I’m recruiting future coaches to help clients overcome some of the most common health challenges today using the power of their own breath. As a certified Breath Coach, you’ll make a huge impact on your clients’ lives and earn a great living. Here are some reasons why it’s a great time to become a coach:

For certified coaches, there are three main teaching opportunities right now. Many coaches focus on work with private clients, creating individualized, solution-oriented sessions. They help people with stress management, sleep disorders, anxiety, or digestive problems. Private clients offer you a flexible schedule, great pay, and the opportunity to make a huge impact.

Next, you’ll have the opportunity to lead group classes in local yoga studios. These added-value classes give dedicated yoga students a deeper understanding of their breathing and enhance their personal practices. Lastly, workshop-style breathing sessions can be very effective in a variety of settings, but corporate clients and fitness centers are the key markets.

I started yoga in my early twenties, and I wanted to learn everything. Breathing came up in every class, so I asked all my teachers for more information. Here’s what I wanted to know: Why is breathing important? You say we should breathe deeply, but how deeply? You say breathe slowly, but how slowly? And why not breathe fast? I realized quickly that the yoga community pays lip service to breathing but doesn’t teach or understand it well at all.

I’ve practiced with some of the most esteemed teachers including some modern masters, and I was disappointed to discover that most had only a superficial understanding of breathing. Frustrated, I turned my research to the mainstream medical community and the world of extreme sports, and finally, I found answers.

Medical doctor, Patricia Gerbarg, has dedicated her career to breathing and her work, writing, and our conversations were hugely influential. I worked closely with a senior Buteyko breathing coach who taught me about the vital role of CO2. I also interviewed a number of record-setting free divers and daredevils like Wim Hof, who push breathing to the limits (not something I advocate). I came to learn that there is no mystery to breathing at all. The science of breath has been well-researched for over 100 years, but very few people had applied the actual science to the practices of yoga students. This seems crazy, but it’s true.

We take a science-based, client-centered approach. We provide you with all the tools, training, and experience required to help your students effectively manage their nervous system, self-soothe, and promote nervous system balance using powerful yoga breathing techniques.

In traditional yoga, breathing is aways taught as a stepping stone toward states of sense withdrawal and meditation, but many of us – myself included – try to skip the logical steps. For new students, silent meditation can create anxiety, frustration, and even obsessive rumination. And the biggest problem? Frustration causes most people to quit.

Breathing is different. It’s fun and easy to practice. The counting gives you a mental focus, and the exercises are short and potent. Instead of dodging their daily breathing exercise, students look forward to it. Even more exciting, the measurable health benefits of breathing exercises are well documented and extremely reproducible. This means that with minimal training, students can experience profound results including stress relief, nervous system balance, mood stabilization, better sleep, improved digestion, and the ability to self-soothe at will. 

With breathing practice, it puts you into a meditative state automatically. Think of breathing as an active form of meditation with all the same benefits. As a career yoga teacher, I can assure you that clients want results, not meditation awards, so the more I teach breathing, the happier my clients are with the results.