HineHau Breath Practitioners 200 Hour Certification

What You Will Walk Away With:

Step into the HineHau Practitioner Training, a high-level, six-month mentorship and training program designed to guide you to become a licensed and certified HineHau Breathwork Practitioner.

Become a Kaitiaki of the Breath, a guide and leader, holding space and leading others with depth, spiritual integrity and skill.

Learn how to guide private and group Breathwork Journeys using the HineHau BreathWav™ method, a trauma-informed, spiritually anchored modality steeped in indigenous wisdom and safe practice.

Whether you are a hauora professional, rōngoa practitioner, coach, therapist, healer, teacher or just beginning your path, this training will deepen your confidence, add skills to your kete, and take you on a deep personal journey of remembrance.

This training is for wāhine, Māori and non-Māori, who honour and respect a Te Ao Māori worldview and feel called to offer breathwork as a rongoā for our people and our whenua.

 Your Personal Transformation:

• Receive sacred knowledge and techniques of Te Hā as a a taonga (gift) to co-create your life with intention, mana motuhake and sovereignty. 
• Move from feeling stuck in cycles of doubt and emotional heaviness to breathing freely, seeing clearly, and remembering your mana as a wāhine
• Step away from carrying mamae that’s not yours, releasing intergenerational weight, so you can walk steadily and with intent towards your purpose.
• Remember your unique power as a wāhine to set the tone of all spaces you occupy, speaking volumes without words, inspiring action without command.
• Come away from needing to push for your healing, and instead be carried by Te Hā into a completely new season of your life.
• Move away from patterns of numbing yourself, overthinking, and self-doubt to get by, and into new patterns that inspire creativity, deep rest and a peaceful inner knowing of who you are.
• Release and repattern relationship strain and confusion, welcoming in energetic reset, relational clarity and union.
• Step away from patterns of fatigue and burnout and learn how to facilitate nervous system repair and emotional regulation for yourself and your whanau. 

Your Professional Transformation: 

• A shifted perspective and lifted spirit, to LEAD in the way you came here to lead. 
• The skills, confidence and tools to facilitate powerful breath journeys and techniques for your people
• A trauma-informed, culturally anchored framework to hold space with integrity and depth
• Real-life experience in guiding sessions and responding to real-time emotional and energetic states
• A deepened relationship with Te Hā as taonga, a sacred inheritance, and a powerful current for transformation
• Clarity on how to share this mahi through your own lens, whether in healing, education, leadership, or creative work
• Tools to navigate your own nervous system as a leader , so you can offer this work without burning out
• A strong spiritual foundation to support your role as Kaitiaki of Breath
• A community of fellow practitioners who walk this path with reverence and courage
• A modality you can confidently integrate into your existing hauora mahi, or use to begin your new path

You’ll be supported every step of the way from beginner to practitioner  with clear structure, ongoing mentorship, and a powerful collective of wāhine leaders walking beside you.  

Kaupapa Studio Business Accelerator

What You Will Walk Away With

Step confidently into your role as a HineHau Practitioner and lay the foundations for your own thriving, sustainable kaupapa business. 

With a decade of experience in business, corporate branding and marketing, Shannon will give you the tools, insights and lived experience to guide you from practitioner to entrepreneur, without losing your essence along the way.

Whether you are integrating breathwork into your existing mahi or stepping boldly into a new path, the Kaupapa Studio will give you the clarity, structure and confidence to launch with intention and impact.

Your Business Transformation

• A completed business plan that is grounded in your values, your whakapapa and your vision for the next two years
• A clear understanding of your brand, not just how it looks, but the unique frequency and voice of your kaupapa
• Confidence in your position in the market, who your people are and how to reach them authentically
• A pricing structure and financial plan that reflects both your worth and the communities you serve
• A marketing approach rooted in integrity, one that attracts and nurtures clients without compromising your values
• The legal and operational foundations to practise professionally, including client agreements, insurance and intellectual property
• A business that is not only sustainable and profitable, but deeply aligned with who you are and the mahi you are here to do

Our Venue Partner for 2026

Lake Okataina Lodge  ~ Ngāti Tarāwhai

Lake Okataina Lodge is just 30 minutes outside of Rotorua central and is nestled in the heart of the forest and overlooking Lake Ōkataina.

This location will be home to our HineHau Level One & Two Retreat and Training.

Owned by Ngāti Tarāwhai, we invite you to stay onsite at Lake Okataina Lodge for the full immersion experience.

While accommodation is not included in your retreat cost, we have reserved a small number of Wilderness Family and Wilderness Studio units onsite exclusively for HineHau participants.

Each unit includes a kitchen, allowing you to prepare your own breakfasts during the retreat. 

Price for 6 Nights:

• Wilderness Studio with kitchen – exclusive to you. Six nights for only $790. 
• Wilderness Family Unit with kitchen – Share with three others (Two bedrooms) Six nights for only $371 per person.
• Wilderness Studio with kitchen – Share with one other. Six nights for only $395 per person.

Rooms are limited, so we encourage you to apply early to avoid missing out. Once accepted we will together allocate you a room. There are options to have you own room at an additional cost.