Meet our Breathwork training Team
faculty remains the same for every cohort. mentors vary from those shown below
Steph Magenta
England, UK. Original Celtic Brigante Land
founder & Lead Teacher, Seven directions® breathwork.
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Steph Magenta is an Alchemy of Breath trained Breathwork Facilitator, for whom she was also a member of their teaching team for a year before evolving her own business. She is an Oxygen Advantage Advanced Instructor, licensed Bodywork Therapist and Shamanic Practitioner, holding over 30 years of experience in detox, healing, and somatic bodywork practices.
Steph brings a background in published addiction research, award winning writing, and sexual freedom advocacy to her work. An international retreat and events leader, she has always maintained a strong investment in providing grounded, safe, and ethical practice, rooted in informed training and ongoing personal self development.
She is recognised in her work for holding accessible, embodied practice, holding a strong focus on integration, professional ethics and competence.
Steph has been leading free online weekly breathwork sessions for 5 years - you can join those sessions by going to our Breathe With Us page.
Steph is passionately invested in ongoing shamanic practice and training, and brings her passion for the ways of the ‘Sacred Circle’ to this program. She is trained in TRE trauma release work and Dr Betty Martin’s Wheel of Consent.
Steph is a huge advocate of cold & heat exposure practices along with nervous system regulation, clean food, sleep hygiene and authentic relating as pathways to wellbeing.
She is the creator of the 21 Day Breathwork Challenge and is a Shift Network Breathwork Summit presenter and faculty course provider.
Steph was a recent keynote speaker in Kenya, Africa 2023 for The Global Inspiration Conference as part of Breathe Africa International, speaking about ethics in practice.
She lives in the north west of England on land originally held by the Celtic Brigantes.
You can find Steph’s personal website HERE
meet OUR FACULTY, Mentor & Staff TEAM 2024/25
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Patrick Mckeown, faculty
Patrick is the Founder of Buteyko International & Oxygen Advantage. He joins us to teach the Science of Functional breathing in which he is considered a leader and expert in his field.
Location: Galway, Ireland.
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Robyn Dalzen, Faculty
Robyn Dalzen is a Consent Educator. She joins us to teach the crucial nature of Interpersonal Consent in somatic work & therapy, using Betty Martin's Wheel of Consent as her framework here.
Location: Salt Lake City, USA, original land of the Ute, Paiute, Goshute & Shoshone people.
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Prema McKeever, Faculty
Prema is a Somatic Therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and experienced body and breathworker. She joins us to teach the Psychology of Trauma
Location: Vancouver, Canada
The unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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Earl Talbot, Faculty
Earl is the Founder of Creative Muscle. He is a Leadership coach, business consultant, solopreneur. His corporate background informs his experience in teaching on building your vision & values.
Location: London, UK.
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Sue Newsome, Faculty
Sue is anxeperienced sex & relationship coach and Supervisor for embodiment workers. She joins us to teach professional boundaries, & ethics in practice, which is integral to our work.
Location: England, UK
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Maya LaRose, faculty
Maya is an Algonquin Elder based in Wellington Canada. She is a Personal Support Worker, End-of-life Doula, Knowledge Keeper & Community weaver. Maya has devoted her life to being in service and is endlessly grateful to Spirit and to the many teachers who have helped define her path and gain the skills needed to fulfill her passion. She brings in the Seven Grandfather Teachings.
Committed to land rights? Please go HERE
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Sisonke Papu (KHNYSA), faculty
Ritual and Ceremony as Technologies of the Self, Community and Consciousness. Sisonke joins us to bring the fundamental aspects of ritual, ceremony, ancestry, lineage and land awareness into our program. He is the bridge between the practice and the mystery of human consciousness. His sessions create truly profound transmissions!
Location: Eastern Cape, South Africa. abaThemba / amaXhosa land.
IsiXhosa and English speaking.
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Natasha de grunwald, faculty
Natasha is a Trauma and Somatic Healing Teacher, and the Founder of the Trauma Release Method Facilitator training & The Potent Woman Journey. She is also a double certified Breathwork Facilitator.
Location: Brighton/London UK
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Pat Divilly, faculty
Pat is a corporate wellness provider & coach, entrepreneur & businessman, breathworker and all round seeker in life. He is a competent communicator and has an ongoing jujitsu practice which he loves! Pat brings in shadow work teachings to enhance and clarify your Presence Process journey through the program.
Location: Galway, Ireland.
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Rebecca Llewellyn, Lead Trainer (US/Canada) & Group Mentor
AoB, Integrative Breath & Seven Directions® Triple certified breathworker.
Rebecca is a non-Indigenous Canadian committed to Truth & Reconciliation, currently living on the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, and Mississaugas, land covered by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant. Rebecca is proud to call ‘Hamilton’ home. She walks a strong shamanic path and weaves her Medicine into her practice.
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ALI GILLING, 1-2-1 Trainer, Group Mentor & Student Integration lead
Integrative Breath & Seven Directions® Double certified breathworker.
Ali leads our student integration circles. She is a natural when it comes to calm and spacious space holding. Ali is our longest standing mentor.
Location: Ibiza/UK
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Rebecca Baker, 1-2-1 Trainer (UK/Europe) & group mentor
Integrative Breath & Seven Directions® Double certified breathworker.
Rebecca is a former teacher of performing arts. She is one of our primary 1-2-1 teaching team staff. Her previous experience as a former teacher gives her great clarity in her teaching skills as a 1-2-1 Trainer.
Location: England, UK.
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Mark Archer, mentor
Double certified BBTRS & Seven Directions® Breathworker.
Mental health professional. Mark is a big loving bear! He practIces IFS, NVC & Clean Language and is a former pro-surfer! His passion for clean language supports his practice. Mark lives in Poland in between the city and the forest with his wife Aisha, who is also a mentor on our program.
Location: Poland
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Aisha Archer, Mentor
Double certified BBTRS & Seven Directions® Breathworker.
Kinesiologist, former corporate marketer. Aisha lives in Poland spending time in Warsaw City and her cabin in the forest with husband Mark (also a mentor). She is passionate about women’s empowerment and works through cacao and the body to enhance her practice.
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SUSAN NORRISH, MENTOR
Susan is a Triple certified breathworker with the Language of Breath, Integrative Breath & Seven Directions® She is an all round beacon of light!
Location, Paris, Ontario, Canada. Ontario has 634 recognized First Nation People.
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Martine Waltier, Mentor
AoB Certified Breathworker.
Kundalini yoga teacher & professional musician and voice coach. Martin weaves her own music into her breathwork practice. She brings a cool calm presence to her work.
Locations: Malta & the UK.
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Kornelia Sramkova, Mentor
AoB & Seven Directions® certified breathworker.
BBTRS Level I. and II), certified massage and bodywork therapist.
Location: Bratislava, Slovakia. English & Slovak speaking.
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DANIEL HUGO MICELI, support MENTOR
BBTRS Certified Breathworker,.
Somatic Dearmouring & Compassionate Inquiry practitioner.
Daniel is a Latin American somatic practitioner. They are a queer, gender-fluid advocate for social and environmental justice who applies trauma-informed practices for collective liberation.
Locations: Germany, Argentina & Thailand. Languages: English, Spanish and German
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Lee James, Support Mentor
Triple certified breathworker: Seven Directions, Buteyko Clinic & Oxygen Advantage Advanced Instructor.
Certified Holistic Massage therapist. Life/Career Coach, passionate about personal development and empowerment in all aspects of being human.
Location: England, UK
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Charlotte Tassaker, Administration
Charlotte is our amazing P.A (Personal Angel!). Many of you will have contact with Charlotte when sending inquiries to our in box. Do reach out with your questions to stephmagentabreathwork@gmail.com and Charlotte is always happy to help.