Certified Breathwork Instructor · Baltimore, MD
Breathwork training in Baltimore.
Train as a Certified Breathwork Instructor (CBI) with Harmonika Institute in Baltimore, MD. Train as a Certified Breathwork Instructor — pranayama, conscious connected breathing, and trauma-informed group work.
Baltimore 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 Baltimore, MD
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.
Jan 14 – Mar 12, 2028
Fri–Sun · 9 am–6 pm · 8 teaching days in 3 monthly modules · 10 seats per cohort
- Module 1Jan 14–16
- Module 2Feb 11–13
- Module 3Mar 11–12
Every teaching day runs 9 am to 6 pm, in two four-hour half-days. You receive the Baltimore venue and the full timetable with your enrolment agreement.
Seats
10 students
Enrolment closes
December 24, 2027
Two minutes, no payment today. Our admissions team contacts you within two business days.
Why Breathwork in Baltimore?
Baltimore's wellness market is shaped by Johns Hopkins University and Hospital — one of the world's preeminent academic medical centers. Our cohorts here include researchers, healthcare workers, and educators with strong scientific literacy. The city's broader community-organizing tradition also shapes a wellness culture oriented toward practical service.
For students of Breathwork specifically, Baltimore's scene is a particularly good match: johns hopkins academic-medical pipeline. community-oriented practitioner culture. The local cohort runs in venue partners around Hampden, Federal Hill, Mount Vernon, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.
Baltimore students are often 30-55, with backgrounds in healthcare (Hopkins, Sinai, UMMC nurses and PAs are well-represented), education, social services, and family-business roles. They ask careful evidence-based questions and value scope-of-practice clarity.
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 Baltimore: 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 Baltimore 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 Baltimore.
Baltimore cohorts run year-round with January, May, and September starts. The fall cohort is the strongest. Summer humidity is real but indoor venues are well-equipped.
Who this Baltimore 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 Baltimore 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 Baltimore.
Same tuition whether you study in Baltimore or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the Baltimore 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 Baltimore.
Talk with our admissions team about the next Breathwork cohort starting in Baltimore, MD. Free, online, one hour.