PP: Episode 5
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[00:00:00] Welcome to Breathwork Need Your Voice. I'm Chauna, founder of Breath Liberation Society. We certify confident, trauma-informed breathwork facilitators, and this show is for anyone who's felt called to lead and hasn't seen themselves in the front of the room. Let's change that In this episode, I'm so excited to finally tell you about the Breath Liberation Society training. This is the training I wish I'd had. I built this training out of my own search for knowledge. I was looking for a way to offer breathwork that was ethical, breathwork that was supportive every single time. I wanted to know my clients were well prepared. I wanted them to feel like they could go deeper, like they could explore their edges, and I wanted to know that I had the skill, that I had the knowledge to witness whatever came up.
Breath Liberation Society's breathwork facilitator training is a five-month, one hundred-hour trauma-informed training. It helps aspiring and experienced healing professionals and breathwork lovers confidently and responsibly lead [00:01:00] breathwork sessions.
That way, you can make a meaningful impact in your community and if you choose, build breathwork into the practice you already have or a practice of its own
We've been accredited by the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance since 2024.
For those of you who don't know, breathwork is an unregulated field, and what that means is that anyone can be a breath worker. It's much like Pilates. Anyone can pick a title and call it, whether they've studied for 15 minutes or 15 years, that title on face value carries the same weight. And I have generally been quite against accreditations.
I'm very against the idea of formalizing and putting elitism and red tape around ancient healing practices. I really didn't wanna be part of that. But again, as breathwork has become more popular, , as there are more and more certifications happening, I wanted there to be a very clear way for our students to stand out amongst this [00:02:00] growing crowd.
The best way I knew how to do that was to align our training with the Professional Breathwork Alliance. It's the closest thing we have to a governing board. And when you graduate from a Global Professional Breathwork Alliance accredited training,
it tells people that the training had real standards, and it's been vetted, and it has accountability. It took me two years to complete the accreditation, so I'm very proud of this.. We are the first Black-owned training to be accredited by the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance. From what I can tell from other people's websites, this isn't a hard fact. I'll say we are one of the first likely queer-owned trainings, ~um,~ to be accredited.
And our training is 100% virtual, and I did that for a very specific reason, and it will always be 100% virtual. We do have in-person opportunities, but we're keeping it virtual because I remember one of those first trainings that I looked at when I was juggling three jobs, and, , it cost $10,000, and I would have had to fly to Florida once a month for a year.
There was absolutely no way I could [00:03:00] do that, and I've always kept that in my mind. So our training is virtual because I want it to be accessible. It's mostly self-paced and with rolling admission, so you can fit it around your busy life. I don't want breathwork training to only be available to people with tons of free time and lots of money.
I want it to be bingeable when you have the time, come back to it when you need to. That's the goal. I'm trying to make it so that anybody with any schedule can still learn to facilitate breathwork if that is their dream, if that is their goal.
In this episode, I want to share with you the four teaching components we use to help people go from excited breathwork enthusiasts to confident trauma-informed facilitators.
The first component is our six training modules. Module one is breathwork foundations. It starts with 30 days of practice. You have to have a strong personal connection to the breath to facilitate. It's the only way to ethically facilitate breathwork. Module two is holding space.
We cover the physiology of breath, energy work, boundaries. I don't want scripts. I will never give you scripts, but what I want is for you to be able to hold space [00:04:00] in a way that sounds like you. , And I'll get into this when we talk about the , Apiary Library, but the goal is that you learn how to hold space so that you can speak from your own voice, from your own lived experience, because that's what your community needs.
Module three is a responsible facilitation method. That's the bread and butter of the training. We cover both the conscious connected breath and the three-part breath, which I will tell you is something you will not find anywhere else. All of the other trainings out there offer conscious connected or the three-part breath.
They do not offer both. I am certified in both. I practice both, so we teach both. Learning both lets you meet your clients exactly where they are.
Having two styles gives you options for yourself and for the people that you serve. Module four is trauma-informed care. We talk about the nervous system, how breath practices affect the stress response.
We talk about trauma-informed cueing. And I will say that I really believe that we should be offering trauma-informed care to everyone, regardless of their lived experience or what they've shared with us.
Module five is group sessions. We talk [00:05:00] about creating a container where people can connect and grow together, how to manage multiple people in a session, how to set realistic boundaries, how to time keep, all sorts of cool things.
Module six is the business of breathwork. We talk about creating an offer if it's what you want, , how to figure out how to charge and where to facilitate. So those are the training modules.
The second component that I wanna talk to you about is the Apiary Library. The Apiary Library is a compilation of interviews and lectures from 24 experts who are somatic practitioners, sound ritualists, body workers, psychotherapists, and breathwork facilitators.
I mean it when I say we are decentralizing the guru. The goal of the Apiary Library is to show you a wide array of voices and experiences and ways to hold space. The goal is that you be able to take bits from each person, find what resonates, find what feels good to you, and use that to [00:06:00] create your own unique voice, your own unique way of facilitating breathwork, of course, within the guardrails of the Responsible Facilitation Method.
The third component is a whole lot of support. Training is self-paced, so you can go through the modules quickly or slowly if you want, but we're with you every step of the way. We have weekly momentum sessions.
These are one-hour calls with me or my co-coach. You can come in just for personal support around your breathwork practice. You can bring in something from a lecture that just stuck with you. You can come in and talk about a session that you just facilitated. That's what these calls are for.
We also have monthly practice teaching clinics. After five years of leading this training, I learned that one of the students' biggest hurdles was getting their practice teaching sessions done. So once a month, we set aside an hour and a half exactly for that.
You don't need to bring a partner. You don't have to, ~like,~ plan anything. You just show up. We pair you up. You get to get your practice teaching sessions in.
We also have community breathwork, so regular group sessions where you can come and breathe with us.
. While the training is a group training format, one of the ways that you [00:07:00] can get individualized feedback is through our facilitation feedback form. And this allows for you to teach a session and then submit it either via transcript or with the recording, of course, with permission of the client.
And we do this because I find that, one of the things that comes up with students when they're first learning to facilitate is the Monday morning quarterbacking. Should I have done something differently? And the facilitator feedback form allows for us to go in and give support and ~kind of ~be a sounding board for the student as they're going through their practice teaching sessions
The fourth training component is facilitation clearance. Once you've finished module four and all of the trauma-informed care lectures, you get invited to record yourself facilitating a full breathwork session. You can lead it in your community or with somebody in the training, and then you submit it for feedback and clearance.
And what I look specifically for is , that the facilitator has a clear understanding of our responsible facilitation method that makes sure people are well-informed before they start breathing. And once you're clear, there is no doubt you know exactly how to [00:08:00] facilitate breathwork, and you're free to go out into your community and start sharing breathwork.
So those are our four pieces: the six modules, the Apiary Library, live support, and facilitation clearance. In the next episode, I'm going to show you what you walk away with and why you need every single one of those pieces to get there. I'll see you in the next one
