International Breathwork Training Alliance:
Excellence in Professional Breathwork

Breathwork is the art and science of teaching breath awareness and breathing techniques for enhancing the human, physical, emotional, and spiritual condition.

What is IBTA?

The International Breathwork Training Alliance (IBTA) is a consortium of professional breathwork schools, trainers, and practitioners who support and promote the integration of breathwork in the world as an accessible and vital healing modality that facilitates physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual wellness.

Our purpose is to:

• Formulate and maintain a body of principles, ethics and standards for the training of professional breathwork practitioners in various breathwork modalities. In so doing, we recognize that breathwork is a continually evolving field in which new forms, new information, and new teaching methods will emerge.
• Support the breathwork practitioner’s understanding and application of the principles, ethics and training standards of breathwork for the purpose of deepening the healing and transformative possibilities for breathwork clients.
• Maintain and uphold the ethical integrity of the practice of breathwork.
• Encourage, nourish and expand an educational network of breathwork schools, in order to facilitate the exchange of methodologies, ideas, discoveries, teachers and students for their mutual enrichment.
• Give international endorsement to breathwork schools, trainers and practitioners who agree to maintain and uphold the commonly held principles, ethics and training standards of the International Breathwork Training Alliance.
• Foster the profession of breathwork as a healing modality to public, private, and government institutions, corporations and agencies.
• Initiate, solicit and sponsor research projects and professional forums that promote the knowledge and continuing development of breathwork, providing validation for its methodologies and outcomes.

The International Breathwork Training Alliance is open to all breathwork practitioners and schools agreeing to uphold the principles of ethics and standards set forward by the Alliance. Three possible Membership Categories of participation for qualifying Breathwork schools, trainers and practitioners are outlined in the Membership page. Please see the navigation menu for more information.