
Discover breathwork as an ancient practice that connects body, energetic, and spirit, reduces stress, and covers breathing anatomy, nervous system regulation, styles, safety, and beginner-to-advanced variations.
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Master the anatomy and physiology of breathing, detailing the diaphragm, ribs, and trachea, exchange in the lungs, and how oxygen binds to hemoglobin for cell delivery while CO2 is expelled.
Discover how regulated breathing switches off the stress response and activates the parasympathetic nervous system to calm the body, sharpen thinking, and balance mind through calming, balancing, and exciting breathwork.
Explore how breathwork calms the nervous system and reduces stress, boosting mental clarity, oxygen delivery to the brain, and immune function, while improving digestion and overall wellbeing.
Explore how breathing rates vary by life stage, measure resting breaths in a one-minute experiment, and learn to adjust breathwork ratios to individual rhythms.
Explore four breathing styles, including normal resting breathing, coastal breathing with intercostal muscles, diaphragmatic belly breathing, and deeper breathing for more air.
Create a calm, clean, well-ventilated breathwork teaching space with soft lighting and optional ambient music. Practice breathwork yourself, stay within your scope, and guide with clear timing and counting.
Cultivate breathwork through proper sitting posture with a straight spine and relaxed shoulders, sitting on floor or chair to enable deep breathing and diaphragmatic breathing.
Learn eight breathing practices and master inhale, hold, and exhale ratios, with exhale longer than inhale and three rounds per ratio to feel effects in body and mind.
Learn coherent breathing techniques by practicing inhale-exhale ratios such as 1:2, 1:4, 4:8, and 8:16 to calm the nervous system, clear the mind, and stay present.
Practice Anulom Vilom nostril breathing with Vishnu mudra to balance the body and mind, harmonize brain hemispheres, and calm the nervous system through guided breath counts.
Anulom pratilom blends alternate nostril breathing and step breathing to balance brain hemispheres, strengthen lungs, and guide breath holds in 1-2-2 or 1-4-2 ratios using Vishnu mudra.
Practice long, controlled exhalations (niyantrit rechaka) using ratios of 4 in, 8—16—24 out, with pursed lips or air visualized as a thread, to build lung capacity and awareness.
Practice three rounds of Anulom Vilom breathing. Use Vishnu mudra and counts: four in, four hold, eight out; four in, eight hold, eight out; four in, sixteen hold, eight out.
Practice alternate nostril breathing with step breathing in three rounds of ten, using 4-8-8 and 4-16-8 patterns to strengthen lungs and balance the energies.
Learn kapalabati in three rounds of twenty for the breathwork teacher training certificate course, using forceful nasal exhales with belly draws to heat the body and improve digestion.
Teach controlled exhalations through three sets of ten to increase lung capacity and expel stale air. Use precise inhale and exhale counts while checking in with body and mind.
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This course will give you all of the skills, knowledge, resources and confidence you will need to start guiding people through the healing, ancient art of breathwork.
This course delivers all of the need-to-know information about guiding groups and individuals through breathwork practices.
By taking this course, you will learn:
8 foundational breathing practices to calm, balance and energize the body and mind
The different ratios for breathing practices and variations for beginners
You will gain a good understanding of the anatomy and physiology of breathing
The nervous system
The benefits of breathwork
Breathing rates and breathing styles
The difference between breathwork and pranayama
Guidelines for teaching breathwork
And more
This course is suitable for anybody who would like learn how to teach breathwork to others, you don't need any previous experience.
If you are already a yoga teacher or a meditation teacher, you can use this course to upskill and add breathwork practices to your current classes or you can start offering breathwork classes in addition to your yoga and meditation classes.
If you are a councilor, psychologist or any professional that is looking for simple practices to help your clients to get clear and centered, this course will be great for you.
By the end of this course you will have the knowledge, skills, resources and confidence to guide groups and individuals through breathwork sessions.
This course is a 10 hour, Yoga Alliance continuing education program.
If you are feeling guided to learn how to teach the healing, ancient art of breathwork to others, enroll today and let's begin!