Our philosophy is built on the belief that the most powerful facilitators are not simply trained but created and moulded through their own personal journey.
After years of teaching, training, and working within the breathwork space, Lexy and Jim began to notice something important: many facilitators had learned techniques + were well meaning in their pursuit to help others, but very few had truly embodied the medicine itself.
The most powerful transformations were not created by performance or intensity alone, but by practitioners who had done the deep personal work required to safely hold others through emotional, physical, and nervous system informed transformation.
Facilitators who understood the breath not only intellectually, but somatically and intuitively. Who carried both the grounded experience and ethical responsibility required to guide people through meaningful change.
This inspired them to create a curriculum that would be as much about the practitioner’s internal development as it was about the technical skills of facilitation, because they believe the safest and most impactful practitioners are those who have walked the road and deeply embodied the work themselves.
Restore Somatica was created in response to the growing need for a new standard within
breathwork education – one rooted in embodiment, nervous system safety, female physiology, and emotionally intelligent facilitation. Our 13-month Accredited Practitioner Training is designed for those who feel called to lead this work with greater depth of understanding, integrity of the latest research in breathwork and nervous systems, and deep discernment. It is a rigorous, trauma-aware education that honours both ancient wisdom and modern science, creating practitioners who are deeply equipped to facilitate powerful work in a way that feels safe, sustainable, and profoundly human.
Students are educated across multiple breathwork modalities, from functional breathing through to conscious connected breathwork, creating practitioners who understand the full spectrum of breath as medicine and are able to work with people from many walks of life.
Stage 1 is designed specifically to prepare + initiate the facilitator into right relationship with the subtleties + complexities of their own nervous system + how to use it as a necessary tool in somatic work.
It’s designed for YOU!
Breathwork as an emerging therapy is not simply a ‘learn the science + apply’ model. It is a deep, reciprocal process where the facilitator + client engage in exchange + co-regulation.
You are solely responsible for creating a neurobiological space of SAFETY. And safety can not be exchanged unless you have created it, within your own body. Your own felt sense.
This is why our training is a FACILITATOR FIRST model. Not more knowledge, not more information overload and definitely not more ‘cerebral’ teaching methods where what you’re learning never actually gets embodied.
The first 6 months is devoted to a ‘monkey see, monkey do’ approach that will initiate you into absolute emotional + nervous system alchemy. This isn’t some mythical, mystical word but a foundational requirement for all breath + somatic practitioners. Self-alchemy simply means you have the resources AND the embodiment of how to apply them to the modern world. It’s knowing you can face life’s messy situations + scenarios and still find your way back to centre. This inner wholeness is what extends out to others and determines the type of life (and business) we create.
During our own travels and studies we experienced far too many scenarios where facilitators didn’t walk their talk when it came to creating safe, embodied and trauma informed space.
Hint: Safe spaces have almost nothing to do with the external environment. No amount of science, books, oils, crystals and pretty spaces will make up for an unsafe therapist.
So this first stage is devoted to your own evolution and journey into self to become a well-rounded, world class Breathwork Facilitator. Your understanding of your own inner wisdoms, intuition, nervous system and self-care is not some bonus module at the end of a course. It is the foundational requirement for breathwork brilliance.
As a RESTORE SOMATICA facilitator, it starts with YOU.
