20-HOUR FOUNDATIONS TRAINING • COSTA RICA
Breathwork Facilitator Training in Costa Rica
Embodied Voice Breathwork® Facilitator Certification
An intimate, highly personalized training with founder Fern Olivia, created for those who learn best through direct mentorship, embodied practice and real-time feedback.
20 HOURS · PERSONAL MENTORSHIP · CERTIFICATION · COSTA RICA
A DIFFERENT WAY TO LEARN
Personal mentorship changes the way you learn.
The 20-hour Embodied Voice Breathwork® Foundations Training is intentionally different from a large-group certification. It is designed for people who learn best through relationship: asking questions as they arise, practicing in real time, receiving individualized feedback and having space to truly integrate what they are learning.
In a 1:1 training, we move at your pace. I can see how you breathe, listen to how you cue, watch how you sequence a session and help you refine the subtle details that make facilitation feel natural, confident and uniquely yours.
In our occasional very small-group trainings, you receive the added experience of practicing with others while still having meaningful personal attention and direct mentorship.
"You won't disappear into the back of a training room. I'll know how you facilitate, where you feel confident, where you hesitate, and what will help you grow.” - Fern Olivia
Together, we can spend more time where you need it most, from breathwork technique and sequencing to music transitions, vocal activation, live sound, somatic practices and the art of holding space.
Come when the timing is right for you.
Personal trainings can be arranged throughout the year based on availability. Rather than fitting your life around predetermined cohort dates, reach out with the dates you're considering and we'll explore what is possible.
THE 20-HOUR FOUNDATIONS CURRICULUM
Learn to create and facilitate the whole journey.
This is a hands-on facilitator training, not simply a study of breathwork techniques. You'll learn how to thoughtfully create, sequence and guide an Embodied Voice Breathwork® experience from beginning to end, while developing the confidence to make the practice your own.
Because the training is personal, we can spend more time on the areas you most want to develop while ensuring you leave with a strong foundation in the essential skills of facilitation.
01 — BREATH
Technique + Foundations
Conscious Connected Breathwork, circular breath, pranayama, breath retention and the foundational breathing techniques used throughout the Embodied Voice Breathwork® method.
02 — SEQUENCING
Build the Journey
Learn how to structure a complete session from arrival and opening through activation, peak experience, down-regulation and integration, including pacing, timing and transitions.
03 — MUSIC
Create the Emotional Arc
Learn how to build intentional playlists, choose music for different stages of a journey, transition between tracks and use rhythm, intensity and spaciousness to support the experience.
04 — VOICE
Cueing + Vocal Activation
Develop confidence using your own voice as a facilitator through clear cueing, vocal activation, toning, intuitive sound and authentic expression. Learn how to invite participants into their own voices without forcing the experience.
05 — LIVE SOUND
Sound as a Facilitation Tool
Explore how singing bowls, harmonium, percussion, mantra and other live sound elements can be woven into a breathwork journey, with space to work with the instruments and practices that genuinely interest you.
06 — SOMATICS + SPACE HOLDING
Facilitate with Presence
Explore nervous-system regulation, trauma-informed facilitation, embodied awareness, somatic integration, contraindications, energetic boundaries and the subtleties of holding a grounded, responsive space for another person.
Technique matters. Presence changes everything.
You'll practice not only what to facilitate, but how to listen, respond, adapt and trust yourself while you're facilitating.
MORE THAN A CLASSROOM TRAINING
Come to Costa Rica. Step inside the work.
There is something different about learning this work in person, away from your everyday routines and surrounded by the rhythm of the Caribbean coast.
Your training unfolds as an immersive retreat experience, giving you time not only to learn the method, but to experience it in your own body, practice what you're learning and integrate between sessions.
We train in intimate, beautiful spaces near the beaches of Punta Uva and Playa Chiquita, surrounded by jungle, ocean air and the sounds of nature. Your days have space around them. There is time to learn deeply, ask questions, practice, rest, swim, reflect and let the work settle.
For personal trainings, dates can often be arranged around your schedule, making it possible to create an experience that feels genuinely supportive rather than rushed.
YOUR TRAINING AT A GLANCE
20 HOURS
Foundations curriculum
1:1 OR VERY SMALL GROUP
Personal mentorship
8 DAYS IN COSTA RICA
Time to learn + integrate
PRIVATE ACCOMMODATION
Included with training*
FLEXIBLE DATES
Personal trainings by request
PERSONAL 1:1 TRAINING
A training created around you.
Choose dates that work for you and receive Fern's full attention throughout your training. Ideal if you learn best privately, want to move at your own pace, have specific areas you want to develop or simply prefer the depth of one-to-one mentorship.
INTIMATE GROUP TRAINING
Learn together without getting lost in the group.
Join one of our occasional very small-group trainings for the intimacy and personal attention of this method with the added experience of practicing, witnessing and learning alongside others.
Next training: September 15–22, 2026 & November 11-18, 2026.
Additional group dates announced periodically.
FROM STUDENT TO FACILITATOR
Leave with more than a certificate. Leave knowing how to guide the work.
By the end of your training, you'll know how to:
01 — CREATE A JOURNEY
Build and sequence a complete Embodied Voice Breathwork® session with a clear beginning, arc and integration.
02 — GUIDE THE BREATH
Confidently cue foundational breathing techniques, recognize common responses and know when to encourage, adapt or slow the practice.
03 — WORK WITH MUSIC + SOUND
Create intentional playlists, transition between musical phases and begin incorporating voice, live sound and instruments in ways that support rather than distract from the journey.
04 — HOLD SPACE
Create a grounded container, communicate clearly, understand foundational contraindications and respond with greater nervous-system and trauma-informed awareness.
05 — GUIDE VOICE + EMBODIMENT
Introduce vocal activation, intuitive sound and somatic practices in ways that invite authentic expression without forcing an experience.
06 — FACILITATE AS YOURSELF
Move beyond simply following a script and begin developing your own pacing, language, presence and authentic facilitation style.
You won't only learn it. You'll practice it.
Facilitation is something you learn by doing. Throughout the training, you'll have opportunities to practice cueing, sequencing, guiding breath, working with music and voice, and holding different parts of a journey while I observe and offer personal feedback.
We can pause, repeat, experiment and refine. If something doesn't feel natural yet, we work with it. If there is an area where you're already strong, we build from there.
That is one of the greatest advantages of learning this work in such an intimate setting: your practice doesn't get lost in the group.
The purpose of this Foundations Training is not to overwhelm you with information. It is to give you a clear, embodied framework you can actually use.
Throughout our time together, you'll move between experiencing the practices yourself, learning how and why they work, watching them demonstrated, and practicing facilitation with real-time guidance and feedback.
By the end of the training, you'll have the foundations to begin guiding Embodied Voice Breathwork® with greater confidence, discernment and your own authentic voice.meaningful together.
YOUR FOUNDATIONS CERTIFICATION
Upon successful completion of the 20-hour training and required practicum, you'll receive your Embodied Voice Breathwork® Foundations Facilitator Certification.
This training establishes your foundation as a facilitator. Like any embodied practice, confidence and mastery continue to deepen through practice, experience and mentorship.
For students who want continued support as they begin facilitating, optional private post-training mentorship is available for session review, case questions, refinement and continued development.
MEET YOUR TEACHER
Learn with the woman who created the method.
I'm Fern Olivia, creator of Embodied Voice Breathwork® and a breathwork facilitator, somatic practitioner, yoga teacher and retreat leader with more than 15 years of experience in breath, embodiment, sound and transformational practice.
Since 2015, I've trained and certified more than 100 facilitators through intimate trainings, international programs and personal mentorship. Over the years, I've taught in Costa Rica, New York, Los Angeles, Australia, Mallorca and Portugal, while continuing to refine the way I teach this work.
Embodied Voice Breathwork® grew from that experience and from my own exploration of the places where breath, voice, sound, nervous-system awareness and embodied intuition meet.
What I love most is teaching the part that can't be learned from a manual.
Technique matters. Safety matters. Understanding the breath matters. And yet some of the most important parts of facilitation are subtler: how you listen to the person in front of you, when you speak and when you leave silence, how you read the energy of a room, how you choose the next piece of music, how you trust an intuitive response while remaining grounded in a clear framework.
These are the things I especially love exploring in personal training because I can watch you facilitate and help you notice what you may not yet see in yourself.
“My intention isn't to teach you to facilitate exactly like me. It's to help you develop the knowledge, presence and confidence to facilitate like you.” - Fern Olivia
ROOTED IN EXPERIENCE
15+ YEARS
Breath, yoga, embodiment + transformational practice
100+ FACILITATORS
Trained and certified since 2015
GLOBAL TEACHING
Costa Rica · New York · Los Angeles · Australia · Mallorca · Portugal
FOUNDER + CREATOR
Embodied Voice Breathwork® + Thyroid Yoga®
TRAINING + LINEAGE
My background spans Hatha and Kundalini Yoga, Rebirthing and Conscious Connected Breathwork, pranayama, sound therapy, somatic practices and energy work. I am also a GPBA-certified Professional Breathwork Practitioner with the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance, with 400+ hours of professional breathwork training. Embodied Voice Breathwork® brings together more than 15 years of study, teaching and lived practice into the method I now share with facilitators.
Who you’re meant to be…
If you feel something stirring as you read this…
A curiosity. A resonance. A quiet knowing. That’s usually how this path begins.
I would be honored to walk it with you
YOUR TRAINING EXPERIENCE
Spacious enough to integrate. Focused enough to go deep.
Your 20-hour Foundations Training unfolds across your stay in Costa Rica, giving us time to move between learning, experiencing, practicing and integrating rather than trying to compress everything into a single intensive weekend.
Training sessions are focused and experiential, with plenty of space around them to rest, enjoy the Caribbean, attend yoga, reflect on what you're learning and let the practices settle into your body.
Because personal trainings are tailored to you, the exact rhythm can shift depending on your experience, interests and how you learn best.
01 - MORNING
Arrive in your body
Optional/daily yoga, personal practice, breakfast and spacious time before training.
02 - LATE MORNING / MIDDAY
Learn + experience
Your primary training session with Fern, weaving theory, technique, demonstration, embodied practice and discussion.
03 - AFTERNOON
Practice + integrate
Depending on the day, this may include facilitation practice, playlist work, sound and voice exploration, journaling or independent integration.
04 - REST OF THE DAY
Let it settle
Swim, walk to the beach, rest, explore the Caribbean coast or simply enjoy having nowhere else you need to be.
Twenty focused hours. Plenty of room around them.
Your 20 training hours are spread intentionally across the immersion rather than packed into long classroom days. This gives you the opportunity to experience a practice, digest it, return with questions and build on it in the next session.
In a personal training, we can also adapt the emphasis as we go. If sequencing clicks quickly but using your voice feels vulnerable, we can spend more time there. If you're already a musician but new to somatic facilitation, your training can reflect that.
Daily yoga is optional.
You're also welcome to join the daily yoga classes offered during your stay, giving you another way to move, ground and integrate alongside the training.
YOUR PERSONAL TRAINING
Your training begins with you.
Every Embodied Voice Breathwork® Foundations Training begins as a personal immersion, created around one student's dates, experience, interests and learning style.
Rather than waiting for a scheduled cohort, you can reach out with the dates that work for you. We'll shape your training around your stay in Costa Rica and move through the Foundations curriculum with the depth, pacing and personal attention that make this experience so different.
Occasionally, when a student is open to sharing the experience, I may invite one or a few additional participants to join those dates. This creates a beautiful opportunity to practice and learn with others while preserving the intimacy and individual attention at the heart of the training.
You don't join a cohort. We create the training around you.
PERSONAL FOUNDATIONS TRAINING
20-Hour Embodied Voice Breathwork®
Facilitator Training + Certification
Starting at $3,500
including private accommodation
20 HOURS
Personalized Foundations curriculum
FLEXIBLE DATES
Created around your Costa Rica stay
1:1 BY DEFAULT
Direct mentorship with Fern
PRIVATE ACCOMMODATION
Included with your immersion
OPEN TRAINING DATES
Prefer to learn alongside others?
Occasionally, a student who has reserved a personal training is open to welcoming additional participants. When this happens, I open those dates to a very small number of students who would love the connection and practice opportunities of learning together.
The experience remains intentionally intimate, with plenty of personal guidance, individual feedback and space for each student's questions and development.
CURRENTLY OPEN
September 15–22, 2026
Costa Rica Foundations Training
November 11–18, 2026
Costa Rica Foundations Training
STUDENT STORIES
What happens when the training becomes your own.
Every student arrives with a different background, intention and relationship with breathwork. Some come ready to begin facilitating, while others are already teachers, coaches or practitioners wanting to deepen the way they guide.
Because the training is personal, no two experiences look exactly the same. These are a few of the ways students have described what stayed with them.
“Rather than shaping students into copies of a method, she supports you in developing your own voice within the work.
This training didn't just add tools to my practice, it refined how I listen, how I guide and how I understand breath as a pathway into the body and beyond. It also gave me much more confidence.”
— ANOUCK HOET
“After I did my community breathwork as my final and saw how I was able to help and light up their souls... it made me realize just how much power and gifts I really have to share.”
“I booked it immediately after searching through many trainings I discovered online because it offered me a solid foundation of breathwork facilitation methods and the confidence to guide others.”
READY WHEN YOU ARE
Tell me what’s calling you to this work.
Because every training begins personally, I love to know a little about you before we choose your dates. Share what is drawing you toward Embodied Voice Breathwork®, what you hope to learn and when you're considering coming to Costa Rica.
I'll personally read your message and be in touch to explore whether the training feels like the right fit and what dates may be possible.