Transforming Lives
 One Breath at a TimeÂ
Our Teaching Faculty
Our faculty is devoted to guiding students into the living intelligence of the breath through presence, depth, and embodied wisdom. Through attentive mentorship and experiential teaching, they support students in developing both a refined personal practice and the sensitivity required to guide others.
Kathleen BarrattÂ
 Founder & Director
For more than three decades, Kathleen has guided practitioners in breath meditation, subtle energy healing, and contemplative facilitation. An E-RYT 500 with advanced training in bioenergy, her teaching centers on the breath as a pathway into energetic harmony, inner stillness, and spiritual depth. She is devoted to helping practitioners mature into facilitators who guide from embodied presence rather than technique alone.
Mentoring facilitators to guide from presence, attunement, and the intelligence of the breath.
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Angela Phillips
Master Facilitator & Teacher
Angela Phillips is an internationally recognized yoga therapist and experienced teacher who has guided students through both 200- and 500-hour yoga teacher trainings. Drawing from yoga therapy, meditation, and breath-centered practice, she supports practitioners in cultivating embodied awareness, steadiness, and depth in both their personal path and their teaching.
Holding space for practitioners to deepen awareness, stability, and presence in both life and teaching.
Gabrielle Gerard-Jenks
Master Facilitator & Teacher
Gabrielle brings more than 25 years of experience teaching contemplative and somatic practices. A certified yoga therapist and longtime teacher of yoga and meditation, her work integrates breathwork, movement, and embodied awareness to support healing, resilience, and deeper self-connection in both individual sessions and group settings.
Supporting practitioners in reconnecting with the body, breath, and deeper currents of inner healing.
Kathleen's breathwork system, Barratt Breathwork®, has evolved out of years
of study, personal practice, and experience with thousands of clients.
More About Our Founder
Kathleen Barratt is a pioneering breath teacher whose work bridges the contemplative traditions of Eastern breath meditation with the subtle-body sciences of pranic healing. Her journey began in the early 1980s through intensive study of cathartic breathwork methods rooted in hyperventilation and emotional release. Over time, however, her path turned toward a quieter and more transformative discovery — the profound healing potential of the subtle breath.
For more than two decades, Kathleen studied and practiced bioenergy healing under Mietek and Margaret Wirkus, an apprenticeship that deeply shaped her understanding of the breath as an energetic and spiritual force. From this integration emerged Barratt Breathwork® — a meditative approach that honors the breath’s innate intelligence and guides practitioners into stillness, energetic balance, and inner illumination.
Her work unfolds as a progressive pathway: beginning with nervous system regulation, deepening through chakra purification and refinement of the pranic field, and ultimately opening the breath as a gateway into the spiritual dimensions of the Self. Kathleen describes this approach as a sophisticated system of breath meditation — one that gently reattunes body, mind, and spirit while cultivating presence, receptivity, and inner listening.
Since 1988, Kathleen has guided thousands through facilitator trainings, retreats, and private sessions. As founder of the Barratt Breath Institute, she now mentors yoga professionals, therapists, and spiritual practitioners internationally, supporting them in embodying the breath as both healing art and contemplative path.
Her work has been presented at institutions including Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. and the ISSSEEM Conference, and she participated in the Elizabeth Targ Research Project on subtle energy healing at California Pacific Medical Center. Across decades of teaching, Kathleen has remained devoted to a simple but profound knowing: within the breath lives a sacred intelligence — a bridge between body and spirit, form and formlessness, human awareness and the deeper ground of Being.
  For more than three decades, Kathleen has followed the quiet path of the subtle breath, allowing it to shape both her life and her teaching.Â
If you feel called to explore this work for yourself, we invite you to begin with our free guided breath practices offered here.
