Certified Breathwork Instructor · San Diego, CA
Breathwork training in San Diego.
Train as a Certified Breathwork Instructor (CBI) with Harmonika Institute in San Diego, CA. Train as a Certified Breathwork Instructor — pranayama, conscious connected breathing, and trauma-informed group work.
San Diego cohort details
- City
- San Diego, CA
- 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 San Diego?
San Diego's wellness market has two distinct pillars: the military and veteran community (the metro hosts the largest Navy presence in the U.S., and Veterans Affairs San Diego runs significant integrative-medicine programs), and the tourism and hospitality industry, which produces a steady pipeline of service-worker career-changers. The biotech corridor in La Jolla adds a third, smaller but growing, student stream.
For students of Breathwork specifically, San Diego's scene is a particularly good match: strong military-veteran community. tourism industry pipeline. growing biotech. The local cohort runs in venue partners around North Park, Hillcrest, La Jolla, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.
San Diego students are often 30-50, with strong representation from military and veteran communities (active-duty separating, military-spouse career questions, post-deployment integration), tourism and hospitality, and biotech. The military-veteran pipeline brings unusual depth to trauma-informed practice work.
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 San Diego.
San Diego cohorts run year-round; the climate supports consistent scheduling. Outdoor practice components are routinely scheduled May through October.
Who this San Diego 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 San Diego.
- 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 San Diego.
Same tuition whether you study in San Diego or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the San Diego 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 San Diego.
Talk with our admissions team about the next Breathwork cohort starting in San Diego, CA. Free, online, one hour.