FIRE MODULE - Blossom
ADVANCED BREATHWORK FACILITATOR TRAINING
GROUP FACILITATION, CONNECTION & LEADERSHIP
Working with a group is much more than guiding several people through a breathwork session at the same time.
At the heart of the FIRE Module is the art of connection.
How do we create a space where people can first arrive in themselves, begin to connect with the people around them and gradually become part of a group?
For us, this happens long before the breathing begins.
The FIRE Module explores what it really means to create and hold group spaces. You will learn to understand group dynamics, work with groups of different sizes and develop the awareness needed to respond to both the individual and the wider room.
And then there is leadership.
Leading a group asks you to become visible. To use your voice, make decisions, take responsibility and trust yourself while you are standing in front of a room. It also asks you to discover your own way of facilitating rather than simply repeating what you have seen someone else do.
This is why we call the FIRE Module Blossom.
It is a space to practise, experiment and gradually grow into your own strength as a facilitator.
Breathwork is at the centre of the training, but much of what we explore reaches beyond breathwork. Connection, group dynamics, leadership and the ability to hold a group are skills that can support many different forms of group work.
THE FIRE MODULE CURRICULUM
1. CREATING CONNECTION
- Arriving before doing
- Building awareness of the inner space
- Moving from individual awareness into group awareness
- Creating connection between participants
- Body awareness, movement and relational practices
- Building trust without forcing intimacy
- Understanding how a group begins to form
- Creating a foundation before moving into breathwork
2. STRUCTURING A GROUP SESSION
- Creating the arc of a group breathwork session
- Opening and closing a group process
- Moving from grounding and connection into breathwork
- Giving clear instructions and guidance
- Working with time, pacing and transitions
- Knowing when to stay with something and when to move on
- Creating space for integration within the session
- Adapting structure to the group in front of you
3. GROUP DYNAMICS & READING THE ROOM
- Understanding group dynamics
- Reading the room while staying aware of individuals
- Recognising shifts in the group
- Working with activation, withdrawal and emotional expression
- Knowing where your attention is needed
- Responding when several processes happen at the same time
- Recognising how individual processes influence the wider group
- Balancing individual support with responsibility for the whole room
4. LEADERSHIP & FINDING YOUR OWN WAY
- Stepping into the role of facilitator
- Using your voice and giving clear direction
- Becoming comfortable with being seen
- Making decisions while facilitating
- Staying connected to yourself while leading
- Recognising your own activation and reactions
- Working with uncertainty
- Developing your own facilitation style rather than copying someone else's
5. WORKING WITH A TEAM
- Understanding the role of assistants
- Preparing and briefing your team
- Creating clear roles and responsibilities
- Communication between facilitator and assistants
- Knowing when and how assistants intervene
- Delegating without losing awareness of the room
- Working together during challenging moments
- Creating coherence within a facilitation team
6. MUSIC, MOVEMENT & SOUND
- Creating and working with playlists
- Understanding the musical arc of a session
- Using music to support rather than drive a process
- Working with silence
- Movement and dance as part of group facilitation
- Live music and sound
- Understanding how sound influences the group
- Choosing music, movement and sound with intention
7. SAFETY, BOUNDARIES & INTEGRATION
- Contraindications and safety in group settings
- Consent and personal boundaries
- Recognising activation and overwhelm
- Supporting an individual within a group setting
- Knowing when less may be more
- Responding when someone needs additional support
- Closing emotional and somatic processes
- Integration and post session care
- Understanding your responsibility and scope as a group facilitator
8. RITUAL, CEREMONY & FIRE
- Working with ritual in group spaces
- The elements as part of the training
- Creating meaningful openings and closings
- Intention and ceremony
- Experiencing a traditional sweat lodge ceremony
- Understanding the role of ritual without forcing meaning or experience
- Bringing nature and the wider environment into the group process
THIS IS AN APPLIED AND EXPERIENTIAL TRAINING
You don't learn group facilitation by only talking about it.
Throughout the FIRE MODULE, you will repeatedly step into different roles. You will facilitate, assist, participate, observe and give and receive feedback.
We build the training progressively. You learn something, you practise it, you reflect on what happened, and then you return to the room and try again.
This gives you a place to experiment while there are experienced facilitators around you. A place to notice what happens when you become nervous, when your plan doesn't work, when someone responds differently than you expected, or when you have to make a decision in the moment.
Towards the end of the training, the focus moves increasingly towards you taking the lead and putting what you have learned into practice.
By the time you leave the FIRE MODULE, you have already stood in front of a group and facilitated.
WHO IS THIS TRAINING DESIGNED FOR?
The FIRE Module is designed for people who want to work with groups and understand the very different dynamics that come with holding a group space. It is for those who feel ready to expand beyond 1:1 work and explore what it means to lead, to take responsibility for a room and to trust themselves while doing so.
It is also a deeply personal step. Leading asks you to become visible, to use your voice and to have the courage to bring something forward that is truly your own. This is why we call this module Blossom. It is an invitation to grow into your own strength as a facilitator and to allow your individual way of working to take shape.
YOUR FOUNDATION AS A GROUP FACILITATOR
The FIRE Module is designed to leave you with a stronger sense of yourself as a facilitator and more trust in your capacity to lead. Throughout the training, you are encouraged to explore your own voice, your own way of creating a space and the qualities you naturally bring when working with people.
The intention is not to create facilitators who all work in the same way. It is to give you a strong foundation from which you can develop your own way of leading groups, make clear decisions and stand behind the spaces you create.
You leave the FIRE Module with practical experience, but also with something less tangible: more confidence to take your place, show yourself and bring your work into the world in a way that feels like you.
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PRACTICAL DETAILS
INVESTMENT
Regular investment: €1,111
Super Early Bird: €888 until September 30
Early Bird: €999 until October 31
Payment plans are available.
The training fee does not include food and accommodation. Accommodation at Monte Mariposa is mandatory for the duration of the training.
FORMAT
The FIRE Module is an 8 day in person training in Portugal, combining teaching, experiential learning, personal process and extensive facilitation practice.
The group is intentionally kept small to allow enough space for individual practice, feedback and support throughout the training.
THE TRAINING INCLUDES
8 days of in person training
Teaching and experiential sessions
Supervised group facilitation practice
Individual feedback and reflection
Sweat lodge ceremony
Training materials
DATES & LOCATION
November 29 to December 6, 2026
Monte Mariposa, Tavira, Algarve, Portugal
Approximately 40 minutes from Faro Airport.
BEFORE YOU JOIN
The FIRE Module is an advanced training and assumes that you already have experience with breathwork and working with people.
You do not need to have completed your previous training with SVARA. We welcome facilitators from different schools and backgrounds, and we value the different experiences and perspectives this can bring into the group.
Before joining, we will have a short conversation to understand your previous training and experience, where you are in your work as a facilitator, and whether the FIRE Module is the right next step for you.
We ask for openness to feedback, willingness to participate fully and curiosity about your own process. This is an experiential training, and you will be learning not only through teaching, but through facilitating, receiving, observing and being part of the group yourself.
PREREQUISITES
To join the FIRE Module, you need to have completed the SVARA EARTH Module or another recognised breathwork facilitator training that has given you a solid foundation in working with conscious connected breath.
You should already have an understanding of breathwork facilitation, contraindications and safety, consent and boundaries, and experience supporting people through individual breathwork processes.
If your previous training followed a different approach, that is not a problem. What matters is that you arrive with enough foundation and experience to move into the next level of working with groups.
If you are unsure whether your previous training meets the prerequisites, contact us and we can explore it together.