The Exhale Awakening’s Breathwork Facilitator Apprenticeship offers three routes. All online. All led by two GPBA Accredited facilitators rooted on both sides of the Irish Sea. For Irish practitioners ready to train in a way that feels like it belongs to them.
If you have been sitting with the question for a while, you are not alone. Most of the people who train with The Exhale Awakening have been quietly wondering about it for longer than they can remember. Wondering if they have enough experience, enough confidence, enough of whatever it is they think they might be missing.
The truth is there is no perfect moment to begin. There is only the breath, and the willingness to show up for it.
If something in you has been leaning toward training, a Quiet Conversation is where it begins. No commitment. No sales script. Just a gentle conversation with Sharyn with a Why and Marie Doherty to see if the timing is right for you
The Breathwork Facilitator Apprenticeship is one 400-hour GPBA Recognised Training qualification with three routes. All taught by Sharyn with a Why and Marie Doherty. All fully online, which means you train without leaving Ireland.
400 hours is a serious commitment. It is also a formation: not just in how to hold a breathwork space, but in how to tend to yourself while you do it. The training covers facilitation craft, nervous system science, Celtic and elemental frameworks, and the practical reality of being a self-employed practitioner in the wellbeing world.
The Global Professional Breathwork Alliance (GPBA) recognition means the qualification is internationally recognised and sits within a defined professional standard. Both Sharyn with a Why and Marie Doherty are GPBA Accredited facilitators.
After completion, continuing with group support, supervision, and breathwork with The Exhale Awakening or Breathing Space for two years allows graduates to apply for GPBA Breathwork Practitioner designation.
The Individual and Retreat routes are available to begin any day, 50 weeks of the year. The Cohort runs once a year in November. All three routes lead to the same 400-hour qualification.
Fully online, fully self-paced. Work across 6 to 24 months, around your existing practice and life. Includes 24 one-to-one mentoring sessions: 12 with Sharyn with a Why and 12 with Marie Doherty.
Available to begin any day, 50 weeks of the year.
Investment: £3750
Monthly instalments available.
Monthly instalments are an administrative convenience and not a regulated credit arrangement. No interest is charged.
Online plus two in-person Exhale Gatherings: one in Yorkshire, one in Donegal. Self-paced across 6 to 24 months. Includes 12 one-to-one mentoring sessions: 6 with Sharyn with a Why and 6 with Marie Doherty.
For Irish practitioners, the Donegal Gathering is on home ground: three days at Malin Head, Co. Donegal. Date TBC Autumn 2026
Available to begin any day, 50 weeks of the year.
Investment: £3750
Monthly instalments available.
Monthly instalments are an administrative convenience and not a regulated credit arrangement. No interest is charged.
Group-based, fully online, co-taught with Breathing Space. Annual November intake. The most accessible route to the full qualification.
Bursary available.
Next cohort: November 2026.
Investment: £3,000
Monthly instalments available.
Monthly instalments are an administrative convenience and not a regulated credit arrangement. No interest is charged.
The Breathwork Coach Training is a 50-hour GPBA Accredited certificate. It is Unit 1 of the full Apprenticeship: if you go on to train as a Facilitator Apprentice, the Coach Training fee is fully credited against your investment.
If you are not certain whether facilitation is the right direction, Coach Training is the gentlest way to find out. You learn. You practise. And if you are ready for more, the path forward is clear.
Investment: £500
If you would like to read the full training brochure before taking any next step, it is here:
Breathwork practitioner, natural astrologer, and cosmic business coach, Sharyn with a Why brings the grounded clarity of a qualified corporate accountant alongside a deep and abiding love for Celtic wisdom and the slow intelligence of the seasons. She creates space where precision and softness sit comfortably side by side.
A breathwork facilitator and natural Celtic medicine practitioner with thirty years of lived, embodied care as a teacher, Marie is the root system beneath the canopy. She brings the land, the lineage, and the kind of presence that lets you breathe a little deeper without quite knowing why.
Sharyn with a Why and Marie hold every session together. Their collaboration is the practice, two voices, one breath.
For Irish practitioners choosing the Retreat Apprenticeship, the Donegal Gathering is not a trip away. It is a return.
Marie Doherty grew up in Carndonagh, at the tip of the Inishowen Peninsula. When she holds space at Malin Head, where the land runs out and the Atlantic begins, the teaching carries the land in it. That is not a metaphor.
Three days. Care of your craft. Care of your practice. And a full day where nothing is required of you except to breathe and be held.
Retreat Apprenticeship. With an Irish home.
A Quiet Conversation is not a sales call. It is a gentle conversation with Sharyn with a Why and Marie Doherty: what training looks like, which route might fit your life, and whether the timing feels right. No pressure. No script. You leave with clarity, whatever you decide.
If you would like to read more before that step, the brochure is always there.
or begin with the free Midweek Exhale
This is an invitational wellbeing practice and does not diagnose, treat, or cure any condition. You choose your pace and may rest at any time. If you have medical concerns, please consult a qualified professional.