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.

Atlanta cohort at a glance
- Tuition
- $3,000
- Format
- 100% in person
- In-person teaching
- 8 days · 64h
- Personal study
- ~51h
- Cohort size
- 10 students
- Credential
- CBI
Same tuition in every city
In Atlanta, GA
8-hour days, two 4-hour half-days
Between sessions, on average
Fixed cohort, start to finish
Private certification, not a state license
PDF — modules, hours, faculty notes, and a typical week's schedule.
Jun 25 – Aug 29, 2027
Fri–Sun · 9 am–6 pm · 8 teaching days in 3 monthly modules · 10 seats per cohort
- Module 1Jun 25–27
- Module 2Jul 30–Aug 1
- Module 3Aug 28–29
Every teaching day runs 9 am to 6 pm, in two four-hour half-days. You receive the Atlanta venue and the full timetable with your enrolment agreement.
Seats
10 students
Enrolment closes
June 4, 2027
Two minutes, no payment today. Our admissions team contacts you within two business days.
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.
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, Transformational, and related schools), 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 facilitator trained in an intensive circular-breathing lineage running a multi-hour group session with deliberately intensified breathing. Both are legitimate; both serve different purposes; both require structured training to do safely.
The Breathwork curriculum in Atlanta: 8 in-person days.
Eight days to guide the breath safely, from one client to a full circle.
- Teaching days
- 8
- Teaching hours
- 64h
- Cohort size
- 10
days, 7h each
in the room
in your Atlanta cohort
| Day | Theme |
|---|---|
| Chapter 1 · Days 1–3The breath | |
| 01 | How we breathe |
| 02 | Functional breathing and stress regulation |
| 03 | Classical pranayama |
| Chapter 2 · Days 4–6Hands on | |
| 04 | Conscious-connected breathing |
| 05 | The private session, start to finish |
| 06 | Trauma sensitivity and intense moments |
| Chapter 3 · Days 7–8Your practice | |
| 07 | Holding a circle |
| 08 | Ethics, business and certification |
Signature moment of the program
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.
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.
Where your Atlanta training leads.
- 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
$3,000 for the full 8-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$3,000
64h of teaching · 8 in-person days
Breathwork: questions students ask first.
- Grounding Techniques Practitioners Use Before and After SessionsGrounding techniques for practitioners: 5-4-3-2-1, feet-and-breath anchoring, weight and contact, cold water, the 60-second body scan, with times and limits.9 min read
- Breathwork Certification: Styles, Safety and Scope of PracticeThe four families of breathwork, how differently they behave in a room, who must be screened out, and where a facilitator's scope of practice stops.10 min read
- Breathwork vs Mindfulness Training: Which Fits Your PracticeTwo practices that get shelved together and are temperamentally opposite. What each session looks like, who buys it, what it earns, and which one suits you.11 min read
Breathwork certification in other Harmonika cities.
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.