Beginning by building a steady relationship with the natural breath, we then learn the systematic steps to expand the breath, strengthen the chest, lungs and diaphragm and develop awareness of how breath affects the nervous system. With understanding of how breath moves, expands, and transforms the body-mind system, we will learn gentle & dynamic sequences and classical breathing patterns.

• Diaphragmatic Breathing Mechanics

• Rhythm, Ratio & Breath Architecture

• Mudra & Asana Theory for Pranayama

• Thoracic Expansion & Chest Openers

• Subtle body correlation and energetic mapping text goes here

Master the essential pranayamas & Kriya from the Hatha & Kundalini Yoga, as well as Tantrik dharanas — practised for centuries to cultivate prana, balance the doshas, and prepare the mind for deep meditation. Taught with classical accuracy and modern applicable skill.

• Intermediate & Advanced sequencing

• Advanced Breath-Asana Fusion Methods

• Standing, Seated & Supine Sequences

• Mudra Refinement for Deep Practice

• Pushpaya Pranayamas

• Uchara

Breathwork is a powerful therapeutic tool that can stir up trauma on many levels - how we guide the practices informs their potential to heal as well as harm. Learn to thoughtfully layer and invite practices, minimising the potential for re-traumatisation & triggering. Become a trauma aware facilitator, guiding breath work with sensitivity and the awareness to hold the complex & diverse range of experiences that you might experience.

Therapeutic breathwork directly influences the autonomic nervous system by shifting the balance between the sympathetic (fight or flight) and parasympathetic (rest and digest) branches.

We will explore the key mechanisms on the Nervous System

• Vagus Nerve Stimulation: Slow, deep, or exhale-focused breathing activates the vagus nerve (via respiratory sinus arrhythmia and baroreflex resonance). This sends a safety signal to the brain, acting like a brake on heart rate and lowering blood pressure.

• Calming the Amygdala: Regulated breathing stabilizes carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels in the blood. This reduces neuronal excitability in the amygdala—the brain's emotional threat-detection center—which helps stop anxiety and panic spirals.

• Shifting Brainwave Activity: Slow breathing patterns encourage alpha wave activity in the brain, which is linked to calm alertness and relaxed focus. Fast, shallow breathing promotes beta waves associated with hypervigilance and stress.

• Optimizing Heart Rate Variability (HRV): Slow-paced breathing improves HRV, which is a key marker of a flexible, resilient nervous system capable of smoothly transitioning in and out of stress responses.

• Clearing Cortisol and Adrenaline: Deep diaphragmatic breathing speeds up the body's clearance of stress hormones like cortisol, helping reset the nervous system after prolonged stress.

How Different Paces Affect the System

• Slow-Paced Breathing (e.g., Coherent breathing, Box breathing, or the 4-7-8 technique): Engages the parasympathetic nervous system, lowering heart rate, reducing muscle tension, and promoting mental calm.

• Fast-Paced Breathing (e.g., Cyclic sighing or transformational high-ventilation work): Can temporarily induce a mild, controlled sympathetic activation or short-term stress response, often followed by a deep parasympathetic rebound (deep relaxation) once normal rhythm is restored

Gain mastery over the Subtle Body & unlock profound energetic and physiological states through breath retention and bandhas. Our learning is based on up to date and academically accurate understanding of the Subtle/Pranic body -debunking common misunderstandings and elevating your teaching beyond the average misinformation. We will explore installation of chakras through nada yoga & mantra as well as the movement of Kundalini. This information bridges our exploration of classical pranayama with modern active breath work — taught with safety and depth to transcend ‘peak experience’ into integration and transformation.

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  Pancha Vayu & Energetic Wind Theory

• Sahit & Kevala Kumbhaka

• Sushumna Awakening Sequence

• Maha Bandha & Lion's Breath

• Mandala Breathing Patterns

Learn to guide others through breath-anchored meditation practices that calm the autonomic nervous system, clear & cleanse energy, and cultivate presence & spiritual awakening. You will go home with practical tools you will be a blessing to use immediately in your own teaching. Learn how posture, breath, and energetic locks work as a unified system to transform the practitioner's state — and how to teach this with precision.

Go beyond pranayama into modern active breathwork. Experience and deeply study the most transformative breath modalities used in therapeutic, ceremonial, and wellness contexts worldwide — so you can teach each with confidence and safety.

• Shamanic/Ecstatic Breathwork

• Kundalini Breathwork

• Holding space for transformational experiences, emotional release & spiritual awakening

Explore the history of pranayama and other modalities do ground your facilitation and practice. Understand the pioneers, lineages, and mechanisms behind the world's most influential breathwork modalities. Bridge ancient wisdom with modern neuroscience and transpersonal psychology so you can contextualise any practice for your clients.