Apprentice to the Breath:

Foundation Path

September 2026 - July 2027

With Alicia Barmon

& the Teaching Team

This is a virtual offering

Register by 7/15/26 for $100 off.

The Foundation Path A year-long virtual apprenticeship.

For those coming to this work for the first time, the Foundation path is a yearlong dive into the breath as teacher, guide and companion.

Three mornings a week, live, held in relationship rather than delivered as content and a monthly 3 hour integration container. Along with the experiential, are video lectures that frame the experiential in the left brain learnings.

We move through biomechanics and biochemistry, the architecture of the nervous system, the subtle currents that shape how breath and attachment move together in a body. Polyvagal theory meets Chinese medicine. Western somatic science meets yogic philosophy. Interpersonal nuerobiology made holy. None of it abstract, all of it breathed.

This path is virtual, which means it's also wherever you are. Monday, Wednesday, Friday mornings (7:30-8AM EST), a monthly video lecture, plus a monthly three-hour, live integration on Zoom. A full year of practice, study, and the slow accumulation of trust in the breath, in the body, and in our direct experince.

Who this is for:

This is a beginning point, not a prerequisite-heavy one, though it asks for real commitment. This work is suited to:

Yoga teachers wanting a deeper somatic and nervous-system foundation
Therapists and clinicians wanting to bring breath into their work
Bodyworkers and somatic practitioners building toward facilitation
Anyone called to a year of sustained, relational breath practice

Weekly Breath Practice

Monday, Wednesday & Fridays

The heart of the apprenticeship happens in the weekly morning practice guided by Alicia throughout the year. This is the thread that holds everything together. The integration containers will be developed and deepened in the daily practice.

Mon, Wed, and Fri, 7:30 - 8 AM EST

First Saturday RAINN Practice, 8 - 9 AM EST

The live, virtual (and recorded) practice emerges from the opening that interbeing offers. A practice of remembering our true nature through the exploration of our inner landscape as both the home of and the catalyst for liberation. I weave Somatic Experiencing, quantum physics with ancient practices that draw from Vedic philosophy, Chinese medicine, Buddhism and my direct experience with trees, fungi, bull frogs, and many other sentient beings that walk my path with me.

The practice includes:

Weekly time for questions, discussion and integration (Fridays 8-8:30 AM EST)
Monthly RAINN practice with Quaker Share (1st Saturday) 8-9 AM EST
15 minutes of dancing every Wednesday following practice

Apprentice yourself to the breath.

The ideal participants:

-want to harness the breath for personal and collective liberation

-want to deepen their own practice and learn how to guide others to breathe through these times

-are interested in an experiential understanding of the power of the breath

-are longing to walk the path of the Bodhisattva together

-are able to participate in the weekly practice from 7:30 - 8 AM EST Monday, Wednesday and Fridays (recordings available)

Apprenticeship Dates:

September 20th

October 25th

November 22st

December: apprentices meet on their own January 10th

February 21st

March 21st

April 25th

May 23rd

June 20th

July 25th

12PM - 3PM EST

Monday, Wednesday & Friday practice:

7:30 - 8AM EST

Friday Check-in time 8 - 8:30AM EST

First Saturday Community RAINN practice 8 - 9AM EST

Warm Welcome,

My name is Alicia. I have been consciously practicing the breath for 30 years in my personal and professional practice as a psychotherapist, yoga therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. I have used it as a tool to support people with symptom mitigation and root level healing.

I work with people as multidimensional beings to support liberation as a practice of unraveling our conditioning.

I combine Somatic Experiencing with breathwork to build a bridge between the subconscious and conscious mind - the implicit and the explicit - allowing longstanding patterns to emerge and be supported, held and felt in a new way - in relationship with the loving witness and the vast web of relations.

My work emerges from the intersection of science and spirituality as I weave modern science with ancient practices to create 30 minute daily practices that draw from quantum physics, Vedic philosophy, Chinese medicine, Buddhism and my direct experience with trees, fungi, bull frogs, and many other sentient beings that walk my path with me.

I provide somatic work (with and without psychedelics) and individualized breath sessions to harness the breath for personal and collective liberation.

I am committed to regenerative practices, local community resiliency and loving ourselves and each other back to wholeness as an act of collective liberation.

For more information about my work, click here.

"Alicia is a treasure among treasures. I feel incredibly grateful to have found her. She brings breadth and depth to her teachings, drawing from an impressive array of traditions and approaches including Yoga, Qigong, Somatic Experiencing, and Parts Work, to name a few. I am often astounded by her knowledge, and wisdom in drawing upon that knowledge. How can one person hold so much? Alicia's background as a Trauma Therapist combined with her profound empathy allows her to bring highly skilled safety and attunement to the Breathwork Practices. She creates a container that allows for grounded trust, expansion and transformation, a rare combination. I consider it to be a real privilege to be one of Alicia's students and a member of her Breathwork Sangha."

Sara Silvia, Therapist

"I can’t say enough about Alicia and about this program. To share this container and community is so incredibly special and I am so grateful! The apprenticeship is full of practical knowledge that I know I can take with me into not only my personal practice, but my practice as a therapist as well. Knowledge of the breath and regular practice has made me a better clinician, a better partner, and a more connected human. This program has been a breath of fresh air that I didn’t even know I needed. Thank you Alicia!"

Nicole Sparrow, Therapist, Reiki Master

"I don't think anything has been as impactful for my overall well being...like ever. Alicia's Breathwork Apprenticeship and the daily Breathwork practices have helped me better connect with myself and others. It's inspired me to work differently with my clients and students and honestly, Alicia is just really lovely to sit and listen to."

Carrie Dennison, Yoga Teacher Trainer and Rieki Master

"Alicia's Breathwork Apprenticeship has been revolutionary for me both professionally and personally. She has helped me safely explore and inhabit my body in a completely new way by helping me tap into our body's most powerful tool, the breath. Her incredible wisdom and tender guidance is soul quenching. It is so apparent that she takes incredible care when curating this apprenticeship. Her approach is gentle, thoughtful and trauma informed. It has been an honor to sit and breathe, laugh, cry and hold joy and grief alongside so many other beautiful humans during these last 6 months. I cannot recommend it enough!"

Amanda Phelan, LCSW-C

"I have been breathing with Alicia for 15 years a my partner. The Apprenticeship has helped me settle in a new and deeper way. It's one thing to be mindful, it's another to know how to breathe functionally and use the breath to change the way I am feeling. This work is profound. Coming into deep relationship with my breath has been so incredibly useful. It has been life changing on every level."

Travis Wanner, SEP, Somatic Coach, PSIP Facilitator, Pre and Perinatal Guide

"Alicia's daily breathwork and apprenticeship program has absolutely transformed my overall health and wellness. Thanks to these last six months, I now have a rich toolkit of breaths available when I'm fatigued, anxious, or need to work out the stiffness in my joints. More than that, though, I also have a community and a sense of belonging.

I have returned to my natural state of being thanks to this practice of attuning to my breath!"

Safrianna Loughna, LCPC

"I feel blessed to have been part of daily breath work practice with Alicia for the past year. It’s a unique experience to be gently and expertly guided into the body, accompanied by breath and in concert with others. I would call it the ultimate nervous system daily tune up, with the benefits that last throughout the day. I loved the structure of a daily routine, with flexibility built in to breathe in a way that suits my needs. Alicia is a gifted teacher with a big heart, with years of practice and ages of wisdom to share."

Julie McCarter, LCSW

Content from Past Apprenticeships

Biomechanics of Breathing: Embodying the breath (and ourselves) in the physical body

Exploring the diaphragms in the physical body as breath centers

Exploring the dynamics of gravity/levity, propping/collapse and yielding

Finding and deepening our own relationship to the locks

Interoception: embodying ourselves, pulling the sensorium home, pratyahara, holding ourselves in relationship to the other

Science of Breathing:

Breath retentions

The pause

CO2/the zone of exchange

Breath Hunger and breathing into the edges through the koshas to develop our capacity for pain

Finding the soft belly still point and the locks as technology to harness energy

The science and practice of humming

The breath as portal to interbeing:

The power of breathing in community: coherence and resonance

Quantum inquiries into the between

Embodying the breath through koshas and beyond

"Right relationship" to gravity as a portal to other dimensions through the quantum terrain

Sangha as the fulcrum for healing

The nervous system and the breath:

Dorsal vagal explorations as resourcing - re-associating to the transpersonal spaces (the more freezey states) so we can go into the samskaras/neural ruts with capacity and relationship (this is what the Immersions explore more deeply)

Ventral vagal breathing to support interspecies and human connection

Nasal cycles

Using the breath to:

Create the capacity to explore shock and overwhelm and states of stuckness/despsair and hopelessness

Organize a stuck threat response

Mobilize protection

Support nervous system waves from activation to neutral

Yogic anatomy: chakras, samskaras, granthis, shushumna, bandhas, vayus

Vedic and Buddhist Philosophy: samadhi, moksha, Japa Meditation and its incredible medicinal power to manage dysregulation along with its ability to transport us to the transpersonal

Chinese Medicine: the organ system, qi gong

We will explore:

Breaths to support a freeze response into rest

Breaths to mobilize out of freeze

Breaths to support nervous system waves from freeze to flow

*An Empathy Partner to walk with you through the journey

The Empathy Partner’s role is one of non-judgement and empathy. It is not that of a cheerleader nor is it a role of holding anyone accountable. It’s more a mirror, an empathic witness as we move through the work together. Daily practice can bring up A LOT. Meeting our stuff day in and day out is hard and rewarding. The partner is there to reflect back your process no matter what it is...from unbearable grief to chronic illness to insomnia to patterns of addiction to bouts of the “fuck its”, and maybe even some joy and bliss. The vast human experience is welcome in all of its complexity and nuance.

*Monthly sangha (sacred community) Quaker shares first Saturdays 8:30 - 9 AM EST after RAINN practice.

*Live practices on zoom (and recordings) included.

INVESTMENT

I offer a sliding scale with 4 levels. The wide range reflects the incredible disparity of economic conditions in the US and around the world. The payment structure is designed for those with more access to wealth (middle class and upper/owning class, anyone with investments or retirement savings) to cover the costs of those with little access to wealth. I trust your discernment of how you personally fit into this scale.

Pay it Forward rate ($1570 or $260/mo) gives the gift of this offering to those who could not otherwise do it. This rate INCLUDES the weekly practice.

Sustaining rate ($1445 or $240/mo) covers the cost of this offering, making it possible to continue offering it in the future. This rate INCLUDES the weekly practice.

Community rate ($1320 or $220/mo) provides a discount for anyone who cannot afford the sustaining rate. This rate INCLUDES the weekly practice.

Gift rate ($1070 or $178/mo) is available for those who need additional help to attend. This rate INCLUDES the weekly practice.

Past Apprenctices rate ($1195 or $200/mo)

*If you need additional financial assistance to participate, please reach out so we can discuss options.

If you would like to pay in full, you can send it to my Venmo account under my name and with my picture. @Alicia-Barmon

Please note that there is no integration in December. Instead, apprentices are encouraged to dive into a daily practice either with the included weekly live practices on zoom (with recordings) or on their own AND to meet with their cohort twice for accountability and share their journey. The December rate is $70 for the daily practice, already included in the total.

PLEASE NOTE THE CANCELLATION AGREEMENT BELOW.

Apply Here

Cancellation Agreement
Up to 30 days before start date: full refund (minus a $50 admin fee)

Between 14-30 days of the start date: 50% refund

Less than two weeks notice: no refund unless a replacement person can be found. (There are a specific number of slots for each training. If someone cancels at the last minute, that slot is not filled and impacts the sustainability of the training.)

An exception will be made for an unexpected illness and major life events: a refund of 50% or a full credit to attend an up-coming training can be issued.

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