Certified Breathwork Facilitator Training
Starts Online October 2024
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 25 YACEP credits for level 1, and 25 for level 2
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.
There are 2 Levels to this hybrid training
Level 1 is an in-person 7 day retreat immersion, and Level 2 is an online 16 week training.
This complete training is designed to give you the tools, knowledge, and necessary experience to safely and confidently facilitate private and group online and in-person breathing sessions.
Participants can do just level 1, or both level 1 & 2 for full training and certification.
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 awakening 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 and inner knowing with meditation practice. Establish a deeper self-awareness and self-awakening beyond the mind and thinking.
COMMUNITY Lifetime, monthly mentorship support within our community of breathwork facilitators/healers. This is a place where you can share, learn, get support, and continue to evolve your potential and step into your gifts and soul calling.
Level 1 Retreat at Playa Trocones, Mexico
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-actualization practices that work
- Learn and practice how to develop and facilitate a variety of breathwork and pranayama sessions for your clients, students and community
- Practice leading sessions within our community
- Learn how to develop your brand and business in a way that is authentic to you
- Lifetime community support and monthly 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
Beginners Level 1 Immersion – Playa Trocones, Mexico Oct 2024
A 7 day In-person immersion highlights your own inner journey, self-awareness, and personal growth. Connect with others on the same journey in a safe space to share, learn, and grow. Take your own personal inner journey that will empower you to compassionately and effectively hold space to support others. Click here to see the immersive training experience in Mexico, Oct 2024. Receive YACEP Credits and certificate of completion.
Professional Training Level 2 – Online The 16 week online training includes 2 live weekly group classes, 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 certified credits.
Module 1 – The Foundations
- The 5 Holistic Pillars
- Why become a breathwork facilitator?
- Physiology of breathing
- Benefits of nasal breathing
- Functional Breathing
- Learn your Bolt Score
- Evaluate your students functional breathing
- Safety, contraindications
- Science and theory of yoga pranayama and breathwork practices
- The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system
- Poly vagal theory
- Hormesis & IMS (intermitent stress)
Modules 2 and 3 – 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
- Myofunctional exercises to strengthen breathing muscles of throat, neck and mouth
- Healing the Inner child, 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, dristhis (part 1 and recorded content)
Module 4 – Facilitation, Intention, Integration
- Practice and lead breathing sessions with other students
- Creating safe space online and in-person
- Holding space for others
- Ceremony
- Safety, contraindications
- 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
- Role of diet and healthy lifestyle for healing and wellness.
Module 5 – Developing Your Community and Business
- Who is your community? How do you reach them?
- Community service
- Exam/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 Parts 1 & 2 and Receive Breathwork Facilitator Certification
Pricing
Level 1 In person Training
Single
$3,190
Double
$2,590
Level 2 Online Training
Level 2 Online Training
$1,690
Package pricing
Level 1 & 2
- Single $4,590
- Double $3,990
Reserve your spot for Level 1 Mexico Immersion!
Please read and understand our cancellation policy before making a reservation.
- Reserve your space with a minimum, non-refundable $350 deposit by Zelle, PayPal or Bank Transfer.
- Full payment is due by July 18th.
- Payment installment plans available.
Cancellation Policy for Retreats
- Cancellations before August 1st receive a 45% refund.
- After August 15th there are no refunds.
- However, if canceled reservations can be filled by another participant, cancelled parties will receive a full refund, minus the non-refundable deposit.
- Please do not book any flights until your space is confirmed.
- We highly recommend travel insurance in case you should have to cancel your reservation due to unforeseen circumstances.
