The UK Breathwork Association (UKBA) is the UK's hub for breathwork practice and training.

UKBA team has received several notes of concern about both online courses and public workshops offering breathwork sessions that appear to be somewhat less aligned with the standards and guidelines we adhere to. We value and welcome the active witnessing of the field by our members: raising concerns and calling out questionable practices. We are grateful for the passion that you have in attending to client safety, care and professional standards.  Within every profession there is understandable frustration with those who offer a service that sounds similar but is done with less care, less training and looser guardrails for clients.   It’s worth clarifying that only in legally regulated professions such as medicine, dentistry or law does there exist the possibility to put forward a complaint in the public interest and expect it to be acted upon by government bodies. Also, it should be noted that organisations such as the IBF and GBPA have no power to restrict the activities of anyone offering breath practices. In professions with a PSA-accredited voluntary register, as UKBA intends to become, the approach is necessarily different. As our membership grows and awareness of Breathwork as a specific therapeutic profession builds, our standards will become a reference point for the public and an aspiration for students of Breathwork. The rapid expansion of large group Breathwork activities is a testament to the power of the practice which has for the most part been a niche activity for people who were ‘in the know’ during the last few decades.  We see that as Breathwork flourishes, so will those who offer it what some may feel to be an ‘over-enthusiastic’ fashion.  For some this is a cause for alarm, while others welcome the expansion and recognise that everyone can choose how to start working with the breath.  UKBA is not in position to shut down or otherwise control practices of non-members, even though we are aware that there are practices being offered that may not be suitable for everyone. A role that UKBA can and does play here is to make that choice real by raising awareness of the qualities that define good breathwork practice. By strongly advancing Breathwork as having a recognised professional path and promoting public awareness of the availability of practitioners and schools that have committed to high standards, we will achieve our goal of raising the bar.