Now Enrolling · May 2027 · Colorado
Become a Vivation Teacher
Joyful Journey Hot Springs · Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado
14-Day Immersion
Teacher Training
May 22 – June 5, 2027
Fourteen days at a natural hot springs retreat in the Colorado mountains. Learn the complete method through your own body, including Warm Water Vivation in the springs. Then learn to guide others through eight days of clinical training, followed by three months of mentorship and full professional certification. You leave ready to teach, carrying a codified system no other breathwork training offers.
Explore the TrainingPay in full, or in 6 monthly payments. The payment plan is available until December 20.
What is Vivation?
Vivation® is a physically pleasurable skill developed by Jim Leonard for permanently resolving emotional pain. It uses conscious breathing, deep relaxation, and gentle receptive awareness to help people work with anxiety, stress, grief, trauma, and other difficult emotions.
Vivation teaches that much of emotional suffering comes from resistance to feelings rather than from the feelings themselves. By reducing resistance, Vivation helps difficult emotions resolve into relief, peace, vitality, and well-being.
Unlike approaches that focus only on temporary relief, Vivation teaches a repeatable skill for emotional integration and abiding happiness.
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How is Vivation Different?
Most Breathwork Releases… Vivation Integrates
Vivation resolves emotional pain where it actually lives, in the body, at the root, so it doesn't come back. The resolution is permanent. What remains is a settled, abiding peace, and a joy that doesn't depend on anything outside you.
Learn MoreThe Benefits of Vivation
What changes when emotional pain resolves at the root:
Reduce Stress
Resolve tension and anxiety at the root, so it doesn't keep coming back.
Quiet the Mind
When the body integrates, the mind naturally quiets and clears.
Move Through Grief
Let grief move through, until love and peace are what remain.
Deepen Your Meditation
Settle into stillness naturally, no forcing, no judging.
Improve Your Relationships
Less reactivity. Clearer boundaries. More connection and ease.
Expand Your Spiritual Connection
Feel more presence, aliveness, and connection to life, quietly and directly.
Break Habits & Addictions
Resolve the emotional trigger underneath the habit, so cravings loosen.
Spark Creative Breakthroughs
When emotional charge resolves, creativity returns effortlessly.
Lighten Your Spirit
Drop the heavy story. Feel freer, clearer, and more yourself.
Anyone Can Do Vivation
If You Can Breathe, You Can Do This
No matter your age, background, or experience, Vivation is learnable. In your first session, you'll feel real relief. In the Seven Basic Lessons, you'll have the skill for life. Anywhere. Anytime.
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What People Are Saying
Ally Sheedy
Hollywood Actress
"Vivation has been my constant companion... I can't imagine life without it!"
Dick Bertram
Billionaire Founder of Bertram Yachts
"Vivation is the most powerful transformational process I have ever experienced. I enthusiastically recommend Vivation to everyone."
Louisa Rasiej
Therapist
"I love feeling the energy. Why do people do drugs when they can have this bliss through Vivation?"
Where Would You Like to Begin?
Three doors. No wrong choice.
Practice on Your Own
Membership
Guided sessions, live classes, and a growing library that deepens as you do.
From $39/month
Train with the Best
Learn Vivation
Private training with Paul Hughes, the world's most experienced Vivation instructor. Master the skill for life.
By application
Become a Teacher
Teach Vivation
Get certified in the only breathwork method with a codified system for permanent resolution.
Next cohort: October 2026 · Scandinavia
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