WELCOME TO SCHOOL OF ORYGEN™
THE ORIGIN OF EMBODIED EDUCATION.
Where breath-led education returns us to our origin.
A living school for embodied learning, practice and community.
TRAUMA-INFORMED. SOMATICALLY INTELLIGENT. EMBODIED BY NATURE.
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At SCHOOL OF ORYGEN™, we exist to restore education, mental health and embodied wellness to their original source, returning learning to the body, to the living ecosystem that breathes within us and to anchor wisdom in lived experience.
THE CORE PILLARS OF SCHOOL OF ORYGEN™
Here, we return to breath and to what is innately ours.
Originality | Source | Roots
We honour what came before, while refusing to copy what already exists.
This is where education returns to its source.
Breath | Space | Regulation
Breath is the foundation of all learning, healing and leadership.
Presence precedes performance.
Legacy | Training Continuity
We train facilitators who create ripple effects across families, communities and generations to come.
You’re Invited to Enter the Foundations of School of Orygen™
Opening end of January 2026
This is the beginning.
Fundamentals of School of Orygen™ is the foundational, self-paced course that introduces you to breath, energetics, nervous system intelligence and intuition as lived, embodied practices, not concepts to perform or bypass.
This trauma-aware journey is designed to cultivate inner safety so real integration and lasting transformation can occur, gently and in your own time.
Whether you’re here for personal evolution or as the first step toward Orygen™ certification, this course lays the groundwork for everything that follows.
The breath leads.
The body remembers.
This is the foundation.
School of Orygen™
Foundations open end of January 2026.
MEET THE FOUNDER
SCHOOL OF ORYGEN™ was founded by Elise - Medicine Woman, Mentor and Transformational Breathwork & Quantum Energetics Coach.
For over fourteen years, Elise worked within education, leadership and community systems, particularly across schools and early education environments. It was here that she began to see the deeper fractures forming beneath the surface, from rising burnout, increasing diagnosis, dis-ease and a growing disconnection between learning, the body and human capacity.
Rather than adapting to systems that had never served her, or anyone for that matter in life, Elise was called into a deeper inquiry.
Her path became rooted in devotion to breath as a living intelligence not as a technique, but as a primary language of awareness, regulation and evolution. Guided by ancestral Celtic wisdom traditions and earth-based shamanic lineages, she followed her roots into the role of Medicine Woman as stewardship, deeply devoted to restoring somatic intelligence, breath and embodied knowing into how humans learn, lead and self-govern.
Over more than a decade of immersion, study and practice, Elise wove trauma-informed principles, somatic intelligence, breath-led awareness and ancestral wisdom into one-of-a-kind certification frameworks. These trainings are not prescriptive methods, but living transmissions designed to free practitioners from limiting structures and empower them to develop their own breath-led systems of transformational leadership.
As Founder of SCHOOL OF ORYGEN™, Elise holds the vision and integrity of the school, stewarding expansive, high-calibre education devoted to legacy, liberation and the future generation of breath-led transformational coaches.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCHOOL OF ORYGEN™
SCHOOL OF ORYGEN™ exists to restore breath-led, embodied education to its original source and to train a new generation of practitioners in the mastery of self-leadership, purpose and conscious creation.
We are founded on the understanding that human intelligence is not limited to cognition or history. It is somatic, relational, archetypal, ecological and quantum in nature. Long before education became fragmented into systems, diagnoses and outcomes, learning was lived, transmitted through breath, body, rhythm, environment and meaning.
Our philosophy returns education to this living foundation.
At SCHOOL OF ORYEGN™, breath is not a technique, intervention or another regulation tool.
It is a primary intelligence.
Breath shapes perception, awareness, rhythm, and presence. It governs how humans relate to themselves, to others, and to life itself. When breath leads, learning becomes embodied rather than imposed, and leadership becomes responsive rather than reactive.
All education within the school is breath-led.
Rooted in ancestral, earth-based wisdom traditions particularly Celtic and Andean shamanic lineages our philosophy honours learning as cyclical, initiatory and relational.
SCHOOL OF ORYGEN™ stewards this lineage through whole-system education, where breath, body, psyche, energy, environment and community are interdependent.
Each training is held with the long view, shaping practitioners who lead themselves and serve future generations.
We recognise the body as a living archive of wisdom, not a problem to be solved.
Learning does not occur separate from the body; it occurs through it. Sensation, emotion, instinct, intuition and movement are not secondary to cognition, they are foundational to it.
Our work is trauma-informed and somatically intelligent, meaning safety, choice and agency are inherent. Yet we move beyond defining humans by their wounds or nervous system states. The body is honoured as an adaptive, intelligent system capable of growth, meaning-making and self-governance.
SCHOOL OF ORYGEN™ teaches that we are not our past, our healing stories or our survival adaptations.
We educate practitioners in self-concept mastery, the understanding that identity is not fixed, but embodied, rehearsed and lived into existence. Through breath-led awareness, somatic intelligence and conscious practice, individuals learn to release identification with limitation and step into authorship of who they are becoming.
This is not about bypassing experience.
It is about no longer being governed by it.
Education here supports individuals to show up daily as the version of themselves aligned with purpose, capacity and responsibility.
SCHOOL OF ORYGEN™ rejects education models based on replication, hierarchy or compliance against our values.
We return to education as transmission knowledge that is lived, embodied and ethically carried forward. Our certifications do not produce followers of a method. They cultivate practitioners capable of developing their own systems, grounded in breath, embodiment, quantum awareness and responsibility.
Originality is not encouraged here.
It is required.
We recognise that humans are not only biological and psychological beings, but energetic and archetypal ones.
Our philosophy integrates quantum energetics to understand how intention, attention, frequency and coherence shape lived reality. Breath acts as the bridge between inner state and outer expression.
Through archetypal awareness, practitioners learn to recognise and consciously embody the patterns shaping behaviour, leadership and purpose moving beyond inherited scripts into aligned service and sovereignty.
This is education that restores agency at the deepest level.
COMMUNITY BREATHWORK & CONNECTION
A living expression of the SCHOOL OF ORYGEN™ philosophy
Community at SCHOOL OF ORYGEN™ is not an add-on, it is a return.
A return to shared breath, embodied presence and learning in relationship with nature and one another.
Our Community Breathwork & Connection mornings are Australia’s most inclusive, one-of-a-kind wellness event, designed to bring breath, body, sound and environment into lived experience.
These mornings invite real humans to arrive exactly as they are, to breathe deeply, connect meaningfully and recalibrate through embodied practice in nature.
Each gathering weaves together breathwork, sound, movement and sensory presence, with our signature Children’s Yoga & Mindfulness and Sound Healing offerings integrated and evolving with each event.
This is a shared field of learning, presence and belonging where individuals, families and communities come together to remember how to live, breathe and lead from within.
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“In our first ways of being, wisdom was not studied, it was remembered.
Breath was the first teacher, the body the classroom and life the initiation.”
~ ELISE (FOUNDER OF SCHOOL OF ORYGEN™)
A PRESCRIBED TEXT OF REMEMBRANCE
The Woman After. by Elise Small
This book is not offered as a living text, nor as a memoir/personal story to be consumed, but as a mirror, a guide and a companion for those standing at the threshold of change.
Written through the lived experience and medicine of the founder of School of Orygen™, The Woman After. carries teachings that are meant to be remembered, not followed. It is gifted as a transmission reflecting the patterns, initiations and cycles that shape human becoming and invites the reader to recognise themselves within them.
This text speaks to those who feel the quiet knowing that the ways they were taught to live, lead and identify are no longer true.
It is for those breaking cycles.
For those shedding inherited scripts.
For those restoring themselves to the original patterns of existence, before the world asked them to become anything other than what they are.
Rather than offering answers, this book walks beside the reader as they listen again to their breath, body, instinct and to the deeper intelligence that has always been present beneath the noise.
The Woman After. is not a destination.
It is a remembering and it is offered as a companion to those ready to return to themselves and to the life they were born to live.
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At School of Orygen™, we acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of this sacred land, the Gubbi Gubbi people and pay our deepest respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
We honour the ancestors who have cared for this land and its waters for thousands of years and recognise their enduring connection to earth, sea and sky.
We acknowledge the living wisdom held within these lands and waters and the healing presence they continue to offer.
May we walk gently, with gratitude and respect, guided by those who came before us.
