“I am utterly enamored with the transformative journey I’ve experienced through the Sacred Breath Academy. This breathwork certification has exceeded my expectations, not only enriching my personal growth but profoundly impacting my role as a holistic leadership coach. Having spent over three years guiding other women, this program added an extraordinary layer of depth to my understanding of self, leadership, the body and its wisdom.

Kaya, your dedication to this work is palpable, and it radiates through the comprehensive and powerful content of this training. The depth and thoroughness of the program have instilled in me a profound trust in my ability to lead breathwork sessions with a level of confidence I never thought possible. Your legacy is not just something you speak of; it’s something you live and breathe, and I feel deeply honored to be a part of this lineage.

This journey has not only empowered me to establish my own business but has remarkably enhanced the services I offer my coaching clients, setting me apart in my field and contributing to the success of my practice. On a more spiritual note, the In-Person Facilitator Intensive was an indescribable experience. I cannot really find words that do justice the deep shifts I’ve undergone. ‘Life-changing’ and ‘transformative’ both fall short in capturing the full spectrum of this experience.

This multifaceted journey has been the most challenging, unraveling, life-affirming, heart-opening, and identity-shifting adventure. It prompted a profound questioning of my core self, desires, and the reasons behind playing small when there’s a fire burning inside me, yearning for a different experience of life, relating, being, and helping others. Sacred Breath Academy is not just a training; it’s a profound journey that has awakened me to the magic, mystery, my purpose, ancestry and depths of humanity.”

“Participating in the Sacred Breath Academy Facilitator Training has been an immensely transformative journey. It’s evident that this program is meticulously crafted and intentionally designed, not only by the caliber of individuals it attracts but also by the profound inner work it catalyzes. Unlike the rote learning of traditional education, this training invites spaciousness, along with the courage and openness to delve deeply within oneself. The In-Person Intensive was particularly impactful for me, serving as one of the most profound experiences I’ve encountered. Kaya fully embodies sacred feminine leadership, cultivating a sacred space brimming with healing, connection, and empowerment. What resonates deeply with me is how this practice guides us back to the core of personal empowerment and sovereignty, reminding us of our inherent strength and potential.”

“I truly can’t speak highly enough of Kaya and SBA. Through industries (both breathwork & coaching) that seem filled with spiritual bypassing and an over-focus on ‘pleasure’ without actually journeying into one’s depths first, as well as the overfocus on material wealth and achieving the ‘next milestone’ or ‘xK months’, I have been led to unfollow and move away from many of the leaders that I once saw as expanders.

Yet SBA has remained in the highest integrity and Kaya is truly my greatest expander, for experientially-based wisdom, for breathwork & feminine embodiment, and for conscious wealth & business. I am so grateful to be in Kaya’s containers as they have taught me SO much, on every level— physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically, and beyond.

Every module I worked through in the Sacred Feminine Alchemy Training had my soul and womb and heart screaming “YES! This is the work! This is it!” The words, the wisdom, the message, all of it just spoke to me in ways that no other course or teacher has. There are no words to describe how grateful I am for this work, and it is no coincidence that this year, alongside this training, has been the most beautifully-unraveling and wildly-transformative year yet.”

“I was first introduced to Conscious Connected Breathwork from the Sacred Breath Lineage in June 2022 and it changed my life so profoundly that I joined the Breathwork Facilitator Program less than 6 months later. To engage this work is one of the most transcendental, transformative and healing experiences... but to train and become a facilitator is beyond. And the humility of becoming someone who is allowed to share this powerful healing with the world is something I am honored to be a part of. I am a firm believer in the power of the breath and I am ready to shout it from the rooftops and share it with everyone.

I have felt the transformation in myself and seen it in others who have actively opened to the breath, and for that I am forever grateful. The thoroughness and unwavering trauma-informed approach of this lineage is second to none, and I am humbled to be part of this global breathwork community.”

“I attended Kaya’s Breath Immersion at a Women’s Gathering in England this year. I had never done anything like it before and it was a deeply powerful experience for me. What came up was a release relating to a direct experience (of my son’s birth), something I have been doing a lot of healing work around, but I was not really able to access it to that degree prior to the breathwork.

I felt profoundly changed afterward, and I am able to be with the pain of that experience now in a way that I could not before. The experience was also followed by a deep feeling of warmth, love and connection.

I just wanted to take the time to thank Kaya. There has been such a distinct shift after that experience for me, and I feel like I am able to be myself again- a part of me I have not known for a long time. I also wanted to commend Kaya on the integrity and centredness with which she holds herself. Holding space for such a powerful session for so many people is a remarkable thing.”

“This Sacred Breath Academy teachings are world class and have been transformational and life-changing for me. The knowledge I have learned is timeless and has even helped me in my personal and professional life. This is the best learning investment I have ever made.”

“On a practical note: I started my SBA training in the middle of a huge life transition as I’d been working in Investment Banking for 10 years and had finally found the courage to follow what the deepest part of me was asking for. Three years into it, and life couldn’t be more different from where I started.

The SBA training led me on a journey I never thought I’d follow... It gave me the courage to set up my own business, to work with the power of the breath + other modalities to support others in their own journeys of becoming. The amazing thing about having trained with SBA is that it offers me a way of really deepening the work I offer my clients, and if I’m honest, I think it’s one of the things that really sets me apart and has supported me in building a profitable practice! It was honestly one of the best things I’ve ever had the courage to commit to. 

On a more spiritual note: I have been CRACKED OPEN in the most beautiful of ways... It’s hard to put into words what I’ve experienced over the past 9 days of our In-Person Facilitator Intensive. Because there aren’t any words that can do it justice.

Life-Changing. Paradigm-Shifting. Magical... to try to translate it.

All valid, in and of themselves, yet they fall so short of the enormity of the experience and, if anything, feel a little too quaint. And then there is a part of me that still wants to question how on earth it’s even possible to have experienced what I did last week through... breathing alone.

But down in the depths of my being, I know it to be true.

This work/training/journey over the last two years of my life has been the most challenging, unraveling, life-affirming, heart-opening, identity-shifting... An opportunity to really question who I really was at my core. What it was I really wanted from life. Why it was that I found myself playing small and following the crowd when I knew in my heart that there was a fire burning hotter than the sun inside of me, desperate for something else: A different experience of life. A different experience of relating. A different experience of being. A different experience of humanity.

I now see it as no coincidence that I was guided to Sacred Breath Academy in the very middle of my turmoil. Something bigger than me led me toward Kaya’s work. If it had been my ego making the call, it would have said... “nooo way, that looks far too woo woo, far too ‘goddess vibes’, far too spiritual.”

But deep down, I knew.

I knew that in order to come home to myself, I needed to be held in a container of softness. Of being. An anchor of femininity. I needed to be guided by a teacher who, lovingly, held me accountable to a version of myself that, at that time, only she could see.

I feel so incredibly honored to somehow have ‘stumbled’ across this path. So incredibly grateful to somehow have woken up to the magic and mystery of life. To have woken up to the depth of humanity.

Kaya, this work has changed my entire way of existing on this Earth. To you, I am forever grateful and honored to call you a friend. To all my fellow ‘breathers’, you’re magical.”

“It’s taken me a little while to integrate, and put into words the metamorphosis that has occurred in my life since studying under SBA and the Sacred Breath Method. It was an absolute deep cleansing of my entire physical body, psyche, emotional body and nervous system. It’s been my whole life that I have been seeking what I found here.

I was led home in the most beautiful, expansive, and compassionate way. With every journey, with every breath, I was shown the absolute coherent perfection of the Divine— that which is our truest nature.

At SBA, I was led, layer by layer, into the deepest aspects of myself. I have reclaimed, integrated and am embodying my most authentic essence and voice because of this entire experience... The absolute safety that SBA honors in every way has taught me how to hold an impeccable space for others, as well as for myself. I am so proud to work with a lineage that honors somatic safety over all else. I would never be able to put into words the alchemy that transformed inside me and has changed the course of my life forever.

I now have a true connection to the ultimate power and purpose within myself. I have the tools and education to lead others into their subconscious with the utmost integrity and care. I am forever grateful for SBA and for their holding such a standard of impeccability. Because of this, I had no choice but to rise to my heights. I’m in deep reverence to what has transpired in the last several months and I will spend the rest of existence honoring the infinite well of light and information that has been revealed to me, as me.”

“I am absolutely in love with the woman I have become over the course of the training. The content in this training goes ABOVE & BEYOND my expectations for a breathwork certification. And it has elevated my leadership to a level I didn’t even know was possible! Wow! The fact that this training is so thorough and extensive has me leaving this certification with so much trust in my ability to lead Breathwork. The content in this program is so powerful and amazes me!

Kaya, you can tell you pour your heart and soul into this and you are truly walking, living, and breathing a legacy that you will leave on this planet forever! I am beyond grateful and honored to be a part of this lineage and I feel it was the most soul-aligned choice I have made in my career. I highly recommend anyone that wants to be an industry leader to join this certification program because you will be far more trained and equipped to hold the most powerful space and facilitate healing containers with so much confidence to bring your gifts to the container. I loved how we were encouraged to bring our own flavor to the group journeys during the Facilitator Intensive because it really showed how accepting and empowering this lineage is. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and the depths of my soul!”

“I’ve put off writing this testimonial because every time I sit down to bring words to the page, nothing in the spoken or written word can begin to express the magnitude of the Sacred Breath Academy training.

To begin, Kaya is the first mentor I’ve ever had (in my over decades-long devotion) who truly embodies divine feminine leadership. She seamlessly intertwines ancient wisdom to a modern day context without making it about her. It’s as if an ancient elder has settled into a young female body, forming a magnificent harmony of sage wisdom and beauty.

Because of the sacred container she created, I felt safe, held, and seen. This allowed for the most transformational journey of my life.

Week after week, the breathwork journeys dropped me into deep levels of my mental and emotional landscape, freeing me to rise into higher levels of consciousness and connection to Source. The training is an exquisite metamorphosis into purity, unconditional love, and divine wisdom. It goes beyond the physical, beyond the emotional, beyond the explicable to the deepest recesses of intuitive power and knowing.

My life as I know it will never be the same.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.”

“Words cannot begin to describe the breadth of this body of work, nor this experience as a whole. In the spring of 2020, I took my first steps on this voyage with Sacred Breath Academy - one which would usher me into a lucid encounter with all of me. Looking back at the transformation that has taken place over these past years of study, I am overjoyed.

Kaya inhabits her work fully, which makes it inevitable that we do the same to truly honour this lineage. It has been a great privilege to walk this road. The people I have met through this experience; the depths of intimacy, integrity, and beauty it has brought into my life; and the absolute pleasure it will be to continue to bring the breath - in this form, in this way - to others are all irreplaceable components of this certification process. I will attempt to wrap the span of my gratitude into four words: I am deeply grateful.”

“About two years ago, I experienced my first breathwork journey here on the island of Koh Samui, Thailand, where I live. I was curious about the world of breathwork, and excited to see what it might unfold for me. The experiences, though forceful and exhausting, still brought an enjoyable feeling of reset. However, there was something about these sessions that felt very surface-level to me. The instructor usually opened the sessions with the catchphrase, “Let’s get high on our own supply!”. As that was the intention set by the facilitator, that was what I experienced: a temporary feeling of a clear, energized high. I don’t mean to discount or devalue my experience at these sessions, as it was my entry point into the world of breathwork, which I am deeply grateful for. However, I was curious about what other paths and styles of breathwork there might be. I wanted to see where breathwork might take me when done in an environment where I felt safe, held, and able to express myself.

Over the next year and half, I tried several different breathwork workshops with different facilitators. They were all quite similar: male facilitators, forceful breathing techniques, large groups, held in public spaces, shockingly cold ice baths afterwards. I enjoyed every session and was grateful for the boost of energy and clear headspace that it put me in, albeit temporarily. However, I continued to wonder if there wasn’t another side to breathwork. I had read about and listened to accounts of people’s breathwork journeys that deepened their connections with themselves and gave them space to heal. I felt that there must be other ways to connect to your breath, but I hadn’t found those ways yet.

After trying breathwork journeys with many different facilitators, I thought that perhaps this was just what was available for me through breathwork; physical discomfort that eventually led to a temporary, clear mind and a nice feeling of reset.

A few months later, I met my friend Shahrazad (a SBA Facilitator) through a Women’s Circle on Koh Samui. She mentioned that she had recently completed a Breathwork Facilitator Training course with Sacred Breathwork Academy, and she was looking for people to participate in her practice journeys for her certifications. She described the style of breathwork she had learned; how you could use the breath to gently bring your body into an altered state where it felt safe enough to release things it has been holding on to. This sounded so different from the breathwork I had experienced up until this point, and I reached out to Shaz soon after to tell her I would love to be led by her in a breathwork journey.

To say that the first Sacred Breathwork Journey I had was significant in my life would be an understatement. For the first time, I experienced my mind completely stepping out of the way and allowing my body to move and express freely. I watched as my body intuitively moved through and released emotions and sensations I never even knew I was holding on to. I am not typically a person who becomes quickly comfortable and expresses freely; and yet here I was in the living room of someone I had just met, inviting these waves of emotion to express through me. I was amazed and in awe of Shaz’s ability to make me feel safe and held. She created a space in which I was able to let down all my usual guards and allow myself to open and be fully vulnerable. Out of this vulnerability came a deep sense of power and love that I have so rarely touched before in my life.

Each successive breathwork session with Shaz only confirmed what I already intuitively knew; that this style of breathwork is an incredible, powerful gift that keeps on giving. As I continue to experience Sacred Breathwork journeys, I can feel myself shifting and changing in ways that are difficult to describe. I feel that I am removing layers and conditioning that have shifted me away from my natural state of presence and peace. I felt pulled towards Sacred Breathwork in the same way I have felt pulled toward other significant decisions and events in my life. Each time I made one of these decisions, it was as if I was being pulled toward them like a magnet. Logically, they were all choices that deviated from what I was taught growing up was a “productive” and “successful” life. And yet, each time I trusted that pull and made the leap, I moved into a more joyful and aligned version of myself. Because of the power and depth of this session, I went on to take the Facilitator Training to offer this work myself.”

“Wow. Wow. Wow.

I’m still unsure how to put into words what the past 9 days of in-person intensive with Sacred Breath Academy has meant to me. I’m going to give it a try anyway. When I first started this training to become a Breathwork Facilitator 2 years ago, never in a million years could I’ve imagined the impact it was going to have on my life.

The only thing I knew was the clear calling I got to start teaching this work during one of my first Breathwork journeys ever in Cusco, Peru in November 2019 - and the full-body “YES! when I came across Sacred Breath Academy 2 months later. My intuition was strong, crystal clear - my ego was frightened and scared as hell. Soon I found out why...

During the more than 30+ Breathwork journeys that followed I experienced past-life trauma. I saw myself being killed, abused & betrayed as a beautiful, powerful healer - a priestess - in many past lives. Over and over again. The journeys were deep, challenging and, at times, brought me to my edges. It wasn’t always an easy process. Yet this can be a part of the alchemy required to reclaim our fully liberated self.

Even though past-life trauma had never crossed my mind, I felt in every fiber of my being that what I experienced was true. And by clearing these past traumas out of my body and field, I soon began reclaiming my voice, my sensuality & sexuality. I awakened my kundalini energy, healing powers, and step by step, felt lighter and lighter. All the pieces of the puzzle were coming together. The only way out was through...

The past 9 days of our intensive have been the icing on the cake of 2 years of incredible soul transformation. Being together with a group of 16 beautiful souls (soul fam!) on Mayan land in Tulum, Mexico, journeying into our sacred depths every day together felt like it came full circle. It was on the 3rd day that I received a big breakthrough and experienced the first moments of reclaimed bliss, joy and elation (the “cosmic giggle”) in a Breathwork journey.

It felt like coming home.

I’m still integrating this deep work— the transformation & shifts that happened last week— but what I’d like to say for now is this: I’m in awe, I’m in tears, I’m in joy. I’m in deep reverence for the magnitude and power of breath. Finding the words to describe those 9 days in the jungle all while continuing to crystallize my experiences into my reality, I get an overwhelming feeling of gratitude.

Before Mexico, I felt pretty damn solid spiritually and personally, but still wondered where did my “not so great” traits about myself come from? or why I held so much armoring around different parts of myself or my body? And how funny I thought I was so ‘solid’! Breath has a funny way of gentle sneaking in all the answers and making clear those questions you’ve ever asked yourself.⁣

To all my beautiful fellow breathers— I am bowing to you for your bravery, your rawness & realness. For the deep soul connection, vulnerability and safe haven we created over the past 9 days.

To you Kaya— I feel forever grateful. For you holding me in the most tender of spaces, seeing me when no one else really could, and being such an anchor and light on this path. This was, in earthly terms: fucking amazing. In kundalini terms: reawakening. And in soul terms: pure liberation.

I now feel unstoppable and I am so excited to see what else will unfold on this beautiful soul path called life!”

“I am not new to breathwork overall and I am actually a facilitator myself. I was trained in the method of inhale and exhale exclusively through the mouth. This past year, however, I’ve cut back on doing sessions because I knew something was missing from the practice. When I learned about the Sacred Breath Method and the deep, intentional, process + being so trauma-informed - I knew in my core this is what I had to experience - and oh my goodness, I’m beyond happy I did. The amount of communication and education for everyone before the session even began was impressive- they even made sure everyone got to practice the technique and be coached if needed. The journey itself felt so safe and gentle, being given the time and space to process whatever needed to come through was amazing. It was the first time I actually physically felt my body move to release energy blockages... I typically lie very still in other breathwork sessions. I appreciated that we were given more time to integrate toward the end of the session and not feel prematurely rushed out after such a powerful journey. And the optional time for us all to be together and be witness to what our experiences were, sharing in circle, was incredibly powerful. I will absolutely be recommending these sessions to everyone I know! ”

“BREATH MEDICINE

When the world went weird, I started my breathwork adventure. Week by week, layer by layer, the unconscious became conscious. I couldn’t hide from myself anymore. I didn’t want to. I learnt to breathe again. To trust myself. To hold myself. To acknowledge every part of myself, the dark and the light.

Coming to Mexico for the in-person intensive to dive deeper with my soul family to witness and receive me, has changed my life forever. After my first journey I was sick for 24 hours— it hit me hard and brought up a lot. I sat and I cried. Yet my sisters were there to hold me in my pain and grief. This is how we heal. <3

The beauty of open souls coming together for the first time on sacred Mayan land, with powerful energies for alchemy, healing, activation and expansion. Just wow... Throughout this process, things have been shaken. Old beliefs have stirred. Yet here we welcomed our triggers into the space. We spoke our fears. Our thoughts. Our ego. Held our inner child with compassion. And that is how we opened up to so much growth, self-acceptance and love.

The magic available to us through our own breath, is something I’m here to share. It’s a lost art, a deep deep reclamation. A shedding of conditioning, ‘shoulds’, ‘coulds’… all the bullshit. To reveal simply WHAT IS...

The truth.

After finding myself in a deep process of grief, breath by breath, layer by layer... I’ve finally come home.

The things I’ve witnessed over my nine days in the jungle are held so deeply in my heart. I’m so grateful I get to do this work and so honoured to start sharing it again when I’m back home. Thank you soul family for sharing yourselves with me. For holding me. For loving me, even in my darkest triggers.

Thank you to Kaya, the Founder of Sacred Breath Academy for your incredible leadership throughout this two year journey and especially during our time in the jungle. You’ve helped me love myself in my messy process of healing and growth, reminding me of who I’m here to be. <3”

“HOLY WOW, WHAT AN HONOR TO FINISH THIS CERTIFICATION.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this experience. I had NO CLUE it would take me on the journey it did. Through the journey of de-numbing I also had NO IDEA how much I was TURNING ON in myself!

This process has shifted things in me that I didn’t even know needed shifting, showing me parts of myself I didn’t even know existed or were available! And on the other side of my pain, I found my most pleasurable, innocent, playful, liberated self who no longer feels numb or ashamed of sensations in her body! The amount of ALIVENESS I have unlocked in my being now courses through me!

There has been a whole lot of grief, a whole lot of anger, a whole lot of fear and unworthiness as I’ve worked through trauma and the layers in my system. Yes it’s a journey of healing your nervous system, de-numbing and de-armoring your feeling body... And yes working with your stress responses, patterns, and uncovering hidden aspects can be painful. Yet on the other side of it, it’s equally if not even more pleasurable, playful and FUN AS HELL! And THAT isn’t spoken about enough! Through this process, I have found a deep love for my body, being and total self!

Every step forward of my journey post-training, I come into an even deeper appreciation for the energy behind SBA. I knew on some level what I was learning was important, but every month after graduation, the essence of the teachings sink even deeper into my being and the AHAS just keep coming!

Deciding to do my Breathwork Facilitator Training with SBA is honestly the gift that keeps on giving! And it’s even sweeter I didn’t expect it to ENDLESSLY GIVE like this. The energy behind the entire Academy has impacted my entire being on deep deep levels. Not only did I find a new way of communing with my breath and body in more sacred ways, but my entire relationship with life and everything in it has changed for the better!”

“As a man, to be held in the warm embrace of the Divine Feminine is the greatest gift in this world. The Love, the power, the acceptance, and the grace of her presence is beyond what any words can ever hope to say.

Throughout this past week at the SBA intensive, I have surrendered to the deepest depths of my existence. I have gone through the darkest of nights and sat with my biggest fears, feeling it all, allowing it all, opening to it all. I laid down the urge to control, to hide, to run. I laid down my life to the altar of the unknown, knowing that I would die into this abyss. And in this Sacred Death, I found Eternal Life. In this Sacred Death, I found God in the Divine Mother of All. She had been waiting for me, calling me Home to my Heart all along. All is forgiven, for every obstacle, every pain, every trauma, and every moment of heartache in my Life was only ever calling me Home to myself.

By going into these depths with courage, faith, and full surrender, I found a Love beyond measure. In allowing my Heart to crack open, I allowed my Love to blossom. To be held in the warm embrace of the Divine Feminine, the Great Mother, the Birther of all of Creation, is the greatest gift that I could have ever received. I am ready to claim my power. I am ready to claim my leadership. I am ready to claim my voice. I am ready to be seen for all that I am. I am ready to lay my life down to Spirit and go wherever it leads me...

Death (of what was) is the Road to Awe.

At the end of the day, there is only Love. This Love lives inside each and every single one of us, waiting to be realized, but you must be the one to allow it in. I am beyond grateful for Sacred Breath Academy, and am so honored to share this sacred lineage with others. I am beyond grateful for the Soul Family that I have met in this training— these beautiful souls who have journeyed with me for many lifetimes. I Love each and every single one of you.

It is my deepest Honor and Privilege to dedicate my Life to this Divine Feminine energy, to uplift Her Spirit, and to allow Her the space to blossom into her radiant Beauty. I am ready to make Her proud.

I have no more questions in this Life.

Only what’s next...”

“This training has been the most amazing, soul-exposing, paradigm-shifting experiences of my life. I remembered so many truths, activated, initiated and realigned to my potential. It was magic!

Kaya, you are one of the most phenomenal teachers I’ve ever had the pleasure of sitting with. You embody truth, wisdom and purpose in a way that is authentic and healing to witness. You did more than teach breath medicine to me, you taught me that there is more than enough space in this world for me. You are a true leader, activator and collective healer. I am so grateful!

The training that I attended in Bali happened to be all women. To my darling sisters that I took the journey with— I could not have chosen a better group women to walk this path with. I am so inspired by your courage to go deep and thank each and everyone one of you for holding me and allowing me to hold you. We wove a sacred web of light this week, ready to blanket the world. I thought I knew what breathwork was before (and to a degree I did)- but now I know what it REALLY is...

I’m bringing back the medicine: Soul medicine. Shadow-alchemizing, path-initiating, womb-clearing medicine.

Through this experience, I have learned that the only way out is through and when you gift yourself the presence of conscious breath you are gifting yourself conscious life.”

“Sacred Breath Academy changed my life. The shifts that occurred during the Facilitator Training were undeniable and powerful. Going through the process was challenging yet beautiful, all within a safe container led by the ethereal Kaya. Kaya guided us through a deeply transformative week and allowed each of us to come into our own power. I reclaimed forgotten parts of myself and rediscovered a sense of self-worth that I thought I had lost forever. I now feel ready to hold space for others and feel incredibly passionate about sharing this work with as many people as possible.

Kaya, I am in deep gratitude of your soul. I don’t think my words can fully describe the enormity of the shifts that have happened. You are the ultimate space-holder and I feel confident and powerful because of your encouragement and compassion towards me. I am forever grateful to you and will take the Breathwork torch and set Canada ablaze.

If you are looking for something that will activate a huge paradigm shift in your life, then understand that by reading my words, you are not here by accident and that you are ready to come into your higher potential.”

“This training has been the most powerful, transformational, life-changing investments of myself I have ever undertaken. I started the process to further my personal spiritual growth and practices and to incorporate Breathwork into this. My desire for Breathwork was for personal integration at first, and then I literally wanted to know everything about how it works and why, which is how I ended up enrolling for the SBA Facilitator Training.

I remembered that when I was little I would always ask. “Why”? I would question everything, but in my era this was not met with favor or encouragement. We were always answered with, because I said so, or worse. I was the “naughty”, “disobedient”, “annoying” child who was whipped into silence. Yet the course material and personal work allowed the organic WHY to come back, and I finally felt entitled, safe and free to question everything. What a metamorphosis that led to. It opened up worlds of discovery, source, eminence, energy, understanding, antiquity and more.

The course material is well thought out and deliberate in having the student embark on a deep descent into self. To meet with every edge, shadow, nook and cranny. To embrace all parts of who we are and why we are this way. Nothing is off limits and every edge is encouraged for full understanding and human growth. This leads to a greater awakening and comprehension of what we are— a Soul... A living, divinely-intelligent, spirited creation. Everything we ever wish to know is found in simply feeling, thinking, being and breathing. And when we forget, we simply evoke the breath.

There is a dynamic shift in our inner and outer worlds when we educe the ancient art form of conscious breathing/breathwork. For me, going through the teaching has had a profound impact on all aspects of my life, especially in relating to others, whether they be intimate relationships, family, friends, work, social. They all feel different now as I have become more settled and in-tuned to my connectedness with all that is. To be able to honestly say for the first time in my life with confidence- I am happy, I am content, and if I do falter, I simply go back to the breath and let its intelligence, its wisdom, power and love bring me back home.

No amount of reading self-help books or attending workshops that deal with personal growth or repairing mental health can compare with the loving guidance and wisdom of Sacred Breath Academy’s teachings. To be able to help, support and facilitate for anyone needing guidance on their own journey is a bonus of this training. I am beyond grateful for simply finding myself and the awareness that we are a part of an explicitly wondrous universe. I am humbled by my experience. I am fearless in stepping into my future.”

“How do I begin to articulate the magnitude and significance of this work? Because it is the most empowering work I have come across in this lifetime. To know oneself beyond the constructs of the mind is the great work of BEING human. I now know the profoundness of this life experience. I now know where my true unshakable masculine presence resides—in the BEING. And Breathwork is that modern-day path.

Sacred Breath Academy is the world standard. I am in deep gratitude and reverence for this transmission of truth. Kaya has crafted a true masterpiece of science intertwined with ancient wisdom. The Sacred Breath Academy has provided me, and many others, a container for uncovering true authentic purpose, embodied divine empowerment, soul community, and self-realization. We cannot do this work alone. The world is awaiting for each and every one of us to uncover and re-claim our sacred gifts within.

This year has been a true homecoming to my timeless, formless, and spaceless inner knowing. I no longer need to seek the world for answers as I have come to know a place where all questions are simultaneously dissolved. “I am” was what I have been seeking all along. As someone who has dedicated his life towards truth, expanding human potential, and self-realization I feel as though Sacred Breathwork was that catalyst for me to trust and embody my divine nature. I now know it was through the quintessential feminine principles of softening, allowing, receiving, and welcoming (all parts of this human experience) that I have come to know the depth of my masculine essence as pure awareness. Breath by breath, I have learned to embrace and allow my humanity as I have come to know myself from a deeper place within.

Sacred Breath Academy is a gateway to our embodied divinity. In a world full of ideas and concepts about awakening, the breath, combined with pure loving awareness, is the straightest path towards waking up to the truth. From the depths of my heart, thank you SBA for this safe container to explore all parts of me. This work has the potential to heal the world. Yet these words can merely point towards the immaculate nature of our being. It is up to us (and the hand of grace) to CHOOSE this inevitable path.

This list could go on and on... But here are my most power takeaways: - I was what I was looking for all along. - Pure being is the supreme medicine for myself / the world. - Trust my connection with the divine and know who I am in truth. - The breath is the master teacher that intertwines all layers of our being. - Emotions are intelligent life forces guiding us back to full connection. - There is a higher mind that I can now trust and an inner gnosis that is here without effort. - I will dedicate my life guiding people to the heart of their own BEING.

You all have done an exceptional job to provide a truly amazing experience. To fit all this work into the realm of Breathwork is truly incredible. I am in awe of the completeness of this work. Thank you for providing a container that combines divinity, humanness, and truth. Being able to experience life without going to the mind for answers for 6+ months was the most potent medicine for me. Breath is truly the master teacher. And I am honored to walk this path with Kaya and the SBA family.

So much gratitude! In awe of this whole thing called life :) One Love”

“‘The shadow is the unexplored terrain of the self; a seemingly ominous place that actually holds the treasured gold we seek. Through creating intimacy with our shadow, we find the healing, integration, empowerment and liberation that we yearn for on the deepest levels.’ — Kaya Leigh, Founder Sacred Breath Academy

This past year working with SBA has been an exploration into myself, one where I’ve come to accept parts of myself and my shadow that I’ve denied and suppressed throughout my life. A cathartic exploration that brought forth many tears, painful memories, mental anguish and spiritual awakening I hadn’t previously known.

I recognized how hard I can be on myself and instead of ignoring or running away from these thoughts - the ones that dictated that I was disorganized, unresponsive, careless, disruptive, lazy, amateur, abandoned, afraid - I sat compassionately with them, as painful as they were, and listened. What I discovered was my own seeking for control and worthiness that made my perception of the world cracked, separated and judged.

I realized that this seeking ignored the beautiful nature of contrast, surrender, connectivity and curiosity that is within everything. These disregarded truths soon became an invitation to open up and go deeper.

Through this inward journey of acceptance, I felt the hard shadows and edges of my being transform into luminous crystals of unimaginable worth and love. This work is far from complete and I’ll never reach a final destination, but I find joy in how far I have come and look forward to each moment along the path.”

“Eeeee after a year of studying the Sacred Breath Method and continually surrendering to the most profound journey within, I graduate with these beautiful souls!

I’ve spent the last week uniting with 18 amazing beings in the name of love, vulnerability, radical self-reliance and infinite possibility as we completed the last 50 hours of our Sacred Breath Academy Facilitator Training.

Now only did we learn the impeccable art of creating a intentional, ceremonial and trauma-informed container in which conscious connected breathwork can safely thin the veil between matter and spirit, but we truly experienced the magnitude of this method within ourselves.

I went to places within myself that I still don’t know how to put into words. I allowed breath to crack me wide open, again and again and again, illuminating all of the repressed textures that were still dimming my light. With the indescribable love and safety of those around me, I went right there, right into the depths of the deepest wounds, memories, belief structures and self-abandoning habits that were driving my life from my subconscious. I breathed into them, I dismantled them, I integrated so much wisdom and I reclaimed so much of my power.

To Kaya, Alexandra and the beautiful souls I took this journey with, thank you for showing me the infinite potential of the love that we can experience on this Earth plane and the sisterhood that is possible. Thank you for your love, safety, your light and your willingness to show up beside me. I’ll hold your wisdom close to my heart for my whole lifetime. 🌹”

“How can I put words to something that is ineffable? How can I describe something indescribable? How can the fragility and limitations of language accurately portray something that can only be felt and experienced? Throughout this training, and especially at the Intensive in Florida, I have shed so many layers of what no longer was serving me.

I was given the tools and the space to feel safe enough to explore the depths of my Being and in doing so and recover parts of myself that I did not even know were lost. In doing so, I realized that all parts of me are welcome and all parts of me deserve Love unconditionally. All is forgiven for all is perfect as it is. The healing that has taken place, and that will continue to take place, in my life because of Breathwork is so immense and so empowering. To know that I have all the answers inside of me and that I am always guided and protected by the Universe is such an amazing gift to receive.

As a man, the clarity it has given me on my role in this life is something I am in awe of everyday. To be embodied in my Divine Masculine presence, rooted deep into the Earth with strength, and the eternal commitment to Love and to the Divine Feminine flow of creation is the reason why I wake up every morning. To know in the core of my Being that I am a Divine Warrior of Love has given me the strength and courage to do what Spirit calls me to do in this life in service to the continued growth and creation of the Divine Feminine. To show up fully every day with no doubt as to my level of commitment has given me a renewed sense of peace, purpose, and authenticity that I have never known before. It is with this deep Innerstanding that I move throughout my days now.

And it is the greatest honor and privilege I can imagine to share this work with others. To show others that they contain all the answers within themselves, that they are whole and complete and Loved exactly as they are, and that they are safe to explore the mystery of their own existence and reclaim all parts of themselves. I feel this training has equipped me to be able to hold a powerful container for healing, growth, and expansion to occur in others. I also know that this is just the beginning and that the best is yet to come as I continue to ride this Fibonacci spiral all the way to its infinite end.

There are no words that can accurately describe the experience of this training. To truly understand, it must be felt and experienced. When I think of the Sacred Breath Academy and of this training, what fills me is the deepest gratitude and reverence for the work that they do. I am filled with the deepest gratitude for my own life as well and the many twists and turns along my journey that has led me to this moment, where I am able to share this work with others.”

“I cleared so much with this Breathwork Journey around both being able to breathe fully and receive life fully, as they were interconnected. Mid-way through the journey, I was struggling to breathe through my nostrils (they were inflaming and clogging), and it suddenly became such an effort to fully fill my lungs through my nostrils.

However, I stayed present with the breath and leaned into the the pain to then have it guide me into a huge amount of unprocessed emotion around a subconscious narrative of not deserving to receive life, just as I was not able to receive the breath in that moment. The nostril blockage was thus only a metaphor for a deeper belief I was holding within me. I then traveled back into the underlying memories and imprints behind this un-serving belief and, found so much grief and feelings of unworthiness.

After opening myself to allow these textures in, without resistance or judgment, and fully bringing them into my heart space, these mantras came: “I am worthy of this life”, “I am safe to breathe and to be here”, “I deserve this breath”, and “I receive my life fully”... So much emotion was pouring through me, yet I kept choosing to open my heart to it!

Then, miraculously, my nostrils began to open back up and it felt like my every cell was breathing and I was receiving more breath and life-force than I ever had before in my life... I felt breath as God, Divine Consciousness, filling me and it was so profoundly beautiful. I found myself saying “thank you” after each exhale, with so much gratitude for the miracle of this life and the honour of each breath. Ever since this experience, I receive my breath and relationship with it so very differently.

I feel reborn.”

“My heart has been blown wide open again⁣⁣. The magic I’ve experienced within my Breathwork Intensive in the Mexican jungle is unparalleled.⁣⁣ I’ve witnessed deep healing and vulnerability, the fullest and rawest expression in myself and my SBA family. ⁣⁣We’ve cried together, laughed together and danced together. ⁣⁣I’ve been held, loved, supported and honoured.⁣⁣ I’ve been fully seen and witnessed in my beauty and my messiness. ⁣⁣I’ve moved through deep pain and experienced ecstatic pleasure. ⁣⁣I’ve dropped deeper into my body & my feminine expression.⁣⁣
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Breath is medicine. ⁣⁣
Breath is life⁣⁣.
Breath is everrrrything⁣⁣.
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The journey of self-love and devotion is the most magical journey you could ever take. ⁣⁣
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Grateful to have spent this time with such beautiful souls 🤍”

“I am currently (slowly) going through my “Intro to Breathwork” Course and I have been taking time to read through the suggested SBA Blogs. I just finished Blog “# 3 | Letting It Go vs Letting It In.”

I wanted to take this moment to share my expereince here so that others may be introduced to your incredible offerings. I also want to say “Thank You!” with my whole heart and soul for your writings. The resonance for me has been like no other. It is remarkable how intensely poignant a relatively short blog could be for me, albeit I am allowing for roaming thoughts, stories and visuals that in the past I would judge as a “negative distraction”, but beautifully, this time around, I am graciously being thankful for every conjured distraction and revel in holding space for even the most repetitive stories of my life.

Your words and teachings thus far have brought me a peace that I have never known, a quiet and kind space that allows for new breath, acceptance and clearing.

I have cried almost every day lately, but I have also smiled, laughed and wondered. Thank you for sharing your gifts and I look forward to continuing my work.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you 🙏🏼”

“This experience has been a sanctity of spirit. A metamorphosis, reclamation and activation within each multidimensional layer of my makeup. Here, in this space, you not only engage with the entirety of your being, but with the caverns of your spirit and divine nature. You not only explore chambers of knowledge, research, emotional intelligence, attuned space holding, the brilliancy of breath, the nervous system, and profound soul matters, but you begin to dance with life itself, on a level that is unexplainable until experienced. Here, at Sacred Breath Academy, you are gifted a space of freedom, the type of freedom that the soul craves to take flight into, and you spread your wings, and fly on the divine currents of source itself.

I knew that this was going to be transformational. I felt it in my bones and the beating of my heart as it began to call. Though any bit of perceived knowing was absolutely blown away, dismantled in an inability to hold the magnitude of this sacred work. The moments of lying on the mat, surrounded by this family, immersing myself into this journey, are moments that have changed me in ways that can only be described as divine. That which breath has the power to unwind, to touch, to honor, the raw capacity of this work to heal is beyond. This, is the work. This, is what the world needs. This medicine, when committed to by our leaders, through unconditional love and heart, can be taken into their specialties, into the unique expressions of their dharmas, their spaces, their communities, and bring about great healing, empowering each individual in ways unlike anything else.

The Sacred Breath Academy is unmatched in its devotion to healing and training trauma-informed facilitators, capable of upholding this medicine with the true respect that it demands by its powerful nature. With the potency of this medicine, it is imperative to only accept sacred spaces of somatic safety. Sacred Breath Academy is this. The call of this work, this medicine, is here. Breath is that which tethers it all and I truly believe this work is the forgotten key, remembered.

Kaya, with veneration I thank you. That which you teach is exquisite beyond measure. The caliber of this training and of your ability to hold space and serve as a guide into each journey was a true privilege to experience, and to be a part of. Every cell in my body and soul knew it was safe within this container to explore the deepest, most vulnerable parts of myself. I bow in gratitude. The multilayered unwinding, the ecstatic joy, the great rivers of tears, the awe-inspired aha-instances of deep uncovering and truth unveiled, each a holy moment that cannot be captured in words. You are a Mother of Breath. This was truly breath-giving, a multitude of sacredness proclaiming life, permeating our hearts, and forever changing our lives. Thank you.

Deepest of love”

“I am eternally grateful to Kaya for the most beautiful few months of our online SBA Teacher Training during the global lockdown. Despite the craziness of the world at the time, Kaya held the most wonderful container for us all as we dived deep into our inner worlds. It was the most perfect time to be doing so, and as the world paused, so did we. It honestly felt like a process of metamorphosis, coming out of and back into the world, as it too slowly awoke, a newly formed being - more open, compassionate & with a deeper sense of who I really am.

I find it difficult to put into words what this work has meant to me. It’s only now, nearly 9 months after starting my training with Kaya that I’m starting to realise the scale of the impact that it has had on me. I look back at photos of myself from a year ago and I genuinely don’t recognise the person that I was back then. The woman back then, despite having already done (some of) ‘the work’ was fearful, repressed and to be honest, hiding from herself and her fullness.

This training was a genuine reclamation of self, in every aspect of my being and I am forever grateful. It took me to the depths of myself like nothing I’ve ever experienced. There were days when it was hard, like really hard, but by learning to work through those depths and get comfortable sitting in my grief and my anger, I found a whole new sense of self and a freedom like no other. A newfound confidence, joy and creativity seemed to sprout within me, almost as if this joyful, playful, sensual being had been locked away inside for 31 years and was finally being allowed out to be fully in the world. I am so grateful to hold and offer this life-affirming tool which I can share with others.

Thank you, Kaya - I am beyond any form of words to express what you and the magic medicine of breath has done for me - I grow more and more grateful for it and you every day. It has been a complete gift having you as a teacher! Forever calling me out in the most loving and supportive way possible... Thank you for choosing to incarnate at the same time as me... ;)”

“This week I turn 38, and this year everything feels different. 2020 has most definitely not been what I expected. But, pandemics and general world-fuckery aside, it’s actually brought me so much! I’ve found stillness, peace, quiet and the chance to get to know myself. And I mean REALLY meet myself. As cheesy as it sounds, I’ve fallen in love. (Spoiler Alert: WITH MYSELF). I have learnt what it really means to have true love for myself... To hold myself with devotion, compassion and sass (naturally, as a Leo). Yes, it’s taken me 38 years, but better late than never, right?

I have genuinely never felt more content, grateful, sexy and excited about life. I’ve taken myself on one hell of an adventure and I’ve learnt a lot. I’ve seen the dark and literally loved the shit out of it back to light. I’ve shifted old coping mechanisms and behaviours, let go of old belief systems and shed a hell of a lot of crap that I’ve been carrying in my subconscious that has been holding me back for years. Without even realising it was there! And then there’s my sexual liberation, but that’s another story...

I’ve spent lockdown going deep inside myself as I’ve been lucky enough to work with the incredible Sacred Breath Academy to become a Breathwork Facilitator. That in itself has changed me. The journey to get here has felt quite intense at times, but I’m so glad I went there. Going deep into old wounds, shadows of myself I’ve denied for a very long time, emotions and feelings that I have shoved so far down inside myself that I’m pretty impressed they managed to emerge and face me.

Breathwork is powerful.

The past ten months of my life have brought me the most incredible transformation. Every time I thought I had met a new part of myself, there was always more to uncover. Completing the digital training with SBA came to me at the most perfect time, when the world slowed down and gave me the space to go inward. It has been a magical journey, with the most beautiful space held by Kaya throughout, along with inspiring facilitators bringing their energy and open hearts. There have been so many synchronicities throughout the training, unraveling parts of myself to heal not only my own pain, but the pain of the collective.

Completing this training started out as an opportunity for me to deepen my relationship with myself, but as the months have gone on, the relationship with my own breath and the art of breathwork has changed so much. There is so much beauty in this healing art and it has allowed me to bring things to light that were buried so so deep. This training has supported a reclamation of myself and my soul, supporting me to shift from ‘Busy Betty” to live a life in alignment with my soul. It has been life changing - not only for the people that I have met within the training, but the shifts I have been able to witness within them and within myself.

This experience has been confronting at times, but with that has come softness and love for myself. This training has allowed for a coming home to myself. A level of self-acceptance that I didn’t know was possible - welcoming, holding and offering love to the good and the ‘bad’. The dark and the light.

Kaya has created every element of this course with love, trust and magic, it can only have the most profound effect on those lucky enough to be part of it.

So here I am, 100 days sober, genuinely so content and excited by life... turning another year older knowing that it’s going to get even better. And while you are here, I just wanted to take a moment to remind you to be kind to yourself. Feel what you need to feel. Cry when you feel tears and scream when it feels good. Forgive yourself, let yourself grow and change. Let go of what you need to and learn to love yourself deeply, every single day.

I cannot wait to share this medicine, this magic, this art, with the world. Thank you, thank you, thank you”

“In each other we find ourselves...

This training was a dream. A remembering of the power of transformation in collaboration... To open the heart and arrive to the place we’ve been waiting for, back home to the self, is the greatest gift that breath has allowed me to receive. I’m so grateful I have given myself the permission to fully embrace its medicine.

We are all meant to exude our fullest expression. To feel into the depths of our beings. To open the heart and let it speak the light that is within us. This is what the breath has shown me.

Sacred Breath Academy has been one of the most transformational trainings I have ever taken. I’m in deep gratitude and reverence of Kaya, the Founder of Sacred Breath Academy. Her Academy and the community it has built has changed my life in the most beautiful of ways.

Something called me to this school, and now I know it was my deep inner knowing of the remembrance of how powerful the breath is. Kaya artfully and masterfully created a lineage that is so unique, and brings leaders to step into to their true sovereignty, embodying their authentic leadership. SBA also has created an outstanding and supportive community. It encourages breathers and facilitators to feel empowered and supports people in remembering that their power is always from within them.

I am so honored to walk with this lineage and to offer breath medicine to the collective. For others to remember that what they seek was always inside of them... Ready to be explored. Ready to be unfolded. Ready to be remembered. Ready to be expressed. That with an open mind, open heart and a willingness to see through what’s on the other side will open more doors than one could possibly imagine.

I’m so humbled by the people I have met through this training and deeply touched by the souls I have been blessed to get to know in the breathwork intensive. I’ll be forever grateful for the magic that was created. You all are imprinted in my heart forever. Taking this journey with SBA has been a true gift and has catalyzed a purpose in me that I am so ready to share with the world. This is only the beginning and I’m beyond excited to witness the unfoldment come to life, one breath at a time...”

“It’s hard to put into words the transformation that has occurred within me throughout this training. I have shed so many layers of myself, descended so deep within my body that I have fully activated the codes embedded into the original blueprint of my human DNA. Within these codes contains the ancient wisdom of what it means to be both a human living on earth and a soul connected to Source. Throughout this program, I met parts of myself I didn’t know existed, I aligned with my soul’s highest timeline, activated my magic, and released lifetimes of trauma from my body. I created so much space within me being to fully anchor into my greater mission and the type of container I am meant to hold for the healing and transformation of others.

I chose this school because of the extensive training provided to ensure that you are fully equipped to be a grounded gatekeeper of this medicine. This Academy is rooted in integrity, love, safety and freedom. Kaya is so intentional about everything and so in tune with the spirit of the breath. She creates a sacred container where you are safe to explore yourself in any way you need.

At times when I feel disempowered, I remember that I am a part of the SBA community and a contributor to a mission that is much bigger than all of us. The support this Academy has given me for my own evolution as a soul and as a space-holder. You will find that every person welcomed into this training has a special gift. You will be seen and held with compassion and respect while stepping into your leadership as a breathwork facilitator. Thank you Sacred Breath Academy for everything, I am deeply honored to be a part of this lineage”

“From the moment I was guided to the Sacred Breath Academy website, I felt a full-bodied “yes.”

I recall what it felt like as I filled out the detailed application form that evening; perhaps it was from the seat of my soul that the words flowed, making their way through my fingertips and onto the page. I bared it all, already understanding I was safe to express and claim every piece of me and the grand vision that had been knocking at my door.

I knew – on a level much deeper than that of my conscious mind, that I was exactly where I was meant to be. Sensing this opportunity was not meant for the faint of heart (but one reserved for those willing to venture into every breath-giving aspect of our lived experienced), there was a part of me that was scared – scared to let go and scared to let in that which I could not yet envision possible.

But I took that first breath and pressed submit.

Little did I know how timely this journey would be. When the world was searching… pleading… so deeply striving to catch its breath (during the global lockdown), our cohort of students came together to immerse into this sacred work, to dance with this modality of healing. It is through this time that we have been further called to a life of conscious living and leading – becoming and unbecoming – as we rise into breathwork facilitatorship.

I am deeply grateful for you, Kaya, the SBA team, and all our fellow breathworkers for making yourselves available, not only for the delivery of this innate (yet leading-edge) technology, but for the cascade of healing it has uncovered throughout the collective.

Throughout this experience, I have come to find that I was not only safe to reclaim all parts of myself here, I was revived to commune with the divine radiance that has always, always emanated from within. I was, in all ways, completely and utterly welcomed home. And when we allow for this level of healing within, the ripple is infinite.”

“Last night I went deep into a magical breathwork journey with Sacred Breath Academy and I’m not sure words will ever describe the experience. At times, I have had a body image struggle, but after last night’s journey, I feel like a big shift took place. I’m so grateful to my breath for illuminating that shadow and for guiding me through something so raw and vulnerable yet beautifully playful and silly.

Deep within the journey, I found myself grabbing every section of my body and shouting out loud that I love it, I was laughing at my silliness, screaming into a pillow, forgiving myself for all of the harsh times and feeling so much heat in my body. In that journey, Manipura was truly ignited, heat radiating through my entire body, leaving me feeling strong, powerful and confident in my totality and my sovereignty. This morning I did some journaling work, I mediated outside with the birds and I really allowed myself to be a witness of what is happening for me right now.

This isn’t a case of “hey I did some breathing and now I’m fixed”, this is a constant journey that I’m so willing to participate in. I want to know myself better, I want to heal, I want to grow, I want to really see myself and hear myself. But it’s work. Work that sometimes I want to run and hide from, but today is all about leaning in. If you take anything away from this state, I recommend grabbing any part of your body right now and telling it out loud that you love it!”

“I am so honored and humbled ⁣to be a part of this lineage of breathwork. ⁣Sacred Breathwork is a circular breathing technique which is aligned with the feminine aspect (something which exists within all genders), to allow for a gentle but potent journey into the subconscious for deep healing.

⁣Sacred Breathwork Academy has been an incredible blessing in my life, and I bow deeply in gratitude for all the labor and love that has gone into creating and expanding this healing lineage, and the enormous task of holding space for all those who walk the path of Sacred Breathwork. ⁣
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The journey to certification was a deep and heart-opening experience. It brought me to many uncomfortable edges and it was not always an easy path. At times, the journey even felt insurmountable. However, I soon found the confidence to lean in and stay with it throughout, remembering that transformation requires us to show up fully and soften into Her waters (of acceptance, understanding and forgiveness). So I continued to put one foot in front of the other, respecting the quality and depth of work that this lineage requires of its graduates. ⁣
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A final thank you to the Great Spirit that resides on the fluid ribbon of breath that travels through us all, igniting the flame of our highest Selves, allowing it to shine out unencumbered. The breath journeys alongside us, ever drawing us into the present, into our bodies, and into the deepest aspects of our beings. From the first inhale to the last exhale, our breath is a constant companion on the Spiral of Life.”

“To say how grateful I am for the Sacred Breath Method would be next to impossible,
because there are no words for the ineffable.”

“I was 35 weeks pregnant when I attended the Sacred Breath Facilitator Training with Kaya, (working with a modified gentle breath safe for pregnancy). I knew the healing power of the breath and I knew the healing power of women in circle.

Kaya’s approach to breathwork is feminine and shamanic: it’s about approaching the body intelligence and wisdom with tenderness, nurturance, sensuality, deep trust and self love. And it is about daring to dive deep within ourselves, feeling safe to reclaim all parts of who we are.

Breathwork gave me all that I needed to prepare for the rites of passage of birthing my child and birthing myself as the mother that I dreamed to be... My baby is now turning 5 months, the whole world has been in quarantine for two months, and I spend most of my time anchored in ...mmmh...bliss. Fear, concerns, and worries about the state of the world and the wellbeing of friends and family reach me sometimes, and I spin around for a bit... but quickly I go back to that precious pristine place that became so clear during the Sacred Breath Training: I go back to Source, this cosmic place where my unborn baby and I were floating in total serenity and harmony with all the trees of the world, the stars of the universe, our ancestors, animal and spirit allies, and all of Life...

During those mystical journeys, my unborn baby and I visited diverse astral realms, clearing together intergenerational, childhood and collective traumas. We also spent time envisioning the world we want to live in... When I nurse my baby I remember the Sacred Breath, the sacred journey to my core... Today I trust myself and Life more than I ever have.”

“There’s really just no words to explain the magnitude of what this past week has been for me.

Like opening up dark closets I haven’t looked in since childhood, pulling out what’s in there to see the light of day again, washing off the dust that settled, and reintegrating it into the life that now surrounds me. And in opening those closets, the size of the room becomes bigger, and it feels as though I just removed the doors, and made room to let the light flood in.

“Breathwork Training” is just not a word that feels right- it was more like a full-on download. As if the fabric of my being, the core of my self has now seen itself, recognized it’s truth, and can now permanently hold up an internal mirror whenever I choose.

The gratitude I have for Kaya feels completely uncontained by words. Like having a vision late at night of what you think is possible in this world, dreaming up what your heart can see with no bounds, and then experiencing that right in front of your eyes. It gives me hope, strength, and courage to continue moving towards my own inner truths.

And the women who fed the space, who showed up to bear their truths with wounds and scars for all to see, the love that existed, the power of love, is now something I know is undoubtedly the medicine this world has been craving.

I’m already halfway into my return travels, and it’s like traveling through a wormhole to a new place and time altogether. And even though I have no idea what it will look like, my heart is now in charge of building the road forward, and I’m here, ready to take the ride.”

“I’ve been so angry!

I’ve been completely riveted with this emotion, and I wasn’t even aware.

That is, until last night...
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I had a huge revelation during a Sacred Breathwork Journey that I wasn’t expecting.... and that even surprised me. As I was beautifully guided by Kaya, the Founder of SBA, and I deepened into my journey, I was overtaken by anger and fury. I could ONLY feel this emotion in my body + spirit as it was so unquenchably strong. I have a tendency to push this emotion down in my day to day life, as I am always trying to see the good, the optimistic and beauty in all things and everyone. ⠀⠀
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But this time, it wasn’t having that... this time it HAD to be seen, felt and heard. Then it came... I have been so PISSED off at my Dad for so many reasons for so much of my life. I’m pissed that he created an unsafe space for me to grow up, that he used his anger to create fear in our family, that he disrespected women in general, but especially my Mom and my sister and I. I’m pissed that he always found other things more important than his family, that he kept choosing the same destructive choices over and over again, and that he chose alcohol until his dying day over us. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

I didn’t know what to do with this anger at first... it felt so foreign but also very necessary. I had to feel it, I had to let it in and I had to express it fully in order for these deep wounds to begin to heal.

I’ve done YEARS of work around my Dad, years. Most of my adult life has been in pursuit of healing all the wounds that I experienced during my childhood, but this was different. This was an *allowing*. This was an invitation to simply go there, and be there, without need of explanation or excuse. I fully expressed my anger... I yelled, I spoke my truth and I stood in my power.

And then... as if the heavens opened up a beautiful celestial sea for me, I could feel the cleansing of heavenly waters pouring over me as I was bathed by a circle of goddesses. I could feel the beauty of finally letting go.

As Kaya says, “The only way through is in”... ”

“To everyone who needs to hear this: You CAN be solid. You CAN become clear. You CAN get those answers to questions and heal those parts of yourself that are no longer whole. Wholeness is Oneness.
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’Oneness within myself’ is the only phrase I can come up with that makes any sense to my rational mind to what I experienced in that jungle during our in-person intensive.⁣ Though I was not alone. I was held and witnessed in the most vulnerable parts of myself and In the depths of disparity and shame. This is a feeling I truly cannot put into words. ⁣To be seen, welcomed and received so softly and adoringly by this group and the facilitators... All of which completed a full circle of trust through others I never expected.
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Breath is medicine. Breath is life. Breath unmasks the deepest parts of ourselves that we are afraid to reveal.⁣
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Coming back to Wholeness, I was stripped clean layer by layer from micro to macro trauma, programming, and patterns all back to Oneness.⁣ I am filled so so much love and gratitude for this medicine and for knowing I discovered this Academy for a reason.⁣
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To all my fellow brothers and sisters who saw me and held me so deeply, I bow to you. Forever grateful.⁣
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Kaya, I’m so honored and humbled to be in your presence as a student. What you have created is pure magick and pure healing on the deepest levels of self. You are a true channel of LOVE. I’m so grateful you followed your soul to create what you have.”

“Breath is that which weaves together all of life,
and I am feeling so wildly grateful for the ability to devote to
and study this medicine through Sacred Breath Academy.

Words to capture:
Tender reverence ⠀
Tender nurturance ⠀
Beat, beat, beat of the music ⠀
I slip out of time and into the eternal ⠀
One, conscious breath ⠀
In through the nose, fuller now, I think⠀
My lungs reaching capacity ⠀
I feel my alveoli exchanging their currency ⠀
Ahhhhhhaaa, exhale, releasing,
sinking into my body and the floor beneath me ⠀
Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale ⠀
One magnificent, unified breath⠀
A synchronization within my body⠀
Harmonically rolling with the sound, belly, diaphragm, chest, exhale ⠀
Like waves of the ocean caressing my form⠀
A million particles swirling through my nose,
Filtering themselves as clarity enters my being ⠀
One unified source of life⠀
The oxygen heeds through my arteries,
My veins hungry chasing back to the heart ⠀
My consciousness slipping deeper ⠀
My brain waves in what feels like metamorphosis ⠀
Wings growing from my back ⠀
Black and luminous⠀
Like the space I am entering ⠀
Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale ⠀
My body begins to dissolve and I enter the unfathomable⠀
Home, deeply home, remarkably so,⠀
Reverence drowning my entirety ⠀
I would bow but I’ve lost my form ⠀
Tears dripping from what would be my eyes ⠀
Divinity slipping around and through me⠀
Translucent, I am unbecoming ⠀
The raw expanse of love so great it must be bursting apart my bones ⠀
Pure osmosis⠀
Time has departed ⠀
Absorbing through what was once known as me ⠀
I AM⠀
But how do I describe the sentient through language ⠀
The knowing, the cracking open⠀
Vast and boundless⠀
Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale⠀
I am soaring deep within the heart of the creator ⠀
She is I and I am her ⠀
Undeniable ⠀
A reconstitution of every conception ⠀
A recalibration of deep remembrance ⠀
Tangible and intangible ⠀
I could taste the sound and feel the noise
Permeating my temple as it disintegrates into the sacred⠀
Alchemizing any notion of separateness ⠀
Healing cellularly as I breathed ⠀
In, out, in, out, ⠀
Oxygenizing ⠀
As I kissed the feet of God ⠀

To share this lineage is an absolute gift. A new paradigm indeed is being birthed and received, breath by sacred breath. I feel the inner medicine in each of us activating and awakening.

Thank you Sacred Breath Academy, thank you Kaya for your deep devotion to this work and the transformational space you hold, thank you to my breath family who I have been journeying with. I bow to this path, this medicine. Thank you for the catharsis, the transformations, the unraveling, the becoming, the indescribable moments, I bow... To the breath, I am in absolute reverence.”

“I recently completed the Level 1 Breathwork Facilitator Training with Sacred Breath Academy in Bali. Writing this, It has been a bit over 1 month since the training concluded, it has taken me till now to truly process and feel ready to try and narrow down this experience into a small bunch of words typed on a page, but for the sake of potentially inspiring others to do the same and follow the call onto this path, I’m going to give it my best shot!

The training was life-changing to say the least. The English language or ANY words for that matter, will cease to be able to truly describe the experience and the profound healing, knowledge and change it has brought into my life. Kaya is one incredible woman who held the space with so much love, integrity and wisdom for not only all of our learning, but also for all of our healing, both individually and as a collective. The content that was provided for the training was truly aligned with all that was needed to provide me with both the academic and hands-on learnings to feel ready and empowered to start my own journey into this powerful healing modality.

This magical group that was brought together in Bali happened to all be women, which for me was something that I now see was so needed. This was not just a training. Personally, I felt it was an initiation into womanhood for myself, and the reconnection to the divine feminine that my soul had been so deeply aching for. As a collective, we breathed, learned, cried, loved, expressed and shared. As each tender soul healed, I healed. To be a part of such a powerful container was indescribable. I experienced what it truly means to be human. It highlighted how disconnected we have become as a society to ourselves, our earth and one another. I now have this fire burning inside of me to share, help and reconnect humans to their higher selves, each other and to the Divine that is.

I feel as if I found myself. I was able to knock down the walls that were constricting my heart for so long. I now feel emotionally ‘clean’ and have noticed how differently I show up in the world since being back home. I feel so much deep self love, kindness, acceptance and freedom within that I could not feel before, giving me a happiness and confidence that I never thought possible.

I will never forget each and every beautiful soul that I spent that week with. Thank you, Kaya, for following your truth and higher purpose, because without you and the work that you are doing I would have never realised my true path in this life and the power that I hold within. I encourage anybody that may be feeling the call to attend this training to listen to their intuition, honour their higher self and take the leap- you will not regret it with any ounce of your being.”

“Well, where do I start? I was recommended SBA after going through a huge rebirth with my womb. Soon after, my teacher at the time told me, “You are meant to work with the breath for yourself and others on your path.” She then sent me to SBA and I enrolled weeks after. This program has been part of my journey of finding my home within myself. It was challenging and immersive as I faced my own wounds, truths, and clarity. I was able to clear ancestral patterns, find my calling as a medicine women, and understand how to be a trauma-informed space holder. I was also able to find my soul family within the lineage. It is safe to say that some of my closest friends are now from this lineage! This training taught me that everything we need is in the breath and when working with it, we are awakening the soul’s truest expression. Thank you so much for being part of my journey back home to myself and finding my purpose here in this lifetime. Beyond grateful.”

“This week. I— can’t find the words— I am utterly in love with mama earth, with my new friends, with myself, with you. To think I ever sought joy outside myself, when all this time the treasured gold I was looking for was inside me all along. Thank you to all of the events of the world that led me to find Sacred Breath Academy, to journey into the mountains, to journey into Breathwork, to uncover what I had always carried within me. During one of the breathwork journeys in this training, I was overcome with insatiable laughter. I felt like I stepped outside myself and was looking in, and I found it outrageously comical how seriously I take life sometimes. I realized that life is to be treasured, enjoyed, cherished, marveled at— when we see the world as magical, mystical and playful, it is incredibly fun to be alive! We don’t need to “be” anything, just who we are. All we desire is to be loved and safe. It is so simple and beautiful. And what a gift laughter is— like a burst of sunshine from our souls— bright, infectious and wow, the warmth it spreads!

Life. Is. Full. Of. Magic.

I cannot begin to convey how powerful, wonderful, intense yet glorious Breathwork is! Breath medicine is a magical tool in which we heal ourselves— no outside sources necessary. But I will say having fabulous, compassionate facilitators deepens your experience and touches your heart. If you have a chance to study, heal and grow with these amazing teachers and humans, DO IT!”

“If ever there were such a thing, the SBA Training is the ‘Ivy League’ of Breathwork Trainings—
I have been in the healing arts world for 20 years and it’s the best out there in my opinion! Not only is it a powerful Facilitator’s Training, but it is also a pathway to self-mastery.

As Kaya reminds us, ‘You can only meet others at the depth in which you have met yourself.’

SBA is where real conscious leadership is born.”

“In complete amazement, wow. Mhhhh. Indescribable, thank you Kaya, for leading this potent journey. I felt all of us in communion, breathing, opening, expanding, recalibrating in harmonic transformation. Tears of unconditional gratitude washed over me like the tides of the ocean, mid-storm. I was drowning in depths of awe at the gift to be alive, to experience it all, EACH emotion, each moment, each happening, as sacred as a drop of dew kissing the morning flowers to open them into bloom. I was in reverence, at the holiness and preciousness of life itself. The tender infiniteness of breath became so palpable, all of my senses began to touch in a multidimensional manner. My body dissipated.

I was. I am. All is. We are. Sacred.

As we began to come back into savasana, there was a deep humming and vibration to it all. I felt that nothing existed but source. I noticed I was back in my body when my feet and shoulders began to shake, in a very subtle manner. Ah, I thought, here I am, in my body, yet still, I was simultaneously in complete expanse. Within and without. And as my body took this gentle movement, truths began to whisper gently into my ear, though I was watching them come from my brain, like a rewiring, “I am loved”, “I am whole”, “I am enough”, “I honor myself”, “I belong”, “I am intrinsic to love”, “I am an intimate part of source”, and in that moment, all of life smiled at me, and I, in absolute devotion, smiled back.

What a powerful experience, beautiful family, and such sacred, safe, exceptional space held. This experience was truly life-changing. Language does not exist for my full gratitude. It is an absolute privilege to walk this path, to experience this medicine, to learn its potency and align to its intelligence. I am in awe, time and time again. Thank you, thank you. Again, such APPRECIATION to be here, to continue to learn, to commit to, and to uphold this sacred work.”

“This experience has been one of the most profound, confronting and enlightening self-realisation journeys I have ever undertaken in my 51 years- and this is only part of the whole process as we haven’t even had the in-person component yet! Through the inner work Kaya asked of us during the digital training course, I am finally understanding myself and life for what feels like the first time. I have always been spiritual, seeking and questioning- but now everything is different. More and more I “think from my heart,” “see from my mind,” and “feel in my body.” My personal evolution over the past few months has been powerful and I’m in awe of my growth.

The SBA Training is comprised of teachings that transform your perception of reality, truth and spirit on a most profoundly personal level, but at the same, universally. It has been such an invaluable and life-changing investment of time- on one hand it feels like it flew by and on the other it feels like years have been wrapped into the past 8 weeks. In essence, it is because they have. I’ve not known another process that can bulldoze (yet simultaneously gently unravel) years of information in such a short period of time. And all of this done through breathing! Absolutely fascinating and humbling.

And a special thank you to Kaya for the space held through it all- I am forever grateful that you are so humble and loving to share this work. I looked up many breathwork schools when I was searching for a training and I kept going back to yours, over and over...

Even if one does not follow through in becoming a facilitator, teacher or way shower- the intensely powerful inner work is rewarding enough. Yet the beautiful upside is that there is no way you could not share this sacred work - this medicine - this calling. It is too valuable and universally-needed to heal humanity and our earth as a whole.”

“I feel like a baby in her mother’s arms... In every moment of this training I have felt so welcome to walk in, freely sit with all that IS.... to be fully me, with my parts of light and also raw darkness and shadow, free of judgement. I have felt so cradled.

The experience has been absolutely impeccable, life-changing, and paradigm-shifting... I am already starting to experience unexpected profound changes in my day to day life, and I absolutely attribute it to this work. Kaya is an incredible teacher and guide. Not only has she taught me the magic of this work by the hand of the spirit of breath and elevated states of consciousness (also indescribable), she has in tandem created a space for my empowerment and peeling away layers of conditioning, guiding me, nearer and nearer to my core self and my authentic potential, which I hadn’t ever truly believed in until now... I have finally lost the need to seek outside all that is within myself...

The training is coming to an end and I can feel it melt into my heart and soul, where it will stay forever. I won’t be able to forget a single word of what has been taught to us during these months. Yet at the same time I find no words to truly describe how thankful and blessed I feel to have been given this opportunity! It has enormously exceeded my expectations in so many ways that I would have never imagined. Gracias, gracias, gracias”

“The digital part of this Breathwork Facilitator Training has been absolutely mind-blowing and life-changing for me. And… the in-person component (and level 2) are still to come! I can’t thank Kaya enough for the way she holds space and creates a safe container in such a loving, tender and compassionate way. The way she teaches the beauty of breath is something that will stay with me the rest of my life. It’s like I’ve learned (and embodied) a completely new language; the language of love, unity and wholeness. A language that’s so innate to all of us, but yet we’ve seem to have forgotten.

The breath brings us back home to ourselves. I’ll be forever grateful for Kaya’s wisdom, guidance and support. The depth of what has been ready to surface and transform for me goes beyond words, and wouldn’t have been possible without this training. Thank you so, so much Kaya. I can’t wait for all that’s to come.”

“It’s been a few months since completing the Level 1 Teacher Training in Bali with the Sacred Breath Academy and I am truly grateful for the incredible presence and guidance during our time together. The facilitators created a magical, safe space for every individual to welcome vulnerability with open arms, along with find the courage to share the deepest hidden aspects of ourselves. I knew going into the training that I would be transformed but little did I know to what extent… I went in as a teacher (yet sill a conflicted woman/child)… and emerged a woman of grace. (An aspect of myself I didn’t know existed). I will eternally cherish the beautiful connections inside and out.”

“It’s been two weeks since I finished the Level 1 Breathwork Facilitator Course with Kaya and the other amazing facilitators and it still feels like a dream! The depth and connection that we all felt in that week will stay with each and every one of us infinitely. In the last two weeks, I have been processing everything and integrating the changes into my life and my teachings- it has transformed me on a deeply cellular level.

I was lucky enough to facilitate my own Introduction to Breathwork during my monthly Women’s Circle just 3 days after I arrived home. Even though it was only an introduction, I couldn’t believe the transformations that the women had within just 30 minutes. Some were crying, one was euphoric, and the love and connection felt in the room was powerful. It is such an incredible gift to be able to offer this healing modality to other souls. As we sat in a circle, sharing a plate of food after the breathwork, women reflected how they’d been able to witness self-limiting beliefs and conditioning about themselves dissolve. There were tears, smiles and laughter, and I couldn’t believe that this was possible using only the modified breathwork. I will hold a candlelit women’s breathwork next month, and I am incredibly humbled to bring this beautiful Sacred Breathwork Method to Western Australia.

Kaya has developed a practice that is infused with love- I have never felt as held, safe and supported in a breathwork session as I did during the course in Bali. The softness and tenderness that Kaya has taught us to bring into this sacred space with others is beautiful. The Sacred Breath brings you home.

The week in Bali changed me forever. The connection that I had with the other women, I will never forget. I feel like our souls entwined in a place that our humanness is not able to understand, but to our spirit, its everything we know to be true. It was like time and space had no beginning and no end. In the realm and container that we lovingly enter through breathwork, we truly learn our path here on this earth plane, and we remember who we are. My life and my work have changed in so many ways since I arrived back from Bali. I started writing my next book, and even though it was already written inside my soul, it has a greater depth that is now being woven through it.

We are all searching for something in this life. We have often sought externally through different modalities, believing that another person has the answer to heal us. To know that the answers we seek are instead within us- this will always stay with me. This work is so needed in this world, and I am eternally grateful that the Sacred Breath Academy was born in my lifetime! Kaya, from the bottom of my heart - thank you.”

“I felt the hand of the Divine lead me to train with Kaya and The Sacred Breath Method, and I felt Divinely guided during the training itself. After years of seeking, of studying western psychology, eastern philosophies, meditation, yoga, different wisdom traditions and personal development, this potent, sacred and illuminating work embraced all of that knowledge, and then pierced right through it to my core truth, my inner wisdom. I was at once completely open, tender - and fully in my power. It was truly humbling to bear witness to my fellow participants on this intimate journey, and I hold them all in my heart.

I am so grateful to Kaya, who held such beautiful, honouring space for all of us as a collective, and for each of us individually, as we journeyed to our depths, to our shadows and our light, to our sovereignty, voice and vision, so that we may carry this lineage out into the world, where this healing work is truly needed.”

“Kaya, you are one of those incredibly rare souls who pierces the veils of the worlds, your wisdom is the ancient language of creation. Even though you are only in your 30s, you are the Grandmother and all of her roots. The star that has traveled and traversed the universes from before the beginning of time 💫 I am blessed because I walk by your side. Thank you will never be enough, as the reverence I have for your presence and heart transcends all human logic and knowing. I love you.

On the training: This was the most potent, powerful, and healing training I have ever committed to in this life- and I have been through a lot of those kinds of journeys. This training guided me to tap into deep inner rhythms that were lost in the cultural conditioning that is upon us this day and age. Everyone was held and supported as they went through their own versatile experiences, and for me personally, this was a very multidimensional journey with celestial remembrance, meeting of my spirit guides, my ancestors, vivid visions and astral travels to other dimensions and worlds. It is a journey that words almost can’t touch, as it only can come from direct inner experience and the Sacred Breathwork brings me there. It is the most potent way I have found for releasing trauma and it is also a way to experience immense beauty and love, with healing light codes coming in at the very quantum core of my body, unwiring old systems and patterns and upgrading into new ones. It is a portal to the stars and to my celestial self. At the very same time, this journey of breath is a portal to inhabit my body fully, in the here and now, embodying my human vessel to the brim, feeling it all, and really loving to be in my body.

Through this healing Sacred Breath Facilitator Training, so much ancient wisdom was surfaced, remembered, and revealed- both individually and collectively. Kaya is a true spirit guide. This woman invites and inspires the essence that is within us all to awaken, rise, and be activated. Through the medicine of breath, beauty ways, and ancient and modern wisdom that she embodies, she brings forth a unique, nurturing energy in to the field where nothing is judged and everything is welcomed. A container of love and support to grow in was co-created both through her and her competent, heart-centered team.

My being has opened to yet another dimension. A spark within the heart has been ignited to this divine heritage that is for each and everyone of us holding space on our dear planet at this time. I am empowered to fulfill the next step of my soul’s calling, and to step forth together into this strong web we are weaving- a global community of space-holders, healers, way-showers, starseeds and paradigm-shifters, here to assist in the ascension of our precious planet. Kaya is a lighthouse with deep sincerity and wisdom and I highly recommend any training with her and Sacred Breath Academy.”

“How do I even begin to find the words of gratitude I have for teachings of the Sacred Breath Academy. When I initially signed up for the Sacred Feminine Alchemy Training, I assumed I would be learning how to facilitate and hold space for transformational experiences. What I didn’t realize was the deep dive into myself. I have learned more about myself in the past 4 months than I have in the last 33 years of being in this vessel!

I truly believe what Kaya teaches in the way of being a space-holder. We must do the work on ourselves FIRST before holding space for others. “We can only meet and take others as deeply as we have met and taken ourselves” is a statement Kaya said that sunk so deep into my body. The deeper I go, the more I uncover and the more I release allows me to hold an alchemical container for those I come in contact with. This work is not finished when the modules end. This work is life-long, and that is something I’ve learned as well as open-heartedly welcomed. Thank you so much Kaya, Allie and Cherezade. You beautiful woman have guided me to transformation and I’m so blissfully grateful.

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“This training has been beyond incredible, and I am so grateful to have had access to this training during lockdown. These past 2 months have been so transformative for me. I feel whole and at home within myself, a feeling that I have been craving for such a long time. My relationship with myself and others has totally transformed, I am less reactive and much more grounded within myself. I have been able to release so much of which was not serving me, which has created space for many amazing things to come into my life. Throughout this entire Level 1 experience, I felt totally supported and seen by Kaya and the group as a whole. Kaya’s holistic knowledge of breathwork is beyond anything that I have experienced in the breathwork space before, and I am incredibly grateful to have learnt this sacred art under the Sacred Breath Academy lineage. Thank you so much. Big LOVE”

“Those post breathwork journey feels... 🙌⁣
The breath always taking you exactly where you need (not want) to go. ⁣

The pain. ⁣
The pleasure. ⁣
The resistance. ⁣
The uncovering. ⁣
The spaciousness that comes from release. ⁣

The breath is incredibly intelligent medicine ... it shows us what we’re ready to see. What we’re ready to acknowledge. What we’ve been repressing that is ready to be expressed.⁣ What is ready to be integrated into wisdom and what we’re ready to let go ... without story. ⁣

Today it showed me deep pain ... and the blessing in sweet surrender! ⁣

Conscious connection to the breath unravels you. It journeys with you to remember and reclaim the authentic truth and sovereignty of who you are. It empowers you.⁣ It blooms and liberates you to embody the wisdom within your beautiful body. It brings you home to your sacred self. Your sacred essence. ⁣

It is a masterful teacher.⁣

Thank you, as always, to Kaya for her potent teachings and space-holding.”

“When I signed up for this training and went into Week 1, I had previous limited experience with other schools of breathwork and just one journey with Kaya. Throughout the years, I have worked as a spiritual advisor for a number of clients, offering a variety of different services. The idea of offering breathwork for my clients is new to me. I feel like, from this virtual program, I have gotten what I need in order for me to have a strong foundation in the hows and whys of facilitating a breathwork journey for clients. I am unbelievably grateful to all involved in this training, all facilitators and participants, for making me feel so strongly supported, valued, and a part of the Tribe. My heart is so full of love for this work and all that have been a part of my journey thus far, and I am so excited to see what my future will look like with breathwork!”

“As I reflect back on the eight-week digital breathwork training with Sacred Breath Academy, I feel profoundly grateful for the support and space this powerful training gave me. When I think back to my first call with the Sacred Breath team, how different life feels now! And what a gorgeous adventure the training has been.

The first two months of connecting each week and diving deep through the breath were a gentle yet transformational initiation into the SBA method. With so much of life being so busy and yang, it was so refreshing and deeply needed to step into this yin container. Each breathwork journey was an anchor in my week; a magical moment where I got to step away from the uncertainty and strangeness of these times (the months of global pandemic) and step into timelessness, journeying deep into forgotten and rejected corners of myself. I felt pain, I felt sadness, I felt joy and I felt the divine beauty of it all.

I have so much respect for Kaya’s emphasis on ethics, boundaries and shadow work. I also loved the emphasis on delicately peeling away the layers to process trauma in the most natural way possible – through the intelligence of the body. The Virtual Intensive led me to one of my most empowering moments: paradoxically, it came through bearing witness to other people healing themselves through their own breath. It really brought home that we all have the answers within us.

Thank you Kaya for holding impeccable space, and to the other teachers I’ve had the pleasure of connecting with and being guided by, for embodying this work so beautifully. I feel honoured to have been given access to such potent teachings, and to teachers who truly want to empower those around them, while holding us to high standards of integrity. I can’t wait to delve even further into this awe-inspiring practice. Lots of love xxx”

“I cannot begin to express how incredible, impactful, transformational and soul-affirming our training was. What an amazing experience! A metamorphosizing deep dive into self, and the science and spirit of circular breathwork. This week has been not only magical and full of wonder, but a re-confirming and reclaiming of my true self.

Thank you so much, Kaya, for your love, passion, support, wisdom and guidance. I am so grateful for this practice of sacred breath and I am devoted to continuing it in every day forward. Feeling so profoundly honored, present, full and free. This journey through conscious connected breath is such a beautiful gift of medicine, insight, and in healing ones’ bodymind and soulspirit. So much love!!!”

“This Breathwork experience has been extremely empowering for me to fully find my own voice, heal from past traumas, and to step into my power. It has allowed me to cultivate a relationship with my ancestral heritage and understand my own divine femininity. It has also helped me realize what my path is as both an empath, a healer, and a professional therapist, and has allowed me to authentically connect with my clients in ways that I have never had in the past. I have allowed myself to feel. I have allowed myself to reflect. I have allowed myself to be. Through Breathwork, I have more compassion for myself and others and feel a sense of connection to the universe as a whole. I am forever thankful for this experience and this space and the beautiful people whom I was able to share this journey with. Thank you so much!!! You are appreciated. ”

“I am beyond grateful for Kaya and the team at SBA for offering this life-changing work. There is no way to doubt the powerfully-transformative nature of this journey through breath. For anyone with the courage to truly “know thyself,” SBA provides a deep and ethical dive into the subconscious domain, providing the opportunity to clear stuck emotions and process hidden traumas. This is sacred work guided by divine beings for which I am forever grateful.”

“The woman that created Sacred Breath Academy (Kaya Leigh) is a beautiful, humble human that is dedicating her life to sharing sacred knowledge. She will hold space for you to deeply heal from things that can stem all the way back to childhood as well as ancestral trauma. Breath is the fluid voice of your soul. It is a profoundly healing gateway to spiritual, emotional and physical breakthroughs.

A few months ago, I stumbled upon this facilitator training, which, to this day, I do not fully understand how it came to find me but that’s exactly what it did. It found me. I have sat down multiple times over the past few weeks to try to write about my experience but it’s almost as if words are just not enough— which is hard for me to say because words are my love language! But this journey deserves so much more than words. Which is why I am going to devote as much of this lifetime (and let’s face it, many many more) exploring the sacred breath by holding the space needed to help guide others to heal from years of trauma and conditioning. Trying to explain this profoundly life-changing experience I dove into on this training feels impossible. It truly feels like trying to explain the concept of colour when ones eyes have yet to open. But after surrendering and stripping everything back, I was left with all I know. All that I stand for. I was left with Love. I went on so many deeply healing journeys via my breath during this training (some I didn’t even think would be possible without the help of plant medicine), but everything came back to love. Love for myself, love for others and love for absolutely everything! This life is so simple and enjoyable when we just exhale and realise that we are all here to love. Take away the pressure to achieve the unnecessary and just be love! I spent so many years overcomplicating just about everything, trying to figure out my dharma because that is what I thought life should be. And even though I have been an advocate for love for a while, this journey just brushed away anything that didn’t offer this.

It showed me that true authentic love from strangers exists by providing me with 9 mind-numbingly beautiful people that are now in my heart forever as family.

I have done my fair share of spiritual trainings and I’m sure I’ve got a few more left to enjoy, however, this wondrous week of my life was my ultimate magic moment. Everything stems from this experience. When I’m 80 sitting on my porch in my rocking chair with a substantial collection of cats surrounding me, this journey will be where I look back to and think— that was when I realised that everything will always be ok. I don’t usually speak about the specific trainings I have done as I feel it is important for us to find our way naturally and organically, however, if you feel called to the path of breathwork and you are waiting for the universe to send a sign then please take this as just that.”

“I truly cannot say enough about this experience and how much the Sacred Breath Academy has changed my life. Through the 8-week digital training journey I gained a wealth of knowledge and essential tools to assist me in my personal healing journey, as well as to bring to the world for deep collective healing and expansion. The SBA is a Breathwork School and Training of the highest integrity and truly serves as a leader in ethical, trauma-informed and sacred spiritual practice. Each weeks material deepened my understanding of the subconscious framework and allowed me to enter into my personal healing journey with grace and freedom. I honestly could not recommend this training enough for anyone ready to take their nexts steps to freedom and soul liberation. Heart full of gratitude. ”

“The Facilitator Training in Asheville was so incredible and I am BLISSED out after a week of Sacred Breathwork Journeys.💫 Words cannot express how grateful I am to have discovered this gentle but oh so powerful modality of healing! It’s allowed me to connect with my spirit in a way I didn’t even know was possible. Tapping into these altered states of consciousness has unlocked so much inner wisdom around my body, my past and my future in such a beautiful way. And as a teacher, I can take my own clients only as far as I’m willing to go myself. I completely stepped outside of my comfort zone and breathed into all the tender areas of my body I had been unknowingly neglecting. During several of the journeys, my intuition showed me how far disconnected I was from my own feminine flow. The hard exterior of the masculine to push, control, do-do-do attitude has been running my life for so long- a subconscious program I developed to be respected and “successful” and to uphold my feelings of self-worth. Awakening my intuition through the breath, allowed me to see the need to let go of that mask and come back to my innate feminine nature.🌹 Flowing through life and becoming magnetic by allowing is the beauty of stepping into your truth as a women. ✨ Each Breathwork Journey was a completely new resolution, aha moment, energetic shift and vast healing experience. It’s so hard to put into words the deep self-discovery that occurs by connecting consciously to the breath, but it’s a unique and mystical session of growth each time. ✨ After all the new knowledge I’ve learned, I can’t wait to take my clients even deeper.”

“I am still integrating what happened during the training this past week in Bali- it’s impossible to fully put into words. There is an overwhelming amount of gratitude for the teachers and space holders of the Sacred Breath Academy, and for the sisters I shared this incredible journey with. I felt the call to help shift, connect and empower in this life some time ago, and when I came across Breathwork, there was an instant recognition. I knew was what I was meant to do. Shortly after, I found SBA and immediately knew I had to join the Breathwork Facilitator Training with Kaya. I was so excited I found her as her mission resonated greatly with me.

During our week together, I went on a journey deep into my subconscious. I entered into real intimacy with myself and held my deepest fears, most delicate aspects, truths and illusions with gentle awareness, compassion and love. I laughed, I danced, I sang. I cried, I screamed, and rocked my body in my own loving embrace. I alchemized the depths of my shadow into light. I remembered that love is what we are. In this, I reconnected with my true essence. We walk this earth with the illusion of being separate from self and each other. Coming home to the truth of this illusion is the most blissful experience.

Thank you, Kaya, for your devotion to this work. It is truly paradigm-shifting. And thank you to the co-facilitators who also supported us throughout the week. You have all been such amazing space-holders. After this experience, I truly feel reborn.”

“The Sacred Breath Academy Facilitator Training allowed me to recover ancient parts of my being, step into new timelines, and initiate my power. It gave me the space to heal for my family and ancestors. It reawakened my healer within to a become more prominent, and allowed me to step into the path of being a medicine woman. It opened the flood gates for love, beauty, joy, and abundance and cleared channels for the divine to flow more freely through me.

The container was held with a graceful strength and the knowledge shared was deep and profound. The training was an inner journey just as much as it was a learning journey- I went to depths and heights so that I may hold space for others to do the same. It allowed me to step into my service, stand strong in my softness, to become a pillar of love. To remember that I am here to radiate magic, offer kindness, and fully see others, reminding them of the love that they are.

I’m profoundly grateful for Sacred Breath Academy and the privilege to offer this medicine to others. If you get the opportunity to do this for yourself, jump in full heartedly and allow it to bring you beyond your wildest dreams of what is possible. This initiation into serving breath medicine was a true honor.”

“Every single one of my breathwork journeys with Kaya was extremely deep and transformative. She holds the space for every person in the most gentle and loving way.

During one of the breathwork journeys, I heard Kaya say “crystallize your experience.” As soon as that happened, an image of my 4-year-old self showed up sitting on a hospital bed. (Note: I fell out of a 1.5 story window onto concrete when I was 4, and suffered an acute subdural hematoma/hemorrhage.) The moment when this child version of myself appeared, I felt as though I was actually in that hospital room as my higher self, looking upon my 4-year-old self on the hospital bed. I was then transported directly into my brain, into the innermost layer, the pia mater. I was seeing every single vessel/neuron that was damaged during the fall and surgery. I began to go through the vessels with a sparkling gold light and crystallizing each part that was damaged. It was transforming into brilliant gold crystals, as if I was healing the brain.

Once I completed that, I came out of the brain and placed my healing hands on the sides of my head/body, sending healing energy to my 4-year-old self. As I was sitting on the hospital bed, I placed my hands up to the sky, receiving that energy. It began to transmute, and that golden light was shooting up through the whole image.

I felt a complete knowing that I energetically healed my brain during that breathwork. It felt as if time didn’t exist. I felt the past and future were linear in that moment. It was a powerful experience.

Another journey that particularly stood out was the following: I saw my body as I was laying on my mat doing breathwork, and every single cell that wasn’t functioning properly began to come out of my body. The black cells were hovering about 6 inches above my body in a black fog. Then gold cells began to float back into my body crystallized. I then saw several spiders putting a web all around my body (like a mummy) to keep the gold cells in. A shamanic woman appeared above my head and she gave me a green medicine to drink. She told me it was going to protect and coat all my organs inside.

I then appeared in India or Tibet in front of a holy place. There were Tibetan Monks surrounding me and then I stepped up and Buddha was sitting there. He said laughing “this is your life’s work, you’ve known this all along.” I’ve always had a connection with Buddha, as I have been in his presence several times. That vision disappeared and a long shamanic stick with a wolves head on top appeared. I heard a voice say, “we are passing this onto you.”

I then experienced myself laying on a white sand beach- I was very large, almost the size of the Earth. As I was awakening, my hands were in the sand, I physically felt so hot. I let the sand through my fingers and a symbol on my right hand appeared. It was a glowing blue/green color.

After this, I was able to connect with my future daughter. During the session I felt her in my auric field, hanging out to the right side. She was just floating there and said “I can’t wait to meet you and for you to be my mom. I’m waiting for you and am ready whenever you are.”

Every single breathwork journey has been so special to me. But those two in particular were very transformative. ”

“Participating in the Sacred Breathwork Facilitator Training was a heart-opening and life-changing experience! Kaya and her team create a beautifully sacred and healing space for personal growth through the breathwork and also fully prepare you to guide others through the process. They encourage each participant to find their own path of facilitation, which felt empowering and respectful of our own learning and process. It is clear they each have done their own work in the way that they show up with authenticity, unconditional love, non-judgment, and integrity. They are experts at intuiting and meeting people where they are! I can’t wait to do more work with them in the future. I highly recommend this training for anyone interested in breathwork and teaching it in their communities!”

“The week that changed my life. Before this past week, it would have been difficult to write a post about ME. It might have been a few words or something I thought was humorous... which is still great as I am pretty funny. However, that unwillingness came from a place of fear (apart from the funny bit) of being vulnerable because of a perceived judgment about how I would be received. I had learned through much unintentional programming to have an amor up so as not to get hurt. I had learned to hide my pain within myself and not to share it so as not to be a “burden.” However this past week and forever moving forward, I am open, I am brave and I am stepping into my truth and light, alongside dancing with my beautiful shadow.

Thank You, Kaya, for allowing me to open in my own gentle way. Your quiet strength and integrity will always stay with me. You have taught me so much and thank you for allowing me the gift of the Sacred Breath Method so I can now pay it forward and teach it to others so they may dance with both their light and their shadow and embrace all that is in this wonder-filled life.

Thank you to all my new soul sisters who, much like the breath, we are now forever connected and bound by our love, our rawness and our willingness to be cracked open, exposing our radiant life and truth. You are all forever in my heart.”

“This training has been one of the most transformational experiences of my life. I came in with no expectations— just a knowledge that breathwork has the ability to heal us and open us to our true nature in ways that other modalities only just graze the surface. The Sacred Breath Training has rewired the way I function as a human being. It has allowed me to let go of so many stories I was subconsciously holding. It has enabled me to become gentler with myself, and in that place of compassion, my spirit has the space to flourish and expand at such an accelerated rate. I was able to uncover how engrained this type of work is in my own DNA— that my own source code has known long before the rest of me found that I wanted this. It has been many years that I’ve felt as though I was wandering this planet in search of my own truths, and through this incredible Sacred Breath Training, I found that the entire time, the answers were always within me.

The environment that Kaya creates for this transformation was undoubtedly the most powerful component of the training. Not only does the material feel completely aligned and connected, she creates a container for learning that allows you to actually become a vehicle of receptivity, so that it feels as though your entire being is absorbing the information, and your mind’s understanding and interpretation of the words spoken is just one part of this learning.

Kaya speaks to your soul through so much intentional creation of sacred space, connection, and an acknowledgment of the many influential forces at play. She opens the door and reminds you that there are so many rooms to explore within this life. Where many other trainings target a learning that takes place only in the mind, Kaya creates a space where all the systems of your being become activated and open.

I don’t think it’s possible to express in words the amount of gratitude I have for Kaya and the other facilitators. I am forever changed and have finally anchored into my inner compass. I have grounded within my being, an unshakable truth that the only way out is through, and that surrender is the only way to embody strength. I am honored and filled with excitement to bring this incredible work back to my community.

Thank you so much, Kaya.”

“My deepest Gratitude to Kaya for holding such a powerful container this past week, and to the beautifully courageous women accompanying me on this journey. The depths of my being that I was able to traverse would not have been actualized were it not for the immense presence of safety felt. I have immersed myself in such powerful practices to clear and heal early childhood trauma, however, the breath is a tool that I had yet to utilize in such a way. The unwinding of the trauma within my nervous system, the years of tension held and then released in just a few days, still leaves me in such awe and wonder. Our bodies hold within us such magnificent technologies. If only to find the access to these, and own this embodiment with such vigor. Flying off onto my next adventure with the deepest purest love in my heart and womb for all that was cleared and gained within the last 7 days. Patiently yet eagerly awaiting the day I too weave this potent force of the breath into my offerings.”

“I embarked on my Sacred Breathwork Facilitator Training Level 1 journey during the beginning of the pandemic, and I am so blessed and very grateful I did! During my Sacred Breathwork Journeys, I awakened & connected in the deepest ways I ever have with my body temple and my soul. This has been such a profound & divine experience with Kaya and her incredible team of assistants that supported and guided me, and I truly could not have asked for anything better! I felt so held in every special & nurturing container which Kaya masterfully created, supported, and taught through. I was able to go to such depths & layers within myself, and find liberating courage & freedom to integrate my emotions & vulnerabilities, meeting myself with unconditional love.

The Sacred Breath Method has led me to expansive, enlightening awarenesses & I have been able to find my inner compass of my innate wisdom that has always been there. Beyond the health benefits I received, this method has assisted me to remember who I always was, and to never forget I am my own healer & my breath is the sacred gateway.

I have such deep gratitude for the caliber, heart-based leadership guidance & ethics, integrity, and POWER of this very beautiful training. I am truly honored to be a facilitator of this Lineage, and to be part of the SBA Family! Thank you so so much Kaya and the SBA Team!

With so much Love, Valerie”

“The depths I have gone to on the journey to learning how to be a Sacred Breath Facilitator has been nothing short of profound. I have had some major shifts in my own life through practicing the breath method and moving through the different layers of repressions I had been holding within in my own body. I am still blown away that we can do this for ourselves through active conscious participation in the way we breath. Before committing to take part in this course I researched a lot of other schools, and I couldn’t find another that offered the level of training in not only the breath and its power, but also how to understand what our emotions are teaching us, why we have suppressed them, and a thorough understanding on what trauma is and how it shows up in our bodies. This entire training has been invaluable, and it gives me the confidence that I can guide people through the breathwork process in a safe, grounded and clear way. Thank you!”

“Sacred Breath Academy literally changed my life. The lineage taught me what shadow, belief and inner work really means, how every person is so different and how healing is not linear. The modules were set in such a way that made it easy to follow. I took in all the info, and just started to fall in love. I didn’t think I could fall any further, but then the in person intensive was to the extreme. Not only did the Kaya go over what we learned on our own in the modules- proving to be a great recap and repetition, but it also prepped the entire group to truly become full-blown facilitators.

I felt confident and incredibly comfortable to move forward with the post-requisites. It was a lot of work to get them all done, but it was well worth it, and such a testament to the Academy and how they want each facilitator to be extremely knowledgeable in this healing art as we work through the traumas of other people and ourselves. I think doing this breathwork allowed me to break through my own blockages, which made me a stronger vessel to then give the healing art to others.
I think what I experienced in person was incredible. It was so deep and the relationships you make are ever-lasting. I personally cannot wait to do the Facilitator Level 2 Training. I am 100% in love with breathwork and feel like my life is finally full with a purpose and a mission to bring healing to as many people as possible, because when we can all heal our traumas, we come back to who we are. When we all step into our authentic selves, the magic happens, and everyone thrives.”

“Breath, the sacred elixir of life and the divine harmonic tone of aliveness itself. A symphony of exchange and that which gives and that which takes.... A mingling of pure essence and nature... Of consciousness and the holy... In breath, out breath... What a gift it is to breathe. It’s hard to count the multitude of times that breath has saved me, that it has been the recalibration I needed, the reminding of her rhythm, it’s all going to be okay, just breathe baby, take a breathe, you are here and now... It’s hard to count the multitude of times that breath has set me free and gifted me ecstasy, dancing into the night, trekking a mountain, or in sharing stories with a loved one. We could not feel, see, dance, play, create, smell, taste, or touch, without the sacred life force of breath.

I am so much greater than expanded. I am humbled in the purest of ways, softened, opened, in intimate reverence for all that has taken place throughout this training experience. The most beautiful and precious part, is that this recalibration into the true nature of the heart and soul of my being, this journey, is far from over. Each, and every moment that my body and spirit call me to breath, I am in awe, of the masterpiece of life, of the mystery of this divine teacher, of that which it is to breathe. The experience of this facilitator training was paramount. It led me deep within, into the cascading rivers of my soul, plunging into all inner dwellings to resurrect the most important parts of myself, actualizing manifest into form by traversing the darkness, bearing great life force directly into the spaces which were not yet illuminated, creating luminous expressions, embracing the palpable, cellular remembrance of my totality, of the sacred essence that weaves life through each and every one of us. All along, guided by breath, and held in the most tender yet potent of containers.”

“I have been extremely blessed and thankful to have undergone this Breathwork Facilitator Training with Sacred Breath Academy, which has undoubtedly changed my life forever. It allowed me to return home, to recognise my deepest truth, and slowly but surely the light came flooding in to these dark corners of the self I have denied. Words cannot accurately explain or justify the journey I have embarked on, and will continue to trek through... But my heart is open and ready. More so, I cannot wait to be able to share this sacred soul medicine of the breath and journey 💛”

“I am a mother to a beautiful 9 year old daughter. Like many women, when we seek to heal, we are also intentionally healing for our family, particularly our children. I have been on my own healing journey for years. CBT, talk therapy, shadow work, gratitude & mindfulness, energy work, & various other healing modalities. The desire to heal ancestral wounds & trauma & align closer to my Dharma, is what brought me to Breathwork.

The modality of Breathwork was able to act like a spotlight, illuminating the dark, shadowy aspects/places in my being that were wanting to be noticed, waiting to be healed. In one particular Sacred Breathwork session, the light brought my attention to my daughter’s father, J. The breath told me, though we had been separated for nearly a decade, the two of us continued to hold & play out deeply seated pain & resentment - & were unintentionally passing it along to our daughter.

Throughout the years, J & I had done talk therapy. As coparents, we were able to identify issues involving our relationship & our daughter, but rarely was anything truly resolved. As much as we mutually loved our little one & strived for amicability, there was a darkness surrounding us, & it was affecting each of us differently.

Breathwork & the sacred space held at the Sacred Breath Facilitator Training, brought a light to myself & J’s individual & mutual darkness & shadow. In session, both the breath & our daughter asked me to bring our darkness to the light, to offer it compassion, & to heal it. The despair, deceit, abandonment, emeshment, & loss that we had experienced together was felt & brought to the forefront - as were the similarities of the story relating to our ancestors. It showed that much of the themes & shadow were being passed down & repeated throughout each of our lineages. We had allowed ancestral trauma & narratives to repeat themselves with different characters, but it was the same script - & it was continuing to play out in real time.

Through the breath, I was given the opportunity to recognize that in order to live our Dharmas fully, & give our daughter the opportunity to do the same, we needed to heal these ‘unseen’ deep-seated wounds & shadow. Breathwork was truly able to uproot the hidden aspects of our bodies, paths, & souls, & illuminate them, as an opportunity to move forward. Talk therapy certainly has its benefits, but for us - it had acted like a bandaid - covering up the scar - & while it was out of sight - it was still there.

As a unit, we are slowly peeling off the bandaid. I am so beyond grateful that the Sacred Breath Method led me so beautifully to the breath as a guide and teacher. Through working with Kaya & the circular breath method, our family & our ancestors are healing. To facilitate the breath & personally heal my own trauma, as well as guide my loved ones & lineage through their own unique healing process, has been truly transformative. Facilitating the breath has aligned me to my Dharma, allowed me to step deeper in to my power & intuitive gifts, & has been met by my soul & that of my daughter’s with great honor.

With the sacred breath, the dark is becoming lighter, & we are creating a new narrative that is our OWN, manifested from our own light & love, instead of the past. Thank you, Kaya & the Sacred Breath Academy for gifting my family & I this incredibly healing modality & welcoming us on this sacred journey.

As far as my training experience- it was the deepest honor to hold space among and for this circle of beautiful women, alongside our facilitators. You enlightened me and created an environment for me which allowed me to feel, be vulnerable and soften, and brought a mirror to reveal my dark side and triggers. In turn, I was able to expand my being, heart, mind and soul.

Breathing throughout the training week, each journey looked different from person to person, session to session, day to day. Our group just so happened to be all women and the depths of healing we could access together were unbelievable. Using feminine shamanic breathwork, we were able to realize, release and remove stagnant blockages in the body. A few journeys exposed deep wisdom and healing regarding relationships around me; one was completely transcendent; and one exposed a great grief and had me sit in its traumatic root for a few days in order to move and clear it. Each journey was powerfully healing, releasing stagnant and repressed physical, emotional and physical energy, feelings and blocks. My body is constantly amazing me as she peels of layers of resistance and intuitively releases how she needs to. I am so grateful her her wisdom and bravery & for the divine feminine guiding me through this delicate process, back into my greater self.

There is a light and a breath that connects us regardless of the physical space between us. All the love and gratitude to my soul sisters, and to the beautiful Kaya, the vessel, wisdom and voice behind Sacred Breath Academy (also to all other staff who supported during the training) for facilitating this transcendental experience. My heart is so full.”

“Training with Kaya in the SBM has been more than I could have hoped for or expected. Her heart-centered teaching and way of being are what has made this experience so powerful. The information shared is invaluable and goes beyond the logistics of facilitating, delving deeply into what it means to facilitate from a place of compassionate wisdom and integrity. If you feel called to this work, don’t hesitate, you were led here for a reason. ”

“Kaya, I can not thank you enough for introducing the Sacred Breath Method and holding the space for me. I felt safe and loved and it was natural healing! There will never be the right words found to speak to you but I am assured you understand. I have spent many years trying to heal deep-seated pain and fear and in 1 short hr, it released and dissolved. My body has been cleansed. Divine wisdom is in charge now and I am full of gratitude. I will continue to share words as they come to me. Namaste”

“As a business owner in the wellness space, I have tried many holistic health therapies in the last few years, but my Sacred Breath session with Kaya was truly amazing! Kaya explained the technique thoroughly and coached me through the entire 1.5 hour breathing process. Her intuition knew when to advise me to slow down my breath and pick it back up again based on how my body was reacting. My experience was powerful. I felt an electric energy overcome my entire body, and there were times when I felt like I was completely outside my body. I shared with her afterwards that I kept returning to a purple, liquid metallic wormhole where I felt a deep connection to universal consciousness, and it felt very familiar. At the end of my session I was overcome with a feeling of gratitude and love. My energy was buzzing throughout my entire body and I practiced some qi gong to move it around. I highly recommend working with Sacred Breath Academy and Kaya.”

“After meditating for over 35 years, I easily thought I had mastered my emotions, accessed a kind of enlightenment and detached from any “story” or “density” of the earth plane. However, after only two breathwork sessions with Kaya, I endured the most incredible (and necessary) ego illumination imaginable.

I shook, cried and breathed out decades of stagnation and tension in my body and finally cracked the unconscious facade I was living within. I had a HUGE, life-altering and inexpressible heart opening for the first time in my life. I FINALLY was able to access my emotional body and release the protective armoring I had built around it. I was able to see that the detachment I took on was actually protection from feeling, and how I was actually detached to the point of disassociation. I realized that I was not actually open to love and connection before this and was living in a realm of highly mental constructs of “enlightenment” and “transcendence”. My most important epiphany was that I realized I was engaging what I now have learned to be spiritual bypass/ego before the breathwork was able to break me open.

I had such tearful and soulful releases in the loving presence of Kaya’s guided support, and was able to finally access a real, unconditional love for my partner and children. I immediately began to write them letters afterwards, apologizing for any love withheld throughout my life. In this, I came home to my truth- that I am here to love fully, to feel life, and to nurture the connections with those I hold most dear (as well as with all beings on this earth). My walls have crumbled and I am so grateful to you Kaya. Thank you for helping me to understand that softness and vulnerability is also strength and is so needed right now in the masculine collective. I will make it my life’s mission to embody this.

Thank you from my depths.”

“Kaya and her support team deliver an experience that you must not miss. It was beyond anything I could have imagined. I was able to release childhood trauma at a core level that I didn’t even know existed. I was transported outside of time and space. It was deeply healing and brought tears to my eyes as I released further and further. In this process, I came back home to myself. I look forward to my next opportunity to journey with them again.”

“I am new to the spiritual path and was just recently introduced to Kaya’s Sacred Breath Immersion, but admittedly was skeptical of my ability to reach beyond the physical realms by breath alone. However, to my surprise, she gently and masterfully guided me into such a state of relaxation that my body began tingling and transcended my mind into a paradigm that previously I had only been able to achieve through work with plant medicine. I was amazed to find myself reaching these heights through only the breath and was brought into a collective vision shared by others in the sacred circle. I highly encourage everyone to attend one of Kaya’s workshops- it was a life-changing and empowering experience!”

“In my 25 years as a healer, teacher, coach and seeker, I have never experienced the degree of healing that is possible as I have with Sacred Breathwork. It can take you into spaces that no other modality can. It is a journey of remembrance: that you were always the one you were waiting for. We each hold the power to release that which keeps us bound to old programs and loops. Simultaneously, we hold the same power to awaken the highest vision for ourselves and our life. It is a kind of magic that we all have the ability to access if we know the way. These tools are beyond what I ever thought was possible. I continue to witness miracle after miracle unfold around me as I deepen my relationship with this medicine.”

“My intention was to go to the root of my trauma in this life and all connected lives, and through the breathwork I went for it - and so glad I did. I am very grateful to our skilled guides for supporting me when the energies started moving. To be extremely vulnerable in front of you all, I have masked my earliest trauma so well and hidden it behind a big heart and a love of service work. Last evening was a big breakthrough for ending the wounded healer paradigm for me. I can now begin to simply shine the light of my truest knowing. I am very blessed to have shared space with you all last night and infinitely humbled by your presence.”

“If you are considering taking this training, don’t overthink it, please just do it! I just finished up last month and it was invaluable and special time. Such a mystical, beautiful, uplifting and life-affirming experience sharing this powerful Breathwork Facilitators Training in the Blue Ridge Mountains with this strong and soulful group. Kaya and her co-facilitators are magnanimous guides and humans. Thank you to them for the passionate guiding and space-holding. Looking forward to offering these extremely powerful techniques to others.”

“Breathwork is so indescribably healing. I feel like this last week I was at a shamanic medicine retreat in Peru but instead of the plant medicine as the catalyst, it was the breath. It’s incredible that something existing within you can be so powerfully transformative— it’s not without, it’s within.”

“What an amazing journey I had with Kaya and her team! I did not really know what I was going to experience but it was exactly what I needed. I received so much confirmation of my path and the experience itself catalyzed momentum forward into my personal, spiritual and professional growth. It is now undeniable I was supposed to learn from her on my quest of bringing healing into this world. I feel so blessed, so centered and ready to humbly move forward with integrating breathwork into all aspects of my life. I truly had a spiritual awakening through the training and there are not enough words to express my level of gratitude for this.”

“Kaya’s presence feels other-wordly, angelic even, especially during her immersions and ceremonies. If anyone has heard the term “star being”, I would undoubtedly say this applies to her. What she accesses is outside of my full comprehension. I can’t really explain how she is the catalyst that she is. It is almost like she is able to see into other places that the individual cannot and help retrieve the parts of them that have been dormant, blocked, abandoned or ignored and mystically enliven them, forging them back together and empowering the highest aspects of the individual to birth through. It is challenging to describe what happened energetically and spiritually during her immersions but I know I will never be the same. This experience has impacted me in too many ways to speak. I feel like I am finally stepping back into my true self. Thank you for all that you are Kaya. I bow to you in gratitude.”

“There are no words for how amazing and transformational the Sacred Breathwork Facilitator Training was. The opportunity came into my life at the perfect time and brought in an abundance of true light and strength. Kaya and the other facilitators are such beautiful souls and have so much love and healing to offer the world! I am forever grateful that Kaya appeared on my path and has helped me to find my most aligned, powerful self. I did not originally choose to do this training to become a breathwork facilitator, I am a stay-at-home mother of young children, so I thought I was just doing it as part of my own healing journey, but that quickly changed and now I cannot wait to offer this deep healing to others. My heart is so full of gratitude and my mind is in a state of pure bliss!”

“Breathwork was the key to unlocking the door to a whole universe inside of myself that I did not know existed. It was only by stepping through this door and beginning to walk on the path that lay ahead, that I was able to become conscious of and meet the many aspects of my multi-dimensional self. Breathwork was the catalyst for me to embark on the most powerful self-healing journey, the illuminator of my most authentic self that had unknowingly remained dormant all along, and the trigger to unleashing the infinite and boundless creativity and passion that exists within me. 

There was one moment where I could feel a powerful presence floating above me. In my heart chakra, I felt intense vibration and a strong pull towards this presence, as my chest lifted upwards. I asked who was there but received no answer. As the pull and vibration became more and more intense, I suddenly felt myself merge with this presence, and it was then that I knew I had experienced reunion with my higher self. Before that moment, I was not even aware of what it felt like to be separated. 

I am eternally grateful that I was led to The Sacred Breath Academy to dive deeper into my personal breathwork practise. The Sacred Breath Method is a beautifully-crafted Breathwork journey which allows one to go deep within their own being, and Kaya and her team create and hold the most amazing space for all sorts of magic and personal healing to unfold. The teachings of The Sacred Breath Academy fully embody what is means to be a light worker, and by simply sharing this breath medicine with others, we are already doing our part to birth the new paradigm on Earth.

This training is for anyone who wants to live a life of peace, joy and abundance, and to create heaven on Earth, which is only a breath away!”

“The past two months of training with Sacred Breath Academy has been transformative and soul-shifting. It has guided me (and still guiding) to move back to my center being and gently grasp the subtle nuances and complexities of the human energy field. I have learnt to be my own agent of change by calibrating my energy to all miracles around me and to hold the space of love and compassion for myself, and others.

When the two months of virtual training has been so impactful, I cannot quite imagine the depth of impact during the in-person training and I am looking forward to that! Unlike any breathwork I have done, the Sacred Breath Method is gentle and loving, yet more profound in my personal journeys. Throughout the entire experience, I felt held and supported by Kaya and the group. Kaya’s guidance has been an integral part to my learnings and I am forever grateful to be part of the Sacred Breath lineage. ”

“Kaya and her team created a beautiful, safe container for us to not only journey into ourselves through our breath, but also to connect with each other on the deepest levels. Through finding self love, it enabled us to unify with all that is, to see the divinity in everyone and everything.”

“This experience has taken me to a new level. A transformation. To trust the initial calling has been such a blessing. I have been able to see inside myself and identify the organic beauty that has always been there. I am forever grateful for this entire journey. I now hold the world and myself so differently. I have been gifted with new eyes to see.”

“Having practiced daily meditation for half of my life, I was greatly surprised by the potency of Sacred Breathwork the first time I journeyed with Kaya. Kaya is rooted in the Shamanic traditions of using music, sound and ceremony as well as her own energy and voice to help guide the journey which I found to be serene and liberating. By the end of the two-hour immersion, I felt I was traveling through indescribable dreamscapes in a state of complete euphoria. But of equal importance to me were the tools I took away from the experience, to be able to incorporate these breathing techniques into my daily mediations. I truly believe breathwork is the healing modality of the future and I now use it every day of my life... Breath is the forgotten power we hold within.”

“There is no moment more beautiful than that which you meet your soul for the first time. I am eternally grateful to Sacred Breath Academy (and to the other inspiring individuals in the circle that I journeyed with) for holding space and creating a healing container for me to go deep within and unlock the keys to my own divinity. I will always remain in awe of the mysteries of the breath.”

“I am so grateful for the breathwork journey I took with Kaya. Not only is she masterful in her guidance, but she is wonderful at holding space. I had a huge breakthrough surrounding my music career around the activation of my authentic voice. Further, the euphoric sense of peaceful calm I left with has stayed with me. Kaya is a blessing and I would highly recommend her to anyone interested in the healing modality of breathwork.”

“Through the breath (Spirit, Source, God or a thousand other names), I was able to connect to the multi-dimensional aspects of my being. Whether they were the lives of ancestors living within me or other lives of mine, I don’t fully know yet. Regardless, I was able to unify them in powerful ways; like a diamond with infinite facets. I was able to see things differently, through higher and more interconnected vantage points. I reached levels of consciousness I never knew to be possible. I remembered Kaya from another place.”

“I will never be the same. I am filled with gratitude. This journey I have taken was a discovery of self, of the universe, of life, and of the connection every being innately possesses. Where before there was isolation is now knowledge, love and understanding. There is hope. It was always inside me, waiting to be rediscovered. I am forever changed, my being now open to the infinite possibilities that are life, love and connectedness. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”