Breathwork & Bodywork
Through the dark, into your own light.
Learn to guide breathwork in two ways: the soft way, and the transformative, roaring way. Online study in English, followed by a five-day practice week in Malaga, Spain. You finish with a theory and practical exam, and leave as a certified practitioner, able to hold this work for others from a conscious and professional foundation.
Through the dark, into your own light.
The essence of Buenavida® is energy healing. Yet when clients talk about Buenavida®, many of them talk about the breathwork. Valérie uses the word transformative on purpose, because that is what it is. Breathwork brings your biggest traumas to the surface, and it puts you in your power like little else can.
“You go through the dark, and realise that you can be the light.”
When Valérie moved abroad, client after client booked a flight to follow her, because they missed the breathwork. She does not say this to boast. It is simply what she has heard, year after year.
Depth, with softness and integration.
Many people have experienced breathwork that opens a lot and leaves them alone with it. The Buenavida® Method combines transformative depth with softness and integration, and treats the body as a language.
Transformative depth
Breathwork that reaches what is stored deep in the body, and brings it to the surface to be met.
Integration as practice
What opens in a session is guided, landed and integrated, so it keeps working in daily life.
The body as language
Learning to read what the body shows, and to work with it through breath, touch and voice.
Together in the room. The soft way, and the roaring way.
Everything you need to hold this work.
The course takes you through the work yourself first, and then teaches you to guide it for others.
- 01
Trauma and the nervous system
How trauma lives in the body, the difference between stress and trauma, and how to keep a session within what the nervous system can hold.
- 02
The soft way and the roaring way
Guiding gentle, grounding breathwork as well as deep, transformative group sessions.
- 03
Bodywork and somatic release
Reading tension in the body, working with touch, movement and sound, and letting what is held finally move.
- 04
Your voice and light language
Moving through the themes that keep your voice small, until you can use it freely, up to and including light language.
- 05
Ancestral healing and sacred space
Breathwork for the family line and the ancestors, setting intention, and opening and closing a sacred space with care.
- 06
Holding a session
Preparing yourself and the space, music, starting and closing a session, and integration afterwards.
- 07
Professional foundation
Trauma-informed facilitation, boundaries and touch, ethics, screening for contraindications, informed consent, knowing when to refer, and taking care of yourself.
Online first, then in the room.
The online part is complete before you arrive in Malaga. There you put everything into practice, together, for five days.
Online
Recorded lessons in English that you follow at home, alongside your own breathwork practice, with a live Q&A every two weeks on Tuesday evening, 7 pm Central European Time.
Practice week
Five days in Malaga, Spain, Monday to Friday. You practise guiding sessions, in the soft and in the roaring way.
Professional foundation
The course closes with the part many courses leave out: working as a facilitator, consciously and professionally.
Certification
A theory exam and a practical exam, both online. When you pass, you receive your certificate as a Breathwork & Bodywork practitioner.
“I have been to so many other breathwork facilitators, and nobody is as good as you. Otherwise I’ll book my ticket to come to you. Or I’ll sign up for the next breathwork training. I only want to learn it from you, so count me in.”
“I’m thinking about doing a breathwork training, first of all just for me. Because I went to another breathwork session, and it was just OK. Yours was way better.”
Some words were translated from Dutch.
This is for you if
- you want to guide breathwork with real depth, and with care;
- you have felt what breathwork can open, and want to learn how to hold it;
- you are ready to go through your own dark first;
- you can travel to Malaga for the practice week.
This may not be the right moment if
- you are looking for a quick technique without doing your own work;
- you prefer to learn only online;
- you are pregnant, or planning to become pregnant in the coming year.
Breathwork is not suitable during pregnancy. If you are planning to become pregnant in the coming year, take that into account before you sign up for this course. More than once, women became pregnant during their Buenavida® year and could no longer join the breathwork. Choose consciously.
Two ways to join.
Take Breathwork & Bodywork on its own, or follow all four courses as one practitioner year at a lower combined price.
Breathwork & Bodywork
Wave 1 · Launch price, until 31 October
Online course with lifetime access, and the practice week of 15 to 19 March 2027 in Malaga.
EnrolThe Practitioner Year
Wave 1 · Launch price, until 31 October
All four courses and all four practice weeks in 2027. You save €1.850 compared to four separate courses.
View the full yearThe price rises in three waves
Launch price
Until 31 October
€2.950 per course
€9.950 full year
Full payment upfront
Founding price
1 to 30 November
€3.150 per course
€10.800 full year
Pay in full or in 3 instalments
Early price
1 to 31 December
€3.550 per course
€12.150 full year
Pay in full or in 3 instalments
From 1 November: €3.150 per course, €10.800 for the full year.
The launch price applies to full payment upfront. Payment in three instalments is possible from 1 November.
Ready to find your own light?
The course opens online on 11 January 2027. The practice week takes place from 15 to 19 March in Malaga, Spain.