Orygen Breathwork™
At some point you stop needing more insight into yourself and start needing a way to stay with yourself.
This is where Orygen Breathwork™ begins.
In the words you choose, the breath that belongs to you, the work you share, the way you ask, receive and decide what comes next.
| Authority you no longer outsource | Structure strong enough to co-create inside of | Leadership that rises from within |
There is a woman living the life everyone turns to her to lead.
She is also the woman sitting at the kitchen table after a full day, deciding how to ask for more space. The practitioner preparing to share her work. The partner learning to receive care without immediately returning the favour.
Orygen gives your relationship with yourself a place in those moments. Through breath, reflection and lived practice, you explore what you notice, what matters to you and how you choose to respond.
You determine the pace, the depth and the meaning of your experience. That ownership carries into your relationships, your work and the life beyond them.
Experience Orygen breathwork
This Month's Free Masterclasses
Enter through the conversation that meets you here. Each class gives you space to practise, reflect and take your own words into your life.
For women already working with people
Lived, Not Learned
Develop a relationship with your own breath that becomes part of how you live, make decisions and lead the people who trust you.
Explore personal practice and professional discernment, including how your response to a participant shapes the way you facilitate.
Free · 90 minutes · Live online
Tuesday 29 September · 10am AEST
For your life and decisions
The Physiology of Ownership
Bring one decision you have been circling: the conversation, the retreat enquiry, the request for support or the boundary you are ready to express.
Through breath practice and reflection, hear your own response, rehearse the words and choose an action you can carry into your week.
Free · 90 minutes · Live online
18th or 28th September · 10am AEST
The Orygen Method™
Stability is the foundation. Expansion is the direction.
You are not training to keep people calm. You are learning how to create enough steadiness that something real can move, without the room becoming dependent on intensity to feel transformative.
Three pillars, built in this order, because the order is the method.
01
Stability
The ground
The nervous system has to find safety in the space, the facilitator and itself. You learn to set clear expectations, offer real choices and guide at a pace the body in front of you can actually meet, while staying attentive to the person rather than managing yourself.
Powerful facilitation is not created through intensity. It is created through steadiness.
02
Integration
What is carried home
Lasting change does not happen at the surface. You learn to support the transition out of an experience and help a participant consider what she carries into ordinary life, including follow-up, practical support and referral. The intensity of a session is never treated as proof that anything lasting has changed.
What happens afterwards belongs to professional facilitation too.
03
Capacity
What you can hold
The depth you can safely hold for others is the capacity you have built in yourself. You develop your ability to work with different responses, with group dynamics and with the responsibility of leading, until you recognise both your growing capability and the edges of your scope.
Leadership is not something you perform. It is something people feel in your presence.
The Transformation
What you will be able to do when a real person is in front of you.
Not how you will feel. Your professional confidence develops through practice and feedback.
01 Plan and explain a session clearly
What the practice involves, what it asks of a participant, and what she can expect.
02 Complete screening and establish informed consent
Intake, contraindications, and the conversation that happens before anybody lies down.
03 Guide the Orygen session structure
The full seven-phase arc, without rushing it or losing your own ground.
04 Respond to what a participant reports
Recognise when to adjust, when to simplify, when to pause, and when to refer.
05 Bring an experience to a considered close
The immediate return, integration, and the limits of what you can responsibly offer.
06 Use your own breath without a facilitator
The practice that belongs to you, on an ordinary Tuesday, with nobody else in the room.
07 Work within a defined scope, and say where it ends
Including when another professional is the right answer and yours is not.
Certification reflects the standard you have actually demonstrated, rather than the sessions you attended.
Apply for the October certification
Professional study
Orygen Breathwork™ Facilitator Training
An eight-week training in personal breath practice, embodied self-leadership and professional facilitation for women ready to bring breathwork into the work they offer.
You experience the method yourself, practise with others and develop your judgement through observed facilitation and feedback. Screening, consent, scope and integration belong within that preparation.
You develop your own expression of the work, with the skills and discernment to guide within your training. Every participant retains authorship of her experience.
Explore the facilitator trainingThe October cohort
Give your practice room to develop and expand with you.
Begins
Friday, 16th October 2026
Immersion
Three days at Kondalilla Eco Resort, Sunshine Coast, with a live-streamed option.
Then
Seven weeks of live online training.
Explore the curriculum, assessment requirements and application details on the training page.
Internationally accredited
Recognised well beyond this coastline.
Orygen Breathwork™ is an accredited training provider with the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine, an international accrediting body established in 2005. Your certification is held to leading standards of ethics, industry practice and professional conduct, and that recognition travels with you wherever you choose to grow your practice.
Accreditation is also what makes professional indemnity insurance available to you. Insurers need to see a recognised qualification before they will cover you to work with people, and this is the credential that satisfies that requirement.
Proud to be officially IPHM accredited. It means the women who train here walk into their own rooms with a recognised standard behind them.
Coming soon · In the final stages
Orygen Breathwork™ app
Give your practice a place beside the life you are already living.
The app brings together guided breath and meditation journeys, practice timers, sound and reflection, with a dedicated space for facilitators.
A place to return before a client call, after a demanding day or as you prepare to share your work.
Coming soon
Meet your facilitator
I'm Elise Rose.
Founder of Orygen Breathwork™.
Creator of the Orygen Method™.
Author of The Woman After.
I care deeply about women owning their practice. Knowing how to work with their breath in the middle of their own lives.
I know what it takes to change the way you introduce yourself, and to step out of the roles that were prescribed to you.
My work sits at the intersection of breath, identity work and embodied self-leadership.
That language has taken time to arrive at. There have been decisions behind it that changed the shape of my days, my business and what I am available to create.
Read onClose
My genius is reading the body through breath and energy. I recognise what the breath is communicating beneath the spoken story, and I see the belief matrix, emotional charge and lived experience that have converged into the patterns shaping a woman's identity, choices, leadership and capacity to receive.
Fourteen years in education and leadership taught me what responsibility for people actually requires: careful observation, clear communication and considered decisions. Those years still shape the way I teach facilitation.
I spent a long time looking outside myself for the thing that would finally help me meet my own life. What changed it was finding a resource I could return to on my own, inside an ordinary day, without needing anybody else in the room.
The breath is the one instrument that moves with us through every moment. Nobody can breathe for me. At two in the morning, when everything familiar feels out of reach, it is still here, still responding, and it can change when I give it time and attention.
So I built the preparation that makes it possible for another woman to lead it. My body of work integrates transformational breathwork, energy medicine, sound therapy, nervous system practice, systemic and ancestral work, NLP mastery, spiritual coaching and shamanic meditation principles, held within one cohesive methodology.
I observe, reflect, facilitate and train. The woman in front of me determines the meaning of her experience and chooses what follows.
Every conversation with Orygen Breathwork is intended to leave you with more access to yourself than you had before it began.
The method becomes a resource. You remain the source.
Founder, Orygen Breathwork™ · Creator of the Orygen Method™ · International author
The book
The Woman After.
What it actually takes to become the CEO of your life.
A breathwork case study in self-leadership and identity transformation, written through the lived experience and medicine of the founder of Orygen Breathwork™.
Elise Small · International author
Order your copyBegin with a conversation that belongs in your life.
Join a free masterclass, bring your own experience and explore how this work meets you. Your next decision remains yours.
Explore the free masterclassesAt Orygen Breathwork™, we acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of this sacred land, the Gubbi Gubbi people, and pay our deepest respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
We honour the ancestors who have cared for this land and its waters for thousands of years and recognise their enduring connection to earth, sea and sky.
We acknowledge the living wisdom held within these lands and waters and the healing presence they continue to offer.
May we walk gently, with gratitude and respect, guided by those who came before us.
