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Awaken the Quiet Power of the Subtle Breath

A sacred unfolding into stillness and Divine remembrance

Begin The Journey

Discover the Quiet Power of The Subtle Breath

A sacred unfolding into stillness and Divine remembrance

Begin Your Journey Inward

 Free Guided Breath Meditations

Within the subtle breath lives a quiet potential—an invitation into stillness and deeper presence. These guided meditations offer a gentle doorway into the living stillness of the breath.

Beyond Technique, Into Presence

There is a breath that does not strive. It does not push or pull, but moves like a hidden current—quietly guiding us inward. Barratt Breathwork® honors this subtle rhythm. Rooted in the yin essence of receptivity, it invites a sacred return to the breath’s original nature—unforced, intuitive, and alive with quiet intelligence.

As the breath refines, subtle thresholds begin to appear — what we call the still point in the breath. Within these quiet moments, the nervous system softens, awareness turns inward, and a depth of stillness begins to reveal itself.

This is not a technique to master, but a presence to enter — a gentle unfolding that quiets body and mind, harmonizes the pranic field, and opens the heart to the radiance of the True Self. In the still point, the breath becomes something more than breath: a thread of Divine remembrance.

If you feel drawn to a gentler way—one that awakens rather than activates—you may already sense the deeper intelligence living within the breath.

At the Barratt Breath Institute, our trainings unfold in progressive layers—guiding practitioners from personal immersion into embodied facilitation within the sacred art of breath.

For those called into deeper apprenticeship, our Master-level mentorship offers an intimate, founder-led transmission devoted to refined meditative states, subtle awareness, and guiding from the silent field revealed through the breath.

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FREE GUIDED AUDIOS

Begin with a guided breath meditation

Begin with a Guided Meditation

CLASSES & TRAININGS

Learn more about our programs though the institute

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PRIVATE MENTORING

Work directly with Kathleen and deepen your practice

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"The process of breathing, if fully understood and experienced in its profound significance,
could teach us more than all the philosophies of the world."

                                                                                                      —Lama Govinda

 Barratt Breath Institute Programs

At the Barratt Breath Institute, our programs open a gentle pathway into the breath as a living contemplative practice. Whether you seek personal renewal or feel called to guide others, each offering supports a deepening into stillness, subtle awareness, and embodied presence.

From introductory experiences to professional trainings, the journey unfolds gradually—inviting practitioners to meet the breath not as a technique, but as a teacher.

Breath: A Gateway to Stillness

An introduction to the contemplative path of the breath

Explore the subtle breath as a doorway to inner stillness, energetic renewal, and sacred awareness. Available as an on-demand course, it invites you into a personal practice that nourishes your center of presence while offering restorative self-care for those who guide others.

Explore Introductory Course

Restorative Breathwork® Live Breath Series

A progressive path of personal immersion

Through live guided practice, this series invites you into a steady rhythm of inner exploration. Foundations restores calm and resilience in the nervous system, while Advanced opens the subtler, more spiritual dimensions of the breath. Over time, participants cultivate a deeper intimacy with the breath as a living gateway to stillness.

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Restorative Breathwork® Foundations Facilitator

Entering the art of receptive breathing

This foundational training prepares practitioners to guide the breath safely and skillfully. Through regulation, subtle awareness, and embodied presence, students learn to support others while deepening their own relationship with the breath. For many, this training becomes the entry into the professional dimension of the work while still offering profound personal development.

April 25-26 & May 30-31
VA Beach, VA
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Restorative Breathwork® Advanced Facilitator

A threshold into subtle anatomy and meditative depth

This level refines energetic perception, practitioner discernment, and the capacity to facilitate deeper breath states. Facilitation evolves from structured guidance into attuned listening, as practitioners learn to sense the subtler movements of breath, prana, and awareness. Through this deepening, the work becomes less about directing and more about embodied presence—preparing those called forward for deeper apprenticeship within the Barratt Breathwork® lineage

Next Training Fall 2026
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Barratt Breathwork® Master Facilitator 

Where facilitation matures into lineage stewardship

This founder-led apprenticeship centers on supervised practice, one-to-one mentorship, and the refinement of real-world facilitation. Through close guidance, practitioners deepen their capacity to facilitate from embodied presence, subtle discernment, and steady inner coherence.

Step Into Apprenticeship

Where Divine Remembrance Stirs

  • A Return to the Innate Breath
    As effort softens, the natural breath emerges—gentle, intelligent, quietly guiding awareness inward.

  • The Unfolding of the Inner Landscape 
    With the breath as guide, attention turns toward the subtle meeting place of body, sensation, and awareness, where deeper rhythms begin to reveal themselves.

  • The Deepening of Stillness
    As the breath grows calm, the mind follows, and a spacious quiet opens beneath the movement of thought.

  • The Emergence of Inner Knowing
    In this stillness, guidance arises—not from striving, but from the subtle current of inner listening.

  • A Felt Sense of the Sacred
    Through the gentle refinement of breath and awareness, the ground of being reveals itself—subtle, luminous, and quietly alive.

 Free Guided Breath Meditations

A doorway into the work itself—guided practices through which the breath leads you toward stillness, presence, and quiet remembrance.

Lauren Eirk, MS, MATRx, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT, YACEP Yoga Integrated Science Wellness Center Founder | Director of Teacher Training

Having been in the health and fitness industry for nearly thirty years,  I have taken many courses for my professional licenses and certification requirements to improve my skills and advance my education.  I know first-hand how difficult online classes can be both as a facilitator as well as a participant.  I recently completed Kathleen Barratt's Restorative Breathwork Foundations Course and found it to be very well organized, professional, and informational.  Her progression of the material was clear and logical.  Her passion was very apparent throughout the course, as she was excited and helpful to her students.  The material in this course will help me improve my skills in teaching meditation, relaxation, and breathing techniques both in one-on-one clinical sessions as well as in a group atmosphere.  This was a refreshing course and I would recommend it to any Yoga Teacher or Health Professional,

Angela Phillips, Founder, Angela Phillips Yoga Center

"My relationship with Kathleen began in the early 1990s at a group breathwork session, and I have kept my heart close to her ever since. Her profound insights have provided me with impactful emotional and spiritual growth through her breath immersions, private sessions, and training programs. I honor her as one of my spiritual teachers and am always elated when my students work with her, as I know that they are taking their yoga practice and life to a deeper level."

Nona Jordan, Master Coach, Guide, and Author

"If you are called to this work of learning the powerful art of supporting your own, and others', healing through the breath look no further—Kathleen's program and her teachings are the real deal: steeped in years of study and experiential knowing. I am grateful she has been, and continues to be, a mentor and guide on my path."

N. Byrne, R.N. and Massage Therapist

"After having been in the healing field as a nurse, and having received energy work from powerful healers, plus psychotherapy, I was surprised to find that Restorative Breathwork allowed me to have the most direct experience with the energy that is the giver of life. Kathleen is an experienced guide who is very wise, powerful, present, and sensitive. Her work alone has been the one force that has instigated my most dramatic spiritual learning."