GPBA Recognised Breath Coach training

Your first step into breathwork coaching.

 

A 50-hour breathwork certification that is science backed and trauma informed – completed online, at your own pace, over a minimum of 12 weeks. 

Bring the magic of breathwork to your life and business with this GPBA accredited breathwork training that you can start as soon as you’re ready. This is an online self-led programme, and includes 9 months access to the Exhale Wisdom School and the Breathing Space community for support and Group Supervision. 

 

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Hear Marie and Sharyn explain the Breath Coach pathway in their own words – what it is, who it’s for, and why it is so much more than a weekend seminar.

Are you looking for Breathwork Training?

Maybe you’ve been practising breathwork for yourself for a while now. You’ve felt what happens when you settle into your breath – the shift that happens in the body, the quieting of the noise, the thing that lands in you that’s hard to name but is unmistakeable once you’ve felt it.
And perhaps, somewhere in the background, a question has been forming. Not a loud one. More like a gentle tugging. What if I could offer this to someone else?
The Breath Coach Certification is the place to begin – to learn the fundamentals, work with real clients under supervision, and find out what kind of practitioner you’re becoming.
If something has been quietly asking to be heard. You don’t need to know if you’re ready. You don’t need to have it all figured out. You just need to be curious. 

This is not a taster. It’s a real GPBA accredited qualification that begins gently, and at your pace.

What is the Breath Coach Certificate?

We’ve taken Unit 1 of The Exhale Awakening’s full 400-hour GPBA Accredited Practitioner Training and we’ve offered it for you here as a complete, stand-alone qualification in its own right.

50 hours of guided learning over 12 weeks.

  • Breath techniques and practices

  • Anatomy of breath and the science behind conscious breathing

  • Facilitation fundamentals – how to hold space safely and skilfully

  • Ethics, boundaries, and professional practice

  • Supervised client sessions – real practice, real feedback

  • Introduction to trauma-informed principle

Receive your Breath Coach Certification on completion of the graduation requirements and begin to incorporate breathwork into your life and business. 

Go at your own pace. One module is released each week, until you’ve reached a total of 12 modules (including practical case study requirements), when your work is complete, you receive a Breath Coach qualification that allows you to work with clients as a Breath Coach.

However, included in your investment is a total of 9 months of support and group supervision – with a choice of Breathworks, Group Supervision and Masterclass sessions. This continued practice enables you to apply for the GPBA Ethically Compliant Breath Worker certification – a  9 month, minimum 50 hours, a further standalone accreditation.

This training is offered in conjunction with Breathing Space where we teach. Joining though The Exhale Awakening means you’ll not only become part of the Breathing Space Community, you also receive 9 months access to the Exhale Wisdom School – live and recorded breathwork sessions, community, and continued learning – from the day you sign up.

Payment options

The Training – Self-led Online

£500

  • 50 hours of self-paced online learning, delivered over 12 weeks

  • 9 months Exhale Wisdom School access

  • Breathing Space Group supervised practice sessions included

  • Certificate of completion – a standalone, recognised qualification

  • GPBA Ethically Compliant Breath Worker certification after 9 months of supervision (Included)
  • 20% Bursary Available

  • Full investment credited back if you continue to the 400-hour Practitioner training

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The Training – Self-led Online

£125 a month for 4 months

  • 50 hours of self-paced online learning, delivered over 12 weeks

  • 9 months Exhale Wisdom School access

  • Breathing Space Group supervised practice sessions included

  • Certificate of completion – a standalone, recognised qualification

  • GPBA Ethically Compliant Breath Worker certification after 9 months of supervision (Included)
  • 20% Bursary Available

  • Full investment credited back if you continue to the 400-hour Practitioner training

    Enrol Here →

Have a question ?

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A first step – or a complete journey.

Some people complete the Breath Coach foundation and find they have exactly what they came for. An accredited qualification, a new skill, the confidence to begin working with clients, and that is more than enough.

Others find that finishing it opens something further. A sense that there is more to learn, more to embody, more to give. For those people, the full 400-hour Facilitator Training awaits – and everything invested in the Breath Coach comes with you.

There is no pressure to decide now what comes next. Begin here. See what unfolds.

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Who is this training for?

The Breath Coach Foundation is for you if you have experienced your first conscious breath, and it sparked your curiosityMaybe it found you first – in a moment of stillness, a season of healing, or a quiet knowing that something here matters. And now, something in you is beginning to stir. A sense that this gift isn’t only for you.

You might be a yoga teacher, a therapist, a coach or bodyworker, feeling the breath wanting to weave itself more fully into the work you already offer.

You might be a nurse, a midwife, a counsellor – someone who has held others through hard times and seen, first-hand, what stress does to a body, a spirit, a life.

Or perhaps you carry no formal training at all. Only the lived experience of what breath has done for you, and a growing sense that you’d like to offer that to someone else.

All of this is welcome here.

You don’t need a list of qualifications to begin. You need curiosity. Commitment. And a willingness to tend your own breath – your own inner life – alongside those you’ll eventually serve.

If something in you is leaning toward this, you’re already closer than you think.

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the exhale becomes

training that is personal

A journey into becoming

We teach the skills of true facilitation: how to welcome silence as a teacher, how to trust the natural rhythm of breath and being, and how to create spaces where every part of a person feels safe to arrive.

Your journey is one of bringing together your life and your work. Embodying the breath as a living part of your being. 

Our journey is deep, our destination is calm

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Your teachers.

The Breath Coach Foundation is taught by Sharyn with a Why and Marie Doherty – the co-founders of The Exhale Awakening, and two of the most quietly exceptional breathwork teachers working in the UK and Ireland today.

Sharyn with a Why – Yorkshire, UK

Sharyn came to breathwork through her own experience of what it can unlock – she experienced the kind of shift that arrives not through effort, but through finally learning to exhale. Warm, direct, and deeply attuned, she brings a rare combination of practical groundedness and genuine depth to every mentoring relationship.

“Sharyn, your wisdom and caring nature have really shined through. The way you can hold a room is inspiring and it really feels like you’re the mother of our group. Thank you for holding that space for us, for sharing your knowledge and for showing up for us each and every week. You have truly been our rock.”
– Ryan, UK

Marie Doherty – Donegal, Ireland

Marie spent over thirty years as a teacher before breathwork brought her home to herself. Rooted in the land and seasons of Donegal, and in the old Irish Celtic ways of knowing, she holds space with a quality that has been described, by someone who knows breathwork well, as magic.

“Marie has truly been my angel in more ways than one during this course. Your kind words, support, helpfulness and presence have meant so much to me this year. Marie always delivers with passion, knowledge, and flow. Her honesty, compassion, and guidance have been invaluable. It has been a real pleasure working with you over the past 10 months.”
– Jane, UK

If something here has spoken to you…

But you’re not sure yet, you don’t need to be certain, you just need to be curious.

A Quiet Conversation is exactly that – no pressure, no pitch. Just a chance to ask your questions, meet the teachers, and get a sense of whether this is the right next step.

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Or take a look at the full 400-hour Practitioner Training, if you’re wondering what the longer path looks like.

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This is an invitational wellbeing practice and does not diagnose, treat, or cure any condition. You choose your pace and may rest at any time. If you have medical concerns, please consult a qualified professional.