Certified Breathwork Instructor · Indianapolis, IN
Breathwork training in Indianapolis.
Train as a Certified Breathwork Instructor (CBI) with Harmonika Institute in Indianapolis, IN. Train as a Certified Breathwork Instructor — pranayama, conscious connected breathing, and trauma-informed group work.
Indianapolis cohort details
- City
- Indianapolis, IN
- 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 Indianapolis?
Indianapolis's wellness market is shaped by IU Health (the largest healthcare system in Indiana), the universities (IUPUI, Butler, the University of Indianapolis), and a fast-growing tech-and-life-sciences corridor. Our cohorts here include healthcare workers, educators, and university researchers.
For students of Breathwork specifically, Indianapolis's scene is a particularly good match: iu health and university pipelines. practical-midwest cohort culture. The local cohort runs in venue partners around Mass Ave, Fountain Square, Broad Ripple, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.
Indianapolis students are often 35-55, with backgrounds in healthcare, education, and small-business ownership. The cohort is unusually practical and family-oriented.
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 Indianapolis.
Indianapolis cohorts adjust around the Midwest winter. May and September starts dominate; January cohorts are small.
Who this Indianapolis 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 Indianapolis.
- 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 Indianapolis.
Same tuition whether you study in Indianapolis or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the Indianapolis 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 Indianapolis.
Talk with our admissions team about the next Breathwork cohort starting in Indianapolis, IN. Free, online, one hour.