through your first death/life experience your birth. What happened during conception and what happened during gestation? What happened at your birth? All these events add up to subtle imprints which keep rippling out through our lives.
Stage Two: Descent into the Personal Unconscious
Healing Emotional ImprintsÂ
Module Two is all about the messy subjects of Love, Sex, and Death. We look at your early childhood development, especially trying to piece together the environment in which you were raised. We examine how your social brain develops in the presence of positive or negative social interactions with your parents or caregivers. We also take a look at the imprint around your first ‘falling in love’ experience. Grief and death are looked at through the prism of the death-rebirth cycle of a Breathwork session.
Stage Three: The Organic Mind and Cellular Memory
Accessing Ancestral Memory Through the Body
Module Three is a deep excavation into your ancestors’ lives. Understanding your inter-generational trauma that can be passed down generation to generation is crucial to a deep healing journey. We also look at collective trauma that occurs on societies under stress. This module includes a day long family constellation workshop from one of leading facilitators in Australia.
Stage Four: Practitioner Emergence and Mastery
Understanding Your Own Character Structure
Module Four is about understanding your own body and mind in greater detail. We take a close look at the Wilhelm Reich’s Character Structure models, spiritual bypassing (when we use spirituality to avoid pain) and take a dive into an understanding of your shadow. Finally we look at ethical practice as professional Breathwork Practitioner and prepare you to enter into the world as an outstanding Breathwork Practitioner graduate!
Breathwork with a professional edge!
Suzanne and Phil are a professional Breathwork team with over a decade of experience leading Breathwork retreats. We take a compassionate yet robust teaching approach. We do not push any spiritual agendas. We focus on your personal healing and professional development!
Discover
Suzanne and Phil hold a safe space for you to move toward wholeness and transformation where currently there may be feelings of being adrift, being numb, being frustrated or being trapped in emotional pain. Over 8 days you will discover many aspects of yourself previously hidden or ignored.
Experience counts
Suzanne and Phil love offering this work and have been teaching people at all stages of life in Breathwork journeys for over 10 years. You are in safe hands. We are both ‘trauma aware’ therapists. Our advanced mix of skills results in a wholistic embodied approach to the modality of Breathwork.
Listen to our founder Phil Morey describe our style of breathwork,
Your expert trainers
We are Australia’s leading breathwork trainers. Together we have combined 40 years of experience.
Inspired Breath’s Practitioner Trainings’ are endorsed by the Australian Breathwork Association which aligns with their Practitioner Training Standards (450 hours).
Phil Morey
Founder