Breathwork Facilitator Training Course Brochure
Inspiring you to inspire others
Reclaim the Breath, Lead the Revolution
Establish a foundation of expert breathworkers by revealing the stolen medicine of the breath to the lost healers of our time.
Overview of the course and why it exists:
Inspire Breathwork training goes beyond traditional approaches by integrating embodied social justice principles and embracing a decolonial framework. The first of its kind. We decentre whiteness and wish to see breathwork outside of the wellness industry.
Many approaches to healing have been highly individualised, capitalised and isolated.
Our wellness approaches ignore what has contributed to our illness. These approaches cannot create lasting health and this is what we are aspiring to bring about.
With a keen focus on addressing the wounds of our modern context, this training empowers participants to facilitate healing and transformation in a way that is sensitive to systemic oppressions and fosters inclusive, equitable spaces. The breath has always been an indigenous practice that exists in all of our lineages, our job is to remember how to use it.
This course is for those who want to learn what is means to become an expert facilitator, fully equipped to address the wounds of our modern context.
This training employs a loving justice approach within our own bodies. Acknowledging our bodies as sites of activism, loving parts of our exiled selves into deep remembering, reconnecting with the forgotten medicine within us.
This course dives into our own inner journey of decolonial healing, attending to the wounds that we suffer as collateral damage of colonialism, so that we can attend to others who come to seek our support.
As an accredited Breathwork Training Provider, Inspire Breathwork offers training for those working with communities that desire liberation.
Key Information:
Inspire Breathwork Facilitator Training is a comprehensive 420 hour, 2-year program that fully equips you to become an accredited breathwork therapist.
With this breathwork facilitator training, you will be able to work professionally anywhere in the world.
This course is delivered as Workshops, Seminars, Supervised Breathwork Sessions, Practical Exercises, and 1-to-1 support. This certified training will develop you into a capable and confident breathwork facilitator which you can do alongside work or study.
This course will prepare you to deliver breathwork therapy in 1-to-1, group therapy, and online settings through a decolonial lens.
Course Objectives:
1. Reclaim the Breath From the Wellness Industry
Restore breathwork to its ancestral roots and challenge exploitative and unethical practices in the wellness sector by promoting a decolonized, justice-oriented approach to breathwork facilitation.
2. Develop Ethical and Expert Facilitators
Equip you with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to facilitate safe, trauma-informed, and impactful breathwork sessions for diverse groups and individuals.
3. Guide Yourself Towards Your Own Liberation
Engage with your own inner journey of decolonial healing by addressing personal wounds and uncovering wisdoms to enable you to hold space for others with integrity and empathy.
4. Activate the Forgotten Parts of Yourself
Cultivate your inner medicine and bring it to the modern context. Become a facilitator who is liberation-oriented, survivor-centred, and equipped to address trauma in all its forms- historical, intergenerational, institutional, and personal.
5. Infiltrate Key Institutions with Breathwork
Arm you with the skills to bring breathwork into places of power and impact, such as schools, prisons, hospitals, and corporations, fostering systemic change from within.
Year 1: Foundational Year
We will meet for 6 x 6 week units over the first year. In these units, will be meeting twice a week: one session is class time, the second session is a breathwork session. The class element is 2.5 hours long and is an engaging content based, participatory session. This is where the majority of the course content is delivered. You must come prepared to learn, participate and engage.
The breathwork element is 1.5 hours long. For unit 1 and 2, I will be guiding you through your own personal journey. Units 3 and 4 will be an opportunity to observe 1-to-1 breathwork and group breathwork, and units 5 and 6 are when you start to practice yourself.
We will also have weekly breathwork sessions for students of the Global Majority on Sundays at 11am UK Time for 1.5 hours.
Key Modules in Year 1
Understanding Supremacy Culture
Breathwork as a Business
Historical, Institutional and Personal Trauma
The Science of Breath
Ethics, Consent and Loving Justice
Understanding Our Nervous System
Breathwork Facilitation
Embodied Social Justice, Decolonial Healing and Re-Indigenisation
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Class Objectives:
Understand Breath Fundamentals
Understand Anatomy and Physiology of the Breath
Understand Conscious Connect Breath and its Uses
Understand what Embodied Decolonialism, Somatic Abolitionism is and how they are relevant to Decolonise the Wellness Industry
Understand the Politics of Wellness, Understand the Politics of Illness
Breathwork Sessions
Attend to your own Inner Journey of Decolonial Healing guided by Hannah Kendaru
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Class Objectives:
Learning the architecture of a breathwork session.
Understand the role of consent and the use of touch
Understanding HIPP theory, Polyvagal Theory
Intergenerational Trauma and the Role of Ancestry
Breathwork Objectives:
Observe breathwork sessions led by Hannah and analyse them.
Start designing your own breathwork sessions
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Class Objectives:
You will know how to conduct a breathwork session 1:1
You will be able to facilitate online and in-person
To learn the professional skills to maintain a breathwork practice
To practice to become confident in leading breathwork sessions for 1-to-1 and small groups
Breathwork Objectives:
To guide your peers through a 1:1 journey online
To learn how facilitate your own inner journeys using the breath online and in-person
To know how to listen, attend to and create opportunities for healing and liberation
To learn how to utilise embodiment tools to help your breathers
Year 2: Integration Infiltration Year
This is the year where you infiltrate your communities, and bring breathwork to your people. This is when you develop your personal practice, business development and research with supervision and peer support and feedback. By the end of this year, you will have a written up case-study ready to publish to the breathwork community.
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Support in creation of your Research Thesis in what ever format is best for you: video, audio or written.
Full support while creating this from your research.
Have support through understanding the best methodologies catered for your research project.
Help identify your path into communities.
Create systems for consent
Use of Surveys and Other Data Collection Methods
Hypotheses, Methods, Project.
Support to finish thesis to be Published by UKBA, IBF, and GBPA.
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As a group, we will meet altogether to practice together, breathe together and get a hands-on experience with each other. We will meet at a sensible central point of the cohort to mitigate travel distances.
The course fee does not include the residential fee or travel costs to it.
Desired gatherings: there are gatherings between students and teachers to meet when possible. These desired gatherings are self-created and self-contained.
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Monthly calls with the whole group to share what you have exprenced in practice, to discuss, share insights and challenges and continue learning in the field.
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Preparing you to bring breathwork into the world, building your business and supporting your journey.
Skills such as:
Website Design
Intake Forms
Waiver Forms
Sacred Business Systems - creating systems outside of capitalism
Outreach skills
Marketing
Pitch Deck
Building your Sustainable Business
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You are encouraged to meet at the same scheduled class times of the first year to maintain the rhythm of the first year, using the same space in the calendar to build your breathwork business in the open classroom.
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Continue on-going learning partnership and accountability.
Why choose this program?
There are many aspects of traditional breathwork trainings that do not attend to the cultural context of our illness and ignore power dynamics and consent. This training makes you a competent and confident facilitator fully equipped for the clients you will receive.
This training welcomes only 12 people per cohort. Many trainings have much higher numbers. This choice is made so that we can work deeply, closely and intimately together.
The end of this training is the beginning of your action. It does not end with you being a breathwork facilitator. This is just one step in the vision to make breathwork accessible in the public domain.
To disrupt the wellness industry, we need people like you. People who are not only ready to see a change, but to make the change themselves. This course fosters a courage rooted in active hope and the will to change.
This is a GBPA and UKBA accredited course, a recognised accreditation so you can work anywhere around the world.
Breathwork is only 50% of the course, for us to survive under late stage capitalism and succesfully infiltrate the system, we need to understand the business half of this work. Knowing how to run your business means you get to do help more people.
I have been part of the breathwork community for 12 years, I have shown up and worked at cultivating relationships in the space. I am a Director at the UKBA, a core team member for the Breathe Festival, I have been asked to join the board of GBPA and invited to become a member of both Ethics and Diversity Committees (which I turned down). I say this to say, you will be part of a passionate community, who toil the soil with patience and vigor. You will be supported in the challenges and we will work and walk together in your journey.
The Vision
My mission is the commitment to an activist approach to wellness, where breathwork is a tool for personal and societal empowerment, fostering well-being and equity. The current colonial frameworks in wellness depend on our discontent and our disempowerment, to actively disrupt wellness means to empower people in their own liberations.
Inspire Breathwork aims to steward the next generation of breathworkers, actively seeking to bring breathwork out of the wellness industry and infiltrate into to the public domain and key institutions that are often neglected: schools, prisons, corporations, hospitals, etc.
There are 2 key pillars to this approach:
The first is the need to empower individuals to reconnect, rekindle and remember their inherent power within their own bodies, to cultivate belonging, safety and dignity in their own healing processes as a process of reclamation - reclamation of strength, of agency, of trust, of breath and of the earth beneath them.
The second pillar stands to represent the lens that is needed to bring change, a lens that is able discern the ways our society has developed to oppress, to belittle and to delude us away from our sovereignty. The reclamation of our own bodies and the lens that allows us to see the systems in play, allow us to be active changemakers within society and within the wellness industry.
The awareness of colonialism in wellness and the world, gives us opportunity to heal from the wounds of our modern context. This allows a chance to actively attend what it might mean to birth a new world. If we empower people to become free, liberated from the confines of colonialism and capitalism, we may find solutions to some of our biggest problems.
Inspire Breathwork was founded on the principles of freedom and liberation.
With the currents of dominant supremacy culture heavily pedalling colonialism, exploitation and disconnection, it is no wonder that disembodiment has been the only way to tolerate life's atrocities. Honouring this adaptation, and honouring the charge of history, Inspire Breathwork uses the breath to slow down.
Breathwork and embodiment brings us back into the deep remembrance of what freedom really means, remembering our souls and spirit through resilience and imagination, to remember our wisdoms. Our commitment to this is to ensure that we reclaim our power by reclaiming our breath from the moment we lost it. The work we do honours who you are right now, honours the path you have taken and honours the path ahead.
We do not walk this earth alone, we are not here by pure coincidence, we have always been people in context.
Trauma is all about speed, and here with the breath we slow everything down. We notice, we listen and we hold what is fully here. Inspire Breathwork is about the reclamation of space, the reclamation of life, the reclamation of freedom.
We can learn to improve our relationship to your history, to our inherited oppressions, to our relationship with nature and the land and the gifted wounds we have inherited through intergenerational and historical trauma. Breathwork is a powerful and safe practice to attend to these wounds.
Our course is spiralic in nature.
Our course is designed with a spiralic structure, meaning that rather than moving through topics in a linear fashion, we continuously return to each module as you progress through the units.
This approach allows for a deepening of understanding with each revisit. Like a spiral, you’ll encounter the same foundational concepts at different stages of your learning journey, but each time from a new perspective and with greater depth.
This method reflects the natural rhythms of learning and personal growth, where revisiting and re-engaging with key themes allows you to integrate and embody the knowledge more fully.
As you advance, you’ll find that each return to a module reveals new insights, deepens your comprehension, and enhances your ability to apply what you’ve learned in real-world scenarios. This cyclical process ensures that your learning is not only cumulative but also transformative, as you continuously build upon and refine your understanding, leading to a more profound innerstanding of the topics.
Testimonials
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Hannah is soft and powerful at the same time.
Hannah is soft and powerful at the same time. She is an inspiration of courage, as she does not shy away of bringing in difficult societal topics to the space of wellness which is often, possibly due to its values of unconditional love, light & acceptance a space where complex and confrontational topics such as racism, inequality are easily not addressed.
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This is the warrior spirit
This is the warrior spirit, the medicine and the soothing of truth in a time where confusion, fear and anxiety seem to be our closest companions.
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I find Hannah very inspiring.
I find Hannah very inspiring. She does this work in a very graceful, yet powerful way, combining all of it with laughter too.
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Hannah is straight like an arrow in coming to the point
Hannah is straight like an arrow in coming to the point, bringing us to where we need to meet and give brave voice to those parts of ourselves and our ancestry that need healing so we can go out into the world as our most authentic, untamed and compassionate selves.
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Hannah has a very unique way of guiding a breathwork
Hannah has a very unique way of guiding a breathwork: graceful, soft, powerful.
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Such gratitude and love
There was and still is a significant tension in me as I address the truth of my colonising heritage but I can't pray for a new world for my children, my friends and humanity without doing the damn work myself. Thank you for creating such a space to come and show up. With such gratitude and love’’
Application Process
Step 1
Online Application
The online application has a few questions asking about your motivations to join this Breathwork Facilitator Training to ensure that we are aligned.
Step 2
Admissions Interview
If you have passed our initial screening, you will be invited for an Admissions Interview. This is a 30 minute interview.
Step 3
Offer and Enrolment
If successful, you will be sent an offer for a place on the course with a start date. Payment and contracts happen at this stage.
Tuition Fees
This pricing exists to dismantle the illusion of equality under capitalism, and to challenge the exclusivity of healing practices and make breathwork accessible to those often historically neglected.
£12 450
Full Course Fee
For those whose parents own more than 2 properties, this tier supports the sustainability and accessibility of the program for others.
£9450
Full Course Fee
For those whose parents own their house and/or land, this tier supports the sustainability and accessibility of the program for others.
£4950
Full Course Fee
For those without intergenerational wealth. I implement this pricing option to break down the barriers to entry for those who do not have access to historical wealth.
How much time shall I dedicate to this training?
In the first 4 units of the training, you will be required to join the classes, breathwork sessions and attend to your learning partner sessions. This total will be around 6 hours a week. The reading is optional - and there may be books that are more relevant to your work than on the reading list. (Some students have created a reading groups, caucus groups, other focus groups outside of class to help with learning and accountability - this is up to you).
In the third 2 units, you will start facilitating 1-to-1 breathwork for your peers online and offline to your community. This will require some homework and preparation. This is also where we start looking at the communities we want to support, this is the time to start thinking about your breathwork practice as a business. This will inevitably take up time in your thought space and movements.
In the second year, you will be conducting breathwork as research and learning. You may charge for your sessions at this point. We will be meeting once a month for 2hrs, but you are expected to be facilitating on a regular basis and continue meeting with a learning partner for peer-to-peer mentorship.
This year will be where you get very clear on who your people are, and start to write up your research. By the end of the year, you will have a case-study on how best to support your community with breathwork and what you learned works best with a specific group of people.
This year will also reveal to you who and why you practice. By the end of the course, you will have a website, a business structure, a salary goal and clarity on how you practice. This will also take some time outside of class.
Assessment to Graduate
Each student must attend each class, attendance must be 90% or above.
Each student much complete a Case Study. A cast study means a written thesis with at least 7 participants and 10 sessions each.
Templates are given for case studies. Case studies offer reflection and learning for us as an industry but for all future learners. As this course aims to work with more history neglected communities, these case studies will offer preliminary research for communities working with and through trauma using breathwork as a method of healing.
This will contribute to a complete book of cases from the student cohort. This will be published and shared with the breathwork community.
Some examples include: ‘Breathwork and Addiction’, ‘Breathwork as Freedom work’, 'Breathwork in the Black community' or 'Breathwork with the Elderly').
Themes will be established and each cohort will publish their own work for the community to learn and develop their skills to bring breathwork out of the wellness industry and into the public domain.
In-Person Examination
45-minute Interview and oral assessment with Hannah
In-person demonstration of group work and 1:1 work
Whole group feedback and collective assessment
Course Starts:
21st April 2025
Mondays and Thursdays
Choice of: Europe Timezone and US/AUS Timezone
9am UK time and 5pm LA time
FAQs
Who is this course for?
This course is designed for individuals who are passionate about breathwork and its transformative potential in promoting healing and social justice. It is ideal for individuals seeking to deepen their understanding and practice of embodied social justice.
What is unique about this course?
This training provides a unique opportunity to expand your skills and knowledge in a way that attends to the wounds of our modern context and fosters a deep attendance to the injustice practiced in the health and healing industry. Join us if you are ready to embark on a transformative path that integrates breathwork, social justice, and personal growth.
What is the Class format?
The class format typically moves through a sharing of content through a visual and aural presentation, a workshop element to expand on the key ideas shared and open discussion to cover any questions. General format can shift and change but classes tend to be participatory, conversational and engaged. Students are expected to facilitate their participation for the whole time.
Entry Requirements
No specific entry requirements are necessary for this course, as it welcomes individuals from all backgrounds and experiences. The only prerequisite is a genuine desire to work towards an imagined future where loving justice is practiced, and systems of care are cultivated and prioritised.
Is this a viable career path for me?
This course provides essential support for individuals seeking to develop healthful careers and career pathways. Through comprehensive training in breathwork and its applications, participants gain the skills and knowledge needed to embark on fulfilling career paths focused on holistic healing and well-being. Whether you aspire to become a breathwork therapist, incorporate breathwork into your existing healing practice, or explore related career opportunities, this course equips you with the tools to cultivate a healthful and rewarding professional journey.
Are Payment Plans Available?
Yes, however all course costs must be covered within the first year. You can pay in full, in 2-payments or monthly.
Is the course online or in-person?
Experience the convenience of online learning combined with the richness of in-person immersions, providing a comprehensive and dynamic educational experience. This hybrid model offers the perfect balance of convenience and engagement, ensuring a comprehensive and dynamic learning experience that caters to diverse learning styles
How do I apply?
To apply for this course, please fill out an application form. Your submission will allow us to assess your eligibility and ensure that this course aligns with your goals and aspirations. We look forward to reviewing your application and welcoming you on this transformative learning journey.
I would like more information.
Send an email to inspirebreathwork@gmail.com