The Healer Training: Levels 1-5

The Healer Training: Levels 1-5 is a nine-day healing certification in breathwork and energy healing, held at Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. It is led by David Elliott, an author, teacher and breathwork healer, and it is open to anyone who wants to bring the message of healing into their life, whether or not they plan to work with others professionally. Across five progressive levels, you learn to work with your own healing first and then to guide individuals and groups.

What to Expect

The training moves through five levels, each building on the one before. Days run in two blocks, from 8:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 2:00 to 5:30 p.m.

Level 1 centers on the two-stage pranayama breathwork meditation, the foundation of David Elliott's healing work. You learn why the breath is used as it is to clear stuck energy from mind and body. Exercises and partnered breakout sessions develop intuition, confidence in your gifts, and self-love.

Level 2 looks at healing work as a business. Discussions cover self-love, exchange, value, worth and money, and get at where you may feel stuck or under-appreciated. You keep practicing the basic breathwork and refine your technique.

Level 3 teaches group facilitation. David leads group breathwork each day and shows his moment-to-moment process: working with the energy of a group, creating class topics, leading and closing a circle, and managing conflict. Because groups can stir up unresolved childhood trauma, this level brings that awareness to the surface and clears it in the breathwork.

Levels 4 and 5 complete the certification. Level 4 answers deeper questions about client and group work and how to stay clear at higher levels of awareness. David shares how he sets up and uses an altar, applies the tools more deeply, and develops intuition. Level 5 looks at what people hold in the body and the root causes of held emotion, abuse and trauma.

An evening of creative expression follows the final full day, and the training closes with a completion ceremony on the last morning.

About David Elliott

David Elliott is a healing artist who uses breathwork and energy work to help others. He is the author of The Reluctant Healer, Healing and Men's Work: Breathwork & Brotherhood, and he teaches the full range of his approach in this program.

The Setting

Omega Institute sits in Rhinebeck, in New York's Hudson Valley. Participants book lodging separately, and housing includes all meals and use of campus facilities such as optional classes, recreation, walking trails and parking. Options range from cabin rooms with private or shared baths to dorm rooms, tent cabins and camping. Cabin Room A has heat, air-conditioning and linens. Tent cabins and camping have no heat or air-conditioning, and guests bring their own bedding or rent it. Those who live nearby can register as commuters.

Check-in is on the Friday afternoon and evening before the first session, and check-out follows the completion ceremony on the final Sunday.

Before You Go

Anyone may attend, and no prior training is listed as a requirement. Faculty strongly recommend reading David Elliott's three books beforehand: The Reluctant Healer, Healing and Men's Work: Breathwork & Brotherhood.

Completing the training earns a certificate for 64 hours of full certification. The group works with a conscious intention to create a safe container, and the material can take you deeply into your own personal healing. Tuition covers instruction; lodging and, for commuters, meals are arranged separately. The schedule may change at the faculty's discretion.