Kids Breathwork Teacher Training Course

Learn how regulated breathing switches off the stress response and activates the parasympathetic nervous system, promoting calm, better oxygen delivery, and clearer thinking.

Learn how nasal breathing warms and moistens air, filters dirt and bacteria, and delivers up to 20% more oxygen while stimulating the vagus nerve for calm.

Explore four breathing styles: eupnea, coastal breathing, diaphragmatic breathing, and hyperpnea, and learn their mechanics with intercostal muscles, the diaphragm, and belly balloon imagery for teaching children.

teach kids to sit up tall with good posture for breathwork, seated cross-legged or lying down. emphasize diaphragmatic breathing, belly expanding to give space in the chest.

Practice little shwas, a kid-friendly breathwork called Little Shwas that calms the nervous system by inhaling two and exhaling four, with 3 to 5 rounds to help kids relax.

Boxed breathing for kids, inspired by samvritti pranayama, teaches equal breathing through four-count cycles to balance the mind and promote calm with breath holds, starting 4-2-4-2 and moving to 4-4-4-4.

Lead kids through step breathing to calm the nervous system and strengthen the lungs. Use in-hold-in-hold exhalations with four-set rounds and six-count exhalations, counting with fingers.

Balloon breathing guides kids to sit tall, place hands on the belly, inhale through the nose to fill a balloon, then exhale all air in 3–5 rounds to build calm.

Lie down with a teddy bear on the belly and watch it rise and fall. Engage deep bedtime breathing to calm the nervous system and activate the parasympathetic response.

Teach straw breathing to extend exhalations and calm nervous system in children. Practice three rounds: inhale 4, exhale 6; then 4/8; then 4/10, with pursed-lip straw exhale and breath visualization.

mini vilom adapts alternate nostril breathing for kids, guiding them to inhale and exhale through one nostril at a time using a crab claw, with a four-in eight-out count.

Teach kids bumblebee breathing to calm the nervous system and settle the mind, using four-count inhalations and high-pitched exhalations with playful sounds like monster or Darth Vader.