Restorative Breathwork® Foundations

50-Hour Professional Training

April 15 – June 17, 2026

Live Immersion Weekends
April 25–26 & June 13–14
VA Beach, Virginia
Attend in person or join via live streaming

Lead Teacher
Master Teacher Angela Phillips
with select teaching sessions from Kathleen Barratt

Continuing Education
50 CE Hours • Yoga Alliance & IAYT

 
A Threshold Into the Inner Practice of Breath

For many experienced students of yoga, there comes a moment when the breath is no longer simply a tool for calming or activation.

It begins to reveal itself as something more — unfolding into greater inner coherence, attunement, and meditative depth. What once felt like technique becomes listening. What once required effort begins to soften into attunement.

This training is eligible for 50 Continuing Education hours through Yoga Alliance and the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT).

Through guided practice, study, and mentoring, you cultivate the inner sensitivity required to work with the subtle breath while learning the principles needed to facilitate small groups with clarity and presence.

From this ground, facilitation begins to take shape — not as something imposed through technique, but as something cultivated through listening.

Breath, nervous system, and prana begin to reveal themselves as interwoven expressions of the breath’s innate intelligence.

“When the breath wanders, the mind is unsteady. When the breath is still, so is the mind.”

— Hatha Yoga Pradipika                                                             

Who This Training Is For

This training welcomes yoga teachers, yoga therapists, and contemplative practitioners who feel drawn toward a quieter and more receptive relationship with the breath.

Some participants join to deepen their personal practice and meditation. Others feel called to begin sharing restorative breath practices with students through small groups, workshops, or foundational individual sessions, integrating these approaches naturally into their existing teaching or therapeutic work.

No prior training in breathwork is required. What matters most is a genuine interest in exploring the subtle intelligence of the natural breath.

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From Inner Practice to Skillful Guidance

This training is both a personal immersion and a threshold into the art of facilitation.

The program unfolds in two complementary movements. The first phase deepens your relationship with the breath—restoring its natural rhythm while refining sensitivity to the subtle interplay of breath, nervous system, and prana. From this embodied foundation, the later modules introduce the principles of facilitation, guiding you step by step in learning how to share these practices with clarity and presence.

Rather than directing the breath, practitioners learn to support its unfolding through attentive presence, pacing, and discernment.

Rooted in contemplative breath traditions and informed by the relationship between prana and the nervous system, this training offers yoga teachers and mind–body practitioners a receptive path into facilitation that honors the intelligence already living within the breath.

The Foundations Training cultivates both a personal practice and the skills needed to guide small groups within the Restorative Breathwork® approach. Participants also receive introductory exposure to one-on-one facilitation through demonstrations and partner practice, with deeper training in individual sessions unfolding in the Advanced Facilitator Training.

What You Will Learn

Cultivating the Inner Practice

• The core orientation and philosophy of Restorative Breathwork®

• Foundations of Breath Awareness as contemplative practice

• How restoring the natural breath supports resilience, regulation, and meditative depth

• The reciprocal relationship between breath, prana, and nervous system regulation

• The breath’s innate intelligence as a doorway to subtle awareness

Learning the Art of Facilitation

• How to guide small groups with presence and discernment

• Introductory exposure to one-on-one facilitation through partner practice

• Ethics, contraindications, and trauma-aware facilitation principles

What You Will Receive 

• Nine progressive online modules featuring guided practices, teaching videos, and audio sessions from Kathleen Barratt
• Two immersive live weekends for direct experience and embodied learning
• Bi-weekly live Q&A mentoring sessions with Kathleen and her team
• A private learning community for reflection, connection, and support
• Opportunities for feedback through discussion and guided interaction
• A contemplative foundation in the Restorative Breathwork® method
• The skills to begin guiding others into stillness, regulation, and energetic coherence
• Lifetime access to the platform and future updates

Certification

• Foundations Facilitator Certificate upon completion
• 50 CEUs through Yoga Alliance and IAYT

As you journey through each week, the breath becomes both teacher and ally — supporting your personal awakening while laying the groundwork for skillful, heart-centered facilitation.