What you will learn
The anatomy of breathing, so that you can understand how we breathe and how to change the breath in helpful ways.
How breathwork influences the nervous system, so that you know how to alter it to enable more calm.
When to offer breathwork (and when not to!).
How to explain breathwork in an engaging way to clients.
Basic breathing pattern identification - how to recognise when your clients habitual way of breathing could be contributing to their anxiety, anger or panic. How to change this and help your clients to breathe in a more relaxed, calming way.
How to choose the best breathwork for your client, to that you can maximise it’s benefit.
Why breathwork isn’t ‘one size fits all’ - how to adapt breathwork to your clients individual needs. Including why techniques such as 7:11 and 4:8:7 breathing aren’t always helpful and what to offer instead.
How to teach calming breathwork practices to help reduce clients anxiety, anger or panic.
How to work with clients who have both anxiety and depression.
How to safely use breathwork with clients who have experienced trauma.
The benefits of each breathwork technique, when each is helpful and when precautions are needed.
Tips for effectively teaching the techniques.
How over-breathing can contribute to or cause panic attacks.
How to use breathwork to reduce or stop panic attacks.
When to signpost to a specialist or suggest medical assessment.
How to make a breathwork practice realistic for your clients to integrate into their daily life.
How to integrate breathwork into your client sessions.
How to use the breathwork techniques yourself, to support your own calm and wellbeing.
Course details
Course structure
The Breathing for Calm course is delivered through two interactive training days, held live over Zoom. In addition, you'll be asked to complete 2.5 hours of online training modules independently. The initial modules, lasting a total of two hours, will be available one month prior to day one of the training. After the second day, there is a shorter, 30-minute module to support the application of everything that you’ve learnt.
This training will be presented in 4 sections:
Understand provides you with the knowledge that you need to offer effective calming breathwork.
Assess teaches you how to gather the information that you need from your clients.
Choose shows you how to use this information to choose the best breathwork techniques.
Teach enables you to correctly teach the breathwork techniques to your clients.
A group supervision session will be held 2 months after the last day of the training. This gives you the opportunity to ask questions and discuss cases after applying the breathwork in your practice.
A certificate of completion will be provided upon full attendance of the training and supervision, and successful completion of a multiple choice assessment.
Eligibility for Training
Although this course has been designed with Counsellors and Psychotherapists in mind, Psychologists and Coaches are also very welcome to attend. Participants need to have completed a recognised professional training program and adhere to an ethical professional framework e.g. BACP, UKCP, BPS, or AC. Please note that I am currently unable to teach attendees based in the USA or Canada; so individuals need to be located outside of these regions. Participants are required to hold professional liability insurance.
Attendees need to be happy to engage in a personal breathwork practice, as this is required to teach breathwork well to clients. If it is challenging for you to focus on your breath because of unprocessed trauma, please contact me before registering to check whether you are likely to get the most out of the course at this time. Participants will require use of a laptop or tablet to access the training (as phones don’t provide a large enough view for the practical sections of the course).
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What to expect
The training will consist of both theory and practical sessions.
Part of the training will be experiencing the breathwork yourself.
Practising teaching the techniques to others will start on Day 1 of the training and will be done in small groups.
It’s also important to practice the breathwork in your own time, both experiencing it yourself and teaching others. This will help you to gain confidence in the techniques and teach them well.
There will be a powerpoint presentation to aid your learning, copies of the slides will be provided. A workbook with useful forms and charts will also be provided.
There will be lots of opportunities to ask questions and get support!
Dates of next training
The next training dates are as follows:
Day 1) Saturday 20th September 2025, 09.00 - 15.30.
Day 2) Saturday 18th October 2025, 09.00 - 15.30.
Group Supervison: Tuesday 9th December 2025, 19.00 - 20.30.
The initial 2 hrs of the online training modules will be released on Saturday 23rd August 2025. The content of these forms the foundation for the rest of the training, so will need to be completed prior to day one. The final 30 minute online training module will be available from the end of day two.
Training cost
The cost of the training is £235, including the course workbook and a group supervision session two months after the training. Payment by instalments is available. An early bird price of £215 is available until the end of April 2025! Please enter EARLYCALM at the checkout to obtain your discount.