Nicholas de Castella is Australia’s leading Heart Centred Breathwork Trainer, bringing more than 34 years of Breathwork experience to his work as a practitioner, facilitator, mentor and teacher.

Nicholas de Castella is Australia’s leading Heart Centred Breathwork Trainer, bringing more than 34 years of Breathwork experience to his work as a practitioner, facilitator, mentor and teacher.

Online and In-Person Breathwork Coach Certification Australia program allows you to gain professional certification without needing to travel. 

Find genuine Australian Breathwork College reviews, Google reviews, graduate stories and student testimonials from people who have completed our Heart Centred Breathwork training.

Whether you're a coach, counsellor, psychologist, therapist, nurse, yoga teacher, wellness practitioner, bodyworker or another health professional, you've probably noticed that some clients reach a point where talking alone isn't enough.

Discover Core Clearing Breathwork, a gentle, trauma-informed and Heart-Centred approach supporting emotional awareness, self-connection and personal transformation.

Healing doesn't need to be intense to be transformational. Instead, it can be gentle, respectful and deeply effective.

Healing doesn't need to be intense to be transformational. Instead, it can be gentle, respectful and deeply effective.

Many people believe crying means sadness is the only emotion present. However, emotions are often layered, and sometimes another feeling is waiting underneath to be acknowledged.

Many of us gradually lose connection with our hearts, our bodies and our natural sense of inner peace.

Learn about the beauty and power of Breathwork to transform your life. The article explores Breathwork, a transformative practice involving deep breathing to release emotions, promote well-being, and empower individuals on their journey of personal growth and healing.

 Aimed at helping individuals harness the power of their emotions to improve their lives. It emphasizes the importance of understanding and appropriately responding to emotions to avoid distress. 

At the core of our being, we are connected to truth, love, and our innate beauty, with emotions flowing freely through us. However, as we grow in the physical world, we learn to categorize emotions as 'good' or 'bad', resisting the natural flow of the latter.

Emotional healing is the path to wholeness, as suppressed emotions lead to fragmentation and loss of self. Healing comes through feeling and embracing all emotions, leading to increased aliveness and freedom.

Shame is an emotion characterized by feeling flawed, wrong, or invalidated. It is often created through invalidation and can lead to suppression and a collapse of one's sense of self.  Recognizing and addressing shame is crucial for emotional well-being and healing.

Truth holds greater importance than peace, as peace can be attained through truth, but not vice versa. We are here on Earth to release ourselves from self-doubt, compromise, and suppression, rather than seeking temporary acceptance and peace by denying our truth. 

Fairy tales and idealized notions of love overlook the realities of human existence, including the presence of anger, sadness, and fear. Real love involves soul connection, embracing all emotions and fostering open-hearted honesty to nurture lasting connections.

Fairy tales and idealized notions of love overlook the realities of human existence, including the presence of anger, sadness, and fear. Real love involves soul connection, embracing all emotions and fostering open-hearted honesty to nurture lasting connections.

Choose Your Focus, Transform Your Life: Discover Joy, Peace, and Growth by Shifting Perspectives

Living a Heart-Centered Life begins with the practice of tuning in—cultivating awareness of your body, emotions, and heart. By shifting from thinking to feeling, you reconnect with the present moment, fostering deep self-connection and transformation. Tuning into your heart reveals inner peace, love, and joy, qualities that expand and uplift. 

Our hearts, once open and vibrant as children, often close over time, leaving us disconnected and stressed. Breathwork is a powerful way to reopen the heart, releasing emotional baggage and restoring passion, peace, and connection to life.

By practicing Heart Centering—stopping, breathing, feeling, allowing, and focusing on love and gratitude—we align with our peak potential physically, mentally, and emotionally, creating a smoother, more fulfilling flow in daily life.

By consciously choosing to cultivate heart-centered qualities like love, gratitude, and forgiveness, we can transform our perception, actions, and outcomes. This practice not only brings happiness and resilience but empowers us to become creators of our destiny.

Tonglen, a practice of welcoming discomfort and giving back peace, helps us stay open-hearted during challenging times. By embracing suffering instead of resisting it, we transform pain into compassion, deepen self-connection, and foster peace in ourselves and others. This approach nurtures a heart-centered, resilient life

Today I wanted to share with you how you too can enhance your life: What is Heart Intelligence and how can we consciously use it to enrich our lives?

We are manifesting our lives in accordance with the state of our heart.
Open or closed?

Today I wanted to take a look at why we don't set goals and what we can do
about it. A common block to setting goals is we avoid the fear of not achieving
them.

About the highest purpose of Heart Opening work.

Your heart is the key.
It takes us way beyond our problems.

The difference between Joy and Happiness

We unconsciously make it difficult for people to love us because when we long
for something it becomes a source of pain.

Say Sorry and Heal!

There are gems in the ordinary
I think nobody wants to be ordinary, but trying to be special is fraught with misery
and unhappiness.

One of the keys to life is keeping things in perspective

So, let’s begin this journey with a fresh perspective: a 'New' Year, a new cycle, and new possibilities to explore.

I want to explore a common reason we avoid setting goals: the fear of failure.

live in the present moment with and attitude of: ‘This is as good as it gets’. Practising making the best of this moment, instead of trying to make this moment into the best moment ever.

If not present then where am I?
Most of us spend the majority of our time absent from our bodies.

In expressing generosity we feel an even larger sense of expansion and oneness.

In expressing generosity we feel an even larger sense of expansion and oneness.

The master key opening the doorway to Opportunity, Abundance and Happiness: Gratitude. It is relevant in each and every moment of our lives.

Men and women carry shame about their gender, mostly that is either inherited or culturally imposed.

Our capacity to tune in to, manage and direct our feelings in positive, creative and supportive ways to achieve success and happiness.

The truth is we just 'are' and others just 'are'. Only when we try to put ourselves alongside another person do we invent comparisons.

This one provides the understandings for establishing permanent peace and contentment...

Its about cultivating an ATTITUDE that everything that is perfect

Life doesn't have to look perfect to be perfect. When we drop judgment, ask “How is this perfect?”, and welcome even our pain, we begin to experience deep peace, gratitude, and freedom. 

Even small shifts in attitude open the door to big healing. Let the question “How is this perfect?” become your guide.

the distinction between knowing and experiencing. We are all passionate, about connecting to our hearts, living from our hearts. Being on a spiritual journey really —becoming more kind, compassionate, grateful, generous, courageous, and of service to people, to the world.