Course curriculum

  • 1

    Course Induction

    • TEST

    • A warm welcome from Kate

    • Finding your way around the self-study material

    • Tutor & peer support

    • Personal practice

  • 2

    What is breathwork?

    • What is breathwork?

    • Contra-indications & safety

    • Guided exploration of the breath

  • 3

    Breath Awareness

    • Breath awareness exercise and teaching tips

    • Enrichment: Walking breath and true-self meditation

    • Natural breath

  • 4

    Movement and Breath

    • movement and breath - its benefits

    • Movement and breath practice

    • Standing movement and breath

  • 5

    Belly Breathing

    • First, let's take a look at the respiratory system

    • Belly breathing

    • The diaphragm

    • Diaphragmatic training exercise

    • Diaphragmatic training video part 1

    • Diaphragmatic training video part 2

    • 30-min guided diaphragmatic training session

    • Enrichment: Made of Stronger Stuff: The Lungs

  • 6

    The window of tolerance

    • The window of tolerance

    • Polyvagal ladder, GABA and HRV

  • 7

    Coherent breathing

    • Introduction to coherent breathing

    • What is coherent breathing?

    • Coherent breathing practice

  • 8

    Breathwork for calming

    • The stress response

    • Straw breathing

    • 7 / 11 breath

    • Cooling breath

    • Straw breath extended version

  • 9

    Breathwork for calming and balancing

    • Balancing breaths and the WoT

    • 3-part breath (full yogic breath)

    • Box breathing

  • 10

    Breathwork for sleep

    • 4-7-8 breathing - supports sleep

    • Counting backwards on exhales - tip for sleep

  • 11

    Energising breaths

    • Instant booster

    • Energiser Bunny breath

    • Enrichment: Yoga Nidra for deep relaxation

  • 12

    A quiz to test your understanding

    • Give it a try - you require 9 out of 10 to pass!

  • 13

    Trauma and the breath

    • Trauma and the breath

    • 2-Hr - recorded workshop on Breathwork for Anxiety and Trauma Recovery

    • Enrichment: Arielle Schwartz - Conscious breathing and the vagus nerve

    • END OF COURSE

  • 14

    Guided breathwork sessions

    • Intro. to guided sessions

    • Guided breathwork for calm and connection

    • Guided breathwork for a good nights sleep

    • Enrichment: 1 hour yoga class

  • 15

    BONUS MATERIAL - TRAUMA

    • Relational Trauma

    • Developmental Trauma

    • Transgenerational Trauma

    • More on trauma?