Starts March 2026
Breathwork & Pranayama Facilitator Training
Feeling called to share the transformative benefits of breathwork with others as a professionally certified breathwork facilitator and breathing therapist?
Chances are you’ve already experienced some of the incredible benefits of breathwork and you want to expand your professional skillset by sharing effective, natural, science based breathing techniques to support yourself and others to live healthier, happier lives.
Who’s this program for? This program is designed for health and wellness professionals, therapists, yoga teachers, meditation guides, fitness instructors, and healers who want to expand their professional skillset with breathing, breathwork, and meditation practices. It’s also open to individuals who are feeling the call to dive deep into their own inner transformational journey and set a new path as a professionally trained breathwork facilitator/coach.
About The Certification Training
Yoga teachers receive 35 YACEP credits
Step into your purpose and leadership as a breathwork facilitator. Find clarity and purpose in your work and life as a breathwork facilitator and breathing therapist. Connect and align with your personal core values and guiding principles to create a sustainable wellness practice that is authentic to you and will best serve your clients and community.
The 5 Pillars
There are 5 Pillars to this training which are rooted in a holistic perspective that all aspects of health and well-being are interconnected. These guiding principles will support you in your own inner work and journey, and give you a strong foundation to support you every step of the way to becoming a well-trained, confident breathwork facilitator.
BODY Explore Somatic practices for awakening the senses, helping to restore a feeling of embodiment and presence. Explore a new balance, and carve out new neural pathways in the brain. Breathe and explore accessible movements (yoga, dance, play)in a therapeutic setting to help clients release tensions, feel more calm, safe, centered and grounded.
BREATH Learn and practice a variety of breathing methods, from functional breathing and the Buyteko Method, to Soul Dimension Breathing, Holotropic, Wim Hoff, and yogic pranayama techniques that bring balance to the mind and nervous system, health to the body, and awaken the body’s natural healing.
ENERGY Connect to the intelligent life force within your body. Learn yogic practices that balance, heal, and awaken deeper levels of self-awareness and meditative states. Guide your clients and students with breathing and energy balancing techniques, in conjunction with whatever type of wellness therapies or meditation you might be offering. Empower others with natural healing practices that will help bring balance and harmony to their life.
SOUL Go beyond the mind and access your deeper self-awareness, heart-centered presence, and inner knowing. Awaken a deeper connection to your inner source and inner guidance.
COMMUNITY Lifetime community support within our community of breathwork facilitators/healers. This is a place where you can share, learn, and continue to evolve your potential and step into your gifts and soul calling.
What is Soul Dimension Breathwork?
After 30 plus years of exploring the transformative benefits of pranayama and modern breathing practices for accessing meditation, healing, altered states, and spiritual awakening, Sylvie Horvath created Soul Dimension Breathing to share the transformative benefits of breathing practices with people from all backgrounds and walks of life.
Soul Dimension breathing has a strong foundation in science and yogic knowledge. The practice brings together a powerful blending of modern and ancient practices for influencing and enhancing physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being. It’s a holistic system and way of breathing that includes modern therapeutic practices, pranayama, chakras, energy balancing, movement, sound healing, and guided meditation.
Why become a SD Certified Breathwork facilitator?
- Get a strong science-based foundation
- Explore a variety of breathwork practices/methods as an alternative wellness and healing therapy
- Learn about the science of yogic pranayama and techniques
- Get a strong experiential and comprehensive foundation in ancient yogic healing and self-transformative practices.
- Learn and practice how to develop and facilitate a variety of breathwork and pranayama sessions to address the needs of your clients, students and community
- Practice leading sessions within our community
- Learn how to develop your community reach and business in a way that is authentic to you
- Lifetime community support and regular live mentoring sessions within our community of breathwork facilitators. Stay connected with the community to share, collaborate, ask questions, connect with practitioners, and continue learning and mastering your skills and exploring your gifts.
The Training Curriculum
Our Professional 22 week online training includes 2 live weekly group breathwork experiences, 1 live training class every fortnight, online training videos, Q&A sessions, and student facilitator practice sessions. Graduates of the program receive full certification and Yoga Alliance recognized educational credits.
Module 1 – 2 The Foundations
- The 5 Holistic Pillars
- Physiology of breathing
- Benefits of nasal breathing
- Functional Breathing
- Learn your Bolt Score
- Evaluate your students functional breathing
- Science and theory of breathwork practices
- The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system
- Poly vagal theory
- Hormesis & IMS (intermitent stress)
Modules 3, 4 and 5 – Breathwork, Pranayama, Energy & Healing Practices
- Pranayama practices for harmonizing and balancing body and mind
- Explore modern breathwork methods: Holotropic, Wim Hoff, Conscious connected breathwork
- Soul Dimension Breathing (breath, movement, sound, energy, meditation)
- Movement/somatics (Part 1)
- Functional breathing for asthma, better sleep, anxiety
- Alternative, complementary healing modalities for facilitators
- Emotional healing
- PTSD and trauma release
- Subconscious mind and programming
- Anatomy of the energy body and chakras (part 1 and recorded content)
- Chakra and energy balancing meditations (part 1 and recorded content)
- Mudras, bandhas, energy balancing
Module 6 – Facilitation, Intention, Integration
- Practice and lead breathing sessions
- Safety and breathwork contraindications
- Creating safe space online and in-person
- Holding space for others
- Ceremony
- Facilitator practice sessions
- Q&A and check-in, sharing
- Integration and facilitation practices: sound, voice, touch, safety
- Ethics, integrity
- Relaxation and integration techniques: body scan, yoga nidra, guided relaxation
Module 7 Developing Your Practice
- Who is your community? How do you reach them?
- Community service
- Testing your new skills and knowledge
- Authenticity, service and purpose
- Practice live online sessions with other trainees, our community, and in-person
- Share your experience leading sessions, ask questions, and get helpful feedback
- Developing your brand, business, marketing, website
- Live Q & A
- Complete requirements and Receive Breathwork Facilitator Certification
Pricing
Online Certification Training
Online Training
$2,490
Cancellation & Refund Policy
- Cancellations are fully transferrable to the next training. There are no refunds.
About Your Instructor Sylvie Horvath
With over 35 years of experience as a yoga instructor, breathwork facilitator, and spiritual guide, it’s my honor to support others in becoming confident and compassionate breathwork facilitators.
My life and teaching are rooted in the wisdom of yoga, Ayurveda, and conscious breathing — powerful natural tools for vibrant health, inner peace, and deep personal transformation. I’m here to help you tap into these practices to awaken your full potential, both personally and professionally.
