Breathwork Training Australia with Claire Belton
In this training you learn to become a proficient Breathwork Practitioner, at the standard of the Australian Breathwork Association. The Australian Breathwork Association (ABA) requires a training of 450 hours in order to gain certification and professional membership to the association.
There are opportunities to gain skills to hold in depth conscious connected breathwork to a professional standard, and be able to hold sessions in person or online. Claire Belton is based in Fremantle WA and is also available to travel in Australia with the training.
Are you ready to step into Breathwork Training?
What you will receive from the Breathwork Training is:
- A high standard of Breathwork training that is recognised by the Australian Breathwork Association.
- The ability to hold a professional breathwork session.
- Breathing techniques to safely release and heal trauma held in the body.
- Training in the Conscious Connected Breathwork technique to clear unconscious blocks to happiness, wellness, and success.
- The therapeutic application of the breath to help those with anxiety and depression.
- Breathwork techniques to deepen mindfulness and meditation practice.
- How to work with the breath to release emotional & energetic blocks that create pain, tension, and dis-ease in the body & mind.
- Knowledge of how to work therapeutically with the breath for nervous system regulation.
- An understanding of somatic breathwork and the ability to deeply listen to the story held in the body.
- Learn how to apply breathwork to your current therapy or healing practice.
- An opportunity to dive into your own healing in a safe & supportive environment with a caring and experienced facilitator.
The Breathwork Training offers different training pathways which include:
- Breathwork Training (ABA standards)
- Studies in Transpersonal and Shamanic Breathwork (ABA standards)
- Advanced Studies in Transpersonal and Shamanic Breathwork (extra curriculum advanced studies)
Those wishing to train only in Breathwork must complete all the theoretical and practical components of the course. This is 450 training hours which includes homework. Students who wish to incorporate Studies in Transpersonal and Shamanic Breathwork will include this in their Breathwork training.
Breathwork Training Australia welcomes beginner students, as well as Breathwork Practitioners, Counsellors, Therapists, Healers, and others in the healing arts and helping professions who wish to develop breathwork skills as part of their ongoing professional development.
Professional Breathwork practitioners already trained in conscious connected breathwork are welcome to apply to enter the Studies in Transpersonal and Shamanic Breathwork.
Training
Opportunities for training are both in person and online. The training is both experiential and theoretical. The experiential part of the learning is held in person in Fremantle Western Australia, and throughout Australia. Most of the theory is held online. If you would like to see the experiential part of the training in your area, please contact Claire. Students have a choice whether to train in Breathwork only, or to include in their 450 hours of training, Studies in Transpersonal and Shamanic Breathwork. All new students must first begin with Breathwork Training before proceeding to the advanced studies.
To be certified as a Breathwork Practitioner, the Australian Breathwork Association standards require students to complete 450 hours of training which includes practical, theoretical, and homework assignments.
If you wish to receive a breakdown of what modules you need to complete in order to gain certification of both Breathwork Training and/or Transpersonal and Shamanic Breathwork Training, as well as the overall cost of the training please contact Claire and you will be emailed further information.
Breathwork Training Practical
Upcoming dates in Fremantle 25th- 28th September 2025
Sydney: 17th-20th October 2024
4 days of in person Breathwork Training where you will experience Breathwork sessions as a sitter and as a breather, as well as practical teaching where we discuss what we have learnt in theory and have applied in the practical work. There is time for support and feedback. Breathwork Practitioners must experience in their training a minimum of 30 breathwork sessions as sitter, and 30 as breather. Each practical training you attend and complete will go toward your 30 sessions and 450 hours of training. The 4 day training intensive is also open to those who wish to participate only for their personal healing; this is a profound opportunity for deep healing; emotional, mental, physical and spiritual. A very safe and nurturing experience.
Cost: $1250.00 (includes GST) if paid by the 10th Sept 2025 or $1350 if paid after the 10th Sept 2025
Breathwork Training Theory & Practical includes:
Dynamics of Breathwork 1
Conscious Connected Breathwork
5th-6th Sept 2025
Theory Online Friday evening 6-8pm- Saturday 10am-4pm AWST (no prerequisites)
- Introduction to Breathwork
- Conscious connected breathwork theory
- Hyperventilation and tetany
- Non ordinary states of consciousness and the breathwork session
- Trauma, the Nervous System and Breathwork
Cost $360.00 earlybird price if paid by the 26th August 2025 (includes GST) or $400 if paid after the 26th August 2025
Dynamics of Breathwork 2
Emotional Release, Carried Feelings, Shame, and Intrusive Stories
12th- 13th September 2025
Theory Online Friday evening 6-8pm- Saturday 10am-4pm AWST (no prerequisites)
- Breathwork and Emotions
- Identifying and Supporting Emotional Release
- Working with Carried Feelings and Shame
- Identifying and Dealing with Toxicity in the Breathwork Session
Cost $360.00 (includes GST) earlybird if paid by the 1st September or $400 if paid after the 1st September 2025
Dynamics of Breathwork 3
Kundalini and Maps of Consciousness
11th-12th October 2025
Online training taken over 2 days. 10am-4pm daily AWST (no prerequisites)
- Igniting Chakras through the Breath
- Chakras as a map of Consciousness
- Breathwork and Kundalini
- Chakra Healing and Breathwork
- Mind Mastery and Kundalini
- Working with crystals in the session
Cost $550 (includes GST) if paid by 1st October or $600 if paid after the 1st October 2025
Dynamics of Breathwork 4
Birth Trauma and the Inner Child
17th – 22nd June 2025 in Fremantle
Theory and practical held in person over 6 days (prerequisites: Dynamics of Breathwork 1 & Breathwork Training Practical)
- Healing birth trauma
- Working with the inner child in the breathwork session
- Includes 3 Breathwork sessions as sitter and breather
Cost: Early bird $1800.00 (includes GST) if paid by the 10th June 2025 or $1950 if paid after the 10th June 2025
Deep Listening Somatic Breathwork
26th-31st August 2025 in Fremantle
Held in person over 6 days (no prerequisites). Includes 3 Breathwork sessions as sitter and breather.
The body holds the most incredible wisdom, as practitioners we must learn how to listen and respond to this wisdom.
In this module you will learn the art of how to listen deeply to, and safely engage the body’s healing intelligence. Using therapeutic touch, and working both on and off the body, you will learn how to access the healing power of the body and apply this to support healing and release in the client’s body.
Utilising deep listening touch in the breathwork session you will learn how to support your client to unwind tension, release pain, transform dis-ease, and release old stories and trauma from the cellular memory. You will learn how to work on and off the body with gentle, safe and appropriate touch that supports your client’s personal boundaries. As the body feels safe, it begins to release tension, and the breath opens and deepens with ease. You will learn how to tap into and work with the natural releasing breath, and how to support your client with therapeutic touch in the breathwork session.
In this module you will discover how perception underlies posture, and how expanding perception supports the unwinding of tension and dis-ease. You will learn how your language toward your client can powerfully support their process of internal awareness that leads to the unwinding of pain and tension, and a deeper connection to their own breath and process of transformation. You will learn how to read the body’s language and most importantly that which is not expressed; this becomes a powerful place to explore in a session.
Students will also participate in experiential work to understand how to consciously manifest their own dreams through embodiment; anchoring into their body and energy field. Learn how to facilitate this with your clients.
Cost: $1850.00 earlybird (includes GST) if paid by the 11th August or $1950.00 if paid after the 11th August 2025
Professional Skills and Non-Ordinary States
Online 1st-2nd November 2025
You will learn:
- Counselling for the Breathwork Session
- Transference and Countertransference
- Ethics, Boundaries and Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness
Cost: $600.00 (includes GST)
The Business of Breathwork
Online 19th-20th September 2025 Friday 6-8pm Saturday 10am-4pm
- Creating a successful practice
- Navigating business and promotion
- Money and value in a Breathwork practice
Cost: $360.00 (includes GST)
Studies in Transpersonal and Shamanic Breathwork Training
Shamanic Module One: Shamanic Journey and the Dreaming Worlds
Held online. Begins on the 3rd September 2025 held over 12 Wednesday evenings 6pm-8pm AWST.
Participants will be invited to join a Fb group where zoom videos will be uploaded for those who can’t make it to the live zoom meeting. Claire will available in the Fb group for questions and group chat.
Shamanic Module One includes:
Foundations of Shamanic Healing
Learn about the shamanic way of seeing the world.
In this module you will begin the journey of connecting to the dreaming world and understand how this sets the stage for the shamanic healing session, and applying shamanism to enrich other modalities.
Learn how to create a powerful sacred space, call upon and come into right relationship with the guides and spirits that are present in the unseen world. Learn how to come into right relationship with Nature to become the ‘hollow bone’ and a conduit for healing.
Awake Dreaming: Learn Shamanic Journey
Learn to journey into the three worlds of core shamanism to meet guardian spirits, spirit helpers and teachers. Learn how to go into an altered state of consciousness to enter non ordinary reality and connect with your own inner landscape and imagery for insight, love, and profound healing. Learn how to retrieve personal power, and journey to find your own power animal.
Spiritual Guides, Helping Spirits and Non-Ordinary Reality
Deepen your connection to the other worlds and connect with your spiritual lineage and the helping spirits that will work with and through you. You will learn how to gather power (love and wisdom) in the other worlds and become like a hollow bone for spirit to move through you.
Cost for Shamanic Module 1: $960.00 (includes GST) if paid by the 20th August 2025 or $1060 if paid after the 20th August 2025.
Shamanic Module 2: Deeper into The Worlds
begins 19th August 2025 6pm-8pm AWST
Held online and must have completed Module 1. Held over 10 weekly sessions (Tuesday evening) each 2 hours in duration.
Module 2 includes:
Working with the Spirits of the Elements
Learn how to consciously work with the spirit of the Elements and open to being a conduit for their powerful presence and transformative energies in the session. Learn how to actively engage with the Spirit of the elements and gain valuable allies for healing.
Shamanic Tracking in the Worlds
Learn how to journey in non-ordinary reality into the other worlds and identify the stories and energies that are affecting the energy of your client, particularly those that are keeping them stuck in dysfunctional patterns. You will learn how to track energy in a session, to support your client to identify and release stories that are present in their energetic field. Gain skills to improve your psychic and intuitive abilities.
Cost for Module 2: $800.00 (includes GST) must be paid by the 10th August 2025 or $900 if paid after the 10th August 2025
Shamanic Module 3: Energy, Extraction, and Soul Retrieval
11th-16th August 2025
This work is held in person over 6 days which includes 3 Breathwork sessions as breather and sitter. Must have completed Module 1 and 2 in the Transpersonal and Shamanic Breathwork Training.
In this module you will learn about the shamanic view of healing, how dis-ease and misfortune are created and what needs to be done to turn that around. This is powerful work combined with breathwork.
Shamanic module 3 includes:
Intrusive Energy and Shamanic Extraction
There are many types of energies that sit in the energy field that can stop a breather from making progress in their breathwork sessions and contribute to dis-ease in a person’s health and life.
In this module you learn the shamanic process of extraction of intrusive energies: entities, energetic cords, heavy energy, and curses. You will learn to work with many different tools that will support the extraction process. Intrusive energies stop the process of healing and contribute to many forms of dis-ease, health challenges, and addiction issues. This is powerful work to support release and transformation in the breathwork session.
Soul and Power Retrieval
Learn how to journey into non-ordinary reality to perform a soul retrieval. This is powerful work to bring about healing to the energetic field and deeply supports the healing of challenging or traumatic experiences that can arise in a session. Learn to work with the helping spirits to reclaim lost power to support the client to move through trauma and blocked energy. Step into your own power as a practitioner.
Cost for Shamanic Module 3: $1650.00 (includes GST) if paid by the 10th July or $1750 if paid after the 10th July 2025
Transpersonal and Shamanic Breathwork Training Practical (4 days)
Held in person or online over 4 days. Give and receive 4 breathwork sessions as sitter and breather. Must have completed all the Transpersonal and Shamanic Training modules (not including advanced studies) to enter the shamanic breathwork practical training. You also must have completed at least Dynamics of Breathwork 1 & 2 as well as 2 lots of Breathwork Training Practical.
Cost of Transpersonal and Shamanic Breathwork Training Practical: early bird $1250.00 (includes GST) or $1350.00
Advanced Studies in Transpersonal and Shamanic Breathwork
Module 4: Stories, Symbols, and Myths: Tracking and Transformation in Non-Ordinary Reality
Held online or in person over 4 days
Deepen your understanding of the narrative that arises in the session, and support the transformation inherent in the symbols, archetypal images, and myths that you encounter. Learn to track and identify the myths that present in your clients, helping them to transform those stories. your own personal myth and to rewrite the stories that don’t serve you.
You will learn the skills to work powerfully over distance with your clients. Working with the helping spirits in the archetypal realms. Learn how to work over the phone or internet tracking the stories and myths that arise in the session, working deeper in non-ordinary reality.
Track and identify the myths and stories that present in your own dreaming and energy field; learning to rewrite the stories that don’t serve you. Identify and track your own story, detox your energy field, and remove intrusive energy with a process where you can work deeply on yourself.
Cost for Module 4: $1250.00 (includes GST)
Module 5: Ancestral Healing
Held online or in-person over 4 days
We will look at how to track, identify, and work with generational trauma and curses that are blocking energy flow and creating addiction, illness, and misfortune. This includes powerful ancestral depossession work. This work will bring energy, love and wisdom to your healing practice and deep healing and support to help your clients. You will gain the skills to help your clients move through challenging and stuck areas that are not responding to other forms of healing or therapy.
This work will also give you skills for the healing of your own generational trauma, and reconnection to your ancestral lineage.
You will have the opportunity to enquire into those areas of your own life where you seem to have the biggest hurdles, and you will be working to transform old energetic contracts, beliefs, and carried feelings.
Connect with ancestral allies and ancestral helping spirits. This is an opportunity to broaden your understanding of working in the shamanic realms. Bring the ancestral gifts into awareness and reclaim love, power, wisdom, and destiny.
Cost for Module 5: $12500.00 (includes GST)
Module 6: Death, Dismemberment and the Transpersonal
Held in-person over 3 days.
In this module you will learn about death from the shamanic perspective.
You will learn about the journey the soul takes at death and what can be done to prepare for death.
You will get the opportunity to face your fears in regarding to death and learn the art of walking with death as an ally in life. Experience the shamanic dismemberment journey, and the application of this journey to support your clients.
Understand how death shows up for your client in a session, and how to support them in their understanding of the role that death plays in life.
Cost for Module 6: $825 (includes GST)
Module 7: Working with Night Dreams and Hypnogogic States
Held online over 6 weeks comprising of 2 hours per week.
Shamanic cultures are rich dreaming cultures that understand the importance of paying attention to night time dreams. All our ancestral traditions understood the importance of dreams to connect with ancestors and guides in other realms of consciousness. In this module we work consciously to re-connect to and understand this ancient wisdom that visits us nightly.
Together we will explore night dreams and hypnogogic states of consciousness. Learn how important dreams are in the foundations of shamanic healing and how to bring this into your own work. Learn how to develop a rich dreaming life and listen and respond to the wisdom of dreams and hypnogogic states. We explore different types of dreams and what guidance they can offer. Learn how to re-enter a dream to discover greater depths of wisdom, and learn how to hold space for others to re-enter their own dreams and experience opportunities for healing and awareness.
Cost for Module 7: $480.00 (includes GST)
How long does the training take to complete?
Students must keep a log of their training modules including the practical training sessions and Claire will sign off on them after each segment of training. Students generally take approximately 18 months to complete the training, however it is possible the training can be completed sooner. The training hours will also include 20 session write ups which will be completed outside of the training modules, as well as other homework assignments.
Homework
Over the course of the training you will need to complete various homework which includes your own ongoing breathwork sessions, both individual and/or group sessions. On completion of your training you will also be asked to give 20 sessions with clients, under supervision, and do write ups for these sessions. These sessions and write ups will need to be complete and handed in within a year of completing your training. You will also be given a reading list of books that you will be required to read throughout the training.
Assessment
At the completion of your training you will be assessed on your skill level and ability to work as a professional before being recommended for certification. Please note that certification requires full participation in the training, and Claire reserves the right to certify those who are ready.
Qualifications: Upon successfully completing the training and assessment, you will be issued a certificate. Upon certification you will also be qualified to apply for professional membership with the Australian Breathwork Association. This will
enable you to become a member of a professional body and also have access to insurance.
Hours of Training: The training consists of 450 hours of training.
Prerequisite: It is necessary to be having regular breathwork sessions in order to come into the training. It is preferable to have completed 10 breathwork sessions, however if you have not completed this and are keen to enter the training you can talk to Claire and there may still be provision to enter the training. Throughout the training you will be expected to continue your breathwork practice through individual or group work. You must receive at least 20 breathwork sessions during the training.
Cost: If you are interested in receiving information on the complete cost of the training, and a breakdown of what modules are needed for completion of training of whichever stream of training you choose; Breathwork Training and/or the Transpersonal and Shamanic Breathwork Training contact Claire and it will be emailed to you.
Booking: Please email, or text Claire on 0408909779 to organize a time to speak with Claire about the training. It is necessary to have a chat with Claire prior to coming into the training.
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