UKBA considers that a UK-based breathworker is defined as follows:
- currently resident in the UK
- OR a significant proportion of your clientele are UK-based
- AND you have UK-issued professional liability insurance
Professional Conscious Connected Breathwork (CCB) Practitioner
A Professional CCB practitioner will have at least 300 hours of training with no less than 8 months core training, and commit to supervised client work following qualifying. (These can be from multiple schools including the UKBA).
UKBA strongly recommends the following modules are included:
- Purpose and contexts of breathwork
- Foundation of respiratory science and the nervous system
- Safeguarding (consent, trauma, first aid, contraindications and use of touch)
- Ethics (trauma-informed practice, social and cultural competency, implicit bias)
- Breathwork practice (1-to-1 client work, online work, group work)
- Professional administration (GDPR, mediating complaints, record keeping, insurance)
Professional Functional Breathing Practitioner
A professional Functional Breathing practitioner will have at least 50 hours of training.
UKBA recommends modules covering:
- Purpose and contexts of breathwork
- Respiratory science
- Basic safeguarding awareness appropriate to scope of practice
- Breathwork Client practice in-person and Online
- Professional administration (GDPR, mediating complaints, record keeping, insurance)
Pranayama Practitioner
In a UKBA context, a listed Pranayama practitioner can be expected to have at least 200hrs yoga teacher training or equivalent experience*
UKBA recommends modules covering:
- 50hr specialist Pranayama training over at least 3 months
- Prana Nigraha or Prana foundation
- Raja/Ashtanga Yoga covering Yamas, Niyamas, Kriyas and Basic Asanas
- The three main categories of Pranayama
- Mudras and bandhas
- Awareness of Holistic Ayurvedic Perspective
- Awareness of the history of the indigenous practice of pranayama and its relevance in modern practices of yoga
- Case Studies
- Written Exam