Certified Breathwork Instructor · Seattle, WA

Breathwork training in Seattle.

Breathwork finds ready groups in Capitol Hill and Fremont, where trauma-informed facilitation is a familiar ask rather than a novelty. Training toward the Certified Breathwork Instructor credential means pranayama, conscious connected breathing, and the group-safety work Seattle facilitators are expected to actually know, not just mention.

Breathwork certification training in Seattle, WA

Seattle cohort at a glance

Tuition
$3,000

Same tuition in every city

Format
100% in person

In Seattle, WA

In-person teaching
8 days · 64h

8-hour days, two 4-hour half-days

Personal study
~51h

Between sessions, on average

Cohort size
10 students

Fixed cohort, start to finish

Credential
CBI

Private certification, not a state license

Download detailed program (PDF)

PDF — modules, hours, faculty notes, and a typical week's schedule.

Your dates in Seattle

Oct 29 – Dec 12, 2027

Fri–Sun · 9 am–6 pm · 8 teaching days in 3 monthly modules · 10 seats per cohort

  1. Module 1Oct 29–31
  2. Module 2Nov 12–14
  3. Module 3Dec 11–12

Every teaching day runs 9 am to 6 pm, in two four-hour half-days. You receive the Seattle venue and the full timetable with your enrolment agreement.

Seats

10 students

Enrolment closes

October 8, 2027

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Train where you live

Why Breathwork in Seattle?

Instructors lead group sessions through Capitol Hill studios and workplace bookings that reach into Bellevue's tech offices, where stress-reset formats sell. The client base is young-professional and receptive. Honest caveat: conscious connected breathing can surface strong emotional responses, and Seattle's careful clients will expect you to name that risk, screen for it, and stay firmly inside facilitation rather than anything resembling clinical care.

Washington state is one of the most thoroughly regulated wellness markets in the country — reflexology, naturopathy, and massage all carry meaningful state oversight. That regulatory literacy shapes the Seattle practitioner community: people here ask harder questions about scope and credentialing than in most U.S. cities, which is exactly the kind of student we love training.

For students of Breathwork specifically, Seattle's scene is a particularly good match: highly regulation-aware market. reflexology and naturopathy programs particularly aligned with local certification standards. The local cohort runs in venue partners around Capitol Hill, Ballard, Fremont, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.

Seattle students are often 30-50, with strong representation from tech (Amazon, Microsoft, Boeing engineers in active career questioning), healthcare (Bastyr alumni and adjacent practitioners), and education. They ask the most regulatorily-precise questions of any cohort in our network — Washington's strict scope rules have made students unusually careful about compliance. The Seattle cohorts also tend to be the most environmentally engaged, with sustainability and ethical sourcing actively shaping practice decisions.

The modality

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 program, day by day

The Breathwork curriculum in Seattle: 8 in-person days.

Eight days to guide the breath safely, from one client to a full circle.

Teaching days
8

days, 7h each

Teaching hours
64h

in the room

Cohort size
10

in your Seattle cohort

See every day in detail
Certified Breathwork Instructor (CBI) · 8 days · 64 hours
DayTheme
Chapter 1 · Days 1–3The breath
01How we breathe
02Functional breathing and stress regulation
03Classical pranayama
Chapter 2 · Days 4–6Hands on
04Conscious-connected breathing
05The private session, start to finish
06Trauma sensitivity and intense moments
Chapter 3 · Days 7–8Your practice
07Holding a circle
08Ethics, business and certification

Signature moment of the program

Cohort schedule

When Breathwork cohorts run in Seattle.

Seattle cohorts adjust around the long winter rain. May and September starts have the highest attendance; January cohorts are smaller. Indoor venue partners are essential — outdoor practice components are scheduled tightly around weather windows from May through September.

The right student

Who this Seattle 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.

Career outcomes

Where your Seattle 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
Tuition

$3,000 for the full 8-day Breathwork program in Seattle.

Same tuition whether you study in Seattle or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the Seattle cohort.

Tuition and financing details

$3,000

64h of teaching · 8 in-person days

Next step

Become a Certified Breathwork Instructor in Seattle.

Talk with our admissions team about the next Breathwork cohort starting in Seattle, WA. Free, online, one hour.