Aki Tsuchiyagaito
Ph.D · Neuroscientist
Research on interoception and the neural basis of self-referential processing. Wrote the foreword to Becoming the Ethical Breathworker.
Professional Breathwork Certification
You already speak this language.
We teach you to hear it.
Your breathing has been telling you something your whole life. We teach people to read it — for their own practice, and for the people they work with.
What the Language of Breath is
Not a technique. A way of understanding what your breath is already doing.
Most breathwork is taught as a style you perform. A sequence, a protocol, a branded method you run on whoever is in front of you. Learn the steps, get the certificate, repeat the steps.
We teach breath as a language you read before you speak it. Every breath is two messages at once: one from the unconscious self about the state you are in, and one back to it about the state you intend. Once you can hear both, techniques stop being a menu you guess from. They become vocabulary you choose on purpose.
That single idea is what connects everything here. The six-week course teaches you to hear it in yourself. The certification teaches you to hear it in somebody else. The books put the whole argument in print with the citations attached. The directory is forty-seven people who can already do it.
Where to start
One method. Six ways in.
People arrive here for very different reasons. Find the door that fits.
For yourself · $799
The 6-Week Course
Learn to read your own breathing, with a measurable baseline rather than a feeling. No experience needed. Fully credited toward certification if you continue.
Start here → To work with others · $3,200–$6,200Facilitator Certification
Twenty modules, faculty with terminal degrees, graded ethics, and a year of Residency after you qualify. Built for clinicians, coaches and therapists.
See the curriculum → Looking for a practitionerFind a Breathworker
Forty-seven certified practitioners, each observed facilitating before they qualified. Search by name or filter by level.
Browse the collective → To read firstThe Books
Five titles, one published by North Atlantic Books. The method in print, with the citations attached and the limits stated.
See the catalogue → First respondersBreathwork//Tactics
A credential only first responders can hold, included free with certification. Also the clearest proof that this system travels.
Read the case study → Ongoing practiceThe Collective
Weekly Language Labs, monthly professional development, and practitioners who have been here for years. Where graduates stay.
Join the community →What makes this different
Most schools teach you a technique. We teach you how to read the person in front of you.
Every breathwork school teaches a style. Conscious Connected Breathing. A branded music protocol. One lineage’s sequence. You learn it, you get certified in it, and then you run it on everyone who walks through the door. When it doesn’t fit the person, you don’t have a second move.
We don’t teach one style. We also don’t try to teach all of them. That just leaves you holding more sequences and the same problem: no reliable way to decide which one this person needs today.
What we teach is a system for reading the physiology and psychology actually in front of you. Our graduates can deliver any form of breathwork. The difference is that they choose it from assessment, rather than going in blind.
01 · Assess
Before you pick anything
You find out how this person actually breathes: functional assessment, movement observation, CO₂ tolerance, self-report. Most facilitators skip straight to the protocol. That is the whole error.
02 · Select
Every technique, chosen on purpose
Graduates can offer the full range, from functional breathing through to superventilation. The skill we certify is not knowing more techniques. It is knowing which one, for whom, and when to stop.
03 · The through-line
Progressive interoception training
Informed by the peer-reviewed interoception research of Dr. Cynthia Price at the University of Washington, and by our founder’s own training with her. Her work is the gold standard in this area, and almost no breathwork certification draws on it systematically. It is what turns a set of techniques into a system.
47Certified Breathworkers Practising
6Faculty, Four With Terminal Degrees
2Books, One From North Atlantic Books
12Month Residency After You Certify
Who teaches this
Nicole M. Woodard
Doctor of Physical Therapy
Respiratory mechanics, rehabilitation, and where clinical scope of practice actually ends.
Sébastien Zappa
Ph.D
Research methodology and evidence appraisal: how to read a study before you cite it.
Josh Steckel
Kinesiology
Movement, performance, and breath mechanics under physical load.
One system, every goal
Four different goals. One underlying problem.
An athlete comes for performance. Someone in therapy comes for regulation. Someone with chronic pain comes for relief. Someone in a hard year comes because they cannot sleep. Those look like four different problems.
After ten years training first responders, CEOs, athletes and recovering addicts, I don’t think they are. They are the same disconnection surfacing in four places. That is why this is taught as a language rather than a protocol. A fixed sequence can only serve the goal it was built around, and a language adapts to whoever is speaking it.
Athletic performance
Breath under load
CO₂ tolerance training, recovery between efforts, and the point where breathlessness stops being information and starts being alarm. Assessment first, so the protocol matches the athlete rather than the sport.
Personal growth
Learning to listen
Interoception is the trainable skill underneath all of this: noticing internal signals accurately enough to act on them. Most people have spent years learning not to. The work is largely undoing that.
Psychological healing
Alongside care, not instead of it
Trauma-informed facilitation, contraindication screening, and a graded module on where breathwork ends and clinical treatment begins. Many of our practitioners are already therapists, and this extends what they do rather than replacing it.
We do not certify anyone to treat a diagnosis.
Pain
What breath can and cannot reach
Breath will not repair tissue. I know because I spent months trying to breathe a torn meniscus back together, and it is still torn. What changes is the nervous system’s relationship to a pain signal: the amplification, the guarding, the bracing.
That distinction is the whole lesson.
The standard underneath all of it
Five principles every graduate is held to.
Awareness before action. Consent is a conversation, not a form. Meet the person, not the protocol. Know your scope. Presence over performance.
They are graded, not suggested, and they are the reason we can say what this method will not do as clearly as what it will.
What graduates say
Every person below is in the directory. You can look them up.
Anonymous praise is worth nothing in a field with this much marketing in it. These are named practitioners with public profiles. Click any of them.
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Gatlin Fenwick
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Chris Wurden
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Robin Cleveland Marino
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Locke Berkebile
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Dr. Nicole Woodard
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Dr. Sébastien Zappa
“Language of Breath is a way to drop into your body using your breath and connect your conscious self with your unconscious self in a way that’s not just breathing to get high. You’re actually learning more about yourself, hearing things from yourself that maybe you’ve just put on a shelf for a while and couldn’t quite connect with.”
“The transparency of the program was key for me. I knew exactly what I was getting into, and Jesse even opened himself up to a phone call before I made the decision to join. There was an immediate connection there, which really helped.”
“I’ve always really valued the mind-body relationship, almost more than the choreography of the movements. When I started to learn about the Language of Breath and its philosophy of utilizing breathwork not only as a physiologic tool but also as an emotional and spiritual tool, bringing the whole person into the experience, I really liked the holistic sense of it.”
“The master module retreat tremendously impacted me as a teacher. I’ve always kind of had that impostor syndrome and a bit of fear about teaching. Being able to be here, let myself go, and just be myself in front of these people, getting positive feedback and practice, has been exactly what I needed to get back home and get started.”
Find a breathworker
47 certified practitioners, each with their own background and population.
The certification is the floor, not the ceiling. Every breathworker trained in the complete system arrives with their own clinical history, their own practice, and their own people.
