The breathwork certification that shows you the evidence, grades it, and tells you where it runs out.
Sixteen modules. Forty-nine units. From the first breath through to running your own practice, with the deep end of conscious breathwork covered properly, because that is where people get hurt.
Join the waiting list Early-access pricing for the list. No obligation.“Backed by science” is the easiest sentence in this industry to write and the hardest to stand behind. So this course does something simple instead of saying it: every claim comes with the study, the sample size and the effect size. Every claim that doesn’t have one is labelled, on the slide, in front of you.
266 diagrams built from scratch for this course. Over 700 cited sources. Here is one, straight out of Module 02.
Gas exchange, from Module 02: the alveolar membrane at 0.5 µm, the three-quarters of a second blood spends crossing it, and 50–75 m² of surface area: a squash court floor, folded into your chest. No pump. No effort. Just pressure.
The study, the numbers, the limits. Enough that you can hold the claim up in front of a client, a doctor, or somebody who came to catch you out.
Where the mechanism is sound but nobody has run the trial. Saying so out loud costs you nothing, and it is the single thing people remember about you.
Every unsupported claim comes with a replacement sentence that keeps the whole experience and drops only the guess. Nobody in your room loses anything real.
Slow breathing and nasal work are well covered everywhere. The deep end, fast connected breathing, long retentions, the states people actually come for, is where the teaching thins out and the guessing starts.
That is the part this course builds out in full.
Breath-holds in water have killed people who were fit, young and doing exactly what they were told. Hard overbreathing is the same manoeuvre a neurology department uses to provoke a seizure. Both of those are facts, and both are routinely taught by people who don’t know them.
You will finish this course knowing every contraindication, the physiological reason behind each one, and the exact words for the moment something goes wrong in a room of twenty people.
Every unit ends in a 20-question exam. 80 per cent to pass, unlimited attempts, every answer explained. You don’t move on until it’s solid.
What is actually happening in the body, built from the ground up, no background needed.
Where the practice came from. Pranayama, tummo, Buteyko, holotropic and indigenous practice, described on their own terms, alongside what the instruments show.
How a breath really works. The diaphragm in proper detail, how CO₂ travels in the blood, and why carbon dioxide rather than oxygen sets what your body can do.
Past “rest and digest”. The real anatomy, what the vagus nerve does and doesn’t do, and how to read HRV without being misled by it.
Which hormones could possibly have moved in a twenty-minute session, and which could not. Ends with the strongest scope-of-practice teaching in the course.
The gut–brain routes, what breathing does to inflammation, and what “detox” means once you actually define it.
Brainwaves, the default mode network and altered states. Where the deep end of conscious breathwork really goes, and where the popular explanations stop holding.
Tetany, tingling, shaking, dizziness. Why they happen, what the numbers are, and why the size of a reaction tells you about the dose rather than the person.
What trauma is, what release is, and how to work near both without overstepping.
Acute, chronic, developmental and intergenerational. How trauma is actually held, and what living in survival mode does to a body.
The three levers (fast breathing, retention, slow breathing) and what each one does. Shaking, crying, laughing, screaming. Recognising fight, flight, freeze and fawn.
Contraindications, screening, consent and the room itself. Telling activation from re-traumatisation while it is happening. When to step in, and when not to.
The days that follow. Knowing your limit, making a referral properly, and keeping people safe over months and years.
The craft. What you actually do, in order, on the day.
Intake and expectation-setting. The three phases (grounding, active breath, integration) with real timings. Music, tempo and sound as instruments.
Touch: when, where, how, and how not. Region-by-region anatomy. Reading the body in front of you, including on the days when nothing dramatic happens.
Hyperventilation and tetany. Emotional overwhelm and panic. Dissociation and freeze. What you say, in what order, with nineteen other people watching.
Turning a certificate into a practice that lasts.
Holding space without ego, and running a group as a group rather than as twenty individuals in the same room.
Positioning and marketing that stays honest. Building community without building dependency. Ethics, legals and insurance.
The blog has been doing this in public for a while now, taking the claims this industry repeats and checking them one at a time. Free, and it will tell you very quickly whether this is the way you want to be taught.
Read the blogWhy “breathing into your belly” isn’t a thing, and what your diaphragm is actually doing.
Breath-holds in water: how a safe-looking practice kills strong swimmers.
The claw hand isn’t trauma leaving your body. Here’s the chemistry.
Who should not be doing this, and why most consent forms miss it.
New facilitators who want to start on solid ground. Experienced ones who have noticed the gap between what they were taught and what they can actually support. Yoga teachers, coaches and therapists adding breathwork properly rather than bolting it on.
No science background needed. The physiology is built from zero. If you can read this page, you can do this course.
The course is written, the diagrams are drawn and the exams are built. Filming is next. Join the list and you’ll hear first, with early-access pricing before it opens to anyone else.