Breathwork Teacher Training

50 Hr – Breathwork Teacher Training Certificate Course, Bangalore, India.

• Contact Hours: 40 Hours 
• Non-Contact Hours 10 Hours
• Course: 50 Hr – Breathwork & Pranayama Teacher Training Certificate Course
• Total Fee for the Training(For Indian Citizens Only): INR 10,000(Registration Fee) + INR 35,000 (Course Fee)  = INR 45,000
• Total Fee for the Training(For Non-Indian Citizens Only): USD 200(Registration Fee) + USD 400 (Course Fee)  = USD 600
• Accreditation: Yoga Alliance USA YACEP.
• Skill level: Beginners,   Intermediate & Advanced
• Self-Paced/ Flexible Duration: Online or Regular Mode.
• Language: English
• Mode: Offline/Online/Hybrid/Self-Paced
• About the course facilitator: Dr. S. Karuna Murthy, M.Sc., Ph.D., E-RYT 500, YACEP
• Language: Our courses will be held in English Medium.
• Course Dates: Please Contact Us (karunaayoga@gmail.comor +91 9686549129)

Breathwork is a conscious, connected body and breath technique which activates an inner non-mundane experience.

This results in a number of internal experiences. One is where thoughts, pains, memories or feelings or energies that have been held down with the breath, are able to surface to be released, cleared or resolved. The process is freeing of limitations from previous decisions, beliefs or conditioning.

This also can include the psycho-emotional aspects of your physical birth, in-utero experience and early infancy and their psycho-spiritual implications. The opportunity is to de-condition and reprogram self. In the non-mundane experience of a Breathwork session, a new perspective to life issues emerges.

The continued process brings a point of choice or free-to-be-in-action instead of reaction to events and people. In a breath cycle of approximately 60 minutes’ duration, the full and connected breathing accelerates detoxification in the body. This cleanse extends from the physical into an emotional, mental and/or spiritual experience.

Breathwork Teacher Training Certificate Course

What you’ll learn

• Develop the skills and confidence to guide transformational Breathwork sessions for individuals and groups using a variety of breathing techniques
• Understand the history, science, and physiological effects of Breathwork, including its impact on the nervous system and energy regulation.
• Develop a strong personal Breathwork practice to enhance self-awareness, emotional balance, and overall well-being in daily life.
• Explore the healing potential of conscious breathing as a tool for emotional processing, self-regulation, and deep personal transformation.
• Learn Breathwork techniques for stress relief, relaxation, and nervous system balance to support mental and emotional well-being.

• Learn step by step how to safely guide students or clients through breathwork practices
• Learn simple but powerful breathwork practices and variations to calm the body and mind
• Understand how regulated breathing can positively impact the health and well-being of the body and mind
• By taking this course, you will gain an understanding of the anatomy and physiology of breathing
• Understand how oxygen and carbon dioxide work in the body and how breathwork affects the way our body uses the oxygen in our body
• Learn how breathwork affects the nervous system and switches on the relaxation response in the body
• You will learn the three different types of breathwork practices – calming, balancing and energizing

Description

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:

• 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

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 counsellor, psychologist or any professional that is looking for simple practices to help your clients to get clear and cantered, 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 50-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!

Course Topics

Topic 1: Introduction to Breathwork

• Your personal journey with Breathwork
• What Breathwork is and how it influences your mind, body, and emotions
• Breath awareness and intention setting

Topic 2: The History + Science of Breathwork

• Ancient origins and the evolution of Breathwork
• The physiology of breathing and its role in overall well-being
• The connection between breath, oxygenation, and energy production

Topic 3: Breath + The Body

• Exploring variations of Breathwork techniques
• The impact of breath on the nervous system, health, and emotional regulation
• Foundational breath practices for balance and relaxation

Topic 4: The Healing Potential of Breathwork

• How Breathwork supports emotional healing and self-regulation
• The power of conscious breathing in releasing stored tension and trauma
• Practical applications for integrating Breathwork into daily life

Topic 5: Embodiment + Conscious Movement

How the breath connects to movement, body awareness, and somatic practices

Techniques to ground yourself and clients in breath-centered movement

Exploring the relationship between breath and the five senses

Topic 6: Accessing the Heart

• The connection between breath and emotional processing
• Breathwork techniques for cultivating compassion, gratitude, and self-awareness
• Emotional release and heart-centered breath practices

Topic 7: The Breathwork Journey + Authentic Guidance

• How to structure a Breathwork journey from start to finish
• The art of holding space and guiding others with integrity
• Developing an authentic and aligned Breathwork practice

Topic 8: Breathwork Basics

• Breathwork Benefits
• Breathing Rates
• Breathing Styles
• Benefits Of Nasal Breathing
• Breathwork Teaching Guidelines
• How To Sit For Breathwork
• Extra Sitting Options – Meditation
• Class Time
• Contraindications

Topic 9: Personal Breathwork Experience

26 Personal Breathwork Mastery Sessions

The foundation of a professional Breathwork Practice is your own personal relationship with your breath and learning to use the breath in your own life, to heal, clear subconscious patterns, and to live an intentional, creative life. We can only ‘hold space’ for what we have cleared ourselves.

Create this foundation through Stage 1: 26 Personal Breathwork Mastery sessions, either online or In-Person.

Topic 10: Breathwork and Mindful Self Awareness

1. Introduction to Breathwork Mastery
2. Breathing Consciously with Intentions

Relationship with self – own body-mind, emotions and spiritual clarity.

What is the value of mindful self-awareness, or self-observation, and its ramifications?

In this training participants discover how self-awareness governs personal and spiritual self-determination and conscious breathing expands self-awareness.

Through breath, the energy body frees reactive charges that keep in place limiting patterns and irrational states of thought. Individuals become freer to choose and act instead of react to events and circumstances.

This unit starts this process and opens participants up to how to be complete with unresolved past events, known and unknown, through conscious breathing.

The power of two personal and spiritual development tools, intention setting and conscious breath (as distinct from the automatic breath) are explored as keys to taking participants from surviving life to living it!

Are we our body, mind or spirit? This depends on our self-awareness.

Topic 11: Power of Breathwork

1.Levels of Inner Experience

2.Variations in Breath

3.Cellular Memory – the subconscious body-mind

4.Reaction/Choice – free to choose or not?

Relationship with self – own body-mind, emotions and spiritual clarity.

In this unit, participants learn the power inherent in the breath and body signals and how to use both to be balanced and clear mentally, emotionally, physically and maintain spiritual clarity.

Participants are trained to clear body signals before or if they become chronic pain or disease conditions and how irrational over-reactive states and limiting beliefs can be cleared at source.  The mind is affected by breath and breath affects the mind. This is the basis for breathwork mastery which is even more potent when combined with intention setting and awareness of body sensations

Most important in this unit is the comprehensive and in-depth information on the mental and emotional states that correspond to voluntary or involuntary breathing that is short or long, hard and forced and pressured or soft, relaxed and subtle, comes from the navel or the upper chest, suspended or split, and so on.

The application of breath in spiritual awakening is taught and the signs of spiritual development as well as secrets of longevity through breath itself. This information is key to using the breath to clear and be complete with unresolved past events and whatever is in the way of living intentionally.

Topic 12: Chakra Consciousness and Psychology

1.Mooladhara 

2.Svadhisthana

3.Manipura

4.Anahata

5.Vishuddhi

6.Ajna  

7.Sahasara

Levels of consciousness, a personal evolutionary journey.

Each of the six major Chakras has a frame of reference, a psychological aspect through which the world is perceived.

In depth distinctions are given on the Chakras as windows of perception in humankind. Balance and imbalance in each Chakra is identified and how this relates in day to day personal and professional living.

Understanding the evolution of consciousness through the Chakras explains how some individuals take to a path of self-development, why, and some of what happens on the way.

The daily Information and examples explain each refinement of energy which leads to awakening in the silent areas of the brain, and the qualities recognizable in people who have full awakening. Knowledge of a major Chakra element, sense, organ of sense, and organ of action supports linking physical symptoms to their psychological source. Participants learn simple spiritual practices for each chakra.

Topic 13: Levels of Experience and Breathwork

1.Physicality

2.Pranic

3.Mental Power

4.Intellectual Level

5.Spirituality

This unit offers in-depth training in identifying and utilising the levels of human experience – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual – in day-to-day life and specifically in the breathwork technique.

The focus is on how clients create and maintain clarity and balance and self-mastery in all areas of their life through breathwork mastery. Full training is given to support self and others to resolve physical pain, discomfort or past trauma, overloaded or unhealthy emotional states, limiting decisions and beliefs and losses of spiritual connectedness and inspiration through facilitated full, connected, conscious breath sessions.

Emphasis is placed on the value of identifying the process for self and others, and in breathwork techniques that allow the interaction of each level towards resolution of issues, which may be over time.

The focus of the strand of breathwork, is explored to support self and others in living intentionally through the application of breath techniques that can be practiced by any individual (no contra-indications), at any time.

Breathwork Teacher Training Certificate Course – FAQ

1. What is Breathwork?

Breathwork is a conscious and controlled breathing practice that enhances physical, emotional, and mental well-being. Techniques vary from gentle mindful breathing to dynamic practices that facilitate deep healing and transformation.

2. Who is this course for?

• Yoga teachers, wellness coaches, and therapists
• Healthcare professionals seeking holistic tools
• Mental health counsellors and bodyworkers
• Anyone seeking personal healing and spiritual growth

3. Do I need any prior experience in breathwork?

No previous experience is required. The course is open to all levels, though prior experience in yoga, meditation, or healing practices is helpful.

4. What will I learn in this training?

• Foundations and science of breath (anatomy, physiology, nervous system)
• Breath awareness and regulation techniques (diaphragmatic, alternate nostril, etc.)
• Therapeutic applications for stress, trauma, and emotional release
• How to safely guide individual and group sessions
• Voice, pacing, and space-holding skills
• Ethics, contraindications, and integration practices

5. How long is the training?

50 Hours (Introductory/Foundational Level)

6. Is the training certified?

Yes. Upon successful completion, participants receive a Breathwork Teacher Training Certificate, accredited by  Yoga Alliance.

7. Is this training online or in-person?

• Fully online (live or self-paced)
• In-person intensives
• Hybrid formats (live + recorded + in-person)

8. Will I be able to teach breathwork after this training?

• Facilitate private and group breathwork sessions
• Integrate breathwork into your existing healing or movement practice
• Offer workshops and retreats

9. Do I get lifetime access to course materials?

Yes, if the course includes online resources or recordings, access will typically remain open for review.

10. Is there any post-training support?

Alumni groups

11. What materials will I receive?

• A training manual or e-book
• Guided audio/video practices
• Teaching templates, scripts, and session outlines

12. Can I use this certificate for Yoga Alliance CE hours?

Yes, if your school is a registered YACEP provider and the training qualifies for Continuing Education credits.