A Transformational Path
To facilitate breathwork is to hold sacred space for others in their most vulnerable and powerful unfolding. It is both an honor and a profound responsibility. As a somatic and transpersonal healing modality, it requires not only an understanding of breathing physiology, the nervous system, and trauma—but the capacity to meet each person with presence, discernment, and care.
The Kaisora Breathwork Facilitator Training is designed for individuals who are mature in their own journey of healing and personal development, and who feel called to share breathwork as a path of service and awakening. The training is experiential, non-dogmatic, and deeply integrative—bridging grounded science and trauma-informed practice with the energetic and spiritual dimensions of expanded-state healing.
We offer three progressive levels of training to support your development as a safe, skillful, and attuned guide:
Breathwork Foundations
An immersive introduction to the art, science, and facilitation principles of conscious connected breathwork.
ONLINE & IN-PERSON (SEATTLE) | 3 days | 18-20 hours + reading
Richer than a standard introductory course, this immersive training offers a deep exploration into the art, science, and soul of breathwork. Participants learn how conscious connected breathwork fits within the wider landscape of modern breath practices, while developing a grounded understanding of the breath’s relationship with the nervous system.
With attention to trauma-informed care and the somatic and spiritual dimensions of experience, we explore the principles that support safe and meaningful breathwork journeys. The training introduces the role and responsibilities of the facilitator, including how breathwork sessions are structured and guided to support safety, integration, and transformation.
Ideal for therapists, coaches, bodyworkers, and curious seekers alike, Breathwork Foundations offers both a powerful personal immersion and the educational groundwork for those considering the path of facilitation. Completion of this training serves as the prerequisite for applying to the Professional Facilitator Certification Program.
Foundations & Principles of Faciliation (Level One)
Upcoming Trainings:
March 13-15, 2026 | Seattle *full
July 15-17, 2026 | Seattle *full
January 22-24, 2027 | Seattle *registration open
May 21-23, 2027 | Seattle *registration open
Professional Certification Program
An advanced training and supervised practicum for those called to facilitate breathwork professionally, integrating immersive training, mentorship, and real-world practice.
Facilitation Practicum (Level Two)
IN-PERSON | 5 days | 36+ hours + reading
This five-day immersive training translates foundational knowledge into embodied facilitation skill. Through hands-on practice in both one-on-one and group settings, participants learn to track nervous system regulation, offer supportive touch, and attune to the subtle energetic dynamics that unfold during breathwork journeys.
Working closely with peers and instructors, you will develop the capacity to guide sessions with presence, clarity, and responsiveness. Real-time feedback, observation, and supervised practice help strengthen both technical skill and intuitive awareness, allowing you to grow in confidence as a breathwork facilitator.
The Facilitation Intensive marks the beginning of the Professional Facilitator Certification Program, and is followed by a period of supervised practice, mentorship, and case review leading toward certification in the Kaisora Method of Breathwork.
Upcoming Trainings:
February 16-20, 2026 | Seattle (non-residential) *closed
October 12-16, 2026 | Seattle (non-residential) *one space available
July 21-25, 2027 | Seattle (non-residential) *one space available
Facilitation Mentorship (Level Three)
ONLINE | ~6 Months
Following the in-person Facilitation Practicum, participants enter a period of supervised practice designed to support the transition from training into professional facilitation. During this phase, each participant will guide a series of breathwork sessions within their community while receiving ongoing mentorship, feedback, and support from Tai.
Working alongside a small cohort, you will refine your facilitation skills through case discussion, session reflection, and recorded session review. This process strengthens your ability to navigate the relational, somatic, and energetic complexities that arise in breathwork practice.
The Facilitation Mentorship is designed to support the integration of skill, ethics, and presence required to guide this work with maturity, discernment, and care.
Certification as a Kaisora Breathwork Facilitator is granted upon successful completion of the Level Three program and demonstration of the core competencies required to facilitate this work with safety, attunement, and integrity.
Upcoming Trainings:
March – June, 2026 | Online *closed
December 2026 – May 2027 | Online
Certification in the Kaisora Method
Certification in the Kaisora Method of Breathwork is granted upon completion of Level Three and demonstration of the core competencies required to facilitate this work with safety, attunement, and integrity.
These competencies include the ability to skillfully introduce and orient participants to the practice, assess breathing patterns and nervous system states, provide attuned support through verbal guidance, touch, and energetic awareness, and facilitate both individual and group experiences within an ethical and trauma-informed framework.
While many practitioners meet these competencies during the Level Three program, some may benefit from continued practice or mentorship to fully integrate the depth of this work.
Certification reflects a readiness to offer breathwork professionally and responsibly, and to represent the Kaisora approach with clarity, care, and integrity.
Curriculum Highlights
Our training bridges science and mysticism, blending nervous system physiology and trauma-informed care with the soulful, expanded-state dimensions of breathwork. This integrative approach prepares facilitators to guide with both knowledge and reverence, supporting safe, authentic, and transformative experiences.
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Explore the roots and range of breathwork practices—from yogic pranayama and clinical approaches to Holotropic, Rebirthing, and Kaisora. Learn how different styles impact the body and psyche, and why a “one-size-fits-all” approach is limiting. This perspective will help you orient breathwork within its broader context and articulate its unique value as a healing modality.
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It’s imperative to understand how altering the breath affects the body, nervous system, and arousal response so that you can guide skillfully and safely. You will learn the anatomy and physiology of respiration, including the mechanical and chemical mechanisms of breathing and how breath alteration affects oxygen and carbon dioxide levels, blood pH, and other physiological responses, including the common experience of tetany. This foundation will help you address questions about your clients’ breathwork experience, and your understanding of why certain conditions are contraindicated for breathwork.
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Learn how the breath interacts with nervous system regulation, and how to assess states of arousal during a session. Learn to support productive journeys that allow the system to complete cycles of stress, tension, and release. This foundation equips you to meet clients where they are and offer practices that enhance resilience, safety, and integration.
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Develop the awareness and skills to recognize how trauma is held in the body, and how to support breathers with compassion and discernment. Learn when breathwork may not be appropriate, and how to create containers that prioritize safety, consent, and empowerment. This includes understanding the body’s natural responses to trauma and how to gently support repair rather than retraumatization
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Practice the core skills of guiding breathwork—trauma-informed verbal cues, therapeutic and supportive touch, and subtle energetic awareness. Learn when and how to use these tools to deepen safety, connection, and transformation without overwhelming or disrupting the process. You’ll leave with a toolkit of facilitation practices you can confidently adapt to each unique individual and setting
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Discover how to structure the arc of a breathwork session, from opening through activation, emotional processing, and rest. You’ll also learn to curate immersive soundtracks that mirror and enhance these phases—using music as an ally for safety, depth, and transformation.
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Discover practices to remain clear, grounded, and well-resourced when working with expanded states. Learn to set energetic boundaries, close sessions skillfully, and support your clients in integrating what arises. These practices will also help you sustain your own vitality and presence as a facilitator over time.
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Breathwork can open the door to expanded and transpersonal states. Explore how to skillfully prepare the container, honor the mystery of the work, and guide clients in integrating spiritual or non-ordinary experiences into their daily lives. This module emphasizes humility, reverence, and discernment in supporting experiences that may be both profound and delicate.
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Learn how to introduce breathwork in a way that empowers participants and sets them up for the highest outcome. You’ll practice how to speak about breathwork, offer clear orientation, establish group agreements, and create an atmosphere of consent, safety, and trust.
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Gain confidence facilitating in different formats—whether working with individuals, couples, or groups, and whether online or in-person. Learn how to adapt your approach to each context, support meaningful intention-setting, and guide integration sharing that helps participants carry their insights into daily life.
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Examine the inherent responsibilities of guiding others in vulnerable states. We’ll explore ethical considerations, informed consent, facilitator–client dynamics, and the deep honor of holding this role. Special attention is given to power dynamics, boundaries, and how to maintain right relationship in the work.
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Receive practical guidance to launch your work with confidence—including client intake processes, waivers, liability insurance, and business licensing. Learn how to create structures that protect both you and your clients, while conveying professionalism and care. These foundations will allow you to build a practice rooted in safety, sustainability, and trust.
This work is more than a curriculum—it’s a path of transformation. Each level of training invites you deeper into your own self-knowing and capacity to hold space for others with humility, presence, and care. You won’t just learn how to guide others—you’ll be guided yourself, in community, through direct experience, dialogue, and mentorship.
Kaisora is not a one-size-fits-all method. It honors your unique voice and medicine as a facilitator. Our goal is not to produce carbon-copy practitioners, but to support each individual in cultivating their own way of offering breathwork—with integrity, discernment, and trust in the wisdom that lives within.
Tuition
LEVEL ONE
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Online trainings are limited to 16 participants to support an intimate and high-engagement learning cohort.
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In-person trainings in Seattle are limited to just 8 students to support an intimate and high-engagement learning environment.
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Level One is a 3-day immersive training that offers a comprehensive introduction to conscious connected breathwork. Participants receive a 160-page training manual, live instruction (in-person or virtual), and a certificate of completion. In addition to the training itself, participants receive a month of access to Kaisora Circle for continued personal practice, curated journey playlists to support home exploration, and a one-time discount toward a private breathwork or integration session. Graduates of Level One are eligible to apply for Level Two and are encouraged to continue developing an embodied relationship with the practice.
Each level includes both structured training and ongoing resources designed to support embodiment, integration, and sustainable facilitation over time.
LEVEL TWO
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Non-residential (in-city) trainings are typically five days, Monday-Friday, and are limited in group size to support an intimate and high-engagement learning environment.
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Step away from the demands and distractions of the day-to-day and immerse in a residential training experience. Residential trainings are typically 6-nights and the retreat center fees (lodging + meals) typically average $200-300/night.
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Level Two is a 5-day in-depth practicum focused on applied facilitation skill, safety, and presence. Participants receive a practicum workbook, engage in real-time supervised practice with feedback, and receive a certificate of completion. This level includes several months of access to Kaisora Circle, expanded music resources for personal practice, and entry into the Kaisora Facilitator Community, which offers ongoing education, case consultation, and peer support. Participants also receive access to a curated business and logistics resource hub, along with discounted private sessions to support continued development. Completion of Level Two makes participants eligible to apply for Level Three.
Each level includes both structured training and ongoing resources designed to support embodiment, integration, and sustainable facilitation over time.
LEVEL THREE
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Tuition includes three 3-hr group cohort meetings, three 1-hr individual, coaching sessions, review of twelve session self-evaluations, and review of three session recordings. Participants receive a discounted rate for ongoing mentorship sessions upon completion.
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Level Three is a multi-month mentorship program for experienced facilitators seeking depth, refinement, and professional stewardship of the work. The training includes cohort-based mentoring sessions, private 1:1 mentorship, and detailed review of facilitated sessions through written notes and filmed material. Participants receive extended access to Kaisora Circle, facilitation-ready music libraries, and continued participation in the Kaisora Facilitator Community. Level Three also includes eligibility for the Kaisora Directory, priority access to assisting opportunities, and alumni rates for ongoing mentorship and private sessions. Completion of this level offers a pathway toward Kaisora Certification.
Each level includes both structured training and ongoing resources designed to support embodiment, integration, and sustainable facilitation over time.
MEET KAISORA FOUNDER & LEAD TRAINER
Tai Hubbert
Tai Hubbert, CHT, E-RYT/YACEP, is the founder of Kaisora Breathwork and the lead trainer of its facilitator certification program. She brings over a decade of full-time private practice and extensive experiential knowledge from guiding thousands of breathwork and therapeutic sessions across a wide range of settings—online and in-person, one-on-one and group formats, corporate environments, and immersive retreat spaces. Her teaching is grounded not only in theory, but in the nuanced wisdom that comes from navigating the dynamic and often complex terrain of somatic healing and expanded states of consciousness with clients over many years.
In addition to her work as a breathwork practitioner and trainer, Tai is a Certified Hakomi Therapist and teacher, bringing deep expertise in somatic psychology, relational presence, and trauma-informed care. She is widely regarded as a “teacher’s teacher,” known for helping practitioners refine their capacity to hold space with integrity, discernment, and embodied awareness.
Tai shares this work from the heart, with a sincere desire to support others in reconnecting to the innate wisdom of the body, psyche, and soul—and to the sacred intelligence that lives within each breath. Her approach reflects more than two decades of immersive study across somatic psychology, contemplative and spiritual traditions, shamanic healing practices, and the exploration of expanded states of consciousness. As both practitioner and educator, she brings a rare balance of deep practitioner skill, intuitive presence, and thoughtful mentorship, guiding students with clarity, warmth, humility, and reverence for the sacred dimensions of this work.
Alignment & Discovery
Kaisora’s facilitator training is designed for those who feel called to support others in their healing and self-discovery. This program is well-aligned for therapists, coaches, wellness practitioners, and space-holders across modalities—as well as those who may not hold formal credentials, but who bring life experience, presence, and a sincere desire to serve.
Rooted in compassion, integrity, and deep listening, the training is ideal for those drawn to hold sacred space without dogma, performance, or prescription. If you feel called to this work, and to offering it with humility, care, and skill—this program may be the next step on your path.
REQUEST A DISCOVERY CALL
If you would like to speak with Kaisora’s Trainer, Tai Hubbert, to assess alignment for this program, please submit a request to schedule:
FAQs
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This training prepares you to facilitate Kaisora Breathwork, a form of conscious connected breathing often referred to as an “overbreathing” practice.
At its core, this approach uses a continuous, rhythmic breathing pattern to support expanded states of awareness, emotional processing, and somatic release within a carefully held and intentional container.
In the Level One Foundations Training, we will explore how this style of breathwork relates to other approaches—including yogic pranayama, Buteyko breathing, and methods such as Wim Hof. However, this training is specifically focused on the Kaisora method, and does not include instruction in facilitating these other styles.
You will be trained to guide experiential breathwork sessions, typically around 60 minutes in length, using a three-part breathing pattern supported by music, presence, and attuned facilitation.
Before registering, you are strongly encouraged to experience a Kaisora Breathwork session with founder and teacher trainer Tai Hubbert. This offers a direct felt sense of the approach and helps ensure the training is aligned with your interest and intention.
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Yes, you are welcome to register for the Level One Foundations of Facilitation to deepen your understanding of breathwork and to enrich your personal practice.
The training focuses heavily on trauma-informed facilitation and holding safer spaces for somatic and expanded state healing work, which translates beautifully to any wellness-oriented professional work.
Psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, psychedelic-assisted therapists, and others working in the field of mental health and healing are encouraged to take the Level One program to inform your understanding of breathwork and confidence in referring clients to this work.
Level Two is open to those who feel genuinely called to continue deepening in this work. While not everyone will choose to pursue facilitation professionally, priority is given to those with the intention to share breathwork and continue into the Level Three Mentorship and certification pathway.
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Ultimately, the timing and context in which you begin facilitating breathwork is your decision, and will be shaped by your experience, background, and sense of readiness.
Level One provides a strong foundation for understanding the practice, while Level Two introduces the hands-on and relational skills essential for facilitating this work. However, Kaisora strongly recommends completing the Level Three Facilitation Mentorship before offering breathwork sessions publicly.
This mentorship phase is designed to support the transition into real-world facilitation, offering supervision, feedback, and guidance as you begin working with clients. It helps ensure that sessions are offered with the level of safety, attunement, and discernment that this work requires.
Graduates of Level Three may begin facilitating breathwork sessions independently, drawing from their training and experience. The use of the name Kaisora Breathwork is reserved for those who have received certification in the method, which is granted upon demonstration of core competencies and readiness to represent this work with integrity.
Practitioners are asked to represent their level of training clearly when sharing this work—for example, noting whether they are Level One, Level Two, or Level Three trained—so that participants can make informed and aligned choices.
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Yes! Kaisora welcomes many participants who have trained with other schools and facilitators of breathwork, and who wish to deepen their competency and skill in specific areas (such as trauma-informed facilitation), receive more personalized mentorship and support, or who resonate with the Kaisora approach.
Regardless of prior training or background, Kaisora requires completion of Level One before participation in Level Two or Three.
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Yes—with a few steps to support alignment.
You are welcome to register for Level One and begin that process. Once registered, you’ll complete the Level One intake and orientation.
If you feel called to continue into Level Two, you may then submit an inquiry form to express your interest. From there, we may schedule a brief conversation to explore your experience, intentions, and readiness for the Facilitation Practicum.
While you can be accepted and reserve a space in Level Two in advance, completion of Level One is required before participating in the training.
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The full Kaisora Breathwork training pathway—from Level One through Level Three—typically takes 1 to 2 years to complete, depending on the timing and availability of each level and your personal pace. We offer approximately six Level One trainings per year, one to two Level Two trainings, and one to two Level Three cohorts annually.
In some cases, students are able to move through all three levels in under a year if the timing aligns and they feel ready to step in fully. Others may choose to space out their training to integrate and deepen at their own rhythm. There’s no rush—each path is honored.
That said, we recommend beginning Level Three soon after completing Level Two while your momentum, confidence, and learning are fresh. This helps you more easily transition into real-world practice while being held in the support of mentorship.
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While there are no formal pre-requisites for Level One, it is well-aligned for wellness practitioners (therapists, yoga teachers, life coaches, acupuncturists, coaches, shamanic practitioners, etc.) seeking to integrate breathwork into their practice, and for those mature in their own path of personal development who wish to share this work.
it is also recommended that you have a history of personal breathwork practice, and that you register only AFTER you have experienced several Kaisora breathwork sessions.
Please note that while this program will inherently support individual healing and personal work, it is not appropriate for those currently in crisis or needing more individual therapeutic and healing support.
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There is no primary credentialing body for breathwork facilitator training, and programs can vary widely—from short, introductory courses to more immersive, practice-based pathways. For this reason, it’s important to choose a training that offers not only knowledge, but the depth of experience and support needed to facilitate this work safely, responsibly, and with confidence.
Within the Kaisora training pathway, participants receive certificates of completion at each level, and may reference their training accordingly (e.g. Level One, Two, or Three trained).
Certification in the Kaisora Method of Breathwork is not automatically granted upon completion of Level Three. Rather, it is offered upon demonstration of the core competencies required to facilitate this work with safety, attunement, and integrity.
For some, this readiness may be met during the Level Three Facilitation Mentorship. For others, it may unfold over time through continued practice, integration, and mentorship beyond the formal training period.
Certification reflects both skill and relational readiness to represent this work in the community. Additional experience and mentorship may be part of this process.
If you feel called to pursue certification, the journey begins with Level One, which offers an opportunity to experience the work and assess alignment for continued training. You are also welcome to request an informational conversation to explore the Kaisora approach and training pathway.
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Each level of training has specific payment timelines and cancellation terms, which are outlined in detail on the individual training pages.
In general, a non-refundable deposit is required to reserve your place in the training, with remaining balances due in advance of the start date.
For Level One, cancellations made more than 30 days prior to the training are eligible for refund (less the deposit), while Level Two and Level Three have extended timelines and additional considerations based on the structure of the program.
For residential trainings, retreat center policies and timelines also apply.
If you are unable to attend due to illness, we will do our best to transfer your registration to a future training when space allows.
Please refer to each training page for full details, or reach out with any questions.
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Please contact hello@kaisorabeathwork.com with any questions about the training program, or to request an infomational interview.