Become a certified Flow Breathwork Facilitator.

Breathwork Facilitator Training for Healers breaking the mold.

ENROLLMENT OPEN FOR JANUARY 2024
(3 month cohort)

 

January 2024 (3 month cohort)

LIVE Call dates with Founder Shanila Sattar
Thursday (6-8pm CT)

January 11th, 2024
February 1st, 2024
March 7th, 2024

Practice Pod dates with Flow Breathwork Mentors:
Tuesdays (choose 11am-1pm CT or 7pm-9pm CT, attend 12)

January 16, 23, 30
February 6, 13, 20, 27
March 5, 12, 19, 26
April 2, 9, 16

Tuition: $4200

 

What’s Flow Breathwork?

Breathwork is an ancient practice utilized by many indigenous cultures and some form of breathwork has existed in every corner of the world for centuries. As many have adapted and built upon breathwork practices, we’ve lost much of the cultural and indigenous roots the practices from which the practices derive. You may hear of breathwork under many trademarked names that refer to this ancient practice.

We’ll train in a unique style of breathwork adapted by Shanila Sattar: FLOW Breathwork. It is a blend of ancient breathwork, movement, energy healing, the elements, and embodiment informed by studies in wisdom traditions. It’s truly the most potent form of somatic healing that lets you tap into both the masculine and feminine energies in the body.

This training heavily focuses on acknowledging and honoring the roots of the practice, learning about the physical science behind breathwork, touches upon the woo and spiritual aspects, provides a supportive container for deep healing, and prepares you to become a conscious, mindful, breathwork facilitator. This training is catered to those looking to learn applied breathwork techniques for practical and everyday use.

Flow Breathwork Facilitator training is highly decolonized with a BIPOC lens, empowers you to both become a facilitator within your community, and receive deep healing for yourself on your personal growth journey.


Flow Breathwork: A study through Movement, Energy, and Conscious Facilitation to expand healing into the world.

 

Phase 1 — The Practitioner

This phase is dedicated to awakening the inner healer. We’ll dive into the inner work for ourselves before learning tools for others.

Phase 2 — The Foundation

  • The History of Breathwork

  • The Science of Breathwork

  • Chakras and Emotions

  • Masculine and Feminine Lens of Healing

  • Breathwork and the Elements

Phase 3 — The Study

  • The Flow State

  • Flow Breathwork Method

  • Trauma Lens

  • Somatic Experiencing

  • Facilitating Breathwork

  • Energy Healing + Art of Touch

  • Enhancing Breathwork

Phase 4 — The Practice

  • The Conscious Facilitator

  • The Embodied Healing Artist

  • Applied Practice in Life Spaces

  • Certification Hours and Practice

  • Practice playlists, scripts, and practice pods

  • Self-commitment to healing and integration

Flow Breathwork Method

 

Breath

 

It all begins with the breath - the precious gift of life. We use the breath to guide our journey, connect with a three-part circular breath, and begin to create expansiveness within.

 

Movement

 

Calling in feminine energy to the practice, we move! The body transmutes the breath into a dance, awakening stagnant energies, releasing old patterning, and bringing a sense of freedom, confidence, and knowing. Somatic Experiencing, emotional releases, and intuition awaken.

 

Energy

 

As we activate, we hone in on tools in energy healing, art of touch, elements, and begin to access, harness, and flow with potent energetic bodies supported by the breath.

 

Embodiment

 

Walk the walk, talk the talk. Embody the practice for yourself through deep inner healing, conscious awareness, integration, and build your confidence as a Flow Breathwork Facilitator!

Our Flow

 

3 month Immersive

 

We flow through the 4 phases of the Flow Breathwork Facilitator Training through a 3 month journey. This training is delivered with online components and study. This course is fully virtual.

 

Monthly Instructional Meetings

 

We meet virtually monthly (Jan 11, Feb 1, and March 7)on Thursdays evenings (6-8pm CT) with Founder Shanila Sattar for community integration.

 

Practice Pods

 

Weekly scheduled practice during the duration of the 3 months to meet virtually with other students to practice with each other, connect, and build community with the support for Flow Breathwork Mentors. This is the space where you practice facilitation with others and build your skills as a practitioners. Choose from practice pod times: Tuesdays 11-1pm CT or Tuesdays 7-9pm CT (or come to both for extra practice!)

 
 

50 hour instruction & 50 hour practicum

 

Flow Breathwork Facilitator training requires 50 hours of practice hours to receive certification on completion. 50 hours practicum are class and online course hours. The program and its practice pods are created to support you in completing your certification in 3-6 months, depending on your pace of study.

 

Conscious Practitioner

 

As part of the training of being a conscious practitioner, we learn from a decolonization lens. There are modules within the training that covers the flow of business, creating your aligned offers, and growing your breathwork community.

 

Flow Breathwork Mentors

 

Be supported by incredible Flow Breathwork Mentors on Monthly Integration Calls and Practice Pods to connect deeper and integrate your studies.

Private Network & Opportunities

 

Connect with our wider Flow Breathwork Community inside our private platform and be connected to ongoing teaching and facilitating opportunities.

 

Bonuses

 

Flow Breathwork Practitioner’s Business Training

  1. Practitioner’s pricing and business support.

  2. Access to Intuitive Entrepreneur Course Creator, a 20+ hour training supporting practitioners to create aligned offers.

Pay in Full:

  1. Breathwork Techniques for Practitioners Mini Course (value $444)

  2. Flow 21: Somatic Healing Through Movement (value $333)

 

Answer to your questions

 

Have another question? Message: community@alwaysplay.org

Who is the training for?

This is a great fit if:

  • You are interested in integrative somatic wellness (emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing)

  • You are interested to develop a decolonized, trauma-informed lens into your work

  • You are committed to learn and grow as an individual as both a participant and facilitator of breathwork

  • You are on your self/healing journey and would like to heal deeply with a collective

  • You want to incorporate breathwork techniques in your current practice or teachings

  • You’re ready to build the foundations of your practice rooted in a supportive and inclusive community

  • You are ready to show up for yourself, integrate your experiences, and embody your practices

  • You love both the science and the woo of healing modalities

  • You are committed to develop yourself as a conscious facilitator

  • You are interested in the cultural roots and wisdom traditions of breathwork

  • You are committed to being a student of your crafts

  • You’d like to bring applied breathwork techniques that help reduce anxiousness and stress

  • You’d like to bring applied breathwork techniques to schools, hospitals, rehabs, hospice, youth, shelters, retreats, yoga studios, spas, therapy, and other avenues where breathwork is impactful

  • You’re moving away from mindset only modules of healing and integrating the full-person perspective in your coaching work

  • You’d like to facilitate breathwork sessions for others

    Many of our students are therapists, nurses, healers, coaches, community wellness advocates, reiki practitioners, deeply involved in BIPOC communities, and more.

If you’re not sure if breathwork training is for you, attend our classes on Sundays to maintain a consistent breathwork healing practice for yourself.

Training Dates

 

Our study in Flow Breathwork begins on March 18-19, 2023 (12pm - 6pm CT).
Level 1 Breathwork Facilitator Training takes place virtually.

We meet bi-weekly for 3 months on Wednesday Nights 6pm-8pm CT

Practice Pods are held on twice a month on Saturdays 12pm - 2pm CT bi-weekly with a Flow Breathwork Mentor to practice and integrate lessons.


80% attendance to LIVE calls and participation in 6 practice pods is required to complete certification

 

What happens after Flow Breathwork Facilitator Training?

  • Deep Connection

    You unlock a new layer of your own embodiment, healing, and confidence. Let this translate into all your work in the healing arts as a coach, guide, practitioner, and healer as you fully love, trust, and believe in yourself.

  • Client Results

    Blending in somatic experiencing with Flow Breathwork moves your clients from the thinking mind into the feeling body. Deeper results are seen all around through connecting body, breath, movement, energy, and embodiment.

  • Community Building

    You grow and expand in a diverse community of people who are just as committed to the work as you are. You create a ripples effect into the communities in which you exist.

  • Host Retreats

    Facilitate Flow Breathwork in your retreats, masterminds, and mentorships all around the world for transformational experiences.

  • On-going community

    Learn how other practitioners utilize Flow Breathwork in the real world (classrooms, youth groups, therapy settings, doula-ing, coaching, mentorships, and more). Tap into a community sharing resources on writing grants for holistic wellness, collaborate with one another, and come teach inside The Breathwork Club as a paid facilitator.

  • Teach

    Teach breathing techniques in workshops, events, to corporate clients, and more. Spread the practical tools you receive in this training and expand its reach to others.

About your teacher

Hi, I’m Shanila.

I’m the author of Breathe, creatrix of The Breathwork Club, founder of AlwaysPlay Studios, host of a Top 6 Podcast: The Playground, a 4th generation sound healer, breathwork coach, women’s researcher, and national speaker. I train breathwork facilitators and sound healers and run THE PLAYGROUND, a free community for healers and healing!

I’m interested in decolonized wellness, supporting conscious facilitators to put in real applied work in the wellness industry, and have a real world approach to my life’s work. I created Flow Breathwork Facilitator training from a need for a BIPOC lens and appreciation for wisdom traditions where many of our practices derive from. I’ve created my trainings with the vision of honoring the lineages of where our practices come from, learn the science, and have the uncomfortable inequality conversations around health and wellness. My mission is that we are all able to have access and knowledge of the healing tools that help heal us from the inside out.

I’m committed to support healers, coaches, and wellness professionals putting in the applied healing work in communities and spaces where it can make an impact. I practice integrative wellness - considering a person's emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing. I love to mix the science and the woo in my practice and hope that I’m able to reach people who may feel that wellness is inaccessible to them, especially in underrepresented, underserved, and marginalized communities.

My background is in tech, having co-founded an award winning web agency, and in women’s research, specifically in mindsets, implicit bias, perfectionism, women's health, and societal experiences supported through the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, and several universities. I’m one of the first practitioners to receive grants to support clinical population with sound baths, breathwork, and holistic modalities, and with that support, have been able to implement low cost wellness offerings, programs in women’s shelters, veteran’s legions, and community offerings to help close the wellness accessibility gap.

I’m looking forward to taking this journey with ya.

 

How practitioners are using Flow Breathwork

  • Therapists

    Therapists are beginning to incorporate somatic tools into sessions for an integrative and holistic lens.

  • Nurses/Doulas/Midwives

    Nurses/Doulas/Midwives are using breathwork techniques in birthing rooms, patient care, hospitals, and in client sessions.

  • Teachers

    Teachers are using breathwork techniques to give students tools for mood, energy, anxiety, grounding, and sleep.

  • Coaches

    Coaches are 10x-ing client results by moving away from mindset only work and into somatic experiencing.

  • Counselors and Social Workers

    Counselors and social workers are implementing programs into their communities (schools, universities, youth programs) to bring accessible wellness tools.

  • Healers + Holistic Wellness

    Healers and Holistic Wellness is using breathwork for spiritual and inner work.

Practitioner Spotlights


Love from our Students

 

10/10. I took a while to do this course and finish certification because I took time for my own healing. I watched this training get more and more supportive for healers with everything AlwaysPlay Studios has added to it over the years. I feel so much confidence in myself and I learned a lot about MYSELF on my path to being a good facilitator for others. I love the women I met from the training and some of them have become very good friends. That's my favorite part on top of everything else I loved!

— Janaae Rictor

My favorite part of training with Shanila is the ongoing support she provides. She really want to see us succeed. She speaks with enthusiasm and energy that's unmatched. If you ask for the help, you will get it. I feel so much more confident as a facilitator in all my work because of it, not just breathwork. She's provided service and support beyond what I expected. I'm so glad I jumped into this training!

— Sarah M.

Top to bottom amazing. When I tell you I went on a whole journey with this training. I came in wanting to better myself as a practitioner and take my clients to the next level with breathwork which I was already doing. What I got out of the training is that but also a really deep connection to myself as a practitioner. I faced a lot of deep wounds that helped me become even more aware of my gifts and prepared me to be a better practitioner in so many ways. I couldn't make it to the support calls but always watched on the replay. I know I'm supported.

— H

Shanila is a fantastic teacher, so knowledgable both scientifically and spiritually. She merges the two beautifully. I left the course feeling knowledgeable and empowered myself. I would recommend Shanila in an absolute heartbeat.

— Alice

Shanila is such a rock star in this space. As a 20 year veteran of the yoga and healing world, it is refreshing and restores my faith in this path after participating in her breathwork training. She has the wisdom and doesn't shy away from the important topics of cultural appropriation and spiritual bypassing in her trainings. She is BIPOC-friendly. A true healer and incredible teacher!

— Sheel

Shanila was an amazing facilitator for breath work training. I had been looking for someone I felt energetically pulled to- and I fell upon her and her healing community! I’m so glad I took this course- it was so interactive and I met so many amazing women. Transformational for sure. And I felt supported through the process. worth beyond the investment!!

— Erin


Click below to listen to Flow Breathwork Facilitator Student journeys over the years:

Find your breath. Find your flow.

Shift your breath, shift your Flow, change your life.