Certified Breathwork Instructor · New York, NY
Breathwork training in New York.
Breathwork has moved from the studio fringe to regular slots on New York class schedules, and applicants with strong personal practices are drawn to teaching it. The Certified Breathwork Instructor track covers pranayama, conscious connected breathing, and trauma-informed group work you can lead responsibly.
New York 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 New York, NY
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.
Dec 10, 2027 – Feb 13, 2028
Fri–Sun · 9 am–6 pm · 8 teaching days in 3 monthly modules · 10 seats per cohort
- Module 1Dec 10–12
- Module 2Jan 14–16
- Module 3Feb 12–13
Every teaching day runs 9 am to 6 pm, in two four-hour half-days. You receive the New York venue and the full timetable with your enrolment agreement.
Seats
10 students
Enrolment closes
November 19, 2027
Two minutes, no payment today. Our admissions team contacts you within two business days.
Why Breathwork in New York?
Instructors run group sessions in DUMBO and Williamsburg studios, and some bring workshops into the finance and tech offices they came from. That corporate access is a genuine advantage in this city. The caveat matters most here: conscious connected breathing can surface strong reactions, so trauma-informed limits and a referral network are part of practising ethically, not optional extras.
New York's wellness market is unlike any other in the country: it's where modalities are tested, refined, and exported. The five boroughs hold thousands of yoga studios, several hundred spas, and a thriving network of independent practitioners working in everything from Reiki to expressive arts. The career-changers who train with us in New York typically come from finance, media, fashion, and tech — they've spent a decade or more in highly cognitive work and want a practice that puts them back in the body, with their hands, in front of real people. Public transit makes attendance from across the metro realistic for full training days, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
For students of Breathwork specifically, New York's scene is a particularly good match: highest density of yoga studios per capita in the u.s. strong demand for in-person, lineage-aware training. The local cohort runs in venue partners around DUMBO, Williamsburg, NoMad, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.
New York applicants tend to be 35-50 years old, often coming from a decade or more in finance, law, media, fashion, advertising, or tech. Many have stable income, well-developed personal yoga or meditation practices, and clear evidence in their lives that the office-driven life is not sustainable. They are sophisticated consumers of wellness content and skeptical of training that overpromises. They want lineage clarity, real practice hours, and a credential they can speak about credibly with the friends and former colleagues they expect to bring as their first paying clients.
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 New York: 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 New York 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 New York.
New York cohorts run year-round with three start dates (January, May, September). Winter cohorts have lower attendance variance (people are indoors anyway); summer cohorts are slightly smaller but produce strong cohesion through the shared experience of training in heat. Every in-person session is a full day, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; there are no evening classes.
Who this New York 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 New York 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 New York.
Same tuition whether you study in New York or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the New York 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 New York.
Talk with our admissions team about the next Breathwork cohort starting in New York, NY. Free, online, one hour.