Harness the Power of Breath for Healing & Transformation!
Therapists, Coaches, Healers, and Teachers - Become an Expert-Level, Trauma-Informed Breathwork Facilitator
Are you seeking to enhance your therapeutic toolkit to facilitate transformative breakthroughs for your clients and students?
Do you want to deepen your understanding of trauma-informed breathwork techniques and emotional release strategies?
Are you ready to be educated and feel empowered to hold space for profound healing and transformation?
Get certified as an Embodied Breathwork Facilitator through our in-person training program recognized by Yoga Alliance.
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Take Your Work to the Next Level:
Enhance Your Therapeutic Toolkit: Integrate the profound power of breathwork into your existing toolkit, unlocking new opportunities for healing and transformation.
Amplify Your Impact: Incorporate breathwork techniques to deepen self-awareness, resilience, and empowerment in your clients and watch them break through barriers like never before.
Integrate Holistic Healing: Infuse your work with trauma-informed awareness creating space for profound emotional release.
Teach & Lead from the Heart: Enhance your educational impact by introducing breathwork into your teaching and leadership philosophy. Create an environment that fosters increased focus, emotional regulation, and mindfulness - helping students no matter what age.
Accelerate Personal and Professional Growth: Learn trauma-informed techniques, emotional release strategies, and intuitive support, propelling your growth as a professional - and often resulting in increased compensation.
Certify and Stand Out: Join the community of Certified Embodied Breathwork Facilitators trained through Behind the Lids (Costa Mesa, CA), and set yourself apart as a leader in your field, equipped with the skills to facilitate radical change through the power of breath.
Apply for our next Embodied Breathwork Facilitator Training at Behind the Lids.
July 12-14 & July 19-21, 2024 - Costa Mesa, CA
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This two-weekend journey is crafted to elevate you to the level of a highly skilled, Certified Embodied Breathwork Facilitator, empowering you to bring profound healing into the world. This program transcends conventional cognitive therapies, delving into the realm of deep somatic healing to facilitate profound transformation at the core level.
It is ideal for therapists, coaches, healers, and teachers who have explored various modalities without achieving lasting results they desire. This program offers a holistic solution that digs beneath the surface to cultivate sustainable change.
If you're someone who is ready for a journey of self-discovery and and wants to facilitate transformative experiences for others, then this program is tailored for you!
* This training qualifies as Continuing Education hours for Registered Yoga Teachers within Yoga Alliance.
What Sets Embodied Breathwork Apart From Other Training Programs?
Trauma Informed Lens: By being a part of this unique and powerful training program, you are going to experience the incredible journey of healing on a whole new level. You will learn from a trauma-informed, somatic, and embodied approach to experiencing, learning, and facilitating the healing power of breathwork. You will learn trauma-informed techniques to support others moving through their transformational process, as well as learn how to intentionally hold space for all individuals in one-on-one and group settings.
Science-Based Framework: You will leave with a deeper knowledge of various breathwork practices and healing modalities, as well as the anatomy, psychophysiology, neuroscience, underlying philosophy, theory, structure, and energetics of respiration and breath practices.
Somatic Awareness and Unwinding: When you complete this certification, you will be ready to bring your healing into the world with your deep understanding of what somatic healing is all about. Embodied breathwork encourages individuals to become more aware of bodily sensations, tensions, and emotions as they arise during the breathing process. This awareness can lead to a deeper understanding of one’s physical and emotional state.
Emotional Release: As a graduate of Embodied Breathwork, you will be well versed in the process of expressing and letting go of pent-up or intense emotions in a healthy and constructive manner. Certain styles, like emotional release breathwork, reset the nervous system and help to release tension associated with anxiety, depression or stress.
Holding Space: We teach our facilitators how to intentionally hold space for all individuals in one-on-one and group settings, and you’ll learn how to stay centered and stable as you support others through their own trauma release and transformation. You will understand how to prepare, how to show up, and ultimately, how to work with the energy of any group or individual.
Encouraging Constructive Feedback: On the final day of training, you will put your learning into practice by leading a short breathwork session and receiving encouraging, constructive feedback from renowned teacher, Nichole Anne Ferro.
Deep Your Own Breathwork Practice: Learn how to develop or deepen your own breathwork practice that is aligned with your personal intentions and physical, mental, and spiritual well being.
Understanding Yourself: The Embodied Breathwork Facilitator Training Program always includes understanding YOU. You will take a deep dive into fully experiencing your own personal relationship to your body and yourself, which will allow you to start fully embodying all of the practices and techniques you’ll be passing on to your clients. You will also experience a transformational guided practice to work through your own inner child wounds, blockages, and traumas.
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What People Are Saying
ANNIE H: "Nichole is a force of nature. Not only did I deepen my understanding of the mechanics of breathing but I also healed and released a ton of hidden trauma during the Embodied Breathwork Facilitator Training. If you're ready for a noticeable shift in your life and you're ready to connect with the medicine of breath- then I highly recommend working with this wise and remarkable teacher. You will not regret it!"
CLINTON M: "The Embodied Breathwork Training with Nichole was exactly what I was looking for in a certification course. From beginning to end, her process was beautiful and perfectly bridged the gap between the science and spirituality of breathwork. Nichole is an incredible guide, she has amazing energy, and I highly recommend her course. You'll learn so much about the power of breathwork, how to be an authentic and effective guide, how to coach a variety of techniques and practices, and you'll learn about yourself and grow as a person in a supportive community. 10/10!"
KAILEY B: "I just completed Nichole's embodied breath work facilitator training. It was AMAZING. We dove deep into all of the realms of breath work that I was desiring to explore. We dove into the science of breath, we explored trauma and trauma responses, covered over 10 styles of breath + were guided through many of our own experiences. In completing this training I feel confident to guide my own clients and classes in breath work. I have the tangible knowledge and also the experiences necessary to guide my future students into their own journeys. Nichole is amazing at what she does and truly embodies what it means to be a facilitator by not only providing the knowledge but living what she speaks. It's so easy to trust in her and in the practices that she teaches because of this. If you're looking to be a breath work facilitator yourself... START HERE!"
JOSH E: "The breathwork facilitator training class with Nichole Ferro was truly amazing. Throughout the training, I felt held, seen, and supported by her presence. Her gentle yet powerful approach allowed me to fully surrender and trust in the process, and I was able to tap into parts of myself that I had long buried or ignored. Her ability to create a safe and sacred space allowed me to release and heal in ways that I never knew to be possible."
JANA L: "I was brought to this place not by accident, but by the divine force around and within me! After taking a few breathwork classes here, I wanted to learn how I could use this amazing tool to help those who reach out to me for help. Finding that Nichole Ferro was teaching a class felt like destiny! Today as I conclude my course I am grateful to say I am an embodied breathwork facilitator! Nichole conducted the classes with power, kindness and knowledge. We were all in! She kept our attention the whole time! Together we have grown, shared our traumas, cried, laughed and created a connection that only God can make happen! I will forever remember this day! I hope you give this a shot! You won't regret it!"
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About Nichole Ferro
Nichole Anne Ferro is a Psycho-Somatic Trauma Recovery Coach, Somatic Educator, Breathwork Facilitator/Educator, Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Educator, Womb Medicine Women, and Ceremonialist.
She has been in the Healing Arts industry for 15 years and is devoted to various practices of holistic healing. Nichole has over 3,000 training hours in trauma-informed; yoga, breathwork, somatic therapy, and nervous system recovery, and has over 10,000 teaching hours.
Nichole completed the year-long graduate-level program Compassionate Inquiry with Dr. Gabor Mate, 3 months certification from the School for Shamanic Arts, year-long program with Melanie Swan to become a certified Womb Medicine Woman, 50hr Somatic Psychedelic Facilitator certification through the Embody Lab with teachers such as Dr, Richard Schwartz, Dr. Peter Levine and more, and a year-long Somatic Educator certification through the Somatic Institute for women with David Bedrick, Dr. Saida Desilets, and more.
Through years of study and practice, Nichole has learned firsthand that the healing process is not linear but more like a spiral that contracts and expands. She believes surrendering to the spiral process of birth, growth, death, and rebirth is crucial to deeply understanding Self. She firmly believes we hold ancient wisdom within that is designed to heal old wounds and broken patterns that are holding us back from reaching our fullest potential.
Nichole is the Founder of Somatic Arts Academy. The Somatic Arts Academy is a school that offers certifications in various holistic and trauma-informed healing modalities. It was founded on the belief in the transformative power of the body-mind connection while profoundly normalizing the human landscape. The academy is a sanctuary for those seeking to explore the rich terrain of somatic arts facilitation, where the body becomes a canvas for creative expression, self-discovery, and holistic well-being - and you become the guide to support people’s transformation.
Nichole has developed the Embodied Breathwork Certification, and Guided Visionary Meditation Certification, and co-created the Somatic Arts Facilitator Certification.
She is dedicated to helping others reclaim their body, mind, spirit, and lives and specializes in supporting others in reclaiming their authentic nature, reconnecting with themselves, and building a life they love living.
Training and Experience
500hr+ Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT) with over 11 years of yoga, meditation, and breathwork training
Certified Somatic Educator and Facilitator Certified Breathwork Facilitator and Teacher
Graduate of The School For Shamanic Arts
Graduate-level program in Compassionate Inquiry for inner child healing, psychosomatic trauma, and trauma recovery (under the guidance of Dr. Gabor Mate)
Certified Shamanic Womb Medicine Woman (trademarked through The Sacred Womb)
Studied with ISTA – International School of Temple Arts
Certified Reiki Master passed down from the Usui Lineage
12 years of training under various teachers for energy healing, shamanic healing, somatic healing, breathwork and yoga
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