Certified Breathwork Facilitator Training: What to Expect in Our Program
Hello there, it’s Hannah here. Thank you for reading and for being here. I hope this article gives you some context and enough information for you to understand the course here are Inspire Breathwork and encourage you to lean in .
If you’re here, you’ve probably had a good understanding of how powerful breathwork can be. Breathwork has the potential to bridge the gap between the conscious and unconscious, allowing for physical, emotional, mental and spiritual healing. But not all breathwork training programs offer the same level of training, with many falling short of minimum requirements in terms of curriculum, ethics, safety, and context.
At Inspire Breathwork, I believe that being a facilitator goes beyond guiding someone through breath techniques. It’s about understanding the roots of breathwork, the political and social contexts and the trauma-informed practices needed to hold space with integrity. Our 2-year facilitator training is designed to equip you with practical skills, and with a deep, embodied understanding of breathwork in a modern context.
This course aspires to set you and your practice up with as much support and supervision needed to support your community effectively and sustainable. This is the integration / infiltration year, where you build your own breathwork practice, with hands-on experience of building a business. The practice and experience yoy move through as you practice will give insight to the work you want to do and will contribute to the production of a research thesis. This is a published research project shared with the community on yoru findings with the community you work with. This is how Inspire Breathwork brings breathwork out of the wellness industry and into the public domain, but also a way to challenged the ways knowledge is gate-kept in the industry. Breathwork is early in its evolution, we have a duty to share as much information as we can about it.
In this article, I’ll take you through what makes our program unique, what you’ll learn, and how it sets you up to become a responsible, skilled, and confident breathwork facilitator.
Introduction
Why Inspire Breathwork Training Is Different
The Inspire Breathwork Facilitator Training is unlike any other breathwork certification program. Breathwork itself is already considered niche, but our approach goes even deeper, bringing breathwork out of the wellness space and into healthcare, social justice, and community healing.
Our program is developed by me, Hannah Kendaru. I have been practicing breathwork for over 12 years and have worked in the wellness industry for the past decade. I am so grateful for all the experience I have. It has shed light on the gaps in current training practices and has given me the tools and skills to craft a program that addresses these shortcomings with integrity and depth.
I am also a director of the UKBA (UK Breathwork Association). I have contributed extensively to the writing of the professional and ethical standards that are followed by breathwork training centres and facilitators in the UK and across the world.
The goal of Inspire Breathwork is not just to train facilitators but to create a revolution within the industry. I want to see more people doing breathwork. I was breathwork to move from a commercialised wellness trend to a respected, professional practice grounded in ethics and social responsibility that is accessible to the community.
Breathwork That Meets the Needs of Today’s World
One of the major pieces of integrity that lives in me today is the ability to attend our modern day issues. Becoming a breathwork in the modern context means being able to sit with the wounds of our world.
The main issues that we face, is the fact that we are living in the wake of colonisation, we are oppressed by capitalist systems that valuse money over people and we are deepely disconnected to the process of empowerment when we connect with ourselves, each other and the earth.
This training program respects our lens with accuracy. We analyse and examine our current social map and give trauma context within the systems of oppression. Our tools to heal are in reflection to that deep context and give people pathways to not just personal healing, but liberation.
We have seen a huge rise in both mental and physical illness. The healthcare systems that are designed to care for us have become extractive, slow and expensive. The social structures of community have disintegrated through imposed individualism, competition and scarcity. We are more and more disconnected that ever before.
With this context, this course aspires to attend to the environment in which we find our breathers. This course gives us a lens to welcome our breathers fully and push again isolated attempts to healing, but fosters connection to what we once lost.
What You Will Learn
1. A Trauma-Informed Approach
Our program prioritises an expanded lens on trauma. Breathwork is a powerful practive that gives us insight to the depths of what it has meant to be human. We can access many different knowledge-systems when we breathe, some rooted in memory, some in history, some in ancestry. An expanded lens on trauma gives us the tools to be able to welcome the breather fully in what they are moving through.
We will practice a deep grounding practice where we focus on safety and agency. We will also work on working with purpose. We will work with the nervous system to learn how to move from state to state effectively and learn how to stay when things get tough.
We will go into depth what can come up in breathwork, we will unpack how trauma shows up and what it looks like in a body. We will develop a traumatophillic approach, where we are not intimidated by trauma or the charge of it. we will become very familiar, and learn how to work with curiosity and a love ethics with our breathers.
We will also become equipped to empower our breathers, to ensure that we dont create relationship of depenedency, but relationship rooted in liberation. Students will learn how to arm their breathers with a breathwork first-aid-kit. Creating systems of support they can bring into their daily life.
2. The Accurate History and Lineage of Breathwork
One of the most significant issues in the wellness industry is the co-opting and commercialisation of ancient practices. In our training, we don’t just teach breath techniques, we teach the foundations and history of breathwork within our own lineages and within our own bodies.
Breathwork is not just a modern trend; it has existed for thousands of years. Breathwork is and always has been yours, its time to reclaim it. Somewhere in your lineage, the power of the breath has been used. We explore the lineages that have shaped our own breath practices, and how the breath makes sense to you.
You will also be encouraged to explore your own ancestral breath practices, understanding where your lineage connects with breathwork traditions. This approach not only deepens your personal practice but ensures that your facilitation respects the cultural significance of breathwork.
3. Deep Personal Inner Journey
Being a breathwork facilitator is a consequence of your ability to be with what is present. For that, we need to attend our own inner terrains. The first 12 weeks of our program focus on a deep personal journey of self-exploration, self-inquiry and breathwork for ourselves.
We cannot become the medicine, if we do not recognise we are the poison.
A decolonial perspective gives us an opportunity to understand deeply our own personal healing, our historical healing, our intergenerational healing and our institutional healing.
This means attending to what is present for us and attending with a love ethic to what we are moving through. There are so many ways of learning, so many ways of knowing, and our own personal experience is a fertile learning ground. Going through our own process ill give us a solid foundation for holding space for others.
In our philosophy, we believe that the body as a site of activism, where attending to ourselves is a radical act of resistance against a culture that teaches us to ignore or suppress our pain.
We challenge you to understand how supremacy culture teaches us to nurture voices of self-doubt and criticism, and how to unlearn this indoctrination. This journey is about reclaiming your own power and learning to hold space for others from a place of embodied knowledge.
4. A Decolonial Approach to Healing
Colonial conditioning impacts how we perceive ourselves and each other. It tells us to distrust our own bodies and prioritise other authoritative figures to tell us what is wrong with us. This training challenges this mindset by teaching you to honour your own lived experiences and integrate them into your practice. We interrogate how how supremacy culture manifests in wellness spaces and how what we do can actively to dismantle it and move towards the development of practices that foster empowerment rather than power-over.
Breathwork is not just about personal liberation, it’s about collective healing. We believe that decolonial healing is the missing link in health and wellness. If we are able to move beyond the ways we have been taught to hate, to be violent, to be extractive - we can change how we relate to ourselves, each other, and the world.
Program Structure
Our 2-year training program is intensive and comprehensive. You will be guided through:
Deep theoretical learning balanced with hands-on practice.
Mentorship and peer support to refine your facilitation skills.
Ethical practices that ground your work in integrity and respect.
You will also learn how to bring breathwork into community spaces - from healthcare settings to community gatherings, equipping you to make a tangible impact in your community.
This program is designed for those who:
Feel called to help others through breathwork.
Are committed to ethical and responsible facilitation.
Want to integrate social justice into their healing practice.
Are ready to challenge existing norms in the wellness industry.
Who is this training for?
How to Enrol
If you’re looking for certified breathwork facilitator training that prepares you to hold space responsibly and make a meaningful impact, this program is for you.
At Inspire Breathwork, we believe that breathwork is not just a personal journey but a collective revolution. We are creating a new standard of breathwork facilitation, one that respects history, honors trauma, and works towards social justice and decolonial healing.
Join us in evolving and uplifting the field of breathwork, one that is grounded, ethical, and deeply connected to the reality of today’s world.
If this resonated with you at all, please send us a message or dive in and find out more.