Certified Firewalk Instructor Training
15–19 September, 2025 | Cairngorms
How do I become an instructor?
Firewalk training isn’t for everyone… and that’s exactly what makes it extraordinary.
But if you feel the call to step beyond your limits and discover what you’re truly made of, the transformation is profound. Whether or not you go on to lead firewalks yourself, this is your chance to immerse in one of the most empowering experiences on the planet: Firewalk Training to become a Firewalk Instructor with Kick Ash Firewalks.
Over five unforgettable days, you’ll forge deep bonds with your fellow participants as you rise to every challenge together. It’s intense. It’s life-changing. And it might just be the most powerful thing you ever do.
Training
This is no ordinary instructor training. It’s a soul-stirring, spirit-awakening journey that goes far beyond walking across fire. Over five days, you’ll be immersed in ancient empowerment practices, ceremonial work, and proven transformational techniques that shape leaders and ignite purpose. You’ll not only gain the credentials to run your own firewalk events, you’ll become the kind of person who inspires deep change in others.
Led by Barry Collins, Certifying Master Firewalk Trainer, you will firewalk many times, break arrows with your throat, bend steel bars, and discover that you are capable of far more than you ever believed. Every experience is a mirror that reflects your strength, your truth, and your potential.
Support
More than that, you will make friends that will share in your development as you support 
each other through the training. The team ensures the training is 100% focused on YOU by limiting numbers to small, intimate groups, guaranteeing you have every opportunity to truly become the best version of yourself.
Ready to take the leap?
If you’re the kind of person who thrives on challenge and knows that mastering these skills can supercharge your current offerings, or help you launch a powerful new path, then it’s time to take action. Complete the enquiry form and take your first step towards becoming a fully certified Firewalking Instructor.
But even if instructing isn’t your goal, you can still experience this life-changing training. Join us for a powerful, immersive experience where you’ll take part in proven empowerment activities that shatter limiting beliefs and help you reclaim your personal power.
Whether you’re a coach, speaker, trainer, therapist, or someone seeking deep transformation, this is a course you simply can’t afford to miss. The Kick Ash Firewalk Instructor Training will teach you how to lead with confidence, expand your impact, and run events that create real change… for yourself and others.
Below, you’ll find an overview of what this internationally recognised instructor certification programme offers.
Who is this training for?
What is the training about?
What will I experience on the training?
What will I get from the training?
What will I learn on the training?
What can I expect from the training?
Workshops
- Team Building exercises
- Eliminating Limiting Beliefs using metaphor
- Breaking through Fear
- Overcoming Obstacles and Barriers
- Risk & Safety in your seminar
- Hazards: Identifying and eliminating
- Creating The Elements of your course
- Fire building, safety & management
- Firewalk preparation and delivery
Activity Facilitation Training
- Firewalking
- Glass Walking
- Board Breaking with Bare Hands
- Brick Breaking with Bare Hands
- Arrow Breaking with your Throat
- Steel Bar Bending with your Throat
- Falling into Friends
What’s Included?
Badaguish Outdoor Centre,
Aviemore, PH22 1AD
Your registration fee includes shared, same-sex accommodation in one of the beautiful forrest lodges at Badaguish, in rooms sleeping a maximum of four, with each room having its own bathroom. Dinner is provided on the first day and breakfast on the last day. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included on each full training day.
All training materials are provided, including your Firewalk Instructor Training Manual, which will is an invaluable reference when planning and delivering your own events. Once registered, you will also be granted access to the Kick Ash Firewalk Instructor group connect with your fellow instructors.
Full joining instructions are provided after your booking is confirmed.
Find yourself is the breathtaking heart of Scotland, nestled in the Cairngorm National Park at Badaguish, just outside Aviemore. Immerse yourself in the experience of connection with yourself and your surroundings as you awaken the potential within through experiential learning.
Each day holds the potential for you to discover more about yourself whilst building the knowledge and competence to deliver your own exhilarating, life-changing events. This beautiful retreat location invites you to disconnect from the rest of the world, immerse yourself in the training, and let firewalking become part of you heart and soul as you navigate your way to the moment you become a Certified Firewalking Instructor.
One focus of the course is to teach you how to conduct empowering firewalking classes for your community, public or commerce. However, in addition to firewalking, you will also master and be able to teach other people accelerated learning, glass-walking, steel bar bending, using mind over matter to break pointed arrows with your throat, board breaking, smashing concrete blocks with your bare hand, and many other remarkable skills. Plus, you will learn leading-edge exercises that facilitate attaining personal empowerment. Many people take this course solely for personal empowerment and spiritual insight, with no intention of ever teaching firewalking.
There are no prerequisites for this course; and NO prior experience of firewalking is required.
Additionally, the classroom portion covers every aspect of firewalking safety, wood types, liability, and promotion, and the logistics to bring it all together. The classes have no more than 12 delegates, so everyone receives personal attention, guidance and feedback.
The training takes place over 5 content-packed days ensuring you have ample time to experience, understand and put in to practice all the lessons to deliver your own events as a Certified Firewalking Instructor!
Certification Details
Your certification through Kick Ash Firewalks follows the curriculum established by Tolly Burkan, and refined since the early 80’s to deliver his core teachings whilst ensuring individuals leave with the requisite knowledge and understanding to deliver high impact events, whatever their style.
Recognised and approved by The Global Firewalking Alliance, this certification ensures you are able to facilitate events globally, meeting the highest safety standards and qualifying criteria to obtain insurance easily. You will also be eligible to join the Global Firewalking Alliance as a professional member, becoming part of the larger firewalk community, gaining access to resources and support only available to qualified instructors.
Over these five days you are learning lessons about the heart and soul of firewalking and empowerment from Master Trainer Barry Collins, who shares the teachings he has learnt by spending time with the founders of the modern firewalking movement, Tolly Burkan & Peggy Dylan, as well as other elders of the firewalking fraternity.
Much of what you will learn and experience is only available with Barry from Kick Ash Firewalks.
“Why is it necessary for people to firewalk?”
Barry Collins in conversation with Peggy Dylan
Flexible Payment Options
If you would like to defer the cost, or spread the payments, simply select Klarna on the payment screen . This offers ‘Pay In 30’: Pay in full in 30 days, or ‘Pay In 3’: Make the first of 3 equal instalments today, followed by further payments in 30 and 60 days.
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