Not Just Another Modality. A Path to Mastery.
Learn to lead breathwork with science, soul, and integrity.
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This certification offers CEUs for yoga teachers, yoga therapists, LMFT's, LCSW's, LPCC's and LEP's as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Embrace your embodied aliveness, using your breath and a bridge to freedom
This two-part intensive combines somatic, spiritual, and science-based tools to help you experience, learn, and confidently facilitate breathwork.
Whether you're a therapist, coach, yoga teacher, or healer, this training will deepen your intuition, expand your healing toolkit, and empower you to guide others through transformative breakthroughs—using the breath as medicine.
Learn breathwork techniques, psychosomatic tools, shamanic practices, and authentic embodiment—all in a space that honors trauma sensitivity and embodied leadership.
Why Your Therapy or Coaching Practice Needs Breathwork in Your Toolkit
Unlock deeper healing, faster breakthroughs, and greater embodiment for your clients.
Accesses Pre-Verbal and Somatic Memory
Many traumas live in the body, beyond what words can reach. Breathwork helps clients access and process emotional imprints stored below cognitive awareness—bypassing the thinking mind and unlocking deeper healing.
Regulates the Nervous System in Real-Time
Breath is one of the fastest, most accessible tools for calming (or activating) the nervous system. Therapists can use breath to co-regulate with clients, reduce anxiety in-session, or help clients shift states more consciously.
Supports Trauma-Informed Healing Without Retraumatization
When taught properly, breathwork provides a safe and empowering way for clients to feel and release stored trauma in a titrated, embodied way—without needing to relive the original event.
Deepens Emotional Release and Integration
Clients often reach emotional breakthroughs faster through breath than through talk therapy alone. Adding breathwork helps move energy through the body, allowing for catharsis, resolution, and integration.
Builds Client Self-Awareness and Agency
Teaching breath as a self-regulation tool empowers clients between sessions. They learn to track their internal states and use their breath to shift patterns, reduce stress, and respond more consciously to triggers.
Bridges Somatic and Psychotherapeutic Modalities
Breathwork offers a natural link between body-based and mind-based healing approaches. It enriches cognitive work with somatic awareness, making sessions more holistic and impactful.
Enhances Group Therapy and Retreat Settings
Breathwork is a powerful practice for group healing and community bonding. Therapists who facilitate groups or retreats can use breathwork to open, deepen, and close sessions with embodied resonance.
Supports Grief, Anxiety, Depression & Trauma Recovery
Conscious breathwork has been shown to reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, PTSD, and emotional numbing. It gives therapists a non-pharmaceutical tool to support healing across a range of conditions.
Strengthens Your Own Capacity & Presence as a Therapist, Coach & Facilitator
Therapists trained in breathwork often report feeling more grounded, attuned, and energetically resilient. Their ability to hold space deepens, and their own nervous system becomes a more stable container.
Reinvigorates the Facilitator's Passion and Practice
Learning to facilitate breathwork brings creativity, inspiration, and new depth to therapy. It reconnects practitioners to the mystery and magic of transformation—and reminds them why they began this path in the first place.
What are the Benefits of Breathwork?
Breathwork is associated with several potential benefits for physical, mental, and emotional well-being. However, it’s important to note that individual experiences may vary, and scientific research on some forms of breathwork is still limited. Below are some of the most common benefits people have reported after regular practice:
Stress Reduction
Many breathwork techniques, such as deep breathing and mindfulness-based practices, can activate the body’s relaxation response, reducing the production of stress hormones like cortisol. This can lead to a sense of calm and relaxation.
Improved Mental Clarity
Focused and intentional breathing can help clear the mind, increase mental clarity, and enhance concentration and cognitive function.
Emotional Regulation
Breathwork can be a powerful tool for managing and regulating emotions. It can help individuals become more aware of their emotional states and provide a means to navigate and release pent-up emotions.
Anxiety and Panic Relief
Techniques like deep diaphragmatic breathing and box breathing are often used to alleviate symptoms of anxiety and panic disorders by promoting relaxation and reducing the body’s “fight or flight” response.
Enhanced Energy and Vitality
Certain breathwork practices can increase energy levels and endurance by improving oxygen utilization in the body and reducing perceived fatigue.
Improved Sleep
Restorative breathwork exercises can help individuals relax before bedtime, potentially improving sleep quality and reducing insomnia symptoms.
Pain Management
Breathwork can be used in conjunction with other pain management strategies to reduce the perception of pain and discomfort. It may also assist in managing chronic pain conditions.
Emotional Release
Activating breathwork practices aim to facilitate emotional release, helping individuals process and heal from past traumas or emotional blockages.
Enhanced Self-Awareness
Practicing breathwork can increase mindfulness and self-awareness, allowing individuals to gain insight into their thought patterns, emotions, and behaviors.
Spiritual Exploration
For many, breathwork serves as a spiritual or transcendent practice, facilitating altered states of consciousness and promoting a sense of connection with the divine or the universe.
Improved Respiratory Health
Regular breathwork can strengthen respiratory muscles, increase lung capacity, and improve overall lung function.
Enhanced Immune Function
Many breathwork practices can boost the immune system’s response to pathogens and environmental stressors.
EDUCATIONAL GOALS & OBJECTIVES
This training is a comprehensive two-part training that adopts a trauma-informed, somatic, and embodied approach to the practice and facilitation of breathwork. This specialized program is designed for professionals who seek to become proficient in guiding clients through transformative healing experiences using breath as a primary therapeutic tool. The training combines both psychological and science-based frameworks, offering an integrative approach that includes breathwork practices, psychosomatic interventions, and therapeutic support.
This course is particularly beneficial for licensed mental health clinicians, mental health professionals, health and life coaches, yoga teachers, coaches and body workers who wish to deepen their practice and enhance their therapeutic efficacy. Participants will develop the skills necessary to facilitate breathwork sessions that support clients in healing anxiety, depression and emotional trauma. While also strengthening participants' therapeutic skillset and own inner resilience and intuitive capabilities.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify and articulate at least three foundational principles of trauma-informed breathwork.
- Demonstrate proficiency in guiding clients through eight distinct breathwork modalities.
- Integrate four psychosomatic tools within a therapeutic context.
- Assess and select appropriate eight breathwork interventions based on individual client needs.
- Apply a blend of four psychosomatic and scientific approaches to breathwork facilitation in clinical practice.
- Develop a personal, at-home practice
- Comprehend the theory and philosophy of breathwork
- Understand the anatomy, psychophysiology, energetics and neuroscience of respiration
- Recognize the relationship between the nervous system and our breath
- Use trauma-informed techniques to support others in their transformational process
- Guide practices to heal wounds, blockages, and traumas
- Intentionally hold space for individuals and groups
- Practice self-ownership
- And... so much more!
CURRICULUM
Created for Therapists, Coaches, Practioners, and Seekers
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Breathwork Foundations and the Pranic Body
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The Nervous System: Regulation and Restructuring Through Breath
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Anatomy and Physiology of Breathwork
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Breath, Brain, The Emotional Body, and The Limbic System
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Eight Breathwork Practices: Restorative, Activating, and Integrative Techniques including conscious connected and circular breath.
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Somatic Tools: Movement, Breath, and Nervous System Resilience
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Trauma-Informed Foundations: Safety, Awareness, and Integration
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Somatic Shadow Work and Parts Integration
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Breathwork as a Tool for Somatic Processing
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Decoding the Somatic Language of the Body
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Embodied Leadership and Space Holding
WHERE & WHEN
MDitate
Newport Beach, CA
MDitate is a meditation center situated in a serene environment, it offers a tranquil space for individuals seeking mindfulness and relaxation practices. The center is easily accessible to residents of Orange County and the surrounding areas, providing a convenient retreat from the hustle and bustle of daily life.
Facilitated over 2 weekends:
July 11-13 and July 18-20
Friday, July 11th 6:30-8:30pm Friday, July 18th 6:30-8:30pm
Saturday, July 12th 10am -3pm Saturday, July 19th 10am -4pm
Sunday, July 13th 10am - 4pm Sunday, July 20th 10am -4pm
* 4 x 30 minute lunch breaks will not be counted toward CE time awarded.
EMPOWER THE HEALER AND LEADER WITHIN AND TAKE THE HEALING EXPERIENCE OF BREATHWORK OUT INTO THE WORLD!
Plus you will receive constructive feedback about your facilitation from renowned teacher, Nichole Anne Ferro.
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This course meets the qualifications for 25 hours of continuing education credit for LMFT's, LCSW's, LPCC's and LEP's as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Course Completion certificates will be awarded at the end of the course in exchange for a completed evaluation form.
Lorena Dowlatshahi, LMFT received her M.A. in Marriage in Family Therapy and is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 15 years of experience. She specializes in helping her clients work through trauma and is trained/certified in multiple evidenced based trauma modalities. Lorena has expanded her treatment of trauma to include various somatic techniques such as Breathwork.
LORENA DOWLATSHAHI IS APPROVED BY THE CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS TO SPONSOR CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR LMFT'S, LCSW'S, LPCC'S AND LEP'S. LORENA ARGUELLO MAINTAINS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE PROGRAM AND ALL ITS CONTENT.
REFUND POLICY: All payments for our certification programs are non-refundable. However, if you are unable to attend, you may transfer your enrollment to a future training within one year, subject to availability.
Grievances: Grievances shall be submitted by email to [email protected] and acknowledgment of receipt will be sent within 24 hours. Nichole Ferro, will review the grievance and respond back to the participant within 48 hours