Certified Breathwork Instructor · Portland, OR
Breathwork training in Portland.
Train as a Certified Breathwork Instructor (CBI) with Harmonika Institute in Portland, OR. Train as a Certified Breathwork Instructor — pranayama, conscious connected breathing, and trauma-informed group work.
Portland 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 Portland, OR
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 11 – Aug 15, 2027
Fri–Sun · 9 am–6 pm · 8 teaching days in 3 monthly modules · 10 seats per cohort
- Module 1Jun 11–13
- Module 2Jul 16–18
- Module 3Aug 14–15
Every teaching day runs 9 am to 6 pm, in two four-hour half-days. You receive the Portland venue and the full timetable with your enrolment agreement.
Seats
10 students
Enrolment closes
May 21, 2027
Two minutes, no payment today. Our admissions team contacts you within two business days.
Why Breathwork in Portland?
Portland's wellness market is unusually local-economy-oriented. Our students here often arrive committed to building practices serving Portland and surrounding communities specifically. NUNM (the National University of Natural Medicine) is in the metro, producing a steady flow of NDs and adjacent practitioners.
For students of Breathwork specifically, Portland's scene is a particularly good match: local-economy ethos. nunm-driven practitioner pipeline. strong herbalist culture. The local cohort runs in venue partners around Hawthorne, Alberta Arts District, Pearl District, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.
Portland students are often 30-50, with backgrounds in education, food and beverage, design and creative industries, and healthcare. Many arrive with strong existing herbal or naturopathic personal practice. The cohort is unusually environmentally engaged.
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 Portland: 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 Portland 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 Portland.
Portland cohorts adjust around the long winter rain. May and September starts dominate; January cohorts are small. Indoor venue partners are essential through the rainy season.
Who this Portland 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 Portland 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 Portland.
Same tuition whether you study in Portland or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the Portland 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 Portland.
Talk with our admissions team about the next Breathwork cohort starting in Portland, OR. Free, online, one hour.