LIVE & ONLINE | 3 – 14 June 2024
Science of Breathing™
Certified Coach Training Course
Help Clients Sleep Better, Improve Digestion, Boost Energy & Relieve Stress

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ATTN: Passionate Breathing Students

I’m recruiting future coaches to help clients overcome some of the most common health challenges today using the power of their own breath. As a certified Breath Coach, you’ll make a huge impact on your clients’ lives and earn a great living. Here are some reasons why it’s a great time to become a coach:

  • Huge demand. Worldwide interest in breathing is booming, but most of the books and teachers make things so complicated and so extreme that the average person doesn’t know where to turn to for guidance. There are very few coaches, so the timing is perfect.

  • Deliver immediate results. You’ll deliver positive, mind-body results for your clients in 10 minutes or less, every time. For anyone on a health journey, this immediate positive feedback loop is so rewarding.

  • Work anywhere. Breath Coaching requires very little space, no equipment, and no prior experience. It can even be done virtually via Skype, FaceTime, or Instagram.

  • Safe and natural. The techniques you’ll learn apply to almost all students, regardless of their age or health status. You’ll learn to take control of the nervous system, stress response, sleep quality, and energy with this all-natural approach.

  • Turnkey business model. You’ll receive done-for-you session plans, marketing materials, online payment options, and pricing plans so you can start right away with no additional investment or startup cost. It’s plug-and-play so you’ll be ready to take on clients, serve them at a high level, and get paid.

  • Get certified from home. This course allows for deep learning from the comfort of your own home, and our live course format gives you access to trainers in real-time for feedback, questions, and interactive lectures. It’s the next best thing to being in the studio with us, and in terms of direct access to trainers, it’s even better.

  • Join our supportive community. Our teacher community spans 41 countries and includes a positive peer group that will support you.

Live, online course format with direct access to Lucas and his team.

Live, online course format with direct access to Lucas and his team.

Amazing Facts About Breathing

You can go for weeks without food, days without water, but only a few minutes without breathing. Breathing has such an immediate impact on your mind and body that even the act of inhaling vs. exhaling affects your nervous system differently. It’s common to train in diet, exercise, and even hydration, but almost no one trains their breath. This is a huge missed opportunity for health-seekers.

Did you know…

  • Breathing can change your blood PH (acid/alkaline) in minutes. No food, exercise or medication acts as quickly.
  • You can often determine your dominant nervous system state simply by placing your finger underneath your nostrils and exhaling.
  • Reduced rate breathing can stimulate a rest and digest, parasympathetic nervous system state to help with sleep, stress, and anxiety.
  • Rapid, pulsed breathing stimulates a sympathetic nervous system response to increase energy, prepare for exercise, or boost the body’s natural defenses.
  • Diaphragmatic breathing massages the vagus nerve and reduces heart rate, lowers blood pressure, and reduces stress.
  • Severe respiratory conditions like asthma can be successfully managed by increasing CO2 levels in the blood.
  • Breathing can help reduce the fear of public speaking, improve digestion, reduce insomnia, lower stress, anxiety, and overwhelm.

The Coaching Opportunity

For certified coaches, there are three main teaching opportunities right now. Many coaches focus on work with private clients, creating individualized, solution-oriented sessions. They help people with stress management, sleep disorders, anxiety, or digestive problems. Private clients offer you a flexible schedule, great pay, and the opportunity to make a huge impact.

Next, you’ll have the opportunity to lead group classes in local yoga studios. These added-value classes give dedicated yoga students a deeper understanding of their breathing and enhance their personal practices. Lastly, workshop-style breathing sessions can be very effective in a variety of settings, but corporate clients and fitness centers are the key markets.

Top teaching opportunities:

  • Private sessions. I’ll show you how to quickly find students in your area struggling with challenges like stress, anxiety, sleep problems, digestive issues, or overwhelm. The typical breathing client program is one month and includes a live weekly session (in person or virtual) combined with daily assignments where clients listen to your voice and practice along with a recording.

    Location: your home, their home, or virtually via video chat.
    Earning potential: a typical 1-month program sells for $149*

  • Group classes. These classes are offered at local studios and fitness clubs and include both the “why” and the “how” of yoga breathing. You’ll lecture on the basics, teach group breathing, and assign homework. I’ll give you a sales email to send to local studios in your area so you can book your first 60-minute group class easily and start teaching right away. I’ll also give you posters, event handouts, and promotional materials you can provide to the studios so you’ll look like a pro.

    Location: most group classes are held in local yoga studios or fitness centers.
    Earning potential: specialized group classes usually pay $40-75/hour*

  • Workshops. These 90-minute sessions include four parts: introduction, lecture, practice, and questions. I’ll show you how to deliver a 90-minute experience and provide you with all the materials needed to pitch and land your first paid gigs. Materials provided include slide show presentation, contract template, pricing info, promotional poster, and handouts for your attendees.

    Location: workshops can take place in yoga studios, fitness centers, or corporate settings.
    Earning potential: workshop revenue starts at $150/hour*

*Earnings Disclaimer: earning potential shared on this page is for reference only. Actual earnings may vary according to location and dozens of other factors.

My Story

I started yoga in my early twenties, and I wanted to learn everything. Breathing came up in every class, so I asked all my teachers for more information. Here’s what I wanted to know: Why is breathing important? You say we should breathe deeply, but how deeply? You say breathe slowly, but how slowly? And why not breathe fast? I realized quickly that the yoga community pays lip service to breathing but doesn’t teach or understand it well at all.

I’ve practiced with some of the most esteemed teachers including some modern masters, and I was disappointed to discover that most had only a superficial understanding of breathing. Frustrated, I turned my research to the mainstream medical community and the world of extreme sports, and finally, I found answers.


Lucas has taught yoga breathing since 2006.

Medical doctor, Patricia Gerbarg, has dedicated her career to breathing and her work, writing, and our conversations were hugely influential. I worked closely with a senior Buteyko breathing coach who taught me about the vital role of CO2. I also interviewed a number of record-setting free divers and daredevils like Wim Hof, who push breathing to the limits (not something I advocate). I came to learn that there is no mystery to breathing at all. The science of breath has been well-researched for over 100 years, but very few people had applied the actual science to the practices of yoga students. This seems crazy, but it’s true.

After nine months of research, here’s what I learned:

Discovery #1. Breathing Exercises Are All About CO2 (not blood oxygen)

Breathing exercises are mostly about the manipulation of carbon dioxide in the blood, not oxygen. CO2 is not a toxin to be avoided. It’s hugely valuable, and most people over-breathe, not under-breathe, and we need to learn how to conserve CO2.

Discovery #2. Slow Breathing Increases Cellular Oxygen

Logically, you’d think that if you breathe fast, you’ll get more oxygen, right? Not true. In fact, if you breathe really fast for a few minutes, you’ll get dizzy and might even pass out. Slow breathing increases blood CO2 levels that allow for greater absorption of oxygen.

Discovery #3. Breathing Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated (at all!)

One of my first yoga teachers taught me 15 different breathing exercises with funky Sanskrit names. As I went further, I learned dozens more. It was so overwhelming. Here’s what I know now: every single breathing exercise is simply affecting your nervous system in one of three ways: parasympathetic, sympathetic, or balancing response. All that complexity and terminology doesn’t add any value to the practices. Simple exercises work just as well and can be learned in minutes with no hard-to-pronounce Sanskrit names or complicated hand positions.

VIDEO: My TEDx talk on breathing

I was so excited by this new knowledge and so frustrated with the misinformation being passed around in the yoga community that I put together a TEDx Talk. So far, the response has been amazing, and it’s being watched by 10-20K people per day. As it turns out, many people were confused with all this “breathe deeply” advice too.

How it Works – Online Training

The course is 12 days long, and each day is focused on a core lesson, live Q&A, and one specific breathing exercise. Sessions start with the breathing practice of the day, we then move into the scheduled core lesson, and finish with breakout rooms where you get to practice what you learned. Next, Lucas answers (live) every single question via a live Q&A, and then we share notes in our group chat.

What to Expect (for 12 days)

  • Core lesson workshop (live online class)
  • Daily breathing practices (5 min each / 3 per day)
  • Live Q&A with Lucas, every single question answered
  • Community support via live chat (Telegram)

All live sessions take place at 6 am California, 9 am NYC, 2 pm London, 3 pm Barcelona time (find your local time). If you’re unable to make the live sessions because of time zone or schedule conflicts, no problem as you’ll get access to the replays immediately the same day.

Plan for two hours per day for the duration of the course and set aside around two hours for your exam. Each student exam is individually reviewed with both written and verbal (audio) feedback. We’re here to support you every step of the way, and everything is in place to ensure your success. 

Curriculum At-a-Glance

We take a science-based, client-centered approach. We provide you with all the tools, training, and experience required to help your students effectively manage their nervous system, self-soothe, and promote nervous system balance using the powerful techniques of yoga breathing. 

Science of Breathing

  • Anatomy and physiology of breathing
  • Vagus nerve and autonomic nervous system
  • Bohr Effect and nasal cycle phenomenon
  • Popular styles explained: Pranayama, Buteyko, Wim Hof, Box Style, and Holotropic
  • Breathing challenges: asthma, long COVID, COPD, allergies

Breath Testing / Client Access

  • Nasal cycle test
  • CO2 tolerance test 
  • Breath control test

10 Breathing Practices*
  • Water Category (x2)
  • Whiskey Category (x4)
  • Coffee Category (x2)

*Water, whiskey, coffee are slang terms to help students remember the nervous system impacts of practice that are rajasic, tamasic, and sattvic. Alternatively, some coaches use the terms water, ice, and fire. 

Business Coaching

  • Session planning
  • Client management
  • Ethics of client work
  • No-cost marketing
  • Pricing and packaging
  • Online and offline options
  • Web profile, payments, and processes

Who is This Course For?

We have trainees who are completely new to teaching, and others who have taught in the mind-body world for years—everyone is welcome! There is no prerequisite to join, and some our most successful graduates took their very first classes on this course.

About 20 percent of our trainees have no definite plans to teach, they just want to learn – that’s great! The remaining 80 percent usually plan to launch something new or add to what they are already doing. Whatever your intention, the most important thing is that you come with an excitement to learn, participate, and join the group. Our courses are highly interactive, so we want everyone to come ready to dive in.

Breathing vs. Meditation?

In traditional yoga, breathing is aways taught as a stepping stone toward states of sense withdrawal and meditation, but many of us – myself included – try to skip the logical steps. For new students, silent meditation can create anxiety, frustration, and even obsessive rumination. And the biggest problem? Frustration causes most people to quit.

Breathing is different. It’s fun and easy to practice. The counting gives you a mental focus, and the exercises are short and potent. Instead of dodging their daily breathing exercise, students look forward to it. Even more exciting, the measurable health benefits of breathing exercises are well documented and extremely reproducible. This means that with minimal training, students can experience profound results including stress relief, nervous system balance, mood stabilization, better sleep, improved digestion, and the ability to self-soothe at will. 

With breathing practice, it puts you into a meditative state automatically. Think of breathing as an active form of meditation with all the same benefits. As a career yoga teacher, I can assure you that clients want results, not meditation awards, so the more I teach breathing, the happier my clients are with the results.

About the Certification

This course is certified with Yoga Alliance as a Continuing Education Course (CE), with American Council on Exercise (ACE) and the International Coach Federation as a Continuing Coach Education Course (CCE). After successfully completing the course, you’ll be qualified to coach students privately, in yoga studios and fitness centers, CrossFit Boxes, and corporate settings anywhere in the world.

NOTE: We do not sell certifications. All credentials are merit-based and well-deserved. We take pride in the caliber of our graduates and we’ll hold you to a high standard.

Health Disclaimer: Breath Coaches are not trained to treat, diagnose or cure any illness or disease. In all cases, your clients should work in conjunction with a qualified medical professional, and under no circumstances should you recommend clients change or discontinue prescribed medication or treatment protocols.

Meet Your Trainer

LUCAS ROCKWOOD

Master Trainer & Director (E-RYT, YACEP)

Lucas Rockwood is an internationally renowned yoga trainer, TEDx Speaker, author, podcaster, writer, and entrepreneur.

Lucas’ corporate training clients include Facebook and Noom. His early yoga and meditation teachers include Sri K. Pattabhi Jois (deceased), Paul Dallaghan, Alex Medin, Gabriel Cousens MD, and SN Goenka (deceased).

Lucas left the USA in 2003 and traveled and taught extensively before making Barcelona, Spain, his home base. In a previous life, he worked in theater, publishing, and as a plant-based chef and nutritional coach. He’s the father of three international kids and remains as passionate about yoga as when he first began practicing in 2002.

Lucas is the founder and managing director of YOGABODY®, YB Teachers College®, The Lucas Rockwood Show (podcast), and author of Business Mastery: Earn a Great Living Doing What You Love.

Tuition Investment

3 – 14 June 2024 | Limited Space

YOGABODY Breath Coach Training Certification is one-of-a-kind and offers an opportunity for you to learn to use breathing as a health and healing tool, transform lives, and earn a great living. YOGABODY Teachers College® is a leader in professional yoga education, and this program is designed to give you all the personal experience, academic knowledge, and business skills required to work professionally.

Tuition Fees Include: 12 days of live, interactive course, daily Q&A, breakout rooms, live chat, personalized exam review, student bonuses, and all course materials. No additional fees, no recertification fees, lifetime access to course. 

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FREE! Bonus Materials ($522 value)

Get access to dozens of professional resources so you can hit the ground running upon graduation. Our school is owned and operated by YOGABODY, a large international yoga brand with ever-growing business support you can take advantage of so you can focus on the fun stuff—teaching!

FREE! Contract Template ($99 value – FREE!)
Once the bookings start rolling in, you’ll need to send them a formal document to manage expectations, policies, and payment. Most yoga teachers hate this part, but you’ll pay the price if you don’t use it. Grab our template, adapt it to your needs, and look like a real professional from the get-go.

New Student and Liability Waiver ($49 value – FREE!)
For insurance and data privacy reasons, it’s essential that you have a new student form with a liability waiver for your classes. You’ll get access to our 100% online form your students can sign with their finger (phone) or mouse (computer). A signed copy of the contract will be sent to both you and your students. No cost for life for all graduates.

Business Card and Postcard Templates ($125 value – FREE!)
Save time and money by using our done-for-you designs. We have a Canva portfolio, pre-designed and fully customizable that includes postcards, business cards, social media posts and more. New designs added every 2-3 months.

FREE! Done-for-You Pitch Emails ($49 value – FREE!)
To land your first clients, simply use these copy/paste templates to contact local yoga studios, fitness centers, and corporate offices. These emails will help you get you your first gigs.

FREE! Workshop Side Deck Presentation ($100 value – FREE!)
You’ll look like a pro when you use this professional slide deck presentation in your first workshops. No need to stress about the format, it works on PC/Mac and is ready to go immediately.

FREE! Workshop Flyer ($100 value – FREE!)
This handout contains all six breathing practices we focus on in the program (two of each category: water, whiskey, coffee). You can use this as a handout at your workshops and events to add value and help your students learn.

About YOGABODY Teachers College®

Founded in 2006, YOGABODY Teachers College® is a “Top 5” training school with over 23K graduates in 41 countries. Our school is science-based, business-positive, and future-focused. The success of YTC graduates speaks for itself. No gurus, no incense, no chakras, no Oms. We’ve taken the best of ancient yoga practiced and combined it with modern science and technology to provide trainees with real career opportunities.

Student Reviews

★★★★★

“I thoroughly enjoyed this course”

I found it super informative, easy to follow along and really enjoyed Lucas’ methods of teaching. It was clear and approachable. I look forward to employing the skills I learned with clients at my wellness studio.

– Amelia Bradley

★★★★★

“The course was everything I expected and way more”

Lucas is such an amazing teacher: his down-to-earth approach, yet cheerfulness every single day made me so excited for every new class. Two 30-40min classes a day were available any time that suited you. Huge bonus: very practical tools to get your business started in no time. Best purchase of the year!

– Emma

★★★★★

“Breathing is a wonderful tool, easy to use, with quick results”

I feel very confident now to teach and coach people having done this training. It’s a very practical, down-to-earth and ready to go kinda training, and that is rare in online training.

– Anoniem

★★★★★

“I completed the Breath Coach training and it was great!”

The flexibility of joining the live sessions and having the ability to watch the recorded sessions was extremely beneficial! Lucas does an amazing job teaching virtually and providing a space to ask questions and and practice with your fellow students.

– Fehime

★★★★★

“Definitely a practice I’ll keep under my belt”

Knowing I am one to feel anxiety on a daily basis, these breathing techniques really assists me to be in the now. From the time of the training, this has greatly helped control my anxiety levels as well as calm me down when it’s time to sleep.

– Lorrie Dee Escobar

★★★★★

“The Breath Coach Training was very practical, scientific and easy to learn”

It gives you all the tools you need for managing stress in daily life and to teach these techniques to others. I highly recommend it.

– Hege

★★★★★

“Exceptional program. Incredible execution. Exceeding expectations!”

Invaluable information for understanding, applying and teaching breathing techniques with confidence (in personal practice, yoga classes and beyond). I believe this program is a must if you teach yoga. Thank you YOGABODY.

– Andrea Hadek

★★★★★

“Plenty of practical explanations and details to become a certificated coach”

Great video contents for both Breath Coach Training and Science of Stretching, how to manage a session and your own business as well.

– Alkraam

★★★★★

“The resources are exceptional”

I loved that I was able to take the whole class on my phone. No computer is needed. So accessible and easy to incorporate into a busy life. I really appreciate the Facebook group and Telegram app.

– Anonymous

Frequent Questions

Yes. The YOGABODY Teachers College® pioneered online professional yoga training, and it’s important to note that this is a live interactive course. Our standards are extremely high, and we’ll guide you through every step of the process all the way to your final assessment.
No problem. You can double up your work on another day. The suggested pace is one hour per day, but you can arrange your schedule any way you like.
No, that wouldn’t be fair. We require an 85% or higher score on all exams, and participation throughout the course. You have up to three tries on all exams, and we’re here to support you every step of the way. If you show up and give 100%, you will almost certainly be successful.
We only teach safe practices applicable to all people, regardless of age or condition. There are many extreme, daredevil breathing programs online—that is not us. This is a therapeutic, self-care system that is extremely powerful, but safe and simple.
You’ll study online with video-based classes. This is particularly effective for learning breathing exercise names, anatomical terms, and session plans. Each day there is a video lecture, a personal practice (that you do), and a practice teaching exercise you’ll do at home.
As long as you have access to a phone or computer, you’ll have no problems. It’s a very low-tech course designed for everyone.
That’s fine! As long as you’re serious about learning, we’re happy to invite you onto the course.
Questions are great. Just ask! This is an at-home course, but it includes real-time interactions, so you can ask questions, get help, and talk with Lucas and the training team throughout the course.

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If you complete the course and for whatever reason don’t feel like you received the education you expected, just email us for a full and prompt refund anytime within a year of purchase. We’ve been educating professional teachers since 2006 and take this responsibility very seriously. We regularly hire from our own graduating classes, so our curriculum must be at market leading standards. We’ll help you turn your passion into a profession.

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REFERENCES. The Bohr Effect: wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr_effect. Vagus Nerve & diaphragmatic breathing: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6189422.
Buteyko Breathing & Asthma: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14752538. Meditation & Longevity: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3057175.