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Certified Breathwork Instructor · Atlanta, GA

Breathwork training in Atlanta.

Breathwork lives in groups, and Atlanta has the rooms for it — Old Fourth Ward studios, Midtown movement spaces, the wellness pop-ups that follow the city's founders around. As a Certified Breathwork Instructor you'll train in pranayama, conscious connected breathing, and trauma-informed group facilitation.

Breathwork certification training in Atlanta, GA

Atlanta cohort details

City
Atlanta, GA
Credential
CBI
Tuition
$2,800
In-person training
8 days · 64h
Live cohort calls
1 day · 4h
Supervised practice
60h
Portfolio + jury
35h
Total
163h · ~20 day-eq.
Cohort
10 students
Format
In person + live cohort calls
Download detailed program (PDF)

PDF — modules, hours, faculty notes, and a typical week's schedule.

Train where you live

Why Breathwork in Atlanta?

Instructors here run classes and workshops more than private sessions — studios in Old Fourth Ward, corporate wellness days booked through Atlanta's founder networks, occasional retreats. Clients skew toward stressed professionals and entrepreneurs. Trauma-informed scope matters: strong breathwork can surface intense states, and you need to know when to hold and when to refer. Building a paying schedule takes months of teaching, often for little at first.

Atlanta's wellness market has grown faster over the past decade than nearly any other U.S. metro. The city's Black wellness community, in particular, has been building a generation of practitioners and lineage holders whose work is reshaping the national conversation. Our Atlanta cohorts often include nurses, educators, and entrepreneurs in active career transition.

For students of Breathwork specifically, Atlanta's scene is a particularly good match: fastest-growing wellness market in the southeast. strong, distinct practitioner voices. The local cohort runs in venue partners around Midtown, Old Fourth Ward, Decatur, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.

Atlanta students are often 30-50, with strong representation from healthcare (Emory and the metro hospital system are major employers), education, hospitality, and entrepreneurship. The Atlanta cohorts are unusually diverse — recent cohorts have been roughly 40% Black, 40% white, 20% Latina/other — and that diversity shapes the conversations meaningfully. Many of our Atlanta students are actively building wellness businesses serving specific cultural communities.

The modality

What you'll be training in.

For a deeper introduction to Breathwork as a practice tradition, see the full program page.

Breathwork is an umbrella term for practices that use intentional patterns of breathing to shift psychological, physiological, and energetic states. The category includes ancient yogic pranayama (nadi shodhana, kapalabhati, bhramari, ujjayi, and many others), Tibetan Tummo, Sufi practices, modern conscious-connected breathing (Rebirthing, Holotropic, Transformational), and contemporary clinical applications (4-7-8 breathing, box breathing, coherent breathing).

What a working breathwork facilitator actually does varies widely depending on lineage and context. A pranayama-trained yoga teacher leading slow, deliberate breath ratios in a class of twenty creates a different experience than a Holotropic-trained facilitator running a five-hour group session with deliberately intensified breathing. Both are legitimate; both serve different purposes; both require structured training to do safely.

What you'll learn

The Breathwork curriculum, in 8 in-person days.

  • Foundational pranayama: nadi shodhana, kapalabhati, bhramari
  • Conscious-connected breathing and similar modern styles
  • Reading breathers in real time and adjusting pace
  • Trauma-informed pacing and clear referral pathways
  • Designing one-on-one breathwork sessions
  • Leading breathwork circles of 10-40 people

See the full module-by-module curriculum →

Cohort schedule

When Breathwork cohorts run in Atlanta.

Atlanta cohorts run year-round with three starts (January, May, September). Summer cohorts adjust slightly for the deep heat (most studio venues are well-air-conditioned). The fall cohort is the strongest by enrollment volume.

The right student

Who this Atlanta cohort is for.

Yoga teachers, coaches, and somatic practitioners who want to add a powerful, well-bounded one-on-one and group modality to their work.

Career outcomes

After graduation in Atlanta.

  • Open a private Breathwork practice (CBI)
  • Lead breathwork circles in studios, retreats, and community settings
  • Add breathwork to a yoga, coaching, or somatic practice
  • Specialize in stress, anxiety, or peak performance breathwork
Tuition

$2,800 for the full 20-day Breathwork program in Atlanta.

Same tuition whether you study in Atlanta or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the Atlanta cohort.

Tuition and financing details

$2,800

163h total · 8 in-person days

Next step

Become a Certified Breathwork Instructor in Atlanta.

Talk with our admissions team about the next Breathwork cohort starting in Atlanta, GA. Free, online, one hour.