Trauma-Informed
Breathwork Facilitator Training
Rooted in Embodied Social Justice & Decolonial Healing
Internationally Recognised & Accredited Training
Class begins 1st December 2026
Deadline for applications: Sunday 11th October
Become a Certified Trauma-Informed Breathwork Facilitator
Learn how to safely and ethically guide others using the breath as a therapeutic tool. This 2-year, internationally accredited program prepares you to support individuals with care, compassion, and trauma awareness—whether in private practice, group settings, or institutional spaces.
Breathwork is powerful and can be the bridge between the conscious and subconscious.
Being trauma-informed means understanding how trauma lives in the body.
Trauma is not just a memory—it’s an ongoing response that the body holds as protection.
It may manifest as anxiety, hypervigilance, dissociation, or a host of other physical and emotional symptoms.
Trauma-informed breathwork acknowledges that it’s not about fixing something that is broken, but rather honoring what the body has been through and creating space for safe exploration. It’s about cultivating safety and agency in the breathwork space, rather than pushing for cathartic, intense emotional releases that might do more harm than good.
Recognising Trauma in all its forms
Rooted in Embodied Social Justice, this course acknowledges trauma in all its forms: Personal , Intergenerational , Institutional, and Historical traumas.
Read the Article: Why Trauma-Informed Training Matters in Breathwork
Read my essay: A Decolonial Approach to Breathwork
This training is a 2-year hybrid online and in-person training.
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.
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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.
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Class Objectives:
Begin with a deeply personal journey into your own breath, nervous system, and lineage. You’ll learn to build your own breath hygiene routine and attend to what safety in the body actually feels like—especially in trauma-impacted bodies.
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:
Understand how trauma shows up in the body and breath. We’ll explore trauma theory, polyvagal theory, embodied consent, and how to support participants without re-traumatising or bypassing their lived experiences.
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 1: Foundational Year
Structure
6 Online Units
Each Unit is 6 weeks long
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
This 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 units 5 and 6 are when you start to practice.
The Fireside: Breathwork for POC Only Students
We will also have weekly breathwork sessions for students of the Global Majority on Sundays at 11am UK Time for 1.5 hours.
Monthly Facilitated White Caucus Group Gathering
We will gather once a month to discuss how decolonial work is feeling through your body. This will be hosted by a trusted white-bodied colleague and peer in the field.
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 GPBA.
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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 experienced 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.
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.
The Vision
Application Process
Step 1
Discovery Call
Take a look at the course materials here, and request a brochure below. I will invite you for an informal video call to discuss this course and answer questions about your application. This step is optional.
Step 2
Online Application
The online application has questions about your background, experience, and motivations. We may ask follow up questions via email before inviting you to an Admissions Interview.
Step 3
Admissions Interview
If you have passed our initial screening, you will be invited for an Admissions Interview. This is a video call and can last up to 1 hour.
Step 4
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.
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 levels.
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.
Course Starts:
1st December 2026
Two session a week.
The course will cater to the following timezones: Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia timezones. Class Schedule for each Time Zone is available in the brochure.
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