Become a Certified BreathWalk® Instructor

What Is BreathWalk?

Breathwalk is easy to learn, sophisticated in its design and powerful in its impact. It revitalizes your body, mind and spirit.

Breathing and walking are two of the most natural things we do. Breathwalk integrates breathing, walking and meditation into specific exercise programs using consciously directed breathing that create vitality.

That vitality comes from body, mind and spirit working together. When we experience vitality, we feel alive. We have an inner confidence that we can embrace our life, accomplish our goals and feel our spirit. Vitality resides in the intricate network of our body, mind and spirit. We can each use that vitality to live a healthy, happy and successful life.

Breathwalk is the science and art of combining conscious breathing and walking into elegant and effective patterns for a healthy, happy and spirited life. By learning how to consciously breathe and walk, you can elevate your mood, command your energy levels and shift your mental gears, as you need. In addition to all the benefits of mild aerobic exercise, Breathwalk gives you choices-choice over your energy level, choice to elevate or change your mood, and choose the quality and focus of your mind.

Who can take the certification training?

The prerequisites for this course are to be in generally good physical and emotional health so you can walk, pay attention and learn, and to have already read the book. If you have not had a class in Breathwalk, then go for a Breathwalk based on your reading and the information here on the web. Try it out.

Take this course to learn the techniques of Breathwalk for your professional development with the intention of teaching others. If you already teach exercise, yoga, sports, massage or other therapeutic positive lifestyle disciplines, you can add this to your offerings. Breathwalk can also be used to enhance corporate fitness programs, and to encourage therapeutic emotional and cognitive growth. You can take this course for your own personal growth. You can share it with friends or perfect its practice for yourself. This in-depth training will help you reach your goals.

We designed the training so you will be confident to teach Breathwalk regularly to a wide range of people for play, work and personal mastery. There is a great demand for inspiring instructors and coaches of powerful, positive lifestyle habits like Breathwalk.

Why become a Breathwalk instructor?

Take it for personal growth. The Breathwalk instructor training will intensify your personal experiences and practice. It will give you familiarity and mastery of the core Breathwalk programs. You will find it easier to integrate Breathwalks effectively into daily life. You come away with increased connectedness to your sense of spirit, higher levels of energy, a more refined mental clarity, and a better command of your moods.

Take it for professional enhancement and prosperity. As a certified Breathwalk instructor you will have many opportunities to lead exciting classes and to build a business based on uplifting and serving people. We have kept the training cost modest in order to reach the greatest number of instructors of high quality so we can fulfill our mission to get people walking, breathing and living a healthy, happy and holy life.

The potential for personal growth with Breathwalk, especially as an instructor, is extraordinary. And so is the opportunity to make a difference - to uplift others and create a better world. Making a difference starts with sharing. Sharing begins with a walk and a talk. When you share these techniques and put your heart in it, you directly impact and elevate others. One of the greatest impacts we can have is to increase our sense of connectedness to each other and the world. When we walk on the same path together, breathe the same breath, move in the same rhythm, we can feel that connection more clearly. We can communicate powerfully from our heart. We can make healthier and more conscious choices in our lives.

How is the training structured?

The training takes place on two weekends. The first weekend gives you all the basics and grounds you in the theory and understanding of the 20 core Breathwalk programs. After the weekend, you practice all the programs on your own, following a home study guide, for eight weeks. As you go through the home-study part of the course your depth of experience and knowledge will increase. Then you complete the training with the second weekend where we refine the techniques, share our experiences and answer questions, develop strategies to teach and build your business, practice guiding groups for varied target audiences and graduate.

Included with the training, you will receive one copy of the inspiring book "Breathwalk: Breathing Your Way to a Revitalized Body, Mind and Spirit" by Yogi Bhajan and Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, the companion BreathwalkS tape set and the Illustrated Breathwalk Program Guide. You will also receive ideas and some materials to aid you in promoting a Breathwalk class.

What is Certification?

After the training weekends and completion of the homework, you are a certified Breathwalk instructor. You can begin teaching immediately. You can begin to build students, further refine your technique and develop strategies to reach out to students.

We require each instructor to maintain the integrity of the programs in what you teach, and to maintain authenticity and standards of the Breathwalk brand identity by using, selling and promoting the authorized Breathwalk materials. We also require you gather and send a complete contact list of Breathwalk participants in classes or presentations. That way we can build the Breathwalk community and offer additional encouragement and benefits as we grow.

Your certification allows you to use the service marked Breathwalk® name and logo in advertising and promotion. You may use the Breathwalk marketing materials for your class promotion. The certification is good for an initial period of one year.

You can always get help from us. Don't get stuck on any issue that might come up in a class. Ask questions and get responses from our experts on Breathwalk. Send emails to Instructor@Breathwalk.com.

Please Note: You can not train and certify other instructors. An instructor trainer has additional requirements and obligations to maintain our quality standards.

Brand Identity

Breathwalk is rapidly growing through active promotion in the national media, conferences and on the web. As more and more people hear about Breathwalk, they will want to make sure they know how to do it properly. They will want to learn from the best, a certified Breathwalk instructor.

Help More People

If you are already a fitness instructor, whether you teach yoga, aerobics, Spinning™, martial arts, swimming, walking, or other movement classes, Breathwalk is a program that will appeal to many of your current clients as well as open the door to many new people. Sharing this technology with your students gives you another opportunity to help them reach and maintain their goals. And it lets them learn Breathwalk from someone they trust.

Increase Your Earnings

In addition to the revenues earned from Breathwalk classes or workshops that you teach, you may purchase most of the Breathwalk products at a wholesale discount and sell them to your students at retail.

Reach New People

Whether you teach now or are just starting out, Breathwalk is a great technique to share with the participants of two of the fastest growing exercise activities: walking and yoga.

Have a World Wide Web Presence

Add your name to our list of certified instructors on the Breathwalk website. Be part of the www.Breathwalk.com community.

Professionally Expand by joining the Training Team

You might want to expand your skills and career and become a Breathwalk Instructor Trainer. As Breathwalk grows, we will continue to expand our team of trainers that provide the Instructor Program and continuing education workshops. The first step on that path is to become a certified instructor.

What You Will Learn

The topics covered in the certification process include:

* The Five Steps of Breathwalk
Awaken
Align
Vitalize
Balance
Integrate
* Proper breathing techniques and their effects
* Proper walking mechanics
* The use of primal sounds and changing inner noise
* Inner walks that use visualization and directed attention
* The science behind the effects
* Finger magic
* How to lead groups
* Class design
* How to be part of the Breathwalk community

For more information about the Breathwalk Instructor Program please complete the following form and submit it. Or you may print the form and mail it to us. You will receive information on courses as they are scheduled.