Certified Breathwork Instructor · Austin, TX
Breathwork training in Austin.
Train as a Certified Breathwork Instructor (CBI) with Harmonika Institute in Austin, TX. Train as a Certified Breathwork Instructor — pranayama, conscious connected breathing, and trauma-informed group work.

Austin cohort details
- City
- Austin, TX
- 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
PDF — modules, hours, faculty notes, and a typical week's schedule.
Why Breathwork in Austin?
Austin's wellness culture punches above the city's weight. The metro is small by U.S. standards but the practitioner community is unusually engaged: there are more breathwork facilitators, sound healers, and somatic practitioners per capita here than in cities ten times its size. Many of our Austin students come from tech, music, or hospitality and arrive looking for a serious second-career practice.
For students of Breathwork specifically, Austin's scene is a particularly good match: disproportionately large practitioner community for the city size. strong somatic and breathwork demand. The local cohort runs in venue partners around East Austin, South Congress, Hyde Park, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.
Austin students are often 28-45, with backgrounds in tech (Austin's software industry is a major recruitment pipeline), music and hospitality, and creative industries. The cohort is younger than most other markets in our network, and the entrepreneurial energy is unusually high — many Austin students arrive already running small wellness businesses (yoga studios, retreats, supplement brands) and want credentialed depth to support business growth.
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.
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
When Breathwork cohorts run in Austin.
Austin cohorts adjust around the deep summer heat. January-May and September-November cohorts have the highest attendance; June-August is reduced. Indoor venue partners are essential through summer.
Who this Austin 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.
After graduation in Austin.
- 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
$2,800 for the full 20-day Breathwork program in Austin.
Same tuition whether you study in Austin or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the Austin cohort.
Tuition and financing details$2,800
163h total · 8 in-person days
Breathwork certification in other Harmonika cities.
Next step
Become a Certified Breathwork Instructor in Austin.
Talk with our admissions team about the next Breathwork cohort starting in Austin, TX. Free, online, one hour.